Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-29
NOTES FROM A RAMBLER.
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Rains-A SOmDambUlant Commercial
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DELANO HOUSE,


DELANO HOUSE,
CLEVELAND, Tenn, May -, 1872.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: | left East Ten
nesSee's great metropolis on Tuesday last
and travelled leisurely along down the rail-
road, stopping off at every station below
Loudon, and everywhere / heard the same
old doleful tune, Hard Times" Money
from Knoxville to this place is like 'hen's
teeth"-Scarce. Everybody looks "blue,"
but are looking forward to harvest for the
flush times to set in. Wheat is looking
tolerably well. Corn looks well, but small
Refreshing showers of rain fall every
day, now, and farmers seem to relish it
more than fellow might suppose.
At Athens / met up with Mr.. +. Cha
vannes, of hardware and broom no
tOriety. He is a very good travelling cOm
panion in the day time, but at night he is
little too bOiSterous. In selling hardware
and broOmS all day, he becomes excited
hardware don't digest well Oh a weak
stOmach-perhaps causes nightmare and
i'll his dreaming he sells bill after bill oil
hardware, always winding up with a bilt
of broOms. One night he bawled out af
the top of his voice, "How many common
sneaths, at five and half will you take?"
To satisfy him / said, Fifty Dozen"
And how many horseshoe nails ," Zone
hundred kegs" l said. "And how many
brooms ," Fifty gross" He then
took an idea, from my liberal pur-
chases, that L was not good, and
wanted to know if [ paid cash for my
goods. | told him | was a cash buyer and
asked him to make out my bill. He COM
menccd, "Ought's all ought, figures a fig
ure and I'll carry one-here's your bill"
Being satisfied with this trade he quieted
down and slept like other men.
When we got down to Charleston I
found everybody excited there and found
it was school exhibition. In the after
noon | walked out to where the exhibit
ton was held and found the house crowd
ed. AS l could not get i'll the house,
looked in upon the crowd, and listened to
the discourse of the speaker until heard
the engine "a tOotin'n | left there and
came down to this place. Find
here all the ClevelandeTs are excited
on the races, mot the human races
which are to come off this week. There
are great many promising young men
here but. paying ones are hard to find
until after the races. They look to that
time for their fortune, instead Of looking
to the "harvest" for it.
/ walked out to the cemetery yesterday
Sunday and gazed upon some beautiful
some, too, which mark the
resting place of those [ once knew. A
tall and beautiful monument, with very
sentences written thereon,
marks the last resting place of the late
Thomas Galloway; and near by is the
beautiful and tastefully arranged resting
place of Col John Craigmile's little girl,
who was accidentally killed some months
ago. The body is in vault, upon which
hangs a cross and many beautiful wreaths
of flowers. The little yard is strewn with
flowers of many beautiful colors, ever
green's and moss; and in front of the vault
the path is strewn with many kinds of sea
shells. She was the only child of Col. |
Craigmiles; and understand he is going !
to take the portion of his wealth that he
giving her and build an Epis-
copal church with it, and place the child's |
remains in vault connected with the |
church. Yours truly, 7.