The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-04

4 NEWyY LETTER FROM sIEAD

A NEWBY LETTER FROM SIHAD.
THORN HILL, Tenn, May 3Oth, 1879.
To the Editor OF tho Morrlstown Gazette:
The wheat prospect very gloomy about
here. Ditto peach and apple crops, and
sorry are we.
Farmers are very busy working over
corn. Occasionally we see q sheep or cat
tie buyer passing about with the
"greens" wanting stock and finding but
little to sell.
A few lots of poor mules have lately
passed our place en- route to the corn
regions on Chucky or French Broad, to
fatten for the winter market.
A drove of fine horses passed here a
few days ago going South, the first of
the season. We scarcely ever see any
drovers going to market sooner than
August. d.
There is pretty lively time about
here in the line matrimonial. Since
your Morristown gallant, Frank Cain,
set the ball in motion, several others
have followed suit, too tedious to men
ton. Others we learn have the time set
to launch their banks on the sea of con-
nubial felicity. 1t is feared if there is
not a stop put to this thing, that our
handsome, polite and affable young
bachelor friend, Nathan Monroe, will
be caught in loves embraces-symptOms
already being manifest. One case how
ever deserves special mention where the
cruel "parieuts" were opposed to the
union. That one was wherein James
Dalton was the hero and Miss Cain the
heroine. James did not take her ga ct
GrnaGs' but reSorted to stratagem, and
after the two had been made one &C
cording to the laws of Tennessee, the
irate pAter familias having relented,
followed the marriage train to the Unfair
and joined heartily in the festivities.
We endorse Poats on the niger exod-
us, and would just say, that we will
not hinder, modest, or make afraid any
colored "gemen" who, deeming himself
prosecuted for his political opinions by
us terrible rebels, wishes to better his
condition by trying the realities of
Northern philanthropy. Yes, by all
means, go to Kansas or wherever you
will. Here in East Tennessee we will
endeavor to outlive the deprivation,
even if our cotton fields and sugar plan
tations grow up with weeds. =" Let
them depart in peace.
Well, John G. E, the honey man, has
gotten himself into business at last.
Went and bought the noted Beans
Station black jack Turnpike. He now
will have to take all the cursing that has
usually been heaped upon both the
Commissioners and Gate Keeper-he
being both overseer and toll receiver.
His path will evidently not be strown
with flowers nor will the abuse of a
! travelling public be as pleasant to swal-
low as that delicious honey he is almost
daily taking from the busy little bees
Wonder if the GAZETTE Editor descend
ed the mountain in safety. The pre-
sumption would be, however, that he
procured a patent India rubber seat
having been advised of the profits of
such trip by Bric-a-Brac and others.
Having read in your valuable paper
the account of that old snake 1877 years
old, on the Wolf Greek road we wish
to inquire if your informant is not q
| lineal descendant of that old Prince of
| Munchausenism in s. c., a few of whose
yarns you published some years ago.
| The same one who threw the Kentucky
bullock over a two story house to
| brighten his antagonist, and who said
| he cut bee tree i'm the mountains of s.
| O.. which was SO large that he and his
brother cut away steadily for two weeks
| before they could hear each others axes;
| that when the tree fell it burst over a
mountain Creek, and there was so much
honey in it that the stream ran metheg-
lin for two weeks, even a half mile
above where the tree fell.
SIVAD.
THORN HILL, May 80, 1879.
P. S.-Capt r. B. Bundren has just
sold thoroughbred Dull-"Duke of
| Granger - to Joseph Beeler, Messy
Greek for 800. The calf is only two
Ynonths old