The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-12-08
gafaI autes md Otter aems.
- See local "Old Gold and Silver

wanted"
We notice several new cabins going
up on the outskirts of town, in that part
known as Frog Hollow.
= Last Sunday was gloomy. rainy
day. Small attendance upon the services
Mt the different Churches.
- Farmers report the wheat as look
ing green and thrifty, with a present
prospect of a large yield.
Morristown is getting along lively
in the way Of parties. In fact pound par
ties and pop corn is all the rage with the
fun-loving part of the community.
- The weather for the past week has
been cloudy and rainy, too warm to kill
pork. Our buyers, however, are on the
qui vive and are shipping car loads of
stock South every week.
- Jimmy Fulkerson, the popular and
well known agent of Sanford, Chamber
lin & Albers, Knoxville, rested in our
town Friday night.
- Greeneville has military company,
a dramatic club, a mite society, and at
least three newspapers, yet she isn't hap
Ply, for she lacks a dancing club. Will
people never learn to let well enough Sc
eSerly alone.
| i DR.. Magee's large and handsome
new drug store seems to be rapidly APP
preaching interior completion. We viii
endeavor to spend half hour within its
apartments before the house warming
comes off.
- Last Monday was regular County
Court day. Many citizens of the county
came to town, and our streets presented
a goodly array of wagons. The merch-
ants seemed to be doing lively trade.
Maj. J. A. Clarkson, of Baltimore,
so well known to business men through
out East Tennessee, is on his annual Wis
it, and we are glad to say is in the en-
joyment of excellent health.
- The practice of striking matches
at the Methodist Church before the ben
ediction for the night is given, is i'll
hammered, disrespectful TO the minister,
and nuisance that should be abated.
= Our energetic young friend, Jehu
Morris, of poultry and produce fame in
this section, goes to Atlanta, Ga, to per-
sonalIy superintend the sale of ship
ments from this point. John Smith takes
charge of the business here.
= Mrs. VIM. Mcfarland and family
moved into their new residence in the |
west end of our town last week. Maj. |
Folsom and family are temporarily stop
ping with Mrs. Carmichael, at the Vir-
ginia House.
= Whit Carmichael, of Carmichael s.
Co., druggists, ETC., Asheville, N. c.,
formerly of this place, made flying Wis
it to his relatives and friends in this town
last week. Mountain air seems to agree
with Whit, judging from appearances.
- Miss Susie Vance, of Memphis, the
beautiful and accomplished young au-
thoress, who wrote such sparkling let
ters from the Warm Springs, N. c., last
summer, was to have been married last
night to DIR. Vance, of South Carolina.
Ed. Shepard, of Knoxville, is a lucky
Mrs. Toodles AT the sale of condemn
ID freight packages in that town, recent
Y, box was knocked down to him for
few cents that on examination proved
o contain two or three hundred dollars
worth of Thompson s. Steger's Reports
- We beg to return acknowledge
nents to Mrs. j. H. Rumbough, of Warm
springs, n. c., for her kind remem-
france of the printer in the shape of
hoicc supply of the good things pre-
AIRED for the recent memorable occasion
t her delightful residence. Many thanks.
= That there be brassy editors in the
chronicle office, no doubt; but brass COM
ositors, hardly. So that paper should
ote an erratum: "for 'compositors' in
rst line, read editors;'" though from
perusal of the sheet no one would like G
2 mise any brass ingredient hitherto in !
Sc. Il
- Mr.. John A. Brogans, of Knox
ounty, KY, has been in our town sew
raj days, guest of his brother-in-law, '
ohm Smith. Mr.. Brogans is stock !
ian of character and experience, and is c
ere for the purpose of purchasing all Z
lie fat hogs he can secure. See his adj 4
ertisement in another place. Q
- d. A. Foster, travelling agent of
le Remington Sewing Machine Compa- "
Y, in the employ of Col. FL. III. Hub n
ard, of Knoxville, reported that be was e
,bbed by two men, about six o'clock, 0
thursday evening last, three miles from z
knoxville, on the Sevierville road, and u
it'll pistol to his head, relieved of sixty
re dollars and pistol. He lied. n
- Hogs, turkeys, geese, ETC., are still CT
ling driven to our town for shipment b
ruth. Last Friday we noticed a very p
he lot of hogs, several of them weigh k
g 600 lbs. each. We suppose John &
NTH had a say-so as to their destina- b
On, judging from the way he tickled n
cir hams with that quartermaster's n,
hip. vvras W
. We notice in the Congressional Di- I'll
Glory that our Representative, Hon ii
m. Mcfarland, has taken rooms at a oil
ivate house, No. 903 e street North, is
ashington city. His friends from Ten if
.ssee visiting that city during the ses a
On, will, we guarantee, always find the al
tch string on the outside, Senator d. fe
Key and General Dibbrell, from the ell
district, have rooms in the
me house. OF
. An affecting scene was witnessed at to
G funeral of Capt. Pettigrew. An old Il
miIy servant, scarcely able to walk tie
stand, with hair white with age, stood I'll
Itside the Church, bowed down in sin &C
re grief, and unable to conceal her sor- la
W, wept like child Perhaps she pl
rs the nurse of him who lay IN the cot CT