The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Eighteen counties in Georgia have
abQIisheS fences. aE< ,LAEsJ
Cotfon-seed is worth fifty-six cents
a bushel at Brownsville, Tenn. /.
Over 5 ,0cO, 900 feet of long-leaf pines
are now standing in North Carolina.
Underwear for everybody, and very
cheap, at McNulty, Borches, Lillard
& Co., Knoxville, Tenn.
They are making wrapping-paper
out OF rice straw AMI palm leaves in
Georgia - - p -
Massachusetts ladies, meeting at
social calls, talk politics almost ex-
clusively.
Jersey lightning" takes its name
from Sussex county apple-jack, of
which %, 1000 gallons are manufacture
ed annually.
"Pig-iron'' Kelley learned the jew
eler's tradeJin early life. He is now
the oldest member of Congress in con-
tinuous service. t,-s-sttts
For foreign and domestic dry goods,
millinery and ribbons, handkercbiefs,
hosiery, neckwear and notions, go to
McNulty, Borches, Lillard s. Compa-
ny, Knoxville, Tenn.
The Spiritualists in the South have
organized themselves into an organiZa-
| ton, with Samuel Watson, of Memphis,
as President. Chattanooga has been
selected as their headquarters for the
distribution of Spiritualistic literature.
We offer full line of black and col
ored bEocade silks and plain silks in all
the leading shades, at very low prices.
McNulty, Borches, .Lillard & COmpa-
ny, Knoxyiile, Tenn.rs az. ass
Moncure d. Conway, who stands as
a literary critic second to none in
England and who's intimate friendships
embrace the leading writer's of England
was thirty years ago a copying clerk
in the circuit COURT clerks office of
Fanquier, Va.
At court held at Gallatin, Mo-, on
the 9Th, one of the cases against Frank
James was nolle pressed, the other
continued, and the prisoner remanded
TO Kansas City. 1t is considered pro-
bable that James will not be tried at
Gallatin again. ss
Gossamer circulars, silk umbrellas,
rubber shoes and boots, at bottom pri-
ces, at McNulty, Borches, Lillard &
Co.'s, Knoxville, Tenn.
REV.. C. Pollard, untilTa few
weeks since presidfdg elder of the
Methodist Episcopal Church Northzin
Arkansas, created a sensation at Little
Rock, ON the 9Th, by marrying a negro
girl named Eliza Millahey .. He was
divorced from his second wife a month
ago. s.c5s xa.
Cloaks, dolmans, pellices, sacques,
paletots and Jackets, an immense stock
remarkab, J, cheap at McNnlty ,Borches,
Lillard Sc Co.'s Knoxville, Tenn.
The city council of Galveston, Tex,
has appointed q committee of five TO cor
respond with CaptainEads to ascertain
the terms of his services to secure
depth of twenty feet of water on Gal
weston Bar, payment to be made when
the results accomplished. =
Postmaster General dismissed from
the service Postoffice Inspector Amos
z. Foster for rendering to the depart
ment false and fictitious accounts. He
was stationed at Austin, Tex, and was
rendering accounts for per diem SER
vices which he never performed.
It is claimed that the oldest tree in
the country is an English elm, situat-
ed at Pettaconset, X. l.. An old record
kept by. a person living in that city
and now ninety years of age, and
handed down to her by her an
certors, furnishes the fact that two
hundred years ago this tree was plant
ed in the place where it now stands.
Miss Emily Thompson, a reigning
belle of Roanoake county, Virginia,
was married the other day to Napoleon
B. Ainsworth, he being full-blooded
Choctaw Indian, college graduate,
ly-mated pair have gone to the Indian
territory to live. Ii
Little Jimmie Allen aged eleven
years, grew interested in the blasting
being done by well-diggers at Prince
ton, KY, and securing half pound OF
blasting powder, dug hole in the
ground and set off the entire amount
at one blast. He was blown into an
adjoining township, but will recover.