The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-13
HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT,

HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT.
L. L. POATs, EDITOR.
ROGERSVILLE, DEC. IS, 1876.
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m-The bridge over Clouds creek,
six miles west of ROgeIsyille, is COM
pleted. The work is SAID to be well
done.
.E- Corn is selling at William Green's
distilIery at so cents per bushel cash
This is more than it is worth in Rogers
vile.
The young folks all over the world
are now preparing for the Christmas
holidays Well, we hope they will all
have good time and be happy.
I- Col. James White, the gentle
man from Hawkins" will be candi
date before the next General Assembly
for the office of Secretary of State.
Hope he will get it.
az Our Methodist brethren held a
Ouarterly Meeting in Rogersville last
Saturday and Sunday and Monday. The
weather was intensely cold but stiIl
large numbers of the citizens attended
the meetings.
EY Prof WilsonMnforms us that the
present session of Rogersville Female
College is fully as prosperous as he ex-
pected it to be- The school is doing ex-
cellent work The girls are studying
well and the future is quite promising
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EXCELLENT fat beef can be bought
anywhere in Hawkins county at 4 cents
per pound. This is good eating and
cheap eating. Our people ought to eat
more beef and less hog. They would
be stouter and healthier and live longer.
~ The Holston river did not freeze
over during the recent cold spell, though
it came very near it. The channel was
full of doatinp ice for several days.
Most Of the mills in the county had to
run on short time, while some of them
froze up entirely.
"a YOUNG fellow named Burchfeld,
confined in Jail at Rogersville on
charge of petit larceny, got away last
Tuesday. He was brought back in q
dav or two in badly frost-bitten con
dition. Laying out in the woods these
cold nights is not good for ones health.
~ The saloon keepers of RogersYille
will have to pay seventy-five dollars per
annum for the privilege of selling liz
uors and rolling ten pins. Well, they
can afford to pay it. Folks will drink.
We have had to pay twenty dollars
dram for the meanest kind of brandy.
~ We heard an enthusiastic Tilden
lady the other day storming at the Rad
icals for trying TO cheat her favorite out
of his fair election. She said it was "a
shame for them-to count Mr.. Tilden out
when he had more than three millions
of a majority of the popular vote"
tE- The Board of Mayor and Alder
men of the town of Rogersville met one
evening last week and organized. The
rate of taxation on everything except
liquor sellers, we learn, was reduced.
LIQUOR sellers are still taxed seventy-f1ve
dollars per annum.
EE- Judge Mckinney was in town
part of last week. He is in fine health
and is getting on well with the business
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Jonesborough The Judge is quite as
popular now as he was last summer. He
is good officer and deserves all the
popularity he enjoys.
THE Rogersville and Jefferson Rail
road is getting in a bad condition.
Transportation over that road Will soon
cease unless something is done. How
would it do for the county TO buy the
road? She could either repair it and
run it by steam or she could sell the iron
and build macadamized road to the
Junction or Whitesburg.
cy- a. L. Rogers, of Middle Clinch,
failed to put in an appearance at the last
term of the County Court. His friends
are uneasy abobt him, and several of
them requested us to announce his
death. "You know he'd be here if he
was alive" said they. But we don't be-
lieve APP is dead yet He will be here
at the January court, or we will make
the announcement as requested
E- We hear the names Of several
East Tennesseans suggested for United
States Senator. Hon. John Netherland,
Hon. VIM Mcfarland, Hon. A. A. Kyle,
Hon. D. d. Key, Judge Jones. Judge
James T. Shields, Judge r. NJ. Barton
and z. NJ Fulkcrson, Esq, have all
their special friends, and either one Of
them would do very well.
E-The bonded Indebtedness of Haw-
.kins county is So, geo. Forty thousand
of which debt is on behalf of the Rog-
ersville and Jefferson Railroad. Two
thousand six hundred dollars were IS
sued in bonds to redeem county war
rants. We doubt whether one dollar of
this Indebtedness could be collected off
the people in a court Of law; but never
theless, the holders Of the bonds ought
to be paid what the bonds cost them.
a5z+- Cur 1-o1,uor faIIow-citizen An