The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-08-27
PERSONAL.
CLINCH.

Hon. j as. >. SlleldS, OF CIlnCnuale,
was in our city Tuesday of last week.
Col. B. M. BTanner, of Messy Greek,
made us business visit last week,
Mr.. Will S Shields, of Clinchdale,
gave US a call Friday.
II. w. Curtis, the famous Knoxville
! ieweler, gave US call last Friday, en-
route to Tate's.
A. J. Thomas, of the Newport Sentt11-
Ell, was registered at the Cain House
! Saturday.
Miss Hessie Allen, one of Greene
county's most popular and charming
ladies, is visiting Mrs. Dan. Briscoe of
! our town.
We regret to hear of the illness of
! Mrs. DR.. r. B. Overs, at her residence
in this city She has been quite unwelI,
! but is now improving.
Mrs. Geo. McCrary and family return
ed last week from two months stay at
! Mooresburg Spring, all of them much
| benefited by the visit.
Geo. W. Ross, Esq, one of the pro-
prietors of the celebrated marble quar-
ries Of Knox county, went over to Tate's
last Saturday.
Rev. 7. p. Summers, Principal of
Morristown Female High School, re-
turned from Messy Creek Monday,
where he has been assisting Rev. j. L.
NJ French in protracted meeting.
Col J. r. Neal Speaker of the Ten
nessee Senate, was robbed recently at
the Exchange Hotel in Kingston, of
S175 cash, and a 81 500 note, besides
some other notes and papers,
Hon. s. J. Kirkpatrick, of Jonesboro',
was elected School Director for that dis
trict at the late election. If the other
directors are of his kind it forms board
that for efficiency, intelligence and iu-
dustry can't be beat in the State.
Rev. F. M. Tanning has been appoint
ed to fill the pulpit of the NJ E. Church
in AshevilIe, n. c., made vacant by the
resignation of Rev. G. S. Long, A. B.,
who goes to Tennessee to take charge
of the PowePs Valley Seminary, a new
Conference school. -AsbegiUe Citizen.
James Comfort, Esq, a prominent
member of the Knoxville bar, spent
night in our city last week, en- route home
from visit to his family at Warm
Springs. We have a good one on Com
forts ROgersvllle experience,
Jimmie Fulkerson, the well-known
representative of Sanford, Chamberlain
& Albers, Knoxville, passed over the
Buncombe road Saturday on a trip to
North Carolina.
Our former townsman and good
IfIGutl, w ID. l. 1dlIC1SCO3 - obODDlnS DIT
the Cain House, engaged in his we'll
known business as comm ercial traveller
He represents business as improving in
his line and is not only in excellent
health, but very hopeful for better
times in the near future.
Rev. w. l.. Richardson, of the Hol |
ston Conference, recently stationed at
Abingdon, in jumping from his buggy
on Friday last, in Scott county, his foot
slipped, throwing him on his left arm
and dislocating his elbow joint. The
Doctor reset the joint, and he is doing
as well as circumstances permit, but it /
will detain him for a while from taking |
charge of his station Wgtte05He Enter
prise.
We are pleased to learn that our
young friend, James Harris, formerly a |
popular assistant at the Cain House, has |
accepted clerical and managerial posi- |
ton in the Calhoun Hotel, Calhoun, Ca,
now under proprietorship of our estima-
BILE friend, Mrs. W. b. Francisco, form
erly of this place. If it gratifies it will .
not surprise her many friends to know
that her hotel has won fame as a carvan-
sary, and is satisfactorily patronized.
We had the pleasure of welcoming
our old friend, Col. Arson Nelson, of
Nashville, to our city last Friday. The
Colonel, accompanied by his wife, has
been spending a month with relatives in
North Carolina, taking in the Warm
Springs en- route home. The trip and
respite from business has wonderfully
improved his appearance, and he re-
turns to Nashville fully prepared to re-
sumo the labors of the office he has so
long and satisfactorily filled.
The jovial, popular, yivaeious, witty,
sarcastic, cautious, whole-souled, hui
name and christian Sam. House, Cashier
If the Mechanics Bank of Knoxville,
spent day in our city last week on his
way to the Warm Springs. But why
le should visit the Springs for his
leaIth, is mystery to us. lie is now
IS healthy and stout as Murph Bewley's
pest mule. May his life remain in the
Sleasant and even current in which it
low flows so beautifully, aud may he
md all his flourish in the land. SelahI