The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-30
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Morristown, Asheville and /
Spartanburg tn OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES |
Journal.
Where is brother Helms, do you say ? |
He's down here in this city looking after |
another show, and we suppose v ent of |
with it this morning. He is religiously |
imperviOus to the great advantages OF
the route via Knoxville, Morristown,
Ashville and Spartanburg. " - Tribune
and A9e.
The idiosyncrasies of the Tribune
and dye, are sometimes d-n omina-
tional, sometimes astonishing, and
always christianity amusing. Not
satisfied with attempting to lacerate
the political pulchritude of Post
master General Key, and warning
the Burbon element it represents of
the cat hid in the NEAL it has
taken upon its Hercullan shoulders
the little job of building a railroad
from Knoxville to Augusta, Ga.
We thought it one of the Tribtne's
jokes - recognizing it as another
illustration ofSthe maxim, charity
begins at home" We like the Tri-
bune and Age and are fond of it's
vim and pluck, nor can we in any
sense oppose the proposed Knox
vile and Augusta railroad. We say
all honor to the brave, true-hearted.
earnest men who have the enterprise
in hand. 1t may not be a success. but,
if a success, a glorious one it will
be to our children, and for the occa-
sional occupants of the gallery of
Staub's Opera House. Baked and
raw COOLERS will flow in. and, as the
veteran of the Tribune and Age
knows, we all "hone a ter EN-" If
it really builds the road. as it says
it will, then will come a field day in
commercial prosperity of our whole
section wherein our little ones can
enjoy the desired luxury of COOLERS
without mourning the imputation of
reckless extravaganza. But then,
if not COOLERS, why not lime. Lime,
as our granger friend knows, is one
of our greatest fertilizers. Now it
is singular fact, as the Tribune and
Age substantially charges, that for
some inexplicable reason, Provi-
dence, while creating here soil con-
stantly demanding the fertilizing
properties of lime, failed entirely
to make any provision for supplying
this want. We have, as it would
say, neither coal nor wood for fuel.
Nor have we shells or limestone to
be reduced or calcined. But then
our wide-awake contemporary pro-
poses to build a railroad from Knox
vile to Augusta, and not only place
our own family IN direct striking
distance of the goober pea market,
but open up to our enterprising farm
ers the great shell banks of the
Savannah river, and enable them to
get calcined shells, otherwise called
shell lime, at a cost of some thirty
| cents per bushel. Lov'st thou the
picture? Yea! Then on, We wise
and far seeing editor. Build for us
at once a railroad between Knoxville
and Augusta. Let the iron horse,
with wild and bounding leaps, mount
successfully the lofty SUBMITS of the
Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge.
Let solid masonry and iron ribs and
rails span and bridge the yawning
chasms and rushing rivers that inter.
vene. Impoverish your people with
a burden of debt,-and bride the
lofty aspirations of your growing
city with the incubus of municipal
taxation. Yea, build this road and
supply the numerous offspring and
patrons of the GAzETTE-a long list
that stretches to the crack of doom.
with baked COOLERS fresh from Au'
gusta, at reduced prices-supply the
farmers of East Tennessee with shell
lime at thirty cents bushel, and il
you can. occasionally, introduce a
peck or so of Georgia yams, OF
niger killers, to gladden. the house
holds of East Tennesseans, do so,
oh, wise and sapient editor. Verify
you will have your reward, Propos.
ing to penetrate the two almost in.
accessible and impossible mountain
chains, and surmount other almost
insuperab!e obstacles, is it unnatural
that the GAZETTE, having love for all
its patrons and the good of the whole
at heart, should hesitate TO say 8
word on this Railroad project. We
love Knoxville and all her people, as
we do the bridge that has carried us
safely over the chasm. But then we
can't be bulldozed, nor blufed. We
honestly think Knoxville can find q
better and cheaper outlet to the
South through Morristown than she
can through the new line proposed
% Abiding to the melancholy
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