The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
ME1ROPOLITAN D e TIER
KNOXVILLE NE VS. VENT AND
COMMENT
KNoxvMLE, Oct. Is SSH


this year, and has counteracted the
failure in wheat and corn, and there
is more money=in the hands OF the
middle classes than at any time
since the war la addition. to this
income. hundreds of thousands of
dollars are being distributed among
the people by the railroads now I'M
der contract and being pushed to
completion throughout East Tennes-
see. sz
When we think for a moment
and remember that all of these
thousands flow down upon this
metropolis, and, in addition, the rev
enue from marble, iron, zinc, timber
and coal, it is easy to account for
the great boom and unprecedented
rush of business that blockades our
business houses and oyerfows and
throngs our thoroughfares. Gay
street is crowded from morning un-
til late at night with q multitude of
people, reminding one of protract-
ed fourth Of July.
Handsome business houses and
palatial residences spring up as if
by magic, until all of our vacant lots
have disappeared, and the city
moves on toward the ridges that
few years since looked so far away.
The Third Presbyterian church,
that a few years ago was in the far
thermost edge of the city, will soon
occupy the central ground and the
Courier-J OurndI man did not miss
it far when he predicted that in
twenty five years Knoxville. would
have a population Of from one hun.
dred and fifty to two hundred thous-
and
Waterworls, that we have so long
needed, are soon to be under way,
and by the first Of June next, we can
flush our streets and Critters with
water from the HoIston, and aban-
don all stronger liquids except for
drinking purposes, Liquids are
having a tight time oft, and some
of our bar-rooms, after staggering
around for a period, have finally
gone down under the heavy privil-
eye taxes allowed by the last legis
lature. State, $50 county, S15G
corporation, 5000, besides the adj
valorum tax, making in all about
$3.50 per annum-which would al
most stagger a sober institution, to
say nothing Of one that was inclined
to stagger naturally.
o. L. QUO 1NnnI = or
over the question as to T'WhO's got
the thimbIe," but the thimble has
not arose as yet. In other words
the city owned one hundred thOus-
and dollars stock in the x. 4 Q.
RR. that was sold some time since
to the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road at the rate Of SO cents
on the dollar, and the directors hav-
ing never paid over the ninety-six
thousand dollars due the city. as
proceeds of this sale, the city fathers
are about to institute search for
these stray dollars.
The Knoxville coal ring remains
unbroken, and our citizens will be
compelled to pay more for coal, that
lays in sight Of the city, than Chat
tanooga a hundred miles distant
pays for the same coal. Another
winter, and the poor of Knoxville
will pay nine dollars per car for
each car load of coal from Coal
Creek, distance of only 30 miles,
when the same railroad company
runs the same coal into Chattanoo-
ga, distance of 142 miles, for three |
dollars per car load Our citizens |
should, by all means, give another
banquet. Banquets allay all trOub- |
les, and reconcile people to burdens
that would otherwise be hard to
bear; therefore, another banquet is
now in order to wash down these /
that will loom up. Ban
quetl banquet Somebody give us
one, quick!
Our next legislature should pass
some suitable law regulating the
druggists and physicians. Only a
few years ago, a most beautiful and |
lady of this city came to
an untimely death by the careless
ness of a laundering prescrptionist,
and now we have another instance
IN the case of Mrs. Alex. Kennedy, |
who, a few days since, narrowly es-
capped a horrible death-having
aiken blue mass in large quantities,
instead of Blaus mass, as the pre-
icription ca led for.
"Dead people tell no tales" The
wo instances above mentioned, were
among those caught up with by
mere accident, and the question
naturally arises, how many of these
,lunders are covered by the sod /.
md the dust?
Prescriptionists should be re I,
Iuired to show diplomas of grad !
Iation from some authorized insti-
ution, and also be required to I'M :
Iergo a rigid examination before {
hey are allowed to compound pre-
,
Physicians should be required to =,
yrite legible hand, understand the
lnglish language, and write their
EOSC1I pOlOHS III pIdlu LILLE ISL :
There is about as much sense
and a great deal less danger) in a
arty drawing an order on his gro Q
or, in Latin, as for a physician to 4
raw an order on a druggist for c
eadly poisons in Latin. Latin is p
brush-pile under which plumbers 81
IN hide, like chickens from a hawk, q
nd escape detection. l
Some weeks since a colored man f
II from an upper window on to the o
nooth pavement of Gay street, and NJ
as picked up dead. A negro wo- II
an said he was asleep in the win al
wv and fell out. 1t was late at I'll
ght There was a square hole e
ashed through his skull The dt
lvement where he struck was W
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