The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-04-04
From the 18th District.


we are n reader Of your exccllen
paper, and al ways give close and par.
liculm attention to the letters aut
communications written from the sew.
rral districts IN tlc county and we ar
proud 10 Say that the Eleventh is nj
ways remembered, We are glad I,
have the news OF the 18th 20 on
among the many readers OF the Joul
nal, tor We wish then to know tina, "
are not standing idle, but are goinI
straight forward. trying 10 improv
our talents and till the soil us Go,
commanded. Now, the llth, like 9th
rrs, has its Disadvantages but, from
a communication IN your pnpcr q
March lIth, il would seem that all th'
disodN an:pgss were IN Norwood
COyc--lhat -, il ~ were the least III
, clinGd to believe the writing Of New
| Correspondent; but We don't believe
it. And We, az citizens of that Cove
rise M in defense Of ourselves anC
mel hhorhOOd, lIc-thc New Cor
rcspondenl,' -fgSt began on The r0ua
question, ly saying, "Thc pubIIc mlno
Of this community is being agitateo
for q road from the county site, which
would he an casy-going thing II w
did not make ii II point, IN matters oj
interest, TO cooperate IN d~lssrnslUn.
Pcrhaps he calls it disscnsion brcaus,
the citizens Of the Cove will net max,
and haul rails 3 or 4 miles, aud bulIr
lanes to turn the roads out Of The
ponds aad qnagmircs where they have
been placed ON account Of the strltr
existing between the n%clghbors. But
we know what the trouble IL. His
nrighhOIa-llkr everyiIOdy else-hu>c
Income tired Of being imposed upon,
and have almost fenced him up, and
he wants the Cove to let him out hul
he asks too great a favor, therefore W.
we cannot help him. Aud if we dld,
would we receive any thanks for it
Move would only have to take hi
msolrnt abuse in the papers, as W.
have done heretofore, Bat, for the
sake OF pence and good order, which
always reigns in tins Cove, We have,
until The present, kept silent, Bur
mast w forever keep silent, and sullci
our ncighborhood to be scaudaIizrd by
a man who has not bravery enough
about him to repeat the same to one OF
It's cilizcnsY We all answer in one
voice, No, He mex spoke Of Goshen
Church and its membership, saying
that 1t was perhaps the largest church
in Tennessee, having about 800 mem
bcrs. and had promised to pay It's pas
tor $3.50. stating that never less than
% per cent. being delinquent subscrip-
ZION Now, certainly the "Ncw Cor
respondrnt' must be on the delinquent
list, or he would not know 80 much
about it. Yes. It's true we have some
very narrow lanes. but they are
straight; and we think he is the last
that ought to say anything about
that, for between himself and ont Of
his ncighbors can be seen II lane so
narrow that two persons cannot ride
together, and the ends Of this lane are
stopped up, 1t was once sowed in
wheat, but on account Of the poverty
of the soil The wheat failed, and we to
not know what use he makes Off now.
He also has a lane running out by his
house which is so crooked that the
black snakes drop their heads with
shame, and refuse 10 crawl therein
Now, one might suppose-that did
not know him-tbat he lived in "A lillle
from the way he writes about
he Cove. But you are sadly mistake, u
If You think that. for he lives in Il place
where the dealcning ronr Of the frogs
IAN he heard for miles around and
he fish, too, arc very numerous,
and the mud 6 to II inches deep. The
name Of this glorious little place IL
Lick Skillet" So. we will just say TO
New Correspondent: If you want
A road through Lick SkilIet,' make it
yourself-we do not want to pass
that frog harbor. We have II
public road, AS you know, from the
head of the Cove. leading out by
Goshen to the county site, and we ex
pect 10 travel it. He says this Cove
'is always playing h-ll, or fixing for
IT, Now, ! know Of nothing in my
memory that would resemble the game
any nor than the time when one OF
he citizens Of Norwood's Cove laid
he "New Cores pendent" down on his
back in the streets of Winchester. and
.ook from his pocket a knife with
which he pecked the "New Cores
DOndent' around the eyes until they
we're blood-shotten. That mar sill
in the Cove; and We will just
say, that hereafter the New Core -
Dondt ut" had better mlnd how lie
his words about the Cove. or
night get himself INTO another game
IF that h-ll he experienced in Win
No o at present. W. 7.
March 25th, 1878.
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According to the decision of the