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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1886
Page
2
A dense political notice lists Democratic delegates for supreme and county offices, names candidates for clerk roles, and notes intraparty disputes in Hawkins and Jonesboro. It recalls supports for Governor and criticizes Republican delegate selections, naming numerous local officials and voters.
Colonel W D Haynes of Brountville East Tennessee arrives in the city making headquarters at the Peabody. He is a noted lawyer and candidate for the Supreme Bench, remarking modestly about a courtesy call to Major W C Folkes. In Hawkins County the Democratic Convention names tickets for sheriff trustee circuit court clerk with expectations for other offices. Chattanooga wins a pipe plant deal with 2000 jobs and two million dollars in investment, a major southern industrial prize.
In a Tennessee circuit court the East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia railroad was sold under a Central Trust Company mortgage. Wm. Rule served as special master, with a minimum bid of 10 million dollars. The railroad, 1123 miles long, includes stock in related lines. Bid totaling 10.25 million dollars was accepted with 100,000 cash. A June 28 special term will confirm or set aside the sale.
A Mont Liberal Ofert The Voltic Belt Co Marshall Michigan offers to send Celebrated Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on thirty days trial to men with Nervous Debility and Loss of Vitality. An illustrated pamphlet in sealed envelope with full particulars is mailed free. Also an advertisement for sale of a Remington sewing machine a Chicago Cottage Organ a Remington breech loading double gun and an improved incubator for hatching chickens at The Comet office.
The notice details gauge changes from five to four feet nine inches on specified dates and routes, including Atlanta Junction to Selma, Morristown to Vnaks, and Cleveland to Rome. It lists abandonment of several sections, reassignments as No 4 and No 3, and changes to freight schedules with a phased start at 3:00 a.m. on Change day.
A Buffalo correspondent reported a Buffalo woman in Paris sent a letter to Miss Folsom claiming the mother, not the daughter, would be President Cleveland's bride. Miss Folsom dodged questions about a dress for her trousseau, amid shifting accounts from New York on May 26.
Mr J J Adama of Johnson City visits his old Bristol ties and contemplates returning home. James Atkins, formerly of the Morston Conference, dies in Florida at seventy two after a fifty year ministry.
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