Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-23

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first if not the only candidate for the
listed State Senate last winter
to withdraw his name to promote
harmony and give the opponents OF An
drew johnson an opportunity to concen'
trate upon SOME leading man-an OPP
%portuuity, by the way, which they toUk
good care to avoid. Hon. Asa Faulkner
lives in this vicinity, and shows what a
little pluck and enterprise can accom-
plish in the way of manufacturing. |
understand hat he has hourishing cot
ton and wooden factories three miles
from here, employing a large number Of
people and making handsome profits.
There are also hub and spoke factories,
an iron foundry, fine mills and other
similar enterprises in successful opera
ton here. Coal abounds in the mountains
near by and is used almost exclusively
for fuel instead OF wood. This is a rich
mineral region, and is destined to be a
vast mining and manufacturing center
at no distant day.
TIE railroad here, if l am not mis-
taken, belongs to the Memphis aud
Charleston railroad, and some day will
be continued east to tap the great Gin
%cinnati and Southern railroad, and thus
McMinnyille, from q pent.up little city
in the mountains, will be placed in
direct communication with C.ncionati
aud the rest of the outside world. This
present railroad is an institution sui
g%eHeriS. The schedule is in~genuously
arranged, but for whose convenience /
am not informed. The morning train
leaves here at I o'clock, makes the trip
at lightning speed in three hours, and il
you are going to Nashville you stand a
good chance TO get of at 6 o'clock in
the evening. There is a controversy be.
tween this powerful corporation and the
best government the world ever saw"
and the government, to show that it is
the smaller of the two, refuses to allow
the road to carry the mail between this
place and Tullahoma. As a conse
quenes the mail contractor carries the
mail in 8 buggy. Think Of that in this
age Of steam and the centennial end OF
the nineteenth century There is a fine
opening here for a good stage line.
This is the home of Mrs. L. Virginia
French, the Southern authorizes and
poetess. Her residence, Forest Home"
is an antiqgelookiug building with many
gables aud angles, as il suggested by the
striking features of the landscape. 1t is
an ideal home Of a poet as seen fromthe
road, embowered 10 vines and trees and
reached by circuitous avenues which
give the stranger ample time to study
the rustic beauties OF the place before
entering its classic Threshold. Here,
indeed, l thought, is a st place to com-
mune with nature in all her changeful
spells and WOO the muses. in their own
alllring retreats. My acquaintance
With Forest Home was made from the
front gate setting in 2 buggy, when none
Of the inmates appeared to enliyen the
scene, and is therefore quite limited.
But | recalled to memory with pleasure
that some of the prettiest and sweetest
poems l ever read in the English Ian
gusga we're written by Mrs. Virginia
French.
Speaking Of Tullahoma, where a way
faring nan has to tarry as long almost
as the young men at Jericho, sent there
to let their boards grow, | must give the
place credit for something not often
ioHnd in small railroad towns-a we'll
kept hotel. dc not know the landlord,
but whoever he is he feeds well and is
polite aud accommodating.
While at Tullahoms, sitting around
the si9ye at Jim MitchelTs place,
which is net > hotel, l heard
a good story, which condense
for the use Of the local papers about
here. Walt Hiles is a .good-natured
Dutchman, Of the firm Of Hiles & Berry,
distillers at L~ynehbuFg, Moore county.
The other day Walt was stamping his
whisky barrels, as required by the above
mentioned government, and there we're
some geese 10 the yard. BE had just
stuck on a green thirty dollar stamp and
turned away a moment when 6 goose, not
caring a cent for expenses or crooked
whisky, made a dive at hat stamp and
picked twothirts Of il of clear. Walt
turned just in time to soc that loyal
goose swallow the precious two-thirds
and make 3 nibble for the rest. He
didn't say Aein Colt in himmel," nor
chase that goose around the lot, did he2
OF course not, but there are no tame
geese in that yard now. j. Il. NJ.
SUPREME COURT.