Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles September 18, 1878 ************************************************ 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, 1:12 pm MARYVILLE INDEX September 18, 1878 Wednesday, September 18, 1878 Joseph A. Carter, Esq., a dwarf, about 4 feet high, is financial agent of the Dandridge Watchman. George Southers, about 18 years of age, was murdered, just above Caswell’s Station, in Knox County, last Friday, by an unknown party. The suspicious character, named Proffitt, who has been held at this place some time, was identified early last week as a murderer named Boone, and taken in charge by the Sheriff of Yancy County, North Carolina. His last murder, for it seems he has been quilty of several, was committed in a quarrel over a debt of five cents. ---Chattanooga Commercial. Jesse Rogers, Clerk and Master, and Cawood, Circuit Court Clerk of Claiborne County, who are charged with the murder of Ed Jackson, colored, for having criminal intimacy with the wife of Rogers, have fled the country. Cawood, who was recently re-elected as Circuit Court Clerk, was qualified on the 2nd inst. The body of the deceased, badly decomposed, was brought into Tazewell, Wednesday, when a warrant was procured for the arrest of Rogers and Cawood. They refused to accompany the Deputy Sheriff who was sent to secure their arrest, and while that officer left for reinforcements, the two men escaped. Cawood subsequently appointed young Rogers as deputy clerk, who is now performing the duties of the position. Efforts are being made to secure the arrest of Cawood and Rogers, but nothing is known of their whereabouts. --- Knoxville Tribune. Mr. Ed W. Tedford was elected Deacon of New Providence Church last Sunday. Mr. T.D. Carpenter showed us last week a fine, large apple, about thirteen inches in circumference, a specimen of some raised on his place. Ad Wilson---Ad Wilson was brought to Maryville last Monday, and delivered to the proper authorities. He was then taken to Knoxville, and lodged in the Knox County jail for safe keeping, to await the next term of the Circuit Court of Blount. He was brought over by Messrs. Cooper and Carver, two North Carolina men, who received the $500 reward in behalf of the capturers, Marion Carenger, T.F. Donaldson and C. Farley. And now who will bring Hut? The Whisky War--- Special Deputy Elias Cooper, while on a recent raid in Chestnut Flats, Blount County, a few days since, accompanied by eight men, visited the isolated rum-mill of George Powell, where they seized eleven tubs of beer and mash, four tubs of pomace, one hundred and thirty gallons of brandy singlings, five bushels of meal, two bushels of rye and two bushels of malt. The revenue squad also arrested Powell, the engineer of the mash mill, who subsequently escaped, while the men and women of his household were abusing and threatening the officers. The captured property was destroyed by the officers, who immediately started for this city on foot. While passing an unfrequented place in the mounatin, the squad were fired upon by parties in ambush, and a lively fusilade ensued. About forty shots were fired by their assailants, when the revenue squad returned the fire, but with what effect they were unable to ascertain as the attacking party remained in ambush. None of the revenue officers were wounded, though a bullet found its way through the clothing of Bennett Ledbetter, one of the revenue raiders. ---Knoxville Tribune, Sept. 11. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/newspapers/newsarti60gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb