The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-04-16

Knoxville has had coal oil explo-
sion, severely burning Mrs. James
Mason and her two children.
DIR. John II. Morton has been
elected Superintendent of Public
Schools for Blount county. 81
Rev. VIM. Mowbray, of the Epis
copaI church, Knoxville, has accept
ed call to parish in New York.
There are now livingin Knoxville
only ten men who were living there
fifty years ago.
The real estate transfers in Giles
county for the week ending the 9th
inst, amount to $35,952.
Wheat is looking very we'll in
Rutherford county, though a smaller
area was soWn than usual.
The farmers of Robertson county
are very much rejoiced at the i'm
proved condition of their wheat.
Bradley county has received quite
an accession of immigrants from the
North lately.
A lead mine has been discovered
in Bradley county. and company is
being organized to work it.
The signal station for the Weather
Bureau is to be removed from Knox
vile to Chattanooga.
The house Of j. T. Vents, Knox
county. was recently destroyed by
fire.
The residence of A. N. Spiro,
Knoxville. was destroyed by fire,
with its contents, on Tuesday morn
ing. the 9th inst.
The County Court of Hawkins
has elected Mr.. Campbell Edmond
son to the Office of Superintendent
of Public Schools.
The Board OF Directors of the
Memphis Industrial Exposition de
clared stock dividened of twenty
five per cent.
The Athens Post reports a heavy
frost in that region Wednesday night,
April 8. damaging fruit and early
vegetables.
The tax levied in Rutherford for
county purposes is fifteen cents on the
500 of taxable property, and the
same for schools.
The farmers of Fayette county are
reported a month ahead of what they
were last year. The fruit prospect
is splendid.
The Murfreesboro' Meas says that
city can boast of more beautiful
flower gardens and prettier women
than any other town in the State.
Marriage licenses were issued to
eighty-four couples in Giles county
during the three months ending the
1st inst.
The Giles County Court has ap.
propriated $500 for the benefit of
the poorhouse of that county during
the present year.
The Memphis Appeal and AUaIanche
have become so belligerant towards
each other, that an excursion to
Dalton is mooted.
, The Chattanooga Times says that
fatal disease. meningitis, has made
its appearance in that city, and one
or two deaths have resulted.
The people of McMinn are going
to have a new court house. The
County Court having appropriated
$4,000 for that purpose.
- A convict was shot and killed on
Capitol Hill. Nashville, at 6 o'clock
Monday evening, of last week. while
attempting to escape from the
guards.
One million seven hundred and
seventy thousand three hundred and
pounds of grain were ship
ped from Loudon depot during the
month of March.
Hon. J. NJ. Thornhurgh. Congress
man elect in the Knoxville district.
is hooked for a trip to Europe, by the
Cunard steamer Russia. sailing from
New York on the 21st of May.
The Grainsboro' Ne,cs among its
Circuit Court items states that: j.
II. Watson. Justice of the Peace.
was fined $50 0oand dismissed from
office for official drunkenness"
A duel was fought recently two
miles south of Memphis. by two
young clerks. Jas. Poston and John
After exchanging four
shots, the latter was shot in the arm.
: Over thirty Of the Shelby county
have been indicted in
Memphis Criminal Court for voting
themselves FIVE dollars day for SER
Fices when the Law only allowed them
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