Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-15


Kunz & McKinlay keep the best selected
stock Of Wines and Liquors ever retaiIed
IN this city; the quality Of their domestic
and imported Wines, Whiskeys, Brandies,
Ale and Porter il unsurpassed; it gives sat
isfaction % everybody.
A LOST OPFORTUSITT.-These are hard
times. Everybody says they are hard tunes.
We know that they are hard times. And
yet we had an opportunity few days ago
Of improying.s said hard times, 50 far as they
pinched Us. In short, there was tide in
our Affairs, and we failed to take it at its
food. This is the sad story. An old friend
came in from the country with wagon
load OF chickens, potatoes, butter, eggs, etc.
He called on Us 10 buy some. We candid
ly told him that we were very much in
need Of the "rorage," but, that we were
short Of funds; in fact didn't have a nickel.
The memory Of Oh times aud the days
when we were "a few more pumpkins. pc
cuniarily than now, stir % Lis kind.heart
and he said. Bob, you ,aa u.ve what you
want, and pay me when you can With
a gushing heart We replied, sam, drive by
our house and tell our wife to take what
she wants" H. did 50, told her while she
was looking a. tho chickens, potatoes and
things, 10 take all she wanted. And yet, /
notwithstanding our sOrc need and the
grand opportunity opportunity which
we fear will come no moTc-she only pur-
chased half .bushel Of potatoes, three
pounds Of butter and four chickens. Just |
think Of il, and pity US If you can. Such |
an opportunity, such failure, how can we
bear the bitter reflection. We can't do jus
tice to the subject.
PERSECUTION our friend Maj. ". J. /
sykes, cries out in the last issue Of the Lex |
ington Reporter, persecution, Persecu- |
ton" Now, we have industriOusly in /
auircd lin what does this persecution /
consist" The papers certainly have not |
prosecuted him. No public speaker, that |
We have heard Of, has prosecuted him /
Then who is prosecuting the exceedingly .
yirtuous Sykes That's the question. It .
were a grieyous sin if any one would dare
prosecute the ''unsclfsh" sykes. lie is
worth millions Of dollars, and in the mag
nifcent charity OF his great soul is work
ing for the interest Of the benighted peo-
pie Of Henderson county. OF course be Is
not paid, nor does he expect 10 be paid for
his services IN getting Henderson county to
vote Sl5O,OOO to purely paper railroads,
which can never be built. Oh no! Men
of Henderson, the yirtuous Sykes is not to
receive dollar for his interest in the mat
ter. lie would scorn TO take five per cent.
OF your bonds for the valuable services he
has rendered. He wants TO "build up
Henderson county" and never dreamed of
making a dollar by the transaction. He
has plenty Of money and tune, and is on a
mission Of love only. In proof Of this we
will state that he has been working and
speaking in the interest OF every railroad in
the South for the last two decades-which
were never built. Although Sykes has been
building just such railroads as the ones he
now proposes to build in Henderson, for
the past ten years, and although not one OF
his "grand connections" has been built,
yet it would be unjust, not TO say cruel, to
charge that he had been making his living
in that way. Some heartlcss people 20 so
far TO say that his present cry Of perse-
cutIon is only additional evidence that the
wicked flee when no man pursueth."-
But we hurl the insinuation back into the
teeth orits authors. sykes is being per
secuted for righteousness sake" "ThaPs
what's the matter" II Is base ingratilude
for the people Of Henderson TO charge their
generous friend with nerccnaTy motives.
Why. amt he going to uild three or four
through Henderson, and all for
II is true he asks the people to
vote a subscription OF $3.50, 600, upon which
they VIII pay an annual tax of $4,000 per
lnnum for twenty years and still owe the
100000! But has he not explained that
the people will not have a dollar 10 pay
after the first two or three ycars-that the
Railroad Company will pay the interest on
The bonds and be able to pay the principal
by the time il falls due? And don't all
sensible people know that such are the
factS-that railroads invariably do Just that
vay-that its all u sort OF "ten like" or
IN he believe" for the people to subscribe
Ia build railroads, and that the voting Of
TAX is mere matter Of form, and that the
people never did nor never Will have one
cent TO pay. Amt that the experience Of all
Counties that have voted railroad taxes
non WY - ilNi iAlf-ll " 4AtltttA'A SON. Alo
TOu charge the VirtuouS, the charitable
sykes with interested motives: with cX1g-
scratlon, humbuSgery, and with having at
east one corner Of his right eye ON the
main chance, when he explains how he is
going to build you four or five railroads
md all for nothing provided you 90 thro'
he little matter Of form Of issuing bonds
% the amount Of Sl5O 900 bearing per
'cnt interest! Why will you do it.? Echo
answers, why Will you. No, no. Men Of
Henderson, be jus. and cherish the gentle,
he innoceat, the gushing Sykes. Remem- {
Der that be is working to build up Hen |
lerson county"-that he is trying to make
ysu all rich and happy-that although he
never built any railroads he has been long
"A trying"-that while his great conncc-
lions and '.grandest lines" in the country | ,
invariably 90 "whcre the wOOdbinc twi- ,
leth,' he Is invariably findcth another !
hat he is going about all the time doing
food, and that he never gets a cent, nor
Ices he ever expect to get ceRt-that he
would scOru to receive per cent. OF $780,
200 for his servIces-thut he is able and
willing to work for you and your railroads
for nothing, and that he never dreamed of
making anything out Of your proposed sub
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