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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-28
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| 10 the Editor of the 1EorristOwn Gazette.
March 2e, 1874
There is a strange story, yet neverthe
less true one, to be given you for your
readers In the early history of East
Tennessee, about 1894, as near as can be
determined, three men by the name OF
Patterson, all brothers, visited the New
Market Valley, with the Intention OF
buying the rich and extensive lands
| near what is known as Panther Springs.
They brought with them large amount
of money, supposed to be from $50, O0O
to $50, 900 in Mexican coin. While
looking over the lands they were muir
dered and their money and other articles
of value taken from their person by a
hunter, and their bones were burnt in a
cave near what at that time was known
as the "buffalo crossing" now known
as the Grindstone Hollow, which place
was also the rendezvous of the murder
er, whom it is supposed, feared that the
Patterson's would be missed from the
neighborhood, fed to the western pOr-
ton of Virginia. There he died, and on
his death bed he gave way bill that
his hidden treasure might be found =
Some forty years ago, says the older
citizens, two men came with the way
bill, giving description of the place, and
every effort made to find the money, but
to no purpose, and after several weeks of
hard labor gave up the search. Now
for the sequel:
During the heavy snow of the past
winters man by the name of John Lam
bert and man from the vicinity Of Pan
Their Springs, went hunting and tracked
a coon to a small hole by the edge of a
rock. Lambert stopped up the hole,
and remarked that she would get the
gentleman yet, if he wasn't pretty
is supposed after the snow had melted)
and found two rocks over the hole; he
moved them and saw below them a vast
cavern. He returned home and procur-
ed bed cord, tied the same to walnut
tree and descended into it for some one
hundred feet, and there found the treas
ure spread out upon rock, with an old
Mexican saddle blanket spread over it.
The blanket had decayed until nothing
but the ''filling" remained. He also
found one saddle and six Mexican stir
rups.
Lambert made these statements to a
friend of his, and showed him pocket
full of the money. He day labor
err, and did not know what it was to
have any amount of money.
Your correspondent visited the Sec
ton of country while the people were
making excavations where Lambert had
filled the cave, and witnessed with his
own eyes, nearly one half of a human
skeleton taken out, and all other signs
made a hundred years ago. Lambert
and his family have departed to some
unknown country with the money
These are facts as can be proven by any
number of the best citizens of Panther
Springs. NJ. CUBE.
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Rather Mixed.

New YORK world.
1t is not definitely known in what
CAPACITY Carl Schurz took Mr.. Hayes
in or Mr.. Hayes took Carl Schurz
into the cabinet-whetber as a Re-
publican, a Liberal, a Democrat or
an Independent. Neither is it GER
tain what State he is supposed to
represent, as when he took the oath
of Office he wore a pari of trousers
he bought before moving from New
York; his coat, one Of last year s
make, had St. Louis tailor's label
inside the collar; his shirt was one
of six acquired OF the strength of
his name during his residence at Mil
waukee, and his watch he picked up
bargain when he was a citizen OF
Detroit
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Letter from Whitesburg.

WHITEsBURG, Tenn. March 20, III.
To1the editor of the Morristown Gazette:
1t is sometimes pleasant to lay aside
that tunic of restraint the world com
pels us to wear, turn our long faces
transversely aud expand our lungs with
the pure atmosphere of untainted socie-
ty. Such, 1 think, was the feeling of a
large collection that assembled at New
Salem on the morning of the goth, to
witness the closing exercises of Prof.
Dukes school. Blessed with the lowell
est day of the precarious month of
March, there stood nothing in the way
of free exercise of that better nature
so manifest on that occasion.
The programme for the morning con-
sisted of vocal music by Prof. d. S class,
happily alternating with delightful
strains from the Whitesburg brass band
rsccsses, strathspeys upon the sod, &c,
&c. Many tender heart was reduced
to the form of infusoria, or irrevocably
lost. /, for one, came away with an
empty pericardium. Twelve o'clock
came, and, oh those basketsl 1t would
require dose Of Camabris Indicq, or
few gentle whiffs of nitrous oxide gas
to assist the Imagination in doing the
subject Justice. We did earnestly wish
that that congregation might ne'er
break up"
was just about to say that the crown
ing feature had yet to come, but it was
all browning feature and the time
seemed but too short when the fiaal
overture from the band notified us that
the scene had closed. Withall, we sell
dom enjoy an occasion into which fewer
elements of unpleasantness enter.
L. p
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Hung.

