The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-07-12
STATE NEWS.
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there among our ex-
changes.

Mlldu has Juoo uCOH COiipiCuCu duu
Is one of the handsomest buildings
in that city. 1t will seat 1000 peo-
pie.
Jim Purcell, a fisherman, while
drawing in his lines near Memphis
the other day, noticed that they
to be unusually well load
ed. What was his surprise on get
ting them out to find the body of
negro boy caught on one of the
hooks. The hook bad passed COM
pletly through his great toe. Pur-
cell gave the alarm and the body
was soon identified as Archie Ben
a little negro who had been miss
ing for several days.
Negotiations for working agree
ment between the Tennt ssae Coal
& Iron Company and the Sloss
Iron & Steel Company are now
in progress. The basis is the
division of territory to be
made according to outputs and the
operations of the two companies.
The average price at,gwhich ethese
companies have been selling their
coal is 80 cents. The new arrange
ment, it is believed, will enable
them to receive ST. 10.
1t has been figured out that a
horse can draw on the worst road
four times as much as he can carry
on his back. On good macada-
mixed road he can draw ten times,
on a plank road twenty-five times
and on a street railway fifty-eight
times as much.
An atrocious and singular muir
der was committed OH the pike
leading to the suburb of Rossville'
Ga, on the Tenn line, the victim
being almost decapitated. Thos.
Lavender, James Erwin and Rob-
ert Reed, white farmers, were re-
turning home in wagon driven by
the latter. They had been quarrel
ing while here. The trouble broke
out afresh and the trio climbed out
of the wagon,to fight out the mat
ter. According to the testimony of
the only eye witness, a colcred
man, Erwin held Reed pOwerless
in his grasp while Lavender, with
a knife, cut Reeds throat to ne
backbone, almost severing the head
from the body. The murderers then
mounted the wagon, drove off in
hot haste and have not yet been
apprehended. Lavender, the MUIR
derer, is a wealthy man with prom
inent family.
Morristown is going to have more
water rs her people will vote on
proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for the purpose-The Star.
A story is told on one OF oul
Hawkins County school teachers III
one of the rural districts, who hav
ing an inordinate dread of cOnta
gious diseases, one day last winter
sent home a little girl because he
had heard her mother was alarm
ingly sick. The next day the little
girl came softly up to the schoo
house door with one finger in hel
mouth and her little hat swinging
carelessly by her side, said to thu
teacher; "We'se got little baby
over to our house, and mamma
told me to tell you that it wasn'
catchin' to you" The teache
stammered, and blushed and final
ly told the little child to take he
seat in the room.-The Rogersvill,
Star.
w. A. Bowie, of Chattanooga, ha
, just completed an extension tou
over the proposed road from Knox
vile to Bristol. The proposed roat
will run through Sullivan, Hawkins
Granger and Knox, counties
thence on to Birmingham, ant
Jacksonville, Fla. He reports tn
new route forty miles shorter from
Bristol to Knoxville than the oil
, road. Plans are maturing b.
which the money needed to buil'
: and equip.the road will be gottel
as soon as the present stringenc,
: in.the financial world loosens Lii
3 tie, and the friends of the schem
:. are confident that the road will b
| built i'm the near future. 1t vii
open up vast stretch of the riches
section of East Tennessee which
: now practically shut off from til
l outside world. 1t will pass throug
t the finest marble and timber field
, in the State, and various beds c
4 iron ore can be found along it
course.-ROgersville Star.