Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-05-29

raxon, Esq. OF rlttroad n0tOriety, was
aboard, and by his kindness and agree
able as well as profitable conversation,
contributed no little towards shorten
ing the space intervening between my
home and my aforesaid place of desti-
nation.
had the good fortune TO reach the
tobacco emporium with whole bones,
and in due time, and after spending a
night with some relatives, had the
pleasure. on the following evening, of
receiving an invitation from Col. T. d.
Leonard to visit his home and spend
the night with himself and family. The
invitation was, of course, accepted, and
mounted on Macs thoroughbred, we
soon annihilated the distance between
GAINESVILLE and Leonards sabine
farm" Here, besides being welcomed
with that liberality and hospitable
kindness for which mine host nd his
estimabic and excellent dame are pro-
verbal. 1 was shown through the
Colonel's farm and permitted to ex-
anime in detail his fine meadows, vine
yard. garden and stock. You just
ought to see his improvement and ad-
vancement in scientific and practical
filth and agriculture, under the appre-
ciative inspiration produced by GER
tain connection or compound of mint,
ice. and old Robertson. ilnprovised by
Mac. on the spur of the moment, in
order to understand and appreciate fully
and clearly the marked effects of en-
terprise, industry and thrift applied
successfully to small farm. The
night was pleasantly passed, and time
whiled away with many story and
thrilling anecdote told by mine host of
his adventures in the farwest. Leonard
has plenty of them always on hand and |
knows how to tell them. On the en-
suing morning, we mounted the Col
onel's suburban express with the patent
brake, drawn by spanking team of
spirited bays, and thus returned in
style to the busy and thriving city. !
How many happy memories connected |
with the writer's boyish days, came
stealing back over his recollection, as
he once again surveyed the familiar,
but much altered, scenes of his early |
life How many well remembered |
face seemed, as he traversed those
scenes, to smile upon him again, from
the dim outlines of the past now alas!
to be seen in substantial bodily reality
no more on earth and how many loved
forms that once were radiant with the
bloom of youth, and robust with the
health and strength of dawning manly
and womanly beauty now lie slumber-
ing peacefully and quietlyin the church
yard, to awake no more until the arch
angels trump shall sound the reveille
of the vast army of the dead
Upon our arrival in town, after pass
ing the neat and tasteful little village
of New Providence, the Colonel kindly
suggested the prOpriety of visit to the
and extensive floral and
vegetable gardens of the WE'LL broth
ers at the old Shackelford place |
was most singularly fortunate again in
having such treat proposed, and glad
again that | had accepted the invita-
ton. Leonard is bully cicerone and
knows exactly how to show a man
around. OF course, [ went. Here |
was welcomed by the proprietors and
the excellent lady of the house with
genuine German hospitality that would
have done no injustice to the days of
Peter Stuyvesant, and perhaps not
of imitation by some of those
who claim to be native and to the
born" [ spent considerable
part of the day Leonard had only pro-
posed half an hours visit most de-
The visit combined both
pleasure and profit. Perhaps it is not
so well known to your numerous read
ers as it should be that there is, in
right here at home. at our
own door, such an enterprise on
foot-is actually going on-and live
enterprise at that-to- floral, seed,
shrub, and vegetable garden, consist
ing of nine acres, admirably managed,
in the highest and most perfect state
of cultivation-and that GAINESVILLE is
shipping garden seeds, vege-
tables. shrubs and flowers in consider
able quantities to Louisville Think
of that And yet mird6ile dictu we
have been in the habit of sending
abroad for such things. Here the
writer saw perfect wilderness ofvego-
tables, rare exotic shrubs, and appar-
emily an endless variety of beautiful
flowers that was absolutely bewilder-
ing. The lady proprietress was not
ashamed to be seen with her working
harness on, but was busy in the garden
with the pluck and industry of Ro-
man matron and after becoming ac-
quainted with her amiable and discreet
manners, her contempt for merely con-
ventional social formalities, coupled
with native and Inbred refinement,
after perceiving her robust health, the
evident result of an industrious and
true womanly attention and devotion
to her husbands interests, it occurred
to the writer, that it would be infinite
ly better, in all respects, for the pre-
sent and future generation, in the
Sunny South, that we had many more
such women amongst Us. WE'LL, dur
ing the visit, took us to his lot and ex-
hibited to us his full blooded Durham
bull, fine thoroughbred three years
old, from the farm of the celebrated