{"id":2346,"date":"2015-02-07T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2015-02-07T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:35:05","slug":"pistol-discharged-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/pistol-discharged-1876\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistol Discharged (1876)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years out town has been subject to a great nuisance, in the way of men and boys getting drunk and shooting pistols after night. On Saturday night last about two o\u2019clock some party discharged a pistol in front of <strong>J. T. CATE\u2019s<\/strong> livery stable, the ball lodging in the railing of a bed in <strong>Mrs. WOOD\u2019s<\/strong> house just across the street. <strong>Mr. John WHITMAN<\/strong> was in the bed at the time, and had the shot went a foot higher <strong>WHITMAN<\/strong> would have been killed. This thing has gone on about long enough, and it is time the authorities were putting a stop to it in some way. Let the Mayor offer a reward of twenty five dollars, and bind them over to the peace; then the thing will stop.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Weekly Herald (Cleveland, TN); 28\u00a0July 1876. Available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years out town has been subject to a great nuisance, in the way of men and boys getting drunk and shooting pistols after night. On Saturday night last about two o\u2019clock some party discharged a pistol in front of J. T. CATE\u2019s livery stable, the ball lodging in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2690,2691,986],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradley","tag-cate-j-t","tag-whitman-john","tag-wood-mrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}