The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-03-06
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which he gives his personal attention.
And he understands his business, too.
He is an entcrprising, independent
farmer, and will succeed in his business,
just because he -industrIously and in-
telligeRtly gives.his whole attention to
his farming operations. II f
I can say, in Conclusion, that the art
Hof farming is gaining ground in the
counties through which have travelled
the six weeks past. And it will gain in 7
the ratio that farmers ceasetolcornitheir
land to death and put it into a condition
to grow grass, more vegetables, and
contract the number of acres they Guilt
vate, by enriching, to the highest posi-
BILE extent, the few acres they annually
pillow. alfasa-a ASS E. zH~ j. IS. W.
4 NASHVILLE STREET AFFRAY.
The AJnericqn of Wednesday con-
tains an account of a difficulty
which occurred in Nashville on
Tuesday. afternoon betweep, Maj.
Thos. O'Conper and Mr. Thos,
Atcheson, the editor of the Banner.
The cause of the difficulty may be
gathered from the following note:
To the Editor of the B-nner; E.5.s sfs.1 /,
1 NASHVILLE, Feb. 20, 1S78.-In your
! paper of yesterday, you used this lam
| guage about the lessees of the. peniten
| tiary, styling the lessees first ring:
/ they have openly and brazenly com
mitted thes. outrages and crimes, under
/ the forms of law enacted by legislatures
which they bribed by moiety of their
| ill-gotten gains -sTH
| This being one of many similar arti-
| cles, am driven to ask you to publish
| or at least furnish the proof of the grave
! charge, or rctract it in the next issue OF
your paper. Respectfully,
! .s TaOS. O'CoNNER.
Mr.. Atcheson refused 10 retract,
although the proprietors of the Bun
her requested him 10 do so. The
Following was the elimination of the
affair, as related by the american:
.''After it was known that Mr.. Atche-
son refused to furnish the proof or re-
tract the statement, it was apparent a
7 difficulty would take place, and, indeed J,
/ so anxious were the stockholders in Mr..
Atcheson's paper and Mr. Colyar to pre-
vent difficulty that they all urged that
! iustice always demanded when a wrong
J had been done it should be repaired,
and that serious consequences. would
follow a refusal to furnish the proof or
retract. Mr.. Atcheson still refused, and
the first time he appeared on the streets
the difficulty occurred"
! From gentleman who were eye
witnesses of the rencontre following
facts were elected:
Mai. O'Conner came up Union street,
on the south side, from College. AS he
i approached the corner of Union and
i Cherry, in front of Wigger's jewelry es-
tablishment, Mr.. Atcheson (who had
! been standiu g on the corner of Union
and Cherry, uiagonally oppositeG cross
| ed Union so as to place himself immedi-
ately in front of OConner, across Cher
ry street. Mai. O'Connor advanced into
/ Cherry street, and said to AR. Atcheson,
defend yourself, or, as some of the
/ by-standers-Say, Draw your pistol
! At the same time Maj. O'Conner drew
his pistol on Mr. AtchesOn and eontinu-
ed TO advance on him. Atch esOn said
lie was unarmed. Maj. O'Conner then
went TO him, denounced him for being
uuarmed after his publications and what
! had transpiIcd that morning, kicked
him, struck him in the face with his
left hand, and finally struck him over
the head with his pistol. Citizens in
terferrcd, when AtchesOn, bleeding pro-
fusely, went to his Office, and police
officer took charge of Maj. O'Conner.
b. Major O'Conner was subsequently
arrested for the assault, and taken
before Judge Duling, who find him
fifty dollars. Il is also stated that
Cherry, O'Conner & Co. have insti:
tuted a libel suit against the Banner
Company on account of publication
of articles charging the firm with
bribery and corrupt practice. They
lay their damages at ten thousand
dollars. .. -...
Mr.. Atcheson publishes lengthy
card in the Banner. of Wednesday
evening. We quote his version Of
/ the repcontre: fts s
Yesterday afternoon coming from the
| DOStSfhce, When on the corner OF Union
and Cherry streets, Major Thomas
O'Conner approached from the opposite
side of Cherry street. When about
twenty feet from nae he pulled pistol
from his pocket, cooked it, and leyeled
it directly ut my breast. Not anticipat-
ling any difficulty, and being without a
v eapon of any kind, l exclaimed two
or three times that | was unarmed and
could not defend myself. He approach
+ ed close to me as did not move, with
his pistol still leveled, and while | re-
monstrated that had no arms about
: me, he raised his weapon and dealt me
fearful blow on the side of my head,
infiicting deep cash about two inches
in length mOmentarily stunning me-
While stunned and staggering, he kick
ed me in the groin, intlicting, in the
! latter case no serious wound. When
partially recovered, said to him, some
what excitedly, | suppose, that all |
wanted was an equal show with himself,
and if he would only throw aside his
/ pistol lust for two minutes, l would be
able to take care of myself All this
time Inc had three or four of his strikers
on hand, some of these encouraging Il i'm
on, while |, not in the slightest expect
ing danger, was alone, and, as l have
said, Totally unprepared-
4 ~
A most desperate rencontre occurred
at the University at Tuscaloosa, Ala, on
the morning of the 22d, between two