The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-12-20
4 CHRISTMAS GREETING.

As this is the last issue of this pa
per that will reach our subscribers
before the annual festival in memo
~ Of the birth of Christ, The GA
zErrK begs leave. to extend TO It's
patrons and friends the compliments
OF the -eason and to wish them one
and AL 4" A Merry Christmas and \
Happy New Year" Before IL again
visits their homes and their firesides,
Christmas, with all its pleasures and
hAppinesses. its bright authorizations
aud realized hopes, its kindly tok-
ems and loving remembrances, will
have come and gone into the irrevo-
cable past, and the waiting watch
man upon the belltower Of Time
will have rung out the Old ana
rung in the New"
This il the season when the world
is gayest and gladdest Numerous
indeed, are the hearts in which
Christmas brings y brief season OF
happiness aud enjoyment How
many old recOllections, and how
many dormant sympathies does the
day awaken. In the language OF
Dickens, we write these words now,
many miles distant from the spot nj
which, year after year, we met on
that day, q merry and joyous circle.
Many of the hearts that thrObbed
80 gaily then have ceased TO beat
many of the looks that have shOne
50 brightly then have ceased to glow;
the hands we grasped have grown
cold, the eyes we sought have bid
their lusterin the grave; and yet the
Id house, the room, the merry vol
css aud smiling faces, the jest, the
laugh, the most minute and trivial
circumstances connected with those
happy meetings crowd upon our
mind at each recurrence of the sea-
son, as il the last assemblage had
been but yesterday. Happy, happy
Christmas, that wins US back to the
delnsion of our childish days that
can recall to the old man the pleas
ures of his youth; that can trans
port the traveller thousands OF miles
away, back to his own freside and
his quiet home. The bird sings m
our hearts now, while cant and big
Otry sink mate away. How poor
and mean must that soul be which
cannot expand beyond the narrow
region of sectarianism 1t knows
the earth wide reach of this COM
passionate Christmas message. We
pity all such souls To them the
q ason brings little grace, and if
there DO children waiting on their
love with what anguish aud disap-
pointment must they sec the cruel
stone where they had asked for.
bread. Unhappy il the child across
whose Christmas sky rolls n clouded
sky.
The year 1882, so soon to be num-
bered with-the years of the past,
has been a most memorable one i'm
tho history Of parties and OF the
country. IL has been fall Of stirring
events and startling Incidents, the
recording and discussion OF which il
has been the province OF the press
TO attend TO. TIE GAZETTE has
played its humble part in this great
work faithfully and ~ best il could,
and il il has contributed ought To
the pleasure and instruction Of its
patrons snd readers, il has received
its coveted reward and Is duly thank
full. IL will continue TO be issued
regularly in 1888, ms it has been for
nearly sixteen years, and asks the
continued patronage Of its old friends
and the support Of all other citizens
who desire = good live county paper.
Kts aim i'm the future, aa it has been
in the past, viii ever be toward pro-
gruss and improvements, and IL M our
hope and intention TO make it for
1888 better paper than il has ever
been before. 1t will be a faithful
compendium Of all the local and
general news OF interest TO It's pat
rona and the pnhlie. With hearts
n w grafitnde for the pleasantness
OF its surroundings, rHR GAZETTE
therefore extends to rs friends It's
crossings m little I'm advance, and
wishes them all the blessings and
eniovments of the season "A MER
Rf ClRIsrxAs 4SD A HAPFT NEW
YKAR"