The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-12
gofa1 aOtes and 0ther aews.

"A number of men passed through
our town Monday to attend the Fedora
Court now in session at Knoxville.
= Lupton, our first floor neighhor
shipped from his establishment last Mon
day nearly six thousand dozen eggs.
: Col. J. H. Rumbougb, of Warn
Springs, N. c., was with us last Monday
on his way to Knoxville.
- Roane county is reported out o
debt, with three or four thousand doll
ars in the Treasury. Good for Roane.
= Rev. Joseph Janeway, the efRcfen
Superintendent of McMinn county, hal
resigned the position, and is succeeded
by T. r. Russell.
= James Shanks killed Robert Reed
in Greene county, the day before Christ
mas, under circumstances that a jury Of
inquest declared to be in self defense.
p Morris & Smith. last Saturday, re
ceived and paid cash for 1910 dozen egg:
and 735 pounds of butter. This, for ono
days work, does pretty wen.
= Chancery Court commenced last
Monday at cambridge. Col. J. G. Rose
Capt. J. p Evans, Hon. J. C. Hodges
and Will. L. Dickinson, Esq, are pres
ent from the bar of this place.
The Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune
says that Maj. F. W. Earnest, A. s.
Deaderick and John Allison, Jr., were
elected editors of the Joncsboro' Journal
at a recent meeting of its stockholders
We regret to hear that Mrs. Robert
son, wife of our esteemed fellow citizen
DR.. J. E. Robertson, is dangerously low
with consumption. No hope is enter
tanned for her recovery.
We regret we were absent when
our friends J. L. Rogers and Capt. Snow,
of Claiborne county, called at our office
last Saturday. They are invited to try
again. We like to meet such friends.
= Miss Florence Kidwe11, daughter of
r. ]. Kidwell, formerly of this place,
but now connected with the Rogersv1lle
Female College, is on visit to relatives
and friends in this village.
viii McSween, Esq, of Newport,
now attorney-in-fact for Col. Washing
ton Allen, of Wolf Creek, in delicate
and momentous matter, interviewed us
Monday evening. He goes to Knoxville,
where we commend him to the kindness
of the Humility brotherhood.
last session, refused to levy any tax for
school purposes. 1t did the same last
year, but the people ordered it levied by
popular vote. We hope they will again
take the matter in their own hands.
= Mrs. Curtis Eames, of this place,
who has been for SONS time Frustrated
by severe illness, we are gratified to hear
is gradually improving. With our en-
tire community, we trust she may soon
be restored to her usual health.
= We call attention to the new adver-
tisement of our young townsman, Am
brose G. Stuart. Samples, and good ev-
idence they are, too, of his skill in pho
work, have been on exhibition
1t J. r. Taylor s. Co.'S store. Call at
his gallery and examine his specimens.
- The Grecnevi1le Lat0n and Anaert-
an commences the new year with an
light page quartO sheet. 1t is unques-
ionably as handsome paper as comes
o our Office from the rural districts, and
evidences enterprise that we hope may
lot be ensmalled by the test ofexperience
: That jolly, goodlooking and popu-
ar kinsman of ours, Capt. Henry Helm,
passed down the road Monday. He said
he gallant little craft, "Harry Helm"
would run up the French Broad as far as
that day. Henry is worker
md fit man to be at the helm of such an
- Our young friend, Frank W. Tay
or, of this county, returned last week
rom visit South with horses. He sold
,ut at Lewisburg, N. c., at living rates,
he market being dull owing to the scar
ity of money. He says he found no
market as good as NcMiIlan's Depot, and |
10 purchaser as liberal as Col. Turley,
W. A. Dickinson, for many years a
itizen of this place, and well known to
isitors as one of the proprietOrs of the !
1ate Spring Hack line, departed with his
amiIy last Saturday for Cartersville, Ga,
7here he thinks of locating. He is an
ctive, energetic young man, and has
ur wishes for his prosperity wherever
C may settle.
= No printing house in this section
Oes any better or cheaper job printing
nan the GAZETTE office. From bust
uplicate city prices. Prepare handbills-
Or your Thoroughbred Horses and Jacks
nd circulate them in time to give farm
rs the amplest information of the blood
icy have opportunity Of patronizing.
riders by maiFproptly filed.
= q Nine-tenths of the weekly papers
East Tennessee suspended during the
Olidays."- Czsl,tea Ts15sfae. Yes, the
IoRRIsTowN GAZETTE was the only pa
err, outside the daily offices of the divi-
on, that issued its usual sheet during
lat period. True to the comfort of its
ltrOns, as the compass to the storm-toss-
mariner, its circle is all the year round.
We are glad to welcome back to his
ome our young friend, T. F. Doc.)
each, who for half year has held
.sponsible position at Blacksburg, Va.
e resumes the place he temporarily re-
nquished in the Depot Office here, and
we are not mistaken in the indications
a change, Theodore is already FSd(d)-
o around for a cage for a Blacksburg
ird that he secured the promise of be-
ire he left.
= Our live and active town Constable,
lmes II. Maxwell, was out with his
rec last Saturday, doing all the good