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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09
PERSONAL

John Summers was IN the city last
week visiting friends.
Mr. NJ s. Shannon has gone South
and contemplates locating in Florida.
Mr.. o. r. Wiley was able to be out
Sunday, after long spell of sickness.
Misses Mamie and Neppie Gill, of
Talbot Station, are visiting relatives in
the city.
Miss Ada Thompson has returned to
Martha Washington College, having
spent the holiday vacation here.
Mrs. ID. j. Morarity is confined to her
room at the Cain House with symptoms
Of malarial fever.
Miss Bonnie Bell Mi as, returned to
Bristol last Saturday night to spend
another five months at Sullin's College.
Our fellow-citizen, w. r. Buchanan,
has been seriously sick with fever for
note he is now convalescing.
Prof. ID. c. Wester, of Bristol Female
College, gave us a welcome call last
week, en- route to relatives in Granger.
Harris Whiteside, who has been at
tending Emory Henry College, at Emo
~, Va, spent week with his parents
Christmas.
We learn that young friend William
Lones left for Texas last week. Will
is an industrious ysung farmer, and
we wish him success in his new home.
Miss Tennie LCney, of Hawkins coun-
ty, who has been visiting the family of
A. Sullenbarger, ESQ.,, in this vicinity,
returned home last week.
Hiss Jennie Rose returned to school
after spending the holidays with her
parents. We hope her next trip home
will be TO bear off the honors of Martha
Washington College.
Mr.. i. NJ CullIns, the courteous and
gentlemanly advance agent of the Ken
dali Dramatic Company, was i'm the
city last week arranging for the per-
formance of his popular troupe here
this week.
The friends in this place of Prof IT.
j. Davenport, late of thes Morristown
Male High School, will be pleased 10
see this item of news, clipped from The
Marion (Va.) Democrat, relating TO his
welfare: "Mr. t. J. Davenport, OF
Washington county, was in Marion
Sunday last. He left Sunday night for
Richmond, where he has a clerkship on
the committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions. Another young Democrat from
the Southwest who has received hi:
meet reward. We doubt not that Mr.
ID. fills his position we'll. He looks hale
and hearty, and we should judge tho
Capitol atmosphere agrees with him. "
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Col. G. w. Charlton, we see from the
Knoxville papers, is again candidate
for Mayor of that city. The third eff
fort, Ii r. said, breaks the charm, aud
we hope Col. Charlton will be success
falthis hitch. Yet IL it requires as
manyEefforts and as wise strategy as was
manifested in the legislative expert
ments of potter Graves, in the good old
days lang syne, we are still bodily and
heartily for Charlton. He is competent,
energetic and public spirited: He is
honest, sensible and persistent and soon
er or later will make n chief executive
of whom the city will be proud. The
inevitable result had for many reasons
better happen now.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Two professional wrestlcrs, Prof.
Willie, OF Charleston, s. c., and Prof.
Watson, Of Nashville, Tenn, wrestled
in this place on the 10Th ult. and LIST
inst, for wagers of $50 and $25 aside,
with net door receipts to the winner.
The first match vas won by Willie and
the second by Watson. Willie claims
to be the ex-ehampion wrestler of the
world. Be this as it may, he is certain
ly well trained and would be hard to
handy by any athlete in his favorite
style of wrestling, that of the Greco
Roman. This is the first professions
hugging that Morristown has ever wit
messed publicly. Privately, It may be
an old affair.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Died, at the residence of her son, Mr. R. NJ .
Eppes, Knox county, Tenn the 18th of De-
cember, 1888, Mrs. FRANCIS EPPEs, aged "a years,
7 months and II days, after an illness of four
years duration. She was born in Granger coun-
ty April oath, 1889, the sister of John Easley,
Esq, of happy memory, of a large, wel-kno wn
and honored family Her husband, Mr.. VIM.
Eppes, served with honor in the war of 1872, and
she was one of the few pensioned widows of that
war. Mrs. EPPEs was widow for 90 years, and
a consistent member of the Baptist church for
over so years. She died without murmur, in
the full hope of blessed Immortality beyond this
vale Of tears. She left son and daughter, now
on the decline of life, and a large connection
throughout East Tennessee, to mourn her loss.
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A few days before Christmas, Jacob
Campbell, confined in our Jail charged
with the theft of Dan. Taylor's horse
and buggy, an account of whose cap
ture in North Carolina by Marshal Bart
ley we gave at the time, succeeded i'm
making an escape from the Jail and TAX
ing Wilton Ward, a colored trusty,
with him. Ward, 1t seems, who had
charge Of the slops of the Jail, furnish
ed Campbell with a wire bucket bale
from which lie fashioned one of the
most unique and perfect keys we ever
saw, and~it turned the cage bolt as east
ly as the true key. Getting out of the
cage, Campbell and Ward burnt hole
through the double floor Of the Jail, in
part remote from the guard room, and
through this landed into the coal cellar
where they raised a window and escap-
ed to the country. But their liberty was
of short dur alton. Both the fugitiyes
were captured the next night by John
Holloway and deputy sheriff of Grain
ger county, as was also on the same
hunt VIM. Sneed, colored, sentenced to
the pcui-entiary, and whose previous
escape from our Jail il now appears had
been planned and accomplished through
Ward. The famous Mcclure is now
the only refugee from our Jail, and |
hopes are entertained of soon restoring |
him to bis former cage,
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.FROM HONEY 0REEK

