Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-19
WHOLE NO. 81.
TENNESSEE NEWS.
The free delivery of mail matter
in Knoxville will commence June |.

III AHoAVlIle VIII commence June L.
The wheat crop in Middle Ten
nessee is said to be the finest ever
known.
An extensive horse collar factory
is to be opened at Chattanooga, en-
ploying forty hands.
The Tennessee potato crop this
season is very promising. Large
shipments will soon be made.
This State WAS the first Southern
State to follow reyls in giving aid
to disabled Confederate soldiers.
At Columbia, Maury county, one
day last week, 155 mules were sold
for S2S, ,675, averaging $lS5 head.
A fire at Chattanooga on Tuesday
destroyed the parsonage OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Loss S4 1000.
A man named Reese H ,oke died
at Chattanooga on Monday, from
an overdose of laullnu n taken to
relieve pain.
Mr.. Il. N. Rull, near McNinn-
vile, shelre.l thirteen poun Is of
wool from u year oil Merino buck
lamb, last week.
At least 800 gamblers have left
Nashville, or will leave, on account
of the act of The Legislature making
gambling Il felony.
Four carloads of marble from the
Ross and Craig q ,lrries, ne " Knox
vile, We're shipped the other day to
Cincinnati and Boston.
, The fruit crop in East Tennessee
is so pr cent. better than last year,
but is almost a failure in the West
ern division of the State.
1t is stated that the case Of Tay-
lor is the first in the history of the
State in which negroes sat on II jury
to try a white man for a capital
; offence.
! Atha Thomas, Treasurer of Ten
nessee, and R, >. Picard, State
Comptroller, have left for New York
r to arrange for the funding Of the
State debt.
The Chronicle says Knoxville is
' absolutely free from smlll-pox, and
{ persons desiring to attend the May
J festival and farmers convention may
) do so without mourning the slightest
) danger from that source.
> The planning mill and lumber yard
belonging to j. N. De Hart, in
Nashville, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night. Mr.. Hart's resi-
dence was also burned, his family
:, narrowly escaping. Loss about
$4,000.
Andy Taylor has been removed to
k the gaol ut Chattanooga. lie takes
t life very elsily AMI does not seem
: to be impressed by his approaching
e hanging. He is said to have made
t many friends" among his fellow
e prisoners.
Knoxville is the Educational Cen
ire of East Tennessee for both races.
=, , The University of Tennessee, splel-
didly equipped, gives our white
!. youths opportunities adequate to any
: demand. The Knoxville College for
colored youths is all that could be
. desired. d.--Kaofvik Chronicle. Ell
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gN A prominent farmer, named,Jolln
,eI Gam, was murdered on Sunday,
lol near Harrison, in iilmiltop county,
Is as he was returning with his little
a iaughter from church. The mur-
a derer-RandaH Ramsey his
;yl brother-in-law. He ordered Gam
'e to halt, saying he was about to kill
20 him. Gam thought he was jesting
le and tried to quiet him. Suddenly
M Ramsey stabbed his victim with a
leI long knife, and from the effect of the
,r wounds he died. There seems to be
Iy no cause for the crime other than
Ramsey had been drinking beayil,.