The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-02-23

Inc bOOIlI III IdlIIOdu blOth Has
been the theme of talk in Morris
town for the past few days.
Mr.. Eyestone of Knox county,
is getting up a great fox hunt for
Saturday, the 26th instant.
4 commission was issued by the
Governor last Wednesday to United
States Senator'S elect Howell E. Jack
son.
The fourteenth annual reunion
of the Army of Tennessee will be
held in Cincinnati, April 9th and
eth.
The MOrristown Dramatic Club !
will give it's third and grand finale |
entertainment sometime next week !
we are informed.
Messrs. J. A. & J. O. Rice and D. |
P. Rowe & Co. placed new signs
in front of their respective business
houses last week
Gov. Hawkins has pardoned W. II. |
Kite, who was in 1875 sentenced to |
fifteen years in the penitentiary for |
horse-stealing and larceny.
Mayor Staub, of Knoxville, is
having trouble with the titles
to the lands held by the Swiss col !
Onv in Grundy county.
The citizens of Monroe county
are agitating the subject Of making
turn pike road from SweetwAter
to jacksonville.
Holston Presbytery, in connection
with the Synod Of Tennessee, will
meet in Jonesborough, Tenn, on
Thursday, oath Of March next
The Wasser ear works at Chat
tanOoga are engaged on an order for
200 box cars for the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
Loop & Sullenbarger are in blast
with their sash, door and blind fac
tory, on South Cumberland street.
Look out for their advertisement
shortly.
One of our cIeverest and most in
tclIigent citizens, Mr.. n. Gray Tay-
lOr, was elected a Magistrate for this
district last Saturday, by a hand
some majority over Mr. NcGhee.
Thomas G. Boyd, some years ago
criminally connected with frauds
! perpetrated upon the pension Office,
has been elected Mayor Of Sweet
water.
Thanks to our old friend, Mrs.
Victoria WoodhaIl, Of London, Eng
land, for a copy Of her European
edition of Woodhall and Claims
Journal
According to the Ners, the Bris-
toll Coal and Narrow Gauge Rail
road Company has made a contract
for 10000 cross ties at the average
price Of Is cents mills per tie.
The Reporter says the revival at
the Methodist Church, Bristol, is
increasing in interest The pastors
and people of the different churches
in town are taking an active part
in the meeting.
Sara was an immense success in |
Nashville, according to the Ameri-
cans elaborate account The fair |
sex went into raptures over her
toHettes and Bernhardt styles are
said to be all the rage there now.
The corporation of cambridge was |
wiped out when somany others were !
abolished a few years ago The |
WdtchmdR wants it restored, and a !
strong petition to the legislature to
that effect has been sent from its cit
liens.
Doctor, my daughter seems to be
going blind and she's just getting
ready for her wedding, too Oh,
dear me, what is to be done?' ''Let
her go right on with the wedding,
madam, by all means. Ifanything
can open her eyes, marriage viii.
Mr.. c. c. Johnson, of this place,
we learn, has been given a $4,000
contract for the erection of a factory
Of some kind in Georgia, and will
leave in a few days to commence
the work He will keep about 100
men employed until the contract is
finished.
We move a grand torch light pro
cession and jollifcation in honor Of
the election Of a Democrat to the
office Of magistrate last Saturday
Whoop EN- up, boys, we're not dead
yet but if we don't celebrate now
there's no telling when we'll get a
chance again
Negro immigrants around Oswe-
90, Kansas, are said to be dying of
like sheep from the effects of the
rigorous climate. Gov. Lew. Wal
lace, Of New Mexico, also, has writ
ten a letter to say that Southern
negroes should not be allowed to
come there.
A dispatch from Nashville says
that the general sentiment in the
Legislature is that the people de-
mand that it should adjust the debt:
The average rate Of adjustment
talked of is Sod while some, in
order to settle it, would go to COL
cents but not higher
Athens Post: Col. Crouch pur-
chased a steer last Monday, of Mr..
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