The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-11-16
METROP0LITAN LETTER.
KNOXVILLE EWS-EYBNT AND
CONTENT.
AUTUMN Floaoers and E,,siLqgs- The Ne
tropolis Epreadiag-A60ut CarernS, etc.
KNoxvILLE. Nov. u, 1881

perfume, reminding us that summer
still fingers. However, this sweet
violet business is really no sign, for
they quietly bloom all through the
frosts and SHOWS of winter; but as
yet we have only had TWO light
frosts in this section, and the sweet
potato vines are as vigorous rs
ever. This long, mild autumn has
proved a great blessing tc the farm
er and the country generally, and
only those who have hogs to feed
are complaining, for an ordinary
hog will soon cat off his head, with
corn at so cents per bushel. The
few farmers that took hold of the
Ensilage business are thoroughly
ratified In reply to my question
as to what Ensilage was, an old
farmer remarked that "Ensilage was
FOOLS fodder, and was prepared at
great expense by reaping your corn
when it was about half grown, run
ming it through a cutting box, stalk
and all, after which it was slowed
away in cisterns, prepared at great
expense for the purpose, where it
went through a souring process, al
ter which it was ready to be dished
out to the innocent and unsuspect-
ing cattle" A well regulated COW,
after one mess of this 'FOol's Fod-
der" becomes so thoroughly soured
that she thenceforth gives nothing
but buttermilk. The second mess
causes her to go off Immediately in
search of a convenient spot in which
to commit suicide. Some writer in
the Knoxville Tribune states that
seattle do not take to Ensilage
readily, but after the first few mess
es they lose all taste and desire for
other food" He told The truth, and
might have added--and all desire
to live. There is very little Iutri-
ment in green fodder at the best,
and after it has been packed away
in cistern to sour, there is only
two pounds of nutriment to one ton
of Eusilage, therefore to make a
hundred pounds of flesh, ton Of
Ensilage would have to 90 into a
COW fifty times, and vice versa.
This metropolis continues to
spread herself in business and build
ing. Gay street is almost blockaded
at several points with brick and
used in building various
business palaces, among others the
large boot and shoe house of r. S.
Payne & Co.; the wholesale notion
house of Fletcher, Hall & Brazelton,
being erected especially for that
firm by Mr.. Jasper Lillard; the
drug house of Lyons,
White & Chapman, and the great
brick palace of the Virginia and
Georgia Railway Co. Another
large steam Touring mill (new pro
cess will soon be under way, run
by Mr.. J. Allen Smith. The handle |
factory is already at work, and a
paying institution. The great car
works are nearly ready to begin
operations.
Under the management Of Mayor
5taub and an efficient board of Al
lermen, the city is about out ofdebt |
md has twenty thousand dollars in
Ter treasury. Streets and fire de
)artment in good condition, ready
or the winter.
The coal ring remains unmOved,
)ut q mild winter promises to thaw
t out.
The Daily Tribune, in wandering
tround the city, has discovered a
ong hidden cave down deep under
,ur beautiful city, extending the en-
ire length of the metropolis, and
likely at any time to swallow us up.
f this is so, there is certainly a
arge opening in this neighborhood
or some person with limited means.
t has been suggested that the Tn
une man struck the Government
ever, and | rather incline to that
pinion myself, for old John Jack
avs he was here when the river
vas dug through this vicinity and
Ie sew no signs of any cave. Speak
ny of this Government sewer re
minds me that the greatest natural
in East Tennessee is the
.reat Indian cave, five miles north
f New Market, on the HoIston
liver. This cave has been explored
distance of five miles, and is filed
nth wonderful formations of rock.
talagmites rise from the floors,
ingly and in groups. In one room
lands the frozen bride, stalagmite
I the form of lady, with white
ell, seeming a statue of ice. In
mother room, called the concert
pom, stands the frozen organ, a
roup of stalagmites, joined togeth- {
: at the base, and the upper spears ,
,st to view in utter darkness re
the pipes of a great church |
,gan, all coated with ice. This
,ncert room is about eighty feet :
ide and two hundred feet long, .
fling fifty feet high, studded with =
Vulnerable stalactites, some Of :
.em reaching half way to the floor
illions of diamonds flash in ceiling
I'd wall, and the echo from a single
usical instrument is multiplied a
inbred times and becomes con-
NOUS roll Of music, as if from a Y
ore of bands. About a mile from d
e entrance is the rotunda, with
rived ceiling reaching up more Il
an hundred feet No amount o
torches can flash the diamonds in o
at ceiling; the darkness cannot be a.
creed, and tens of millions of bats is
ing there in festoons undisturbed, n
d tons of dead bats, bones and h
bris form a great mound in the ca
ltre of the rotunda. ii
After leaving the rotunda, cross ia
: the creek several times and er
nding on through fields of stalag- ra
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