The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-06-28
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= Roasting ears and water-melons in
Knoxville.
- Good country butter is greatly in
demand by our citizens.
- Cherries seem plentifuIkhd are
selling on the streets at 20 cents gallon.
= Memphians are going to do the
Fourth of July on big scale.
s- The Alabama Baptist Convention
Will meet in Montgomery July 13
a Henry county Kentucky COW re-
Gently gave 36 quarts of milk at one
milking.
An Illinois Judge has recently de-
cided that washing bill cannot be col
lected.
A hasketful of fine irish potatoes
from Mr.. E. Baird is highly appreciated
by the editor.
IF Morristown isn't going to have
any Fourth of July, let her join in with
Knoxville
Maj. w. N. Clarkson, of Rogers
vile, was in town for a few hours one
day last week
We notice that Messrs. Harris 81
Whitesides have erected n neat new sign
in front of their house of business.
- The mortuary report Of the Board
of Health of Chattanooga, for the week
ending June 18th, contains seven deaths.
Its we'll enough to talk about pray
ing for rain, but if you want to fetch it
sure, go out without an umbrella with a
new hat on.
= The Bay sugar refinery, San Fran
cisco, California, seven story brick
building, was burned a few days ago.
Loss, $3.50, 600.
- Thanks to Mrs. Van Huss for q
mess of fine irish potatoes. Also, to
that handsome fellow, Tom Cain, for a
variety of vegetables.
Rev. Isham Love, a colored Baptist
preacher, dropped dead at his home near
Philadelphia, Tenn. the 18th inst, from
rheumatism of the heart.
- The tobacco factory of Goodville,
Smith & Co., Lynchburg, Va, was burn
ed on the night of the goth inst. Total
loss on building and stock $12, 900.
Edward Worsham, a young painter
of Knoxville, attempted suicide in that
place last Monday week by taking Iaud-
anum There are slight hopes of re-
cOvery.
&C. W. Charlton, editor daily Age,
Knoxville, is in town. The Age is in
a prosperous condition, and claims the
largest city circulation of any paper
in Knoxville.
= Remarkably strange, indeed! One
of Hamblen county's worthy and enter
prising farmers rode into town the other
day to hire harvest hand and couldn't
find marry one in all the place.
= We arc. happy to see again at his
place of business, Mr.. d. Payne Rowe,
firm of Rowe & Butt, who has just con-
valesced from a severe though not dan
gerous spell of sickness.
A case was recently decided in Eng
land which first commenced in the year
1912. The amount originally in dispute
was $500, 600, but at the conclusion of
the case all the money was gone.
= The Nashville american states that
Rev. JnO. Mcpherson was tried and fined
1926 at Franklin last week for whipping
his step-mother, the wife of Rev. Jno.
Mcpherson, Sr.
There was scarcely a day during
the past week that was not accompanied
with showers Of rain. We fear the rain
has been too severe for the vegetation,
as the ground is thoroughly saturated.
- Chattanooga-ans are in council pom
dering a 18th of July celebration. They
propose to furnish beer free of charge
On IAc OCCdSlOu, III OIOcI ~ dlliuCI IdI &c
crowds there. We predict them a good
crowd if they stick to the beer question.
= Hon. w. F. Cody buffalo BilD has
broken up his dramatic company, and
having enlisted in the United States
army, has been ordered to report at his
headquarters at Cheyenne and to join
his old regiment (the Fifth Cavalry as
chief of scouts.
= The trustees of the Messy Creek
Baptist College, at Messy Creek, Tenn,
have purchased the Mountcastle proper
ty, containing 35 acres of good land at
a cost of $13, 800, and will commence
using it in August for school purposes.
- Mind your PS and Qcumbers. If
eaten when too green they are calculat-
ed to produce a sensation in the abdomi-
nal regions that is anything but condu-
Give to ones happiness, especially this
warm weather.
= Mr. B. B. Bundrant, of Granger
an enterprislng breeder of Short
Horn cattle, shipped from this place, on
the 23d inst, twenty-five head of steers
that averaged 1850 pounds each. Four
Of them averaged 1850 pounds
- Capt Henry Helm, proprietor of
steamer tsHapFy Helm" passed through
town one day last week Oh his way to
Mineral Hill Springs to make arrange
ments for the transit of his family to the
came, whom we regret to learn are suf=
Pering from erysipelas.
- Capt Luther BeWley, brother of
our enterprising fellow-townsman, Col, |
J. M. Bewley, left Friday evening last
with a lot of fine cattle for the Eastern
He calculates on visiting the
at Philadelphia before his
return.
The employees of the East Tennes- |
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad had |
/ Picnic Wednesday last at Inskip Camp |
Ground. The whole affair was splen- |
idly managed, and the attendance num-
lered at least five hundred persona. The |
Boys know exactly how to enjoy them |
selves.
"A very dangerous counterfeit has |
ust made its appearance and is being |
circulated, 1t Is q five dollar note, coun-
the issue of tho First National |
Bank of Northampton, massachusetts, I
nd Is an excellent imitation.
Saturday, week before last, anight
reight train on the Southeastern rail
Dad, near Nashville, fell through
restle seventy-five feet high. Ten cars
we're wrecked, and two brakesmen mar
Owiy escaped with their lives.
- n StTange ulsedSe, OF very H1allE-
Iant type, has made its appearance
mong children at Bethel, Sullivan
ounty, New York. Several have died
ecently after a few hours illness. Ply
ioians are completely baffied to deter
nine the nature of the disease,
= Charles d. Farmer, formerly an at
lchee of this office, and a resident of
he town, while hunting in the woods
LOndaY last week. accidentally dis
IIarged pistol Darrell, the ball enter
lg the left thigh. making an ugly
-ound in his meat house. The ball has
OF yet been extracted, but he is doing
ell.
= 1t seems that the murderous appe-
tie of late cannot be satisfied. Recently
Perry county in this State n Mr. Ru- |