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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1893
Page
3
In Johnson City Washington County Tennessee the Chancery Court meets for a June 1898 special term. Carnegie Land Co sues A J Patterson and R Mr Rogan. The court will proceed per its decrees and related orders in the abovestyled cause.
In Wash ington County Tennessee the Chancery Court of Johnson City orders four weeks of publication for nonresident defendants in a bill by mayor and aldermen of Johnson City against Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company and Traveller's Insurance Company and others. A subsequent decree calls for sale by public outcry of a deeded land parcel to satisfy a $684.52 decree with six and twelve month credit terms.
By virtue of a trust deed dated May 14 1891 and recorded in Washington county Tennessee the trustee will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the equity of redemption in Lot 40 in block G Mountain View Addition and Lots 5 and 6 in Carnegie Land and Improvement Addition Johnson City Tennessee. Sale to be held in front of Tobe's Opera House Johnson City Tennessee.
A notice dated November 16, 1808 states a balance of $467.25 due and unpaid with interest from December 17, 1892. It references a trustee J. BrogiEs and publication costs, urging payment during legal hours Saturday December 16, 1893 to avoid further action.
In Tobnson Tennessee chancery court the Lookout Bank of Morristown and Robert Burrow et al are to sell at public outcry on Saturday December 16 1898 in front of Jobe s opera house Johnson City. The sale enforces a decree from June 1893 to satisfy $2934.59 with interest from June 7 1893. Lots will be sold separately and then as a whole with six and twelve month credit and a lien on the land until paid.
The passage touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a sovereign remedy for diseases from dyspepsia to scrofula and catarrh. It claims Hood's cures and prevents ailments, boosts appetite, and brings health as life passes.
Deed of trust outlines land boundaries between Riley and Berlinda Jones totaling about 1.25 acres. Sale to satisfy a note for R50 owed to First National Bank of Johnngson City by W. S. Campbell and P. E Matson. Cash sale with equity of redemption blocked per the deed. Dated November 3, 1893. Trustee D. Free signs as trustee.
The chancery court in Johnson City requires W. C. Smith a non-resident defendant to appear on the first Monday of January 1894 or the bill’s allegations will be confessed. An attachment covers lots in Carnegie Land and Improvement Company’s additions in Washington county Tennessee. Publication runs four weeks in Tite Comet.
In the Chancery Court at Johnson City Tennessee Polly Whitesides sues Joseph Whitesides a non resident of the state. Publication for four weeks in The Corer Johnson City notifying the defendant to appear first Monday of December 1593 or the bill will be confessed. Nov 2 1893 W F Yousa C M By C W Hopes DC M 488 4t. The New York Tribune prints a harsh Tennessee manners critique and local rebuttal.
By deed of trust dated May 16 1890 and recorded Jan 9 1893 in Jonesboro TN W L Lee and F T Campbell will sell December 1 1893 in front of Jobe's opera house Johnson City TN the described Johnson City tract beginning at a stake on the old Jonesboro road corner to Nannie
The Memphis Commercial questions a writer's garbled account of church life and a 400 at a Memphis party, noting the writer misreads boorish behavior and that there may be gentlemanly manners in Tennessee.
In McU tire's Magazine November piece, Mr. Cleveland confronts powerful Democratic foes, showing indifference to the New York delegation's opposition. A Victoria Hotel meeting ends with him strolling Fifth Avenue and declaring he will be nominated despite the worst efforts of his adversaries.
A collage of satirical quotes from various papers mocks public sentiment and political figures. It notes a Bayard earnings jab, a jab at Senator Dunraven, reflections on gender in politics, and humorous quips about frogs, yachts, and speeches.
A Augusta Chronicle Washington dispatch notes Senator Harris keeps his birth date secret in the Congressional Directory. The muttered concern is that his exact age remains unknown, while colleagues like Representative Patterson of Memphis express uncertainty about Harris’s true age and vitality.
The speaker jokes that the man could tell his age to marble cutters in Tennessee. He notes the man fought Andrew Jackson in 1808 and, even by conservative guess, would be about 150 years old with gray hair at the time.
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