The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-12


- The Jonesboro' Journal mention
a recent visit TO its office of our old &C
quaintance, Chas. r. Bean, of Unicoi
II the old Tubal Cain calls again, won
the Journal present him our kind greet
ings, and inquire if. he has any informa
ton, satisfactory, of his distinguished
namesake, Judge Cramp. FL. Bean.
- Here's an opportunity for some Of
our many crack marksmen The execu
tive committee of the New York Rifle
Association have secured ground for .
Iifie match at the Centennial Exposition.
They require one thousand yards for q
match, in which all foreign teams are ex
pected. Prizes reaching twenty-five
thousand dollars in valuation are TO be
offered.
= Thomas Bradley, foreman of Martin
Shea, on the Cincinnati Southern rail.
road work, was shot and instantly killed
by his step-son, VIM Owens, December
26. They met at a grocery about So.
clock that Sunday night and without
any wolds Owens drew his pistol and
shot him through the heart Bradley
leaves wife and two children Owens
is young man about twenty-one years
of age, and made his escape.
The knoxville Chronicle says 8. The
plot thickens around the pastor of the
Brooklyn Plymouth Church, and it real
| ~ looks ike Beecher's troubles have only
Just commenced" Well may the old
chanticleer of Plymouth church exclaim
/" Call you this hacking ones friends +?
A plague on such backing, say y Is it
possible the Chronicle is about to- ease
out of further championship of the pas
tor We hope So 81
: Our County Court at its last sitting
voted an additional tax to build Jail
| Hamblen county has long needed an in
stitution of this kind, and we are proud
of our county's official action in them
| ter. Judge Randolph at the last term Of
his court in this place made some very
appropriate and happy remarks as to the
present shanty used as a place of con-
finement for prisoners, and we are glad
to know we are to have Jail above the
reach of his facetious tongue.
: Here's another difficulty in our sec
tion-and its bound to spread to the nu-
merous friends of the parties. It's a
question of beauty alone. Bewley Reyes,
of Bulls Gap, suggests that if the rail-
road company will hang photograph of
Laws. Clifford, Cow Attorney, just be-
low the headlight on each engine, they
would never have to pay for another kill
ed animal Laws. swears Bewly is the
ugliest man in America, and laughs at the
idea, as though it was rough on Bewley
= The Herald and Tribune contradicts
Landndrk, that the Telford Manufactur-
ing Company was about to prove fail
ure. From one of the managers it learns
that the prospects of the Company are
encouraging. Responsible persons have
already contracted to build portions of
the work, ard in few months it is be-
lieved lively times will be apparent in
the vicinity of Wildwood. All of which
is very gratifying news to us.
- We saw it at the Depot, near the
railroad track. 1t lay in aslles-only
enough of the collar remaining, and one
forlorn button, to remind one of the old
blue cavalry overcoat, long observed on
our streets. We ventured to inquire of
an apple boy who stood gazing upon the
sad ruin: {" Wherefore, my son, this
gloom, when all nature this morning
wears such bright smile ?" Mister,
nix coal lie and tup-entine did the
job Apples, sir ~ We took nickeTs
worth, admonishing the youth to con-
tinue truthful and virtuous.s e
= Rev. J. Howard Smith, recently
Rector of st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Knoxville, has now charge of Church
at Newark, n. J. The New York Trs5-
'tne mentions that recently his church
choir sang the hymns, ''Come, Holy Spi-
rit, Heavenly Dove" and "Shout the
Glad Tidings," to music that the Doctor
considered entirely too ford, for he of |
fered earnest prayer that the choir might
not sing frivolous music. In eonse- ]
quence, the members of the choir, which |
was regarded the best in the city, disban-
ded, and the Church is now run with
congregational singing.
-''If we were King of France,
Or, wOts better, Pope Of
the reflector, we would make no invidi-
Gus distinctions in the merits of the |
we sent out, as he does in this F.: |
Z" At the next meeting of our cardinals !
we Will have the degree of d. D. con-
ferred on Bro. Helms, and not make it
mean dead drunk either" We confess
we are not an adept in reading correctly |
the cabalistic letters used by any of the |
Popes or cardinals, but since the matter |
is mentioned, and we fairly possess the
honor, we are curious TO know, if the
ID letters don't mean what the Pope |
strikes out, what the LIDO they mean
- The Greeneville I1ateufgencer states
hat q. S. Marshal Mitchell, with posse
Of five or six men, left Greeneville, JAN
nary 8, to arrest Robert Kite, who re-
sides in Greene county, for illicit distill-
ng. On arrival at the house, it was sur
but Mr. Kite refused to surren-
Ter, and quietly walked out of the bull
ling. The revenue officials attempted I
% prevent his escape, and one of them
pistol az him when Kite turned
md fred an Emf ED rifle loaded with
at the officers, three of the balls
aking effect in the leg of James Piper.
Kite made his escape. Piper is now at
he residence of Mr. Jones, on Lick Creek,
lnder the care of a doctor.
= Sundays Press and Herald is face
ions but not witty. Great projectors are
so. Its ''light weights'.man
hnuld be satisfied with the little 'speri-