Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-03-12
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WEDNESDAY, ...... MARCH 70, 1879
From sole Yirglnny."
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eagerness, but never had seen her before
to-day. She is greater than Rome for
Rome had only seven hills while Lynch
burg has about seventeen. At least we had
climbed up fourteen.before dinner and saw
three more ahead of us when the gong call
ed us to our feed. In fact it is so billy that
town lots are sold 10y cubic measure, to pre-
vent purchasers from encroaching upon
the cellar-room of neighbors on the oppo-
site side of the hill. And we have been
told that jewellers in this Cup and down"
town were reversible hooks upon their
shoes to keep from a too rapid progression
in going down hill and too rapid retro
erosion in going down hill. How true
this is we can't say, but if it isn't it ought
TO be.
EN- ROUTE.
We had pleasant company in the per-
sons of Col. d. NJ. Nelson and Capt. Ham,
bright, who were going forward to WASH
ington to witness the Inauguration cere-
monies tomorrow, After leaving Bristol
we passed successfully Abingdon, the old
est town in Southwest Virginia, which
still preserves a lingering air of its pristine
duaintness. From the cars it appears to
have but one street, along which all its
stores and dwellings are built. But in this
respect it is not singular, as most of our
country towns in this section grew gradu
ally to their present size, by successive adj
ditions along the sides of the public road.
They literally stretched them selves into
existence, and now are not able to spread
out 4 few miles above the imposing
building of Emory and Henry College
came into view, the main editice browning
an eminece which slopes gracefully to the
frhaEn hnilHiOuS
brick structures, the grounds are well kept
and the school one of very successful au-
tecedents and operations.
AT Wytheville we were overtaken by
darkness and miserable supper. For this
latter the passengers were '.jerked" to the
tune of seventy-five cents, and got in re-
turn very jerky meal-it appeared to
have been jerked straight from the pantry
to the table through slow fire without
CHANGE Can't these 'eating house"
frauds be suppressed? Is there no law to
protect the travelling public against these
hoaxes? They are the only things upon
the civilized globe out of which even q
Connecticut yankee can't get the worth of
his money.
OUR WINDING WAY
was soon resumed and over the fish-bar
connected rail of the A. NJ. and o. Road,
we flew toward "Lynchburg town.
which we reached on time at 2 A. NJ.
Lynchburg appears to be live business
point Its streets show an activity and
life to which Knoxville is a stranger. Go
where we may, the contrast between the
listlessness and micawber-like passiveness
of the people of Knoxville and
other communities is painfully evil
dent. We have seen more COM
mercial activity upon these streets to-day
than was visible to us in a three-days So
journ in your city last week. This is due
to the spryness of these folks in Virginia
They are after trade, business, capital, and
are working hard for them. Instead o.
pursuing our Tennessee policy and wait
ing forrcapital to import itself and develop
our resources, they are working up every
one of their attractions, interests anC
avenues to business, as an inducement t.
married men and productive labor. Nov
let our people adopt the same policy anC
two wears from to-day their wealth, pros
perity and importance will bear the rati
TO its standpoint of the present of three 4
one Nothing is so true as that 1.-THE god
help those who help themselves" an,
East Tennesseeans have that lesson yet I
learn.
TOBACCO.
Every thing here smells of "the weed.
While cologne is celebrated for its compl
Gated oaors, Lynchburg may also clair
notority for singleness of its SMELL
Large manufactures of tobacco are situat
ed here, employing large force of operi
tives and consuming enormous quantiti6
Of the cured leaf What cotton is to NJ
bile is tobacco to Lynchburg. tits, in fac
1.-THE trade'' of the city. Break days
when accumulated cOnsignments are so
off, are the liveliest of the week, and Il
scenes at the warehouses resembles tho
witnessed in the Gold Board of New Vol
or the Cotton Exchange of New Orlean
OF course Lynchburg has other lar
operations, in the conduct of which 81
realizes great wealth. Her trade in cou
try produce Is extensive and reaches
arms into East Tennessee, drawing thith
large consignments of wheat, grain, bac
&c.
AN OLD VIRGINIA DARKEY.
While standing on the street-corner Il
morning, seriously debating whether
slide down Bridge street in a sitti
posture, or "back up at full length, +" an
diapidated relic of ante GeLium days
costed us with request for "a dime, you
master !" The strangeness of the epitl
attracted our attention To the old fellO
and we began to question him little.
said he used to belong To 'old Colonel
over in Botetourt county," and that
was "mitey tired of dis freedun
''What?" said we, ''you don't mean TO
that you would like to be a slave again
"Da3s it, OATS IT, young master. If
ole master was alive dis darkey'd 90 ri
back TO de ole place and die dar.' He
planned that his sons, of which he
three, were lazy dogs who drank aud z;
bled and preyed upon their kind,