The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-10
PRRSONAT


Mr.. Nathan Stubblefield has retur
= ed from Louisville.
m Maj. John Murphey and daughter
Capt j. c. Hodges and wife, and Z
y bert McCrary and wife, have returrt
from visits to the Louisville Expositiel
Mt. A. j. Thomas, late of the New
e port Sentinel, enlIvened our sanctul
n | with his genial spirits and entertainin
manners a brief while last Friday.
: Mr.. A. B. Bush, an agreeable youn
l gentleman of Deerbrook, Mississippi
e is filling position as bOok-keeper j
E the Office of Gregg & Company, in thi
place.
Our friend and correspondent, job
G. Easley-the honey man, of Thor
Hill, was in town last week, circulating
} among friends and relatives, as Lowell,
as ever.
Col. Monroe, from across the Bump il
Granger county, enjoyed last Thursday
in our city. In fact we believe tina
Mark is made of stuff that knows ne
grief, fears no pain and has heart fol
every fate.
ID. Pence has returned from New
| York, where he has purchased a large
stock of goods and says he will soon &c
prepared to make bloody war on high
prices. Look out for the train when
you hear the bell or whistle.
Independence (Mo.) Progress, Octo-
Der 9Th: Jas. p. Carrlger, Esq, and
daughter, Miss Jennie, of Morristown,
4 East Tennessee, aud Miss Maggie Car
| riger, of Jamestown, Ind, arrived in
che city Tuesday morning, and left
| Wednesday morning for Topeka, Kan.
Miss Love M. Branner, charming
and accomplished daughter of Col. j.
a. Branner, president of the Asheville
IN. c. Female College, passed through
the city Sunday, en- TVute home from
Messy Creek, whittier she went to at
tend the wedding reception of Mr.. John
Hubbard and wife. i
The many East Tennessee friends OF
Judge John M. Carmack, of Memphis,
will be panied to learn that after pro-
Gracted and painful illness, he Is now
lying at the point OF death, at the res
tdence of his kinsman, Mr.. John S.
Miller, of jackson, in West Tennessee.
When last heard from, all hope of his 1
recovery had been abandoned Judge |
Carmack is native of Hawkins eOun-
~. For thirty years he has been |
prominent member Of the Memphis
oar. Those who best know him can |
best realize that an honest man is pass
ing away.
We are sorry TO learn from letters re- |
ceived by some of our citizens that |
Prof. L. j. Davenport, Principal of the |
Morristown Male High School, is pros
trated at his home in Virginia with ma
larial fever. We had hoped that he
would have been restored TO his wonted
VlgOr ere this, and been able to have
resumed his labors in the school. Mr..
Y. +. Davis who has for two weeks
been in charge of the male school has
retired, and DIR. w. A. Montgomery
will continue the school, assisted by
Miss Sallie Loop until Prof. Davenport
returns, or other arrangements made,
Rev. j. r. Payne, the preacher in
charge of Morristown circuit, has just
completed the second year of pastoral
work on that charge and on account of
affection which for5ids continued pub
&c speaking will ask, we learn, to be
elleYed from pastoral service for the
ensuing year. He has been assistant
ecretary of the Conference since 1866
md has edited and published the pro-
seedlings OF the Conference for 10 years 4
'ast, having charge of the journals and
faclal papers filed by the Conference
lnce 1924. Many of these documents
re or great historical value anu will be
sed In preparing a historical sketch OF |
ne Holston Conference for the forth
oming annual. !"
Maj. A. H. Gregg, who returned
unday evening last from a trip to
euth Carolina, where he has been, $
stensibly for the purpose of getting
le latest information about the Car ;
lima, Cumberland Gap and Chicago ;
a1Way, brings better news of eneour- :
cement than ever. He visited Gov
rnor Hagood, president, and other +
hclals OF the company, and was a
loroughly satisfied by these gentle +
len that rapid, earnest and effectual !;
DIRK was being done for the success OF ;
lie great enterprise, and that hardly h
possible doubt remained as to hav-
e ali matters pertaining to it definite
settled at an early day, and the =
ork OF construction commenced. !
he South Carolina people, says the Z
aJor, have deeper interest in the "
'oJect than ever, and are NEST SAN &
line of its early success. "
Mr.. Daniel Jones, native of Big q
'ring, Claiborne county, Tenn, but O.
NV citizen "out West" stopped in Il
wn few hours one day last week, on | b
S return home, to shake hands with u
e friends of his earlier days. Mr.. W
mes had been visiting his aged mother, "
Mr.. John P. Bowen's, in Granger
unty-this being his first visit to East
since the dark days of 1865
me of our Claiborne and Granger
unity readers will doubtless remember ~
e good natured Dan, and the trying W
under which he left his ~ ~
tive hills. We know they will be ~ ~
I'D to hear that he is married, has five u
g sOns-''chips of the old block
d is now financially in prosperous
ndition. 1t is notorious that the ma Sc
-ity of our Southern boys-God bless Oh
were compelled to seek new w
mes during the bloody times of re- DC
in East Tennessee, are now hi
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