The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-08-10

The Morristown Gazette
WEDNESDAY, ACOUSTIC, 1881. :
LocuINotes and Other NesUs
For Sale-a Wheeler & Wilson
sewing machine, No. 8, new. Cheap
Address this Office.
Henry Coins, a colored man Of
Granger county, was severely IN
jured by a vicious sow, last week, IN
the suberbs of Rutledge
Thanks to our friend, n. Eifer,
formerly of the old st. Nicholas, .
Knoxville, now of Flavonia, Texas,
for interesting Texas papers.
The oats crop of Grainger county,
we are informed is good. The yield
of wheat is not as large as usual but
the product is of better quality.
Corn is burning up for want of rain.
Gen. w. Y. C. Humes, formerly of
Knoxville, is nominated by a CORES
pondent of the Memphis Appeal for
the position on the u. S. Supreme
Bench made vacant by the death OF
Justice Clifford.
r. A. Lowry, Esq, has purchas-
ed the handsome cottage known as
the Shearer property, and will soon
occupy it. Rev. J. G. Miller has
rented Prof Summers's beautiful
residence and will make it board
ing house for young ladies attending
the Female High School.
Col. u. L. York, for many years
past a successful and distinguished
lawyer of Bristol, died at his resi-
dence in that place, after a long
protracted illness, on the Goth July.
He died without a stain upon his
character, and in all the relations of
life he was kind, loving and true.
A glorious and copious rain fell in
tbs locality last Sunday evening
al night, thoroughly saturating
> arched earth. 1t is to be hoped
was wide spread. 1t came
. save thousands of bushels
d gladden. the hearts of
ding tilleIs of the soil.
NotItSl-s,s officially given that the
regular term of the Supreme Court
ofTennessee. will be held at its court
rooms in Knoxville on the I'd Mon
day of September next. The dock
cts of the Third and Fourth circuits
will first be heard, and, if disposed
of, then the doclets of the First and
Second circuits, in the order named.
A note from a friend in Greene
county requests us to announce that
the citizens of the neighborhood of
Thula are expecting to enjoy them
selves hugely on the 10Th of August,
1881, at a pic mic at the Bend of
Chucky, about one mile west of
Beulah postofice. An invitation to
all, great and small, is extended.
We cannot refrain from rendering
to the unknown friend who left at
the editors house a basket of large
and delicious pears, last week, the
sincere thanks of that large, hand
some and appreciative household.
The fruit was simply elegant. May
the trees that grew it grow in per-
ennial fruitfulness-if they belong
to the anonymous donor.
From the cambridge Waterman
we learn that Robert Thomas, col |
ored, of Newport, Cooke county, was
the purchaser of the prOpertyin JEFF
fersOn county, known as the Carson |
farm, sold at public sale on Monday |
of last week. 1t contained 205 acres, |
$50 of which is first class river bot
tom, and was knocked off at S8,525,
$1,000 cash and the remainder to be |
paid in ten years.
A man named Calvin Welch was
run over and killed by an eastern
bound freight train at Lick Greek, |
Monday night of last week. He was
living on the track, drunk, and was
horribly mutilated when discovered.
The body of an unknown colored |
man was found on the railroad track
near Jonesboro, on the Both, terri
bly, mangled, and the presumption is
he was killed by a night train.
Our farming friends will find a
matter of interest to them announc-
ed in the "Oliver Chilled Flows" adj
vertisement of w. w. Woodruff &
Co, on our first page 1t is unne-
cessary for us to speak of the mer-
its of this pillow. Its reputation is
worldwide We advise our readers
who are in need of anything in their
line, that it will be to their interests
to see Woodruffs stock and prices
before buying.
The Chattanooga Times mentions
the registering in that city recently !
of the largest mortgage ever record |
cd in the country. 1t was two deeds |
of trust from the East Tennessee, |
Virginia and Georgia railroad to the
Central Trust Company of New |
York. the first for So, 100000 and |
the second for $165O0,O0O, to liqui-
dase all past indebtedness and raise
funds to build the contemplated
branches. It took thirty-nine pages
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