The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-08-07
TEXAS.
An Interesting Letter from a
MOrristOwn Man Now in North
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MOrristOwn Man Now in North
ern Texas. g aaes 5s-alea
GANsvnLE, COOKE Co., Texas,
July 14th, 1873.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette
How better devote this bright ant
beautiful evening, as balmy as tht
breath of God, in this far-off Wes
tern wild, than to a redemption ot
my promise to write you from my
new-found home in Texas, especial
Iy when it's fullflment harmonises
so genially, SO gratifyingly with the
promptings of my our kindly re-
membranes Of my distinguished
friend, the clever Editor of the Nor
ristown GAZETTE. Having been for
10 these 40 years a regular reader
of the editorials of the leading pa
pers of the Union, I hope you will
pardon me for herein recording what
[ have so often expressed to you
''face to face" viz {: that the leaders
Of the GAZETTE compare favorably
with those of the best papers Of the
North. South, East or West, both
in style and craftsmanship; and
know of no instrumentality acces.
sible to the people of your section,
so well calculated to enlighten them
in their duties of citizenship and
their publical obligations to their
State and their common country.
trust the ''tardy justice so long de-
layed, yet SO eminently due to the
we'll digested columns, will be speed
lily accorded it in liberal and self.
improving patronage. If it were
not stirring the blade in the
wound" | would like to ink these
lines with tears of coincidence with
you in the affective dispensation
that has so recently left your hours
Of retirement and your sacred hearth
stone lonely and desolate. But if
the wound is healing, 'twere merci-
less to do so now. So, wishing you
ell the consolation derivable from
the philosophical conviction Qong
ago matured in my own mind), that
the dead, however dear, are far bet.
ter off than the living, agonised with
every trouble flesh is heir to-" I
return to my object. After stepping
into the train at Morristown, and
recovering somewhat from the de-
preston Of parting for the last time
On earth from those with whom I
had been SO long and so pleasantly
there, betook me to my
Did habit of casting an ebseryant
aye upon everything "en route"
md l regret to record it here that,
hoagh blest with a beautiful ooun.
,ry, genial climate and abundant
'ecources for fertilizing a speedily
mprovable soil, the agriculture Of
CAST Tennessee Is reproach to its
enlightened people. With lime rock
bounding to almost an obstrnc-
ion, and fuel iavitingly at hand on
very hill, yet hardly a ton Of the
ormer is ever calcined except for
purposes Of masonry. / am the
more induced to these remarks since
ny visit to this much -written-up,
nuch-over-rated Northern Texas.
+ you will cast your eye upon the
nap of Texas you will see that 1
IN now iuditing this at "a point near.
Y 40 miles West of Sherman, and
m manuscripting on my knee in a
title one.horse, 9x12 Bookstore
nd News Depot. major-domo ed by /.
n old steam boat captain of Red
Iver, who says he is here simply
holding on by the willows" till the =.
nancial pillows cease to gurgle J
bout his 'chin now just above wa
sr," when he hopes to betake him.
elf to a patch of the boundless and
eautifuI but not far from barren
rairie that envirous this locality.
ar advanced in years, and but i'll.
osted in agricultural processes, he :,
going to s'leap from the frying
IN into the fire. 'fFo such base ,
ses do we come at last, Horatio p :
The mere landscape scenery of
ese boundless prairies at this sea.
m Of the year, will admit, is i'm.
,singly beautiful. The undula. :
ons soft. and clad with gentIest :
,rdure, are fecked with countless ?
,ards Of horses and cattle. reyel- :
lg in its welcome pastnrage, while : :,
ong their perennial streams um- '
ageous elms and the everlasting ! !
irdoek break the monotony, and 81
1ord them shade from the scorch. Il
9 sun; but ..all is not gold that e
itters. The roads are now smooth a
d firm and one cans in the dim 4
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