The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-06-19
Col. Il. 9, Manning was down from


Gen. Wilder returned IRON Chatta-
nooga Monday.
Pleas Williams died at his home on
Buffalo last Monday morning,
Miss Sarah Key returned to her
home Mt Chattanooga yesterday,
Hon, IA. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor
returned from Washington last Sun.
day.
A Benefit and Social Union is to be
organized in Nashville by the retail
salesmen
A corps of engineers is en- gagged in
surveying railroad route from Lee
noirs to Hartman.
Mrs. VIM. Powell, mother of ]. Tip
Powell, died at 2 p, m. Monday, four
miles west Of Jonesboro.
r, e Beard, Il citizen of Jonesboro,
dropped dead Monday. Apoplexy is
assigned as the cause.
Union county convention sent Il
solid delegation for Baxter, In Union
there is strength,
A Memphis girl has fallen heir to
100000 Great was the fall thereof
so her husband thinks.
Miss Jennie Cameron is down from
Eiizabethton visiting Mrs. G. w
Hardin.
w. f. Jones has returned from
Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and will
make his home here.
DR.. G. II. Taylor will leave to day
for Morristown and will be absent four
or five days.
The Taylor Rifles are drilling every
day, preparatory to attending the
State Encampment on the Goth.
Work on the Johnson City and Car
Dina railroad is progressing rapidly,
in spite Of the opposition of a iossilized
village.
Montgomery Broylos died at his
home in this county last week. The
funeral was preached at Uriah church
last Saturday.
The farmers in this section are TAX
ing advantage Of the weather 10 save
their grain and grass. The wheat
harvest is about over.
w. II. King has returned from Mis-
souri, and is spending a few weeks with
relatives in this vicinity. An uncle of
his accompanied him home, and he is
the oldest King OF that family alive.
The subscription tc the Episcopal
church in the Carnegie addition is as
suming handsome proportions, and it
is expected that work will begin on
the building in the next thirty days.
The w. G. T. U. gave lawn festi-
val in Loves Grove last Tuesday night.
1t was decidedly a temperance affair
in all things, except the charges. A
considerable sum was realized, how
ever.
Ineongruous as it may seem, Cramp
Smith, Jonesboro's red-headed mer-
chant, is threatened with chills, SUI
perinduced by the progress Of work on
the Johnson City and Carolina rail
road to Johnson City.
Daniel Beeler has been sentenced tc
hang on the Sth day of August at Rut
ledge, Tenn. The case will be appealed
to the Supreme Court, but it is Droba
bic the decision Of the lower court vii
be sustained.
What shall it profit the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia road t.
try and hamper the building Of thu
Bristol enterprise? We have alwayi
heard that a corporation has no soul
and now we know it.-Mountaineer.
Wait and see.
Mr., Finch, OF Jacksonville, Fla, wa
in The city looking for a location TO
wholesale sGddlery and harness
house. He was pleased with johnson
City and has about closed contrac
with w. w. Faw for his new stol,
now under construction.
Miss Carrie Earnest, who has jus
returned from Boston, where she at
tended the New England Conserva
tory of Music and Emerson School 0
Oratory, will give a reading at thu
Academy one evening next week.
Bickley's Mills Virginia.
Now that the frame buildings OF
Main street have been torn down t.
make room for brick structures, it
in order for Mr. Henry Crouch to re
move the cd eye-sores on Publ
Square and erect in their stead build
ings that will be credit to the cit,
Rev. S. r. Preston has accepted
call to the pastorate OF the Secon
Presbyterian church Of this city. NJ
Preston has been filling the pulpit {
this church for the past few month
and will be formally installed on SUI
, day, June Goth Courier.
. Mr.. John Bowman, popular En-
DRY student, spent last night in Bri
tol and left to-day for Jonesboro. M
) Bowman carried off the debater
medal at Emory, and it was though
by many that he Justly merited u
Robertson prize medal. He is your
man of premise,-Co urier, 10th.
Miss Fsfelle Holbrook of with