The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-05-12
ITEMS FROM KNOXVILLE.
BUSINESS = DOG TAX STREET
PREA CHING STORM.

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Our produce and commission 3er-
chants are daily purchasing at our
wharfs boat-loads of grain, transferr-
ing it to the depot. loading the cars,
and shipping it TO the Gate City and
! other Southern towns. Business in
| this department ever since the food
has been quite active. The trade of
our wholesale houses is on the rapid
increase as the warm season adj
vances. Their sales and receipts
daily climb up into the thousands of
dollars. Strangers visiting our city
invariably remark the business-like
air we put on, and those have trav.
eled extensively assRre as that Knox
vile displays more activity, energy
and thrift than any town south of
the Ohio. Notwithstanding all this,
we feel and know that "hard times
is round our cabin door"
Our * country cousins" and in fact
many Of orr town kins folk express
themselves unpleased' almost to
the ragged edges Of cutspoken in
dignation at the Law taxing "our
dogs So manifest and storm
threatening was the opposition that
the County Court of our county of
Knox failed to recognize the wisdom
Of our Nashville solons in suhjecting
the canine race TO taxation without
representation" so that the sheep,
SO far as Knox is concerned, are
g absolutely without protection Ell
! Their to person or property. We may
therefore reasonably apprehend many
bloody rencounters with but little
cry and great wool. Our city faith
ers took different view of the dog
tax law. They cOppered the State
card, and the canine that survives in
District No /, will be confessedly a
very valuable article in the line of
privilege" Many of these faithful
companions of man will, doubtless,
e'er long, be terribly impressed with
the brevity of the day that every
dog is entitled TO. This is hard on
the dogs, but the decline in the mar
ket price Of sausage is certainly an
encouraging omen In favor of the
strict enforcement of the law. Our
sanitary policeman already brings in
the alarming report that nocturnal
canicides are becoming very CON-
mon-on one beat alone he found as
high as seven departed in one night.
IF this rate of fatality continues it is
easy to be seen that determination
is only a question Of time.
Our citizens have for some weeks
past had opportunity to hear preach
ing without waiting for Sunday, or
going to church. A Mr.. Stern, a
good looking, honest-faced German,
who, in the "Father-land," was a
Catholic. but does not now hold to
the creed and who resided some
years in Pennsylvania, but who for
several years, more recently, has re
sided near Knoxville, almost every
day can be seen, and heard travers-
ing our streets. and in a plain man.
ner expounding the scriptures. He
waits not upon, nor desires authority
from any Of the organized societies
of the visible or church militant, but
claims that he has authority from a
higher source for preaching the word.
His style cannot be said to be e.e.
giant, but his earnestness is in some
measure attractive. He groups TO-
gether topics of scripture readily;
never seems to grow weary in what |
he esteems to be we'll doing, and |
does not appear to abate in the least |
in the earnestness of his work, |
though he have many or but few au-
1itors. On Gay street, on market |
square, in front of the court house,
and in other places, his clear strong
voice may be heard, and he always
the respectful bearing of
his listeners. He is evidently i'm
pressed with the necessity of the
course he is pursuing, and who can
ell but that great good will yet re-
ult from his labors?
The cyclone that swept over Knox
lille on the first instant was by no
means composed of gentle zephyrs."
The wind blew all day, but its great
st velocity was attained about 8 80
}. m. Its greatest powers were dis
,layed at this point, between the
'anks of the Holston or Tennessee
liver, which at this place is but little
nore than four hundred yards wide.
Within this narrow belt all the
amage was done so far as has yet
zen accertained. A few trees were
roken off or blown down the Knox
lille and Charleston Railroad bridge
7as slightly damaged, and the coun-
Y bridge, at the southern end of
lay street, was blown down from
ank to bank, leaving the stone piers
landing as silent sentinels making
he place where the pride of our
ounty head stretched in its beauty
0 short time before. The cost of
his bridge was one hundred and six
y-fve thousand dollars. Damaged
y the storm at least fifty thousand
ollars. This is indeed a severe
troke on our tax ridden people.
he questions now agitating the
Kinds of our people are, whether we
ball have the bridge rebuilt? and
f wood or iron? or whether it would
e better to turn over by sale or
lift this enterprise to some private
who will build2 The chair
ian of our county court has decided
} convene the forty-four j. Ps'. of a..
-nox county on next Wednesday.
which time it is hoped some con-
fusion will he arrived at in regard
) the matter. / venture to hope I
lat by September our beautiful |
yer will he spanned by an iron
ridge. We cannot afford to do
ithout this work, at once so beau
flu and useful. Yours truly,
EoCEM.
Knoxville. May 10. 1875.