To the Editor of The Morristown Gazette:
Christmas has passed and the cakes
are about all gone, so we will have TO
look up every day affairs and go to work
again. We are having plenty of rain,
SEINE very cold weather and mud from
beginning to ending. The motto for
the new year, in Skinfoot, is ''improve
do better than we did in 1888 "
Some farmers have commenced plow-
ing for corn, but owing to bad weather
will have to wait awhile.
We had a very good Sabbath School
at Brush College last year, superintend-
ed by VIM. G. Wester. And we should
not forget to mention the prosperous
school at the above named place under
the management of Pref. s. j. Lam0,
A. NJ. We hope he will have success
with it. @
Large quantities of iron ore is sup
posed to be in Granger county on the
old Carmichael farm. lately pure based
by j. F. and w. +. Wester, two miles
above Turkeys Mills. Come this way,
you mining menl SUBSCRIBER.
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In the Pilot House.

eyes, sir; this kind of work obliges
a man to keep sober as judge. Grail
men in the world, steamboat pilots and
railroad engineers should let liquor
alone. For their clearpess of sight and
GOODNESS of head depends the safety of
life and property"
Keeping his hand on the wheel as he
said this, Mr.. A. Brockman, OF No. 293
silver street, Chicago, added: "Of
course, some Of 'em drink; but the
sober ones have the best positions and
the best pay. Yes, the work and ex-
posuIe sometimes tells on us; but for
my part, / find PARKER's Tonic to be
all the invigorant l need I've got a
bottle aboard here now; never go on
trip without it. When [ haven't any
appetite, or am in any way out of sorts,
it sets me up in no time. Ii drinking
men would use the Tonic, it would
help 'em to break off. No, that isn't
a lighthouse; its star, low down near
the water.) As j was saying, the Tonic
is new life bottled UP. You see that
fag-staff?. Well. with bottle of PAR
KRR'S Tonic in the locker | can keep
malaria as far from me as that, all the
time. My wife has used il for three
years for summer complaints and collie,
and as an invigorant, when she's tired
out from overwoTk. She says the Honic
is daisy. Good-b bye! Don't break your
neck. going below 49,
This preparation which has been
known as Parker's Ginger Tonic, will
hereafter be advertised and sold Simply
under the name of PARKER's Tonic.
As uuprineipled dealers are constantly
deceiSing their. customers by SUBSTITUTE
ing inferior articles under the name OF
ginger, and as ginger is really an un-
important ingredient, we drop the mis-
leading word. s
paration, itself, and all bottles remaining
in the hands of dealers, wrapped under
the name of Parker's Ginger Tonic,
coutsins the genuine medicine if the
facsimile signature of HIsCoX & Go is
at the bottom of the outside wrapper
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Isthe Great Southern Remedy for the
cure OF ScrofulOus Talnt, Rheumatism,
White Swelling, Gout. Goitre, Consump-
ton, Bronchitis, Nervous Debility,
Malaria, and all diseases arising from
an impure condition Of the blood.
The merits OF this valuable prepara-
ton are 90 wellknown that a passing
notice Il but necessary to. remind the
readers of this journal OF the necessity
of always having bottle Of Rosadalis
among their stock OF family necessities.
Certificates can ba presented from
many leading Physicians, Ministers,
aud heads &c iaAniliHa illF0ughout Ihe
South endorsing H0AMdails NV the hiEh-
eat t6rmsq We arc constantly In &C.
CENT Qf aaltihcatea or cures from tile
most reliable SOURCES, and Wn ITO NOT
hesitate to rec0mmend I'M Nv The best
known remedy for fhe cure 0fthH above
diseases.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09
GHOSTSl GHOSTS /, GHOSTS !


