Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-17
Sullivan News rOps-A Good Hint to
... Knoxville Merchants. .... .....
B1ouNTvILLE, TENN, May 6.

To the Editors Of The Chronicle. .sI ..
| write from what was once one ofthe pref
test little villages in all East Tennessee,
but the rebellion left it little better than u
mere wreck of its former self Two battles
were fought right over it. The artillery OF
one army was planted upona hill east of
the town, and an eminence at the west end
of the village was occupied by the other,
and as natural consequence the cross-tir-
ing of the two armies soon set it in flames,
and large portion of the most beautiful
residences and best business houses We're
burnt to the ground. Yet, Blountville is
a pleasant, and ] may say growing place,
for it is steadily building up the waste
places and adding to its population, and
the prospect of a railroad within less than
a half mile tends to increase its prosperity
and the energies of its people. Next week
we expect corps of engineers along this
way locating the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad. If they should select what
isknown rs the Tennessee route - not
only Blountville, but u large portion of
Sullivan county, win be greatly benefited,
and we cannot see how they can well af-
ford to adopt the "Virginia routen when
they find such n large balance of advan-
tages as we believe they will in favor of
the first named location.
THE CROPS.
Farmers are becoming somewhat fidgety
over the continual wet weather, especially
those who are not done planting, and two
thirds of them are not through with put
ting in their spring crop The wheat in
some sections of the county has been seri-
ously damaged by the fly. In other sec
tions the rust has appeared on the blade,
and fears are entertained that IL viii reach
the stalk and effect the grain, as it has
made its appearance 50 long in advance of
harvest. But still there is in n few neigh
,SNF /, L. f1tn for
the most splendid prospect for an abund-
ant yield of wheat than there has been for
fifteen years. The apple crop is almost an
entire failure. In many large orchards
there was scarcely n bloom, but there will
be no dearth of peaches, without something
unforeseen should arise to blast the abund-
ant prospect. We have had two or three
very destructive rains within two weeks
past grist-mills, saw-mills, houses and
fencing has been swept away i'll various
parts of the county. The numerous open
ing tides have afforded~ou river trading
men unusualfine opportunities for getting
their grain to market, and the Knoxville
merchants have reaped a hdr0eSt that will
be sorely missed by Bristol trading men
and merchants at Others points east of
Knoxville. With one on two active and
honest commission men to teach the peo-
pie of the upper 4 counties that it is
to their interest to ship to that point
Norfolk and Lynchburg might wills
= tie for the trade they now get from Sulh-
van, Hawkins and the other upper coun-
ties. Besides, merchants that now go East
for their goods would go to Knoxville if
they could get good market there for
their feathers, ginseng, &c.
A white boy and some negroes got into
a difficulty, near Thomas Mill, on Beaver
Creek, in this county, on last Wednesday,
and in the fracas one of the negroes was
shot and painfully but not dangerously
wounded The white boy, whose name
was Love, was arrested, brought before q
magistrate and bound over TO appear at the
next term of our Circuit Court. Not Civ
ing security, he was sent to jail. KulluX
had nothing to do with that, for five have
any of the chivalrous gentry in our midst
shey are not much on their muscle nor
much ito raise a fight"