The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-04

L1ducOCh county, last WcChB uCSbiOJAhS
haystacks, barns, fences, and timber.
! No lives are reported lost.
The saloons of our town are straining
every nerve to get through the most
trying ordeal they have ever combated
the Murphy movement.
Can you lay your hands on the man
who did not let day of last winter go
by without predicting a cool SUMMER
If you can, smash him
/ About 600 persons had signed the
pledge, at last accounts, at Bristol-on-the-
line, through the influence of Mr.. Leav-
enworth. f45.et
Amarlne, the man who murdered
young Cooper, is still at large. He was
seen near Strawberry Plains week be-
| fore last.
! In Memphis, so far a. reported, the
Knights of Honor have lost 90 members
of their Order since the fever began.
Their families viii receive So, 600 each.
About 80 Knights are reported sick.
The Sabbath School of the Presbyteri-
an Church of Morristown contributed
twenty-five dollars last Sabbath for the
yellow fever sufferers of the South.
George Livingstone was elected Mag
istrate for the Morristown district last
Saturday, to take the place of George
Crouch. Esq. resigned. A very good
| selection.
A prcsbytery which recently met at
Kingston, East Tennessee, adopted a
resolution recommending the passage
by the General Assembly of the local
option law.
We are willing to receive twenty or
thirty loads of wood in payment of sub
scrip'i.in for the GAZETTE, and would
be glad to receive it during the present
mouth. Bring it In while the roads are
, good. -s
Darling, Listen to Ny Story by
Harry Percy, is new, beautiful and
popular song, arranged for the piano or
organ and easy to play or sing. Weare
indebted to the publishers, Ludlow &
Bates, Savannah, Ga, for copy.
We are in favor of grernhacks! and
if you wish US to be sustained, dear
reader, just hand us over few on your
subscription. What's the use of being
greenbacker without you can back its
principles up
Two men named j.. w. Riggs and
j. w. Luttrcll, arrested at Princeton,
KY, for robbery, were shot and fatally
wounded in the Court house at that
place on the Goth. Luttrell is said to
have been native Of Knox county.
1t win be gratifying to the many adj
vocates of tho order, to learn that the
temperance cause is not only fionrishing
in our town, but that many persons
from the country are enrolling them
selves in the grand army of reform.
A prize of $3.50 will be awarded at
the Border Fair, Bristol, to the Base
Ball Club who shall carry off the vic |
tory in the games to be played during
the Fair. Also, the second best viii re-
ceive prize of $50 Sail in, boys.
~
The Grand Jury OF Blount county has
found two true bills against Fletcher
Emmett, one of the Amarine gang of |
outlaws and Illicit distfllers; who desert
ed his pals, was pursued aud captured /
in Greene county. on the charge of muir
dering john Cooper and shooting man
named Snyder.
The Knoxville Chronicle reports a wife
murder in Union county. Thomas
White, aged IS or 20 years, returned to
his home Sunday evening, August 25th,
pretending to be drunk, and getting his
pistol threatened to kill his little broth
er. His wife interferred, when he shot
her fatally. The parties had only been
married few months. White is in the
Maynardyille Jail.
We regret to learn from the Jonesbor-
ongh papers that our friend, Col Thos.
H. Reeves. was severely injured one day
last week by vicious bull The Colo
nels bruises are said be to be severe.
We hope he may soon be himself again,
and we confess to weakness TO see the
Bull that gored the Man that beat the
Ram that always carries bloody shirt
with it,. II
The last number of the Jonasborough
Journal contains DIR. Sewers valedicto-
ry a. its editor. DIR. Sewer Il one Of the |
most accomplished, pure and dignided
writer's In the State, as he ia profession
lily and socially the most learned and
popular. Under his conduct the Journal
Aas won high character as an able aud
fearless champion of Democratic pzin-
:iples. We regret his withdrawal from
! calling he reflected so much honor
lpon.