Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
NASHVILLE.
RafIrOads-WhRt the Capital is fin
Population and WeaIfh-What ff Might
be by a JudiciOus Expenditure of its
Floating Capital.

be By n JudiciOus Expenditure of its
Floating Capital.
NASHVILLE, TENN, Jim Z, 1872.
EDITORS APPEAL-Leaving Memphis
on the three-thirty afternoon train of
/ the Memphis and Louisville road, I ar
rived here in time for early breakfast.
There has been great misapprehensiOn
about the Northwestern road. 1t is now
one of the safest and best roads in the
State. The bridges have either been
made new or repaired until they are
very strong, and able to bear any weight
that may be put on them. Much OF the
track has been laid with new rails, fish
bar pattern, and the road is very smooth
the greater part of the way. The acct
dent which occurred a few days ago was
unavoidable, and might have happened
on any road. Even after the breaking
of the axle, Mrs. Weatherbee would, in
all probability, not have been injured
had she not jumped out of the window,
and thus lost her life. When accidents
happen on railroads the best plan is to
remain still. The Louisville and Mem
phis road, in connection with the North
western road, furnish a safe, easy and
quick mode of transportation to Nash
vile, or to points North and East. They
are improving both roads very much by
laying new rails and Increasing the pas
senger coaches and freight cars. All APP
prehensions as to its being a dangerous
route should be dismissed.
The crops in this part of the State
- -,vr- AI.,~.rAsa. ar-Isfs.,,
The fruit and grain crops are more
promising than they have been in many
years. The rains have been sufficient
for all practical purposes, but not very
profuse. One sees in Middle Tennessee
the advantage of deepand thorough till
age. They seem, in that part of the
State, much more anxious to preserve
and improve their land than we do in
West Tennessee. They know that their
land is the hasis of their wealth, and,
therefore, they desire to make it very
productive, and to increase its fertility
every year. Permitting land to waste
and wash away through neglect may be
considered almost q crime. Nashville,
though a quiet a place, does a large
amount of business, particularly in the
wholesale trade. They are now making
efforts to get the West Tennessee trade
by extending the Northwestern road to
jackson from Huntingdon. In this
way the distance from Jackson to Nash
vile would be decreased twenty-five
miles. Memphis must be awake or
Nashville will take trade from West
Tennessee which legitimately belongs
to Memphis.
This must always be an attractive
place, famous for excellent schools of a
high grade and very nice society. It
is a historic place, and must al
ways be dear TO Tennesseeans. Here
lie the hOnOred remains of Felix Grundy,
David Craighead, John Bell, James K.
Polk and George w. Campbell. Next
week the Alumni Society of the oldest
literary institution in the Valley of the
Mississippi, the Nashville University,
will hold its annual meeting, and a very
able address is expected from Hon. Viii
liam Yerger, of Mississippi. Nashville
should be a great notwithstanding city.
Coal sells here a little less than twenty
cents a bushel by retail, and / under
stand it can be bought for sixteen or
seventeen cents a bushel by wholesale.
This gives that city great advantages.
Would that you could get it in Memphis
at anything like such reduced rates.
ETOhlclUuS anu Autl dIt JUL tllClB hC1C.
Why, then, is Nashville not a great
manufacturing city? Is it for want of
enterprise? If Memphis had the capi-
tai that Nashville has, with the advan-
tageso of cheap fuel and cheap provisions,
what a magnificent city it would 500
become.
Governor Brown appears TO be entirely
restored, and is looking much better
than Iexpected to see him.
By the way, before / forget ii, | must
not omit to mention what may seem a
small affair, but what is very important
to railroad travellers, and that is the
enormous price they charge at railroad
eatinghouses fer enOyBtOlsL mean meals.
If they would charge a reasonable price
and furnish a moderately good supper or
dinner, they would get much more Gus
tom. They seem TO forget that a good
cup Of coffee with a little well soaked
bread is much more desired by weary
and worn travellers than such stuff as
they set before them. Nothing is more
refreshing to railroad travellers than a
good breakfast, dinner o. supper, and
these they seldom get. This may be a
small matter, but the world is made up
of small things. Very truly yours. etc,
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