The ghost house, ghosts clerks and
ghost clothing can all be seen by visit
ing the storesof j. A. ,Rices the Ghost
C1othier, at store room lately occupied
by Armitage Bros, Mcfarland block.
The CHEST clothing nsust go, SO don't fail
to buy suit Of ghost clothes, at ghost
prices. They have laid in dark corners
and cellars long enough, and the ghost
of eur grandfatherss will haunt us if we
don't sell them. Il No dead cats-only
their ghosts and the ghost of each and
every dead cat .carriesa billiard or pool
cue in his paw, but the public are pro-
tected from them while in the ghost
store.
But,eneugh of the ridiculous. I want
to say to the public, that while we may
have some clothing that is somewhat
out Of style, we have about Three
Thousand Dollars worth of new cloth
ing, and are enabled thereby to suit
everybody, both in ghost and modern
style and price. - -. se.sa.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

In numberless bulbs. beneath the skin
il secreted the.liqnid Substance which
gives the hair its texture, color and
gloss. When this secretion steps, the
hair begins nc once To become dry, Ius-
terless, brittle and gray. Is that the
condition OF your hair III so, anplvl
Parker's Hair Balsam nc once. twill
restore the color, gloss and life byarA-
newing the action Of nature. The
balsasn IL not mn oil. not a. dye, but an
elegant toilet article, highly IN hpreciat-
ca Because OF LIS Cleanliness.
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LETTER FROM SNEED TTLLE.

SNEEDvILLE, Tenn, Dec. 90.
To the Editor of The Morristown Gazette:
Notwithstanding the mud, blazing of
skyroekets, bursting of fire-crackers,
rattle of musketry and roar of anvils,
the exhibition az the close of the first
term of
THE MCKINNEY HIGH SCHOOL,
for this year, was highly entertaining
aud listened to by large and apprecia
tive audience. The speeches by Messrs.
Lewis Campbell, BrownlOw Collins,
Sherman Goodman and Charlie Frost,
though all boys, were after. Che manner
of men. The essays of Misses Martha
Trent, Minnie Mcneil, Sarah Harrison,
Cordie Campbell. Dora Coleman and
Minnie Buttry, adding grace and beau
ty to the occasion, fell upon the ears of
the hearers soft as a summer shower and
made the boys grin all the next day.
The drama, "a Little More Cider" ac-
ted by Misses Eldora Harrison, Carrie
Tyler and Flora Quillin, and Messrs.
Whit. Campbell, Commodore Collins,
Robert Seal, James Quillin and Lewis
Campbell, was fun for all, and the only
fears we have is, our school being in
corporated, we might suggest TO our
merchants how to properly flavor their
ject without mentioning the song, Mr..
and Mrs Brown, lin other words, a
family fuss,) SO well sung by Mr.. Fur
geson and Miss Matte Campbell. 1t
very sensibly reminds US of the advant-
ages which Mr.. Payne had in having no
home, when he wrote his famous Home,
Sweet Home. Had it not been so, ii
might not have been so sweet.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE
came next, arrayed in beautiful strings
of popcorn, notchy paper of all colors,
and loaded and weighed down with
beautiful presents coming from warm
hearts and liberal souls, casting their
bread upon the waters and hoping soon
TO gather up better halves in return,
and toy candy and maple sugar enough
TO make the children wish that Christ
mas would last all the year. The tree
and the day, with all they both mean,
were aptly set forth in short and well
timed talk by Mr.. Henry It.. Campbell.
This, if our memory properly serves us,
was supplemented or prefaced by some
thing from your writer. At any rate he
found himself recovering from a severe
shock, while the tree was being strip
ped, and was able TO answer to his name
in tone sufficiently audible to direct
| the kind carrier where to deposit one of
DIR. Jayne's almanacs for "a. rN
NEXT, But NOT LEAST,
i'm importance to us, Is the reception to
be given TO our young friend, Andy
Campbell, son of Col. Jos. Campbell,
of this place. Andy has lately married
a charming young lady of Washington
county and will visit his fathers fami-
| ly on the 2Sfh inst. We shall be there
of course The fact Is, we have never
yet been so busy sitting around that we
couldn't summon the energy and forth
tude TO attend q ,reception dinner. We
owe this courtesy to our friends and
ourselves-ourselves more especially.
| -.+ f-- -a ft SNEEDHILLIAN.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09
TIE KENDALL COMPANY

