The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-25
SOUTH D4NTILLE,

Fl besides acting as ticket agent and post
master, during his leisure moments.
General Grants duties are nothing com
pared to the duties and labor of this vast
population. e retsf.r,L
: - Leaving South Danyille and its busy
populatiQn-fi nging a late stylemilitary
salute to the war-worn veterans of the
Kentucky State Guard, as they Feeled
onward with the train-I cFawled into a
red, black and yellow stage, and with
rain falling in torrents We splattered5 on
toward DanYille proper-a lovely, quiet
town Of about four thousand Inhabitants,
many fine colleges, seminaries and
churches. adarffr v-E
r., .f Dan FLLLE .r- a-g ra4-
has been left out in the cold by all the
railroads SO far, but learn the Gincin-
natl Southern, for a small consideration,
has decided to take all the ground she
will give them for a depot, and run
through the northern edge of the 7coTpo-
| ration. AS for business, Danyi4le knows
no such word, her main streets look Rip
| Van Winkleish, and if it were not for
/ the FdSI HulllBCI Ol bLuutnlb
the institutions of learning, the grass in
her streets would soon demand a city
moving machine, and her merchants
+ would have to take broken, doses s of
! yeast powders to keep up atheir spirits
| Knoxville docs moro business in one
week than Danville does in fifty-two. In
fact, Louisville, herself, in proportion to
her population does not come up to
Kn----(perhaps l had better not say
it; those Kentuckians may think am a
blow-hard, but foranyfa facts aboutKnox-
vile, / could easily refer them to Will
Morrow, State Treasurer; Chasy ATc-
Ghee and Tom O'Conner, State Cover
nors, all residents of Knoxville, and re-
liable MEN on financial matters. '
f When it comes to public highways
the shoe belongs on the other foot
DanvilIc, out-pikes Knoxville, or any
other place | know of, and Boyle county !
has magnificent pixies and more of them |
than the entire State of Tennessee. This |
s-undOubtedly fact yet I see no good |
reason why it should be so, for we of /
Tennessee have equally as good rock /
and in larger quantities. Rock We 1
havesehough-rocks etlupJ eniways at Big /
Creek Cap to macddamize the United +
States, but instead of using rock, the
road makers, of Tennessee roll them out
of the way and drag slw-logs for miles
and laying them down in places where
there is no bottom, they construct what
is called a corduroy road, thus corrupt
ing the morals of every preacher Quak-
err teamster, and ox-team that passes
over them, and moro wind is wasted an
nually by travellers icussin' these cordu-
roy roads, than isregenerated by three
crops of chestnuts. TaH -eaass
.."a~ BOYLE COUNTY fNF
is one of the garden spots of Kentucky,
aboumcs in bluegrass, pretty girls, fat
cattle, Vineyards generous, big hearted, II
old fashion Kentuckians, old fashion
still houses, and the Dicks river Early
in life this river got a crooked start, and
now at this stage of its career it is said
to be so serpentine in its course that it
insists on running through every farm j
in the county, and is so crooked that
the oldest inhabitant does not know to
this day which side of the river he. is
living on.
Although [ was once born in the neigh
borhood of this county, and was large
for one of my size before showing out
from home, neglected to learn why it
was named Boyle; but impressions of in
fancy lead me to suppose it was so named
because in early times the people of the
country followed boiling sap from the SUI
gar trees for living. Or else the early !
settlers were afflicted with numerous
5oils think this country once had a q
General Boyle, from which they did not
recover until the close of the late war, t
and back through such Affections asthis4 ]
the first naming of the county may per- :
haps be traced. 9I.4 - A -2 -'eEo ?
The Knoxville boys tell what they con- !
slider a good joke on your humble SER !
want, locating the scene at Danville, in
August of the year 1850, and, that in or 4
Ter to obtain admission into a menagerie
md circus exhibition, 1 contracted with P
he keeper to toat as much water as the
Elephant would drink! That I became
.eckIess after an hours practfce-the {
;how nearly overLthe Elephant still very
thirsty, and'th / spent my only five z
.ents in hiring a small colored boy to
ielp me in last endeavor to get the o
,east duenched in time for me to get I'M
md See the closing performance of the
rick mules All in vain, however; and
hey say that as the menagerie fellows
we're folding their tents to leave, 1 was
observed lying under the boughs of an ]
ak fa1inHg myself, and taking one last
look at the Elephant, before G
making calculation As to how many
,arrels of water he could stow away
Without leaking. Now all have to say
5, that this yarn is a malicious and pre- ?
neditated no such thing, las TO Dsirillle, :
for at that time I was living She vir-
uous life of poor boy, near Richmond, :
Iadfs6n county; and as for the scene Il
akibg place in Richmond, do. not con- N
ider that I am called upon to answer at ts
his time. #4s = =
Now, erny thrice tormented readersl q
ONE to the e jumping off place. Il is ne