The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-06-22
FROM SULLIVAN.

Esq. A. w. Edwards better half and
the little Edwards are visiting home
folks in Virginia.
The Willy Lumber Company still
keep up steam and are turning out
some good lumber
Mrs H. a. Mauk will be off the last
of this week for the paternal roof at
Wallace's Switch for a fow days.
Miss Emmert Preston is spending
few days with friends in Bristol and
in the time doing little shopping.
This article, like some sermons, is
getting too lengthy and dull, and, TO
spare my readers, I win shut down.
J.R. H. Anderson, a former citizen
of Sullivan, is suffering with nasal en-.
tarrh at Chattanooga, his present
home.
The hog cholera scare has about
died out in this section. Fact is, there
are but few hogs hereabouts to die
with any disease
M. L. Thomas and family are spend
ing few days this week in the pleas
ant home OF J. S. Thomas at Happy
Valley, Garter county.
The new church on Beaver Creek is
to be dedicated on tho fourth Sunday
of this month, and is having neat
fence built to enclose it.
John W. Bailey's and f. S. Smiths
hacks were at the Bluff Sunday eve
ming to convey friends to their pleas
ant homes near Blountyille.
Arthur Wilds, who is travelling in
Mississippi for the St. 10 Medicine
Company, came home this morning
and Will rest for few weeks.
Tothe thrifty, well managed garden
I, AID kindness of Mrs. L. ]. Burnett ]
. am indebted for my firstmess OF beans
beets and potatoes this season.
Mrs. Wade P. Rutledge has been Oh
the wing, taking in points and enjoy
g ing herself among friends along The
s line OF the E. T., V & G. railroad.
There is some fatality among horses
: and mules in this county. Severa
good ones have died recently, anC
from apparently different diseases.
h The Booher boys on Indian Creel
It had spotted stock horse stolen iron
a them one night last week Idlenes
/ aud thievery ara on boom in sulli
van.
III The hard rains Of last week have S
2 completely packed the earth that
i vigorous use OF the plow and hoe
n. necessary to the growth of everythin
t, planted
ID It is reported that q farmer in th
Fourth District has corn about hi
high that holds its own with th
weeds and grass in it, as it never hs
as been cultivated.
is Deputy Sheriff Andy Riley. who
ee q terror to law-viola'ors, was at Ii
" Bluff this week. Andy is taking 0
&c flesh, becoming rather l.ogsheadic
for man OF his age.
~ ~ DR.. John G. Mcclellan and his iaitl
~ full horse are kept constantly on Il
is move. DR.. Mes practice covers
W. large territory, and he is trying to gil
On them all the attention they require,
OK More wheat bound for the mill, b
IN it does not seem TO change the pri,
- Of flour. Granaries have to be emptit
and cleaned for the new cropof whef
il which will soon be ready for the hal
as yester.
II Wheat is beginning TO take on
/ = golden color in some Of the fields, al
u and there is general rush amor
- farmers to get the cultivated crops
a.condition to leave them for the hi
i. vest field.
le- z. M. Burnett's bad blood is up. 4
re- seldom gets mad, but when he does
he is all all over, and his offenders h
eli better lay low. II he can find 0
nd who wrecked his pillow they will,
he they ought to, fare badly.
on
Spotted horses are becoming qui
re- common. They seem to strike t
jor fancy Of fancy men as harness hors
ed They are easily mated and genera
ate kind and true in harness, though th
YES do not possess the speed of some