Meigs County, Tennessee
News & Gossip
The Hunter Case; No Diptheria in Town; Society and Personal
Athens,
December 21; The crime for which Morgan Hunter was sentenced to
seven years
in the Penitentiary was the murder of Frank DeArmond, in
Meigs county in
1888. The murdered man who was the first cousin of
Hunter, has a difficulty
with him (Hunter) and Hunter made several
threats against DeArmond. This
difficulty was made up, for the purpose,
it seems, of keeping it out of
court, and it looked like Hunter's
threats would amount to nothing; but one
night while DeArmond was
passing near Hunter's house, on Hunter's premises,
he was fired upon and
his throat was cut and his body was carried to the
river and thrown in.
The evidence against Hunter was purely circumstantial
and the verdict
was a surprise to most of our people. An appeal will be made
to the
supreme court.
The recently adjourned grand jury found
seventy-one indictments.
There is not a case of diptheria in Athens now.
The health of the
community was never better that now.
The way to the
transgressor is hard, and likewise the way of the
anti-corporationist, and
if he can stand through the holiday season
without showing the white feather
it will only be showing the similarity
between man and mule.
The
fireworks brigade was out in full force again Thrusday night.
The
university closed Friday for the holiday vacation, and most of the
students
have gone to their homes to spend Chrismas.
There was a party at the
Euclid on Thursday night. It was a very
pleasant affair.
Court will
probably not adjourn until next week. At present a
mal-practice suit between
James Wilcox and Drs. Nakivel and Rogers is
occupying the time.
There
were services at the St. Paul Episcopal church, Thursday night.
Rev. Dr.
Saterlee will address the teachers meeting at the Presbyterian
church this
evening.
W. O. D. Davis, Jr., has returned to Washington.
Isham
Young, of Chattanooga, is in the city.
Joe Williams, of Knoxville, has
been in Athens this week.
The umbrella mender has been doing the
town.
Billy Richards, colored, has returned to Washington.
Messrs
Tom Rudd and C.P. Murphy have returned from Chattanooga.
The new Baptist
church will be dedicated Christmas.
Mr. F.M. Lusk is seriously ill at the
home of his son, Mr. J. H. Lusk.
Mr.James Bible and wife left Thursday
for Cleveland.
Miss Kate Gaston came up from Cleveland last night to
spend Christmas at
home.
Daily Journal and Tribune, December 23, 1889, transcribed by, Pam Rathbone
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