Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-07-13
Fourth Of July on the southside.


Providence, Palmyra and Collins
vile. THEY Came from Red river
Yellow creek, Barton's Hurricane
and Indian creek; from the countie:
of Dickson, Houston, Robertson
and Sumner. Farmers, lawyers,
doctors, mechanics, preachers and
teachers, and of candidates, not q
few. All classes were here, except
editors; colOrs, too, and they came
for a variety of purposes; some
to see and hear, some to talk, some
to court, some to speak and cleo
tioneer, someto drink and all to eat,
and they did eat. In this large and
heterogeneous crowd were the bone
and sineW, the brain and muscle,
and other intelligence of all classes.
AT IL o'clock, Prof. A. l.. Williams,
of ElktOn, KY, was introduced,
who addressed this large assembly
in a style peculiarly felicitous and
happy; not bombastic and sky
scraping, as 18th of July efforts
usually are, but graceful, easy,
fluent and elegant, touching first on
some of the elements in the charac-
ter of people, which conduce to
national prosperity, and without
which it is utterly impossible. He
next discussed the subject of agri-
culture, and pointed out the great
benefits resulting to those who put
brains as well as muscle and energy
into the business, and urged upon
the farmers to educate well and
thoroughly their sons who were
destined for the farm, showing that
to insure the highest degree of sue
cess, they should understand
chemistry, to analyse soils, ma
nures and plants, to know what
they extracted from the soil, in their
growth, to know how and when to
feed their lands. To understand
ORTHODOXY and and entomology to
distinguish friends from foes among
birds and insects; zoology, to know
how to select good animals, and to
take care of them. In a word, it |
requires more thorough training for
a successful farmer than for the So
called (?) professions. His next in
quiry was, what are the farmers
doing to protect their interests by
organization In this field nothing
was found but the Grange ware
house at GAINESVILLE. He showed |
that it was managed with ability
by the directors and superintendent,
leading in amount of business done
and also in prices attainded. AT
this point DIR. w. A. Shelby inter-
pose the statement that the house
of Shelby, Scott & Co., had
beat the Grange house in price; that
they had sold one hOgshead for six
teen dollars and fifty cents per hum
dred, and had thus led in price by
this fraction of fifty cents. Pardon
a depression, but we would like to
know the GplCGTClj1eSS of this tansac-
ton. Was it this way? Mr.. S.
offers warehouse man $l4 for a
select hogshead and 81 5O-100 for a
lug belonging to the same man.
Warehouse man is willing to sell; so
is farmer, but G. w. II. is ahead.
Warehouse man wishes to lead in
print, Just for effect, yOu k7lO1C /; SO
says to Mr.. S., the buyer, L will give
you this lug hOgshead if you will
price the fine hOgshead at SIG $1,000,
the same amount of money for the
two; the same to farmer; the same
to Mr.. s., the buyer, and the COM
missions to w. H., but warehouse
man goes to print, in spread eagle
style, leading the market in price.
How is this, ha!
Prof. Williams closed his very
able address by saying the Grange
was the enemy of no
house, did not desire to be, and
thought it bad policy for others to
fight it. 1t intends doing all it can
n a legitimate way, and by its
energy and enterprise in inducing
other fields to seek GAINESVILLE as a {
market they were benefited, our
merchant and labOring men, our
our teamsters were all s
and hoped in future they
would cease their Warefare upon s
his association. He alluded to the
success of the ware
house to substantiate this assertion. s
Dinner being announced, all re- {
paired to the table, where, under t
he able management of the prince |
If cooks, at pit, John Turner, and {
lis able assistants, j. w. Attaway,
Steward, and James T. Swift, Cap
ain of Police, this unexpectedly t
arge crowd was amply supplied
With the very best barbecued and l
pest seasoned meats it has been our !,
privilege to enjoy. After dinner q
he crowd again repaired to the |
stand, and at the urgent request of /
many, Prof. Williams gave short :
address on the subject of Sunday t
Schools. To us this was the treat of f
he day. Instead of going into his c
DRY. of this enterprise, he dWelt :
lpOn the great cardinal doctrines of |
as the one theme and a
rood to be thought upon, to be 9
lcted upon, and instilled into the l
minds and heart of the young gen 9
,ration, inducing them with prin- /
'iple so strong as to make them the |
'uling incentive to action in all
ime to: come, in all transactions,
every thing succumb to c
principle. He drew from history |
many shining examples to prove :
his had been done by parents of :
ormer ages, and urged mothers and 7
athers to leave their children a l
heritage of blessed memories and
noble examples as far better than ,