Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-03
LETTER FROM JONESBORO,.
-Chancery Court-Preparing 10 Summer
iEe-Not Oinx's Baby-The "OIdest In.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with Paralysis.
Correspondence Chronicle


iHe-NOt 0inx's Baby-The "OIdest In.
habitant'-Stricken with Paralysis.
Correspondence Chroniclel
JoNEsBoRo', Tenn, May p, 1874.
Chancery Court is in session, Hon. II.
9. Smith presiding. The docket is heavy,
but few causes have been tried, and no de.
cisions. The Knoxville Bar is represented
by Meesrs 4. A. Taylor and c. E. Lucky.
Yesterday evening we had copious
shower of rain. Vegetation and the crops
are greatly refreshed. The coru-felds had
become exceedingly dry and hard.
a. good number of our citizens are pre-
pairing TO attend the springs during the
heated term" The majority of them
viii go to Clark's Chalybeate spring. in
thls county, which is being handsomely
improved in the planting of shrubbery
trult trees, in making attractive enclosures
and the erection of neat and comfortable
cottages. The water is very fine, and il Is
repute.
The tenderling left one night about two
weeks ago at r. H. Payne's, previously re.
terred to In my correspondence, is more
fortunate than was Ginx's baby. Its par
entage has been discovered The mother
was so pressed by inquiries, and the cir
cumstances against her were so strong and
pointed that she acknowledged her guilt,
and testified to the paternity of the child
before Magistrate. She is about TWENTY
one, respectfully connected, but is herself
certainly most degraded and heartless
creature, If all the charges against her and
her own confessions be true. Some three
years ago dead infant was found con-
cealcd near her fathers house, which, from
the marks of violence on the head, must
have been killed Immediately after birth.
she acknowledged that she was the moth
er, but denied killing the child. She was
arrested and lodged in Jail on the charge of
lnfanticide,. but was taken out under
writ of hdbeds corpus. No Indictment
We believe, was sent against her, aud she
mas been concealing herself for most of the
time since her release. The putative
father of the lost child, and
VINO IS. whether, rightfully or
of the woman's oath, belongs to a family
of prominence and good standing. From
mis- rumored antecedents, We infer that he
is the black sheep in the flock. Two or
three years ago, he held the position of a
salesman in New York wholesale house,
and whilst he was leading his round OF
metropolitan eDjoyments made the ac.
.luaintance of, wooed and welded Gotham
belle. He brought his fair and blushing
bride to his native hills, but she soon be
came dissatisfied from some cause with her
new life and new associations, and return
ed to the splendors and gayeties of her city
home, not permitting her liege-lord to at
1end her. She obtained divorce, and the
unwifed adventurer has since been tender
ing his gallantries to the female friends
and associates of his happy and innocent
boyhood, and with what result this sequel
of guilt discloses. The crime is the more
atrocious and abhorrent on account of the
parties being related.
Washington county can certainly boast
the Methusalah of the times, and in this
respect McMinn and Brother WINS must
yield the palm to the Oldest county in the
State. His name is David Broyles, and he
is Familiarity known by everybody as
Uncle Davy.n Being born in 1867,
he is now in the 107th year of his age.
He is being comfortably provided for by a
relative, Mr.. A. A. Broyles, Of Broyles-
vile. The snowtemped, age-wrinkled
and trembling centenarian, is confined tC
his bed by sheer exhaustion, but his eye
sight is undimmed and his mental facul
ties uninIpaired. He was nine years old
when the independence of the Colonies
was declared and sixteen when the war oil
the Revolution closed. He wildly re
members the incidents of the struggle, anC
mas heard from the lips of the Continenta
soldiers the bloody story of Kings Noun
ldlu anu bu6 vi Ca
ploits in the morasses and jungles of tn
Carolinas. He always loved seclusien
and a portion of his days he has lived
hermit. Several years ago he left tn
settlements" and far away from an,
human habitation he opend up and cult
waited a small farm on one of the loftles
mountain ranges that traverse the south
ern borders of our county. Here he bull
a cabin, planted an orchard, raised cor
and potatoes, and herded cattle. His lei'
ure time he spent in searching for min
erals.
Last Saturday night, Mr.. J. A. Dill
worth, an old and esteemed citizen of tn
place, was stricken with paralysis. He
entirely helpless in his left side and
confined to his bed, though he suffers I
pain. He has been engaged in the Dirt
business for a number of years. FAN.
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