Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-23
FROM OAK GROVE, KY.

s'The news our morning, noon, and even
Day after day repeats it till we die.
For this the cit the critic, and the fop
DAILY the hour away at Tonsor'S shop;
For this the gossip takes her daily route,
And wears your threshold and your pa
thence out;
For this we leave the parson in the lurch,
And pause TO prattle on our way TO
church"
As news" is the order of the day.
and you have nc correspondent in this
section, l thought perhaps "a few
items" from Oak Grove would be ac-
ceptible; at least I hoped so, for on
glancing over the New Era, of Hop
kinsville, what was my surprise to see
a letter from Long View by skip"
All hall Skip. Thou bursteth on our
astonished vision like meteoric spark
''o'er the dark, vaulted heavens at
night" May you live long and pros
per, and win great gobs of fame" by
the scintillations of indispensable wit
that flows so copiously from thy po-
tent pen. New Providence has the
vivid Imagination of "Hilda" to por-
tray its glories, and must Oak Grove
be left without one to sing her praises?
o, place of my birth, your desert
speaks loud and l should wrong it to
lock it in the wards of covert bosom
when it deserves with characters of
brass, forted residence 'gainst the
tooth Of time and razure- of oblivion.
But ohe! jam salts, and so | will pro-
coed. 49, ---r.- -
On a recent visit to GAINESVILLE and
Providence, l was forcibly reminded
of the old story Of Jonah and the
whale, and was exceedingly fearful
lest Providence should be speedily
bolted by the whale, CO. but / learned
from a conversation with young lady
who had read Hilda's last cammuni-
cation, that another fate was in store
for that devoted city. The idea the
young lady CLEANED from Hilda was
that Providence was to be spun out to
an interminable length, and, after
winding part of it on a stick, they
would take the rest and tie this
plunging earth to somebody's old
mares (mars.) Hird5iZe dictul But
it matters not how wonderful, L, for
one, will bewail its sad fate, for I feel
a peculiar interest for some of its peo-
pie.
Miss Sallie King, who has been Wis
iting Mr.. Jas. Moore's family, lately
returned to GAINESVILLE. Poor Sue
will rest now maybe.
Miss Mamie Smith, who has been
rusticating with us a short time, has
left US for her home.
Misses Florence Winfrey and Leila
Newell have also visited the neighbour
hood this season; but all of these
bright visitants have flown, "and still
we live"
Miss Auretia CARROT has been Wis
iting her friends in this vicinity quite
often of late Much too often for our
girls to retain tnat equanimity and
peace of mind which is their wont. |
invoke some of you, of Providence, in
behalf of "our girls" can't you man
age to keep her at home with some of
that interminable coil you will have
manufactured If you don't l fear
she win have some of our swains so
inextricably tangled in her meshes
that there will be no hope for them.
Some are of the opinion that her
greatest preference is fora place for
ships. TierbuD, sat sapienti.
The country is rather dull since our
Summer visitors departed. The to-
bacco crop is small, and 1 think the
little that is raised will be consumed
by the worms before it is housed.
And now farewell 1 dare not
lengthen this epistle, which is already
rather long drawn out, for fear I'd
weary your patience. Perhaps Tn
write again. Respectfully
l. D. A.
n.L Cro,-o Sart 1Otb 1879