The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-02-07
LoeaL Notes and .0kker Ne.es.
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The editor is off again for Nashville.
"A new bar roomat Wits Foundry
J. NJ. Dickinson has new sign.
~ Mr.. T. H. Butler, of Rogersville, is
spending a few days in the burg
st. Valentines Day next Wednes-
day Watch out boys
- Farmers have commenced operat
ing.
Rev. r. N. Price, of the Holsto1p
Methodist, was in town last week.
- If your nose itehes it is sure sign
that you are going to-scratch it.
= Invitations are out for a Dress
Promenade and Sociable at the Cain
House Thursday next.
We learn that protracted meeting
has been in progress for the last three
weeks at Wits Foundry
1t costs more to die in China than
to live, and yet lots of Cinnamon are
reckless enough to drop off every day,
The robins were singing merrily
last week, Let them sing-we love
their music.
= The springlike weather last week
set many of the farmers to breaking the
soil with ploughs.
- We regret to learn that brother
Waugh, of our town, lost very yalua-
BILE horse last week. Died for the want
of breath.
= Reecher thinks there are some men
in State Prison who are better than
some men at liberty. Henry ought to
know. t.g
If the weather is as fair this week as
it was last week, it will be an excel
lent time for our citizens to commence
preparations for gardening.
The music, composing an organ,
violin and guitar, distributed last Thurs
day night in the Court House at Mr..
Kings public reading, was, to say the
least, perfectly charming, and was high
ly appreciated by the audience
The Washington Union is responsible
for the following: GA man who drinks
and smokes at all will spend on an aver
age forty cents a day, and in thirty
years it would amount to Sc, 900, to say
nothing of the interest on the same.
Thirty thousand dollars has been
pledged to Moody and sankey for their
forthcoming revival in Boston, and &c.,
600 more is wanted to make it sure
thing.
= The ground hog did not see his
shadow last week, as the day was dark
and gloomy. Lookout for fine weather
from now on, as spring will soon burst
upon us in all its charming attractions
if the ground hog hasn't told a fib.
A deep hued rainbow was visible
here Sunday evening last for a. few min
utes, in the northeastern portion of the
sky. 1t was something very unusual at
this season of the year, and we take it
to be the forerunner of Tilden's election
as President of the United States.
- We acknowledge the receipt of the
January number of the U7etoerssty Month
ly, published by the literary societies of
the East Tennessee University, Knox
vile. 1t is handsomely printed and
ably edited. The locals are brief and to
tuG pOlLb.a OuU lOI IL
- We ask our farmer readers to pc
ruse the article on tobacco in the Haw
kins County Department of this Issue
If tobacco can be successfully cultivut-
ed in Hawkins county, we cannot see
why it may not be well grown in Ham
blen.
= L. L. Poats, Esq, of Rogersvinc,
Tenn, editor of the 'Hawkins County
Department" of this paper, was in town
last week and spent a few days with US.
He looked as youthful as he did ten
years ago, and was in his usual lively
spirits. All our readers should carefully
peruse his department each week as it
always contains valuable information.
= Our townsman, o. G.. King, Esq,
had fine audience composed of the
elite of Morristown at the Court House
on Thursday evening last to hear his
public reading. Though he had never
appeared before an audience in this ca
pacity before, he was entirely self-pos-
sessed, his voice was clear and full, his
enunciation correct, and in every. way
the entertainment was an entire success.
The manner in which he rendered
Buck Fanshaw's Funeral" "The Spell
ing School" "The Bells" "Shamus
&C., struck us as peculiarly
forcibie. We congratulate Mr.. K. upon
his success on. this occasion, and express
the hope that this is not the last time he
will favor our citizens with his enter
tanning readings. ksssaa
- Two tramp printers passed through
town last week going-where the wood
bine tWineth. One, was Frank Kidd,
who recently figured in the Knoxville
Tribune as decamping from that city |
leaving an unpaid board sill. Kidd, on
being questioned by an attache of the |
GAZETTE as to his innocence or guilt, |
said he was as innocent as saint; that
the Tribune had lied on him; that he
had ''subbedn for one Woodward in the |
office of the Tribune who owed him
more than his board bin amounted to,
and that he gave his landlady due-biH
on Woodward for the amount who /
went back on him. and did not pay it.
Of course we believed him to be telling /
the truth-in h0rn-and as we tender
ed him our sympathy without square
meal or any whisky change, he present
y waltzed out the Office and took up his
inc of march in an eastern direction.
Hotel Arrivals.
AT THE CAIN HOUSE.