Convening of the courts

Circuit Court: JO. R. HAWKINS, judge; W. B. GRIZZARD, clerk

Chancery Court: JOHN SOMERS, Chancellor; J. P. PRIESTLEY, clerk and master

County Court: G. W. HUMBLE, judge; W. R. EASON, clerk

List of Agents to represent the newspaper:
W. T BROOKS at Lexington
DR. J. B. JONES of McKenzie
HENRY (surname torn) at Marlborough
J. M. TOWNES at Lavinia
DR. W. R. NEWSOM at McLemoresville
THOMAS SINGLETON at Trezevant
DR. HANCE LASSITER at Buena Vista
WILLIAM JOHNSON at Clarksburg
DR. J. M.OLIVER at Macedonia
W. F. MAIDEN at Camden
N. B. LIPE at Hollow Rock
P. E. PARKER at Wildersville
N. W MCNEILL at Henry Station
JOHN C. SWEENEY at Paris

Special and Local
MRS. MCDONALD has the latest styles of ladies hats and bonnets, ladies linen suits, fans, neckties and handkerchiefs.

H. B WESTER and J. W. BREWER are agents for the old reliable Howe Sewing Machine.

ISAAC S. MOORE, agent, for American Sewing Machines

E. SCHWARTZWALD, house and sign painter, leave orders at J. W. CANNON & Co. at McKenzie

Notice
SIMON M. BUTLER is yet curing cancers and scrofulous sores of all kinds. Give him a fair trial, and if he don’t effect a cure, no pay. Residence at Buena Vista.

Wildersville Steam Mills are now making extra nice flour and wool rolls. See sample at MCNEILL & Co., G. & H. E. MURPHY by P. E. PARKER, agent.

MRS. JOHN SIMPSON was very ill.

BEVERLY GRIZZARD had malarial fever.

RICH BURROW, one of Huntingdon’s handsomest young men, was in town.

W. H. EASON, our clever county court clerk, was sick.

ELWOOD STRANGE, a gentleman of fame as a fisherman, says fish abound in Beaver Creek at present.

HUGH CALDWELL had a congestive chill.

HENRY CHAMBERS, our enterprising stove and tin merchant, bought his goods at Nashville.

LEVI MCEWEN, esq., was sick.

W. H. EASON took Mrs. MANN to the asylum and brought home a Mr. FULLER.

Messrs. SCATES, STEPHENS, MOORE, MCKENZIE, and COLLIER of McKenzie were here last Monday. Mr. Scates is married; the rest are handsome single gentlemen and were doubtless looked on with admiring eyes by the young ladies.

The colored baseball club of this place went to Milan last Saturday to play a matched game with the colored team of that town and were beaten.

A.R. HALL accompanied by his son CHARLIE went east to buy his fall and winter stock. Charlie will stay at Chester, Pennsylvania to attend school.

On the first page of this issue will be found the card of G. W. BARKER, colored, who proposes to do shaving and hair cutting for the town at his hop on the south side of the public square. George is a polite man and all who patronize his shop may be sure of being well treated and getting good work.

MARSHALL CHRISTENBERRY and JIMMIE MARTIN have been busily engaged in cutting the grass and weeds from the sidewalks and gutters on various streets.

Our handsome and affable friend, JIM BELL, left for Nashville to resume his position of clerk in the Battle House. There is nothing Jim will not do to accommodate a West Tennessee friend and we advise all going to there from this part to stop with him.

Messrs. WILLIAMS and GREEN, two of Marlboro’s cleverest young gentlemen, called to see us Monday. They report that their little village is fast waking up from the lethargy and is now flourishing like a green bay tree. Cause: The presence of any number of young beautiful young ladies.

Locals in General
JOHN SIMPSON is quite an artist. He can draw a schooner or lager in the highest style of the art. He often sets the boys to marking out lines of beauty and grace.

Persons are in the habit of eating watermelons in the courthouse yard, and leaving the rinds on the grass. This is wrong, the hogs cannot get in to eat them up and they lie until they rot, causing a stench.

Last week the second law suit ever tried in this place about a dog was before the circuit court, and a verdict of $15 damage rendered by the jury. Two brothers named HATCH were the contestants and the cause of the suit was that one them had killed the other’s “purp.”

JUDGE SOMERS, the chancellor for this district, was in town. The Judge plays the violin…

“My Old Cottage Home” is a poem written in 1858 by a former citizen of Huntingdon, later as a Confederate soldier, killed accidentally by one of his comrades while they were encamped in Mississippi .

College meeting was held for the purpose of expressing views for a college at Huntingdon. H. B NEELY and JOE E. JONES gave addresses.

Notice to the school commissioners of respective districts of Carroll County.. by J. W. BREWER, county supt.

Funeral Request
The funeral of MARVEL BUTLER will be preached at Mt. Nebo church on the 4th Sunday of this month.

Personals
Mr. HOPKINS of the wholesale cigar and tobacco house of J. & L. WORLEY of Nashville was in the city.

P. E. PARKER of Wildersville called at this office.

McLemoresville News
… best teachers in our schools which opened the first Monday of this month with REV. A. G. BURROW and MRS. M. J. WOOLEN. JOHN MATTHEWS is sick of malarial fever. Our depot agent W. C. O’NEILL is in his place night and day. No one regrets more than he the accident on the Tenn. Central yesterday. He examined the bridge well and reported to WISE A. COOPER, the president, that it was not safe. No one was killed. L. V. HYATT was severely injured. A colored citizen, SAM WHITE, made himself heroic by self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of mixed humanity. The people of McLemoresville met and formed an emigration society, CHILL PALMER, GRUNDY MORGAN and DR. NEWMAN appointed a committee to encourage emigration.

Concord, Carroll County
Resolutions of respect for little schoolmate BUDDIE EVERETT from his teacher and pupils… from the committee J. B GILBERT, C. A. MCCRACKEN, L. W. MCDONALD.

Non-Resident Notice
J. B. DUKE admr. De bnis non of WILLIAMSON KING, deceased et al, LOUISA KING, DOCK KING, JAMES KING…. JAMES KING resides either in Kentucky or Missouri..

Insolvent Notice for the insolvency of the estate of W. L. PINSON, deceased.

Sheriff Sale for an amount levied against F. B. GALLION in the case of W. H. EASON vs F. B GALLION… by Sheriff E. W. WILLIAMS.

Non-Resident Notice
J.E. QUARLES vs MARY A. QUARLES…

Land Sale
ELI COMPTON vs W. F. RICE et al… dower interest of MRS. JOHN HALL, widow of JAMES BROWN…

Non-Resident Notice
ARCHIBALD JOYNER, FRANK CARVER et al vs JER. J. JOYNER, MARTHA P. WALKER, SOPHRONIA P. HAMLET et al… MARTHA P. WALKER and husband JOHN WALKER can not be found, might be in Arkansas..

Non-Resident Notice
T. F. WINGO vs JOHN KEY et al… JOHN W. WILLIAMSON is a non-resident of Tennessee

Another Foundling
Last Thursday night, ROBERT BOND, who lives five miles southwest of here, was awakened by a rapping on his door. On opening the door, he found a basket with a few hours old baby boy dressed in a calico gown with a breakfast shawl thrown over the basket. No one could be seen. MRS. DAWSON, a married daughter of Mr. Bond, has a young baby and was present. She nursed the infant and will take charge of it. We do not know who the inhuman parents are, but they should be severely punished. Published in the Milan Exchange.