Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-08-03
Communication,
From Rural. "
For the Fayetteville Observer.

! OF Iue lay ctteNllle ODSeTFef.
Rural GROVE, July 25, 1871.
Mr.. EHitor-Some time since
you solicited correspondents from
different parts of the county tc
communicate to you all the Local
news of their respective sections
| have been thinking ever since of
jotting down a few items of news,
but your solicitation has met with
such heavy responses, especially
from Blanche; then, in addition,
the proceedings of the Farmers
Club, examination exercises, &c.,
&C., coming in for considerable
portion of space, that up to the
present saw no chance OF edging
/ In even a small communicat alton.
Then you must, of necessity, have
also a small space. But the old
adage is, after storm a calm.
The storm from Blanche / thought
was rather subsiding, but then
from your last issue l see another
breeze rising. Examination ex-
ercises over for the next four or
five months at least, the wave of
excitement On the subject of the
Farmers Club will perhaps calm
down soon, and as the sky is
somewhat clear, l concluded it
might not swim and would just
pitch in. Well, Mr.. Editor, as
your correspondents all seem to
be giving luminous descriptions
'ot little towns, villages, schools,
and such like, / have but little
of such things of which to write,
living in rather an unfavored
moral region in reference to such
things, and being kind Of corn
field man, you can't expect much
from such a source. But in our
immediate section our corn crops
are promising, having had u good
season the last few days, the oat
crop good, wheat indifferent, vege-
tables fine, peach crop bountiful
but will be rather small, very few
apples. There are several good
wagon and blacksmith shops in
this section. Persons wanting
good wagons can be supplied on
short notice and accommodating
terms, one saw and grist mill, a
good physician could find a good
location, two dry goods stores,
with necessary grocery supplies,
both on west side front row from
Fayetteville to Huntsville, post
Office and good mail facilities, four
regular weekly mails, good accom-
modation- hack making two trips
to Huntsville and back each week.
We have a pleasant and healthy
country, fine freestone water, a
good refuge in epidemic times,
honest, industrious, moral citizens,
with some exceptions to general
rule common to all Countries. We
are mostly down with that miser-
able disease, poverty; but that's
no crime. The old adage is, poor
people have poor ways, rich people
mean ways.
You seldom see a person intOXi.
Gated except an occasional one
passing the road with his bacchana
lian whoop, representative from
sections claiming to be the more
refined and civilized portions of
the country, scarcely ever hear
an oath only from the same source;
upon the whole the only differ
ence between this poor ridge coun-
try and the rich lands is as the
captain said, there they make
more than they can eat, here we
can eat more than we can make.
So you see, MIR. Editor, it is all
about the same at last-pig and
duck both got a tail.
Well, we live in a fast age, and
old time in our rear, with his fin
gers twined in the ringlets of a
maiden's hair, will soon rush us
off, ere we are aware, to the tail
end of time. We are told times
change and we must keep pace
with the change. Truly a great
change has come over US; whether,
these changes are for the better
or are to be traced to any material
change in the suns revolution, the
great regulator Of time in connec-
ton with all the other heavenly
bodies, or to the pride and vitiated
taste of mans depraved nature in
its onward and rapid course, evin-
cling such desire and eagerness to
bow to that impetuous Jezebel,
fashion, as the true source of their
origin, is matter for deep earnest
thought.
There seems really, Mr. Editor,