The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-27

The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JULY ~. 1881.
LOcGENofes and Other Metcs.
Thanks to Mai. w. d. Cannon,
of Leadville, for late Colorado papers.
For Sale-a small Job Printing
Office. Cheap. Address this office
For Sale-Justices blank warran-
ty deeds, as cents per quire, at this
office
The price of wheat advanced in
the Chattanooga markets, last week,
from 81 90 to 81 % and 81 10.
A thrilling account OF the robbery
Ofthe Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific railroad, in Mo, recently, will
be found on our first page.
The surrender of Sitting Bull and
the remainder Of his band to Major
Brotherton, at Fort Buford, has been
officially confirmed.
The Greene county poor house has
81 pauper inmates, said to be the |
largest number ever therein at one
time.
Andrew Gray, a young man aged
twenty years, son Of Alden Gray, |
of Greene county, was drowned in |
Chuckey river, near Birds bridge, |
while bathing one day last week.
Thanks to Mrs. Harvey Loop, of |
the Summit House, for specimens of
the beet products Of her garden.
They beat anything of the kind we
have seen for years, and were very
sweet and palatable.
Magistrates can supply them
selves with blank warrants, printed |
on good paper in neat style, at 70
cents per quire, by addressing or
leaving their orders at the GAZETTE
office
Manning Vest, convicted last week
in the u. S. Circuit Court at Knox
vile for violation Of the revenue
laws, and sentenced to three months
Imprisonment in Hamblen county
Jail, reached that institution last Sat
urday evening.
We learn that Col. Jas. II. Rum
bough has recently sold his Warm
Springs hotel property to Messrs.
Bethel, Of Memphis, and Clisby, Of
Montgomery, Ala, parties who have |
long been negotiating for the prop |
crty. The price paid is not known.
Capt. s. C. Capehart has sued
the Nashville & Chattanooga rail
road in the Jackson county Circuit !
Court, for $4,000 damages for re-
fusing to give him the same rates on
freight to be delivered on the Ten
nessee river as to other parties run
ming steamboats, in the same trade. |
We have before us a copy of The |
AGENTS Herald, a very valuable pa
per for those engaged in canvasslng
for Northern so-callcd manufactur
ers and general agents. 1t is pub
Iished by L. Lum Smith, III San
som street, Philadelphia, Pa, at 80 |
cents year.
Times were lively in the vicinity |
of the Y Saturday night. A lot of |
twenty eight colored laborers, from |
Tuscaloosa, Ala, came up in the eve
ming and went over Sunday morn {
ing, on a special train, to Wolf Creek, |
where they will be employed on the
Morristown branch of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and GeOrgiarailrOad.
r. p. Haun, a we'll known and well |
TODD farmer of Knox county, died |
suddenly in the office of the County |
Court Clerk, at Knoxville, on Mon
day of last week, from what was sup |
posed at the time to be heart disease. |
Subsequent developments, however,
went to show that it was the old, old
story of 9 loving not wisely but too
we'll, - aided by a quantity ofstrych-
nine that brought about the death.
The differences between the Uni
versity of Tennessee and the city Of
Knoxville, that have long existed,
were settled last week by the Mayor
of that city paying to the treasurer
of the University $4,000 in city
bonds Five thousand dollars of the
bonds are to be used at once in put
ting up an additional building to be
used for library purposes.
The Chattanooga Times wants
live man IN every town on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad to take an agency for it's cir
culation. The Times is the largest
and liveliest dailynewspaper publish
ed in East Tennessee, and can be de-
livered before night the same day of
publication at every station on the
line Of the road. Address publisher
of the Times, Chattanooga.
We are indebted to the managers
of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposi-
ton for a complimentary season
ticket to their Ninth annual exposi-
ton, commencing on the 9TH Sep
TENDER and continuing till the 9Th of
October In such cases, our rule is
to accept complimentary transporta-
ton but always pay full price for
admission to the exhibitions of the
worthy and deserving exDOsitors