The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-20


its prospectus for the FHTY-FIFTH YEAR.
1t is not only sound and true, but the
ablest and best paper of its class pub
lished, and should be in every family in
tho land. Those who do not take it
should send for specimen copy, or,
what is better, send the price for ayear.
Any one desiring comprehensive week
Iy newspaper, filed with just the news
that every family wants, and free from
clap trap or Objectionable matter Of any
kind, will hardly do better than to send
1915 to S. /. Prime g. Co., 81 Park Row,
New York, and receive the Observer post
paid one year.
- The Independent Order of Good
Templars, we learn, will give festival
and grand oyster supper on Tuesday
night after Christmas in the commodious
room over Shannon s. Co.'s store We
fail to learn whether the public are cor
daily invited, free of charge, or whether
they will be expected to ante their dimes.
At any rate it is an honorable and praise
worthy undertaking, and our people
should not grumble at the trifling ad-
mittance fee, if there be any. but invest
and have mirth and happiness on the oc-
casion. Let all our town people turn
out, and as many from the country as
feel disposed.
= Rev. c. E. Dillworth, more popu-
larly known as Prof. Dillworth, the ac-
complished head of the Music Depart
ment of the Morristown Female High
School, filed the pulpit of the Southern
Methodist Church in this place Sabbath
night last. His sermon was brief, but
it was forcibly impressive and filed
with an originality of thought. 1t was
a sermon to take home and think over;
and such sermons, after all, are the most
effective for permanent good. We con-
graduate Mr.. Dillworth that he starts
out so maturely. He is promising
young preacher, and we predict will
do much good in the cause he has es-
poused.
His conscience would not permit
him to act baselyl His name is John j.
Long. and he was the regular Republican
nominee for the Legislature from the
De Soto parish, Louisiana. He acknowl-
edges like a man that he was fairly and
squarely defeated at the polls, and that
no intimidation or fraud whatever was
practiced by the opposite party :" and,
for these reasons, he declines to accept a
fire. 6t11o Il
the Returning Board to seat in the Leg
islature of that State. If others of that
party would be as frank in admitting the
truth, the present embarrassing condi-
ton of the country would be satisfacto-
rily adjusted.
= The rich and the poor, the old and
the young, all Will find something at
Earnest & Briscoe's suitable for Christ
mas or New Years present. There is
not room to enumerate the jewelry and
silver ware-especially their assortment
of plated table ware, knives, forks and
spoons. These are very handsome and
will be sold very low. In the boot and
shoe department their stock is large, EN-
bracing ladies'. gentlemens' and boys
boots and shoes of the most fashionable
style and quality, at prices as low as the
lowest. Their line of dress goods is un-
surpassed in this market, and any thing
in their store will be sold at very small
advance on cost.
- En- route from Knoxville, last We'd
nesday, from semi-official source we
learned that the officers of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia road were
seriously considering the propriety of
suspending the carte 6Idnete passes here
tofore extended to most of the newspa-
per men along the line of the road. We
be inaugurated. 1t is what the GAZETTE
commended for in articles that have not
been forgotten by its readers; and the
basis of settlement of that unpleasant
and unnecessary misunderstanding be-
tween the road officers and ourself was
that we should be paid in 1000 mile tick
cts for the amount of patronage given to
US. This should be the rule governing
all. The road is like any other business
firm If it doesn't choose to advertise
enough to keep a rural rooster all the
time on the rampage, let him know it,
just as his grocer or merchant would It
will save a sight of unnecessary travel,
and pay the road as well as it does now.
We hope the rumor is correct, and that
1877 will put quietus to dead-head rail-
road tickets. not only to newspapers, but
to the legal, judicial and legislative class
of dead-heads.
= The Gutherie- Cain Returning Board
which has been holding daily sessions
for week past, adjourned Saturday,
out of respect to the Christians Sabbath
Their notations and conclusions have
not been made public, so far as we have
been officially informed. We learn from
Maj, Cain, however, that in several of
the parishes floors p investigated his
vote was ignored, and he was unexpect-
eddy and disastrously not counted in
The Major should console himself by the
that lie its in line of safe pre-
cedents. His is nothing more than the
situation of his illustrious prototypes,
Tilden and Hayes. AS we go to press
Monday evening we learn the Returning
Board is still in session, and there seems
10 be proof positive in the Registers Of
ice that Cain has been duly and legally
elected successor to the present incum-
bent of the Turley House. The Board
win probably make their award during
his week. Meantime we beseech the
friends of Tom Cain to en-
llate the wisdom and self-sacrificing dis
positions of Hampton, Tilden and Hayes.
With prudence on their part and mod
cum of justice-at law Cain will soon be
naugurated president of the caravansary
nc claims, and that, too, thank fortune,
resortinO tn havonafs the affr