Blount County TN Archives News.....Miscellaneous Articles October 26, 1855 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glenn Teffeteller glennt@icx.net August 19, 2005, 12:32 pm THE EAST TENNESSEEAN October 26, 1855 THE EAST TENNESSEEAN October 26, 1855 Large Beet---We have been shown a mammoth beet raised in this country, about three miles from this place, by Mrs. Mary Cummings, which will do to keep. It measures 28 inches in circumference, weighs 5 1/4 lbs., is well proportioned and perfectly sound. We challenge this country to beat that beet. We learn from the Knoxville papers that the Supreme Court, which has just closed its session at that place, confirmed the judgement of the Circuit Court, in the case of Gardner R. Earles, indicted for the murder of his wife. He is sentenced to be hung at Jacksboro in Campbell County, on Friday, the 7th day of December next. The murder was perpetrated in Campbell County, and the case removed to Scott, and thence to Knox, for trial. It is rumored that M.W. Williams who left Knoxville very suddenly a few weeks ago, and sent a dispatch that he was dead, has come to life, and has been arrested somewhere in Illinois. If reports are correct, he has been playing a “high-handed game” out west. He is, perhaps, one of those “perfect spirits” that play on the “harp of a thousand strings.” We learn that a negro boy, the property of a Mr. White; living in Franklin County, some 4 miles from this place, was found dead in the woods near his master’s residence. It is supposed that he was thrown from the horse he was riding, and killed. Tullahoma Courier. Heavy Frost---Jack Frost made his appearance in great profusion this morning. We do not recollect of ever seeing such heavy frost in October. An Indian Selling A White Girl---A letter from Springfield, Texas, dated August, furnishes the Houston Telegraph with the following account of a very singular affair. About four weeks since, and Indian was passing through this country, offering for sale a girl who is white as any white person, and who has every appearance of being a full white person. She was taken from the Indian by 19 or 20 men, of this county. She says she was brought from Mississippi when a child; that her father’s name was Rusk or Rush; that she was brought to this state by a Mr. Hawkins and sold by him to a Mr. Cox, living near Bonham, and that Cox sold her to G.S. Oaines (the Indian) who was offering her for sale here. Married---On Thursday evening, the 25th instant, at the residence of Dr. Samuel Pride, by Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D., Gen. William Wallace, to Miss. Mary S. Towne, all of this place. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/newspapers/miscella8gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb