The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-11-17
LETTER FROM MR. SLICK.

AFTER CATCHING 1T, HE AC
KNO WEDGES THE CORN-AND
VERY DELIGHTFULLY."- TELLS
ALL ABOUT HOW TT OCCURRED
AND WHAT HE PROPOSES DO
ING, NOW THAT HE Has SECUR-
Ed IT,
KNoxvILLE, Tenn, Nov. Is. rs.
Mr.. EDITOR 81 have caught it,
and caught it bad. You remember
in my last letter to the readers of
your numerous paper, l made favor
able mention of the new paper pub
lished at this place, and was the first
to inform your ten thousand and sew
enty six subscribers of the existence
of such a paper in their midst. Well,
for this act of kindness | got blowed
up, and called an Identified"
don't mind the blowing up in the
least, it only called the article to the
front, but to be called an "Identi-
fed is more than | intend to stand.
He's another, and a humbug's his
brother, and if he takes that, he will
take a good, fat government office,
which reminds me that the editor of
that paper and / were among the
first TO organize the celebrated Knox
vile Greeley Club in 1872, and | al
ways fully intended to give him a
position in the Custom House, pro-
vided we succeeded in electing Hor-
ace Greeley; hut we busted, and he
will excuse me fo- not carrying my
intention into execution. | have a
faint recollection of being appointed
by that Club as q commit ee on fire.
works and enthusiasm-hate to men,
ton it, or refer to it now. but re-
member of going ahead with great
vim.-lit up the midnight sky in
lurid colors for Mr.. Greeley finally
the election ratified along, we went
up like one of our rockets, were
equally as badly busted, and l have
not yet succeeded in getting a smell
of that government Office, except
when happen to go round to the
post Office and peep through one of
those pigeon holes, close to where
Billy Rule stands reading my GA.
zETTE. However, we will give the
RAIDS another rip next fall, AMI if
victory lights On our banner, I will
yet secure him a position as fireman
inthe Custom House, or some other
good, fat Office provided he apollo
gises for calling me an identified"
Mr.. Editor, | don't know exactly
what that word means in latin, but
to he called by such proverbs as that,
sticks me like thunder. He says in
plain words, al f. Slick is identified"
Wonder if he has reference to any
illusions of the Greeley Club of
eighteen hundred and badly busted
Nuf ced Latin quotation on this
subject.
The first thing remember after
being blown up, was alightiHg end
ways on Dickinson Island, near the
beautiful Indian mound, and feeling
thankful that the Island interviewed |
between me and the earthquake cen
ter. Having lit here, where good /
farming is carried on with scientific |
precision, have concluded 10 write
up few short articles on ''what |
know about it," for publication in
the Aged Granger and Living Out
look" valuable paper published
weakly at this place.
One of the leading features of I
these articles will be to urge upon I
the Patrons the advantages to be
gained by using pillow painted red,
for turning under red wheat it adds
to the appearance of the team, and
preserves the beauty of the land
scape, unless the team be composed
of mules; in that case the pillow
should he painted green, with gilt
stripes; any variation from this rule
will cause the wheat TO rust in the
ground. and if it should accidentally
come up and do we'll, it will run the
risk Of being sold at q reduced price,
on long credit.
/ will also recommend to the Pat
rons the Singer sewing machine for
sowing their rye. 1t is q little
but adds greatly to the
beauty OF a rye field TO have the
rows Of rye stalks all on a dressed