Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-10-07
From Southern Kentucky
For the Fayetteville Observer.

: your valuable county pape
would be. interested in a lette
from this part of our siste
State, | have thought it nothing
amiss to give them a few dot
tings. Lafayette is quite al
ancient little town, situated il
the southern portion Of Chris.
tiana county, KY, almost OF
the Tennessee line, adjoining
Montgomery and Stewart coun-
ties, Tenn. Lafayette is re-
mote from the railroad or river
being twenty miles from Clarks-
vile, Tenn, and twenty-five
from Hopkinsville, the county
site of Christian county,
Though Lafayette is a small
town, it is surrounded by some
Of the best farming land in
southern Kentucky. This is
truly a tobacco country. To-
bacco is the crop here, and
nothing is heard talked of, but
tobacco. The people talk to-
baccO here in the same good
style they talk horse in and a.
round Lexington. The tobac-
co fever is high and the crop
very fine. The farmers over
cropped themselves this year,
but the horn worm not being,
Ioad, they have taken care of
their tobacco i'll good order
The crop is now mostly housed.
We have had some cool wealth
or for the past few days that in
dictated killing frost, which
made the farmers do their ut
most 20 get their tobacco in
\ little frost did fall but not G.
nough to do any harm; good
price is anticipated for good leaf,
many farmers thinking the price
will go as high as fifteen or
twenty dollars per hundred
The crop being largerthanform
crly, it cannot all be hOHsed at
once, and the farmers are firing
at rapid rate to make room
for that that is unhouscd. By
firing too strong quite a num-
Der of barns have been burned
up. One man near this place
lost two barns last week. a
farmer loses his years work We
~ quick when his tobacco barn
catches on fire. The corn crop
is very good. Fruit crop Il fail
ure. The hog crop is said new
cr to have been so light before.
| have been travelling all through
Southwestern Kentucky, and
the cry is everywhere, no hogs.
! understand the buyers are
paying from 10 to -! cents for
pork hogs, or hogs that will do
to fatten. Beef IS low. Chills,
the like was never known since
Noah left the ark. As the Gcor-
gia private said during the war,
rally your men, Captain, the
woods are full of them. | have
been riding for two months and
during the time | have seen but
few families that were not chill
ing. 1t is nothing uncommon
to see three and four in bed in
one family. Even the n. D's
are not sighted. This little
town has five good practicing
physicians, and two of them
are chilling. Quinine is the
best article for trade, just now,
| ever saw. To give you an
idea how it goes-this town has
two drug stores; one of the
druggists told me this morning
that their house was selling on
an average three and four bot
ties day, mostly used in filing
prescriptions. This amount,
with what the other houses, and
what the five doctors use, be-
sides all the patent medicine
used,is wonderful. Both houses
are out this morning, the doc
tors are riding day and night.
There is but little fatal sickness,
nothing but chills and bilious
fever. | thought | would evade
them, if possible, but | missed
it, and they sneaked up OH me
last Friday, when away some
fifteen miles from my hotel. |!
recovered, got back to town,
took the usual prescription, but
did not keep off the second. l.
rallied, doubled the dose, and
came out victorious over the
third. | am now endcavoring
to keep off all attacks by the
free use Of Robinson county,
with various kinds of "roots and |
verbs AS quinine is scarce,
| want to leave it for the more |
unfortunate who have not got
them broke yet. | trust chills
have not taken old Lincoln this
fall with such force as they have
here Truly Yours. q,