Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-03-25
Rogersville
Review. 18Th.

Rogersville.
Review, 18th.
On Wednesday the 10th inst, at Rus
sellville, Mr., Win Brown and Miss Ludi.
vine Snapp, both of that place, and Mr..
Harmon, Of Rogersvillc Junction to Miss
Matte Brown, sister of the groom of the
OF the other couple. Rev. Mr.. Brown,
father of two of the parties gave the
couples a splendid reception.
a Miss A, II young lady living
near Fullens in Greene county, left last
week for Montana to marry James E.,
who went West from that neighborhood
last spring. Miss A-raised a crop
Of tobacco last summer, ~cultivating it
with her W hands, sold the tobacco and
got the money which she used to pay her
way to Montana to join her sweetheart.
That girl is worth having. If he goes
back on her he ought TO be lynched.
Last Thursday, the 18th inst, between
three and four o'clock, Mrs. Lee Adams,
living near Surgoinsville, in this county.
put all of her children out of the house
and shat the door. Very soon the report
of a gun was heard in the room, and when
the door was opened Mrs. Adams was
found lying on the floor with an empty
army carbine gun by her side. She had
shot herself, the load entered her stom-
ach just below the breast bone. She lived
only about twelve hours after being shot.
her mind has been affected for several
months. She had one Of her boys to load
the gun the day before saying at the time
that she was afraid to stay in the house
alone without it being loaded. She was
about forty-fivc years of age, leaves a
husband and several children, who have
the sympathy of all her neighbors. Be.
fore she died she told her friends that the
gun went off while she was taking it down
from the rack, but her friends think it a
case of suicide.
The trial of W. II. Jones and son at
Asheville, n. c., for the murder of the
Joyce family last April, is attracting con-
sideruble attention at this time. There
were four persons killed and their bodies
burned in the house. Detectives took the
case in hand and investigated it, every.
thing seemed to point at the Joneses as
the murderers. Last fall they were ar.
rested and lodged in Jail. The evidence
SO far is very strong against them.
At last we can assure the public that a
telegraph line will soon connect Rogers.
vile with the outside world. The poles
are now being cut and will be delivered
ON the railroad within a mile Of town in
a week or ten days. The work will be
pushed forward to an early completion.
p,,o, ON, horristown.
Mr.. W. p. Carriger, for a number of
years engaged in the drug business, died
at his residence in this place on the 18th
inst, of consumption, aged 36 years. He
was born in Tazewell, Claiborne county,
Tennessee, and a son of the late DR.. NJ.
Carriger. He has resided in Morristown
for thirty years; was married the 18th of
May, 1875, to Miss Mollie r. Thomar, of
Virginia, whom with two sons survive
him. Mr.. Carrigcr was esteemed by every
one in the county. His remains were in
tered yesterday with masonic honors in
the Morristown cemetery.
Albany correspondence: Married, in the
church at Rheatown, on Wednesday night
Mr.. Robt. Conn, of Upchurch to Miss
Lizzie Brown, of Cross Anchor. We OK.
tend congratulations.
Albany correspondence; On last Sun
day one William Brown was brought
down from Jonesboro and taken before
Esquire Moore charged with bigamy. He
was bound over till court and in default
of bond was sent to Greeneville Jail.
Brown is charged with having three
wives.