Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-20

The highest average for day last summer
was eighty-three degrees above zero in
July. When it is remembered that our
nights are always cool it will serve to ex-
plain why our long summers are not more
enervating. 81 81 M
Mr.. Charles Ziegler, of Du Quoin, Perry
county, Illinois, writes that he is raising
peaches for the Northern market, but that
all the trees have been frozen, as have
the smaller fruits-raspberries, &c.-and
wants to know about raising peaches here;
We think this superior peach climate.
The trees never freeze here and the buds
rarely freeze so generally as to cut off the
general yield. Peaches grow NATURAL Y
here, and when our railroad to Cincinnati
opens, which we believe will be in a year,
we shall be just in the right position to
supply the Western markets with early
fruits. Mr.. Ziegler says, on Wednesday,
January 20, the Thermometer at this place
stood at II to 20 degrees 6elos0 zero. On the
same day the mercury at Knoxville was, at
A. NJ, Is degrees, and at 4 p. NJ, "a deg.
above zero.
| The location of the Methodist Central
University at Knoxville will add greatly
to our educational advantages. The pro-
posed University is to have heavy en-
dowment, and will be one leading institu>
tions of the South. This, together with
the State Agricultural College. connected
with our East Tennessee University, now
lion of dollars, give Knoxville educational
facilities, in collegiate line, unequalled
by any point in all the South. 90 -
In addition to these colleges, we have
good female schools, and an excellent COM
mon school system about to be inaugurat>
ed.
While writing this article, we were call
ed upon by subscriber from Michigan,
who is in East Tennessee looking out for
home. He says on the train from Louis
vile, Kentucky, he found ten farmers from
the North coming here to look for homes
in milder climate. The past winter has
been hard on Northern farmers. It has
induced thousands of them to look South
for farms where their summers earnings
will not be eaten up in freezing winter
of four and six months. We invite the
attention of all such to East Tennessee.
Here they will find lands of every quality,
some very cheap, some for sale only at
good prices, some, again, at very reasona-
bic rates. They will find it all land capa-
BILE of being made productive and profita-
extensive manufacturing region, they will
find it profitable to buy lands now.
A correspondent noticing recent local
item in the CHRONICLE about spotted fever
seems to think it disease common here.
Such is not the case. It is rare. vzov a rsz
In regard to the comparative mortality
of spotted and typhoid fevers, we will
state that one of our physicians informs us
that the disease referred to as spotted fever,
a few cases of which occurred here during
the winter, was low, malignant form of
fever but seldom met with in any section,
and not dependent upon any general cause.
I'M To 70 faf o1i ~ Sc
typhoid, but happily more rarely met with.
There have been no cases of the kind since
that time, and typhoid fevers do not pre-
vail here at all, or at least it is very seldom
that case is seen. Diseases here are said
to be very simple in their nature, and
easily managed if taken in hand at an
early day. - n.-Ee - 90. ~.