The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-11
METROPOLITAN LETTER.
THE RESULT OF TUESDA Y-OLD
FLINT .ENTHUSED.
KNOXVILLE. Nov. 9, 1874.

| FLINT ENIHUSED
| KNOXVILLE, Nov. o, 1874.
DEAR JoHN-This months doings will
long be remembered by We, Us & Co.,
more especially by the Co., or the rebel
element of the firm, who have recently
taken upon themselves the running of
the u. s. Government for the next two
years. For the first time in 10 years
feel like an American citizen who has a
country to love, a flag to honor, ma
tionality to boast of. Wake snakes day
is breaking!''- rats, to your holesl"-
carpet-baggers, to your " git up and gitI'
or else content yourselves to go to work
and make honest ivings, by honest
means, and quit sucking old 80 Outrage. :"
1 tell you The old critters bag is spsttei
She had been nourishing the " Bread
and Butter Brigade" in this city for
years, but on day of debauchery in the
Brigade, the faithful old critter q Out
rage" left the corral in search of some
thing fresh, and before her keepers knew
she was out, she was the victim of a
venomons ASP, which, in its greed to
suck, stuck its fangs in the favorite teGt.
Poor old Outrage was Immediately
cared for by the brigade Surgeons"
and all sorts of remedies were used, but
old Outrage did not convalesce worth
cent.
The Social equality Civil Rights organ
had partnership interest in old Out
RACES sore teat, and prescribed the fol-
lowing formula as poultice:
Soft soap. II Bushels.
Sculdugery. "A paddle full.
Barney. ..........1S squams daily.
Bluff, condensed lies IA quantum
suflcit to spread over the Tuckyhoe dis
triet.
The whole to be put into carpet-bag-
gers bag and applied while hot.
The poultice, as directed, was applied,
and the old critter bettered for the time
being, and was gently transferred to
Chattanooga and placed in the Outrage
hospital, where she was being treated by
experienced Outrage doctors from the
outraged South, and was supposed to be
in fair way to recover.
When that internal Ku-klux yell from |
Ohio and Illinois Carpet-baggers and |
Outrage manipulatiOns g" git up and git'' |
come laundering into Chattanooga, they |
got, leaving old Outrage to the tender
mere les of DibbreH and his followers, or
any other man.
But she died-she did. A sudden
and unexpected change in the weather |
last Tuesday evening, Nov. Sd, was not
in time, and she conf1um-
mixed But the internal ASP. still
lives and is supposed to be sucking him
self for livelihood.
have read the Declaration of indie
pendence twice since last Tuesday night;
sung the Star-Spangled Banner more than
once; whistled Yankee Doodle, with the
Dixie Variations, morning, noon and
night, and am fixing to jine meetin'"
generally next fourth of July-provided
always they leave the iron clad out of
The programme.
I reckon you heard that our May6e7rses
1idn't take well in November They
;orter soured like!
Hurrah for 'Meriky! OLD FLINT.
P. S.-Ten Squire Bill Mcfarland to
keep his eyes skinned when he goes to
he "De-strict," and keep out of the
clutches of his fellow-craftsman, the boss
anner, unless he promises to &c let us
nave peace ~ I've known Squire Bill
,ver since Hec was pup, and am per-
ectly willing to trust him with my loyal
claims o. F.
N. b forgot to suggest to Squire
Bill to Ego agin" Blevins and associates
BET scheme-the re-opening of the Afri-
IAN Slave trade Tell Squire Bill if
Tim White applies for the superinten-
lency of the National Turnpikes, and
'ich, let him slide as one who in every
particular " amt fittin'" for the posish
OLD FLINT.