The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-09-03
OUR NASHVILLE LETTER
NASHVILLE, August 20.


aspect this week than for many week
pass. The deserted streets have agat
become peopled with the birds Of pas
sage that have been fintteringr for I'll
!. summer around the various wateriri
places. Nearly all are now here, ara
they have regretted heartily that thel
did not linger longer, for the change i
sufficiently unpleasant ordinarily, bu
was rendered much more so by the in
tensity of the heat that has prevailed
making the atmosphere the hottest Of
the season. That is now however q
thing Of the past for the storm of Fri
day night considerably lowered the
mercury. 1t had another good effect,
the rain settling the dust that had gath
cred to the depth of from three TO ten
i inches on the streets. Your correspond
ent can learn of no material damage in
this section of the State resulting from
the storm. A great many people think
our storm YVES the remnant Of the one
that visited Indiana and Kentucky and
capsized the Belmont yesterday morn
ing with the loss of several lives Sew
eral Nashville people were on the train
and barge that were being transferred
from Evansville to Henderson by the
Inflated steamer, and tell a fearful tale
of the disaster. Some surprise is ex-
/ pressed that a steamer should be tura, d
over by gale on the Ohio. the fact
seeming to be lost sight of that that
river is nearly as wide as the Mi sis
sippi aud that the waves roll nearly a:
high OH it as en- the ocean. have seen
the water of the Ohio roll fifteen fee {
high in the rear of large steamboat in
On atmosphere almost quiet, and have
thought how grand would look the furi-
Gus lashings of the mad winds
The beautiful buds of our fair South
land, sweet maidens from thirteen to
sixteen-I never knew one in my life
that was older, for they stop aging at
sweet sixteen until they get married.
are coming in hosts to attend Wards
Seminary and Prices College for Young
Ladies' Soon the long professions in
white will move along the quiet streets
every afternoon and the young men !
will stand and peep around the corners
to get sly chances at the fresh yeurg
faces through whose clear compilations
shine out happy hearts. 1t is really |
quite tantalizing to know that three or |
four young lady teachers are in those
professions without knowing who they |
are on account of their dressing just
like their students. Lo, the distance at
which one must keep lends decided en-
chantment to the view.-So careful are |
the teachers in these two schools that |
never in their history has there been
cause for complaint from any parent
that his daughters morals had not beea
kept under the proper surveillance.
This carcfulnsss on the part of the
teachers may account for the pet names
given the pupils of the two schools by
young men. Wards pupils have for
years been known as "Ward's Ducks"
and with the advent of the new school
. new word had to be invented and the
term 'Price's Pullets" soon became
common nickname.
Miss Marie Whiteside, of your city,
is visiting her cousins, the Misses God
dard, who were her guests in July. She
will enter DR.. Prices College Monday.
Mr.. G. Harris Whiteside, her brother,
onc0u,,oo Mod ba, bnror b,t- ,v;ll Ioo,,o=l
for the mountains Tuesday
The campaign has opened up in carr
est now. One week has been spent in
the eastern portion of Middle Tennes-
see and the next two weeks will find
the gubernatorial candidates in East
Tennessee. There is strictly partisan
difference of opinion in references to the
results Of the joint discussion Accord
ing to the Republicans Reid is seating
Brigadier Bate up" while according to
his own supporters the General has al
ready swallowed Little Frank" and
is now chewing the cud. There is no
doubt to the mind of an impartial OBJ
server that Gov. Bate has got in some
telling strokes on his opponent, devel-
oping mere disputative powers than in
any previous canvass. Judge Reid,
with inexperience of stumping except
in the race of six years ago for the
iudgeShip he now holds, has made some
fine speeches. But he has exhibited
turn that is not altogether
pleasing to his fellow-Republicans In
his several speeches before the joint
discussion began he characterized tile
present settlement of the debt as an in
fanny resting on the people, yet when
pinned down by his opponent the other
lay he said that he not only would not
a new settlement, but If
any bill looking to another settlement
should be passed by the legislature he
would exercise the veto power. In
moment of excitement, after Gen. Bate
denounced Radical misrule just after
The war, Judge Reid got up and spoke
vehemently, acknowledging in sub
stance that the Brownlow administra-
ion was an everlasting disgrace.
Whether he will dare repeat this in I
Republican counties in your end OF the
State remains to be seen. One of the
hardest things to explain tor Judge
Reid however is the fact that he was
'or tariff for revenue only" for sew
sral years before, and up to within a
'ew days of his nomination and now 10
/ "protectionist for projections sake"
seems to be jewel not {
Inning i'm his shirt front. All his I
friends are noticing that Judge Reid is
breaking down physically. He over
,xerts himself continually not seeming
o have the saving ability. His friends
Sho know him well say they fear he
AN not last near through the canvass.
During the week four Democratic
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