The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-06

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of the will, $40, 600 revert to Hamilton
College, $40, 000to Yale, and SIC, 900 to
female seminary in Knoxville. Attor-
neys for the tive former institutions en-
tered suit to compel the executors of the
Knox estate to pay over the amounts
due Hamilton and Yale colleges.a
If Judge Houk receives the appoint
ment of District Attorney, says the Lou
don journal, it will be nothing more than
just appreciation of his services by the
government The gallant boys in blue,
who left their homes in East Tennessee,
to espouse the cause of the Union, have
never received that appreciation by the
general government that their patriotism
SO richly deserved. During the unpleas-
antness, principle and patriotism only
were the incentives to an espousal of the
Union cause in East Tennessee. Judge
Houk's patriotism and loyalty has never
been doubted even by his enemies; and
more than that, he is native, ''to the
manner born, and if the carpet bag rule
is to ''play out'' every where else, why
not in East Tennessee?
A New York date says: Grain began
to arrive in this city on Monday by the
Erie canal The officers of the Pro-
duce Exchange say that there are mill
lion and half bushels of corn on the
canal now, ard about four hundred
thousand bushels of wheat-consider-
able more than at the same time last
year 1t is expected that much greater
amount of corn will come into the State,
through the reduction of tolls, than
would otherwise have come. A large
amount that was left to the option of
forwarders was put on the canal when
the tolls were lowered on the 18th ult
A great amount of grain that would
have gone by rail to Buffalo If the tolls
had not been lowered, has been ordered
on the canal.
Capt. L. L. Hooper, of Davidson coun-
ty, was shot and killed on Thursday last,
at the toll-gate on Whites Greek Pike,
a few miles out from Nashville, by
Montgomery Bell Nance. The difficulty
which led to the killing grew out of an
attempt of Nance's father, who 10 Presi-
dent of the above turnpike company, to
ohstruct the free passage of the public
over that part of the pike where the kill.
ing took place. The citizense of the
neighborhood claimed that the toll-gate
had been abolished by the Legislature
and have for some time refused to pay
toll. This action was resented by Nance,
who had built a fence to prevent their
passage. The feeling is very strong
against Nance, and there was some talk
of lynching him. Young Nance shot
Hooper for striking his father with an
ak.
Last Friday morning, 25th ult., Mrs.
G. c. ChambliSs, OF Stewart county
was murdered by three negroes of the
neighborhood They fired the fences
and drew her husband from the house
the negroes then proceeded to the hous G
to rob it, and were me; by Mrs. Cham
bliss, a beautiful woman aged Is years,
armed with a gun. One of the negroes,
,
lodged the contents in her head, causing
death instantly. The negroes burned
the corn crib and fed. They were
pursued and captured Jerry admitted
the deed and implicated his companions
Stephen Abram and VIM. Boothe. They
We're brought to Chambliss' house that
afternoon, and 1t was unanimously de-
oided by about 300 whites and blacks
present that they should be hanged. A
gallows was erected and the murderers
were hanged with trace chains. The
colored participants in the lynching
threw the lifeless bodies into an old field
to rot, and it was with great difficulty
that the whites could pursuades them tC
permit a burial The culprits met theil
tate jeeringly and sneeringly, clarifying
in the deed, haunting their executioners.
The financial condition of Memphis
is not an enviable one, The Appeai
says M
The city employees have not been paid
/ for months, and no money is in the city
treasury for that purpose. The EN-
ployes have to sell their past due time al
a heavy sacrifice in order to support
themselves aud families, and no effort il
being made to raise money for their re
lief. Ia . .s..s.,-- s--.. .o.s..s3 +
Wy. Elliott, Pension Agent at Nash
vile, has received an order from Wash
ington directing him to get the business
of the. agency In readiness to be trans
ferred to the consolidated agency al
Richmond by the end of the fiscal year,
June 80. Upon that date the agencies
at Nashville, Knoxville, Raleigh, Nor
folk and Wheeling viii be discontinued
and be consolidated with the agency at
Richmond. Last year the Knoxville
agency disbursed 1871 ,059 SO; the Nash
Vile agency. $3.50, $40 O6; total disburse
ments in Tennessee, $625, 70S So, while
$97, O2S o5 was dis5ursed in North Caro-
lima; $136, 295 20 in Virginia, and $461,
229 o. in West Virginia, making grand
total discussed in the States named Of
81 1928, 261 81 It viii thus be seen thai
nearly half the total amount was dis
bursed in Tennessee, and yet this State
is to suffer inconveniences by the placing
of the agency of the consolidated dis
trict in city and State not at all en-
titled to it If we are to take into con
sideratiou the amount of business in
volved. The total amount of pensions
paid in the whole country last year was
$27, s59, OIL Sc, falling off of about
So, 600, 600 from the year previous. DR.
d. T. Boynton, of Knoxville. has ap
piled for the position of agent for the
new district.
We may have printed the following
before, bat it is important enough to re
neat.