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Source:  Tennessee State Library & amp; Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. — Brownsville Democrat — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 10 No. 19 — Friday, July 27, 1883

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The original transcription for this newspaper issue had lists of Civil War soldiers.  Those have been separated into individual articles for this site.

LOCALS AND PERSONALS —

Dr. J. DAVIS, of Ripley, is in town.

Mr. Charlie HOTCHKISS has returned from Memphis sick.

Mr. Albert AUSTIN, who has been quite sick, is on the streets again.

Dr. W. T. HARRAS is improving in health. He was out riding Wednesday.

Miss Minnie SEVIER, of Jackson, is visiting Miss Cora SEVIER on West Main. Misses TYSON, of Denmark, are the guests of Miss Mamie SCOTT, East Main.

Prof. John WILLIAMS, who has been quite unwell for several days is up again.

Mr. Robert J. SIMPSON, of Memphis, made our town a pleasant visit Sunday.

Mr. Albert AUSTIN and son have gone to Hurricane Springs to spend several weeks.

Col. D. A. Nunn and daughter, Miss Minnie, returned this week from Forest City, Ark. The Colonel is now in Nashville.

Misses Lizzie SNIPS and Emma BOND, of Denmark and Miss MERRIWETHER, of Jackson, are visiting Miss Annie ALLEN, East Main.

Dr. T. D. WEBB left yesterday for Hurricane Springs where he will remain a few days. He will then go to Nashville and enter into the wholesale drug business.

Miss Lee WAGGONER, the accomplished daughter of our esteemed fellow townsman, Mr. W. W. WAGGONER, has returned from a pleasant visit to the country.

Miss Mamie KELLY and Mrs. AUSTIN, of Jackson, who have been visiting the family of Mr. T. E. GLASS, returned Saturday, accompanied by Miss Gertrude GLASS and Col. Will THOMAS.

Mr. T. E. MOODY, accompanied by his friend, Mr. Chas. SHERMAN, left this week for the home of the former in Crockett County. Mr. SHERMAN will return in a few days; Mr. MOODY will remain until the 1st of August.

DEATH —

Mr. Archie CAMERON, one of the oldest settlers of this county, died Monday night at his residence about nine miles east of town. He was upwards of eighty years old at the time of his death.

DEATH —

Mr. J. B. WHITE, a highly respected citizen of the 5th District, died the 19th inst., at the age of about 45 years, and his remains were buried in the family cemetery at the old homestead, near Jones Station, the day following. Mr. WHITE was an honest man and a good citizen. He served through the war on the Confederate side, and was a brave and faithful soldier. He leaves a wife and five or six children in destitute circumstances, who deserves the sympathy of all good people.

DEATH —

Mrs. Pauline B. EDWARDS, the venerable mother of our esteemed fellow citizen, Dr. T. C. EDWARDS, died Tuesday morning, the 17th inst., at her home in Dresden of paralysis, at the advanced age of seventy-four years. She was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, and was of French descent. In early life, she embraced Christianity and joined the Methodist Church. In 1825, she removed with her father to Dresden, where she resided until her death. Her father was one of the first settlers of the town, and she at the time of her death was the oldest living inhabitant of Dresden.

NEWS & NOTES —

Louis WALES, the Indian Chief, died at Lake George a few days ago, aged 100 years.

Charles H. STRATTON, known to the world as General Tom THUMB, died of apopelexy on the 15th, at his residence in Middleboro, Mass.

Secretary CHANDLER’s mother died at Concord, N. H. on the 14th. She was eighty-two years old.

The death of Judge T. C. THEAKER, of Ohio, formerly Commissioner of Patents and a member of Congress occured at Oakland, Md., a few days ago.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES —

Andrew WHITE, a weathly farmer living near Dwight, Ill., became deranged and was place in an asylum. He made his escape a few days ago, returned home, and after murdering his wife and two children, killed himself.

Mrs. George LOTTA, whose home was near Van Buren, Ark., heard some gossip about her husband which troubled her so much she took poison the other day and died in a few hours.

Ruff McDONALD killed Elijah HAYES near Paris, Tenn., the other day, and immediately afterward fell dead from excitment and remorse.

The Steamer, Lottie E. Merrill, of Rivertown, N. J. was reported lost off George’s Bank, with all on board on the 16th.

Two young girls, Hattie ATKELL and Bessie MORLEY were drowned while bathing in the lake at Port Stanley, Ont., a few days ago. The shock came with double force on Mr. ATKELL, whose brother, Robert, died suddenly the day before in London.

MISCELLANEOUS —

The failure of J. P. MACHECA & Co., fruit dealers, New Orleans, LA., has been announced, with liabilities estimated at $100, 00.

It was announced from Washington a few days ago that Attorney-General BREWSTER was about to institute suits against parties charged with election fraud in North Carolina.

The missing ledger, stolen from the Tennessee Treasury, which was said to contain important evidence against M. T. POLK, the defaulting Treasurer, has been returned without mutilation of any kind.

The President has approved the sentence of dismissal in the case of Lieut. Samuel N. HOLMES of the 13th Infantry recently tried by court-martial at Ft. Bliss, Texas for duplicating pay accounts. The official order dismissing him from service has been issued.

SWAIN, the man arrested at Nashville, Tenn., for stealing the ledger so important in the POLK trial, has confessed he took it at the instigation of ex-treasurer POLK; also that he received $175 for the deed.

SOUTHERN GLEANINGS —

After a married life of sixty-seven years, Amelia SANFORD, of Milledgeville, GA., died at the age of eighty-eight years. Her husband is ninety-two. The Bank Menrovia sailed from New York the other day for Liberia, with fifteen negro colonists. The negroes were all from the South. Two colored men fought a duel near Helena, Ark., the other day in which one was shot through the mouth with a rifle; and the other received a charge of buckshot in the groin. They mounted mules and rode off in different directions, but both were soon dead.

FROM RUDOLPH.  JULY 24, 1883 — The all-absorbing interest of the week is the religious revival in progress at Zion Church; We noticed in the large congregation Mrs. D. L. ANDERSON and the Misses Blanche and Moselia ANDERSON,, of the Woodville neighborhood. Also Mrs. Frank SHAW and Mrs. Wm. ANTHONY, of Durhamville, and a host of strangers to numerous to mention.

FROM WELLWOOD — I learn that our Madison County friend, David POPE, in the Ebenezer neighborhood, lost a goodly number of cattle by the disease that is not among cattle. My old friend, neighbor and tutor, T. H. NORVELL, rejoiceth because his last is a girl. Mr. NORVELL is not an old man, though a school teacher. Several years ago before the war he entered the Army a mere boy. He made a good soldier, and is today as fine a classical teacher as there is in the county. A fine racetrack, engineered by Dr. Dade THOMAS and Mr. William COPELAND, is out near Mr. James CASTELLO’s, two and a half miles northwest of this place. To-morrow a picnic will be held there. Reverand Peter ANTHONY, colored, tied two of his mules together the other evening. He awoke the next morning to find his best mule with a broken leg.

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