The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-03-12

go fishing.
Just received a Fresh supply Of Field
and Garden Seed at Earnest s. Briscoe's.
Flowing is in order by formers and
gardeners
Clover Seed cheaper than elsewhere
at Earnest g. Briscoe's.
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Bruce g. Son are now working in their
large and commodious new shop re-
Gently erected.
The only business transacted before
Squire Livingston last week were few
civil cases, which he decided in a Judi
cial and impartial manner
1t is said that daily passenger trains
are to be resumed on the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia railroad early
in April.
Horse and Jack bills neatly printed
on short notice and at low price at this
Office. Give us a call when wanting
anything in this line of work.
We are pleased to notice that the
mails are carried from the depot and
distributed in the office earlier in the
morning now than heretofore.
Courtship is defined by a young
man who pretends to know as 1.-The
diminishing before the real battle
begins"
The friends of Mr.. d. A. Minis will
be pleased to learn of his improving
health. He is now able to leave his
room and walk into the store.-NepD0rt
Sentinel.
Now is the time to beautify your
grounds by buying your Evergreens
from Earnest & Briscoe, who have just
received a large assortment from the
Nashville Nursery. Call and see them.
If there is man, woman or child in
all this section that won't concur in the
expression that we have had very de-
lightful weather for week, we have
not met him, her or it, The endorse
ment is voluntary and universal.
S. L. Saul is on trial in Knoxville
charged with burning his store at Lou
don, Tenn, in last December, presuma-
bly, for the purpose of obtaining the
amount of insurance on the house and
stock of goods therein contained.
Mr.. Barnett Smith, good and re-
spectacle citizen of this county, died
last Wednesday at his residence, near
Economy church, from dropsy. He was
aged 8S years, and perhaps was the old
est man in the county.
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Some of our citizens have set out
shade trees about their premises. A
capital idea, that. Nothing so agree
able as to have plenty of shade around
you, when the searching rays of an Au-
gust sun are falling upon you.
Mr.. LoCney, of Hawkins county,
passed through town last Thursday with
a drove of cattle, numbering from As to
So head. Some presented a good appear
ance. He was taking them to Hawkins
county to fatten for the market.
Horse trading was on the rampage in
town last week, between a number of
countrymen who had come to town for
that purpose, we suppose. Some had
real TRADING stock" and we presume
some man has found himself by this
time better of the trade.
The problem now worrying us, is, will
the water in the lake in the rear of this
Office endanger the health of this Sec
ton of the town if allowed to remain
standing during the summer9 Wont
the Chairman of the Sanitary Commit
tee relieve our mind on this subject? J.
The courthouse at MaryEille, Blount
county, was destroyed by fire on the
28th ult. It was one of the oldest build
ings in the town, having been built in
1885, The clerks Of the several courts
had their offices in the building, but,
fortunately, the fire was discovered in
time TO save all important documents.
Allen Garner, colored. magistrate of