The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-03-22
coral glutes and Other gews.


- Monday morning revealed the pres
ence of about four inches Of snow in thii
locality and at this writing the atmos
phere and clouds indicate continuance
of the storm.
Cousin John G. Burts, of Tate
Spring, is an authorized agent of the
MoRRIsTowE GAZETTE to receive sub
scribers and solicit job work. Any con
tract he may make will be recognized
by tliis Office.
- Mr. VIM Rucker, of Bradley coun-
ty, had several of his sheep killed by
dogs last week. Some others are sc
badly injured that he thinks they will
| die And yet there are those who
want the dogs protected
The heavy wind that visited this
! place last Thursday amounted to a ter
I rife storm at different points west of us.
! At Knoxville and Cleveland especially
was it severe, doing damage to tin roofs,
| chimneys and church spires in each
( place. No serious damage, however,
was sustained so far as we have noticed.
= The residence of Gen. Pillow, in
Memphis, was sold at Bankrupt sale last
Wednesday, and the property estimated
at IS, 900, was bought for S26 The val
liable library brought 81. Both were
presented to Mrs. Pillow by the purchas-
ers, as they should have been.
- Our metropolitan friends broke
ground for their street railroad last week
and the work is rapidly progressing.
BY our next visit we hope to be able to
ride Ibid you say free, Col. Patterson?)
all the way to the Lamar House.
- Dir. Jas b. Maxwell, our efficient
Town Marshal, has been appointed agent
for the FARMLAND Fire Insurance Co,
of Knoxville. The Frankland is as safe
and solid an institution as there is in
the State, and we commend it and OH
friend Maxwell to the early attention of
real estate owners.
-Ifth;s paragraph should fall under the
eyes Of any Of the heirs of soldiers who
fell at the Alamo or under Fanniu at
Goliad, or participated in the battle of
San Jacinto, it will interest them to
know that they are entitled to six hun
dTed and forty acres of land in Texas.
We have only room to-day to say
that Thompson g. Shannon, of the Bal
timore Clothing House, have received
the largest. cheapest and best stock of
mems and boys clothing to be found be-
tween Knoxville and Bristol. Call and
see for yourself.
-Cowan, McClung & Co, Knoxville,
have anew announcement for the Spring
trade. This mammoth wholesale house
is too well known throughout this cOun-
try to require word from US. But they
are offering goods in their lines at pri-
ces lower than they ever were before the
war.
- Lupton 6 Shannon will have, in
connection with their regular business,
a millinery department under the man.,
agement of Mrs. Lou Flynn, where all
work in this line will be dispatched with
promptness and neatncss. Lady's Hats
and Bonnets trimmed to order.
in the Federal Court at Knoxville
last w ednesday, Fl. G. Avery, of Chat
tanooga, was tried for making a fraudu-
lent claim against the United States
Government for qIIartermaster's sup
plies alleged to have been taken by the
Federal soldiers, was found guilty Of
perjury as charged in the indictment,
and sentenced to the pcnitentiary for
three years.
We wish it distinctly understood that
we are not responsible for the views of
correspondents. We give them fire.
ouentlv unrestricted and substantially
as written, without at all endorsing their
views, opinions or statements. For this
reason no communication is inserted I'M
less accompanied by the name of some
one Known 70 us.
The revival at the Methodist Church
in this town was discontinued Friday
night last Owing to the bad state Of Rev.
Q. T. CarroH's health and the severity
of the weather, the meeting was closed i
no doubt, earlier than was anticipated.
The Church may well be proud of its
recent work, however, for great and
lasting good has been accomplished.
1t is said that Judge Pete Turney,
of the Supreme Court, and Mr.. Paddock,
the husband of Maggie Mitchell, met at
Nashville not long ago, and found out, |
on comparing notes, that Paddock was |
probably the Federal soldier that shot
Turney through and through, knocking |
out several teeth at one of the hard bat /
ties. Turney was a Confederate and |
belonged to a company just OPP |
posite, and remembered firing just about |
the time the former was 80 terribly |
wounded What an exquisite delight !
the discovery must have been to both !
parties
We call attention to the advertise |
ment in to-day's paper of VIM Caswell |
& Co, successors 70 Howes q Co., deal |
ers in Furniture, Knoxville. The sales |
rooms of this firm are filled with very
large stock of exquisiteIy finished and |
furniture manufactured in /
Knoxville expressly for the house. and |
will be sold in sets or pieces on better
terms than ever heretofore offered. The
work of the Messrs Howes has already
an established character for excellence I
of finish and durability wherever 1t has
been tried. -
We notice in several Of our West
exchanges complimentary no
tees of Hon. Thomas II. Paine, Speaker
OF the last Senate, in connection with
the next Gubernatorial race. We have
the pleasure of knowing Mr.. Paine, and
know him TO have made m efficient, Inn
partial and -faifhful presiding officer,
sustaining throughout the session the
character of an honest, upright Chris
tan gentleman. That high political
bOnors are IN store for him, we have no
doubt: but we are satisfied he is not az
pirins az this time 20 the position Of Cor
tirpgr