The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25

and five Of triplets have beens born in
Pike county, Georgia.
A Brooklyn grocer says that out Of
500 loss last year over $500 came
through church members in good
standing.
A Georgia exchange says that H. w.
j. Ham, Sam Veal and Maj r. A. Ba.
con met recently by accident in
store at Rome.
Among other enterprises that are
starting up in RogersviIle isa National
Bank. The bank has been organized
with sufficient capital to conduct a
large business.
The Byars house, located just east Of
the college building at Emory, Va, was
destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon.
The house cost $4,000 and had an in
surance for $500.
Keep your eye on the gun and on
that young corn too, for that old reli-
able cut worm will more than likely |
call on the tender corn in its youth |
and nib it ere it reaches the age OF
manhood
+" Bright's Disease has no symptoms
OF its own, says DR.. Frederick Roberts
Of University College, London. First
get rid Of the kidney disease by using
Warmers Safe Cure, then the effects
Of symptoms will be removed.
Adispatch from Union City says
Ged Dunnaway, the notorious Ruth
erford county murderer and rapist,
has been captured down on the Mis-
sissippi river by Sheriff Dejarnett, OF
Rutherford county, who is on his way
to Nashville with his prisoner.
Cigarette-smokers will be interested
in the report. not yet confirmed, how
ever, that a certain manufacturer OF
cigarettes offers nice cemetery lot to
every one who smokes twelve dozen
packages OF his cigarettes, Probably
he wants to make the punishment fit
the crime.
The Tennessee Dynamite Company
was dissolved Friday by action OF the
stockholders, and the Chattanooga
Powder Company organized. The
new company has purchased fifty
acres near the city and will erect large
works for the manufacture OF dyna-
mite and chemicals
A Rogersville Review repre- sentative
stepped up to man on the streets the
other day and remarked that he had
bad case Of hiccough and asked the
man to frighten him. All right" re-
piled the man, here are $2. 80 to pay
up my last years subscription and
next year in advance" 1t worked
like charm.
Land Commissioner Stockslager
fears there will be trouble ia Oklaho-
ma. He says that only about 10000
lhomesteads can be entered under the
Presidents proclamation, and he has
every reason to believe that at least
100000 persons will enter the country
within thirty days from its opening
next Monday.
10. j. Wins, OF the Athens Post, has
| gone over bodily to the Republican
party. In the language Of our esteem
ed friend Ko Ko, "he never will be
missed" Bye-bye, Joseph your room
is more agreeable than your company.
Democracy can get along without you ;
it remains to be seen wheth er yeu get
along in your new clothes.-American.
Regarding Australian politics, it is
stated that there has been rapid growth
OF feeling of nationality amongst
Australian colonists They look rath
; er toiAmefica than to England as their
model and many OF them are in favor
OF setting up what they call the United
States Of Australia. The tendency oi
things is rather in the direction OI
!. separation than ofimperial federation
A very sad accident occurred Fri
J. day at Skaters mill pond about twelve
: miles north of White Bluff on Jones
Creek A party consisting of Misses
Flora and Allie Carver, Nancy Odle
Emma Anderson and Thomas Ander
son we're fishing below the dam in 8
canoe, when they came TOO close tc
the dam and capsized the canoe
d drowning three of the young ladies
Miss allie Carver, aged IA; Miss En-
: ma Anderson, 16, and Miss Odle, II
Miss Allie Carver is the daughter o
A. J. Carver, who lives near Hermi
tage, Davidson County, and is running
y saw-mill near where the accident oc
Cured The bodies have all been re
covered.
: VIM. Roberts, Nj. D., Physician t
the Manchester, Eng, Infrmary an
Lunatic Hospital, Professor of Med