The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-20

) young scion, Master Clay.
Mrs. w. S. Dickson and her
pretty and interesting little daugh-
ter, Miss Jennie, left for Mooresburg
Springs last week to spend month
Mrs. Theo F. Leach and Mrs. T.
j. Russell and families are register
ed at Mooresburg Springs for the
heated term.
Miss Kate Formwalt, of Knox
vile, spent Wednesday night in the
city and left Thursday morning on
a pleasure trip to Newport and Vel
low Springs.
Judge R. NJ Barton and daughter,
Miss Lille, of Chattanooga, are
guests of Rev w. FL. Smith They
will be cordially welcomed to their
old home by many friends.
Mrs. Geo. S. Crouch, accompanied
by her brother, DIR. w. B. Nelson,
departed last week, to be absent a
month, on a visit to relatives
in kentucky.
We are glad to hear that the in
FAINT daughter of Maj. JOS. Grigsby,
whosel life was despaired of last week,
is now much better, and hopes Of its
recovery are entertained.
w B, Randolph, wife and mother,
and J. W. Whether, of Orange CO.,
Fla, are guests at the Cain House,
expecting to spend portion of the
| heated term in East Tennessee.
Our old time friend, w. B. Reese,
ESQ.,, of Nashville, accompanied by
his daughter Alice, and Col. Nat +.
Dortch, Circuit Court Clerk of Da-
wilson county, and son, were regis
tered at the Cain House Monday, en-
route to Warm Springs, N. G.
M. Geo. G.. Williams, popularity
known along our line of railroad as a
clever and urbane commercial trav-
eler, of Baltimore, was in town Fri
day last, presenting to our merch
ants the claims Of the splendid cloth
ing house he represents, Messrs. II.
| & e. Hartman q Co.
DIR. o. M. Lewis, of Newport, &C
companied by his accomplished and
amiable daughter, Miss Mollie, spent
Sunday at the Cain House, en- route
home from the Hot Springs, Ark.
We are pleased to hear thatthe Doc
tors rheumatic affiiction was much
relieved by his visit.
Capt w. J. Taylor, the esteemed
and obliging conductor Of the Bun
combe- road, has been off duty for
some days past, resting and pleas
uring in the rural districts. His
position was very acceptably filled by
our genial young friend, viii Bar
ton, of the main line corps Of con
ductOrs.
Prof j. r. Hodges, of Gibson CO.,
District Commander for the organi-
cation of Castles of the order of the
Golden Rule, who has been stopping
at the Virginia House for some days,
left last Monday for Greeneville and
other upper towns. He is a gentle
man of cultured education and his
mission is one that eommends itself
to the reflective minds of the poor
and rich alike. He bears with him
the best wishes of many Comrades
and friends in this place.
The Leadville Colorado EDemo-
crdt, of July y, contains this para
graph, of special interest to the
many friends in East Tennessee of
DIR. Rose and Maj. Cannon:
"The Star of the West Mining
company, organized last evening at
their LeadvilIe office by electing Dr.
II. C. Rose, president, Thomas B.
Mayberry, vice-president, DR.. J. J.
Crook, treasurer, Maj. w. ID. Gam
mon, secretary, Thomas S. Smith,
general superintendent, and Hans
Jams, general manager The CAPT
tai stock is 100000 working
stock $685. 900. This company has
seven mining claims in South Half
Moon and Lacawanna gulches.
Three of these claims now have pay
mineral, one of which mill runs over
$500 to the ton. TheNprincipal
office is in Leadville."
We were delighted to meet at the
Cain House last Sunday morning
our old and esteemed friend, Col. L.
M. Acton, whilom an expert and ia
nous compositor in the war days of
the Knoxville Register, but for more
than a decade ofyears past the gen
eral travelling agent of that excellent
and widely circulated newspaper, the
Atlanta Constitution The Colonel
is enjoying a brief furlough from bu-
siness and purposes dividingthe time
between the watering places in this
vicinity and the scenes of his boy
| hood, in Botetourt county, Va. We
regret his stay in our town was so
short. He is now at the Beams Sta
ton house, and we commend him to
the kind attention of our Granger
county friends. What's your name,
sonny 2" Ezra Sloppy, sir" "Ez-
ra Sloppy Beautiful name tbs, too,
and scriptural. StOop down, Ezra,
and pick up the old mans type for
him-that's a pretty little man I"
! The following were among the
arrivals at the Cain House last week:
DIR. j. t. Easley, Beans Station;
A. L. Snow and family, Tazewell;
Miss Emma Wilson, Christiansburg,
| Va; Miss Della FunkhOuser, Lead
vale, Tenn; W. X. Foster, New Or
leans; ]. S. Rhea and daughter,
Chattanooga; Arthur Claiborne, n.
O.; G. II. Berry, Newport; Miss An
ME Wyley, Jacksonville, Fla; Rev.
J. w. Finn and family, n. o.; McH.
| Dooly, Knoxville; Maj. Hunter.
Montgomery, Ala; D. F. Lynch
Pass. Agt. G. S. RR.; ]. d. East
Bristol; W FL. Montgomery, Mem
phis; w. B. Reese, Miss Alice Reese
+. Dorch, Berry Doreh, Nashville