The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-10
OUR DISPATCHES

While in "the Metropolis short
time since, we interviewed 10. Duncan,
the taciturn but accommodating and
popular manager of the Western Unioa
Telegraph Company's Office in that
city. IS to the terms On which we could
procure weekly reports of the Associat-
ed Press for the GAZETTE. Much to
our surprise he intimated very enphat-
ically that the Company was not now
doing a weekly business in that line
that nothing short of a six-times-a-
week hebdomadal could treat for the
press dispatches. 1t mattered net that
we suggested modification Of the rule
on account Of the rapid growth and
daily increasing Importance of our
young city-that we reminded him that
We were majestic in years when his lit
tie cllcker Vas born-that when we first
eastsour lot which was subsequently
sold for taxes, hs were lots of worthy
fellows and brothers whowe that way
before us, } in his town. his predecessors
were glad to furnish weekly report
to strong weekly paper. 10. was
still incorrigible-as bachelors, poor
fellows, generally aIs-and NE were
discounted, discouraged, disguised.
just at this critical moment-when
our abdominal proportions were begin
ming to assume puffy, choleric infa-
tion-when We were hesitating whe-
Their to circumyent the impudent and
outrageous monopoly solitary and alone
or lay the matter before regular con-
clave of the members of Grange No.
1896, and divide the honor with them
by patiently awaiting their eradication
of the eyiI-just at-this opportune mo
ment, we say, whom should we meet but
our old and we'll tried comrades Of
Company K, Hardscrabble Pine Knots
u. B. Downe and R. s. Slyck, Esqs.
1t would be tedious to recite q 1.-THE
of the histories and recollections We in
terchanged, of the hays and mishaps, Of
the ups and downs that had chequered
with light and shade the last ten years
Of our pilgrimages. Suffice to say, we
found our friends on an elevated round
of fortunes oder. LII the language
of Downe, i his gentle, resigned tone,
cit mattered not ten years ago which
way the wheel turned, [ knew Siyck
and l were bound to be benefited by
an evolution in any direction" Our
friends cordially sympathized with US
in our disappointment in securing the
pre9s dispatches, and with the hot i'm
pulse of patriotic, unselfsh liberality,
insisted that we should at once estab-
fish line of our own. they advancing
the necessary spondulics, and securing
themselves by first mortgage on paid
up policies IL the Southern Fire Insur-
ance Company of Nashville, (held in
discriminatory in the Metropolis, and
a further safeguard in collecting and
revising the news thus procured We
accepted the generous proposition and
at once setto work organizing our corps.
Our labors have been herculean and
our expenses enormous, but we are en-
abled to present our readers this morn
ing with dispatches fresh from the
leading points of the compass, compar-
ing fa7orably, if indeed they are not
far superior in interest and intelligence,
to the miserable, unintelligible batch
of messages thrust by the Metropolis
and Capital dailies upon their helpless
readers.
The additional expense of this new
feature will, We hope, be made up to
US by liberal influx of new subscrib
ers and the cordial co-operati1n of ali
old ones. Price of the GAZETTE-$2
a year, in advance. Country produce
taken in exchange.