The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-07-23
NOORESBBR re SPRING.

Ever since we have been in Morristown
we have heard our neighbors and the
public speak in the most positive man
ner of the great healing properties Of
this water andsins the NEST lavish and
extravagant terms of the picturesque
surroundings OF the Spring. we are no
invalid, yet we yearned to see the place.
So, we confess we were proud when our
too partial friend, Col. J. M. Bewley,
invited US to a seat in his new buggy
turnout, drawn by his splendid young
thoroughbreds, Dexter and Bob Taylor,
last Saturday, bound for that place
Leaving Morristown after eight o'clock,
a. m, we reached the famous resort
long before noon, distance of sixteen
miles. We have not room or time, at
this hour, to give the history of the
place it merits. The hour of our return
home necessitates other duties, and we
are forced to be brief, if we are notcon.
else. The water here is chalybeate,
strongly tinctured with iron. There
has never been an analysis of it, Yet,
if learned physicians who have recon.
mended it so cordially, are to be behev.
ed, the water has extraordinary medici
nal qualities for the cure of many dis.
eases, especially those peculiar to fe.
/ males There are now fifteen comfort
able camps or cottages surrounding the
/ Spring, besides the hotel, a larger and
more commodious building, intended
| for the accommodation of transient
guests. The hotel is kept by Mr.. Hugh
! G. Williams, of Mooresburg. Mr.. and
Mrs Williams leave nothing undone
for the comfort fstheir guests, and their
table is supplied with all the neccssaries
4 and many of the Injuries of life. In
/ commencing this hotel to the patronage
of the visitor, we do it because we be.
lieve it deserves it. We paid the cash
for our sojourn at the hotel, so this can
not be taken as dead head complimenti
A census of the cottages last Saturday
showed a population of So. -Four came
in on Sunday. All the invaiids are i'm
proving. Mrs. Col. J. M. Bewley is
able to walk through the grounds, and
is very much improved in health. Mrs.
Dan Briscoe climbed to the top of the
mountain last Saturday, Gan almost per-
| pendicular ascent of one mile,) a jour
ney on which the editor of the GAZETTE
confessss he was too cautious to accom-
pany her. In short, every one there
seems to BEN fact are-improving.
Sunday, Rev. D. w. Carter, pastor of
the .Morristown Southern Methodist
Church, who has been here for a week,
preached in the parlor of the hotel. He
had for a congregation nearly every one
encamped and many visitors from the
country His sermon was one of the
most appropriate and applicable pre-
sentiments we ever listened to. His text
was Zach. 1871. The subject was the
Fountain of Life. He spoke of the
beneficence of the man who had given
this great healing spring to the public
of this land during time, and held up in
contrast the Fountain of Life offered by
our Savior TO all men for Eternity. We
have not room, if we dared attempt a
resume of his. argument. We never
listened to a more condensed, eloquent
and inspiring discourse. Carter is one
Of the most original and close thinkers
of the young ministers of the church,
and it he only cares for his health will
receive higher hOnors in the future, but
not more than he will be found worthy
to receive.
Going to the Spring from here, we
crossed at Johnson's ford. Returning,
we crossed at Anderson's ford, and came
home by way of Russellyille. Evidence
of the great drought on both routes is
distressing. The corn and grasses are
literally burnt up. The hitherto finest
meadows resemble sedge fields in the
fall and could be as easily fired and
burnt up. One half the meadows will
not be cut. The corn amounts to abso-
lutely nothing unless rain falls soon,
and then it would not be half crop.