Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-04
MORE ABOUT THE RURAL SUN.

efforts to advance the agricultural interests
of Tennessee. We have from the first is
sue of the CHRONICLE given prominence
in our columns to all movements calcula-
ted to awaken the farmers of East Tennes-
see to the importance of their work. We
have never protested extraordinary zeal in
the matter, but have suffered our works
rather than our words to attest our interest
in the cause. While we desire to promote
the interest of the farmers, we also feel it
our duty to put them on their guard against
all shams and super-zealous champions.
The publisher of the Rural Sun, inGa
speech in the recent Farmers ConventiC n,
made an unprovoked, mean and malicious
assault upon us and all editors of po
litical and news journals. In self
defence and from desire to show
the farmers why the gentlemen connected
with the Sun are so super, Jealous and dis
interested on their behalf, we desire to
ventilate Mr.. Griffith who is foolish
enough to go about the country assailing
newspaper editors without cause.
The RurdL SIM is published at Nash
vile, by joint stock company. Among
the stockholders are Gov. John G. Brown,
Gen. N. G. Harding, Maj j ohm Met avock,
Gen. w. Ii. Jackson, ]. B. Killebrew,
Col. Thos. i. Johnson, DIR. j. NJ. Stafford,
Prof. Hunter Nicholson, j. o. Griffith,
J. M. Carnes, ct. al. These gentlemen are
the principal stockholders of the Sun.
Gov. Brown heads the list. The Legisla-
ture of 1871, passed an act establishing a
State Agricultural Bureau.
The Bureau thus established is compos-
ed of the following Commissioners: Prof
Hunter Nicholson and Tom. CrNtchfield
of East Tennessee; Gen. w. H. Jackson,
j. b. Killebrew and DIR. ]. NJ. Stafford, of
Middle Tennessee, and Hurt and Haynes,
of West Tennessee. Four of these Com
missioners, mark it now, are stockholders
of the R,trdL Sun, appointed by Governor
John G. Brown stakeholder of the same
paper. On The 18th of December last the
Legislature passed an act entitled Gan Act
to Amend an Act to Establish Bureau of
Agriculture" but which, if our Informal
ton is correct, should have been entitled
'An Act to support the Rural Sun" The
Chemist shall perform whatever duties may
be required of him by the Commissioners
CfAgricuLiIrc. The second section repeals
ten and eleven of the act of 1871, and fixes
the salary of Secretary and Chemist at
whatever the Commissioners Judge them
to be worth. The third section appropri~
ates, annually, ten thousand dollars for the
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printing, to be disbursed by direction of the
Commissioners. The sections OF the act of
1871 repealed by the second section of the
act of 1878, fixed the salary of Secretary at
Sir hundrcd dollars and eXpenses-total
not to exceed one thousand; and that of
ChemistIat fee for each analysis-total not
to exceed five hundred dollars. Now the
Importance of all this will appear when we
give the organization of this Agricultural
Bureau, As we are informed, the organ
ization is as follows: j. b. Killebrew, Sec
rotary of Bureau; DIR. J. NJ. Stafford, Chem
list c, w. Charlton, Secretary, East Ten
nessee, and j. J. Donohue for West Ten
nessee.
}. b. Kilebrew, the Secretary, is editor of
the Sun. J. NJ. Stafford, the Chemist, is
assistant editor Of the Sun, and Mr.. Charl-
ton is, we believe, an agent of the same pa
per. Now we understand that it is gener-
ally reported and believed in Nashville
that Killebrew gets Il salary of $4,000.
Charlton and DOnOhue each $1,000, and
that DIR. Stafford gets good salary, but
how much we can not say. In addition to
his salary as Secretary, Mr.. Charlton: we
doubt not, earns fair salary out of his
agency for the Sun.
We may be mistaken as to the amounts of
these salaries, but give them as we hear
them. If not true, the San will give the
exact figures. The beauty of this ma
ehinery is beyond description. Gov.
Brown, who is a Sun stakeholder, APP
points the commissioners, four of the seven
being stockholders of the Sun. The COM
missioners elect the officers and disburse
the $40, 600 annually given to the Bureau.
Two of the officers are editors of the Sun.
! and the third is an agent. The printing,