The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-14
II mas 49, darll-res. e vas


to their respective little beds. We
had just finished one of Alonzo
Dante's letters to the Press and Her
old, from Jonesborough, and were
trying to digest the startling an
nouncement and earnest inquiry he
puts in as follows:
" Hot times ahead in Congression-
al matters in this district. They are
near at hand. A Gillenwaters' pa
per is soon to be started at Morris
town. to be called the Morristown
Spy. DIR. Mahoney, / am told, will
conduct it. 1t will be from all ac-
counts, terribly anti-Butler. In the
meantime, learn that Butler intends
running a daily at Bristol pretty
soon. What will become of Helms ?
Can he stand the fire at Norristown 2
when we were aroused by a sharp,
imperative rap at the door. Open
ing it we were confronted by q
full grown man. carrying upon his
back a huge sack filed with some
thing evidently weighty. To our in
quiry as to what was wanted, he re-
piled he had letter he was directed
to hand us. Taking the note to
the light we read as follows:
JAN. 8. 1874.
DEAR HELMS :-BeIieving you to
be a clever man--knowing you to be
a good Editor-and feeling deep
interest in the success of the GA
zETTE, land being in possession of
the fact that another paper will soon
be started in our city, and fearing
that YOU might become weak in the
back, with a pain in the ribs, l send
YOU a rib and backbone, which | hope
YOU viii accept from, not u. B. Down,
but Your friend, &c, U. B. UP.
Thinks we to ourself. of course
we'll be Up-it's just our disposition
and the right season! We fastened
to return to the messenger in the
hall. but he had incontinently cum
0sed. and around the huge sack had
gathered a very respectable and in
telHrent crowd Of anxious and excl
tedly interested friends. Candles and
torches swaved to and fro around
the mysterious sack, and approaches
to it were made after the most APP
proved AMI scientific strategy. A
sensation reading youth. with copy
of the New York Sun in his hand,
suggested caution as he had just fin
ished an account Of the explosion Of
A torpedo in the family Of one Of the
best editors in Brooklyn. A for
ward movement by the old man with
q stick i'm his hand, threw the timid
youth i'm the rear ranks. The old
man had fed on torpcdos. A little
G .1ZETrE, with Il doll in her hand,
rushed dclighredly forward, declar-
inc it was a bag full of real live ba-
bics. but the ineXpressihlc look she
received from an elderly matron, who
had been there, was irresistible, and
She too subsidized = = = The
contents Of the mysterious bag re-
lenled the presence Of q backbone
nearly five feet long and rib COW
ering the dimensions Of one half Of
| breakfast tahlc-the two weighing
within fraction of 80 pounds.
We can't help thanking our UNI
known friend for his kind words, his
handsome present ami his generous
disposition to keep rs properly
jrcuScd for any and every emergency.
But for the quiet of himself and our
'riend Alonzo Dante, and the host
Of other friends we have, and are
making daily, we are happy to an
lounce that we see no imminent per
1 now threatening us. As an angler,
n youth, for the little. fishes in the
impid noun. ain stream, our hole. no
odds where we made it, was the OBJ
ectivc point Of every boy Of the set
.lement who could tie crooked pin
% a cotton string. We never left
,he hole on that account. nor never
allied in casting rs inviting and
successful hook as our comrades. |
. STICK r. was the legend engraved
IN our wheelbarrOw when Stanton
,rundled it to Ulysses. In d" the
,errib!e hot times ahead in this Con-
yressional district" predicted by |
Dante, we shall travel with the am
pulance wagons. and care for the dead |
md wounded. 1t is not our funeral, |
lor for us to mourn. Between Gil
and Butler, the eXplanato-
= remarks Of the amiable Mr.. Todd,
When exhibiting his magnificent wax
york of Daniel in the Lions den.
illustrates our position
, This, ladies and gentlemen" said
Ir. Todd, =. is the only correc7 and
picture OF Daniel in the Lii
ms den ever exhibited. Observe
he ferocious paws of the kingIy an
mails and with what placid indiffer-
nee they treat the presence Of Dan
el, who sits the picture of health,
erenely smoking his pipe. and evil
emily not caring n nickel for the Ii
rs, ferOcious or placid -
No-our friends must not misun-
erstand us. In the language OF
AGO, or. some other man, colored or
lain. Ours are the plans of fair,
elightful peace-unwarped by party
AGE, to live like brothers"
With becoming reverence for the
DIV character lie has assumed as
Iinister of Christ and temporal
ldge Of his fellows, our christian
enedictions ascend for Gillenwaters.
5 a man of mimpeachable, incor-
lptible and representative qualities
e Join in "three cheers and tiger
II Butler"
A Pooh HoUsE.-The Commits {
oners of the Poor reported TO the
Court at its last term the {
lmes of thirty county paupers.