Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-12-14
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The English markets are, If possible, worse
than ever, and letters and circulars appeal
for a cessation of shipments for a year at
least. ':Save me from my friends"
Bremen opened dull and lower, but latterly
a Duty speculation has cleared the mark
ct of Tugs. We expect this TO continue till
February, when the tax viii be settled, and
then, goodbye TO Germany, as to England,
for one year.
Louisville has awakened to renewed ac-
tlvity, and reports quite i'll advance on
colory home stock but Cincinnati scarcely
maintains her former extreme figures.
We hear of scarcely anything done in the
country yet.
Our letters from those who have examined
the crop in the barns, express disappOi t.
ment, and represent it as inferior to the pre-
vious one, particularly in the GAINESVILLE
region. 1t is a fact well worthy of the most
serious consideration that almost every To-
bacco crop, while increasing in quantity, is
steadily deteriorating. This applies to Segar
growths, Java, San Domingo, Ambalema,
Havana, and Connecticut, as well as to our
heavier sorts. We have been thinking over
our own receipts this year, and (eaving out
Mason county, find but two hhds. elassed
choice, in 200 fiRe, and 2 per cent. good-or
in other words, not three hhds, in one hum
dred classed above good medium. Is this
owing TO laZiness, planting more than can
be well tended, or the exhaustion of the soil.
1t surely cannot be charged to the seasons
year after year, and in such widely separated
countries. Whatever the cause, however,
now is the time, if possible, for the farmer to
apply the remedy.
Since writing the above we notice in the
GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf the opinion ex-
pressed that I" our lands are tired, tobacco
sick, having that peculiar element of the
soil essential TO the growth of rich gummy
Tobacco--and farmers must necessarily look
| to more clover and other fertilizing to sus-
tain the character of GAINESVILLE Tobacco
and remunerative prices" We should like
to see this subject far more discussed by
country papers, Farmers Clubs and Oranges
| than it appears to be.
The present condition and future prospects
| of the Trade have been so clearly set forth
by that excellent newspaper, the Louisville
| Courier-Journal, that we cannot do better
| than insert the article. It is in the form OF
! 81 parable-a Western client stating his case
| to his lawyer-but our Tobacco friends will
see through it at glance.
"Sposn thar wus teller as rented ten acre
| o. Ian, an sposn thar was Teller as owned
a bay mar an a colt, an the contrac' wus
one-third, and Jim Long he vailed the colt
at three sheep, an says as how didn't on
nerstan' no contrac' no sech away, an I'd
lose ten sheep fust ruther'n have the wool
pulled over my eyes by Long, or Short
| either. An the other feller wus Buck VIII
son, he comes In says as how he never on
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/ corn, an as how he had lean on the mar
| an colt, and he'd be- If he didn't sell
out mar, colt, sheep, crap an all eff 'twa'n't
| corn instead of cotton, an said I'd be-
| + he did, an intended to have my rights
which was cotton an the colt, eff it TUX all
| the law in the United States to git 'em. An
| then Jim Long he proposes as how We make
| it 500 an split the Offence, an Buck VIII
son he agrees all right, per-ui-ded it's IS an
| the mar an corn an says, No, sir, efyou
/ pleaSe-it's the colt an cotton, an nary IS
lutheran I'1 be thar when it's anything
but them, Iwin.' And then Long says'e
Wen ha' to go back to the riginal contrac'
says'e, AN put the colt at three sheep an
| Wilson says as how he'll sell the colt under
his lean fust; and I says, l, No, sir, the colt
shan't go at three sheep, and it shan't go un.
der no lean, but it follows the mare, an
| that's the law, Gaze heerd Judge Martin say
| so out'n his own mouf, three year ago las
| November, in the case whar Sandy Jarret
beat old Thomps Bivins, an I'n take my
oath o. that, WILL an long comes Ann Ma.
! gruder."
"Bue," you may interrupt him, al
| don't quite catch your point. Were the mare
| and the colt
I
| a-way-an' I heerd Judge Martin say SO
ont'n his own mOuf-yes sir, that's the law.
1 told em so an tell you 50. An along
comes Ann Magruder, she as was old Billy
| Hunts darter an married Joe Magruder-
/ You know Joe, reckon, Deputy-Sherif,
oncet, an nephew of old NIicajah MagrudeI
who lived in the seventeenth deestrict, an
a brother of ALT Magruder, the same one as
married Rose Anderson an moved to Texas
| in '7S, an l reckon as Joe was as clever q
man as ever pulled fodder, an they do say
as Ann WANT none o. the best O. wives an
some ub 'em says as how her an that Rance
Horn drove Joe out West, an now he's a
member ofthe Legislator Quit Newbraskyi
| leastways Tommy Banks, who come from
out thar las spring, says So an says, Ann
| Magruder, says I, Ann Magruder, 1 do wont
| no hard Words WI you, but I bought this
| ere plough an paid for it, an you an Jim
/ Long an Buck Wilson can't prove didn't,
an this 'ere plough and them ere
sheep amt got no connection to-
| gether in the 'reginal cOntrac', but the colt
an the cotton has, an I'll spen the las dol
! lar I've got, WILL Yes, sir, thems ies the
| fac's an l can prove by my wife-an' she
never hit Anna the first lick neither
| an three sons an five darters an two
niggers-Hank Peters on Merry Ballen-
| tine-that Ann Magruder toll Buck VIII
/ son hissef that the plough was as good
| as colt any day-yeS, sir, said them very
| words, on Sunday mornin' las Jinuerary,
a standin' at my wood-pile, jes befo' dinner
| time, an I'd like to know what right under
! the contrac' Tony Morris had, anyhow, to
| the bee-gum an the nine pounds o. feathers,
an how Hamp Pruitt -
Ifyou have a good stock of long suffering,
! you will stop him at the beginning again,
and each time the case will grow longer and
! darker, developing new parties and new
| points of contention. If you are wise, how
! ever, you will halt him, tell him that you
| understand the situation perfectly, and that
| the case is such an exceedingly difficult and
| complex one that will require weeks time
| to read through the Pandicts and the cunei-
! form inscriptions before you can venture an
! opinion. But your first course is to inform
him that you have been employed on the
other side. He will not return then for your
| advice"
| The advice to Tobacco buyers is excellent
! Tell him that you understand the situation
| also. 1t is this: Two of our large customers
! Germany and England) are fully supplied
| for a year to come and the demand next
! season must be mainly from the other two
| the HOME TRADE, who are now crazy on
| color, and will take all thin, smooth, sweet,
| very bright leaf, and the REGIES, who will
! want the substantial dark sorts, put up in
sound but supple order. These should be
| hand, and priced so as to open free, not
! caked. Then as to next planting, when Jim
| Long Wales the colt at 3 sheep they should
| onnerstan' no cOntrac' no sech a way, an
| lose ten sheep fust ruthr'n have the wool
| pulled over his eyes by any Long or Snort
| either. Till the fashion changes we will want
| a lot of this thin yellow Leaf. and if by us
| ing Mason seed and Mason culture you can
| grow it elsewhere, it may be profitable; and
we will want dark fat ClarlIsville-looking
| leaf, if it can be grown, but the intermedi-
! ate sorts we would be better without, Follow
/ the fashion, If you want to succeed. II
! your customer wants n colt, he won't take s
| sheep in its stead, and TO try to substitute
! them (even adding the cotton, corn, bee
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