The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-15


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Strawberries becoming plentiful.
Read new advertisements in this issue.
Immense attractions at Earnest q Bris-
GOES.
The latest novelties in goods at Earn
est s. Briseoe's.
A teachers institute for Hamblen
county is called to meet at Whitesburg,
May cath and 25th.
Earnest & Briscoe are selling goods
cheaper than they can be bought any
where in East Tennessee.
The GAZETTE circulation is steadily
increasing. A club of twenty was re-
ceiVed recently from Claiborne county
Your job printing can be done as neat
and cheap at the GAZETTE office, as at
Knoxville, or elsewhere.
Mr. John G. Graham, travelling cor
respondent Of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Daily
Telegraph, has been stopping at the Grigs-
by house for several days past.
We regret to learn of the death of Mrs.
T. J. Jarnigan, who died at her resi-
dence near Tate Spring, last Thursday.
She was an estimable lady, loved and
respected by all who knew her.
Earnest & Briscoe are in receipt of an
unusual large stock of New Goods,
which they are determined to sell as
cheap as the same goods can be bought
for East or elsewhere.
A game of. base bali was played last
Saturday between the Reagan High
School boys and the Morristown Loafers,
resulting in victory of tally for the
Loafers.
VIM. Blount Folsom, second son oil
Maj. Fl. NJ Folsom, of Carter county,
died at Eliza5ethton, Sunday, 18th inst.
in his eighteenth year. He was a young
man of much intelligence and promise.
The Chattanooga Dispatch contradicts
the rumOrs afioat that Lenoir Bros, Of
Lenoir, Tenn, had made an assignment.
1t thinks it another example of the story
of the man who swallowed the three
black crows. We hope so.
s. L. Doggett, of Cooke county, las
week arrested fellow named Ransom
Hodges, near Strawberry Plains, charg
ed with stoning railroad trains The fel
low was fined $50, aud in default of bal
was committed to cambridge Jail.
R. Lyman Potter is trundling wheel
barrow from Albany to San Francisco
on 81 900 bet that he cannot do it ii
$50 days, Sundays excepted. He say
he is now sixty days ahead of time.
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Don't stand around and grumble tina
you can find nothing to do. Do some
thing take hold of something-if it's thu
plow handles. There's nothing lik
taking hold of something.
We thank our neighbor and prede
ccssOr, l.. p. Speck, Esq. for two yer
| fine fresh shad, taken from the waters Q
Chucky river, by Uncle Tommy Jones
opposite this place May such shadow
frequently obscure our sunshine.
Russellvi!le IS agitated with the tele
phone fever. Two cast away fruit cans
raw hide enough to cover one end @
each, and fifty yards of connecting
Irvine, is what the instrument is mad
of, we suppose.
Gov. Porter offers a reward of $25
for the apprehension of each of the pal
| ties in disguise, who have, several time
within the past six weeks been prowlin
about Bellebuckle, and who on the BOT
of April took a citizen from the tow
prison and assaulted and abused him
The Governors course is highly CON
mendable.
MorristOwn appears to be making
wonderful improvement morally. Sh
| has now only one whisky saloon left
the last one but that having been close'
out by the Sheriff recently, and the Ga
zETTE man says he would willingly dis
pense with that last one even, and thi
is just what takes us by surprise. -HIa01
rEUe Chronicle.
If there is anything in religion or MOI
ais, outside of whisky and the post Office
that don't take you by surprise, you
readers have never discovered it.
kate Southern, who fatally stabbe'
Miss Cowart in a ballroom in Picken
county, Ca, in fit of jealousy, yea
or two ago, has been found guilty o
murder, and sentenced to be hanged Of
June 81. Miss Cowart danced with Mrs
Southern's husband, and was killeC
while at his side, by his wife from ieal
Ousy. The trial was intensely exciting
Mrs Southern had her baby in her arm
when she was sentenced"
A street encounter with revOlyers oc
CURED in Little Rock, Ark, SUNDAY
morning, between Maj. John d. Adams
one of the proprietors of the Gazette
and Col J. N. Smithee, one of the edi
tors of the Democrat Several shots wer
fired, resulting in the latter receing tw'
flesh wounds, one in the right arm TIT
other in the hip. CdHse-a newspape
controversy.
Rembert in Limbo.
The man named Rembert, mentioned
in our last paper in connection with
seduction and abduction case in Haber
sham county, Georgia, was brough
here last Saturday night by Mr.. A. f
Green, who captured him in Hancocl
county, about twelve miles from Taze
WELL He was arraigned before justices
Crouch and Dickinson on Monday even
ing upon a warrant charging him will