The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-15
Local Notes and Other Ne,cs.

Local Notes and Other NelCs.
Coal has tumbled from sixteen to ten
cents per bushel in Knoxville.
Forest nuts are abundant this year
Chestnuts, walnuts and hickory nuts
will he large yield.
The farmers of Washington county,
Tenn, have an Exchange" or month
meeting, at which sales of surplus pro-
ducts are made.
Messrs. w. B. McDonough 81 Co.,
have been awarded the contract OF build
ing the Knoxville Water Works for
$64 ,000
The Holston annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, meets IN
Knoxville, to-day, Wednesday. Bishop
Wiley, presiding.
Many of the cisterns of the town have
dried up from the long drouth Of two
months and more, and copious showers
of rain are needed to fill them.
We had a slight rain fall here last
Friday, but it did not benefit the parch-
ed vegetation, and scarcely settled the
dust on the ground.
Newport Reporter Mr.. Swan l. Bur
| nett, of Big Greek, lost eleven of his fin
est market hogs last week. They suffo-
Gated for water during those extremely
! hot days.
Mr.. Geo. D. Anderson, an aged and
respected citizen of this place, died sud
| denly last Wednesday of paralysis He
was inferred Thursday in Liberty Hill
graveyard.
The brick kiln of Wilmeth & Baird
was bright object, especially at night,
last week. 1t was kept well fired and
illuminated beautifully the portion Of
| town in which it is located.
The Knoxville Scrubs" challenge
any club in the State to match game
of base ball, to be played at the Knox
vile Fair, which holds during the 2Sth,
29th and Both of this month.
We understand that Mai. Geo W.
Folsom intends Strengthening a thousand
! hogs or more, at the MOrristOwn pork
/
them and the season permits.
DR.. John Templeton, Of Hawkins
county, Tenn, was shot and killed i'm
| Lee county, Va, last week, by his
brother-in-law, James Wright. The
murderer escaped.
The Sweetwater Democrat says that
at the recent fair premiums were award
! ed for a yield of 1882 pounds of hay
from one acre of ground One acre of
bottom land produced 1919 bushels of
corn and an acre of upland 1924 bushels.
Mr.. Will Parker, our enterprising
merchant in the "Y," has had n neat
! and comfortable dwelling erected in the
| vicinity of the Doussot property in the
! West end of town, to which he has re-
moved his family.
Thousands upon thousands of bushels
of coal have passed up the road within
the last three months, and the demand
has not lessened any, apparently, as
about a dozen car loads pass daily, on
an average, to points along the line and
to the eastern markets.
Mrs. S. A. Helm, widow Of the late
H. G. Helm, decd, of Leadvale, Jeffer-
son county, was recently paid the
amount of her husbands certificate by
| the Knights of Honor at that place
$4,000. Mr.. II. had only been required
to pay $40 into the Lodge at the time of
| his death.
The severe drought continues and has
| caused the rivers on each side of US to
| be lower than ever before within the re-
collection of the oldest inhabitapt. If
rain doesn't come soon the fishes in our
| streams will be hunting spring branches
as earnestly as former dependents on
their cisterns now seek for the deepest
wells.
Mr.. Jas. H. Maxwell, one of Ham
blen's most live and popular cattle deal
ers, shipped from this point to the South
last week over three hundred head of as
fine looking sheep as we have ever seen
shipped from our depot. If Jim keeps
the tide up as it was last week, we pre-
dict for him both fame and fortune at
no distant day.
Tom Jones and Bill Rearson, negroes,
were lynched and hung, on the night of
the 9th, near Boyce, Tenn, for the muir
der of Dick Woods, mentioned in our
last. They were taken to the iron rail
road bridge over White Greek, and
swung from the bridge. The hrr tos are
said to have been from Hickory, n. c.,
and worked on the Cincinnati Southern.
The handsome residence of Capt.
VIM. Allen, Circuit Court Clerk, of
Campbell county, at JacksbOTO', was
burned Saturday morning, 4th instant.
On the 7th instant the Knoxville Fire
Insurance Company paid HIM $500 in
cash, the full amount of the policy he
had been induced to take in February
last. We repeat our recommendation |
to all holders of real estate or personal /
property to secure themselves against |
fire accidents by immediate insurance, |
and they can find no more solvent or /
honorable company than the Knoxville |
Fire. 1t pays its honest losses as prompt /
ly and as cheerfully as il collects its pre-
miums. See advertisement on first page.
"Gath, " in the Cincinnati ERq7tirer T.:
In moving around Nashville / found the
greatest difference of opinion 10 exist
on the subject of the public debt, but in
general the respectable people wanted
the debt carried and and the interest
met. In the house of Mrs. Polk, widow
Of the ex-President, the feeling was en-
Dhatically expressed that Tennessee
ought to be too jealous Of its good name
not to pay its obligations in manly
spirit. | am told that by a special act
1f the Legislature interest is met on
bonds held bv charitable institutions