The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-01

| The most thorough researches of the learned
| Doctor have gone no turther than to dis
cover spores in cotton b0lls. 1t has
been reserved for the Meridian board Of
| health to unearth the true inwardness OF
the mysterious sPore that has sent deVasta-
ton and deqth over this Southern country
Fortunate Meridian.
Iberville (La.) South: From gentle
men living on the Bayou Crosse Tete we
learn that the stream is literally covered
with mass of dead and dying fish of all
kinds aud sizes. At the Indian village the
bayou is covered with this putrid mass, and
the stencil is represented as terrific. This
will be apt to produces pestilence in that
section of the county, as al the small streams
and bayous are filled with dead fish. The
waters were poisoned by the leaves thrown
into streams by the ornl, and are now dark
black color.
Nashville Amer'cln: Wholesale
merchants assert thai more business has
been and is being done here this season than
for ten years past. Some of them have
doubled their stocks and are constantly
renewing them to meet the demand.
Merchants and clerks are now kept busy
from early in the morning until long after
midnight. Freights on all the railroads
centering here cOntinue steadily to increase,
and there is hardly any telling to what
pIOpCEblOu DusluSSS may luCI6dSG. L dSSSutsCE
traffic has correspOndingly increased, and is
better than has been known at this season
for years. Every department of trade seems
to have progressive tendency.
The Fort Wayne (Texas) Democrat
reports that Ia johnson county lady was
visited by two of her lady friends who spent
the day with her. Sle told them of lately
having come in possession of large sum of
money, and that the absence of her husband
annoyed her because she was afraid of being
robbed. That night stranger stopped at
her house, and during the night being
awakened by a noise in the lAdy's room he
looked through the window and saw two
negroes choking her in her bed, He fred
at them and killed both, and just then two
persons fed frem near the house. On inveS'
tigation it was found that the negroes were
the lady's guests dlsgulse@, anu IL Is sup
pos the two who hed were their husbands.
The copper oFe discovered in Ashe
county, N. G. in July last, Is about to develop
into bonanza. A vein twenty feet wide
has been reached, which it is believed will
prove to be twenty-five feet wide and it has
already been opened over a Thousand feet
In length. Seven hundred men are employ
ed, and the work is being pushed vigorously.
The ore yields four hundred potnds af pnre
copper to the ton. Ten blast furnaces are
at work and ten thousand pounds of the
refined metal is turned out daily. This
nine is in the northweet corner of Ashe
county, where North Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee almost join, and is operated by
Baltimore capitalists,
Speaking Of tie tradition that Capt.
Kidd buried treasure at the mouth of Cape
Fear river, the Wilmington IN. c. Star says:
Even now the work goes on; and travellers
over the country roads in that direction often
see mysterious excavations by the roadside,
and at night catch glimpses of weird>looking
groups furtively plying the pick and the
spade by the light of torch in the quest Of
the hidden treasure. The mysterious seekers
for these boards of the IreeboOters are gen
orally cOlored people, whose cupidity and
superstitious fancies are worked upon by sos
called diviners of their own color. No one
has ever heard of their being rewarded for
their toll and trouble, and in all probability
no one ever will