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MARYVILLE INDEX April 17, 1878
Wednesday, April 17, 1878



William Briggs, who murdered one John Ursery, a young farmer of Lynnville, was

arrested last Thursday at Nashville.



Aaron Jackson, colored, aged 93 years, and of General Andrew Jackson’s most

trusty servants, died on the 7th inst., in Nashville.



Rogersville Spectator: George R. Merrimon, an old citizen of our county, died

last week, aged 69 years. He was the uncle of Senator Merrimon of North

Carolina.



Knoxville Chronicle: A white woman named Mary Brown met with a horrible death

in her lone hut, in the suburbs of Chattanooga, last Saturday night, by

burning. She was said to be subject to spasms, which was supposed to be the

cause, yet it was suspicioned there was foul play.



Chattanooga Times: April 11th: Mr. Pond Wreen, one of the laborers at the

Cincinnatti Southern Bridge, while lifting on the bridge, near the draw-span,

last evening, missed his footing and fell. He struck the water with his back

and was either killed by the fall or drowned. The body had not been recovered

when the steamer, Telephone, left, sometime afterward. This is the first

serious accident that has happened since the completion of the piers.



Last Thursday morning John Faxhall quarrelled with Milton Johnson, colored,

and the result was the death of the latter. Faxhall ordered Johnson to leave

the place. Johnson, instead of leaving, threw a rock at Faxhall, and picking

up another, was shot in the left breast. The parties live in Nashville.



On the 2nd inst., a horrible infanticide took place, near the Lime Works eight

miles from Nashville. A colored woman, Julia Barrett, gave birth to an

illegitimate child, and to conceal the crime, killed the infant and hid the

corpse. She was discovered, however, and will doubtless suffer the punishment

richly deserved.



Knoxville Chronicle: Through a postal card from J.A. Childress, Kingston,

Tenn., we learn that a serious affair occurred at Long Island, two miles from

that place, on Thursday last, in which Jack Hamilton shot and fatally wounded

one McCarroll. The origin of the difficulty was unknown by our correspondent.



Died---In Maryville, Tuesday morning, April 16, 1878, at 5 o’clock a.m.,

Cornelia Centennial Scott, youngest daughter of  William B. and Myra Scott.

Born Feb. 16, 1876. For some time has this little one been suffering, but

death yesterday morning came to her relief, and she is now where pain and

death are felt and feared no more. Their many friends will join us in

sympathizing with the bereaved father and mother in this great affliction.



Fatal Accident---Thursday morning, an accident befell Mr. Alexander Kirk,

father of W.H. Kirk of this place, by which he lost his life. The deceased

lived near the Limestone Depot, Washington County. On the morning of the

accident he got up on his horse, and in lifting up his double barrel shot gun,

struck the locks against the stirrup, discharging the contents in his face,

mutilating it terribly and causing instant death. Word was sent immediately to

Captain Kirk, and he left Maryville the same evening, arriving in time to pay

the last honors to the dead. The deceased was aged 64 years.



Railway Fatality--- Another of those unfortunate railroad accidents which we

are occasionally called upon to chronicle occurred near Morristown, Tuesday

night last, in which Thomas Robinson, of Whitesburg, was killed by a passing

freight train. Robinson, with four companions, Messrs. Graham, Ray, Hughes and

Cole, came down to Morristown, Tuesday, to witness the exhibition of Hilliard

& Hunting’s Circus, and after the conclusion of the performance started to

return home to Whitesburg. Robinson and perhaps his companions had been

drinking rather freely during the evening, and at the point where the accident

occurred, Ray and Robinson sat down on the track to rest and fell asleep, when

freight train No. 6, which leaves this city at 7:45 p.m., approached on time,

but before engineer Dunn could stop the engine, the entire train of cars had

passed over the unfortunate man, killing him instantly and mangling him most

horribly. Ray, who was asleep on the track with Robinson, states that when

awakened by the noise of the engine, he merely had time to leap from the

track, and in doing so attempted unsuccessfully, however, to arouse his

comrade, for the train he thinks was within thirty feet of him at the time.

After discovering that Robinson was dead, Ray hurried on in pursuit of the

other parties mentioned, (who meantime had gone on before) and, overtaking

them, returned to the fatal spot. Knowing that the regular passenger train was

soon due at that place, Ray, with torch in hand signaled down the same as it

approached and notified the conductor of the accident. In doing so, however,

he fell headlong into a cattle pit and dislocated his shoulder. The accident

occurred about two miles east of Morristown, where the body remained

undisturbed until early yesterday morning, when a jury was empannelled by the

coroner, an inquest held, and the body of the unfortunate man conveyed to his

relatives.  Knoxville Tribune. Wednesday, April 24, 1878



A man with a hand organ and a monkey, caused a good  deal of amusement on our

streets last week with his music and monkey-shines.



Died---In this county on the  11th inst., of congestion of the brain, Effie C.

Eakin, daughter of  H.M. & Martha E. Eakin, aged seven years and six months.



The lynching of the white man, Mike White, and two negroes, Ben. Evans and

Eph. Hall, at Huntsville, Alabama, Wednesday for the murder of Schoenberger,

the butcher, was witnessed by 3,000 people. The mob was composed, as reports

say, of good citizens without mask or disguise. White protested his innocence

to the last; both the negroes acknowledged and said White instigated it. The

Chattanooga Times special says: White’s life was insured for ten thousand

dollars. His attorneys suggested that a confession would vitiate the policy;

hence the declaration of innocence.



Shooting At Riley’s Creek---Roane County Herald: Last Thursday night about

eight o’clock, this hitherto peaceable neighborhood was suddenly

revolutionized by startling shrieks and cries of women and children, at the

residence of James Anderson on the lower end of Long Island. Being near the

place, and having heard a gun-shot just before the screaming, your

correspondent immediately repaired thither, and upon inquiry found that a man

named McCarroll had been shot and badly wounded by Jack Hamilton. Those who

witnessed the affair gave the following account of it: Hamilton entered the

house where McCarroll was staying, demanding him to retract something that he

(McCarroll) had been telling, saying that it was a lie. A few more cross words

were passed, each calling the other hard names. Hamilton told McCarroll to

come out of the house, and intimated that he desired to engage in a fist and

skull fight. McCarroll refused to go, but got up from his chair and took hold

of it in a striking position, when Hamilton rushed forward and shot him. The

ball entered McCarroll’s breast. He was shot in the house, and walked into the

yard and fell. Dr. McNutt was sent for, who probed for, but could not find the

ball. To say the least of it, the wound is a very dangerous one, and his

recovery is thought very doubtful. Hamilton was chuck full of “Red Eye,” and

kept the Islanders in commotion by shooting, hallooning, etc., until about 3

o’clock next morning, when he fled. He was subsequently arrested at Athens. It

may be due to him to state that he has heretofore sustained the character of a

peaceable and industrious man.  Jack Sullins.



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