The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-12-20
DoTNGS ~ HANCOCK c0UNTY
BLAcKwArER, Tenn, Dec.12,

To the Editor of The Morristown GaEette:O Z
A Notable DEPARTURE. $50 i
Has the attractive comet lost its att
traction to other planets, and gone into
the sun to feed that central fire 40 Do
we hear general ramblfng and elank-
ing of she coming.together of the &c "a
tiers, acknowledgements, poles, equatorsy
parallels, meridians, ,s'oceans, isles
and frozen. poles.?'' Is. it locust, kStyo1
did and jarfly time, and the birds, flies
and soforth making the woods ring with
music Are mother Shipton's propiie-
cies reality, and are We witnessing a
gee eral tear up If everything ? No.
Well, what theme Why, it is the echo7
ing and reyerberating of tin pans pillow
clevises, fidiles, banioes, French harps,
frecrackers, torpedoes, muskets, COW
bells and chin music. John Davis, ESQ. :
of Snecdville, is married 70 Miss Hamie
Percell, and this is the serenadss.s 1T
beats anything we've heard OF for 10,
these many years--since the battle of
Waterloo. From 'coosih ohn's age and
experience, and Buhyan-like disposition,
we predict for him a. bright aud happy
future We wish, him and his better,
half a cheerful jaunt through this life.
May their joys'b be many and Increasing
and without a cloud III float gthwartt
their social sky; ard we trust that they
will sympathiZe with as old ,deformed
bachelors and crOss-eyed, maidens, who
havt, while since, abandoned all ideas
of our being lifted from the ruefuE
abiding place # Mondays darfingn
before going into the ''seari and yellow,
leaf" of life. .r< sa-re1 sns4Glft.A :
ANOTHER MARRIAGE. .trt.,
We had another noted wedding IN the
neIghborhood Of f3la kwater postoffice
on Sunday, the 10th inst Mr.. General
AmpudIa P. Bowlin was married to
Miss Lucy N: Bell. This was grand
wedding, but like the melodies of a
papaw whistle-sweet and Understandable.
We regret to give the General up, but Il
guess we will have TO hand hum over.
As we shake the Generals hand an exit,
the airs stand oneoar cheeks, like the
beads hanging on a ladies cloak lis
hard to- say farewell, but General, adien
- Boo-hoe , IE r5-FH Pests! -
A DANGEROUS AFFLIcTIoN. ,iiif
The mumps are raging in, this county
This is the only disease we know of that
Will restore skinny men" to the looks
Of stalwart. The why shapenest faced
| men will have faces as rnundand plump
as he face of a lestrbeer merchant
| after owning the lnumps q few days
/ Wonder if there is any disease that will
! cure trough on rats %
I. "A CHRISTMAS TREE!f 9dlo@
We are going to- aveC a hChri5tnnas
/ tree at Blackwater Seminary next S9tuf
/ day, Which is TO be, loaded with fodder
beans, dried pumpkins, stiaw hats, can
! dies Sci, SC q! f'tki3 tlih l''u 90
~. III STILL UCD01T. i08',oFh
1t is a strange thing how lcentrifuga
and CENTRIC tai forces act Z against, eac |
! other and keep the earth forever neyolV
ing around the sun but the stranges
thing We ever studied about IL INV ybl
can publish such largeI good and in
tercsting weekly as TUE GAzETrECfO
one dollar and fifty cents q year. ~ ou
Hancock readers class your paper tn
best weekly paper in e st Tennessee.
4 WHAT BEAT BEwBEF. a7t',3 !"
The reason Hawkins and Pettibun'
got such MAORI les over Bate and Tay
| Tor in this county was because Tia
Democrats did not poll their full
strength, and the reason Capt iisewley
didn't get a better vote here was becaus
the people never saw him, and the part.
| run him off the track ia some places an,
!
! tail of the ticket for FloateFi We pre-
dict that the Hon. Big JOss will hes
candidate for Floaterial honors be mex
two years, and if we were in Bewlel
place we would see What goes on tf
tail of his ticket. Let his mime float II
yearfond remembranee,C Captain fto
LOGS AND LoGGING! 491H,I
Logging is being carried on briskll
along the waters of Clinch river. Their
will be enough logs run to market froti
this county this winter and spring Il
amount o three hundred and fifty mil
lions of dollars, This will put eaongi
of money into circulation to-, make j
easy to come at, aud a man that can
get money to buy his license. tlfen ain
worth later p4ielins.1 We know of on,
man that has eight millions of dollar
worth of logs o. hand now, land he j
still logging s..5;dea .,.,..y ysff
~ We want an improvement in tn,
school system. We havn'r any gOot
SCHOOLS ia this cGunty-TSneedVille coulG
afford a good school, If it didn't carr,
everything into politics. We viii hav'
to lay political prejutlices aside befor
we can ever turn a wheel in the educa
tionhl cause! 1l.9.s III fasg1t .Qn07A
A COUPLE OF FRACAsEss d 4 :.
/ A difficulty occurred between Dicl
Fields and George Rogers d few day
ago, in " hich Fields received knife cut
and Rogers was struck Ia the lead an
knocked sepseless.a The recovery "a
both is thought to. be uncertain, TAi
took place ia the upper end Of thi
d county. 49,
Another small. difficulty occurred hrs
week between Hap Gross and JohI
Comes, just across the line in Virginia
They were both fatally wounded, an.
there was blood split and the grounl
tore up geherally. DICK.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRF0i
A CONTRAST WITH TEE NORTH AND souTI