The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-07-16
Hancock County.
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COME BUDGET.
HANCOCK InlY 7th. 1879.

HANCOCK, July 7th, 1879.
To the Editor Of the MorristOwn Gazette:
AS this is quarterly court, our people
are trying to sustain a petition for an
appropriation to build new academy,
which is greatly needed, aad it is hoped
this prospect will not 'die in the shell. ="
Harvesting is all over and the ma
chimes are beginning to operate. The
wheat crop of this section is generally
good; the quantity is not large but the
quality excellent. Oats are almost an
entire failure, which is very common
of late, except the winter oats, which
are good Corn is not looking very
promising, needing rain and badly twis-
ted.
The third session of the Mckinney
High School opens at this place the I'd
Monday in August next, and present in
dications are quite f1attering for liber-
al patronage. Who could expect any
thing to the contrary when they con
slider in whose honor the school was
named.
The great celebration of the 4th of
July at Knoxville, attracted the atten-
ton of many of the people of East Ten
nessee, and while we are ever ready to
say hurrah for the 4th of July and all
the associations connected with it, and
also commend the people of Knoxville
for the exertions put forth and prepare
tions made by them, we are slow to say
that that feeling of patriotism and love
of liberty which should warm the
5osoms of all true citizens, was mani
tested by the greater number of the at
tendants. The hardships, trials and
Affections of the heroes of 1776 should
be made a Preside conversation; the
prints of their bleeding feet at Valley
Forge should be engraVen upon the
doorsteps and hearthstones of our now
hospitable homes, their tattered gar
ments which scarce concealed their
ouivering limbs from vulgar gaze, and
gave entrance to the wintery blasts of
bleak December, should be laid side our
now comfortable Taiment as a living
reality, the blood which was shed upon
a hundred battlefields should be as a
perpetual fountain, like unto the tabled
fountain of youth, to preserve and keep
alive our respect and remembrance of
their noble deeds and in our public
demonstrations, self and local interest
should never take the lead of our minds
and cause us to disregard the grand OBJ
jeet for which we have assembled and
smother that which is so necessary to
the common welfare.
In a speech of Hon. L. c. Houk at
the extra session of the last legislature.
he said, eve have already placed our
selves right by restoring the dollar of
our daddies," which we are all ready
to acknowledge, and believe we are
placing ourselves right in many WAYS.
Laws, uniform in their nature, equal
in their application and insuring the
greatest good to the greatest number,
labor equally protected with capital,
have now become the controlling in
f1uences in the legislative councils of
our nation, and when the so called ex-
Confederate rebel, brigadier-general,
one legged, one eyed, one armed and no
ideaed Congress shall restore us to pros
perity, revive our now waning CONNER
cial interests, give us good currency
and enough of it and make a return to
the old landmarks of our country by
which we can be guided and protected
as a people, then 1--WE" will be all right
Respectfully, SNEEDvILLIAN.