The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-05-17
gutal Aotes aud 0OtIter aelvs.

- Base Ball Club was organized
last Saturday by the young men of thit
burg and given the title of 'Centenial. i
They anticipate playing a match game
with the 'Golar boys" next Saturday
| evening.
= Robert Long, formerly of this coun
ty, but for the last seventeen years a
| citizen of Texas, reached this town last
Sunday morning, on his first visit since
his removal. His father resides at Longs
Ferry, to whom his visit is made.
| Thomas Lathim, Circuit Court
| Clerk of Granger county for more than
twenty years, and a gentleman esteemed
for his intelligence and usefulness, died
rather suddenly at Rutledge last Satur-
day, aged about 81 years. d
- George D. Hutton, of Blount coun-
| ty, committed suicide last Wednesday,
while temporarily insane, by shooting
himself with shotgun. He is said to
have been a young man of much prom
Use and of good family.
- Matt. Swan, the present incumbent,
has received majority of the votes cast
in the primary election held last week
to determine who should be the Demo.
cratic candidate for Sheriff of Knox
county. He has made an efficient officer,
and this endorsement auguries his re-
election. fts.. -
Our local FedQerS Will not forget
that Messrs. Van Huss s. Bro, of this
place, are agents for the Champion
Reaper and Mower, and the Look and
Lincoln Plow, implements that are in
dispensable to the farmer. They say
they will sell them on the most favora-
bic terms, and they are second editions
of the great and good g. W., so far as
veracitY is concerned. er
= Jonathan Morelock, All old and re-
spectacle citizen of this community,
died very suddenly of heart disease, at |
his residence three miles east of town,
Sunday evening last. Mr.. Morelock at |
turned to his home apparently in good |
health, and after partaking of a hearty |
supper, laid down and in a very short I
time died without a struggle rN afi Il
= = Our old friend, and successful ag-
c.. s. Slater, Esq, of st.
Clair, Hawkins county, called upon US
last Monday and exhibited specimen
Of wool clipped from yearling Cots.
void. The fibre measures II inches in
length and of the fairest and most deli
cate texture. The sample is at this Of
ice, and is worth inspection. The Es-
luire represents the wheat crop of Haw-
1ins as promising larger yield than any
ne has seen outside of it. Further, he
renewed his subscription to the GAZETTE
md promised many Others of his neigh
Oors would do so soon. 9a eoH
= AppketoBs' Journal, continues the
bright, reliable and entertaining month";
y as of old. It continues to be edited
With marked ability, and moves on in its
career of usefulness and success. Those
If our friends who are fathers of fami-
les, who desire to subscribe for a
monthly publication that is capable of
making home delightful place, by
giving thereto work so full of interest
ng matter that Is of nature to instruct
nd please, the members of every family
hould send at once for Appletons' popu-
ar Journal.
SWEET SPRINGS IRON AND ALUM Mass.
We have for several weeks been using
his excellent medicine with the happi- /
st effects. Several of our citizens who
re using il speak in the highest terms
4 its efficiency in cases of dyspepsia,
Orpid liver, etc. 1t seems likely to come
nto general use by the physicians of the
ountry. Times and Planter.