Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-29

It adds: AT last hope has burst full
| blown upon our farmers. The ram has put
| such refreshing look upon everything,
that the farmers say that the wheat, corn
and all crops are growing vigorously"
The wool market at Gallatin is quite
/ brisk. Large quantities are brought in
daily, sold to the middle-men and shipped
to other markets. The Examiner says:
s'Farmer /. n. Newkirk, near Gallatin,
sheared his sheep this week. lie has i'm
proved on his Spanish Merino eve feeces
from an average Of 81 lbs. to 9.10-1G lbs.
this year. That viii do to bTag on"
A called meeting Of the Commissioners
of Wisdom county was held on Saturday
last, to receive the report of the surveyors.
It was ascertained that, owing irTegulari-
ties in some Of the lines, another survey
would have to be made. The Henderson
Reporter says that in a short time every
difficulty viii be removed, when the Com
missiOners will order another election. The
friends Of the new Ounty are very sanguine
of carrying the question.
David Adams, of Dyersburg, has return
ed home from a prospecting trip to Cali
fOrnia, and tells the Progress that no man
of moderate means has any business there.
Land sells from 500 to 81, 800 per acre,
and rents for SO per acre. Not farms of
less than 1000 acres can be rented al all.
Thousands, he says, are out Of employ
ment and are anxious to leave, but have
nothing to pay expenses, and consequently
the roads are lined with fOotmen making
their way back home.
Slater, Of the Winchester Home Journal,
is in a terrible pucker. Hear his lament:
"NO local matters to write abOUt-nO new
advertisements, showing that we have any
business men in Winchester who appre-
ciate the value Of paper that would herald
their business to hundTeds-nO deaths
(thank PrOYidence)-nO marriages (alas.)
no births, of any account; no picnics in
prospect; no duel on the taps; no scandal,
even, Ohank God twiee,)-nO anything TO
helpus. And we shall 90 angling soon"
II is stated by the GdlldtiR Examiner
that the lessees Of the lead mine recently
discovered in the lower edge Of TrOusdale
county, have Changed their original plan of
operations, and have applied for charter
OF incorporation. They now propose to
form a form q joint stock company. The
mine was examined recently by an old
California expert, who pronounced il rich
IN lead and silver ore. He thinks that after
the shafts have been sunk to a certain depth,
the proportion Of silver ore viii be found to
be gTeater-in other words, he thinks it a
silrer, and not a lead mine.
Commenting upon the recent negro emf |
grafton convention, the Lebanon Herald |
says: ave are credibly informed that there !
is not single instance in Wilson county, |
where = negro has retained his property I'M
sold for taxes, and yet, when class evinces |
such wOrthlesSness, and utter want Of en-
ergy, they are retained by the offer Of every
lndUcement TO paralyze every industry IN !
which they engage. We did fail utterly in |
the attempt at introducing the Chinese, |
but the failure resulted from the attempt to |
replace cheap negro labor by a quality of |
labor equally as bad if not worse"
The Trenton NeirS- Gazette is response |
bic for this tale Of awful retribUtiOn: "Just |
after the cold spell, late in April, a man |
went into his orchard and finding most, or |
all, Of his fruit destroyed, became very
much enraged at his loss, cursing God, and |
rsying at a fearful rate generally. He |
came back TO the house, and flITiUusly |
swearing about the earth not being broken |
up as usual for planting, he was stricken |
severely and suddenly with paralysis, and |
is said to present a pitiable spectacle Of ut
Ter helplessness. Many attribute it to a |
Divine afIiictiOn, sent upon him for his |
Of the Grange mills in MauTy county |
the Columbia journal SAYS: "These mills |
are located IN the beautiful and fertile va
ley Of Spring Hill, on the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad, about /
midway between EWell's Station and Car |
ter's Creek. The building will be thir-
ty-siZ by eighty-tWO feet, four stories high, !
and covered with sla-s. The propelling /
power viii be sixty horse, applied 10 four 1
runs Of French buTS, which VIII give the |
mills a capacity Of two hundred barrels Of |
-four in twenty-fouT hours. The sepaEat-
irg and boiling apparatus will be unsur
passed by any mills in the south, and the /
shutters, cleaners and decOrticatGTs will be |
OF the latest and most approved styles. In |
a word, they will be, when completed, sec
end to no mills south of the Ohio river"