Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles October 23, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX October 23, 1878
Wednesday, October 23, 1878



Rome, Ga., Oct. 18. ---At Talladega, Ala., last night Frank Bowden, Louis

Whitson, and Alferd Plowman were examining an old pistol in Bowden’s room.

Plowman handed the pistol to Bowden when it accidently exploded, killing

Plowman instantly. The parties are prominent young men of that place.



On Monday evening a man named Lunnie Fulks attempted to clean out a well two

miles from Greeneville containing bad gas. He entered the well three times and

came out again, but the fourth time he attempted it he fell to the bottom of

the well a dead man. They had to get him out with grab-hooks. --Chronicle.



John Stowers, a colored man now living not far from Madisonville, came from

Georgia in 1865, hired with Dr. Cooke two years, then rented a farm from Dr.

Upton the next two years; then he bought 100 acres of land and paid for it,

has now 300 acres of land, all paid for, and is making money every year,

improving his land, and has everything comfortable about him. His success has

been achieved by industry, economy, abstaining from the use of liquor and

exercising  good judgement in the conduct of his affairs.



Mrs. William T. Johnson died at Louisville last Friday. The deceased was a

daughter of Barton Warren, Esq.



Henry Thompson, who has suffered so long from injuries received from a fall

while in an intoxicated state, died last night, and is to be buried this

afternoon.



Old Aunt Polly Wilson, as she was familiarly known to many of our readers,

died suddenly and tranquilly at her residence near Cloyd’s Creek on last

Sabbath morning, having recently passed her ninety-second birthday.



Brownlow S. Dowell, formerly of this town, and who had been confined in the

Nashville Lunatic Asylum, has written a letter to Mr. Parham, stating he had

made a false key and has escaped, and that he is perfectly sane. He also sent

the Topeka (Kan.) Commonwealth, in which there is a letter from him to Hon.

Casey Young and others of Memphis, tendering his services as a nurse for the

yellow fever sufferers. He refers to President Bartlett and Hon. M.L.

McConnell, of Maryville, and others, as to his reliability. He said his wish

was to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow-men, and he asked no reward. His

services were not accepted, however. The Howard’s had decided to take no more

nurses not acclimated, as it is almost certain death.





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