Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles October 16, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX October 16, 1878
Wednesday, October 16, 1878



Mrs. Ragsdale died Tuesday, Oct. 8th, two miles from Knoxville, of yellow

fever. She was 70 years of age.



Diptheria is somewhat on the increase in Kingston and the vicinity. The

families of Messrs. W.G. Barnwell, J.B. Childress and Charley Davis each lost

a bright little boy from the disease last week, and we know of several other

families who have little ones very low from the same cause. ---Roane Co.

Herald.



We are informed that while little Willie McGinley, son of W.D. McGinley, Esq.,

was playing near the fire this morning his clothing caught fire and his side

and shoulder were badly burned.



Mr. William Coning brought into our office this morning a mammoth sweet

potato, weighing 7 pounds, and measures 25 inches in circumference. It was

raised by Francis Hackney, of Friendsville. Who can beat it?



Dr. J.B. Williams has received the sad intelligence that his sister, Mrs. S.J.

Reid, living near Memphis, died on the 4th inst. So fearful of catching the

disease were the people that no other help could be procured except that of a

young man, who assisted the bereaved husband in burying his wife.



A “young” earthquake visited this portion of our globe last Friday night. The

editor of this sheet was asleep, slumbering as only an editor can, and,

therefore, cannot give a graphic description of the shock; but others felt it,

and it was sufficiently severe to rattle windows and scare the occupants of

shaking houses. In fact, one young man on College Hill declares that a window

in his room which was down when he retired was opened by the shaking it

received!



Mr. William Clemens, we notice, is vigorously running his molasses factory. He

turns off some of the finest sorghum that we have yet seen. The product of his

factory is over fifty gallons a day, and during the season he usually makes

fully one thousand gallons. He has had an experience of eleven years in the

business, and thus verifies the maxim that practice makes perfect.



Last Wednesday Dr. John Blankenship removed a malignant fibroid tumor from the

throat, just below the ear, of Mrs. Alex Henry, who lives on Little River,

near Gamble’s Store. The operation was performed without the aid of

chloroform, which Mrs. Henry refused to take, enduring the operation with

remarkable courage and fortitude.





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