The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-05-16
LETTER FROM CLINTON


CLINTON, TENN, May IL, 1888
To the Editor OF The Morristown Gazette:
Business is lively about Clinton now
The farmers are well along with their
work and the prospects for early peas,
beans. cern, cucumbers, etc, are good.
There is only one man in the county
Jail, and he is there for packing con-
cealed "xeapings." Aaa al
We have three saw mills here in good
running order; one owned by Scruggs s.
Co., one by Hesslemeyer s. Co., and
one by Thomas Bros. & Co. These
mills make a Chattanooga log market
for the rafters and save them of several
days run on the water and a neat pile
OF railroad expense. Thomas Bros. &
Co. have saw mill here with capaci-
ty of saving fifty thousand feet of lum-
Der per day. Here your writer finds
pleasantemployment, diving to the bot
tom of the river after oak and hickory
logs, at which he can earn his grub and
washing (enly have one shirt washed a
month"; and have surplus left to buy
postage and paper to write to his dear
wife and orphan children. \
General Cullum, of this place, is
prominently spoken of AS the choice of
the people for Congress for the next
two years, and il is generally supposed
that he will be an asplrant before the
convention. The General is a man of
plenty of natural sense to fill the posi-
tion. but like the Hon. L. Cork-screw
Houk, he takes too much of the "Over-
Joyful" We predict that the Knox
vile ring viii furnish the timber over
which the true blue element will carry
the stars and stripes through the COM
ing contest.
The Democrats of this county are ju-
bilant at the prospect of living under
the reign of chief magistrate who shall
feel for the down trodden South and |
the stuffed pocket North "all the same;"
but they are not in favor of rallying to
defeat under the banner of Spoon But
Ter, of Massachusetts,.
The leading Republicans agree that
the Democrats will elect the next Pres
ident if they put out the right men for |
standard bearers. 4
This much of spring has brought out /
the slipper shoes, wells, ribbons, hoops
and Zephyrs, and the way the young |
men are spreading the tails of their dus-
tiers to the breezes-just hush, child
We saw more young men and young
ladies coupled out yesterday than we've
seen fer long spell before.
Some young men got kicked as usual.
We knew that there are bruises left on
the shins of some which all the salye of
words can never alleviate and scars on
the mind which all the "mellowing in
fiuences' of recoiling years can never
efface.
The people are ell on the boom. for !
the Farners' Convention, which is to
be held al Knoxville ON the 22nd of this
Judge Young, of this place, owns the
finest farm that I have seen in all East
Tennessee. If can't be his son in law :, /
] would love to be bull frog to swim
in his spring branch. If matters move
ON as they have started, this country
will all go under change of unifica-
ton To walk slap, right dab up, by
the side of an Anderson county gal and
ask her for her company to church was
the last bold venture of Dick.
WHAT You WANT.-There is scarcely
q family in our city but geeds such a
remedy as the famous Seven Springs
Iron and Alum Mass. 1t is not patent
but is the ''salts" of mineral
watert An infalibln cure for piles,
sore threat, chills and fever, chrome
and chronic diarrhoea, etc.
Made by Landrum & Litchfield, Abing-
den, Va, and for sale ae so cents and
81 90 per bottle. For sale by all first
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