Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-01

L 4t14ulotCl CAi-eN-Cu -uls 1llAN III COuhtl
sation during the greater part Of the jouur
ney, and as Judge Porter found numerou
friends among the passengers, these two
who were just on the point of pitting thei
oratorical powers against each other, di,
not come together, though occupying the
same car, until just before reaching Jones
boro, when Mr.. Maynard approached hi
opponent, and with a, @Judge Porter, be
lieve?" shook lands with him and was OF
fered share Of his seat by the Judge. Tn
offer was accepted, and pleasant CONVEX
satiOn was kept up between them for th
remainder Of the journey.
THB COUNTRY
between CHATTANOOGA aud Jonesboro ia
surpassed my expectations, as | had sup
posed it to be rugged, sterile and thinly
settled. On the contrary, l found mil,
after mile of well cultivated farms, ricI
meadows and grazing herds, and with evi
dences of thrift and prosperity on even
hand. All along the line of railroad, a
short intervals, were well built, tlIriFini
towns and villages, with handsome resi-
denceS, neat churches and schOolhouses
we'll stocked stores, and a general air O
push and enterprise. AT Cleveland a very
attractive Episcopal Church, the design o.
which was furnished by Mr.. Williamson, q
Nashville architect, was recently built b.
Mr.. John A. Craigmiles, of Cleveland, in
memory Of his only child-a little girl who
was killed by train of cars.
As we neared GneeneYille, celebrated as
the home of ex-President johnson and
Betsey Ward, made. Inquiries r1ncsrnifte
the latter, 81 the brakeman-an out-and-
out East Tennesseean.
''Yes," said he, 'Tshe's still follerin' the
old bizness. She worried 'em all out"
"Let me see; how long was it that she
was besieged?"
at pears TO me like them winmen
commenced bout the first Of March. and
belt on till 'b5ut Some time In August. |
know l seed some of 'em thar in August,
but think most of 'em had gin il up be-
fore that. She made 'em a straight offer to
sell out her whisky-shOp, but they wouidn'i
buy it."
sand did her business suffer much in
the meantime?" asked.
'sNot bit of if. She lust sold along.
steady-like, all the time, aud after she'd
worried 'em nut, people on the cars would
wave their handkerchiefs at her when the
train'd stop, and she'd wave back and bow,
as much as to say she'd CONQUERED, you
know" tnd he cnuckled heartily as the
picture Of the triumphant Betsey growing
over her routed enemies required TO him.
When the train reached GIeeneville, my
communicative brakeman pointed out TO
me Mrs. Wards stronghold. Il stands rear
the derOt anH Is two story frame strue-
tdfe, with a stone basement, which latter
is occupied by the saloon which the pray
inc women of Greeneville impOrtuned her
so persistently and through so many weary
months, TO abandon. The house is PAINTED
a dlngt yellow. srd hers aId there pane
cf glass was missing, the top of tin wash
boiler being thrust through one Of the
apertures thus made, in order TO keep out
the rain which was falling a. the time. At
an upper window sat a young looking
woman holding child, and In the door,
way of the saloon stood the redoutable
Belses looking at the h5ltsd train.
THE WEATHER,
Yesterday and last night, was of an ex-
ceedingly moist character, the rain falling
steadily from early in the d-y, and cOntin-
uing through the night. At one of the sta
tons group of men were standing Un the
platform, and as the wind .whistled Arearilf
by and The tait defended, ole remarked:
nWell, If this is the kind of weather these
Gubernatorial candidates are goin' to
bring us, wish they'd keep out of this
section"
sNever mind;" replied another, 'just
wait till they get under way and they'll
SON clar things up"
We reached Jonesboro about 6 o'clock
last evening, the time from Nashville beins
nearly twenty-four hours and the distanUc
about 1913 miles, aail the way up hill"
JoTiesOOrO Is the Oldest town in Tennessee,
having been first settled more than hun
bred years ago, when this portion of our
State belonged to North Carolina. The
country here is somewhat broken snd rug
ged, but the town does not present that
dilapidated appearance one would expect
in place so venerable. II boasts Of six
churches alrnqst within st6nes throw Of
each Otiiifef, a IlOurishing male academy, two
good hotels and a dozen or more stores.
POLITICS
form the chief topic of conversation In this
section, and candidates for Office are SO
plentiful, that If you should throw stone
at dog and miss hitn, tnn'd hit 4. public
spifited Individual WHO mas signiiied Iis
willingness TO sacrifice his own private in
terests on the altar Of patriotism.
In this district, the First, the Democratic
convention meets daE after 'C-thdnOW al
Greeneri,le. Among the candidates promi-
nentiy spoken of are Col. Green, of Hamb
len, VIM. Mcfarland, of Hawkins, George
r. McClelland, of Sullivan and Ii. III. In
gersoll, of Greene, ROderick Random
Butler and Judge GillenwateU being tbs
Radical csndidtse5.
III the Second District, no nomination j:
to be made by the Democrats, understand
the Radicals claiming a majority of some
six thousand votes. However, there are nc
lack of candidates, VIM. II. HendefsoF
having announced himself as a straight Out
Democratic aspirant for Congressional hon
ors, James A. Mabry being candidate OF
a sort of farmers platform, while Col. J.
NJ. Thernburg and Judge l.. c. Houk arr
fighting for the Radical vote. The former Wa
nominated by convention held at Knox.
vile, of which Rule, of the Chr0nicte
was chairman. Houk and Rule entertain
a feeling for each other differing somewhat
from that entertained by Damon fol
Pythias, and rice UerSd, and as Rule wa:
Chairman of the Radical Congressional
Executive Committee, Houk was not will
ing to subject his chances to the formers
manipulatIons, and hence refused to sub
NIT to the action of the convention. OF
course he has the Chronicle to fight, and
does it through the columns Of the Loudo1
Times, the editor of which paper evidently
has some little personal animOsity TOWARD
the Chronicle folks, judging from the fol
lowing editorial clipped FROM tie last Sat
urday's issue:
"The Smut Machine, edited by couple
of dirt-daubers and published at Knoxville
gets off the following mammoth falseheOC
in Wednesdays issue. Every man, woman
and child in London county knows the
statement to be false, and knows the mar
that wrote il. to be a malicious liar.
David Nelson, of London, came next
He said that he lived in the First district
Of Loudon county, and that there were col