The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-03-19
STA TIE NEWS AT LARGE.


this season, is very discouraging.
Mrs. Tobe Scott, of Maxville, Dyer
county, has haa five children in two
years.
A Miss Black we'll was recently burn
ed to death in Dyer county by her
clothes taking fire.
A number ct industrious people of
Haywood cou' ty are demanding the re-
estailishme.. Of the whipping post for
the benefit OF The lazy loafers and pill
ferers of their class. -
A letter from Polk county says: "Mad
dogs all over ! e county. Several per-
sons bitten tie last two weeks. Some
thing must be done. These dogs seem
to come froa. Georgia. -
Knoxville's building boom keeps
growing. ] he Chronicle shows that
within the past year the value of the
buildings or. cteI or in course of erec-
ton in that ty foots up the astonish-
ing total of 1,1ls, 900
Brownsville States and Bee The great
revival is still In progress. Over one
hundred pc SONS have been converted,
and the interest appears undated. 1t
is one of The m Ist successful meetings
of the kind that has ever taken place in
Brownsville
Adolph s. Ochs, secretary of the
Southern Press Association, has issued
a notice of the meeting of the associa-
ton to be held in Atlanta April 10th.
At Nashville the LumbsrmAn's Ex-
change has declined to consolidate with
the Merchan 8 Exchange. Logs do
associate with merchandise.
Late advices from Topeka, Kansas,
state that the d strict infrc'ed py the
foot and mouth disease in cattle is thir-
ty-five miles in area. 1t is now rigidly
quarsntined, and every effort will be
made to stamp out the disease. 1t is
proposed to buy all the infected cattle
and kill then and burn their bodies.
At Hot Springs, Ark, on Friday,
Eliza Fritzp'.trick, laundry girl at
the Avenue IIotel, committed suici e.
The weapon >he used was carpenters
hand-saw, which she drew across her
throat, severi g it to the bone.
Shelbyvlle. Tenn, will build itself
an eperahous in he spring. 1t has a
prohibition club and the subject is
warmly debated.
The Agricultural Society at Chatta-
nosga, Tenn, is corresponding with
tho railways to get lower IA es fer thGir
fruits this season. Experiments are
also being made of other varieties of
frui by the organization. The society
at present number over sixty members.
Harisville Sentinel: AS an evidence of
moral power, The four mile law has
been successful ly executed in this Sec
ton. As 3 further evidence of the
same power, M man can be elected to
any off e of prominence in this district
no dare openly oppose it.
j seph New ton, of McMinnville, is
eighty-two years of age, and last week
celebrated the day with an egg-nogg
treat to his fir ends, as has been his Gus
tom for many years. The old man is
tailor, and helped to make the dress
coat which James X. Polk wore on the
occasion of his first Inauguration as
President of the United States The
coat was made in Nashville.
The Nashville Banners Mexican cor
respondent Wi es intelligence respect
ing the murder in that country of Judge
Cooper. The authorities were on the
alert, and the writer says: 81 learned
to-day that the project Of police had re-
csiYed orders from headquarters to run
every man in The district away who has
no visable means Of support, and if
they refuse to go to hang them.
There are some naughty people in
Chattanooga. On Saturday a warrant
was sworn out by the Rev. Henry Goss
against Fred PEBBLES for assault and
battery, and one for Amss Piles for
trying to force Sarah Davis to marry
him. Amos had scared Sarah in'O ac-
ceptance of his offers of marriage and
he had gene so far as TO secure the
license, but I'm Ter the circumstances
the justice refuses to tie the knot until
the difficulty is settled.
Some of tie cOl0red brethren and
sisters of Methodist church in Knsx-
vile have had ne end of lawsuits and
brotherly love, all about possession of
the church building The Rev. S.
Sherman, pastor, on Friday received an
epistle in which were these words
awe give you aud the bishop three
days to leave here" Piety wrong side
up is evidently bad thing.
Glenn w. Williams, an old resident of
Williamson county, lives one mile west
of Nolensville. The other day, while
he was working III the cedsrs, he found
a vessel containing large sum of gold
money. The purse was secured in
dry place between some large boulders,
and consequently was well preserved.
From memoranda in it Mr. Williams
learned that the money was the prep
erty of federal soldier, killed near his
house during the war, and he is now
holding 1t in trust for the heirs of the
dead soldier. Mr.. Williams is exceed
ingly anxio Is TO find the rightful own
ers of this money, as it will prove quite
a snug little fortune.