The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-06-24
METROPOLITAN LETTER.


MORE OF THE WANING" THE AN
ALYsIs DONE UP BRowN-oFFIcIALs
AT THE TANK-CAPT. REEsE's ADJ
DREss-E. T. UNTvERsITY-KNox-
WILLIE UNIVERSITY - FREEDMEN
NORMAL SCHOOL - THE DIVISION
FAIR-wEsToN, AND A FEW RE
MARKS ON HIS ENGAGEMENT.
KNOXVILLE. June p, 1874.
TO the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
1 am disappointed in not being
able to give the analysis of tie
warning" 1t was up for investi
CATION, but the commissioner failed
to render a verdict-preferring to
wait for the opinion of the Governor.
who, it is said, would have been
with them but for a sudden attack
of humidity"
He had already taken his seat in
the cars and had his baggage check
ed for Knoxville, but the foul dis
ease peculiar TO the capital was too
much for him, and he had to give it
up so-Mr. Brown.
1t has been suggested that some
Of our State officials are becoming
so fond of humidity that they
can't well dispense with it, and
when in the act of leaving the CAPT
tai, they have quantity of the truck
bottled. so as to keep q taste IN the
mouth, till they get back 10 the
tank.
Capt. John j. Reese's address to
the Alumni Of East Tennessee UNI
yersity was replete with facts. fig
ures, literary humor, and things
that hurt. He insists that Knox
vile is to be the literary centre of
the South, and intimated that Yam
kee pluck. backbone, and money is
to consummate the desired end and
it looks that way, Judging from
things as they now stand. East
Tennessee University is now quite
if not fully differed by Yankees
and is in a more fourishing condi-
ton than ever before. Knoxville
University, the pet of Bishop Haven,
will, I have no doubt, look to the
North for its corps of teachers, and
to the South for its patronage. The
teachers will come
In the proceedings of the United
Presbyterian General Assembly at
Monmouth. Ill.,, on the 9th ult., |
notice that the Rev. Mr.. Wither-
spoon advocates the establishment
of a Normal School at Knoxville,
Tenn, and further that the report of
the committe on Freedmens Mission
appropriating $4,000 for the estab-
lishment of the Freedmens Normal
College in Knoxville, was received
and adopted. If the last Knoxville
is our Knoxville, and we can reason
ably infer it is, Yankee money has
fixed another spoke to the hub. 1t
may be, however, that the $4,000
is like the $4,000 subscribed by
citizens to Ravens University, only
ON paper, and mighty hard to cash.
I favor the Freedmens Normal
College, unmasked as it is, but am
dead down on any blue belly mix
ture. ] will promise to pay" more
of my eItenSiUe means toward mig
ger straight school than would to
ward getting up a first class hang
ing of such men as Haven and Bart
lett.
The great Eastern Division is
beginning to stir her stumps for an
other fraud suck, and is already
throwing out her bait
Weston, the great perambulatist,
Gf you can't get all this word in this
issue, please have it continued in
our next. is negotiating for stall.
Our papers think it will be a great
draw, but I don't believe our people
will put. Better get out the old fox
again and have a chase, but let his
motion be reversed, and l think he
will make better time than before. l
only make this as a suggestion, and
hope I give no offence to the man.
ayers. We are all interested, and l
think one or two thousand dollars
spent in fitting up fox chases and
SIGH, will advance the agricultural
interest of East Tennessee, just about
as cffectually as squandering as
many hundred on Weston or any
other fuukey. Yours, &C.,
U. B. Down.