The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-07
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
They Must have the Gazette
Snfder's Review of the
Xmas Festivities.
RUTLEDeE, Tenn, Jan %. ".


Xmas Festivities.
RUTLEDGE, Tenn, Jan %, III.
To the Editor the ATorristown Gazette:
1t has been some time since ! have
noticed an article from this precinct
in the great and good GAZETTE. so /
came to the conclusion of writing
you an epistle. informing you that
the GAZETTE is still finding its way
into these parts and is always hailed
with pleasure and profit. True, ev-
erybody doesn't subscribe and pay
in advance for it, but you bet they
all know what day it comes. thirh
waters excepted. and here they
come to see what Cousin John knows
about Hayes and Wheeler or Tilden
and Hendricks, and what our Legis-
lature is doing, whether thew have
repealed the dog law, the ten per
cent. interest law, and everything
else you can think of. The best 6f
it is, Cousin John always has some
thing new to tell them. It seems to
me would rather have a copy of
my own, but you see some folks are
so tarnation stingy that they even
eat beef feet. and some folks say they
fall out with the cooks for taking off
the hoofs and hair. l hope you have
mt any such terrible people in your
section. 81 l't5
We have had q frightful state of
affairs in this neck of the woods.
Along about Xmas times, you know,
we people get very sociabie, and we
have cuttings in the day and about
night the "young gentlemen $50
the girls call them-I call them boysl
flock in and the quilt is wound M
and then comes the fun. Were YOU
ever at one of these cuttings, Cous-
in John ? I've been there. The BOYS
chew tobacco, spit around the corner
and take little something out of a
bottle for their stomach's sake; and
the girls they dip snuff and la bless
your life, some OF them can take in
as big a hunk of long green as / can.
But after a while they get TO playing
snap, and of all the swapping and
kissing and kissing and swapping you
ever saw they do it. They have a
great many other plays. But you
know how it is-if you don't, just
come over. Well, as | was going on
to say, about Xmas time good old
soul il the neighborhood had a
thanksgiving dinner, and he thought
nothing wrong, but the truth is he
didn't ask many. So you see some
body always gets mad about such
things--(except myself) So, for
spite, | reckon, another neighbor gets
up a big quilting, and he don't ask
but few and somebody else gets
mad and determines to have a quilt.
ing and rail splitting. And he did.
MT invite many, and that makes the
neighborhood hot, Chat is, everybo.
dy but me,) so now everybody is GO
ing to have cuttings, wood-chop-
pings, rail-maulings. house-raisings.
grubbings and any and everything
you can think of. Where this great
contention will end no man knoweth.
But, they are all welcome to have
their fun. So get the GAZETTE and
clean shirt once week am o. K,
and for fear I may miss the former
fot week, here are two dollars: let
her come along regularly.
No other news of interest. Grain
crops are looking down in the mouth
and farmers are anxious to see some
pretty weather, so they can get to
preparing for another crop. No
marriages or deaths to write about,
everything quiet on the subject.
Yours, in haste, SNYDER.
2. Snow, Cousin John, don't
let the boys know WHO am. If
you do, it's farewell. SNIDER