Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-22
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.

Correspondence of the Union and American.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, June 20, 1673.-It
is a positive relief to have the pleasure,
from lovely and cleanly city, like that of
dear old Huntsville, without having every
one with whom you meet interrogating you
in regard to the extent of the epidemic in
your neighborhood last night, etc.
Your correspondent being compelled
purely by business motives to leave Nash
vile for few days took the 7:20 A. NJ. train
of the Louisville aud Nashville aud Great
Southern Railway yesterday, and in an al-
most famished condition reached this city
at P. N. He had many forebodings in re-
gard to change Of water, ETC., but not the
slightest in regard to the change Of atmos-
mosphere, and being well supplied with an.
tidotes against the prevailing, he passed the
day, barring few sharp gripping pains, as
comfortably perhaps, as any one of the ten
thousand citizens who have in the last two
weeks, been similarly called away from your
city. ECgEg rfafga-a grr.
lam glad 10 report through your widely
circulated and valuable paper that the crops
both corn and cotton, look well and are COM
paratively free of grass in the counties Of
Williamson, Msury and Giles. Wheat is not
80 promising still I think the average yield
of this important grain will reach six (6)
bushels and perhaps little more in the
counties named. In the counties of Lime
stone and Madison Ala, the grass and
weeds seem to be in the ascendant. This
section has had entirely too much rain. Corn
is looking we'll andis struggling hard for the
mastery, but the grass favored by daily
showers is giving it a hard fight, and has
in many fields laid the cotton completely
in the shade. Ifthis state of things contin-
ues two or three weeks longer, at least one
half of the cotton now planted will have to
be turned out. .-t .... .
approached Huntsville with some slight
apprehension, having heard that the preudiL-
ing had shown itself here on Sunday last,
but am glad to inform the many friends
of this most delightful little city that there
has not b en- a single case OF cholera here
this season, and there never were, We are
told, more than five or six sporadic cases
known here. .s.
The Mayor and Alder zen have estab
lished a Sanitary Commission, and have
had the streets, alleys and cellars thorough.
II cleaned and disinfe3ted with lime and
copperas at. the expense of the city. By
municipal law every family is compelled to
use not less than one-half bushel lime to
the 25 feet front lot every summer season,
m"re ifepidemies are prevalent, and all at
the expense of the city.
The Sanitary Commission have wisely in
terdicted the vendirg of fish, green apples,
plums, cherries, peas, ETC., within the cor
poration.
am stopping at the Huntsville Hotel,
kept by that prince of landlords, Major j.
N. Venable, whose many friends will regret
TO hear of bis extreme illness from chronic
asthma, and who, perhaps ere this reaches
you, may be numbered with those that
were; but un1er the direction OF his son,
Maj. James Venable, formerly Of the Max
well, everything moves off as nicely as at
any of the frst-class houses of more Eastern
cities, and you may well recommend bis
house to the travelling public, where they
will be Hospitality treated by ali of the at
taches Of the bOuse; and where they will
never fail to find cozy room and sweet,
comfortable bed; and the table furnished
with the best the country affords.
Belonging to that ubiquitous fraternity
known as drummers, will leave this place
in few minutes for Madison, and may
avail myself Of this pleasure again from
Athens. GUY.