Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles September 11, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX September 11, 1878
Wednesday, September 11, 1878



A man, says the Valley Herald, by the name of Bob Haley, stabbed a tramping

varnisher at Ladd’s saloon, in Hamburg, last Saturday evening, cutting him

across the breast and in the side. Whisky the cause. Haley made his escape,

but was arrested at church that night, and Saturday, while being guarded, he

made his escape. White, the man cut, is doing well.



George Howell, the colored boy who murdered Joseph Martin, was hanged at

Greeneville, last Monday, in the presence of 3,000 witnesses.



Sandy Dyer, a colored man, in Monroe County, Aug. 30th, was shot through a

crack in his cabin and killed. D.S. Smith has been arrested on strong

suspicion.



The Cleveland Herald learns that Pryor Holt, son of the Sheriff of Meigs

County, while playing baseball was accidentally run against by another boy and

received internal injuries, resulting in death.



From the East Tennessean, Sept. 5th, we learn that Ben Williams, a little boy,

ten years old, last week, at Kingston, fell back headlong from a ladder 10 or

15 feet high, striking his head upon a brick. His skull is broken and his

condition is critical.



Henry Thompson, who has served for a long time as overseer of our street

brigade, last Tuesday night went home drunk, and fell backwards from a high

porch some 8 or 10 feet high. He fell on his back, hitting himself between the

shoulders, and injuring his spinal cord, so that his whole body bellow the

arms is paralyzed. He was at first, as he expressed it, “dead all except his

head,” but he has regained the use of his arms. Dr. Blankenship has been

attending him, and says that he may possibly recover, but the probability is,

that the injury will result in his death. Oh! When shall this liquor traffic

cease it’s murderous work.



We learn from the Morristown Gazette that Rev. Dr. D.M. Breaker, well known

about Maryville as a Baptist minister, has been convicted of the seduction of

a young lady in his circuit, which includes Chattanooga and that section of

country, by his own letters and the dying confession of the girl.



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