The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-25

BLACRwATER, Tenn, July 20, 1888
t. lie Editor OF The Morristowu Gazette:
Owing TO a lack OF energy and physi-
cal debility contracted by atmospheric
and telluric influences, your writer has
failed TO say anything TO your readers
for several wee&s.
LOGGING,
Logging is nearly all the 60 in Han
cock county. The loggers have finish
ed working their corn crops, and have
gone to logging in earnest, and il is
generally supposed that there will be
more logs floated to market down Clinch
river this winter than ever before. Log
sing always brings money into the
country, but il don't pay anything to
the men that follow the business. We
have bought logs, sold logs, cut logs,
RATED logs, steered logs Of our own and
hired to steer logs; have sawed them
into lumber, Inspected, measured and
shipped the lumber, and upon the whole,
we have concluded that il is d business
possessed of all the elements of danger,
one in which we are exposed 10 all the
inclemencies Of the weather aud no
chance to fatten our pockets.
HOG CHOLERA
is quite prevalent in Hancock now.
Many hogs arc being lost by this plague.
This is the most fatal cholera that our
swine has been troubled with for some
time Men have lost hogs by the dozen
by this disease IN the neighborhOOd Of
War Gap, in Hawkins county. .
WILD BEASTS
The woods seem 10 be full Of v i'd an
imals and Tavenous beasts. Men have
been run from their corn fields by tigers
and panthers, and we feel rather skit-
| fish when we start TO church without
our double barrel shotguns There
have been q dozen panthers seen here
inside of the last week, and one man
saw q tiger and grizzly bear on Copper
Ridge yesterday. There was
LARGE RATTLE SNAKE
| killed on Fox Branch last Sunday by
/ Mr.. Ned SiZemore, measuring four feet
aud six inches from the end of his nose
10 the tip Of his tail. 1t had fourteen
rattles and a jacket-bnttOn on its tail.
BLACKwATER SEMINARY.
Prof, Morrison. Of here aud there, has
/ just closed an eight days arithmetic
school at Blackwater Seminary. The
/ examination came eff = esterday There
/ were about one hundred and fifty per
/ soGs To witness the closing exercises;
aud they say that the Professor failed
/ in every particular To do what he was
TO do, aud q general opinion prevails
/ the Professor is a humbug Of the worst
/ kind We don't know about him in
| every respect, but do know that he has
/ practiccd first class fraud upon the
people Of this neighbOrhood. We are
/ always ready TO encourage education,
| but 10 upheld any man when he is Drac
/ ticing such outrageous cheats upon the
/ people as Prof. Morrison has been gull
I ~ of, We shall ever be ready TO de-
Eounce his "shOrt methods" as vile aud
/ utterly corrupt. The school Law says
that, there shall be three directors for
each school district" but The 9th dts,
trict Of Hancock county has five direc-
tors and n district superintendent No
wonder we manage our schools with
marvellous quietudel
THE FREE SCHOOLS
I opened up ~ mos of the various dis
/ tricts Of the county last week, and we
believe we have better qualified corps
OF teachers this year than ever before.
/ in the right place.
MKINNEY HIGH SCHOOL
AS TO who shall take charge of the
| Mckinney High School this year, we
are unable 10 saw, but IL we can only
| get as good a teacher as Prof. Jones, we
shall be satisfied. We like Prof. Jones
for his benehcent manner in instructing
his pupils. His instructions all have a
moral influence, and while students
learn tn" different branches OF the Eng
lish language under his teachings, they
learn morals, which is worth as much
TO them as the rapid handling oil
words" Prof. Jones's plan of educat-
ing is deep. yet clear, though gentle,
| yet not dull; strong without rage"
Wheat crops are good through here
this year.
The peach crop is thin.
The glorious Fourth went of without
q simple reminder Of patriotism.
DICK