Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-09
RURAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Rain Crops--wife-wh whipping Tobacco
The Chronicle and Rural sun.
CHuRcII GROVE, KNOX

@ CHURCH GROVE, KNOX Co.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: We are beinl
blessed with an abundance of rain. W.
have had daily showers for more thar
three weeks, enough having fallen to have
made half a,dozen crops. The weeds and
grass are getting start of us, and If Il
continues raining much longer, we Will
| have rough time getting our crops cleaned
out. But, thank Heaven, corn, potatoes,
tobacco, sugar cane and vegetables in gen
eral grow with as much alacrity as do the
weeds and grass. To illustrate, as to corn
| About two weeks ago / walked over field
| of corn belonging to Esquire VIM. Shell.
| The corn was then about knee high. ON
| yesterday, | walked over the same held
again, and was surprised to find the corn
higher than my head. In fact, our corn
is growing so fast that we can almost hear
its joints crack
Last week was a famous one for wife
whipping in this section-nO less than hVe
men having severely beaten their better
halves within an area of ten miles. One
fellow came near killing his wiie-indeed,
I learn her life is despaired of, At this
time l will withhold names, but II these
dastardly brutes repeat their shameful con-
duct, / shall feel myself bound to blow
them up.
If the farmers generally follow the eX-
ample of those around here, the tobacco
monOpolists will be circumvented next
season, for every one is planting n patch
for home consumption. The lnonopolists
must lobby Congress more than ever; they
will have to get n law passed prohibiting
ing the farmer from raising his own chew
ing and smoking tobacco. We regard the
$500 clause of the United States revenue
law as being prohibitOry and apparently
designed to initiate against the poorer
class of farmers, for, should they raise a
few pounds III excess of what they need for
home consumption, they could readily dis
pose of it to their neighbors at 20 to- cents
per pound but this law compels them to
haul it to market and sell it to some bloat-
ed monopolist at his own price, which is
generally about eight cents per pound.
This may be all right and proper, but we
can't see it in that light, even with our
spectacles on. At any rate, we have re
solved to raise our own tobacco and to let
the mOnOpolists go where Wards ducks
went.
We will certainly sustain the CHRONICLE
whenever that little squirt-the Rurdt ca
Sun GU (?l-unsheaths its shabby sword.
If we wanted to sustain, or even encOur-
age, a thievish concern we would write to
Hall, Tweed, Sweeny, &C., of New York,
at once, and have them inaugurate it. 1t
would certainly be quite as honorable to
sustain men who are sharp enough to make
ten million steal annually as to sustain
those who can only gobble the miserable
little sum of ten thousand per annum.
The more gold the more glitter.
But we don't want any better farmers
paper than the CHRONICLE is. 1t has
stood up nobly and manfully for the far
mers of East Tennessee, and it would be
simply preposterous to suppose that they
could be induced to desert it now. No,
we must we will stand by our sprightly
CHRONICLE.
But this letter is spinning itself out too
long. You will again hear from
OGLE BOYLE.