The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-11-23
EAST TENNESSEE NEWS.

next Monday.
William Locke, the mail rider BEL
tween Dandri 'ge and Knoxville, has
skipped off with $50, which was en-
trusted to him by Mr.. Joseph Eaton, Of
Mounts Cross roads.
The corn crop of Greene county is
turning out much better than was ex
pected, and it is thought win fan but
little short Of an average crop. .
Bristol Courier. We congratulate our
neighBor, MrI. G. Fowler, on his cleo
ton to the Virginia House Of Delegates.
We see it reported that he will be a
candidate for Speaker, No more ele7l
giant or accomplished gentleman will be
in the House, and he would fiji the diff
cult position of Speaker with marked
ability. ...t ......... .....
VIM. Martin, the Missouri murderer,
who was captured last summer at Piney
Flats, in Sullivan county, and who sub
sequently made his escape by jumping
through car widow, handcuffed,
while being conveyed to Missouri, was
recaptured recently, at the home of his
fathpr-in- law, near lebanon, Mo, aud
now langufshes in the Lebanon Jail.
! Jonesboro' Journal. Mr.. Jas. j. At
kinson, who was so long confined to his
bed, died at his res idence, in this place,
last Friday night He was buried last
Sabbath in the town cemetery by the
Knights of Honor, of which he was q
member. 4 .r ........
Jonesboro' Journal. Rev. D. W
Carter, The new pastor of the NJ. E..
Church, South, filled the pulpit of that
church last Sunday. He is an excellent
preacher and not by any means strang-
err in this community.
are about through gathering corn and
the yield proves larger than was ex-
pected,
| Knoxville Chronicle 18th: Joseph
Henderson, youth 10 or a years of
age, who hailed from New York, and
was engaged at work in the railroad
machine shops at this place, was pretty
badly hurt while stealing ride on a
freight train Friday night. -#-
A telegraph office has been opened at
Union Depot, with Mr. John Clark,
formerly clerk in the Morristown depot,
as operator. t+ -" .-E.
GreenevilIe Herald:' The members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, on
Middle Greek, who worship in the old
Poplar Grove meeting house, are build
ing new brick edifice, SO by SO feet in
size.
Kingston fast IennesseGn Five hun
dred dollars is the price charged the
county by the chemist, Prof. Dewy, for
Analysing the stomach of one of the
victims of the Dail-wedding poisoning,
and he proposes to enforce payment by
a suit at law r-..E
Fred Douglass, the well-known col
ored politician, lectured in Knoxville
Monday night to good house.
Hugh Murray, formerly depot agent
at ROgersville, has been appointed mai
agent on the Rogersville and Jefferson
railroad. Ed. Ross is the new depot
agent. - - "
An application has been filed with the
Secretary Of State for extending the
charter of the Bristol and North Caro-.
lima Narrow Gauge Railway,
Rogersville Press and Ismes: A block
of marble measuring 1875 cubic feet and
weighing q, 40 pounds was taken from
Chestnut & Bros. quarry and brought
to our depot last week. The block was
the largest by one foot that has evoI
been taken out in Hawkins county. II
required the strength of twenty-foul
mules to d aw it. ....
O. attanooga Times The wife OF
John Adams, the Chattanooga lamp.
lighter, attends to and lights N ore than
half OF the street lamps in the city. She
climbs the posts with the most remark.
able agili y and keeps them In splendid
condition. 1t Is proper to remark ere
that the lamp lighter himself is one
armed men.
Knoxville Tribune, 10: The store be-
longing to Peter Quinn, Bulls Gap,
was entered Sunday night and good
many goods extracted. The thief or
thieves made their way through a win.
dow, and carried with them eight raz-
Ors, a half box of Tobacco, 200 cigars, a
half of sardines md 10 pounds of
candy. Quinn happened to leave no
money in The store. Up to our latest
information no clue has been found of
| the burglars.