The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-13
jacksonville Correspondence.

Mn. EDIToR:--During the protracted absence
Of your correspondent "Achasee'' from our town,
(whOm | learn has engaged in the "Nurse-ry
business" in the rural district of LoudonI cdun-
ty,) and fearing that your numerous subscribe
ers may lose sight Of the ~"classic city"of Madi-
s%onville, andmOre especially the ''dots,'' Which
50 regularly emanate from the prolific pen oil
your said correspondent, | have taken upon my
selfthe task)Of ''dotingyyou q few Hnes.'l .vf
Many things have trarspirod here during the
absence of Achasee, which ought to have been
recorded, many Of which will Toseplofe than half
their interest bybeing recorded BY an unskill-
full hand but for fear that part of our history
may go unwritten during his absence, | have
thought that eycii il it were done.by d novice, il
might retain, to some extent at least, the re-
semblancc Of the metal of which the connecting
link is composed. Z -,.illl. OF INI
Considerable improvements havo been going
on for the last three weeks, among which may
be mentioned two new horsc-racks erected by a
couple Of our cnterprising merchants for the ne
cOmmOdatiOn of their numerous customers. The
spirit Of improvement, however, has been SO far
mostly confined to fencing-a thing greatly nee
ded; and the people have been preparing pretty
extensively for gardening, until the ''cold snap"
last week set them back in their calculations.
We notice with pleasure that the C, +. Church
is being w~hite-washed on the inside walls, and
the doors, windows and ceiling are TO be painted.
| VIM. NJ. Lee, now occupying the Jones prop
erty, isIraving Ills store house thoroughly re-
modelled and painted by II. G.. p. Horton, (who,
by the way, is a master OF his tradc). We haye
seen some Of Mr.. Horizons efforts, and consider
it frst-class workmanship. In fact competent
judges pronounce it equal to il not superior to
any in East Tennessee. Mr.. Horton, who is also
a Professor of Penmanship, is giving a series of
night lessons in that highly important and use
full Art, at his own house. He HAS a very inter-
esting class, consisting mostly OF yOung lalies.
But the greatest improvement which has yet
taken place here, was done last Week in the
deadening of the "Upas tree" which has grown
and fourished undisturbed for at least u quarter
of a century near the sidewalk, on our public
square, fronting the main entrance Of the Court
House. Two men and n boy were engaged two
days and q half in boring and morticing holes
through its trunk. Various cOnjectures were
discussed during the operation as to the prOba-
BILE intention of the owner in having this old
nuisance. so badly mutilated, Some supposed
that he intended to erect Il cider press others
thought that probably he was going to m2nufac-
ture tobacco while again others surmised that
he was merely experimentally trying to kill the
tree in some mild way and with ms little pain
rs possible. But all their various coniectures
were wrong, as it turned out that the proprietor
wassbnly nlGkingta machine for breaking bar
iron.
The Madisonyille Lycsum meets for public
discussion in the Court room egsy) Saturday
night.
A Shakespeare Club is being organized. We
long needed omething of this sort at Mad
sonville-soInething to rouse it from the leth-
lrgyi in which 1t has lain for many years; and
this thing, we doubt not, would hayea q, tendency
to that elect. We wish it success and prosper
ity, aud mUreOEer, hope that its members may
become brilliant stars in the dramatic world,
Lastly, our eccentric and too confding fellow
s~owpsman having BEEN persuaded by SOME
mirth loving youths, that there was "a especial
tax often dollars ony flower gardens, became 50
enraged at the injustice of the thing, thin it Is
said he took a fail and beat all his flowers, pots
and shrubbery into one chaotic mass.
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