viii open with the great emotional
drama, Queens Evidence, of which the
Yicksburg (Aliss.) Herald has the fol-
lowing 10 say: ts.s-.
The Kendalls were greeted with a
break down house last evening, every
seat and all available standing room
being occupied. N thing has ever
drawn 50 well in this city as KendalPs
company did last nis ht to see the great
English comedy drama, Queens Evil
dencc, which IL Of absorbing interest.
The pathos so powerfully displayed by
Lizzie Kendall as to bring tears TO the
eyes of many, was appreciated and APP
planded 10 the echo, while the comedy
element was so strongly marked, and
of such telling nature, as 20 convulse
every one with laughter and keep the
audience i'm the best Of spirits .Aho-
gether, we consider it the most enjoy
able and laughable drama ever present.
ed here
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DIED.

In Morristown, Tenn, Wednesday O'Clock,
P. NJ, January I'd, 1884, after illness of seven
teen days, from malarial fever, little MAUD A.,
the beloved daughter of b. F. Mitchell, ESQ.,,
quietly breathed her last, apparently without
pain, and her gentle spirit winged its flight to the
happy realms above. She was aged years and
10 months. Funeral services were held at the
residence on Friday morning at 1015 O'Clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. George Simpson, pastor of the
NJ. E. Church, South, in most appropriate aud
touching manner, in the presence of large body
of mourning relatives and friends. MAUD, al
though young child, faithful and earn
est little Sunday-school worker. She loved Jesus
and delighted in singing His songs and working
in His vineyard. At the time of her death she
was member of aunt Betty CrOwell's class in the
Southern. Methodist Sunday-schoJl she was also
an active member of the Carter Missionary So
ciety and did noble work for the cause of the
Lord and the enlightenment of the heather. She
had a sweet disposition, and her every action was
characterized with love and obedience, and purity
of heart. MAUD was afectionate and obedient to
papa and mamma-kind and gentle to brothers and
sisters-and always wore kind smiles and win
ming heart for her companions and friends. She
viii be sadly missed by all who knew her-espec-
tally by her Sabbath-schoel class and play-nates
We extend our hand in sympathy to the grief
stricken parents. fThe Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away; blessed be the name of the
Lord ''Suffer little children to come unto me-
FAREWELL TO LITTLE MAUD
unjust thou go?-and must thou leave us?
Must-that dear word, "FareweH, p be said?
Now all thy parents hope and pride
Forever gone, forever sleeping.
Beneath the sod, in sweet repose,
Is laid mothers dearest pride:
A flower that scarce had walked to life,
And light, and beauty, ere it died
God in his wisdom has recalled
The precious love his boon had given;
And though the casket naoulders here,
The gem is sparkling now in Heaven"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

