The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-05-31
WHOLE NO. 2l5
OVER THE STATE.
Items Of News Gathered from Our Ex.
changes And Other Sources,

Troy wants to become an incor.
porated town.
There is not q prisoner in the COT.
fee County jail.
Colorado bugs are at work in Ruth.
erford County,
A military company is being form.
ed at Tullahoma.
There are fifty.three marriageble
girls in Dickinson.
The Bedford County fair takes place
Sept. 6, z and s.
There are but four inmates Of the
Benton county poor-house.
Fifteen new oranges were organized
last week.
A woolen mill is soon to be started
at SweetwRter.
Athens is suffering under the plague
OF a bran new brass band.
The Midland road is completed be.
tween Jackson, and Memphis.
The National Democratic con.
Vention meets at st. Louis, June 5th.
A sixteen year old colored girl of
Mlliedgeville, Ca, is stunning white.
The spoke and handle factory At
Manchester has commenced work.
A new buildings is being erected
Tor the bank at Woodbury., Tenn.
The bridge over the town creek az
Murtreesboeo is fifty two years old.
The shops Of the Nashville & Knox.
vile road are TO be built at Lebanon.
A man in Decatur county has a field
OF corn, the rows Of which are 800 Yards
long.
A hunter near Somerville, Tenn,
shot and killed a deer lO2 yards dis.
tant.
The new water-Rerks at Mur.
ireesboro will be completed during
June.
The North Carolina tobacco crop
has been seriously injured by recent
frosts.
}. B. Wilder, a wealty Wholesale
druggist of Louisville, died suddenly
OF apoplexy.
A turtle weighing 10 pounds was
caught in Forkei Deer River near
Jackson last week.
Covington Leader: The cut worms
have attacked the cotton. This has
not been known before since 1879.
silas W. Higgins of McMinn county
has sued comptroller Pickard TO So.
cure pension.
Army worms are damaging to
great extent the crop in many portions
of Williamson County.
chairman Houston, of the Demo-
cratic Convention, hvs gone to Texas
on short business trip.
The statement season On the Cum.
berland will be over in few weeks
unless there is decided rise soon.
Belva Ann Lockwood has been
nominated for the presidency BY ths
Equal Rights party.
! J. NJ. Chandler shot and probable
fatally wounded Prof. Lawrence at
Jellico last Friday.
A thief broke into hardware store
in Bolivar last week and stole six shot
guns and fifty pocket knives, besides
all the cash in the drawer.
Sheriff Anderson, of Chester conn.
ty, shot one John Doss in the hip, pro-
ducing severe flesh would, while the
latter was attempting to escape from
custody.
Bill Patrick, a desperate, shot and
killed saloon keeper at Blooming
ton Ind, because some beer foam was
accidently thrown in his lace.
Sister Teresa, at st. Cecilia Acade.
my, Nashville, dropped dead with
dropsy of the heart. She was thirty
years OF age and OF a robust and
healthy appearance.
! South Pittsburg Standard: A negro
was shot by thetime-keeper at the fur.
mace Monday morning for being too
sassy" and drawing knife on that
gentleman.
Erin News: James Newberry. Of
Tennessee ridge, caught very large
} hawk in steal trap last Thursday
morning; it measured four feet and
seven inches from tip to tip.
The Kansas City Star says that the
man who orders "milk shake" in
Kansas cannot tell just what he ia
: drinking until about ten or fifteen
minutes after it is down.
Little Willie Pullman, while trying
to drown a cat in the river at Nash,
= vile, was pulled in by the cat ching
e ing to his coat and was drowned bS>