Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-07-15
Fayetteville, Tenn.
Memphis and Knoxville Railroad
Colonel HOlman-The Crops
-ManWfactures-The Springs
Hotels, etc.
From the Memphis Appeal.

OF one OF Inc pest counties III
Middle Tennessee, and a coun-
ty which is now very anxious
to get direct railroad connection
with Memphis. If the Mem
iphis and Knoxville could be
built as far from Memphis as
Henderson, on the Mobile and
Ohio road, a distance of eighty
six miles, there would be no diff
ficulty in extending it to this
place. They, however, at pres
ent, have more hope of getting
the road from Columbia, which
is graded to Lewisburg, in Mar
shall county, a distance Of twen-
ty-two miles, and which will, in
all probability, be irened and
equipped this year. If the
counties on the various lines
had many such men as Colonel
d. w. Holman, of this place, all
the road would be completed. /
have never seen a more enlight-
ened public-spirited man than
he is. Your citizens all rcmem-
Der him as the able president
of the Memphis and Knoxville
railroad convention which met
in your city last year. He is a
lawyer, in full practice, is presi-
dent Of the Lincoln savings
bank, and is largely interested
in the Newcastle coal mines
near Birmingham, Alabama.
He has what is considered, and
perhaps correctly, the best test
of merit, individual success;
but he is unlike many men that
are successful, being at the same
time remarkably liberal and
philosophical. Out of the
three hundred dollars paid for
the survey of the Memphis and
Knoxville road in his county,
he paid himself two hundred
dollars. If One-half of the prop
.erty-holders in Memphis would
pay one-half for the building
of the road that he did merely
for the survey Of the route in
Lincoln county, it would be
built within a year. He is the
best illustration that l have eV-
er seen Of the Divine proverb:
"The liberal soul shall be made
fat, and he that watereth shall
be watered again." Our old
friend, j. b. Lamb, who made
a good representative of Fay
cite, Shelby, and Upton in form
er days, and who was deserved
ly popular in Memphis in the
days of King, Searcy, Stanton.
Yerger, Sale, Coe, Dunlap, ard
others, is here practicing law
with all the viSOr and ability
of his Memphis days. Can
you not get him back to Menu
phis? 1t will not do to lose
such men permanently. The
crop prospects here, as in all
other parts of the State, are We
ry fine. 1t is estimated that
Lincoln county will have this
year five hundred thousand
bushels of wheat, which is now
selling here at ninety cents per
bushel. They are thrcshing
out their wheat here very rap
idly. They are using some
steam-threshers, and others
that require ten horses to work
them. There are some, how
ever, that require only two or
four horses. The corn crop is
as promising as the wheat crop
was, and this is one of the great
corn counties of the State, and
is also celebrated for it's fine
whisky. The people of Lin
coin, although very fine whisky
is made in this county, are as
sober and temperate as are the
people of any county in the
State. They have just compile
ted a new and beautiful court
house, which cost thirty thou
sand dollars. 1t is an ornament
to the town. Hon. John M. !
Bright lives within two miles of |
this place. He has a reputa-
ton which is national, and well
does he deserve it. They have
but one hotel here, which is
kept, and we'll kept, by DR.. SAT-
fold. Let all who go to Fay-l
etteVille feel assured that they
be we'll entertained at the SAT-
fold house. Hon. Geo. w. |
Jones is now on a visit to his
friends in North Carolina
Fayetteville has long been Gel
ebrated for its great legal tai
ent. This was the home of
Fulton and Ross, and the pres
ent bar retains the reputation
of the former bar. Passengers
leaving Memphis on the five
n'clnck (evaninnrA train nm 4hn