The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-02-23
WHOLE NO. POI
OVER THE STATE.
Items OfInteresG Gathered from
Oar ENchanges and other
Sources.

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Bristol will organize a military com.
pany.
Athens is soon to have electric
lights.
Several cases of measles are reported
in and about Shelbyville.
County Clerk Pope is arranging to
introduce the telephone in Kinston.
Fayetteville has negro woman by
the name of Lucy Twyng 1l0 years
old.
A Chattanooga clergyman drank
poison with whiskey ahd killed him.
self.
VIM. Summervil!e was killed at
Memphis by touching an electric light
wire.
Reports of atrocious outrages are
becoming alarmingly common in Lin
coin county.
The Cleveland Herald says that
measles is taking the town. Twenty.
five cases are reported.
Shelbyville voted $4,000 subscrip.
ton to the stock of the D. C. l. NO.
railroad Wednesday.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune
runs up the name Of John Sherman.
OF Ohio, as its candidate for President.
Bristol has organized Board OF
Commerce with A D. Reynolds, presi,
dent; A. B. Whitaker, secretary; A.
s. Mcneil, Treasurer.
A new Republican daily is to be
started at Chattanooga to be known
as the Journal, Col. H. B. Case man.
ager and S. Christopher editor.
The business houses of ]. NJ. Fain,
general merchandise, and A. L. Court.
ney, drugs, at White Pine, were totally
destroyed by fire last Wednesday.
Rev. Joe A. Munday has become
pastor OF the Baptist church at Nor.
rlstown. He is an evangelist of the
Sam Jones style, "only little more
So"
A mail carrier by the name OF Good.
man, on the route between Knoxville
and Sevierville, was arrested in the
former place last week for robbing the
mails.
Tennessee has total of 1916 post.
Offices, three of which are first-class,
twenty-seven are presidential Offices.
and one hundred and twenty-five are
money order offices.
Track laying has commenced on
the Walden's Ridge railroad, and il is
expected to have the line from Clinton
to Knoxville ready for trains bv
April 1st
The electric light plant will be run.
ming the last of the week, perhaps. It
took nine men four days to place the
seventy-five foot smokestack in posi-.
on.--Bristol Courier.
The total amount OF the subscrip-
tion raised to the Kingston and Emory
Gap railroad at Kingston, is $6,25O,
besides the West Point property-an
additional couple OF thousand dollars.
Capt j. A. Turley has been appoint.
I'd postmaster at Athens in place OF
Mr., Strange, resigned. Shortage in
the accounts OF Strange. due to ipcom.
petence, it is said, induced his resig-
nation.
The first match OF the Bristol Gun
Club for the medal was shot yester.
day. Out OF possible fifteen the
score stood Mort, 7; Miles, 8; hickey,
II; King, 8; Mcneil, 8; Winston, 10;
Rhea, 8.-Reporter.
The building to contain the appara-
tus OF the Jonesboro Fire Company
has been completed and on Tuesday
received its first coat of paint. An
, other will be put on shortly. The
: building contains the truck, ladders,
hooks, chains, buckets, and axes, and
keys to the same have been distributed
I pretty thorOughly.--HerGld and TTi-
I bune.
jeff Huff, a colored porter for the
p Nickels House, was killed by the 8 rs
& train, last Tuesday evening, near
r Kings Crossing. A thorough inveeti-
e CATION by the authorities failed TO sus-
tain any suspicious Of foul play. Abun-
dant testimony proved that the negro
; was on Fourth street drunk forty-five
: minutes before the train was due
: Bristol Courier.
The bill which passed both houses
, OF the Virginia General Assembly in
reference to a subscription voted by
the town Of Goodson, differs from the
bill enacted in the closing hours Of
. the aeasion of 1QQ6 Tho lattar h;Il