The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-06-13
Brief State News.


The earthquake was felt all through /,
West Tennessee.
The McMinnville electric light plant
cost about $4,000.
Clarksville boasts thirty-seven gro
Gerry establishments.
A post CT the G. A. R. will be organ
lied in Sparta June IA.
Fruit men say the crops in Warren
County will be very short.
An effort is being made to have
Sparta incorporated again.
g The earthquake was felt distinctly
at Dover, in Stewart County.
The health Of the people of Benton
County is said to be excellent.
The Tullahoma hotels are beginning
to All up with summer boarders,
Corn is looking exceedingly well, al
though very small, in Benton County
The seventeen-year locusts are play.
ing havoc with things in Sewer
County.
The Camden Enterprise is agitating
the establishment OF a public library
in Camden.
Editor Brandon, of Clarksville To-
bacco Leaf, is spending a few weeks at
Hot Springs.
Memphis has Female Suffragist
Association, of which Col. ]. NJ, Keat-
ing is member.
Several persons have been indicted
at Dresden for selling hard cider,
under the iour-mile law.
The Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis Railway has recently enlarged
the depot at Lewisburg.
Within the past ten days at least
81 900 worth Of chickens have been
shipped from Lexington.
The business of the Chattanooga
Coffin Factory has increased over 500
| per cent. in the past year. = 81. 1. ..sa
Six hundred persons have been ar
rested for municipal offenses at Tul-
lahoma in the past four years.
! A Union City firm has recently
closed Il contract to furnish 100000
hickory spokes to Boston firm. e
4 summer institute will be held at
| Doyle's Station, in White County, be-
ginning on June "a and ending July 6.
The Memphis Turn Verein will give
an entertainment next Wednesday ev-
ening in aid of the JohnsCown suffer
crs.
The iailstorm was severe in parts OF
East Tennessee last Saturday. Vege-
tables, wheat and corn were slightly
damaged.
) There are between 100000 and
3 5000 900 feet OF red cedar, in Murires
A bur0 at the present time.
The Erin News says that work or
the Tennessee Midland will begin or
this side the Tennessee River by tht
= middle Of this month.
e Attorney General Peters will bring
$ the pool-room question before th'
q Criminal Court at Memphis to-day
, merely rs question of law.
The Perkins Rifles gave an exhibi
tion drill ON the public square a
Franklin Friday afternoon, which wa
r witnessed by large crowd.
l. The dead body Of W. X. johnson,
n Memphis book'keeper, who disappear
"a ed about May 10, was found in a fiel'
a near Memphis last week II is sur
posed he committed suicide.
1
n The McMinnville New Era says tina
o Col. John H. Savage's mother has bee
i cutie sick ut her home near McMinI
:. vile. She is 9S years old and hs
i usually enjoyed good health.
st The ST. Louis & Tennessee Rive
a. Packet Company is building a seve
b. hundred ton steamboat to use in th
St. Louis and Tennessee River trad
"A in connection with the two boats no
,a in the trade
ee Mr.. Moses Campbell, Of the Whit
\. vile neighborhood, informs as tn
he clipped last week from ionrtet
in head Of sheep over ninety-t@o poun'
lis of wool This is a remarkably fiji
ks YIELD Bolivar Bulletin.
~ The Warner Iron Company h
built six-milc narrow guage railro'
he from Birds Greek furnace to Haley
Of Creek, in the direction Of Little L.
RS. The terminus Of this road is only abo
is three and half miles north OF Cent?
20 yille.--Nashyille American.
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