Justices Miller, Strong and Bradley
were hanged in efigy in Monticello, n.
Y, last Tuesday. Strong was hanged
on the right, Bradley in the center, and
Miller on the left. The inscription on
the placard attached to Justice Strong
was: 81 want God in the constitutions; p
that on Justice Miller. Throw consci-
ence to the devil, fraud reigns supreme"
and that on Bradley, mo man worthy
of the office of President should be viii
ling to hold it if counted in or placed
there by fraud :" 81 am crucifed be-
tween two thieves Memphis Appeal.
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Morristown, March 20, ~.
Letter from RutIedge.
AIEEKER

RUTLEDGE, Tenn, March %, 1877.
70 the editor of the Morristown Gazette.
DEAR UNCLE JoHN; We just see so
much in the GAZETTE from our old
friend Snider, that we just thought we
would give you a few facts from this
place. When it comes to a man going
into a hole and pulling it in after him,
we think that he runs a pretty narrow
risk Of ever getting out again, don't you?
We think he's lost forever. You can
just tell him if he gets to going in holes
and pulling them in after him, we will
do him like Watson did the rabbits; we
will drown him out by-golly, and catch
him as lie comes. And as far as the
Watson history is concerned, that it is
the best thing that he ever saw. When
it comes to when he went to take his
old midwife howe, home, and caught
the six coons and one opossum its good,
you bet You can tell him we all want
a history of him, and think it will be a
pretty good thing when it comes to his
counting tales, trips to South Carolina,
and shooting the red-headed duck as he
went on to Columbia; the time he got
washed away in the river and lodged on
the fish trap, with his wagon and team,
scrapes that he got into when he went
to Chattanooga with boat load of lum-
Der his war tales and fights, can't be
beat for the world.
Well, winter is over and summer win
soon be here now. Things are pretty
lively around here, especially at the
grocery. Now you bet the people of
this county love whiskey. So much is
drank and made waste of. the old bar
rels burned &C., that it creates great
deal of gaseous matter. To-day we saw
a ball oft rise, that looked like fire,
go to the south of town and fall in
thicket Of cedars. We think that there
Is SO much drank around here, that
somebody will be carried off like the
gaseous balls, rise higher and higher
until he appears to get to the clouds,
and then burst into thousand atoms,
and fly everywhere, and we think very
probably it will be Snider. So no more
for this time. Cousin John please don't
tell my name. From your friend,
PUNcHER.
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~ Governor Porter on Saturday
sent into the Senate the following
nominations Leon Trousdale to be
Superintendent OF Peplic Instruc-
ton; J. B. Killebrew, Commissioners
Of the Bureau of Agriculture. Stats
tics and Mines; and B. F. Cheatham,
Superintendent of Prisons. All we're
reappointments, and were Immediate
~ confirmed by the Senate.
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Goto Work.

This is our advice to the idle AMI
unemployed white and colored boys
about town. If you cannot find work IN
town go to the country and hire out to
the farmers and help them make their
crops. It win put clothes on your backs
and money in your pockets, and in the
end viii make men of you that the
country will be proud of in coming
years. Work pays much better than
playing base ball, marbles and loafng
generally. '.Young man" don't go
West" but go to work, and make your
own native country bloom and blossom
as the rose.
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LOUISIANA.
The People Moving to the Sup
port of the Nichols Govern

NEW ORLEANS, March PA gen
eral meeting of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange, the largest ever
held. adopted a preamble and reso-
lutions endorsing the Nichols gov
=ernment.
The proceedings of. the Cotton
Exchange meeting were telegraphed
to President Hayes. 9aE
Stated meetings will be held by
the Chamber of Commerce. Mer-
chants Exchange, Stock Exchange.
Board of Trade Clearing House
Association, is contradistinction of
the assertion that the business men
here would be satisfied with Packard
for Governor.
Meetings are called here and
throughout the State to endorse and
pledge support to Gov. Nichols.
The Commissioned has fled a claim
in the Circuit Court for SIS. 900 for
sewing machine warrants issued
during the last campaign. District
Attorney Lacy resists the CAIN, ask
proof that services were performed
in the interest of right and justice.
He pleads that the warrants were
issued for political purposes, and
with view to the pecuniary benefit
of the plaintiff.
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ss8t07.n

