Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-07
letter From "Roy."


TO the Editors of the Chronicle:
Day before yesterday, little Alice
Mcclellan, the youngest child of Mrs.
Mcclellan, met with a painful acct
dent. Her brother Ross, next older
than herself, was crushing corn and
Allie was riding around on the frame
of the crusher, when her leg was
caught between the frame and the
legs of the machine. The team could
not be stopped until they had gone
once around, and all the flesh was
torn off the back part of her leg from
the knee down. / am informed the
bone and muscles were left bare, but
not fractured She was resting well
last night and it is hoped she may re-
cover.
TIC. Harms, a short time ago, partial
1y Investigated an Indian mound on
the farm of Hardie Brown, which
proved to contain fragments of pottery
and gave evidence of other interest,
ing relics, when further explored.
The wheat crop has made wonder
full Improvement since the heavy rains
have rendered the land more compact.
The beating rains have served the pur
pose of a roller.
In planting potatoes, where the seed
are to be cut, this should be done at
least two or three days before planting,
so that the sap may dry off and a crust
be formed on the cut surface, so that
the dirt will not adhere to the potato
and cause it to rot. Try it and you
will have a better come up" Cut
the seed and spread the pieces on a
floor to dry.
L have heard story of the late I'M
fortunate engineer, Holloway, which
may be interesting to your readers, as
it shows that he was a truly brave
man:
While running on the Alabama and
Chattanooga road in III or ~, as fire.
man, if don't forget, on a very rickety
old engine, it happened on one trip
that Stanton, the President, was on
board, and the old engine showed
signs of giving down. The engineer
put on all the steam she would bear,
but still she would not pull the train
of cars over the grade. Stanton or
dered enough steam to be put on to
pull the train but the engineer protest
ed, declaring that the engine was I'M
safe and that if any more steam was
put on he would not run her. At this
juncture the dauntless Holloway STEP
ped forward, saying that he would run
her, which he did without any &C
cident, and Stanton gave him charge
Of the engine turning off his superior
He ran the old engine short time and
soon after it was taken to the shop and
Holloway was placed on new one
AS the story was told to me, this wa
his be ginning as an engineer.
We have heard of no steps beine
taken to replace the bridge across
CraaE io ,,Ia n.tf
presume 1t will be done in a month oil
so. The Squires have, no doubt, been
waiting for the court to meet anC
make appropriations.
There Is an unusual scarcity of Irisl
potato seed IN our county. Not on
is TO be found for sale aud men tell mi
that there are none in the Knoxvill,
market. Alb. Hall has none, and wheI
he fails they all fail. There is n,
doubt but Ab. is "sights on taters.
] have heard of " mule-gTowers
chicken growers A." book worms,
etc, and l Judge that he is " tate
bug" He would, no doubt, make
greater success still, if he would put al
his attention TO the one crop, but h
will "corn "a little.
What does Prof Payne knOw abou
flood No. 2? Here our farmers hav
been sitting mOrOsely on piles Of Dirt
wood and rails waiting for the " Pail
Flood to pass so they could put u
their fencing. Some folks are awfu
stupid. If some new "feller ~ shout
come around and publish that tn
Cumberland mountain would, on tn
10th of May, strike b line 70
Cuba, rolling square across East Ten
nessee. knocking Knoxville into
cooked hat, believe in my soul tina
forty thousand East Tennesseean
would go into cave beforen ext morn
ing, Roy.