Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
FROM DISTRICT NO. 1.

EDITORS OHhONlCLE. mixing tnal
you would like to know some of the
doings of this part of the county. Dis
trict No. l, / viii sendyou few items.
The farmers of this community have
been very busy for week or two
housing their tobacco crop. and / can
safely say that if what has come under
my notice is fair sample of the crop
at large, there is very inferior crop
as regards quality, while the quantity
is equal to or above an average. So
far as my observation extends it is
curing up very light, both in color aud
weight, but with considerable tough
ness Of texture. The worm has been
quite plentiful for the last two weeks
and has left marks plainly visible in
many of the fields that have not been
cut yet, while the extreme wet wealth
err of the early part Of the season,
followed by the drouth of the latter
part, caused a great deal of the tobac-
co to fire Oh the hill, and, as natural
consequence, there will be large pro-
portion of Tugs and low leaf Some'of
the farmers are nearly or quite done
cutting. while others have just COM
menced. There is great deal of
wheat still held by the farmers, and as
it is generally of very inferior quail
ity, with very light demand. They
will probably continue to hold it for the
present. The corn crop is very abund-
ant, and although there is great de-
mand for hogs, there seems to be
considerable number here. There are
none for sale, however, as those who
have the hogs have the corn also, and
prefer fattening to selling. There is
considerable local demand for bacon
also, at the prices ruling in the city
markets. There are occasionally sales
of real estate in the neighborhood,
among which is reported the sale of
the place on which T. j.. Yaneey now
lives, to j. NJ. Bryan, Esq, but | do
not know that the report is correct.
At the railroad station one hears a
good deal about Cheap rates to Louis
vile and Nashville, ""the Exposition"
when the Grange picnic will be, y etc.
Another matter of which I wish to
make mention, before close this ram
bling letter, is the delinquency of post
masters. Not that | wish to arraign
one of them on the charge of robbing
the U. S. mail. nor do l wish to repre-
sent them as dishonest because they
will not let fellow have but six stamps
for twenty cents-far from it But it
is right provoking when old DIR. Jones
sends Tommy down for the mail and
finds on his return that the postmaster
has sent him all the mail belonging to
the widow Jones, aud her family,
while yesterday Medical Journal
which he was so anxious to see,
is rot here at all. Or when Mr..
Smith, who called hurriedly at
the post Office late last night. on
his way from town, finds this morning,
to his intense disgust, that he has all
of Uncle Jack Smiths mail, who lives
five miles down the pike. while that
he was expecting from Schruman & Co.,
his lawyers. was doubtless given out
to Uncle Jack earlier in the evening,
and as he never looks at his mail till
he gets home he has carried it off with
him. Itell you this is matter that
needs attention, and while the Presi-
dent and the big Senators, &c, are
busy with the resumption of specie
payments and the initiation of the cur
rency, and all that sort of thing, if
somebody don't attend to these little
matters they will continue to grow
until we will have of them something
less than Credit Mobilier fraud or
Pacific mail subsidy. Who is willing
to take action in this matter?
IDLEwILD.
Montgomery Co., Tenn, Sept. 10, 70.