The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-11-07
Il VISIT TO CUMBERLAND
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LNLSGENOES OF THE LATE WAR.
TO the Editor of the .Morristown Gazette:
MINERAL HUI, ~
is the first place of interest to the tour
list who proposes visiting the historic
Cumberland by way of that inimitable
line of travel, Gnimitable for what
Gracious y the turnpike, +" frsm Norris
town to where three States join hands.
: This watering place is deservedly q
popular resort. The medicinal virtues
of its waters, healthiness of location,
grandeur of surrounding scenery, and
the superior excellence of its hotel ac-
commodations are such as to encourage
the belief that Mineral Hill will yet RI
val Montvale and Lee Springs Mr.
Tate, the Proprietor, is in the right
place. t-
THE Toll GATE
on top of the famous Clinch, where the
jostled traveller is permitted to reflect
en- the felt scenes of the hour previous,
as newell, as he clambered over that
portion OF the States internal improve;
ments-this before depositing half dol
lar with the polite Treasury of the Turn
pike Company, for the privilege of en-
joying such a luxury LIE you have new
er seen the stars in the daytime, and
want to see them, you can have your Gu
riosity satisfied on this line. Or if you
imagine that you are full of patience
and charity, and that Job and Paul were
joking about their trials and consequent
patience, just try this part of the path
way through life and if there is any of
old Satan in you he will show himself.
Try it. If it were not for the inspiring
scenery that stretches out so grandly to
the North and South, one would be lily
qualified to cross to the other side and
enter upon the duties of Conference,
an Association or Presbytery, or the
driving of stock. e
TAzEWELL.
The home of the Fulkersons, the Ora
hams, the Pattersons, the Evanses the
Browns, the Epses, and others of merit !!
Some of those, the once pride of the So
cial circle, the ornament of the bar,
have gone. The hand of time has scat
tered them. Some remain behind and
| the grand old town-her streets and
buildings-call up those who are no
more, making her very rocks and soil
sacred.
New spirits are rising up to take the
place of those who haYe been called
home. Among the baIristers, who fol-
low in the footsteps of an Evans and
others, are Col. Robt. Patterson, Wiley
Carr, Ham. Fulkerson fthe worthy States
Attorney, Treecy, Hon. Mr.. Rogers,
present Representative of Claiborne and
Hancock counties, and some personally
unknown to me. Here Ed. Stern, SO
well known to the people of Hamblen
and Jefferson, resides the happiest of
men. Who could not be, thus circum-
stanced? He is the same genial soul of
ante-bellum days. Twenty-eight miles
from the railroad yet lively interesting
town is Tazewell. If hungry stop with
Tip Cottrell and he will not bankrupt
you for staying all night; if down with
the blues, inclined to send for arsenic,
send, first, for Tom Fulkerson, just
across the street, and if there is any
chance for your life he will save you.
He is no NJ d., but the cleVerest wit
and humorist outside of Old John Rob-
inson's great show.
CLICK! CLICK BANG
Icould almost hear, as I passed the
tragic ground where the "Ashby flag of
trucen was ambushed in 1863 Riding
merrily along, all unconscious. of their
fate, were these gay cavaliers, when, all
of sudden, the musket-cliek aud the
command, "Fire % turned their joy into
mourning and death groans. There the
soil drank the life-blood of the youthful
Kimbrough and Moody. How fatal the
mistake. When known, ''the boys in
blue and gray, shed their tears together
over the mangled braves.
PowELL's VALLEY,
fast becoming the recognized rival of
Tennessee's fairest lands, is the home of
the Pattersons, the Harbersons, the Nor
risons and their like. Col Patterson,
son of Gen. Patterson, of Philadelphia,
has located here since the war. A val
liable addition. A cultivated, polished
gentleman.
This valley, as much of the lands aG-
jacent Tazewell, is in a high state of
cultivation. l was told that the finan-
cial and agricultural outlook of old
Claiborne has not been so hopeful since
the war. The secret of the improve
ment is that the people are tilling their
lands and keeping out of debt.
REMEMBERED
are the faces of many noble citizens who
opened wide their doors of hospitality,
and, lightened, by their civility, the
SORROWS and heart-burdens of the soldier
boy. I stand upon a thresh-hold of a
Newley. But he Is not there to .blandly
welcome me as was his wont to do.
Just across the road, beneath the shade
of favorite apple tree he rests inpeace
| And fair Nellie, the, beautiful and &C
complished daughter, the soldiers friend
and the fathers JOY, she's gone. Even
in death she is beside her loved sire and
back to one common dust they are to-
gether rapidly crumbHng. e
| Still. LIVING, So.
is the noble hearted son, win. Hard
by the old homestead, ina neat cottage
as if to keep watch ever the sacred dust
of dear parents and loving sister,
dwells this warm-hearted, noble son.
More fortunate than many of his COM
rades, he has a charming wife and two
sweet little daughters TO make merry his
latter days. More fortunate, I suppose,
because Drawer, for he yentured over
into Harlan. And true the old proved b,