The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-28
ON THE WING.

gotten Fact-The Pioneer Paper of Freedom
Tusculum College -Greeneville Again Coming to
the Front-Prayer Meetings in Bar Rooms--A
Proposition to Treat-Jonesboro' = A Model
Landlord and Sewer -Bristol-on-the-Line
What it Was Once-Rev. d. SuTens-Railroad
Deadheads Keeping Close-The Grangers, etc.
On THE WING, Jan. 10Th, 1874.
DEAR HELMS There was a time
when you and 1 were young-a time
when Andy Johnson scared tares in
his little 16x18 shop at Greeneville,
and when Radical Roderick Random
Butler played about the streets like
any other good little boy,. and knock
ee out the middle man equal to any
youth.
But tempus fugit, which means
that there is no standing still in our
busy world. A. j., as everybody
knows, has gone all the way up the
ladder, while r. r. r. keeps climb
ing. In making the round Of my
circuit, you had probably forgotten
that was a judge, 1 see and hear
many strange things. Among other
things, | have been told that the
first abolition newspaper published
in the United States, was issued at
GreeneviIle, Tenn, in 1903 or 1905,
by Benjamin Lundy, a Quaker. The
10x12 house in which it was printed
still stands. What fortune Bar
mum might make out of it, by haul
ing it around as a ''show." Our
African fellow-citizens and their ad
mire-s, would 60 in droves to see the
first "temple of liberty" But
Greeneville is otherwise famous, if
my information be correct. Here,
the estate of Franklin was organ
lied in 1890, and four miles from the.
town is Tusculum College, Of which
it is said, that there were at one
time actually in Office, 9 Governors
and u. S. Senators, who were its
graduates. Pretty good for Tuscu-
lum Latterlv, Greeneville has not
been much talked of except at the
place where John Morgan was killed
and as the house of Ex-President
johnson. 1t is coming to the front
again however, by the action of some
of its ladies, who are endeavoring to
break the whiskey ring by holding
prayer meetings in bar-rooms. They
did not succeed at the establishment
of an Irish woman, who out.talked
the entire seven, and, to clap the
climax, proposed to ''treat." In
swinging round the circle, / would
advise you to stop awhile at that
most ancient of towns-Jonesboro'
You will find an individual there
who ''knows how to keep a hotel"
and who is not SeUere in his charges.
And then, if your clothes are any
thing like decent, tte people show
you a great deal of attention. IF /
had not known better, [ should have
concluded that was some distin-
guished person, from the treatment
[ received. May Jonesboro' never
die, but constantly renew its youth
like tue eagle.
Were you ever at Bristol, son
the line?' Some spiteful person
once remarked concerning this
town, that it was the terminus
of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, and everything else that
went to it - But Bristol has some
excellent citizens and is not a dead
tOa0n. Bev. David Sullins, lives
here, and this of itselfis sufficient to
recommend the place. What a won
derful man he is The people new
er tire of his sermons but constantly
flock to hear him.
The determination you have ar
rived at not to be a pensioner, on
the bounty of the railroads, gives
satisfaction everywhere. The peo-
pie are glad you did what you have
DONE If the newspapers of the
land are all bought up by monopo-
lies, the time is not distant when the
iaboring men will be sold out Of
house and home.
AHe 0EdnSeTS CdH prevent GHe
maly from suffering at the hands of
the feao and it is TO be hoped that
wisdom will guide them in all their
deliberations.
What if A. J. should buckle on
the ploughshare and pruning book,
and by leading the Grangers to vic
tory place himself in the Presiden-
tial chair? Stranger things have
happened, and Andy is not asleep?
[ think he has already turned his
voice to sing,
''I want to he a Granger
And with the Changers stand"
Yours,