Special dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
Commission" will become odious
in the eyes ofthe American people.
A egiH is all that is needed to adjust
the trouble, but the aciU is wanting.
Mr.. Hayes talks sincerely. acts in
sincerely, holds out promises but to
allude the confiding, then dashes the
hopes OF those who were told to look
to him for relief. So long as Nor
ton controls Sherman and Sherman
controls Hayes, just so long will
there be no peace. The country
will be allowed to languish, the peo-
pie crushed, and general ruin ensue,
so that radica. rule may be perpetu-
ated. And SO we go?
Crowds ofpeople are at the White
House to-day, awaiting audience
with his Exceilency, but many will
have TO be disappointed. Among
the callers" to-day were Senator
Ferry, Morton and Gordon, their
business ostensibly relating to local
matters. Morton hovers around and
overshadows the White House like
a bird of pray. and seems to be
master of the situation.
1t is said that Messrs. Evatts,
Schurz and Key favor withdrawal
of the troops in Louisiana and South
Carolina, but McCrary. Devens.
Sherman and Thompson are oppos-
ed, and as eight beats seven. so four
beats three, and the troops remain.
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eAIM AT MY HEART, },
Bishop Lees ExeentiOn at Noun
tain Meadow the GATH.

tnAn 1ACnUON TIC <EbAAe
SALT LAKE. March 23.-At 10 A.
NJ. precisely. Lee was brought out
upon the scene of the massacree at
Mountain Meadow. before the ex-
ecuting party, and seated on his
coffin about twenty feet from the
shooters. After Marshal Nelson had
concluded reading the order of the
court. alto "a A. NJ, he asked Lee
if he had anything to say before
the execution was carried into effect.
Lee said: 81 wish to speak to that
man"-pointing to Mr.. Fennemore,
who was fixing his canvass near by
to take Lees photograph preceding
the shooting. Lee calling to the
artist, Mr.. Fennemore replied: I'm
a second, Mr.. Lee" and waited till
the artist asserted his readiness to
listen, Lee said: 81 want to ask
you a favor. want you to furnish
my three wives each a copy of the
photograph (meaning the one being
taken), copy of the same to Ra-
cheal A. Sarah g. and Emma B."
Mr.. Howard responded fot the ar
tist: "He says he will do it, Mr..
Lee Lee repeated the name over
again carefully, saying: please
forward them" He than arose and
saids
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ssWO1nan."

The Rev. w. w. Bays will deliver a
lecture tonight CTuesday) at the Metho-
dist Church in this place, on the above
subject, at z Ia P. NJ, to raise money
for repairs on the Broad Street Methodist
Church, at Knoxville. One half net
proceeds will be given in the form of re-
ligious literature to the destitute of
Morristown and vicinity. The benef-
Charles to be chosen by the Rev c. T..
Carroll. Admission % cts; Children I'M
der12 and colored people will be admitted
for 10 cts, cash paid at door, or two for
one ticket. Tickets at p. Carrigcr's
Drug Store.
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One by one they drop into line
The most radical of republicans are
now proclaiming peace and good
will. Since they have succeeded ny
grace Of the returning boards and the
electoral commission in eiecting Mr..
Hayes President they have changed
| their opinions, or their tactics, as
the chameleon changes its colors,
A few months ago no one was more
intensely hostile to the South or
more content with the earpet-bag
rule there than Mr.. Frye, Of Maine.
On Friday evening last he addressed
his constituents at Lewiston, and
declared that the troubles Of the
South had been caused by republi-
can misrule, and by the support
which the party had given TO disre-
putable carpet-baggers. ave have
allowed he said, political vaga-
bonds, United State Senators and
Representatives from the South to
hold patronage and deliver it out 10
their miserable adherents." He con-
fessed that cit was not to be expect
ed that white men would look on
quietly and accept their late slaves
as equal at the ballOt-box and their
superiors i'm Office. You and l." he
added, would rebel against that Or
der of things" And yet Mr.. Frye.
until now. had neither rebelled nor
protested, but had encouraged.
THAT order of things" So also
with that bitter and blatant orator,
Colonel Ingersoll. During tie
Presidential campaign he and Blaine
and Morton We'd with each other
in maligning and villifying the
South. The Southern people, ac-
cording to Ingersoll. were rebels"
we're ''assassins." They should pos
sess only two rights: the right to
be hanged and the right to be dam
ad." Recently he made speech in
New York and all his simulated fire
and passion had gone out of him.
He wants peace now; peace and re-
Cancellation. He had formerly spo-
ken words of unmeant bitterness,
but it was time to bury the bloody
shirt. preach fraternity and let
bygones be bygones. How are we
to take such men? Is there moth
ing sincere in politics? Can they
first set the land afame and then
put it out with a waterspout? fl
they can shift their principals so
easily what belief can we have in
their sincerity? If they were sham
ming passion before may they not
be shamming peace now? 1t would |
be wise for those 10 watch and wait |
who hope for a salutatory change Of
policy and earnestly desire to sec
it put in practice before they pin
their faith in sympathetic profess
ions which on the part of such bitter
radicals as Frye and Ingersoll, and
perhaps of others more or less prom
inent. may after all be intended to
deceive. What the country wants
IS peace, not the pretense Of it, and
It will be ecOgnized when it comes.
not before, Radical politicians have
been living upon the troubles of the
country for years. while the country
IseIf has been suffering in every
department of business. Peace and
honest government at the South is
he true key of the situation now,
)ut it needs to be turned by honest
hands. not dallied with and dangled
~ temporizers and pretenders.-
Baltimore Sun.
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BRONCHITIS AND LUNG
AFFECTIONS.
TEACH EON .

