The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-05-24


exercises of the school, consisting of
original orations, etc., will take place at
the same Church on Thursday night.
The public are cordially invited to attend.
In the House of Representatives, on
the 10Th inst, Hon. VIM Mcfarland
presented the petition of Geo. w. Hunts
man, of Hawkins county, Tenn, for a
pension, to the Committee on Invalid
Pensions. Also, on the both, tue petit
| ton of David Britton. late private in
Company E, Fifth Regiment Tennessee
T Volunteers in the war with Mexico, to
be restored to the pension roll, to the
Committee on Invalid Pensions.
John Butler, a railroad section boss,
sat down on cross-tie near the tank at
this place last Saturday night to wait
for the easter-bound freight train, and
after sitting there for a few minutes
dropped off to sleep; the train came
along and ran over and crushed his right
arm so badly that DIR. BIagee and DR..
Nelson had to perform the operation of
amputation at the shoulder joint. He
was taken up to Whitesburg on the
eastern-bound rat Sunday morning, ac-
companied by Mr.. A. Booth, where he
resides. At latest accounts he was re-
ported as doing well.
- According to anticipations the go
lar'' Base Ball Club met the "CenteniaP'
Club, of this place, promptly at o'clock
p. N. last Saturday, on the grounds of
the latter There was quite number of
spectators present, among whom were
some beautiful young ladies. Mr.. Geo.
Stewart was agreed upon as Umpire and
kindly consented, when Mr.. A. G. Bos-
tic was appointed Scorer for the "Cen-
tenial" and Mr.. John Mathis for the
''Golar" Clubs. The game was called
at once and business commenced. Con-
siderable excitement was manifested
during the last two or three innings and
frequent cheers arose from the specta-
tors At the close of the contest-the
9th ining-the record showed for the
"Centenial" boys go tallies and q outs;
for the "Golar'' boys, Al taIlies and %
outs. Everything was conducted har-
moniouslyl throughout. The "Centen-
iar' Club has had, comparatively, little
practice, and did not play half as well
as they will in the course of few weeks.
We learn that they viii test their skill
again next Saturday with the ''Lick
Skillets" of Whitesburg.
The following is a neat dun to de-
linquent subscribers emanating from a
Texas Journalist. Our readers, we are
sure, can make the application, and we
appeal to them to do, so, and if they
would make us smile throughout the
year 1876, let them come forward and
settle their dues. We mean every word
of it: eve Think we never saw SO pa
tient set of men as some of our sub
scribersi Gifted with unusual facility
for bearing up under (other people's) an
noyances, they "stand it" with Roman
firmness month after month, while the
cramps and collapses and vacuities rat
tie ruefully around among the finances
of this officeI The ease with which
they do it comes of the division of Ia
Dor. Each man owes only three, six or
nine dollars, and the large sum now over
due, being thus divided up among a
couple of thousand of philanthropic
gentlemen, is carried with smile of easy
complaceney most delightful to CON
template. The puzzle on which we are
at work is, how to get that smile on the
other side of the house! We dare not
send you a photograph of our lengthen-
ed visage as it appears when coming the
subscription list; that would throw you
into agonies of remorse, and we have
no revengful or injurious feeling against
even the smallest debtor who owes "the
largest journal, ETC." But we do want
to smile. We think, on mature reflec-
ton, that we never wanted so much to
smile in al. our life, and there is only
one thing that can ever bring grin to
our lagubrious frontispiece again"