The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-05-06
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
LETTER FROM sAWBoNES.

: PROUD OF MosEs-LEFT A GOOD Po
s r. LTTICAL REGoRD-woLF CREEKS
BLUFF-FRozEN -RocKIsLAN
/ THE LONG, LONG AGo-cAN'1
= GIVE UP THE MoUNTAINs-TEsTI
MoNY ORA PREACHKR-DEADfiE
8 PAssEs-DoDGTNG WASH ALLEN
7s LATEST FROM .GEoRGE-TmE SELL
I 81 Acknowledged. s6 aoa#
I'm THE MOUNTAINS, April %. =.
!, i To the Editor of the .Morristown Gazette
| send you a specimen of geology,
, merely that you may see it. 81.
: DIR. Beik, an Englishman, finding
f it necessary to his peace of mind that
he should find the real Mount Sinai,
went with party to the delectable
!. region known as the Peninsula OF
Sinai, and they found the Simon
pure-no-mistake Mount: as evidence,
they found bones on the side of the
Mountain, (where sacrifices had been
otfered,) and an old clay pipe, on
which were Hebrew characters, which
being Interpreted by the learned
Rabbi, Manassa, is-Moses!
There is such thing as over PROV
ing case! -
If any responsible man will believe
the pipe part, l will undertake to be-
lieve the bones!
yield to no man in respect to
Fore-father Moses! aa r
We see few such men now! His
manner of crossing seas, and fetch
ing wa'er from the living rock has
seldom been equalIed and never ex.
celled 81 I'd
His head was also very level on
the hog question!
But here is what they certainly
found. The geology of the noun
tain is Identical with the rock L send
you, color and all. 1t is feldspar,
and nothing but diamond will cut it +!
r The specimen l send is part of a
boulder taken from Wolf Creek. 1t 4
comes from what we call the Bluff.
Wolf Creek comes out of tie bluff.
and the mountain there rises to four
thousand three hundred feet!
I go there sometimes. Everything
is magnificent-just as it came from
the Great Creators hands and the
modest descendants of a hairy ami.
NAL. with pointed ears, have not at
tempted any improvement there yet. |
An old hunter told me to 90 there
when the fog freezes! He SAYS it
hangs from tree to tree!
The Milan Cathedral has been five
hundred years building, and not fin
ished yet, with its hundreds of spires |
pointing the way to heaven. It is
but poor imitation of what we see
here
/ read recently in a newspaper of
fellow who went to Heaven. When
he told them that he was from Rock
Island, they advised him to 90 right
back
Now, | happen to know all about
Rock Island. 1t is a pretty place =
as beautiful as any place can be with.
out mountainsh In the long, long
ago, | used to have fine sport catch.
ing bass and pike round that Island,
and grouse shooting on both sides Of
the river, where large towns stand
now; but | saw cholera doing awful
work there in '32 and again in So
And then they have nothing but
limestone wateri
Faugh!
People don't leave here to 90 any
where, except one man. He hitched
his two little oxen to his cart and
went to Platte county. Missouri. He
made the trip there and back just as
quick as it could be made with oxen.
When he returned 1 asked him why
ne left that fine land and came back
TO the smoky mountains? He said
le did not get drop of water fit to
1rink from the time he left till he re-
,urnedl
A preacher was sent in here once {
o preach the Word That chosen I
,essel did not stay but few days
lie returaed to the valley. and when :
-sked if he would again visit the
FOUNTAINS, he said-.tNo; the AL z
mighty has nothing against them
'eople p
| regret you refuse free-passes ! :
otherwise you could come here in
ot weather and go to the Bluff where I
here are ice cool springs everywhere. S
never held but one free-pass I
hat was in Wash Aliens canoe :
cross the French Broad. 1 padded I
ne canoe myself. and if Wash finds n
out. he'll make me pay for it yet a
| told you George would make it y
yely for them! / saw two victims =
ere Tuesday They had come all Y
le way from New York to see Old fl
aid blow out On the same dav
hen the New York papers said the ST
arth shook for one hundred miles. l
ey s0ere on the mountaia! All quiet 7 :,
n old Bald that day They ac- q