Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-25
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Letter from New Market.

New Market Valley is perfect gem of beau
ty and value an agricultural district Its
rolling lands, limpid streams graceful swells
hills and dales and its prolific soil, have given
it far-famed distinction, as among the choicest
parts of East Tennessee.
The village of New Market is unpretentious,
and yet there lies upon it haze of neatness and
comfort not seen in all places.
IMPROVEMENTS =,
Are, just now, n leading feature New Mar
ket is feeling the impulses of this progressive
period. McAdamzed roads, plank walks, new
dwellings, improved premises, new stores, new
branches of industry, and various other evil
dences of thrift are apparent The Masons are
doing the wind work of building a hall for
their meetings and also a female institute, for
both of which subscriptions are projected They
ought to succeed. The Methodist EPISCOPAL
Church have already passed beyond the wind
work part of their enterprise, and have actually
bought lot and commenced the erection of a
new house of worship. II is on the Main street
of Old New Market. e., on the south side of
the creek, and short distance from the old
Methodist Church on the hill The site is eligi-
Bile. The Trustees intend to complete the build
ing this season. 1t is to be one story 35x55 feet
on the ground, and semi-gothic Its completion
will be a credit to the builders and an ornament
TO the pretty village
q CHARACTERISTICS.
New Market is one of the most moral and or
DERBY of places No liquor is sold within or
near the corporation. Hence there are no.
drunken braws, The people are intelligent
and cultivated They are staid, church-going,
industrious and thrifty. They have always sus-
tanned educational enterprises. One or more
higher schools or collegiate institutions has been
kept up here. Holston College, now under the
care OF Prot. X. L. Pearce and his accomplished
lady, has had enrolled this year. some fifty or
sixty pupils, some of them well advanced Mrs.
Smith Pearce, also, has had for years a -four
ishing select school for females
PHYSICIANS.
Like almost all other towns in East Tennes-
see, New Market has plenty of physicians A
stranger might infer that it is an unhealthy To-
cality, but the reverse is the fact Drs. Burnett
senior and junior-Thornburgh Pearce and
Rodefer are all practcing physicians and have
an extensive country proctice.
DIR. Rodefer ranks among the most eminent
and skilled of surgeons, either in Tennessee or.
elsewhere Some of his operations have won
for him high reputation in the profession. as
well as in the community, generally. His nu
merous friends in Virginia and Tennessee will
be gratihed to learn that he is rapidly recover
ing from his late severe illness.
DIR. Rodofer has, among his anatomical and
other collections, the heart of one of his patients
VINO actually died of broke, heart The
organ Is preserved in carbolic acid II is in
good state of preservation. The rupture is about
an inch In length. The heart is eneased in a
fatty substance which had much ENLARGED -
and which, probably, caused that weakness Of
the Tissues from which resulted the rupture
CONCLUSION.
am dwelling to long, rs the preachers some
tlmes say, must hasten to a conclusion. New
Market Is right, politically, in proof of which
need only TO say, that the CHRoNIcIE is apnre-
6, t 9ere four-hiths Of the people here Stand
success
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