If the lovers Of amusement in our
neighboring towns wish to see a first
class dramatic entertainment, they will
not fail TO be present tomorrow night
"wednesday to witness the Kendalls.
The Company is splendid one, and the
music furnished by their fine orchestra
Is alone worth almost the price of ad-
missi0n.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Decades of years ago, when we were
more juvenile by forty years than we
are to-day, we had occasion more than
once to lament the lnattention given to
strangers, and especially to boys, who
were unknown TO those who occupied
cabins at the annual Methodist camping
place, We are glad TO be reminded of
those old, happy days, AMI by one, too,
who had better luck on his first visit
than attended GUYS. The Rev. J: M.
McTeer, late presiding elder of the
Wytheville district, is publishing some
very interesting photographed rem
iniscences in the HolstoR Methodist. The
scene of his first instalIment is laid in
Blount county. His parents were Old
School Presbyterians and he was con-
vIcted and converted under the persua-
sive oratory of Cumberland Presby-
terrain preacher, at Sinking Greek, 1912.
Having made profession Of religion,
the perplexing question fer him to de-
eide was what denomination to Join.
1bh S6kAsncu nNOHldGn duu tue chth-
aritin attention of Rev. Grensf1efd
Taylsr-more persuasive and Christian
izing thar the phenomenal more straw
made him a warrior in the Methodist
camp is thus pleasantly told
81 was considering the subject two
weeks, and was undecided, when /
went to a Methodist camp meeting at
Middle Settlements, in Blount county.
Imagine a boy on a camp ground, an
entire stranger to all, sitting on a stump
while dinner was going on. and no in
vitation to eat That boy was the writ
er. / thought the Cumberlands would
not treat me thus. In the midst of my
agony a nicely dressed, polite young
gentleman approached me and inquired,
Are you a stranger here ? / told him
was. Have you had your dinner ?
No, sir, | have not. Come with me
and get your dinner after dinner he
said, This is my fathers tent; you can
feel yourself perfectly free % come in at
any time, and make il your home dur
ing your stay That young gentleman
is the Rev. c.. Taylor, of the Holston
Conference. have loved him from that
day to this. | thought then, and still
think, he is as clever as the Cumber-
lands Brethren, take care of the boys
on the camp ground who behave them
selves
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THE MAZE ScH0OE

We wish to say, in beginning our
work az principal afthe school, that we
will make no unnecessary changes In
the books. All the changes that win be
made will be In reference to classifica-
ticn. Also, we hope that the patrons
will lend us a helping hand In building
up the school and making it what ID
should be- Let every citizen feel that
success in the schools Is success in their
business.
l.. w. DAVIS, Principal.
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We have the sad duty of announcing
tho death Of Curtis Robertson, only son
Of DIR. J. f. Robertson. of this place,
which untimcly event took place on
Tuesday, the 1st lust. No young man
in this place was held I'm higher esteem
than Curtis Robertson. OF Kind and
loving disposition, amiable in all his
traits, be lived and moved among us a
general favorite. For many months
Curtis had been afflicted with that in
sldions disease, consumption, that final
~ haGied medical skin. Now, Wireless
and childless, words OF coincidence to
the bereaved. des0late father must fall
with knocking sound, but the earnest
sympathy OF the entire community goes
ous To him Ia tbs latest afllicfion.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

Dispatches from Chicago, his, dated
the 5th, states that the thermometer
dropped to % degrees below zero. AT
Kansas City reported "A deg. below !;
St. Paul, 20 deg; Omaha, "a deg; Du-
buque, 81, deg DesMoines, "a deg,
and Keokuk % degrees below, Bust
ness was partially paralized at Chicago
on account Of the severity of the wealth
err, much suffering among the poor peo-
pie and tramps and trains centering to
the city were snowbOund.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09

A delightful Christmas entertainment
was given at the elegant residence of
Col. o. e. King Christmas night, COM
plimentary to Miss Neppie and Mr..
Mike King, who had returned home to
spend the school holiday vacation. The
supper was such a one as the refined
tastes OF Mrs. King would insure.