A sEagEe so-cGTEed cold agfTg o5tttates
lead to a serious cough, aUlficE, isuc0geG
for on. badly treated, aslstSt Auge 6iEt
9-eSaeEt-6t q9ssEst eveS1tRsdte tas settled
of BRONCHITIS, or egISCyt lis Gc0FSe, tho
<Ieadgag ONSUMPTIONs TO al suffering
from har0ssissg cough and easpect0rQtfO1s,
TRACHEON offers q SOtt75ds reliable 0ssB
47e9.sn0saent relief. It GaEgq3e9lts eGpectO-
a-Gti0lg, and enables the patient, 90 e1poL
that terribly septic deposit, er4afchs 4J teTg
arithoast itcdiciotss treatment, 9ll9Fs6 CONF
sssttnicdte its poison to the eeSicutdr sab
stance of the tang, degeReT0ftHg GNd der
stIOuillg that most essential OF OTGQaSs
and skIfinsafeS only la carly and Ef9l-
timely death. IRA CHEON has no eQfGtg
9IstscIs less superior, aud Its tfSe S0att noe
O9sIgf Fen1Oge the deposit thereby 0Lfoadi1l0
tyreGt 4.eIief, bstt heats the Haeift6raale aud
feages Tire patient f9s possession of healthy
Price, FvfTy Ceats per 5ottEes or Stao
4OttEes. $3.50.
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! w it'll deep atfiiction we are called up
on to announce the death of one of Nor
ristown's best citizens, Mr.. J. B.
LEACH, who died in this place of con-
sumption last Tuesday, the goth day of
March, 1877, aged "A years and 21 days.
In the death Of Mr.. LEACH, his fellow
citizens have met with an usual loss
He has resided here about eleven years,
and was respected by all who came in
business or social contact with him. He
was man Of good, general information;
was possessed with judgement of his
own, and was consequently, firm in his
convictions, while be never obtruded
them upon others H. has been mem
Der of the Methodist Episcopal Church
about thirty years, and was a consist
ent, Jealous Christian He belonged to
the orders of Free and Accepted Masons
and the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows, in which he wrs trusted mem
Der. He was born on the 9th day of
February, 1928, in Wood county, West
Virginia, where he spent his early
youth. On the 9th day of June, 1S4S,
he married Nancy j. Thompson, ma
tive of Cass county, Georgia, with whom
he has since lived until his death. They
have had eight children, five of whom
survive him. 1t can be be said
that he was good husband, an affec-
tionate father and valiant Christian.
His remains, followed by large con-
course of friends, wore inferred in the
Morristown cemetery last Wednesday.
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HAYES RESPONSIBILITIES.

