The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-02-06

. Circuit courtsi still in session IN
Rosersville. The Stakeholder was
heavy one and has taken up near
" all the time of the court.
Capt. Ed Ross has purchased the
hotel property IN Rogersville known
as the Hale Spring House, +" being
the large house on the southwest.
corner of the public square.
Since the general thaw cut and
the heavy rains the roads herea-
bouts are almost untravelable
From this time till May but little
hauling viii be done. The mud is
uncommonly deep.
DIR. Thos. ]. Speck, of Morris
town, has, we learn, sold his. dwell
ing house and lot on Main street in
Rogersville, to DIR. F. A. Shotwell.
This is good property and desirable
as dwelling locality.
| Did anybody ever see so many
red sunsets as we have had the past
fall and wiRter2 And can anybody
tell us why we have had so many,
and why they are so much more
beautiful than usual?
A. d. Simpson has purchased the
old "King corner" at the southeast
of the public square, and will erect
first class business house on the
site in the spring. The building
which stands there now is one of the
oldest in East Tennessee, having
been built nearly century ago.
An unusually large number of
men from the different parts Of,
Hawkins county were in Rogers
vile last week at Circuit Court.
From what we could gather from
them we are of the opinion that the
growing wheat crop has not been
! materially injured by the cold
weather in January. Most of the
farmers report their wheat fields as
promising fine yield.
The political campaign in Virgil
MIA engendered more bad feeling
among the people of the State than
any election ever did before. Even
now that it is all over and done
with, many neighbors belonging to
opposite factions refuse to speak to
each other" funders'' and " read
justers'' refuse to trade with each
other, their families do not visit, and
the bad temper seems not to improve
as time passes.
The State of Tennessee has net
been successful lately in it's suits
with railroad companies. The latest
defeat was in the case of the Louis
vile road VS. the assessment of
railroad property by the Board Of
Assessors appointed bf the Gov
ernor. The Nashville and Chatta-
nooga, East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia and Rogersville and
Jefferson had joined in this suit, and
it has been decided adverse to the
State.
Some prominent gentlemen in
Hawkins county wanted a mess OF
fish last fall. They went down to
McCline's bend, four miles west of
Rogersville, where the water is deep,
and exploded dynamite in the water,
killing large number of fish The
grand jury was in session last week,
and these prominent gentlemen will
have to appear before Judge Hack
er at the next term of the circuit
court. 1t is likely to turn out cost
ly fry Of fish to them all.
Fred Doulass, the most eminent
negro in the world, married a white
woman in Washington City the
other day. The laws of the District
of Columbia forbid the intermarriage
of the two races, but Douglass has
violated the law and intends to test
its constitutionality in the courts.
As the white woman he married
was his priv0te secretary it is fair
to suppose he married her more for
the purpose of testing the law than
for anything else.
Gen. Butler says the leading is
sue in the coming Presidential cam
paign will be the Civil Rights Bill
The opinion of Mr.. Justice Harlem,
of the Supreme Court, being the
ground work of the Republican
platform on that issue. In this
matter we think the hero of Dutch
Gap and Tewkesberry is mistaken.
The Republican party will hardly
tackle the Civil Rights question
again-the white Republican and
the white Democrat being about on
q level so far as the negro is con-
cerned. The laws have done all
for the colored man that possibly can
be done, and hiss future standing
in society depends entirely upon his
own conduct and development.
Civil Rights will have very little to
do with the decision of the Presi-
dental election next fall.
Hon. A. A. Taylor made speech |
in Rogersville on Monday, the 28th
of january. He is candidate for |
the Republican nomination for
Congress in the First District. On
Tuesday Hon. r. r. Butler address
ed the people in the courthouse,
he is also a candidate for the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Butler said in his speech |
that ha understood Pattihone was /
also candidate, and how many |
adark horses" there were he did /
now know. A fair Republican nom
nation in this District is considered
almost equivalent to an election.
hence. there is going to be red-hot
fight in the Republican party for
the nomination. We have our pre-
ference very decidedly among these
gentlemen but do not |