Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-17

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To the Union and American:
NEAR MANCHESTER, COFFEE COUNTY,
Tenn, July 15.-SuppOsing your numer-
Gus readers, at home and abroad, will be
pleased to hear something occasionally
from Coffee county, L have concluded to
pen Few items, which you are at liberty
to ub sh, should you deem them Of suf-
fici Mt interest.
Curf mers have been much retarded
by ct " 'atheT in securing and threshing
their VII at crop, which is much more
aJun, ant than usual. The rains have
also Il va ted many in their intentions
TO give their growing corn an
other plJwing. The corn crops
though laIe in the planting, are looking ex-
ceedinly fine, grow very rapidly, and with
another blowing, in laying-by, would have
secured for our county the largest yield Of
cor ever raised in the same territOTy-at
least for many Years past As it is, do not
think there will be much room for grumb-
have been industrious and eT e-getic, and it
is hoped a remUneratiye result will follow.
l have seen during the year but little
idling.except among chronic lOafeTs, and III
employed boys in and around certain places
and localities.
The citizens of Coffee are taking a lively
interest in the proposed Centennial celebra-
ton and Exhibition, and an Executive
Committee, composed of active business
men, was organized on the 5th inst, and
they will devise plans and report progress
from time to time. If Coffee is properly
presented and represented on that occasion,
She can, unpretendiDg as she has been, af-
ford a highly creditable display as one of
the constituent counties of our great and
noble commonwealth. W. L. Garrett, Il.
W. Casey, J. W. Wagner, L. d. Kicker
son and ID. p. RathbOIe are the Executive
or Business Committee, who will act in
concert with Gov. POrter's appOintees for
this county, and feel sure the growing in
terest in the Centennial will not be allowed
to fag.
During last week our people were greatly
pleased and enlivened by the visit and
presence Of Col. Killebrew, our State Com
missioner of Mines, etc, etc. Il do not at
this moment call. to mind the COlOnets
true official title, but that is immaterial,
for yoar readers, and indeed the whole
people. well know his position, what he has
done and is doing to develop and advance
the interests of Tennessee.) He spent a
short while ia and around Manchester, aud
while there was struck with many matters
Of interest and Importance. Besides view
ing the extraordinary and UneXampled
water powers on our streams, near town,
he was presented with many rich and rar e
specimens of minerals, etc. On Thursday
and Friday he visited several sections a
few miles distant from Manchester, and at
every point, l learn, he found or heard OF
something of much interest, concerning
which suppose be will in due time inform
the public.
While at Manchester he was presented by
Prof. Holback with a rich specimen Of iron
ore found within two miles of our town.
1t is called, l believe, dye-stOne, OF red
hematite, and sometimes red fossiliferOus
ore, II is the same as the valuable ore now
being worked at lockwood and Cumberland
Gap, in East Tennessee; at least such is
the information l received from Col. Kill
Hebrew.
This specimen had been found and
picked up by Mr.. John Hardin, Of Man
chester, and given 10 Prof, Halbach a few