The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-11-17
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= Frank w. Taylor, Jr., offers a lot
of superior horses and mules for sale
cheap, in to days paper.
DIR. T. J. Speck will be absent at
Rogersville for the remainder OF this
week only.
= Hogs are scarce in this vicinity,
and are held at 6 cents, gross. We learn
quite number are held on Clinch.
The latest matrimonial on dit comes
from the only spotless village in this end
of the State and concerns Ee beau monde
Though it is Attire d,t ctetr, it is never
thelcss bronchyle in part.
= Maj John Murphey, Masonic Rep
resentative from Morristown to the
Grand Lodge at Nashville, returned
home Saturday last. He represents the
last conyocation as being the largest aud
most representative body OF Masons that
ever assembled in the State.
: Gormley, alias johnson, the man
arrested in Cherokee county, N. c., for
stealing money from young Brooks, of
Newport, and whose arrest we mention
ed last week, passed here in irons, in
charge of an officer from Georgia, a few
days ago. 1t seems he was an old offend
er, and had been sentenced to 10 years
Imprisonment from Atlanta, Ga, escap-
ed before he reached the pententiary.
The Agc announces the temperance
of the epizootic in Knoxville in every
livery stable in the corporate limits. At
Bell s. Bells, forty horses were suffering
from the malady; at Daily thirty were
afflicted; at GiIson's, twenty; at Thomp-
sons, twenty-five, and at Cooke & Brad
ford's, seventeen. The malady, so far,
has appeared in mild form, but one
death having occurred.
-Enos Waters and Mike Burchell, in
the employment of Hawkins, Butt 81 Co.,
were engaged on the 8th instant in put
ting the cornice on the new three-story
building of Peter Kern, Knoxville. The
scaffold gave way and Waters fell upon
the pavement below and was almost in
stantly killed. Burchell instinctively
grasped the rope by which the chair was
suspended and slid to the ground with
no further injury than severe lacera-
ton of his hands.
While the two up-freight trains were
switching near the Depot last Monday
morning, the engineer in charge of Nc.
A ran his engine into the last Car of the
one which preceded him. Little damage
was done, however, as they were nov
ing at slow speed. Quite a number col
Iected on the spot, but the excitement
soon subsidized, after the damage was as
certained
Tho advertisement of p. J. Pittman,
fashionable boot and shoemaker, appears
to-day. Mr.. P. is an industrious, sober
man,-as in fact, can be said of every
man engaged in his line of business in
this town-a first-class workman, and
viii endeavor to give that satisfaction in
his calling that viii insure him, all he
asks, division of the custom distributed
in this place.
AT Walhalla, S. c., on the I'd inst,
a mass meeting was held in the interest
of the Blue Ridge Railroad. Fifteen
hundred people were present. Delegates
were present from North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia. An executive
committee was appointed; DR. VIM.
Morrow is on it for Tennessee. A com
mittee was also appointed to lay the
claims of the road before Congress. The
adjourned to meet in Knoxville,
Tenn, on the Goth of January next.
= The fowlest happiness ever display
ed in our village has been exhibited for
several mornings recently in the beauti-
full lake in rear of the GAZETTE Office
when Jehu Smith and Smith Morris's
army of two or three hundred geese were
brought from their hosiery for morn
ing additions. Such qnacking, eacklings
ducking Of heads and sails, and energet,