The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-01
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thing do not know aud that is, who
was the author of the quotation which
he used in your last number, where he
says CT believe in the tenet that all
men were born free and equal"
have seen the same words quoted by
many of the very best scholars in the
country, fer more than forty years, yet
don't know how they can justify them
selves in making it.
Rev. Barnett Smith, man we'll known
in these parts, called upon some of his
friends in Morristown, on Tuesday last.
He is in his ninetieth year has owned
and lived on one farm more than fifty
years has always enjoyed excellent
health till he received hurt last year,
since which time he has lost prestige,
and the years, at last, seem to tell upon
him. He uses pair of spectacles which
he bought forty years ago, with which
he reads, and he says that older and
younger men have often used them. l
| tried them and found / could read fine
print. The old gentleman remarked
| that I was a young man, you know. He
says that this is the most forward season
of any he has recollection Of for fifty
| years.
When tramping tor you, last winter, l
stopped over night with w. II. Maze,
man well known to all your readers in
this county, at any rate, if not generally
within the bounds of your Tennessee
! circulation. He had a good farm, out
from MOrristOwn, some six miles OF SO,
but had just sold it to be delivered next
October. Since then he has bought
portion of the Fellows estate, near
town, and l believe intends to build up
on and improve it, as permanent resi-
dence. At the time spoken of, went
out 20 his barn and found some good
horses, among them a beautiful fHy,
now four years of age. She is bright
sorrel, well made, and 1 saw at once
that she was a superior animal. She is
of race stock, and had the misfortune
to lose her dam when only week old,
and had to be brought up by hand. In
consideration of her misfortune she was
named Orphan Girl. She is to be match
L. Gains half mile track, Saturday, May
4, merely to test her capacities as a
racer. Mr.. Howells horse was formerly
owned by the Longs, and is known as a
swift one.
Sheriff Livington tells me he has seen
many pumpkins, which, when cut open,
exhibited sprouts from seeds as long as
his finger. But he says my egg story
takes him down. Yet, since 1 wrote
that have read of a hen on Long Island
n. Y, which has lately laid tive eggs,
having one within the other, one of
which weighed six ounces. An ordi-
nary sized egg only weighs two ounces.
have in my possession a coin minted
in 1877 Such coins were quite com
mon forty years ago, and were known as
pistareens. They are Spanish, and this
one was minted during the reign of
Philip v, who was then king of Spain,
ID. G., that is, by the grace of God. 1t
was worth IS or 10 cents, but by the fiat
of our Congress only passes for fifteen
cents. Who can show me an older coin?
The "sublime statesman" Samuel
Lane, was in town last week, and called
to see me. He gave me some informa-
tion concerning that most excellent road
l wrote up two or three weeks ago. He
informed me that he quit keeping the
dollhouse on top of Clinch mountain
months ago that it had been moved
some rods below his residence to a
d" grocery" that the income of the road
was quite moderate, from which,
Judge, the amount received for toll
would only we'll keep three Nasbys in
liquor and little "pin money" be-
sides paying tell-keepers' salaries and a
few dollars for labor in throwing
dirt" on the road. Well, this being so,
what is to be done ? think that the
officers of the road ought to give up the
charter, resign, and let the miserable
thing revert to the public or some
thing else. Well, what else? Mr.. Lane
said that if the people had elected him
to the Legislatures two years ago, he
would have fixed the matter all right,
but just how, 1 did not fully under
, stand.
The sudden departure of William Cole
from our town to parts not certainly
known, took our denizens by surprise,
for he was a man who kept his business
, we'll up, and was very prompt to pay
his bills contracted here. But it seems
: that the improvements he made on the
, Rauscher property, last year, involved
him beyond his expectations, for the
times are so hard that people even con
) tract their liquor expenses, and he failed
: 20 realize satisfactory profits on his out
l lay, and after giving up that property
: and taking cheaper rent, he made ne
money. So he borrowed $3.50 of X. I
: Ravens, an cid gentleman who has beer
2 about him for year or so, week be
: fore he left, and laid his plans to get
away with his money and the proceeds
| of his stock Snd fixtures, without excit-
r ing the old gentleman's suspicion. Ht
t told him that he had an offer in Louis
4 VILE, KY, TO go into an establishment
there on a salary of 81 200 year, which
? he said was much better than he could
: do here. Mr.. Ravens knew that hi
, wife and children had been invited t.
l go to Bristol and visit old acquaintance
there, so Cole represented that his wifi
was going up there on Friday to visit
day, return here, when he and his fami
ly would go right on down to Knoxvill,
! together Saturday night, they to remain
a there and visit old acquaintance, Will,
: he went on to Louisville, prepare fo
them permanent home, and would sooI
!. return the borrowed money. But hi
> wife and family did not return from
, Bristol, and he only west as far as New