The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-09

look into the matter.
We sincerely regret 60 hear OF the
critical condition in which Mr.. ID. Nor
Tis, one Of our most worthy and influen-
tial citizens, lies at his residence In this
place. He has been suffering for sew
eral days from an attack of hemarEhage,
but &C last accounts he was resting quiet
y. with more favorable symptoms of
recovery. We trust Mr. Morris may
soon be restored 60 his usual health.
- The 22d OF this month is the ami.
versaFy Of the birth OF Gen. Washington.
In ante-bellum times the day was ceIe-
brated by the military with all the pomp
and parade that could be devised to make
1t grand and glorious event as a nation
81 holiday. We trust the military COM
panies throughout the State viii recall
the old time custom, and honor the mem
DRY Of ''ths Fatherof his Country" with
that distinction the occasion calls for.
"A rare and beautiful species of or.
anthology alighted IN the yard Of one Of
our citizens. one day last week, in the
shape of drove Of birds. Their plum
age was of brown and golden hue, with
long bills like snipe. long legged and
about the size Of a prairie hen. They
made . noise like the bull-fihch, and
walked like a crane. Remaining Just
long enough to be inspected and admir-
ed, these strange birds arose and took
their fight as swift and silently as they
came.
We are gratified to learn from the
last issue of she Gazette. published at
Tuskaloosa, Ala, that Mai. r. G. Me-
Gala, so well known in this section OF
the country as a civil engineer, has been
endorsed and recommended by the Tus-
kaloosa Board of Industries for ar-
pOintment to a position on the Alabama
and Chattanooga railroad. Mai. Mccall
la is practical railroad man and one of
the most experienced civil engineers in
our country, and we'll fitted in every re-
spect to fill the position urged by his
friends. We trust that the new Trustees
of the A. d G. r. r. will secure the SER
vices of Maj. McCalla either as Chief
Engineer or Superintendent.
We learn from the Nashville Amer-
lean that the Sewanee coal and railroad
company of Grundy and Marion coun-
ties, has sold one half of its property to
Thomas O'Connor, VIM. Morrow and
w. H. Cherry, for 500, 900 Messrs.
O'Connor and Cherry are the lessees OF
the penitentiary, and Mr.. Morrow is
State treasurer. Col. Colyar, who has
been president of the company since Its
organization, and stills holds that office,
says the property is worth 81 900, 600, as
it pays good interest on that sum. Three
hundred and twenty miners are employed
in the mine, one-half of whom are con,
victs. The monthly output is 400, DOC
bushels. ss9aat UT- see
-" Oh, the slush, the beautiful sluSh'
Mix'd with the mud in a savory mush /,
soaking through rubbers, and gaiters
and shoes, tempting TO suicide, sorrow
and bluesI Visions remorseful DER mem
DRY Fusll-once 1 was soft as the beauti-
full slush. Once I believed in commit
tees of health; once had visions of fair
ly-won wealth; sweetly trusted inspec-
tors of streets, guilelessly, thoughtlessly
of sinecure beats; never conceiving the
whitewashing crush. that can beautify
blacklist political slush. Oh, the sIush,
the beautiful slush! Even q pavement
inspector might blush; even a mermaid
might murmur her hate, if doomed to a
worse than amphibious fatei ever to pad
die, and jostie and crush, half drown ed
in the beautiful village-made slush."
= Nearly every individual we met
last Thursday said il would snow. The
sky was overcast with clouds of dark
ness and gloom, and even the air one
snuffed tasted of snow. Friday morn
ing, as we involuntarily pulled back the
window curtains our eyes were Toasted
by sight not soon to be forgotten. Out
in the naarky distance was a scene at
once grand and enrapturing. Nature,
for the first time this season, was dress
ed as bride, and we were reminded OF
Bret Harte's description of snow in his
opening chapter of :. Gabriel Conroy''-
in the November number of Scribner's
Mdgazsne Those who love to gaze upon
a panorama of such beauty and purity
as we had last week, should send for
Scribner, and read Bret Harte's descrfp-
ton OF II upon the California Sicrras.
- We read the biographies Of men
who settled inKnoxvilIe few years ago,
without cent OF surplus cash in their
pockets, and who have since amassed a
fortune, always with absorbing interest.
1t isn't much stretch of the imagination
to put ourselves in their places-and their
stories are invariably climaxed by the
curtain dropping whea the hero is in
stalled Mayor of the Metropolis. If
there Is one thing more than another,
outside the labor question, the Grange
movement, and matters of interest gener-
ally, that brother Charlton, of the Age,
can do up brown, 1t is biographies of
men of his reputable city.
We shall never forget the delight with
which our young, FACILITATING heart fol-
lowed the career of Peter Staub from
the time he landed in the suburbs of the
city, impecunious and weighted down
by destitute family, through his early
struggles and fluctuations down the
sinuous streams of luck, till he fioated
to shore with handsome competency in
stocks and estates and crowned with the
highest munipal honor; i
-'sif You will, lord,
To do the honors and give the word"
We had feared that his was an isolated
case and had exhausted the biographical
timber. But, thank fortune, it is not so.
A recent Age contains an admirable life
sketch of Col. A. Metler, whose long ac-
quaintance and intimate associations
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