The Morristown Gazette

The Rev. A. J. Blankenbeckler is up from Morristown. Mr. Blankenbeckler is now traveling salesman for a Philadelphia clothing house - Greeneville Democrat.

And Morristown is again without a Methodist pastor! We regret to lose our station preacher, but our loss we trust will be his gain. Mr. B., physically, is unable to perform the labor of a pulpit speaker and in selecting another avocation by which to support his family, it may have occurred to him that the position of a drummer was an honorable one, and besides its emoluments and recreations, was a safe stepping stone to political preferment. So he bound himself with a cheerful, hopeful heart to that branch of trade which Governor Bate has indicated to be of the highest class, and most deserving of recognition, and is now a traveling salesman, as the Democrat informs us, for a Philadelphia clothing house. After due experience in his line, and a professional trip or two to Middle Tennessee, brother Blankenbeckler may not be surprised at any official position his services and sacrifices for the party may receive at the hands of Gov. Bate or his legislature. True, he may not have been a war martyr, or even "slept in the leaves." We don't know how that is. But let him be genial, baldheaded and persistent, and with the legend of "clothing house drummer" on his grip sack, these will sooner or later carry him into a more lucrative office - "On flowery beds of ease."