The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-01
LETTERS or Il TOYAGER.
ON .Sfip1AtHS IND THINGS As
T4LhEI~ GONE.
LETTER II
OK FlIls Vine, May 2s, 1881.


good er'sngh to give Place TO MY nasty,
incoherent, waysfde note of last week,
and to label it 9 No. /, f" the inference is
that you are looking out for " No. q TO
! follow Well, I presume you have duly
appreciated The peril and counted the
cost of opening your columns and Civ
/ ing loose rein to one who, in years gone
/ by, was IN SOME degree afflicted with
the "newspapcr fevcrN'-a malady that,
! Ike an old toper's weakness, knows no
Limitation. So, if you have incautious-
! Iy put your foot in it, this time, you
! were old enough to have known better,
and mt st endure the consequences like
philosopher. For, as wander up
and down" through this Roodly land, ]
intend that you shall, ever and anon,
hear from me.
THE " GOOD TIME COMING FOR MORRIS
| TOWN NOW AT HAND.
You will remember spoke Of Nor
ristown and its encouraging prospects.
As passed on up the road, and reflect
cd upon the history of railroad con-
strnctiOn in East Tednessee, could not
but think what mistake MorrfstOwn
had matte IN the direction given TO her
first enterprise. I mean mistske in the
light of the present day, and not as con-
ditions existed twenty-five years ago
Just consider, my dear sir, If it were
possible to lift up the entire road from
MorristOwn to Wolf Creek, and " turn
it over" towards Cumberland Gap, how
much more it would be worth 20 yOnr
town, Just at his jancture{ Could such
a reversal take place, Morristown would
at once hold the key to the whole North
western situation, But twenty years
ago, the Cincinnati Southern existed
only in widest, vaguest dreams. The
Louisville Lebanon branch was serious
ly contemplated only as a short way
Side feeder TO the trunk line. There was
little, if any, indueement to tempt East
Tennessee investments norlhward except
possibly as in the case Of the 4. and K.
tnow K. and o. road, to reach a coal
bank or an iron bed. Thea, ali the hopes
and energies of East Tennessee turned
to the South, and, remembering all the
circumstances and conditions of that
time, have no criticism to make upon
the sagacity of the projectors and build
ers of the Buncombc" road. Only,
wouldn't it be splendid thing if you
were now running to the Gap instead of
would be already assured
and the "BuncOmbc" would necessarily
spring mt once into renewed existence.
But, he patient "There's good time
John, in spite OF all hindran-t
ces. That "blarsted war" reversed the
Of development, in many ways,
but in none more marked than in refer
eucc to the completion of East Tenncs-
sees communications with the outside
" orld.
But enough Of this, fnr The present. /
At another time, perhaps, l will try to !
show you that the Northwest-one in |
terest or another-in pressing toward +!
the sea-beard will necessarily lake Nor
ristown in its route.
AN " INCIDENT" 1OT FCT DOWN on TIE
PROGRAMME,
Well, I really have almost begun to !
feel that / was again at Tom Gains and, |
'ancying myself denizen of the city !
hat is to bc, have caught the spirit of .
ocal expectations. l am but poor re-
.ailer of incidents of travel" but, j /
must tell you that after shaking hands /
With you last week, met at the "JunC- /
ion" quite a number of persons return
ng from the Sunday School Convention
It ROgersville l was struck with the
of youth in the party.
They were mainly gallant looking young
nen aud charming young ladies. In
Iced, had not been otherwise inform +
d, must have mistaken them for gay
oarty Of 'pick. nickcrs" returning from
heir woodland sports. Passing on nip
oward Greeneville-tO which place the
arrest sect ION seemed destined-I could
Tot help overwhelming and becOHing in
crested in the "car-talk" all around
ne. It was my fortune TO be seated near
hree or four rs sweet looking blossoms
s ever grew in the rose bud garden of
iris. " 1t wat,manifest from sundry sub
ued and mys teriously vague utteranees
which now and then broke upon my ear,
hat something romantic" had happen
d. An old "clIRiOsityh is as curious as
young one, so, falling in with com
g de- egate" pumped to
he extent of asrertaining that, while
he Sunday School business was in full /
last ct Rogersville, a somewhat embar-
assing fasco had taken place in regard
o subject" not down in the pro
It seems that certain CAT
ow youth-a good Sunday School boy
Who shall here lie nameless, but whose
business visits to an upper East Tennes-
zee town, had become spoOncy" to the
,xtent ofiavishiug all the softer feelings
If his young heart upon "the pride of
he village" His ardent wooings had
Ieen vain, though oft she did smile upon
lin. Quietly, yet sadly, though not al
ogether hopelessIy, he had nursed his
wounded love. At Rogersville, through
he mere coincidence that both were
delegates, the two met. Young Knox
yille, perhaps, relying, in his fresh
ropes, upon the new tie that binds,
&c. returned to the seige and again pro
,nsed. Yes was the thrilling re.