The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-02-15

4 eHcleDI ITeSlQcnB OF the 0OrrlSLOW
Seminary, left for her fathers residenc
in New Jersey, Tuesday of last week, {
he present at the nuptials of her sister
Mr.. Thomas III. Butler, an employee
of the North Carolina branch road, ha
been indisposed for the last ten day
with something like pneumonia fever
We are gratified to learn that he wa
convalescing at last reports.
Capt. James Wright, one of the Ga
ZETTE's best friends, an enterprizinJ
citizen of Mooresburg, was in town las
Wednesday and made our office visit
He talked with us freely upon our indie
pendent course and endorsed our policy
Ex-Gov. Dewitt G. Senter was il
town Saturday, and dIgnified and enliv
ened our sanctum with his presence
He brought us very acceptable pres
ent whose memory will outlive tn,
Hon. John @. A. Remine, Southern
agent for the J. l. Case manufacturing
company, OF Racine, Wis, spent por
ton of last week on the North Carolint
branch road with the most succ essfu
results His headquarters are at the
Tate House.
Mrs. DR.. T. j. Speck and her daugh'
ter, Miss Birdie, took the western bound
tram last Friday en- route 70 visit rela
tIYes in Alabama. They will be accom-.
panied as far as Atlanta by DR.. Frank A
Speck, who goes thence to Florida fol
a temporary sojourn. Our best wishes
accompany the voyageurs.
Master Johnnie Evans, who has been
seriously i'll for six weeks with typhoid
fever, we learn is conValcscing; but we
regret to chronicle the prostration last
Sabbath of his sister, MissGlennie, from,
it is thought, the same disease. Doctor
Evans and his eStimable wife have the
sympathy and coincidence of this COM
munity in their Affections.
Col. J. j. Williams, one of the larg-
est and most popular produce dealers of
Atlanta, Ga, passed through our town
last Saturday on his way to Granger
county to visit his father, Pleasant Will
liams, one of the oldest aud most re-
spectcd citizens of that county, who
was recently stricken with paralysis and
is now totally paralYzed.
Mayor A. FL. Gregg. OF this place,
who has been absent for three weeks at
his extensive agricultural machine
works at Johannesburg, N. Y, returned
home Saturday night last. He was ac-
by his brother, Mr.. C.. P.
Gregg, the senior member of the works,
who comes to Tennessee for the recu-
peration of his health and will prob
ably spend the summer with US.
Capt. III. C. Lynch, of lynch Bros,
dealers in the Lynch Calendar Index
Clock, manufactured especially for their
trade, was registered at the Cain House
last Friday Inquiry elected the infor-
nation that Capt. Lynch's agents are
now engaged in canvassing the counties
Of Cooke and Sewer for the sale of his
time piece, with headquar-
ters at Newport. a better time piece
was never presented to the patronage of
the public.
A most pleasant and agreeable call
was that made last Friday by our es-
teemed and talented young friend. Rev.
A. 5. johnson, of the Christian church,
late editor of the Christian Waterman.
He was en- route tn Asheville, N. c.,
and may be absent for several months.
But we trust he will not be permanent
ly hid under the bushel of an itinerant
preacher. There is broader and more
useful field stretched before him. Let
him assume it.
Mr.. G. P. Gregg, accompanied by Mr..
A. I'll. Gregg, started yesterday for a
trip in the South, his immediate destiny
being Morristown, Tenn. The trip is
made by Mr.. Gregg for the double pur-
pose of escaping from business cares and
his health which has not been
Of the best for some time past. He ex-
poets to return about the first of May
TrumGnS6urg IN. - Sentinel, 9Th.
Mr.. Curtis, of Knoxville, an intelli-
gent gentleman and an experienced jew
eler by profession, we are gratifed to
learn has determined to locate perma-
nently in Morristown, and will, as soon
rs he can obtain suitable quarters, en-
ter actively into his business in ali its
science and beau y. We are proud to
have such valuable acquisition to our
town, and most cordially do we well
come him among us to become one of
Dur busy and useful citizens.
His many friends and patrons in East
Tennessee will be pleased TO learn how
far into the bowels of the commercial
world John has penetrated. This per-
sonal in the Nashville american conveys
some information "Mr. John II Bar
play, of Jonesboro, representing the hat
irm of Ives, Murphey & Bonar, Broad
wav, New York, was in to see us yes
erday. MIR. Barclay is almost one of
he pioneer commercial travellers The
members of the calling are, we believe,
and a Southern man whe
las followed il for thirty years will pro-
fa~ q rlaNx
n when he began"
Our friend and neighbor, d. Pence,
made a flying trip last week to the an
lent and renowned city of Jonesboro.
lie reports business dull, owing proba-
Div to the FORTY days rain snd imoassa-
lie roads. He reports faYorably on the
anitary appearance of the city, with
he exception of an abominable super
tructure over the creek in rear of the
Court house, which be declares an
a nuisance and disgrace
O the town, detrimental to health not
,nly of the citizens of that immediate |
ocality but TO the whole community
through which the stream passes from |
hat point to the river, and suggests that |
,rompt and immediate action be taken |
w those who have control of the mat |
or. He says that he stopped nc that |
model hotel Familiarity known as the |
House, presided oyer by |
hat genial, whole-souled old gentleman,
,apt. Sewer, the prince OF hotel keep |
rs. lie speaks in the highest terms Of
,raise of the Washington House-the |
ooms neat and Ne'l furnished, the bets
lean. comfortable and inyitlng, anu
he tabl~-well-here he broke down
nd would not attempt Co enumerate
ne good things to cal, both Of substan
ial aud luxuries in the greatest album /
lance, and prepared In n style that
would have done honor 70 any first class