The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-04-27


I An interesting time is expected
| Let every school in the county b,
fully represented.
Three of the four prisoners con
fined in the Greeneville Jail escape,
about noon on the 18th. Two whit,
men and a negro. The Herald, of
week later date, says they had no.
been recaptured.
We are indebted to Senators Tsham
G. Harris and Howell =. Jackson for
valuable Congressional documents
and to Hon. A. II. Pettibonc for q
copy of Pig Iron Kelly's last speech
on Mr.. Hurd's free trade resolution.
Prof. w. c. Gibbs was elected Su.
/ perintendent Of Public instruction
by the County Court Of Knox coun-
ty on Monday Of last week. The
Knoxville papers endorse him as a
/ gentleman and a scholar qualified for
the place.
Attention is called to the dissolu-
ton and co-partnership notice of
Brown & Wells in this issue. The
new firm consists Of A. b. Brown.
Jay c. Brown, +. J. Wells and W.
J. Hoyt, all thorough, widc-awallo
business men.
Frank Watson, colorcd, accused
Of stealing meat from the smoke
house of w. ID. Williams. Greene
vile, was wounded by four pistol
shots while attempting to escape ar
rest on the 18th. He confessed the
theft and a part of the meat was re-
covered.
w. Van Huss & Bro. and c. D.
Merritt d Co. commenced operations
in their brickyards on the Owens
property last week Mud is being
flung rapidly into thousands of brick
daily. The proprietors contemplate
making from 10000 to 100000
brick each, for building purposes.
Alice Cooper. notorious Chat
tanOoga woman, has been bound over
to court in the sum of $1,000 for
dragging and robbing $50 of n. J..
Weir, arespectahlc Citizonof Charles
ton, at her baguio.-C Chronicle. A
pretty place, the Chronicle might
have added, for respectable citi-
zen p
1t is announced that the Colc-Mc-
Chez system of roads In few DAYS
will commence running slccpors
from Vicksburg through to Lynch
burg via the Alabama Central, Sell
ma, Rome and Dalton and East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroads, all owned and controlled
by him.
Gen. Z. B. Tyler who figured re-
Gently In a suit for damages brought
by a young lady for improper as
saults while in his employ In the
Baltimore postoliice, resigned his
position ofpostmastcr, and last We
nesday the President sent into &C.,
Senate the name of Col Harrison
Adreon, formerly pension agent, as
his successor.
The rafting business on our noun
tain rivers, for the past few weeks,
has been active and lucrative. We
that all the timber on the
rivers, an immense amount, went
out during the late frcshet. IL is
that 5000 feet of wal
nut timber and 100000 feet ofpop- |
ar were foatcd down the Clinch, |
alone, to Chattanooga.
Col. J. H. Winston, one of the /
Oldest and most experienced tobacco /
lealers of Bristol, is contributing to
he Nc3rs n series of articles on the
.ulture of tobacco. They cannot
all to be Of practical benefit to new
obacco growers. We shall copy
he articles from the Neirs, "a they
ppear, for the benefit of those ofour
eaders who may choose to profit by /.
he suggestions of Col. Winston.
The wheat prospect is most fat
aring. Parties from Claiborne
ounty say that the promise was
ever more hopeful, notwithstand- I
~ the six months Of winter Grass
also springing up as if by magic
'armers are busy putting out their
orn and generally up with the sea-
IN. The peach and apple crop viii
G an abundant one, unless we have /
May frost.
Knoxville Dispatch: Messrs. S.
=. and Charles r. Logan are spread 1
x themselves at Telford's Station. {
hey first opened an extensive tam
cry at that place, which Mr.. G. r.. {
ogan has been driving vigorously
r few years past Lately they
ave purchased a farm near the sta 9
on, with fine waterpower on il, for g
le purpose Of manufacturing the !
oodwork Of all kinds of vehicles.
hcso are clever, cntcrprising gen
emen, and deserve success.
A correspondent of the Dispatch. o
riting from Messy Creek, gives the a
lowing additional facts Of tho q
onderful wealth already developed e
om tho lot purchased some weeks s
20 from the Baptist Church, by j
essrs. Barrett q Sizcr, zinc miners a
that place As we stated &C the y
ne. they gave 81 800 for tho lot G
he correspondent says They p
I'VE raised over 600 tons of ore and p
~ hardly miss it. That 600 tons q
ore cost for raising and putting Z.
the track 81 % Der ton saw gT50 IA