The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-08-27


Attention is directed to the adver-
tisemcnt Of Alvin Barton, Knoxville,
Tenn, to be found in another col
umn Of our paper.
Dan Briscoe has young alliga-
tor which he keeps at his store to
exhibit to all customers who have
never seen one.
We want to know whose business
it is to put the ponds, mud-puddles
and street, of our town in sanitary
condition? Who knows?
Some of our citizens became ex-
cited. last Friday night, over an
alarm of fire. A pile Of shayings in
a cooper shop burning was the
cause.
The chap who could do all the
business he wanted to without adj
vertising, has been compelled to adj
vertise at last. The new advertise
ment is headed ''Sheriffs Sale"
Col. J. Coleman Gardner. of
Springfield, Mo, passed through our
town on Saturday last, en- route for
Claiborne county He is entitled to
our thanks for late st. Louis papers.
A lady down in Georgia has made
her a dress out of six yards of
goods. BulIy,~we say, for that wo-
man. 1t takes about 25 yards,
double-width, to put MOrristown
gal in presentabIe shape.
Notwithstanding it has been gen
orally asserted that the peach crop
in this section was an entire failure,
our market, for the past week, has
been flooded with the fruit. Prices
range from so to IS cents per bushel.
A Morristown youth who could
not sing or play, wanting to sere-
made his 'dulcy." whistIed for half
hour under her window the other
evening. and when he got over the
fence found about seventy-fve dogs
waiting to see what he wanted.
Hard times, like the cholera, gen.
orally has some local cause. Young
men, take your hands out of your
pockets, quit loafng around the
streets. go to work and try to make
an honest living, and the hard times
will cease, at least, with you.
Idleness and luxury produce pre-
mature decay much faster than
many trades that are regarded as
the most fatal to longevity. Labor
in general, instead Of shortening the
term of life, increases it. 1t is the
lack of occupation that destroys 50
many of the wealthy.
The AIdine for September is the
very embodiment of beauty-noth-
ing finer has ever been produced in
this country in the form Of maya
zine. A description of all its at
fractions would consume more space
than we can spare. 1t has only to
be seen to be appreciated. Pub
lished by James Sutton & Co., 50
Maiden Lane. n. Y.
See the advertisement of w. B.
Brooks. assignee &c, offering the
Sehorn lands for sale at public auc-
ton. on Monday the 9th day of Oc-
tober next. There are three tracts,
all of which are desirable property.
one tract especially, lying just out
side the corporate limits. Parties
desiring landed property will do well
to attend the sale.
w. J. HARRISON, receiver of the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad,
has appointed Maj. r. G. McCalla,
chief engineer and superintendent.
The Times says: We cannot but
congratulate the public, the people,
and especially the merchants and
other shippers of this city, upon the
accession of so we'll known, able and
popular a gentleman as Maj. Mccall !
la to the SUPPLEMENTARY.
A man was seen crossing GER
tain street, not long since. He stop
ped to pick up lump of coal which
he put in his pocket. ''There," said
the observer, lis a truly economical
man. lie is not afraid to save. He
realizes that penny saved is pen
ny earned, and he will profit by it."
Then he stepped into a saloon to get
q drink, and the observer, giving a
sigh, moved on.