The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-03-25
BIount County.

GOOD WORDS FOR THE GAZETTE
.ssTARvING FOR "A eRELIABLR NEWS
PAPER e--THEf'' REPUBLICAN RAD
1eAE1zED - scoTr sUoCoMBs TO
M'coENELL-A LIVE INDEPENDENT
.;t PAPER wANTED-RAILRo DEAD
HEADs-KEEP UP THE rNYAIs4-TIIE
K. s. o. DEKD-HEAD LIsT-HOw 10
..3- KNOW THEM u GREAT RELIGIOUS
g REYIyA L@AeCEssIoN OF MEMBERS
AND RENEWAL OF sGRACE-SCHooL
TAX VOTED DowNAsPECIDIEN GER
- TIFIcATE 9o OF IA scoUNFY8,o ,oFFnCER
ia WHO ePPosEs FREE sCHooIs=@THE
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9p ea6ARgvILEE, TENN, March 16th,a ls745o
az EDIToR GeAzfgTFE :-z1. have been q
constant reader of your valuable pa
per and am well pleased with it, and
have heard numbers express them
selves as being highly pleased with
its general tone and makeup. do
not know the extent Of your circula-
ton in Blount county buta there is
one thing / do know, and THAT is
this just at this time we are "starv-
ing . for the want ola paper that is
not tainted with Radioahsm. We
are left out in the cold-the Repu6
1ican having turned Radical again,
M. Z. Mcdonnell otaking charge Of
the editorial management-and to
subscribe for the Union and Ame1i
can we would not besposted in-ref
7erence to East Tennessee matters
If we cannot be supplied with a Dem
ocratic paper (pnblishedinE East Ten
nessee9 we want q live. neutral, 10
cal paper. vi E.ao# a74 as5s ssal
In reference to your stand against
g free. passes" on Railroads, ] woulc
say expose them every opportunity
There are about so '''Dead- d-heads'' il
and around aHIaryville who visit
Knoxville from 2 to, times q week.
but we who make our living by the
sweat of our brow must pay our way
and theirs, too, / will tell yol
what it takes to constitute dead
head' on the Knoxville and OhiC
Railroad; be must appear before
the public in costume as follows
/ Paper. collar, choke-rag, high-heeleC
boots, galvanized watch chain, stove
pipe hat occasionally, and wall
erect, somewhat after the style of al
/ editor but, more like a lawyer or I
preacher. It is thought, by some
that this Road will be completed t.
Charleston, S. c., by the next Cen
.tennial Exhibition, and then we in
tend to make up another club o
s.Dead-heads, for the people vii
invest, money for their special bene
fit.
/ Maryville has been visited wit
the spirit that has animated thous
ands, in the last few weeks, to turl
from their wicked ways and seel
/ the forgiveness of their sins throug
the atoning blood of Christ. On tn
| 21st day of February, Reys. G.. w
n K. Green and j. G. Runion CON
menced two days meeting at tn
NJ. Z. Church South at this place
which-was protraeted until the st
of March hundreds being awaker
ed, and many accessions to tn
| church; some of the most prominen
men of our place joining the churc
the meeting then assuming
union shape was -protraeted up t
last Friday night, the 18th inst
when it closed, christian harmon
prevailing to an extent heretofor
: unknown = Ssf .sa4aG u
II The election. For. or 'sAgainst
!. school tax, held in this county r
. Gently, resulted in the defeat Of FIRE
schools. 1t is. perhaps. owing t
the illiteracy of theimajoritys Of til
voters. Read the following yi9Cert
, ficate of election which appeare
, in the eRepu6Eican Of March 14-an
said to have enIanated from the pc
1 ofonesof Blountss fiobleet sons1an
a former aspiranta for the highest o
fee in the gift OF the county,. "a- I
4 iest<st cory OF CERTIFICATE. a
We The undersigned Judgs d
; Hearty certify that populor Eleeu
opened & held in th--civel de
trect on the z Of march 1874 (
, BIount & stat of Tin for til purpaie
of taking the sinces of the pepall
the said destrect whether thay we
! will to ly tax for support commo
4 school in the county of Blonnt & ST;
aforesaid and the following is a tru
statements of votes Poll in said Ele,
tion March the ,7--1874a as follows
, From TIE above Certificate 70
Z may infer the why. of the defeat f
; school tax 1t is due the citizens.
the Maryville District, to say the
voted nearly solid for School TaS
, Maryville is not behind in iEduci
) tional advantages. We have 2 co
leges, one large Normal school wit
200 scholars, and 2 primary schools
: Thed.Culnd County ConyenShun
convened in this place Saturday th
14th inst, and appointed delegate
to the State convention. 9 Esq 4
Garners O. colored man and. a rleade
). in a speech entirely exhausted. hin
self in denuncihtion of the Radici
l party. He is tired Of the col
shoulder and wants divide of Il
1 spoils. BLoUNT.
How are We 10 Get 1t.
Suppose the currency to. be i