Year: 1876




On THE WING. April Is. 2876.


To the Editor Of the Morrisiovn Gazette:
II Cousin John, In my rambIes I am
hofien asked who will be candidates
of the different political parties for
President of the United States, and
who for Governor OF Tennessee, and
who for Congress in the different dis
tricts of East Tennessee? Now,
there are some things that I do
know, and a great many that / do
not and amongst others are the
above that i do not know. TIC is
true I have been looking around and
examining both the Democratic and
Republican FARMS, and must say that
good timber for building purposes is
very scarce. There are some fine
oaks on the Democratic farm that
would make excellent material for
building purposes of any kind, but
they are what might be termed line
trees, and cannot be used without
the consent of both the conservative
and the extreme wings of the Dem
ocratie party consequently, they
will hardly be used during the pres.
ent building season. Should, how
ever, the two wings agree upon
some Of those liners, they will be
found to work to the satisfaction of
all. -


AS for Republican timber, it is
scarce and no mistake. / know not
Of single tree that can be. worked
into good Official timber. There are
few pretty good looking trees on
the old, worn-out farm, but upon
close inspection they are generally
found to be both gnarly and hollow
at the top. There are a few black
gums that some seem to think would
make good Congressional timber,
but it seems that the party are dis
posed to put off nsing them just as
long as possible. Well, It. is true it
is not very Lastly timber, being
rather on the "Pinchback'' order,
bat as it stands on the field with the
other timber, it does seem that they
(the party might begin to use it for
something besides groundpoles. No
timber will last always lying fat on
the ground. Then again, there are
few long and strait-looking white
oaks that look ike they would split
well, but most of these have been
either Clipped by the party, and
found to be doaty at the head, or
else deadened when the sap was up,
which renders them worthless for
building purposes.


1t seems that the owners Of this
old farm have been very extrava-
giant on their timber for the last few
years. If they ever had any good
sound timber. they have made very
bad use of it. Ha


When they took charge of the
farm, few short years ago, there
were regular forests upon it of the
very best political timber, bat like
many farmers they just went to cut
ting and slashing promiscuously,
using what they could and deaden.
ing the balance, until it has got so o
fellow cannot fnd a stick on the
whole farm but what is so badly
worm-eaten or doated, that il can
not be split into any kind Of solid
official timber. H& sf.aa


For the smaller buildings, such as
legislators, and on down TO tttdr-cOt-
lector." they have any quantity of
black jacks. spruce pines and swamp
oak that they are using just now as
groundpoles, stakes, etc, but pro-
pose 10 have q kind of gathering
loe-rolling after awhile, when these
will be piled up and burnt, and more
choice timbers nsed in their stead.


The fact is, both parties are get
ting more of these groundpoles-can-
didates than can be proftably used.


To take East Tennessee over, the
crop of candidates is as large as
ever known for the time of year.
Nearly every other fruit crop suffer
ed considerably during the late cold
snap, except the candidate crop.
Not one of them is missing as far
as heard from.


It.matters not what time in the
moon candidates bloom out. nor how
cold the weather after they bloom,
not one can be missed from the po.
litical orchards. 81 fsr so


Well, they may survive the cold
snaps, and laugh at the full moon.
but the scorching suns Of August
will wilt many of their bright. and
blooming calculations. aas ~
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6so1E co.. Trn.4srn WT A. Smith