Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
FROM CARTER COUNTY.
Crops, Politics and Calves in Carter
County.

ELIZABETHToN, Tenn. July - 1872.
EDITORS CHRONICLE The broad val
leys of Watauga and Little Doe are teem-
ing with rich harvests of fruit, grass and
grain, and the farmers are very busy just
now saving the unusual fine crop of oats. l
supposed larger quantity and finer quail
ty never grew in the county in one season.
The wheat is being threshed and the
yield is fully up to the expectations of the
most sanguine. AS the season has been so
propitious, and as the earth is laden with
so many good things and the hand work is
pretty well over, the fun-lOving and en-
terprising are beginning to agitate the
questions of how shall we pleasantly and
profitably enjoy ourselves for awhile, and
tournaments, picnics, fairs and festivals
are freely talked about.
The ladies of the NJ. +. Church at this
place held fair on the Sth inst, for the
benefit of their church building, which is
undergoing some repairs from which they
realized the handsome sum of SIS nett
cash at one evenings entertainment.
Carter county has several excellent church
edifices, and from numerical point of
view, several church organizations are well
to do; but me thinks, if the people of this
county paid half as much attention to re-
ligion as they do to politics, they would
soon all be thoroughly Christianized every
mothers son of them are politicians, real
gdbbLing ones. If you want to know all
about National or State politics go to Car
ter. They know all about how the cleo
tions are going, how they ought to go, or
anything else you want to know. They
are canvassing the county for the August
elections with as much earnestness as any
other county would before an important
State election, and for every position there
are about half dozen candidates, each one
swearing that he is the man. The candi-
dates for the Legislature addressed their
fellow citizens on Monday at noon. ] did
not get to hear them but their efforts We're
highly complimented by those that did.
They are all good men, and l believe all
Republicans.
Hon. II. r.. Butler was circulating
around pretty freely with his constituents
on the first of the week. The Judge will
have some opposition this time in the
is trimming for the race for understand he
will be candidate for reelection before
the convention. He has in many respects
made an excellent representative in others
he has not done so well, but he might have
done better, and as he has been honored so
long with position, there is quite an ele-
ment in the district that will urge the
claims of others this time. The chivalrous
Pettibone, a man that done so much for
his country and for it has been so little
honored. We believe he will be our STAN
dard bearer in the next contest and if he is
| think L can safely say that hundreds OF
Union men will vote in the Congressional
race that have not voted since Mr.. Taylor
was candidate in 1865. Glorious old Sam
Carter, the pet and idol of all of East Ten
nessee, great and good men of the past or
present is spending few days with his
relations at this place. His very
name will be revived while there is
a loyal East Tennesseean left to speak it.
He is looked upon almost as the saviour of
our country; and from many n hearth
stone prayers are nightly lisped for bless
yngs upon his noble head. TO us he was
the war-general of peace and Liberty, and
when he has finished his task his name
best and the purest of patriots that ever
lived in this or any other country.
There has been SO much Dragging about
the weight of young calves, in the CHRoN-
ICLE of late, that we cannot close this
communication without noticing the
weight of calf the property of Col. Jno.
Netherland, just to show how foolish to
blow about ninety FOUNDERS. The calf
was nine days old when weighed, and its
weight was exactly one hundred and fifty
two and three-quarter pounds. 1t was
calved on the 23d of June and weighed on
the ID day of Ju ]. 1t came from q COW
of splendid size that Colonel Netherland
bought of Samuel Pearce, Esq, of Kings
port, Tennessee. Some of the Colonel's
friends thought little proof would per-
haps do that story some good, and he says
it can be forthcoming at any time, for
there were two white men, a negro and an
Indian that did the weighing. DIR. Hall
will have to weigh his calf again.
HENRY.