The reader will bear witness to
the kindly greeting we extended the
liberal policy announced for the Ad-
ministration Of Mr.. Hayes. His In
augural and the authoritative policy
towards the South, announced by
his most intimate, confidential and
influential friends, we interpreted
to mean the Inauguration of an adj
ministration OF justice to our down
trodden, oppressed, carpet-bag-rid-
den and plundered people. While
it is no more than mere simple JUS
tiee-an undisputed right; yet we
had been so long denied that poor
boon, that we felt like commencing
him for doing his duty. Then, it
was the policy of common sense and
common honesty-.of simple right
and sheer justice. 1t is the only
policy that can save his admidistra-
ton, foisted into power by the
means employed, from ignominous
disguise. and give the long-suffering
and forbearing people of the South,
the nation at large must be depriv-
ed OF both and continue to grOupe
its way through the mists and dark
ness of decay and distrust that have
for the past eight years shrouded US
in glOom and paralized our efforts
at national advancement. We had
q right to expect this policy carried
out, and with all the doubts and
foreb0ding and misgivings, from a
seeming departure, we are not yet
without the hope that it will be adj
hered to, and to that extent at least
Mr.. Hayes will redeem the expecta-
tions he has excited in our people.
If he does not, the infamy will be
with him and the responsibilities
rest upon his own head.
The Southern Representatives in
Congress had it ia their power to
have defeated the electoral count by
which he was declared President
This would have necessitated the
ordering of new election, and in
that case Mr.. Hayes would never
have been President, He was per-
mitted to be counted in by South
ern hberality, magnanimity and pa
triotism, and under the belief that
as President he would at least dis
charge the duties Of the position
with impartiality, fairness and hon
esty. AS a man OF principle and |
honor he cannot 60 back on the peo-
pie Of the Southern States without
covering himself with infamy and
disgrace, and bringing upon the
country evils from which we may
never be rescued. That he will be
recreant to their policy, we cannot
believe; and We hope to see it work
cut successfully despite the deVlllsh
efforts OF the malignant scoundrei-
ism concocted by the Mortons'
RTainea and Chambers, and their
unworthy cohorts. Being President,
as good citizens desiring the com
mon good and happiness Of the
whole country, we hope to see Mr..
Hayes pursue such . policy as VIII
bring peace to our people and pros
perity to the nation.
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DEATH.

Parson Stokes, Methodist, male
a prayer, commending the soul Of
the condemned man to God. In,
mediateIy after this a handkerchief
was placed over Lees eyes. He
raised his hands, placed them on top
of his head, sitting firm, Nelson
gave the word to fire, and exactly
at o'clock, five guns fired, pene-
trating the body in the region of the
heart. Lee fell square back on the
coffin, dead. Death was instantane-
Gus. The body was placed in the
coffin, and the crowd dispersed.
There were about seyentyfve persons
all told on the ground. Not a child
or relative was there. The best or
der prevailed. and all pronounced
the execution a success. Lees last
words to Nelson were, Aim at my
heart" The body was given to the
relatives at Cedar City.
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= Gov. Porter has signed House bill
No. 662, to exempt teachers of common
school from road and jury service, and
House bin No. $50, TO declare the terms
upon which foreign corporations may
become incorporated.
A lady in Scituate. Massachusetts,,
was paralyzed while witnessing the
marriage OF her daughter, but &C la
testiaccounts was improving.
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pYSPEPSIAs
GAsTRON.

G4STRON IS o. safe, speedy, and post
tiUe cure for that most depressing Of air
p7aenfs and brief course Of tqseafsfl efst SCitL
restore fIe digestive organs to tlaeSs' 3lais--
tine strength, aud promote tIte heattAU
action of the stomach and intestisaes. The
nervous iTritGbiIity Of literary aud GlE
persons pursuing q sedelst0sJ tSTes IS
sgeedtIqy removed bY this agent. Inc
stomach Is restored to health end the Eea-
note of the system qyfU once more respond
S1s the performance of te6oT
Price, One Dollar, {9S large bottle, or
sEc bottles, So
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.r- ~ Washington dispatches gives the
following commission to proceed to New
Orleans and Columbia to report upon
the situation: Vice President Wheeler,
Senator David Davis and z. lockwood
Hoar, Ex-Governor Jno. G. Brown, of
Tennessee, and Kenneth Reynor, of
North Carolina.
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V The Finance Committee OF
the House of Representatives have
reduced the appropriation bill to
$4,000 less than was passed by the
last General Assembly This in
cludes the appropriations for the
running expenses OF the State for
the next two years, a net saving of
$50, 500 per annum.
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The Ambition of PodunIx.

Dedicated to School Commissioners
of the Morristown District
In Podunk, once, fever ragged
For generous education;
heayy tax the money brought W
For spreading information.
The school-houae bnilt, the way seemed
smooth;
All spoke congratulAtion;
Three stories tall, with widows high,
None finer in the nation.
Alasl great grief Just then twas found,
q wide the ennsternationD
For teachers ut one cent was left,
Aud Podunkis education.