Tag: early files
Early Files for the Week of February 8, 2016
Compiled by Patsy Young
126 years ago: 1890
W.S. Mitchell, Mayor of Saratoga and candidate for State Senator two years ago on the Union Labor Ticket,...
Early files for the week of February 1, 2016
126 years ago: 1890
Mr. Jefferson Draper has a letter written to him by a friend at Hamburg, Tenn. Dec.1, 1834, and addressed to him...
Early Files for the week of January 25, 2016
Compiled by Patsy Young
126 years ago: 1890
The trial of Tobe Bissell last week on a charge of murder in the first degree, brought to...
Early files for the week of January 18, 2016
126 years ago: 1890
A wash made of the water in which potatoes have been boiled is a certain means of destroying insects on animals....
Early files for the week of January 11, 2016
Compiled by Patsy Young
126 years ago: 1890
Ye local has been invited to dine with Capt. John H. Bell on the 8th. The Capt. proposes...
Early files for the week of January 4, 2016
Compiled by Patsy Young
126 years ago: 1890
At a social party at
the residence of Maj. John
P. Dillard near Mineral
Springs Christmas night
a young man named Robinson
came...
Early files for the week of December 21, 2015
Compiled by Patsy Young
118 years ago: 1897
Attorney H.P. Epperson of
Muddy Fork was in Nashville
yesterday. He is getting up
a petition for the pardon of
Henry Cook,...
Early Files for the Week of December 14, 2015
Compiled by Patsy Young
118 years ago: 1897
Jeff Willis and Sample
Ferguson fell out over a
dusky damsel Monday
night and had quite a row.
Sample says Jeff kicked
him...
Early Files for the Week of December 7, 2015
Compiled by Patsy Young
118 years ago: 1897
Mr. Justice Riddick
decided the case of Will Notions
vs. the State, who was
indicted for and convicted
of incest. In his...
Early Files for the Week of November 30, 2015
118 years ago: 1897
The cold nights and
heavy frosts we have had
this week have been very
acceptable to the people
throughout the South;
as greatly reducing and
nearly exterminating...