Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-07
Rogersville.


Last Monday, Judge Brown and Attor.
ney General Campbell, opened their first
court for Hawkins county. The Judges
charge to the Grand Jury was p%ronounc-
ed by all as being one among the plainest
and best ever delivered to a Hawkins
county jury. The many friends of Judge
A. ]. Brown will be pleased to learn that
he has given entire satisfaction in Han
cock and this county, the only courts
held by him so far. We have taken
pains to inquire and ascertain just how
the bar and people are impressed with
him as Judge Of the Circuit Court. A
great many persons, who had heard and
read so much during the canvass about
his inferiority as a lawyer, came to see
for themselves, and they all express them
selves as agreeably surprised. In all his
rulings he is firm, but courteous and i'm
partial. The leading Democratic law
yers say of his charge in the murder
case tried at this term that it was the
c%learest and most thorough charge they
had heard for some time. And one Of
them, who has been at the bar for thirty
years or more, and who we know does not
speak to %flatter, compliments him in the
highest terms. Attorneys who were told
that he would tyranize on the bench are
delighted to find that he Is extremely
patient in hearing arguments, and instead
Of arraying himself against counsel he
recognizes that they are an aid to the
court. He is ambitious to administer the
law as 1t exists, and the ability with which
he dispatches business and his conduct
On the bench will make him q popular
judge. II. 7. Campbell, although young
in years, is making a very favorable i'm
preston, and we bespeak for him not
only success but eminent distinction as
Attorney General.
Mr.. VIM. Piper, on last Monday, re.
signed the position Of Deputy Clerk
under Mr.. Jas. Nugent, and accepted a
similar one one under Mr.. APP. Davis, in
the Circuit Court Clerks office.
To Samuel L. Chestnut and wife, on
Sunday night, September 20, a son.
Here and There.
Sneedville correspondence Knoxville
| Journal, Gath inst. The sensation Of the
week was the killing of 'tAlie" Mullins
by Grant Jarvis, on Thursday evening.
Mullins was a son Of old John Mullins
a man we'll known to the United States
officers. The old man having lived most
of the time since the war In open viola
ton of the national laws and in defiance
Of government officers, taught his boys
to walk in the same, and the killing Of
"Alie," the son, is the legitimate out
come of such training on the part o.
parents.
"Grant" Jarvis, who did the killing, l
a son Of L. M. Jarvis. Esq, and brother
of Hon. II. Clay Jarvis, we'll and favora
bly, known throughout East Tennessee
having served two terms In the legisla
ture. Grant is a young man Of quiet dis
position, gentlemanly in his dcportmen
and a general favorite throughout tn
county. He Is now county superintcn
dent and is and has been doing good ser
vice In the public school work for tn
county. No one outside Of the immcdi
ale friends Of Mullins attaches any blam
to young Jarvis, and so no one regrets
more than himself. The difficulty 0
Thursday grew out Of n in May las'
Mullins was a desperate. AT the time b
was killed he had on his person u lare
navy and pocket pistol. both loaded. wit
q belt full Of cartridges. Mullins ha
been trying to new the May difficult
all week, while Jarvis had sought eve
means to 'avoid one, knowing the desp
rate character Of Mullins. Jarvis
friends were looking for him to be klle'
On Thursday evening, after Mullil
had rode out Of town and thought to