The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-10-27
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To the Editor Of ,tAs MorEissOvp Gazette
/ Parties come here to hunt the deer
The hounds are taken to the mountain.
| and the deer run on the MOUNTAIN top,
until tired then they take to the river
sometimes swimming down for several
miles. 3 It is very exciting, to. see thf
! deer and dogs tumbling through the rap
I ids Of the French Broad, and the hun
tiers firing from each bank. And some
parties come here to fish. Plenty of ex
cellent fish in the river and trout in tho
! mouptain streams. But we had some
/ sport here a few days since that was new
] to US. Some of our Northern friends say
that when Southern man wants amuse-
ment he goes cunning for negroes. Hav--
! ing spent much of the time since the
war on Southern plantations, and seen
nothing Of this, Iconclqded there must
be some mistake. about it. I did see
some negroes one morning on South
ern plantation, and when asked what
! amused them they told me that they had
been cunning for a1lYankee,s and had
bagged him. was surprised at thisslaI
! had heard of the man attending negro
| dancing and dining parties, was the head
of the Loyal League, &c, until he began
to think he was as good as niger, and
put on airs, then they finished him. As
all the officers were negroes0 and white
men took no interest in such cattle, IneY-
er heard Of any one interesting them
selves about the matter. Now for our
sport :soeg aassso s4@s 9ia Ct Gi--
A few days since two men rode up to
the " olfe Greek. Depot, each armed with
double -barrelled shot guns, pistols, &C.
Persons who saw them wondered what
they were hunting. They had no hounds,
consequently were notdeer hunters. Do
you remember the old.song,P Shihbohe
Alley2" Well these men were gwine
dOwn7t shoot a niger. They took q
stand at the Depot, but somehow the
game got past them. They saw him git
ting away down the Railroad. The en-
gine was there with hsteam sup. They
cut her loose from the cars and went for
that niger. GOodl Was it cunning for
niggers on an, engine9 Mig saw them
coming, left the track and struck across
a field. First hunter Jumped from the
engine before it stopped and went hard
after him, and had two beautiful shots
at forty yards, both barrels loaded with
buck shot In the meantime, he. says
Mig was down on one knee swapping at
him with a long rifle. That niger run,
that Niger flew, that niger lost his old
shoe---no, he dropped his long rifle, and
into some pine bushes on the bank of
the river he went. AS he went in he
was heading up the river. The train
hands all about the Depot ran to head
him off, but Mig ran to the edge of the
river, then took under the bank. Sec
ond hunter suspected this and went down
the river, and as Mig crossed the Rail
road to get to the wooded mountain at
the lower end OF, Col. Aliens field, the
second hunter had some beautiful shoot
ing He fred both barrels, aud, then
two cracks with his pistol. Mig disap-
peared up the mountain. I was at Col.
Aliens Hotel. Hearing the firing, I
went to the Depot. After. firing, the
first hunter come back to the Depot
Qnaif mile) to reload his gun, and was
telling about his beautiful shots He
said he was not sure about the first bar,
rel, as tn. niger was swapping at him.
but he was sure be got every buck-shot
from the second barrel He was much
elated at his fine sport, and continued to
tell 1t until the train started for Morris
town, ian hour after the shooting). when
he mounted the engine. with 9TH bar
rels ready for. a dying shot. This finished
the hunt for that day. Mig crossed a
spur of the mountain and stayed all night
with Mr. Gusts, at the head of Rock
Greek, three miles from Wolfe Creek
Depot. he stayed there until 9 o'clock
next day, carried pumpkins for the hogs
in the morning nothing the. matter
with. him. Mr. Gustis said he had plen-
Aty of money pockets fun of silver The
next day some amateurs struck his trail,
and Mr. Franks got a magnificent shot
at him at twenty steps HtitlE a rife-a
clear. miss. This was at the dry fork of
Big Greek. The last seen of the Mig. he
was scratching gravel near the North
Carolina linen faid dtlv anfz
Now, what had this poor, prosecuted
African done, to beetreated in this way2
just nothing at all. IL Except that he
broke into a store at Greeneville, s. c.,
and into another at 7Waynesyille. The
two operations panned out twelve hun
dred dollars. As Asheyille was in his
route, he done a itile, business there,
and there some sporting character made
a target of him. Mr. John. Swatz, fire.
man on the Buncombe train, has the
long rifle e--sg atef5,r SAwBoNEs.
+ Renovatfng Southern Lands.
1 a Tennessee correspondent ofthe