The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-02
NOTES AND DOTS.
A NeWsy Letter from Hawkins
County.
Sept. "a, 1878.

| IOur correspondent arrived mere
in Rogersville, Hawkins county, on
Saturday night last. on the "dump," !"
or. perhaps ought to say, dumps,
for there were two of them. The
Base Ball club of this town had been
over to Bulls Gap, or the "Junc-
tien," to play game of ball with
the club there, and had beaten the
Junctionites, and were returning
home, necessitating the use of two
dumps and horses. The boys were
hilarious, and their advent into
town, about ten o'clock, was notified
to the quiet denizens by terrific
yells.
The dump is a much older in
stitution than I supposed. 1t seems
to have been in use over five years.
In that time it has killed outright
two men, neither of them INN e.
diately or lawfully on the dump. In
one instance two colored men took a
dump to have a ride on the down
grade, and turned it bottom side up,
killing one. The other other in
stance was where a drunken white
man undertook to get on when the
dump was under way, and he was
entangled in the wheels and terribly
manglcd. The people here are anx-
iously looking to the time for its oc-
cupation to be no more, which will
not be before about the middle of
November, though am told that an
engine is to come over the bridge
next week, for certain purpose.
Went to the Presbyterian Church
on Sunday, and listened to a very
good sermon by the pastor, Rev. J.
C. Cowan, from the text, "They that
are in health need not physician,
but they that are ILL.," The subject
of the sermon was the scourge that
is upon us-the yellow fever. The
sermon was very appropriate.
Monday. the 23d, was the first day
of the Circuit Court for the First Ju-
dicial District. 1t opened at ten
o'clock, with Judge Newton Hacker
presiding; Attorney General FaiE,
prosecutor; G. C. Spears, Clerk. and
r. L. Blevins, Sheriff.
The local or resident lawyers of
this Court are Netherland & Son,
Kyle & McDermott, Fulkerson &
Chestnut, Watterson & Walker. Gil.
!inwaters & Brown, Ex-Judge John
A. Mckinney. James White. Ap. s.
Buren,, A. D. Huffmaster, W. N.
Clarkson.
notice members from abroad are
S. j. Kirkpatrick, Jonesboro' Chas.
R. Vance, Bristol; w. S. Dickson,
Morirstown; R. S. Hemphill, Rut-
ledge; George Murrell, Fall Branch
W. S. Kyle, Whitesburg. and Judge
John M, Carmack and Hugh Heis-
kelI, Memphis.
The regular drawn Grand Jurors
are B. B. Golden. Foreman, Jesse
Mills, Woodson Flora, Lloyd Ford,
J. M. Arnett, John w. Harris, Geo.
Etter, Wesley Ball, Wilson Johnson.
H. J. Horton, James Walker, A. K.
Elkins. j. II. Young.
The Traverse Jurors are B. w. An.
derson, +. A. Brown, Thos. Louder
back. VIM. Keel. Jesse E. Hunt, G.
w. Merriman. Wesley H. Ball. w.
T. Larkins, Samuel Barrett. w. F.
Ellis, Samuel Webb, Geo. Seals.
The Judge and other officers ex-
oept Sheriff are anew men at the bel
lows" but with the juries and law
yers, they are sufficient to run any
Circuit Court in Tennessee or any
other State.
The charge of the Judge was
lengthy, particular and elaborate.
One Of the particulars" was eau
ton to the Grand Jury concerning
indictments On insufficient testi-
mony. and especially against carry
ing concealed weapons, and this eau
tion would seem to be necessary, for
Of three trials for that offence all the
defendants were acquitted, and ac-
quitals were given in two other cases.
This afternoon, the members of
the bar selected S. j. kirkpatrick,
of Jonesbero', to act as Judge pro
tenn in such cases as Judge Hack
er is incompetent to preside over,
on account of his former partial
prosecution as Attorney General.
The Rogersville Female School is
under full headway, under the direc-
ton of Prof. A. w. Wilson. Kid
we'll is no longer connected with the
institution. except TO settle up the
partnership business. The building
is very large and costly one; 1t is
100 feet long, with ellis. additions
and other buildings. It's situation
and surroundings are beautiful and
attratiye fdt9chools in the land are
better favored in this respect. 1t is
a good thing to have institutions of
learning made pleasant to the eyes
of students, for they will look back
to them IN after years as things of