The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-04
SITE NEWS.

f The Nashville Exposition IS reported
to haveibeen a grand success
There are 10000 more white male
children in Tennessee. than females.
Marcus s. Hooke, son of Judge Hooke,
of Chattanooga, committed suicide on
Sunday morning last All for love.
George Kingston of jamestown, a
lad of six years of age, weighs 115
! pounds. His voice is coBrser than that
of an ordinary man, while intellectually
he is greatly superior to the average
boys of.his age.
DR. Geo. A. Mathes; formerly of the
Someryille Falco,s, has purchased and
taken charge of the Brownsville States:
| Capt. r. w. Haywood resumes the prac-
tiee of law. We wish both the greatest
success.
Mr. Joseph A. Sparks, aged seventeen
years, died in Ripley, Tennessee, last
Saturday, of erysipelas, after brief III
ness. He was a brother of Mr.. James
L. Sparks, editor of the Ripley -Nescs,
A correspondent informs the GalIatin
Tenneaseean that the, case of Uncle Peter
Suttle, before the Baptist church, for
being a member of the Grange, came up
for hearing on the 18th ult., and it was
decided that he could not hold his mem
bership in the church, and at the same
time belong to the order of Patrons of
Husbandry.
The carriage house of Hon. T. Nixon
Van Dyke was fired and burned about
two O'clock Monday morning. The car
riage and some other articles were also
burned Loss between seven and eight
hundred dollars. Judge Van Dyke is
not a man likely to have any very bad
enemies, and yet there is no probable
way to account for the fire except by the
hand of an incendiary. -AtheHs Post
The Knoxville Press end Herald says
there was wonderful thing happened
at Coal Greek on the night of the 10th of
October. Mrs Hightower gave birth to
two children, who were grown together
from their waists up to the tops of their
breasts. They had four feet, four hands
and two heads, and were as natural as
any babies you ever saw in your life
The babies were born dead; they were
female babies,
The Paris Latel1igencer states that dis
ciple and follower of Joe Smith of Nau-
VOC fame, has opened a PROSECUTING
school at Needmore, a small hamlet in
Henry county, and formed a nucleus for
a colony of (so-calIeD Latter Day Saints,
by performing the rite of baptism upon
a girl barely entered ieto her teens
The Columbia Herald and Nal boasts
that no town in Middle Tennessee is
keeping pace in prosperity with Column
bia. On every side, and in every direc-
ton, the carpenters hammer can be |
heard, and new residences and commo- |
dious business houses are going up. |
Every contractor and every carpenter
has his hands full, and other towns and /
cities are laid in contribution. Property |
has advanced of course, and in a few
years Columbia can claim to be city.
Murfreesboro Neacs: Rev. Acton
Young has moved to Jackson to take
charge of his 10th hotel. We wish him
succcss-but we feel certain that he viii
be gone before the information reaches
him y
The Meas is right Mr.. Young has
come and gone, and he is now in charge
of the 111th hotel some where else. We |
IRE willing, however, to send the kind
wishes of the Neaos on the track of the
hoteler, hoping that they may
sometime meet his eyes.-JdcksOn Courier
Herald