Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-11-28
From Morgan County.
WARTBURG, TENE., Nov. 2:

.ff... w 1ENE1s, ~ Of. I'd, 1911.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: On Monday
morning last, three horsemen might have
been seen vending their way into this
lovely village, surrounded as it is with its
vine-clad hills, and populated with its
sturdy disciples of lager beer and grape
juice Though disfigured with the ele-
ments and mud, the populace soon became
advised of who they were, by one making
his way to the court house and command
ing, "Mr. Sheriff, open courtn' and anoth-
er Immediately rising in front, and saying,
If your Honor please, / call on the Clerk
for the execution docket; and the third of
the trio unrolling large batch of notes,
lifting one up so as to decipher the native
autograph, enquired, "Is Henry Thornton
deadW a-ts
Order being established, the Court called
the docket, which consisted of two cases,
one civil and the other criminal, the first
of which, involving the title to an acre
and-a-half of land that has long been upon
the market at two mills to the square mile,
was passed on account of the absence
of the Honorable Mr.. Staley who, it was
stated would be at the next term unless
kukluXed or otherwise extinguished before
that time. The other, the criminal case,
was taken up, and, as it turned upon what
was an army pistol, and that question of
fact, not of law, three lawyers were at once
rily as did cousin Sallie billiard, or Sallie
billiards. cousin, which ever it was, if
either; and the jury was thus left to infer
ence for a verdict, and each juror free to
arrive at his own conclusion. The case
was submitted, and, as the defendant was
without lawyer to weaken his case or
raise suspicion of his guilt, the jury ac
quilted him in less time than it took the
lawyers to testify, and thus the court was
ryitbOut cIlif ,avooOt tho ono no had on
and, as intellect must needs be employed
both bar and bench resolved to quit the
halls of justice for the time and try their
luck at the occupation of NimrOd, even
though Esau's example might be found.
Upon this determination, the original three
to whom reference has been made, each
secured himself an Old-fashioned, flint
lock musket and repaired to the hunting
grounds of the mountaineers, where Elijah
Asher and his fore-fathers had each for
himself stolen hogs so far back and en-.
joyed it as right so long, that the memory
of man runs not to the contrary. The
big man who sat up in the court house
and the lawyers all talked to, was
placed upon a rock just in the rear of
an upturned tree-root, while the little man
who rode the big gray horse, and the same
who talked about the execution business
in the court house, and the lawyers who
drive, and if possible chase a deer past the
big man with the fiint-lock musket. and
he said he would kill it, certain.
y / remained to see him perform that lit
tie job, and 10! in few minutes the
hounds began to yell, when 1 approached
and told my companion with the musket
to keep lookout; that I thought heard
the deer, and could see its white tail as it
skipped before the dogs. said, "YOu
watch here, and I'll go there. and if it
passes that way I'll try to kill it with this
nayy.u AS [ said this / looked at this
modern Nimrod, and discovered he was
turning quite pale and looked little
frightened, and as started he said, "Don't
GO! don't go!' And just at this instant
the deer, with the hounds right after it,
sprang along within ten steps of my friend,
and bang went the gun, at which he rolled
off the rock-I mean the man with the
gun. 1t had been heavily charged, and
the result is there will be no court at
jamestown next week. ,
Father Finnegan held forth here |
night before last, and we all went
out to hear him, when, contrary |
to what we expected, we found him |
self assuming .bigot, with far less sense |
and information than Catholic Priests |
usually possess. He denounced Martin |
Luther by name as wicked Priest, and |
bad man, who was guilty of perjury. |
His denuneiations applied to all Protest
ants and Reformers. His discourse was |
both weak and wicked. His attempted |
defense of the Instability of the Pope was |
puny in the extreme, His arguments |
could have been answered by any twelve |
year old boy of ordinary intelligence. |
Upon the whole, / should say he made |
bad impression on the mountaineers, and |
especially that portion who hail from the |
land of Luther, and who have honored |
their town with the name of Wartburg.
..t- Yours, VERT GREEN, JR. |