Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-11
LETTER FROM ASHLAND CITY.


EDITORS CHRONICLE According
to previous arrangement our Sunday
school pick-nick came off last Satur-
day, the 4th, and we wish you had
been with us to have shared the pleas
ure of the occasion. From early morn
until the lengthening of the shadows
in the evening, were young hearts joy
Gus and happy; nothing occurring to
mar the enjoyment of the occasion.
Our school, with the Forest Hill G. P.
Sunday school, as invited guests, put in
the full day, everybody seemed per-
fectly at home, and seeming to act as
if the occasion was arranged for his or
her especial pleasure. At one o'clock
a sumptuous dinner was spread beneath
the outrageous foliage of the wide
spreading beeches near by, to which
all were invited, and of which all par
took, and of the fragments many
baskets full were taken up. Dinner
over, all repaired again to the scene of
the former enjoyments, which were
again resumed and continued until the
lengthening shadows admonished us
that we must seek our homes, which
we did, only regretting that our day of
pleasure had closed, each one regard
ing it as a green spot in memo-y's
waste.
Still our town continues to assume
more importance as it boasts of other
improvements. For two years we have
been having a tri-weekly stage line
from our place to Nashville, Mr.. w.
?. Watson, of the Sycamore Manufac-
turing Company, being the contractor.
Mr. A. Work, of this place, having
been the lucky bidder for carrying the
mail from here to Nashville, has also
put on a stage, which makes three trips
a week, while Mr.. Watson also con-
tinues his. j. NJ. Eatherly is the jehu
for Mr.. Work, and John says that
every thing that can be done to render
travellers comfortable and to make
their journey pleasant shall be done;
he says he has a good team, strong
harness, reliable stage and he is the
man that knows how to manage the
whole thing, and if the people want a
safe, easy, quiet and pleasant trip,
either way, just let them apply to him
or his agent at the Commercial Hotel
at Nashville, or w. W. Sanders of this
place, and he will put. them through as
quick. as safe, and for as little money
as any other man. Jim Felts, the
driver of the Watson hack, says he
can only point to his record for the
last two years as an earnest for his
future conduct. There is no excuse
now for saying there is no way to get
to and from our growing little town of
Ashland City.
Last Monday was the regular term
of our Quarterly Court. There was
not much business transacted; some
tax releases, few road orders and
some other matters of not much i'm
portance. The question of erecting a
bridge over Big Harpeth at the mouth
of Dog creek, was brought up, plans
and speci6ca tons submitted and the
matter continued until the October
term of the Court The commission
ers of the poor house were directed at
once to erect suitable buildings on a
tract of land recently purchased by the
county as an asylum for the poor. Our
county has meyer had anything of the
kind and we regard this as move in
the right direction, and hope the COM
missioners will at once obey the orders
Of the Court.
We also had convention here on
that day to appoint delegates to the
various conventions, which have been
called, and in which we, as county,
are interested.
We also learn that as Johnnie Simp-
kins, son of j. FL. Simpkins, of the
mouth of Harpeth, was on his way
home from here on that day in skiHf
two men compelled a negro to take them
out to him in a canoe, and made vio-
lent assault upon him, threatening to
kill him and finally proposed to him
that if he would give them what money
be had and his watch they would let
him off. This Johnnie declined to do,
preferring to retain what he had by
| dint of tho use of his own stfoug arm,