The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-11-29
NOTES FROM HANCOCK.

BLAcKwATER, Tenn, Nov. 90, 81.
To the Editor Of The Morri-towa Gazette:
It has been quite while since you've
bad anything in The way Of letter from
this part Of loyal old Hancock county,
so I will eudeavor 70 break the silence
by penning this little dab of items.
What has become Of your many and
spicy correspondents A.? / would love 10
r al letters from Big Ike" 'Brick-a-
Brack," "Savboues," Saw Roans,'
"Clod Hopper" "Clinch," "Snider"
and others. "Clinch" is the only one
/ have heard OF In a coon's age, and lie
has gone Republican by one majority, 50
am tsld.
Wonder If the members of the Ten
nessee Legislature can find flaw in the
recent gerrymandering Of the State Of
Tennessee, or Will we have to visit till
the census is taken again We ave
growing weary and heart sick Of being
/ exiled from the kingdom Of Democracy.
/ Hancock county Is only represented ia
/ tho haatsrial listric-, and we've got the
/ Floatcr, notwithstanding the majority
Of TIE people of this ne ghbprhood laid
'em in for Bewl,.
There is a general op nion among the
people Of this county that Pc tibone
can get pensions for Ex Federal soldiers
without proof or perjury. II this
proves TO be true, we shall Took for the
5stter Hue element Of the Republican
party to n cd the country with silver
dollars almost as rum, rous as pearl
buttons A. the button factory AZ Mary
vile, Tenn.
| Well, we were beaten in the First
Congressional District Of Tennessee,
bur we will achieve a victory in the
Presidential race two years from now,
over which We can crow our DemOc ATTIC
rooster ill he bends ever double back
ward. Marx il.
| The youngsters around and about
Sueedville are getting up Christmas
tee and Christmas party, 10 which
young men and bachelors, young ladic'
of both sexes and all ages are cordially
invit a from the rivers to the wide endi
OF the earth. If you want 10 be charm
cd by those who shall ''smole" smiles
TOO broad to be covered with a sunny
south hat or 4 wahOO leaf, for goodness
sakos comet While we have some
youngsters ugly enough TO sour churT
of milk in the -quinfiliieRth part Of {
second, We have others compacte'
with beauty. lcveliness aud graces &
eclipse the rosebud aud drive cupid bacl
to his hiding place in bis deserted map
SIGN.
Tue matrimonial tide is fluctuating ant
coatiunes to ebb high. If were L
furnish yog.wiih a list Of those VIII
have crOss,sl connubial river sine
have written letter for The GAZETTE
it would take sheet OF paper nearly a
. long as the Maids milk path"
{ The fever has visited nearly ever.
E family in our neiehborhood during tn
past summer and fall. Many familie
: have been robbed OF loved and dea
anes by the doiBgs Of death. In on
Knowing, many are dangerously III, ap'
some oonTTlescent.
: On Friday night, the 18th inst. ia
I arm Of Wax, johnson & Co, Of Kyle
4 Ford Gin this county met with the mis-
: fortune Of getting sfcrehnuse an
I about two thousand dollars worth O
Z goods burnt up. Il is generally sup
. posed that some one frSd 10 ihrOug
2 malice Many rauses are attributed q
I the burning. but none In particular
e Erom election prejudices, politics
: trickery dendbeats, snbaltern fiends an
e incendiaries. o Lord, deliver US.
Respectfully, DICK.