The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-11-10
OUR KNOXVILLE LETTER.


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.9yo sasi sKNoxvILLE, Nov. s, 1873.
p DEAR GAzE7TTE =: : these few lines
are to inform you that we are wen. and
hope they may. find You enjoying the
same blessing Please inform the read
ers of your large and numerous paper
that 4 met the operator Of the Peoples
Telegraph" on Gay street, a few days
since, and asked him why the line was,
not working any more2 and remarked to
him that the readers of the GAZETTE
were getting nightly befOgged and anX-
ious to catch up on telegraphics News.
:. Y es, . he replied, - kFow that, and ]
is telegraph lines have become almostsas
unreliable as the Rogersville Junction
Railroad, and nearly as unpopular with
the people. That road has no one whom
it can claim as sire, but has an over
proportion of dams forced upon itssstock-
holders; in fact, it is, damned by the pe0-
pie at both ends of it, all of whom Join
those living along the line in dancing
the duny cars and the niggers who dump
them. The rickety old bridge that tot
tiers over the H0lston alone escapes be-
ing daln-ed, simply because it is beyond
all power of being dam-ed in Sufficient
guam i5ies to justify an outraged people
taking the 9contracts The stocl1holder,
engineer.aticket agent, conductors presi-
dent, vice president, hrakesman- and
switch tender spends the greater portion
of his time in Knoxville. met him to-
day and asked him when he thought that
engine would be done !? He looked atshis
watch and said he thought it would be
done between this and Christmas, some
time, provided they could make il run
without tile two driving wheels. Z / lave
no doubt he lis correct, and fwi1 shire7a
couple oflstout fellows tOpush it along
with little poles, thus saving expensive
driving wheels and steam"
My dear sir, that operator went after
that RogersvilIe railroad deeply antiBse-
xerely, and talked on until / was almost
CONVINCED that it was social evil as
well as a wretched attempt at being
nuisance. I asked him where / would
find all of these stockholders, engineers,
conductors, &C. Said he diddio know
that the last he saw of him. he was sit
ting in the Press and Herald office, discus
sing ''Social Evil, Eastern Division
Fair, !" Hog Law and q Gravels on Gay
street;H and the last remarks ne under
stood him to make, was. that there was
more. Eastern than there was. tDivis-
ion, about nearly all the Fairs that had
several years; but as the operator Icoald
not see iwhereltllat admitted aef any zap
plieatioprto the Rogersyille Railreaas he
Withdrew his motion to hit him on the
nose, and adjourned sTf-or-die, That OPP
efatof,f sir, was out of Admor, and in
good trim to skin something, on sonaes
body, and as sc on as he gets lines upana
in working order from Rogersyille TO
your office, you will hear the wires sing
some lively tunes. s' ~ 20 'ss'iA ~
s. 'NelBave a bright faced and handsome
little evening paper published sin this
place now-the Eoening Age-and you
sit down at night by a good fire, and
have Il nesysy little paper fresh from tile
press, to read aloud to your home folks.
We all enjoy it more than we do the
papers, simply because we are
tired, by the tolls of day, and have more
time at night. For the last few days the
little friend has not been 50 welcome
with some of us, owing to the class of
literature that has crept into its columns
the agency of the two morning
papers, it has been cajoled into discuss
ing the ''social evif' question, and dur
ing it's wrestle with this subject, some of
rs who have families prefer to exclude
It for general reading. / saw an old gem
Ia.
since to read it. After he had finished,
noticed him stuff it down his boot leg
in order that his wife and children might
not get hold of it. am confident the
editor will see tue error in a few days
and let it come out pure and clear-au
springs are liable to get muddy some
times. 9tT1fi1t aeA
You know Mayor Staub. I met him
today and just in time to prevent him
from running over one of Duncan's tele-
graph poles He had ordered two or
three hundred loads of sand, gravel and
mud to be spread on Gay street sOme-
lime since, and had got load of it in
his eye as he turned the corner. Conf
ientially-you may not know 1t. but that
nan Staub is miserable faiIure.f He
ian make a good coat, admit. He can
build fine opera house, identifying the
own and bencfting the people, admit
He can push forward the interests of the
city, and build magnificent and com
free school houses, and adorn
our creeks with handsome and substans
.ial bridges, and all that, but still he lisa
failure. Although he worked himself
Up to all this from poor Swiss boy and
! stranger, we mnst all admit THAT he is
{ failure, else why can he not enforce
he s'social evil ordnance and reduce
our one horse town to church diseipline2
Why simply because he has not the NOR
h courage to go to the bottom of this
evil, and dig up the roots and a man
who hasn't the moral courage to go TO
,he, root of an evil and eradicate, it, is
bound to be failure in that particular
inc of business !; and nine-tenths of the
failures that we meet with can be attrf-
outed TO fhisyery thing-the IaOgersville
Railroad excepted. sges ..s flfe .r4esv
4 am well, and hope these few lines
nay find you enjoying the same blessing.
.as''' Roses are red, violets @esc.
stlv And so are you. sa e not54ss4
.zksssr 5i1aHhar. ge EaSIIcK
p. Sand, BY the way, Mr.. Editor,
what does this p. s. that we meet with
% often, especially among female wri-
lefs, stand forg Does it stand for Pump
Sole, Pure Sell, Part Sawflilst, or Poor
shot? I don't know, but think il stands
ior the latter just at present; for Up. S. ed
Up there in order to tell you that our
mutual friend, E. j. Sanford, of Anti
bilious, Harris Relief, Symphix notorfe-
". has returned from brig hunting ex-
1editiOn among the Smoky Mountains.
fhey had splendid success and, besides
! string of little trouts, they killed six
leef, one Doe, and two Bucks-the
Bucks were. of the rabbit species. Mr..
J. didn't kill any, but it was all the same.
he old hunters that acted as guides,
Iaved him any trouble in that direction.
they placed him at good stand that
was never liable to be interrupted by tie
ieer galloping over any of the city folks.
VIZ. S. says one deer came in sight, but.