The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-07

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CHRISTMAS IN KNOxvILI.E-THEw WIDE
AwAKEs = BELLIGERENT DEMON
sTRATIoN- SENATOR FERnY's VISIT
4 -MUNIcRAL CAMPAIGN FAILURE
TO NOMINATE A CANDIDATE-THE
q. woRKINGMEN HAVE YET TO SPEAK,
ETC, ETC.
KNOXVILLE, Jan. 5, 1874. ~
DEAR GAZETTE Another week
of ''riot and i'll managed merriment'
is gone, and notwithstanding the
stringency of the money market, our
dealers in toys, fancy goods and good
things generally, including Leopard
! OIL" have had no better time since
Hec was a pup. A crowd of wide
awakes held undisputed sway of Gay
Street during the entire day of the
/ 25th but was compelled to fall back
at night from sheer exhaustion.
A number of uniformed Props from
the hill. and few, railroad appren-
tices manifested a belligerent ten
kdency, but yielded readily to the
entreaties of friends. How very
amiable it was in them thus to yield,
instead of drenching our streets with
blood, especially such blood the
blood OF bloods
T. / won't bore you with Christmas
incidents any farther. for the want
of time and space. But / will re
mark, for fear [ may be regarded as
wanting in courtesy, that Mr. Fer
ry, a Michigander, u. S. Senator
by trade, sojourned with us during
the holydays, and our papers say
(well done, thou good and faithful
servan0 he was delighted with his
stay, but that he got terribly Hufed
before he left.
We are just now in the midst of
heated municipal campaign. We
already have two candidates for
Mayor in the field-E. j. Sanford and
e. C.. Camp. Sanford's call has
about two hundred names attached
and l Judge it has been pretty freely
circulated from MOrristown to Nash
vile, as it is signed by citizens of
both places, and this also accounts
for his not having received it earlier
than the 3D. instant. If all who
signed the paper will vote for him,
and as many more who did not land
the did nOtS are just as apt as the
dds, and he can hold his hand with
Camp in the Niger t1rtCIing business,
we will bet our bottom on Sanford.
But the successful man, whoever he
may be, as Compton says, will have
to ''come down. mo kin to u. b
DOWN with the spOndulir. Niggers
are going about the streets, not as
mourners but as freedmen, ready to
suffrage the man that pays we'll and
often. There is no market value FOR
a Niger vote; the price is almost
anything, from bottle of CHARTS
Bitters'' to carload of "Black Dia-
mond.' And if he be a Niger of
the ante bellum, hard-shell, demo-
cratic school, and can vote easy and
often, the additional inducement Of
being a policeman is offered him.
You have before this seen accounts
of meeting held at the Courthouse
in. this city last week which had for
its object the nomination of candi-
date for Mayor, but which really re-
suited in n disgraceful row, and our
papers would have acted wisely if
they had suppressed the publication
altogether; but | suppose they were
haV 60 TsI.af 10 n n
But the workingmen are to be heard
from yet, and we cant predict worth
a cent till after Wednesday night
next, when they are to meet again,
and, unless prevented by u crowd Of
boisterous loafers, may put new
Richmond. or some other man, in the
field. | say cant predict-Tll take
that back. for if they nominate a
working man, proper, I'll bet suit
of Bearden, NIcNutt & Bearden's
best, that hescan't make it, for who
ever heard of a working man, plain,
who had money to waste i'll axe
grinding. t'a.. t!a.5 "s
Since writing the above have
learned that Staub will announce him
self candidate on Tuesday MORN
ing He has a sedge grass pasture
that he wants guttered and curbed,
butsI think he had better gice the
contract to Camp, for as Street Com
missioner of last year, he has the
grade of that same pasture pretty
well established in his head already.
Truly, U. b. BowN.