The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-01-24

- Peruse our news summary.
- No cattle or stock now travelling.
= Snow fell here Tuesday morning.
Hogs have ceased to appear in
droves.
= The streets are muddy. with little
hope of drying soon.
- Some few sweet potatoes yet re-
main on the market at rs cts. bushel.
Few green apples sold on the streets
last week nc 60 cents busheI
- Money is scarce, ssand the trade OF
merchants who don'tadvertise is scarcer
= An enterprising man Of this place
has contracted for 90, 900 barrel slaves.
- Happy is the man that fndeth wis
dom--a pretty wife and big plantation.
- Mr.. Henry ". Sewer, the sprightly
editor. of the Greenyi1le hsteUsgeneer, was
in the city q few hours on Friday last.
= 7. G. Cain, proprietor of the Tur-
ley House, has changed its name to that
of "Cain House" This looks as though
| he has 'scome to stay"
- Mr.. What-do-you-call-'im was Ia
boriously sought after. last week, by an
unkewn drummer in these parts. AT
last accounts he hadn't found him.
We are panied to learn that Mr.. J.
B. Leach, our worthy depot agent, is
lying seriously i'll at his residence with
little hope of recovery.
H. = any person will give us the post
/ Office address of James W. HarrelI the
information win be thankfully received
Sam. Riddleburger, restaurant keep
er in Nashville died few days ago.
He weighed 40 pounds at the time of
his death. AT one time he weighed
over 500 pounds.
/ = Billy Patterson has at last found
the man who struck him. Yes, Will
liam slipped up on him the other night
in Pennsylvania, and Stayed him with a
brickbat .1
- Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth
wife of Brigham Young, passed through
this place last Saturday evening, on the
eastern bound passenger train. She pre-
sents a handsome and dignifed appear
anee.
- Last week those of our citizens who
laid in large supplies of beef entertained
fears of losing it owing to the weather
turning warm. However it soon turned
cool again, and their fears vanished.
= Gen. j. w. Grigsby, of Lexington,
Kentucky, died at that place a few
days ago. He commanded the Sixth
Kentucky cavalry in the late war, and
served under General Joseph Wheeler
and Gen. John 81. Morgan.
- Hide out camel C. II. Sewers, w.
G. Lindsey, j. A. Nickells, and others,
of Bristol, passed through here last Sat-
urday, en- route for the French Broad
river, on a regular hunt Game will
likely be scarce, when they return.
=. We learn the HolstoE and French
Broad rivers. have been very. much out
of banks, caused by the recent rains and
thawing of snow, carrying away boats
and doing considerable damage to bot
tom lands. -
- There is no diptheria Ia Morris.
town, though a few cases of. bad colds
and coughs still fingers with the old and
the young, who are kept busy swallow
ing pills and squills and applying linen
to their .bugles-just for the fun and
comfort of the thing. ~
- We heard a gentleman say a few
days ago, that the peaches were not
killed by the recent cold spell and snow,
and that we will, probably, have good
yield. Another authority says the germ
of his fruit is killed throughout his
orchard.
= During a heavy rain storm at Mem.
phis recently, fall of live snakes was
observed in the southern part of the
city, where thousands of them were
seen. The snakes were from one foot
to eighteen inches in length. If the
Memphians don't lookout, sharp, they'll
have snakes in their boots thicker'n
bees around 'lasses jug in June.
- Harry Samuels, of the house of
Nehmsmann, Bahlman g. Kahler, cigar
manufacturers, Baltimore, was in town
q few days since. Harry has host of
friends here, as well as everywhere else,
for he is just the sort of fellow to |
please every one who is fortunate enough
to meet him, Strange to US that as good |
and handsome fellow as he is, has es-
capped natrimonY so long. 4
- Bro. Pope, our orthy and indie /
fatigable nejghbor of the Baptist Re1scc-
tor gets off the following: Somebody |
stole old brother e. Dodsonss saddle
bags not long since in North Carolina,
but finding them full of religious read |
ing for tho Indians returned them.
Thieves have very little use for relig-
lous reading"
- Maj. ID. A. Carpenter was re-elect-
ID Mayor of Knoxville at the municipal
election last week. The renewed honor
Ind action conferred by the people of
hat city shows plainly the Major Is
popular and holds a strong esteem in
heir affections He win, we doubt not,
prove in the future as he has La the past,
worthy, efficient and faithful officer.
- Religious serv ices were observed in
IL our churches last Sabbath. We learn
he services at the Presbyterian ehuFah
we're chiefly occupied in discussing the
wills of war, and urging the congrega-
ion to pray and exert their influence TO
vert the same, and TO trust the pending
crisis might be amicably II
ettled to the satisfaction OF all citizens
1 the United States without a jot or
title Of blood. II,
We are informed several young
zen contemplate visiting Washington, 4
! the proper time, to witness the Presi.
entail inauguratioH. They are all am
itious. and say il the question Is not |
roperly adjusted as to Tilden and Z
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