Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-16
FROM PAUL BAGLEY.
A Sermon on Hooking Baek"-The
PRGucah Road Ehe CrOps-A
smash-Up on the Road.

TRIMBLE STATION, 2. AND M. r. R
June II, 1851 left your city one week
ago by the Paducsh and Memphis rail-
road, determined to go straight through
to Paducah, and get over the unfinished
part of the road as best l could. After
speaking at two or three points on the
way, arrived at COvingtOn, the present
terminus of the Memphis division OF the
road, and was we'll cared for at the
Mathis house. Heard a sermon from
Rev. Mr.. BOggs on "LOt's wife, or Look
ing Back, "Ghat might well bring tears to
the eyes. Got fine livery. team from c.
n LDEadden, near the depot, for part of
the overland journey. Spoke at Ripley,
IN the courthouse, on the Chinese, and
concluded 10y urging the people to try
and flush their railroad. Found it
graded from CoviDgtOn to this point.
Was told that the road had Judgments
against the county for six thousand dol
lars interest on bonds. Thought the
county had better be building the road
then having it over about quarter of a
mile of it. What's the use OF leaving a
road laying SIS this is, waiting for foreign
capitalists to take a mortgage on the
rOadbed for the iron and equipment?
Couldn't the counties and the people
take paid up stock enough to build the
road, and then run it for dividends, in
stead OF for interest on mortgage
bonds? cove no man any thing"
and "be not surety fer thy brother" are
scripture utteTauces, and when they are
needed, from the building OF railroads to
the planting of cotton and the payment
Of preachers, there will be fewer panica
in the country. Cotton all along the
splendid, especially in Dyer county. 1t
did my soul good to see field after field
Just turning yellow for the cradle, with
harvests of twelve, fifteen and twenty
bushels to the acre, and that when they
have been buying -four up to the present
time at four cents and a half q pound.
Dyer is rich and fertile county. The
whole journey through it is from one
fine farm to another, with beautiful
houses and loaded orchards. Near Dy-
ersburg / was in q private conveyance,
drawn by stallion and q colt. They
ran off; the lines broke. the driver
jumped out; they struck bridge ana
pitched me headlOng into the road; the
fOre-Wheei smashed down; the SPRING
wagon turned over down an embank-
ment; the owner pitched cut; the wagon
was wreck, and the horses stopped.
thought, as was falling, that my wife
would be a widow, but God is good, and
none OF us were injured, though l have
half dozen bruises that will remind
me for some time to come of Dyer coun.
ty. From Dyersburg Mr.. Lewis runs a
daily line OF hacks to NewEern, ten
miles from Trimhle, and thence to
Rutherford, on the Mississippi and Ohio
railroad. From Dyersburg to the
town OF Trimble the railroad is
graded, but every farmer hes his fence
run across it, and one had his sweet po-
tatoes planted about where the iron rail
should lay. Towards evening 1 arrived
at Trim BILE, the present terminus of the
Paducah division OF the Paducah and
Memphis railroad, and as l caught sight
of the iron rails, felt like doing as CO.
lumbus did when he knelt down and
kissed the ground. l had completed
the journey from Covington, of sixty
miles, which is about fifty by the line OF
the rOad-bed and survey. There is little
more than the survey of the road from
Dyersburg to Ripley. Trimble is quite
a thriving little town, with several |
stores, hotel, church and steam saw
mill. The mill runs all night, saving |
lumber, that is shipped as far as Chi
cagO. The people are all busy getting |
ready to harvest their abundant wheat |
crop. Little complaint of sickness. |
Great cry of hard times, which, it is to !
be hoped, the wheat harvest will remedy |
here. PAUL BAGLEY.