The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-07-23

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local Notes aad other Ne,Os,
A fashionable drink-iemonade
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Spring chickens are in demand.
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The matrimonial market is looking up
Scatter lime and other disinfectants
freely.
Tomatoes and young corn are the
great luxuries now.
Dog days are ripening and will soon
be yielding fruit
There is some talk Of Nashville and
Edgeheld uniting to form one city.
Whitesburg wants a public well. We
could mention several other things she
wants eos
There you are at it again, reading
borrOtoed paper. Blushing, Ell? Well,
you ought to be ashamed of yourself j..
The Charleston Neacs and Courier from
actual records, shows that Saturday was
the hottest day known there since 1892.
Saturday was a dull day, but few
country people being in town, and
no dFummers visible on the streets.
This kind of weather is getting away
with the average barefooted boy. The
hot bricks are trying his grit.
The house of Harvey Woods, near
Whitesburg, in this county, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
18th, together with all its contents
From the present outlook, McMinn
county will not gather more than half a
corn crop this fall, says the Athens Post.
The same might be said of this county.
The town of Leadvale, as we learn
from the Newport Sentinel, boasts of a
peculiar attraction in the way of fe-
male string band.
We will accept wheat at the highest
market price on subscription for the
GAZETTE or for subscription, job work
and advertising dues.
Voters should be at the polls early on
the seventh of next month and after de-
posting their vote should exert their in
f1uence in behalf of the 50-4 compromise.
The boys of Whitesburg have formed
themselves into band ku-klux for the
purpose of breaking up an itimacy be-
tween certain white and colored people
of that place.
The next man who asks US If we think
it will rain, we fear he may cause us to
lose our patience, resulting in our
knocking him down a few times and
getting a coroner's jury to sit upon him.
A party of Newport citizens, accord
ing to the Reporter, have started out on
ma, which, it is thought, will be compos-
ed of about 100 people.
Do our east end neighbors intend to
put pump in the public we'll which
they are interested in or to let it remain
at its present status We say put it in
by all means. Little money will do it.
Minnie Hauck is to marry an editor.
His name is not given, but we suppose
he lives in MINNESOTA and runs the
Hauck-eye. Which is very creditable to
the head of the Nashville Banner.
The sort of weather we experienced
last week, with the mercury climbing
up into the nineties, made us feel high
and like fighting cock-rather shanghi.
Mr.. B. F. Mitchell, has erected a new
and attractive picket fence in front of
his residence in the east end. Let this
Improvement be an inducement to 9TH
ers to follow suit.
Recollect: The rejection of the
50.4 compromise will not wipe out
the debt, but may be the means of
the State having to pay every dollar
of its Indebtedness.
Tomatoes are luxury which some
of our good bearing town gardens are
affording just now, while on the other
hand large number of our citizens are
complaining about their crop suffering
from dry rot.
is worth two in the bush. So do not
read your neighbours GAZETTE, but sub
scribe for it and have it in your own
hands first every week, filled with the
events of the daV