Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-01
LINCOLN COUNTY.
About Packing and Weighing Cot
ton-The Statistics of Lincoln
What the People are Doing

What the People are Doing
Correspondence of the Union and American.
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 26, 1871.
1t has been raining here for twenty
four hours, and if there is anything in
appearances the whole world has been
visited with an abundance of rain. The
farmers hereabout completed the gather
ing of their crops. The cotton crop was
almost a complete failure, and at present
prices and Nashville weights, the pro-
ceeds will scarcely pay the cost of pro-
duction. Your Fayetteville correspon-
dent of last week received cold comfort
in return for his article on Farmers,
Cotton Merchants and City Weighers."
You certainly must be mistaken when
you say that there are large quantities of
'tfalse packed cotton shipped to market,
and low and then bale with log or
stick of wood "mixed H." Icannot belieye
that there is one bale in thousand con-
tanning anything but cotton, and not one
in thousand five hundred, in which the
dog-tail is Intentionally placed in the CEN
tire and the middling on the outside. But
that all or nearly all the cotton shipped to
Nashville does lose from ten to iften
pounds as compared with the weights at
the point of shipment is susceptible of
the clearest proof.
The merchant here, who buys cotton,
says he demands and receives full weights,
yet he altVdys loses in Nashville. Think
of it, Messrs. Editors, $4,000 bales of
cotton are shipped to your city, weighing
500 pounds, it is reweighed in Nashville
aud falls off 600, 900 pounds, or 1900
bales, worth at 13c per pound, the hand
some sum of $4,000. Who gets it9
That's the question.
This county is in a solvent condition,
but there is very little money in circulation.
The statistics given in your paper of
the 25th., so far as they refer to Lincoln,
certainly can not be correct. The per-
sonal estate of this county is put down at
1929, 80; real estate at 81, 908, 900; to-
| tai 50, 032, 900. The personal estate &C
cordiDg to these figures is about one
twentieth of the real estate, while in the
other counties, the statistics of which are
given in the same paper, the personal es-
tate averages about one-fifth of the real
estate. We think we could name score
or two of farmers who own more than
1929, 900 of personal estate. If this is a
sample of the accuracy of the census of
1870, it cannot be looked to for reliable
| information.
Work has been commenced on the Fay
etteville and Elkton turnpike. The COM
pany was organized by the election of L.
d. Sugg as President, and nine miles of
the work let out to Messrs. r. B. and 81.
G. Crow, who seem to be energetic and
able men The next time you come to
| our County Fair we hope to show you
two or three new pixies in place of the
miserable, muddy and rocky roads which
have kept our county in the background
| in point of wealth and the spirit of ad
l yancement. .....
There is no gossip here, no KuKlux,
no murders, no fighting, no politics. Ev.
erybody here talks hog and cotton, Oh
some other thing that they suppose will
improve their fortunes.
must not extend this wandering COM
munication any further. d.