The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-02-02
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE.
Items az Interest Gathered from
Our Exchanges and ether
Sources

A Military Company may be organ
lied ut Bristol.
The Grand Lodge Of Tennessee Ma
sons Wednesday elected IL. H. Inger-
sOh, OF Knoxville, Grand Master.
Pain masters the mind. Avoid the
disease known as Catarrh by using
Warmers Log Cabin Rose Cream.
The editors Of the Rogersville Her
aid and ReView nave d, clIned To fight.
The country will be disappointed.
The East Tennessee immigration
aud Real Estate Association, vi Jones'
bUrO, has $SO ,OO0 worth Of stock sub
scrlbed.
The Comptroller Of currency has au-
Lhorzed the City National Bank, Of
Knoxville To begin business With u
capital stock oi $l0OO,O.
The building for the reception of
the Fire Company 's apparatus Is be-
ing erected IN the lot where formerly
stood the Nj. Z. church.-Heruld 4;
Tribune.
Cashier w. G. Mathes, Uf the Jones
boro Banking and Trust Company, is
improving, he had his hand badly
cut n short time ago while working On
a lathe.
J. 7. Brewer, assistant mailing
clerk in the Knoxville pustotiice, is
sentenced b! Judge Key u two years
III the N. Y. State penilentiary at Al
Uaay for ntiing n gistertd lelltrs.
Mr.. G. D. MaSsengiIl, Of Bluff City,
WAS III town yesterday. lie Is HE
chairman nf the Sullivan county dem.
uCratic executive committee, and says
that the pulley adopted by the party
last summer will be faithfully carried
out III the coming campaigns. So the
candidates can prepare To submit their
claims to a good democratic couyen-
uon. Good. Bristol Courier.
The Southern Atlantic and Ohio,
lrnm Bristol, Tenn, To Big Stone Gap
in northwest Virginia is completed
beyond Esrillville, Va, a total dis
tance Of fnrty miles, and will be com
pleted III two months. The company
will put in IL 100.t0n steel furnace at
Bristol aud will extend the line south
10 Elizabtthtun to the bessmer ore
fields.-MOrriStOwn Gazette.
Mr.. II. G. Remine, dealer in tomb
stones, monuments etc, Of Limestone
Tenn, called on US few days ago.
sometime ago he furnished beau
tiiul monument, OF Ge0rgie marble,
which was placed over the grave Of
Col. s. X. N. Patton, of the 9Th Tenn,
Cavalry, U. s. A., at Fall Branch,
Tenn. Mr.. Renine il n most atfahlt
gentleman. ard has an extensive
patronage Bristol News.
It has been rumored that johnson
City was suffering from an epidemic
1T fever. some going 10 far M To place
the deaths there for the last few weeks
IN All average Of four day. We Wis
tied that town on Saturday evening
last and were assured by several trust
worthy parties that there WAS no fonn.
dation for report whatever, and that
while they had had considerable sick
ness, there Was nothing OF an epidrm-
ic character about it. The scare at-
tendant on the report, however, has
had good effect, in that steps are be-
ing taken tO improve the sanitary con
lition OF the tuwn.-Herdid & Tribune
While playing 1T noon, Monday
some Of the boys Of Mr., Cartright' {
school found the body nf II dead baby
that had been thrown over or p"ked
under the who"l-yard fence. 1t WAS a
large well-devel"ped, white boy. E-q
Tennessee impannelled the cnroners
jury, who verdictrd in accordance
with DIR. J. A. Dlckey's testimony thai
the child had heen horn alive, had
hepn placed in the position in which
il WAS found shortly before ar immr
diately after death, and had come t.
} it's death by sons unknown hand
The mystery has not yet been cleared
up But murder will out The otli
GERS have suspicious parties un Ter sur
veilancp, hat have made no arrests
Who was the inhuman father? Wha
brute was the mother? Why was il
murdered? Let the lynx-eyed execu
tors nf the law bring the guilty, inhu
man wretches to justice.-BriStol Coa
rier.
"Is Mr.. Anthony Comstnck pres
eEt" inquired the speaker, pauslni