The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-10-06
PERSONAL.

Miss Eva Montgomery was in the city
Thursday and Friday last visiting heI
sister, Mrs. G. D. Merritt.
Jas. Csmfsrt, Esq, sf Rockville. wa
registered at the Cain Heuse Friday
evening last.
/ Mai. John MHrphsy and family re-
turned last Friday from an excursion OF
two months to friends in the upper ana
| lower counties.
Mr.. J. R. Ivy, enc of Handlers
worthy young men, is hlllng pOsltlSn
ss salesman in Mathis 8 Noes stsrs.
Messrs. Dan Briseoe and David Pence
left last week fer the Eastern markets to
purchase new goods
| We regret to learn that Gel. o. c..
| King has been confined to his bed and
| reOm for six or eight days past by an at
| tack of acute rheumatism. He was inn
proving at last accounts.
Miss Katie Lea, the popular and be-
witching daughter of State Attorney
General BENZ. j. Lea, spent several
DAYS in the city last week, visiting the
Misses Mcfarland. To say that she
created a fatT0r among eur young men
is stating it very gently.
Our urbane and popular friend, j. T.
Williams, formerly of Je. McTeer's
clothing house, Knoxville, but now rep
resenting !. Whitehill 81 Co., Wholesale
clothiers of Baltimore. was amsng our
merchants Monday and made us pleas
ant call.
Capt J. G. Hodges left for Uhattaa-
oega last Monday. he goes for the pur-
pose of testing at the water works Of
that city his new water wheel, just man
ufactured fer him by the Knoxville
Foundry and Machine Company, by
using it in the Chattanooga water works.
Those who have seen the model work
are ssnguiRe of the complete success of
the Captains new invention. Sc mote
it be.
Capt. l.. /. Jennings, Of Mush Creek,
GreeneYille District, s. O., whs was re-
Gently visiting relatives and friends in
this section, made us a most agreeable
call on his return trip home. The Cap
tain is an intelligent and refined gentle
man, net only well posted in political
topics but commands an admirable spirit
and mind, well adapted to entertain any
enc upon any subject he may chose to
handle. We wish him success in his
South Carolina heme.
We are glad to again see in his famil-
lar place, depot agent Mr.. T. r. Leach.
who recently has been recuperating his
health at Tate Spring, We dare say the
East Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia
railroad has ne more faithful, efficient
and hard. working agent in their en-
ploy than Mr.. Leach, aad his brief re-
spite from business was justly due him,
W. R. Stubblef1eld, Esq, a sterling
farmer of the vicinity of Mooresburg,
who has been subscriber to the GA
zETTE frOm its infancy up t0 date, and
is still one, paid US a visit last week. |
Thinking we were potato hungry, he
brought us several bushels of the finest
specimen of sweet potatoes that we have |
ever seen,
Among the guests of the Commercial |
House this season, none have impressed |
us more forcibly, in point of general |
sociability, fun and amusement, than |
our genial and good-natured friend, Col. |
j. r. Wintz, of Kimble, Texas. He is |
gentleman possessing intellectual pow
ers of no mean quality and thoroughly |
understands how to appreciate and en-
terrain his company.
Miss Margie Mcmillan, of Knoxville, |
than whom there are none more loveable |
and charming, passed through the city |
one day last week en- route home from |
visiting the Jonesboro fair Miss Mar |
So-N3 A0A - -e.A nc AOAOA "a ACSSA'-
ing the "blue ribbon" as the handsomest |
and most queenlY young lady in attend
anCe at the fair. The compliment was
well deserved.
Mr.. John Lawrence, of Tablets Sta
ton, was in town Wednesday last. We
cannet comprehend the magnitude of |
this mans generosity. True, he's a /
Democrat, and so are We-he loves aP- |
pies and 50 do We-but-but-but- |
when it comes to a bagful every pop, |
patience ceases to be a virtue, and we |
60 for them. In the language of the |
Irishman, may he live to eat the hen |
that scratches over his grave.