The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-16
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= DR.. D. A Nelson, we regret
hear, is suffering from an attack of pne'
mopia.
= Miss Jennie Montgomery is agai
on visit to her relatives and man
friends of Morristown.
= Mr.. Drury Morris, we regret I
hear, is still confined to his bed w
hope when the pleasant spring weathe
sets in he may regain his former health
- Mr. George Livingston, our efficier
| deputy Sheriff, has been Frustrated fo
several weeks from the effects of ger
eral debility. We trust, with othe
well wishers, he may soon be restored t
his former good health.
We are indebted to Ex-Gov. Joh1
/ G. Brown, vice-President of the Texa
Pacific Railroad, for copy of his yer,
able and exhaustive argument before thu
| Congressional Committee in behalf o
that great enterprise, so important anC
vital to Southern commercial prosperity
The announcement of Jno. B. Jones
! for Sheriff of Hamblen county, at the
August elections, appears in another
column. Mr.. Jones is an honest, indus
| trious and well known citizen of the
county, and possesses qualifications that
will make him an efficient and popular
officer if elected.
= The trial of Babcock at St. Louis
for completely in the whisky frauds has
commenced. He says he is as innocent
as a babe, ." but from the array of legal
counsel employed, he don't expect any
body to believe in his innocence. He is
fighting every inch and availing himself
of every technicality of the law. Moth
ing of Importance has been developed so
far, but he evidently regards his case as
a bad one.
- At the residence of Col. j. 81. Bew-
ley, last Wednesday evening, a number
of friends were assembled to do honor
to the occasion of the ma rriage of john
ny III. Bruce and Miss Mollie Newell.
There, in the presence of these attached
friends, two young hearts were made to
"beat as one" We congratulate our
young friend Johnny in his having cho-
sen one " so fair and altogether lovely"
and may each live for the other until
death them do part.
How in the world some people live,
would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer.
There are scores in this town who
have no resources whatever, who "toil
not, neither do they spin," yet they
to live some how, and laugh at
those around them who have to toll
from morning till night, in order to sup
port themselves and families. 1t is sin
gular how they do it, but they do.
AT Knoxville, recently, little
daughter of Mr.. Melcher, was playing
with a Newfoundland dog, when the
brute became Infatuated and snapped at
ho oIaif1 inf1iafinor fxun
ugly gashes about its face and throat
DR.. J. NJ. Boyd was summoned and sew
ed up and dressed the wounds, and rem
lered all the assistance necessary. The
child at last accounts was in critical
condition. The dog was killed.
i In the House, Feb s, Mr.. McFar-
and introduced bill granting pension
to Benjamin Hickey, private in COmpa-
ny G, first regiment of Tennessee vol
1nteer cavalry; which was read first
and second time, referred to the Com
nittee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered
70 be printed Also, the petition of
Nancy Lacey, for pension, which was
-eferred to the Committee on Revolu-
ionary Pensions.
Two Tanneries are offered at private
,ale in our advertising columns. Both |
ire in number one locations, and enjoy |
living and remunerative custom, that |
ian be largely increased by the right eff |
ert. That of Messrs. Mcfarland, Kid |
well s. Co., in this town, we look upon |
Is about the safest and surest investment |
man could make. The other has no |
loubt as many points of attraction to
hose who are acquainted personally |
With its surroundings. We call the at |
ention of the reader to them both, with |
he assurance that in either valuable |
property is offered on terms that can be /
made agreeable to the most contracted |
purse.
- An exciting, amusing, but very |
scene took place at our depot |
asst Wednesday morning. The paFticu-
liars of the affair are as follows: A Mr.. |
\. Frank Horner, formerly citizen of |
his town, but for some months past a |
esident first of Newport and last of |
engaged in the retail liquor
raffic, years ago was divorced from his
wife for the purpose of forming a more
egal and less notorious. relation than he
hen enjoyed with Miss Vaughan, of
his place In time they were made
nan and wife, in the eyes of the law.
But their marriage bells" did not long
ing out the glad, joyful notes of hap
" future 1t was discovered by the
wife that Frank was slipping nectar from
ther feminine lips, and this fact devel-
ped an incompatibility of temper on
he part of the late Miss Vaughan, and
o the couple did not get along happily
ogether. The denOuenient took place
asst Wednesday. By preconcerted ar
the woman who had seduced
frank from his wife met him at the de-
,ot on the arrival of the western bound
rain; but Franks wife also put in an
ppearance, and when he stepped out
ide the car, and looked eagerly over
he crowd at the depot, for the hoped
or object, he was startled by the shrill
oice of the Indignant wife, proclaiming,
you needn't look for her, Frank. She
} here, but you won't bulge foot fur
her with her" And with that she gath
red him. by the lapel of his vest, and
ulled and struggled until. to get rid of
he boisterous and hearty applause of
he crowd, he followed her into the ho-
FL where she kept him secure until the
eparture of the train. After the de-
arturo of the train, the two women en-
ertained the still lingering but disgust
d spectators with mutual examinations
f each other until an officer command
q them to leave. Horner accompanied
is wife home, but had made arrange
lents to send his seducer to faIbott's, |
there he Joined her on the night train,
nd proceeded to Knoxville, aud from
hence they went west. II is to be hop
d they may both remain there, as the
is much healthier without
hem.