The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
THORN HILL.
NBW8Y AND COSBY BUDGET

AAOA aAoAC upon 4uhAcu IfHIb 10 Duy 0UI
necessaries--coffee, salt, cotton yarns,
ETC., than upon wheat. AS Insignificant
as this trade may appear to some, there
is more money brought into the country
from the sale of dried fruit than there
is from wheat.
The farmers of this vicinity are very
backward with farming operations, but
having planted any corn as yet. We
have had so much weather, and it most
| ly damp is the principal excuse of the
lazy portion of which class your humble
servant is member in good standing
Wheat has good color-is low but
thin.
We learn that our mutual friend and
accommodating miller, w. L. Hipsher,
Esq, who was so unfortunate as to have
his main mill machinery fail to pieces,
some time ago, will soon, with his char.
acteristic go-aheaditiveness, repair his
mill in a more substantial manner. This
is contamination devoutly to be wish
ed for, as it is very serious matter to
be without meal, and have the children
cry for bread
Mr.. Crook, formerly of Hancock, is
building for himself very neat cottage
on Notchy creek, and will soon have his
cabinet shop in operation. He is said
to be fine workman We wish him
success.
Mr.. John Turnmyer, who runs two
| mills on the same creek, is erecting for
himself handsome mansion, and at the
same time, is building a neat two story
frame dwelling for our polite and eff
Gent constable, G. P Cantwell.
Mr.. John Cantwell, in the same vicin-
ity, has nearly completed his dwelling,
and several more have lumber out, con-
templating building after crops are laid
by.
A. Dalton, Esq, of Ball Point, re-
ports the hogs dying in his neighbor-
hood with that fell-destroying disease,
called by the doctors, epizootic infuen-
Ia of swine-which is sufficiently dis
tinct to avoid diagnostic confusion
better known to US country folks, how
ever, as hog cholera. We don't hear
much of its dreadful ravages immediate
ly about this place.
Capt. R. "B. Bunbren, our enterpris-
ing stock trader and successful breeder
of shorthorn cattle and fine stock gen.
orally, has lately made some sales of
blooded stock at remunerative prices.
He says that during the congressional
canvass, last fall, he had two infant
bovines calved on his farm. He named
them respectively r. L. Taylor and A.
Fl. Pettibone. He sold them both few
days ago. For Taylor he realized one
hundred dollars. Pettibone only brought
him thirty-fve dollars. He thinks there
must be something in name, and wont
name any more after defeated candi-
dates.
Capt. J. P. L. Jennings, live stock
broker of Covington, KY, who has been
rusticating for some time among us, has
returned home. 1t is reported that he
sold all his shorthorns, thoroughbred
sheep, mules and large lot of grain to
Mr.. Ford, a gentleman from the Buck
eye and furth, eSater that this sam e
gentleman bought one half or the whole
of the Judge Mayse farm-called in ante
bellum times "Merrie Oaks" 1t is con-
jectured that both Jennings and Ford
will move to this country, as the former
owns three valuable farms over here on
Clinch, and why should the latter not |
want to live in such magnifcently |
grand country as that about Beams Sta |
ton, after having bought so much prop |
erty? We would be glad to have such |
men as these settle in our
midst, and see whether it will make the |
blossom as the rose.
We have quite an interesting little
school in our quiet village, with Miss
Matte Jones, of Hawkins, as teacher
Prof. Wierman, of Lee county, Va, is
earning the young idea how to shoot,
1t Nash's Academy. The Rev McPher-
ION, of Missouri, has just closed a school
1t Lees chapel and has set up another
school at that ancient seat of learning,
farewell redivivus.
1t is very hard matter to carry on
chool in these parts probably, as the
majority of our people depend upon the
public schools entirely to educate their
thereby converting what was
Intended by our law makers as a bless
ng into curse The public schools
bout here generally last about three
months in the year. Teachers WIDELY
Incompetent are hired because they can
'e had for song-pupils do no good
nd great many parents relying solely
n the public money forget their duty
o their children, to society and to their
ountry, so far that the school ekes out
is existence and dies-hence ignorance
nd crime are on the rampage
The Revenue Brigade are making ,
ines somewhat lively about here now,
nd the professional witness is once
lore happy on three dollars per day. :
hey think Uncle Sam is rich-got no
cor kin and is monstrous good to pay
ut wo unto the poor devil who has let
is neighbor have a little tobacco for
,rghum or greenbacks. He feels but :.
i'm.
But few raftsmen who started down
le river on the last tide succeeded in
citing far, the tide leaving them, a tie
. was inevitable. Thos. Rose, Esq, :
e champion raftsman on Clinch, had
ght RATS, and is not bit happy, He
is been at considerable expense in get :
ng his logs RATED, and now wishes to =
nvert them into ready cash-that tai =
manic mastodon now ruling the world :
d half of Georgia.