The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-07-24
OUR KNOXVILLE LETTER,


WARNING TO CHAT
TANOOGA-A FINE NEW RESI-
DENOE- WE'LL, &c.
KNOXVILLE, July goth, 1878.
To the Editor Of the MOrristown Gazette:
Since the United States Signal Office
was first established in Knoxville, we
have enjoyed very little satisfactory
weather, and at the present writing, al
though "Old Prob" predicts clear and
cloudy weather and local showers, we
keep driving along without either, the
thermometer all the time marking from
90 to 96 degrees, varying more or less, &C
cording to its distance from ''murky"
meeting. I have no idea what the ba
rometer is doing bursted, very likely,
or we would have more temperature
mixed with our judicial canvass.
AS the dancing proceeds. and the can
vass for Judge of the Criminal Court
wakes warm between the present Judge
and Attorney General, the people now
and then get a glimpse behind the cur
tain, and begin to learn what an expen-
sive luxury this piece of tyranny called
Criminal Court is, and will shortly turn
their attention toward its adjustment.
The idea of quart of buttermilk, and
things of like density, costing the peo-
pie of this county two hundred dollars
a clip, is becoming burdensome, and no
matter who is elected Judge at the en-
suing election, whether Democrat or
80 hn CIafn
meets, steps will be taken by the people
for the Establishment of the nuisance and
fraud. Fifteen hundred men, hereto
fore employed rs professional jurymen,
! and dead beats generally, can then turn
their attention to cultivating sorghum,
or some other tropical fruit.
The ice manufacturing machine is now
in operation, and change in the wealth
er is likely to take place. The "Mur-
ply" movement gains Roadway, aud
over four thousand of our citizens are
wearing the badge of blue. Some make
a great sacrifice in joining, but the ma
jorlty join simply for the sake of setting
the former a good example. 1t costs
nothing, and that feature alone causes a
a great deal of enthusiasm among GER
tain parties who would otherwise keep
still Good men and true are leading
the movement, and great good has al
ready been accomplished. in that we had
neither drunkenness, political speeches,
nor fireworks on the Fourth. The work
will now be carried into Africa, as the
nights become cooler.
Mr.. Franklin Smith, President of the
"Board of Aid to Land Ownership" an
association of Boston capitalists, organ
ICED with a view of purchasing large
tracts of unoccupied land and oolonizing
it from New England and other points,
will be in our city in few days, his
family accompanying Kim. He will
probably make this his headquarters
while turning his attention to the invit-
ing pIateaus of the Cumberland mount
aims along the line of the Cincinnati
Southern. Ourpeople will welcome Mr.. |
Smith among them, and take pleasure |
in giving information and lending every |
assistance to such laudable enterprise. |
He comes highly recommended as gen.
tleman and a scholar.
The editor of the Tribune is out can
wasting for the GubernatoriaI nomina-
ton, and the editor of the Chronicle for |
Congress. This leaves both our dailies /
without head at one end. Both are .
good papers, with good heads; in fact,
the beat in the City of their respective
politics. The Young Democracy are for
Col. Fleming for Governor, and reck-
on we may as well send him up to the
unfortunately, Radical, and We have
concluded to let him continue in the
Post-office, and send Col. Will Hender-
son to occupy Col ThOrnburg's chair in
Congress. Judge Houk will, probably,
be on our side, and give us lift in the
matter. Judge Joe Lewis will occupy
the Office of County Court Clerk for an
other term, and poor York will retire to
the shade of the great rock-the Custom
House.
Now we have tao Federal Courts in
session, at this place, grinding away on
the lunar whisky fellows, or anything
else that happens to turn up. These
courts manage to keep a sufficient num-
Der of cases ahead to consume all the
money set apart for that purpose. One
half of the money in the United States
is spent in the manufacture and con-
sumption of liquor, and the other half
in machinery to prevent it, and this con-
tinual absorption and oppression will
soon strengthen the desire for mon
archy, or some other mild form of gov
eminent. There is not tyrant upon
the face of the earth that wields the
power, or Expresses the people, as our
Federal Courts.
Several of our wholesale merchants
have recently returned from a camping,
hunting and fishing excursion among
the mountains of North Carolina. They
report lots of fun and great success.
They captured over two thousand speck-
led trout, and although they were with
in gun-shot of a great many deer, they
from shooting them, on &C
count of sex. They went out to kill
buck, and as all they saw were nice fat
does, they refused to shoot them. The
drug merchan: gave me vivid descrip-
ton of their first fishing excursion
how, in the excitement, they forgot the
day of the week, and how he was put in
by a sudden flop over on
lick sloping rock, the kerehug, the
lucking, and the yell, ''to your tents,
D fishermen, il 9 Sunday This mer-
:hant can talk to your Harris Relief {,
md describe TO you the leaping waters,
whirl-pooIs, and giants of the
and poplars eight feet