The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-07-26
9oral aIotts and Other zyews.

- Peaches scarce.
= No cholera this year so far
We hear of no sickness about town.
The prospect for roasting ears is very
good.
Watermelon cholly time Wen have
soon,.to be surel
= Mrs Robt b. Owens and son, of
Lynchburg, Va, are visiting our town,
stopping at the Virginia House.
j. c. Smith, of monumental marble
fame, and family, of Knoxville, are Wis
iting their old neighbors in our town.
= Hon. Geo. E. Pugh, of Ohio, died
at his residence in Cincinnati last We'd
nesday.
= When stopping at Messy Creek
remember that you can find as good
accommodations at Pryor Yoe's as you
will find between Knoxville and Bristol
The Methodist Church, South, at
this place has been undergoing interior
improvements, and now presents a more
attractive and comfortable appearance.
- Chief Justice Deaderick was a guest
of the Turley House last Thursday, en-
route for JonesbOrO' after a refreshing
and beneficial sojourn at Tate Springs.
= John Rhea, the popular and we'll
known commercial traveller for Williams
& Zimmerman, Knoxville, visited us
last week, en- route for that Mecca of his
idolatry, Cooke county.
= In order to give the people an op-
portunity to keep themselves informed
on the campaign affairs, we will mail
the GAZETTE to any address from now
till after the Presidential election for
only so cents.
Our enterprising merchant, Mr.. Will
meth, brought into the GAZETTE office
last week a vine grown from an Early
Rose potato, of this years raising, meas
uring the remarkable and enormous
length of twelve feet two inches.
The man Harris, a notice of whose
arrest we copied last week from the
Home Journal, was taken to Winchester
and after few days detention was re-
leased. His photograph was sent to
Greene county, and a return dispatch an
nounced that he was not Weems, the
fugitive criminal.
-Jehosaphat! The mercury boiling
in the COS, and intelligent correspon-
dents sending us eight or ten foolscap
pages of hexameter verses, with request
to punctuate, correct and print! Life is
too short to fool the smallest portion
away in such a manner.
- Charlie Dobson, the skilled and |
faithful manager of DIR. Carriger's Nor |
ristown Marble Mandatory, returned |
last week from a three weeks visit to |
the Centennial exhibition. What Charlie |
didn't see, at that show, wasn't worth |
seeing. He went for that purpose-and |
he says he won.
= We call the attention of our county |
readers to the announcement ia tO-day's /
paper of Sam B. Noe for the office of !
County Trustee. Nj. Noe enjoys the
reputation of an honest, intelligent, bu-
3iness gentleman, and is well and appre
known to a large number of
he voters of the county, to whose kind
we commit him.
Tom Allen, the recognized cham
)ion prize fighter of America, and Joe
1oss, who now holds the champion belt
If England, propose a big heavy weight
light for the championship of the world,
or s., 500 a side, within one hundred
niles of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday,
september z, 1876. Both men are now
n active training.
Theophilus Cardwell, of Knoxville,
vas on our streets last week, and seemed
decidedly struck with the appearance of
Iorristown. Thop., in his earlier days,
made crazy "Dave jackson" cuss, cut
ID, and do more general deviltry to the
Inhabitants of Knoxville than any other
10Y of the place. We have not inter-
iewed him, but suppose he is after q
ircus, or some mans apple orchard.
- Mabe NJ Murrell, of the Messy
Jreek Independent, returned to his home
4 this place Saturday last on a visit to
is family. Mabe informed a friend of
H. I'D |
ating hebdomidal-7the crank turning
ne way one week and another the next
and that between the different tunes it
layed, it would realize handsomely,
Incompatible Mabe
- Pretty free comment was INDUCED
! Monday by order loving citizens of
he community at the conduct of some
Dung men last Sunday evening in
musing themselves at target shoRtiag
ear the southern corporation line Of
ur town. The young men will learn
leEe respect for the opinions of their
ders when they have held a longer cit.
.enship:
- Our young friend, Master Kiher
peck, is a little ahead of any of his
in the Irish potatOe line. He
rought us last week basket full of the {
nest specimens we have seen this year,
his own culture, too. There is no ,
touse for Uncle Aft Sullenbarger or :
John Brown not having fine
1tatoes when youngsters like Kiber sets {
lem such examples. s
- The Knoxville papers of last Thurs I
~ give an account of the finding of the 9
cad body of negro girl, who had been c
ay-laid and murdered in the vicinity .
her home, not far from Ellijoy. A :
an named Donaldson, charged with | Y
lie crime, has been arrested and lodged I
jail at MaFYville. Ii is said that an |
licit intimacy had existed between
onaldson and the girl for some time,
I'd that she was enceiate !
- Capt. D. NJ. Taylor, of Knoxville, =
as in town last week. He was here
oking after the interest of the Corpora q
On of his city, and will, on his return,
axe disclosures that will give MS con- 4
1erable light on a matter where a 1
lung man saw ''the elephant" in our :
.ighbor city. His accomDlices will, =
rhaps, keep him company in his pres t.
It quartepa Capt. T. has obtained ev. s
enoe that will certainly place our Fl
poxYille friends In an "excruciating !
edioament. Let no guilty man es- y
pc. Il
. Capt. Andrew Johnson, editor of y
e Greeneville Il1teIISge1cer, in an APP
opriate and modest card in his last pa
r, announces himself candidate be- h.
re the people of Greene county, in OF
cir primary election, for the nomina- m
N of Representative in the lower il
use of the next General Assembly. A