The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-09-13
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ravaging the rural districts. In
North Georgia, not over FIVE miles
from that city, it is said that whole
fields have been devastated. every
sign OF verdure having been con-
sumed. In some places it is said
that the limbs of trees are broken
down with the weight of the insects
settling upon them. The hoppers
are of the largest variety, measur-
ing from two to four inches in
length. While passing through the
swarms, as they arise from their
work of destruction, the cars are so
overrun that the windows have to
be closed, and the impact on the
window glass was like heavy hail,
thousands of the pests being killed
by striking the cars, and the rails
we're made slippery by the crushed
bodies OF the insects.
AT a mass meeting of the citizens
of Columbia, last Monday, this res
olution was adopted: 1.-THE people
of Columbia and of Maury county,
Tennessee. have heard with UNI
speakable horror and with mex
pressible grief of the attempted
assassination OF the Chief Executive
of the nation, and, in mass meeting
assembled, obliterating all party
affiliations, do hereby express our
adherence of the dastardly deed;
and we tender to our President, his
stricken family and the entire Amer
lean people our profound sympathy
in this our common calamity. We
invoke an all-wise and all-merciful
Providence for his speedy recovery,
that he may be permitted to rule
over us until the termination of the
commission committed to him by
the people of our great Republic,
and that he may live to a ripe old
age to enjoy the esteem, confidence
and affection Of his fellow-citizens.
A number of prominent citizens
made brief addresses condemning
the attempted assassination.
Gov. McMillin has announced
the appointment of Prof. G. w.
Martin of Vanderbilt University
to the position of State Entomolo-
gist, an Office which was created
by the last Legislature.
The store of Dick Kirkpatrick
at State Line, two miles south of
South Pittsburg, was broken into
recently and quantity of cutlery,
ETC., stolen. The post-ofice, which
is also kept by Mr.. Kirkpatrick in
the same building, was robbed of
all the cash on hand. Deputy
Sheriff. Butch Taphorn and CITY
Marshall MCGEE of South Pitts
burg arrested James johnson and
Colin Campbell, two young men.
aged Is, as the parties who did the
robbery, and recovered most of the
property.
The, will of Miss Rose Wells.
who suicided at Memphis a few
days ago, has been admitted to pro-
bate, and G. H. Fitzhugh, the
lawyer in whose office Miss Wells
was employed, qualified as execu
tor. Rarely is a proceeding of
the character of this will recorded
In the courts. The will consisted
OF the letter to Mr.. Fitzhugh.
written by the young woman
shortly before her death. Three
witnesses appeared before the
court and testified that the hand.
writing of the letter was that of
the late Miss Wells. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Fitzhugh was then
made in pursuance of Section 1896
OF Shannon's Code, which is as
follows: "But paper writing,
appearing to be the will of a de-
ceased person, written by him,
having his name subscribed to It.
or inserted in some part of it, and
found after his death, among his
valuable papers, or lodged in the
hands of another for safe keeping.
shall be good and sufficient reason
to give and convey lands, if the
handwriting is generally known by
his acquaintance, and it is proved
by at least threecreditable witness
es that they verify believe the writ
ing, and every part Of it, to be in
his hand. evils of this charac-
ter, said Judge Galloway, after
the granting of letters in the case,
''are very scarce. They are made
by two elias SEES of people-the sui
eide and the secretive classes.
Lawyers sometimes make their
own wills after this fashion, and