The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-06-07
PERSONAL.

y, Mrs. Col. J. NJ. Bewley and Mi
Charlcie Bewley are visiting relativ
r, in Greene county.
Mr.. Arthur Andes, of Indiana, arri
in ed Ia the city last week, on , sit
his mother and sisters.
y, Misses Annie and Emma MCFARLAND
daughters of Hon. Robert Mcfarland
e, returned Saturday from a pleasant Wis
to relatives and friends in Knoxville.
lt w. W. Sunderland, an intelligent an
prosperous farmer of Talbott's S alton
n and a good friend to THE GAZETTE
:, gave us welcome call On Monday.
Mrs. J. r. Payne and son left oil
). Friday morning last on a visit t.
J, Knoxville tn attend a fan iiy reunion o
her mothers children. Will re Urn
{ next week
John Stdrnes, Esq, of Hawkins couE-
ty, is guest of ii; sol -:n-law, DR. r.
D b. Owens, of this place The Doctor
operated successfully on Mr.. Starnes last
} Saturday for hJ drocec.
Hon. w. b. reese, law ! rofessor
] 1 "
East Tenness can who has added fame to
his section and his State as a lawyer,
scholar an literateur, is on visit to
our place, lacking to his real estate IN
terests near this metropolis. He is stop
ing at the Cain House
J. L. Cain, ESQ, of Rivrrton, Miss,
reacLel this place last Sunday morning,
and will spen.l the summer with his
family in Fast Tennessee. He report.
the present flood in The Mississippi as
being more di a irons IN it's results than
any that has preceded it during the last
year.
Rev. DR.. T. G. jones', of the First
Baptist Church, Nashville. filled the
pulpit of the Baptist Church in this
place last Sabbath, morning and night
The. Doctor is one of the ATTEST uIpit
speakers of his denomination, and his
sermons on this occasion were in keep
ing with his reputation, though greatly
marred in delivery by the miserable
acoustic qualities of the church-as have
been the sermons of all who have ever
filled tlat pulpit. Tie congregation
ought to remedy this misfortune of the
architect, as they can, to some extent,
at very small expense.
Our young friend, John W. Tomlin-
SON, of Tate Spring, returned home last |
week, bearing with him diploma and |
the first honors of the Law Department |
of Vanderbilt College. Out of large |
class he was selected as Commencement |
orator, and was awarded the Founders |
Gold Medal, provided by Mr.. Wander
bilt for the best lawyer of his class, as
shown by examinations, recitations, etc.
A host of friends are proud of Johns
diligence and success at College and
confidently predict for him a brilliant
and nseful future.
The generous hearted and favorably
known Frank A. Butler, of Knoxville,
spent few days last weekIin this place,
the guest of his son, Mr.. Thos. B. But
tier. Frank is the agent of John Will
liams 81 Sons, manufacturers of cotton
and wooden goods, Philadelphia, Pa,
and will in due time wait upon many
of our merchant readers. We commend
him to all as a reliable gent leman hand
ling a superior and popular line of goods.
Rev. I. p. Summers took the evening
train Monday for Washington county,
whence he will attend the commence
ment exercises at Emory and Henry Col
lege, Va. We learn with regret that
Prof. Summers has accepted professor
ship In the Female College at Asheville,
N. C., to which he was recently elected
by the board of directors, and will take
his chair at the next term. For twelve
or more years Prof. Summe RS has been
an active, efficient and successful work
er in the cause of female education in
and while with sorrow we
our loss in his removal to ano-
Iher sphere Of duty, we congratulate
our sis or city on her gain in the ciIi-
zenslip of an estimable christian gem
Lleman and the acquisition OF his valu-
able services as an educator.
We are penitent-we are in sack cloth
md ashes-we are very sorry-we will
never do so again Our esteemed friend
md tie contemporary journalist, Maj.
Henry Helss, passed through our city
asst week en- route from Knoxville to his
arm on Wolf Greek. We met him at
he depot. The meeting, alas was not
If that exhuberant nature former meet
ngs have been. The Major advanced
md extended to us his hand, but there
vas liquid mellowness in his eyes and
subdued culver in his voice when our
lands and eyes met and the Major, more
n sorrow than in hanger, in soft, sad gut
ural accents whispered" truck patch
7t tn, Bruter' Without at
II intending to underrate any portion
t our magnificent sectiens we only now :
lean to utter what every candid man
f this section will promptly admit
hat the farms and lands of the Ere nch
;road and Pigeon river valleys, are hard
} excel anywhere on this green earth.
Whoever saw more magnificent bottoms
T productive highlands than those
rhich meet the intense and delightful NJ.
axe of the traveller as he looks from e
is car window upon those that stretch
)r miles and miles along those btauti-
IL streams that traverse that favored
egion? o, happy, happy people No -
onder Maj. barry Heiss, formerly the
Ianaging editor of the Nashvil4 AmeY-
an, and one of the most effective and
journalists of the State, if
OF of the South, retired from the cares r,
nd perplexitIes of newspaper life, and, Is
pom handsome competence-secured
lank God, like our own, without lying
now finds quiet and congenial home
J the bosom of Cooke county, in the G
idst of those rich and productive lands X
nd surrounded by noble and intelli-
ent class of farmers Inten
onally we would wound The sensibili-