The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-09

Monday. We heard OF no import
ant business transacted.
Poultry and eggs are being ship
ped in large quantities almost daily
from our depot. zss--s---
We return thanks to DIR. w. J.
Heacker for bottle of his new
aromatic Tooth Powders. We
find it to be superior article.
We learn that Mr.. John E. Pull
len has sold his stock of liquors,
license and all, and that the Main
street saloon will be closed for good
in a few days.
Mr.. F. n: Witt, of Mill Spring,
Jefferson county, who has been un-
der treatment Of DR. Heacker for a
short time for bronchial affection
and abscess of the throat, died Sat
urday night. His remains were
taken home.
The fare on the Buncombe Rail
road, from Morristown to Wolf
Creek, has been reduced to cents
per mile one way, or cents per
mile round trip, where tickets are
purchased. When fare is paid on
the train cents is charged
A man came in on one of our rail
roads, last Friday, and after imbib-
ing freely of popskull whisky, put
up on Saturday at the Commercial
House, where, at the supper table,
the snakes ne had been warming
thawed thoroughly to life, and he
has been having, we hear, a pretty
hard tussle with them since.
Miss Lizzie Nelson, an intellectual
and estimable daughter of the late
Judge 7. A. r. Nelson, was elect
ed Librarian of the Public Library
at Knoxville, last week, vice Mr..
David Fleming, resigned. The Sc
lection OF Miss Nelson was an ap-
prOpriate and popular act,
The lockwood Republican men,
tons the. sudden death, on the 18th,
of a Mrs. Rogan, a young wife Of
that town. In taking her husband
his dinner she had to pass a place
where a murderer had been hung
four years ago. She imagined she
saw his ghost, became excessively
terrified and died in two hours.
We acknowledge the receipt of
an invitation to attend the f6rty-frst
annual commencement exercises OF
the Baltimore College Of Dental
Surgery, at the Academy of Music,
through the courtesy of our young
friend, DIR. Frank A. Speck, of this
place, a member Of the graduating
class.
The past week has witnessed a
variety of weather here, mostly
of the ugly, blizzard sort. Snow, ice,
wind and mud were in abundance.
A moderation has taken place, how
ever, and to-day (Monday) the tenn
perature is much softer, the sun
shines warmly, and we again feel
that spring time has come, gentle
Annie.
Mr.. Joel N. Carriger, formerly
a resident of this place, we hear, has
recently purchased all the stock
owned by E. d. Jobe and John NJ.
King in the Doe River Wooden Mills,
and will assume tha important posi-
ton of business manager after the
LIST of May, Mr.. Carliger is an
honorable and heightened gentle
man and we predict that he will
make popular and successful bust
ness manager.
The Knoxville Chronicle, gives
an account, of a shooting affair in
Carter county, in which one Geo, Col
baugh was severely wounded by
Mrs. Sarah Smith. 1t is said that
Colbaugh had sought her hand in
marriage, and when she married
Smith, which was not longer ago
than last Christmas, the rejected
sutton declared that she shQuld never
live with her husband. Mrs. Smith
was formerly a Miss. Amyx, of
Hawkins county.
Maj. Jos Grigsby, of this place,
is the agent fpr this section of the
Cincinnati Safe and Lock Company,
and is prepared to give the lowest
rates on any article manufactured by
his company In the construction
of their safes the Cincinnati compa-
ny claim that they have made many
improvements. over the productions
of other manufacturers, which Mai.
Grigsby thinks he can demonstrate
to the satisfaction of those who de-
sire to invest.
Sam Gaines, a colored man whom
all his neighbors declared upon oath
at his inquest to have been a peace
able, good citizen, was called out of
his house by party Of masked men
in Robertson county, on Tuesday of
last week, and shot to death in the
presence of his wife and children.