Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-10-26
Letter from Roy.

Mr.. EDITOR: The froStS have
come and turned the leaves brown
and yellow and red. The forests
are beautiful. The frost-nipped
chestnut burs are yielding their
fruit to every gust of wind, and to
the silent-falling dews of the night,
so that the hardy farmer-boys have
a rich harvest and a happy time
gathering chestnuts. There is a
happiness in the sport of gathering
nuts that is unknown to the boys
and girls of the city.
We have just had a good rain,
which has freshened up the springs
and streams, a benefit of no small
Importance to the farmers. The
fresh limpid springs that gush from
the bases of our numerous ridges in
East Tennessee conduce more to the
health and well>being of our people
than all the doctor shops that could
be built on the entire territory of
the State. Certainly East Tennes-
see should be proud of her
pure water and invigorating atmos-
phere, since so much of the South
has been unfortunate in suffering
from yellow fever. Even here /
learn that on the water courses there
is considerable chills and fever. A
man who has just returned from
Hancock county says that chills
have occurred up in that mountain
section, where they were never
known before.
Farmers are nearly done sowing
wheat ; and corn gathering will next
demand attention. The corn crop
seems unusually light this year on
account of the unprecedented dry
weather. A fine crop of acorns
seems to exist in all this section,
which will supply the place of corn
in wintering hogs.
This station never lags in the ed
vocational spirit. \ teachers insti-
tute occurs here to-day and to NOR
row. The young people propose to
have a musical reunion at Beaver
Greek church, the third Saturday in
November. What a pity it didn't
occur before the election, so that
the candidates could have come
around to shake hands and greet
their special friends?'
We were treated last night to Il
"whOle lot" of discussion between
Messrs. Baker, Offutt and Kibbler,
candidates for Floater, &c. Mr..
Olfutt is the Democratic nominee.
and a more complete demagogue
never breathed the Democratic
breath of life. He shamefully mis-
represented the record of his oppo-
nent, Mr.. Baker-misrepresented
him in a manner which amounted to
meanness but, in this, he was met
by Mr.. Baker in a manner entirely
satisfactory to his Republican
friends. Mr.. Ofutt paid but little
attention to State affairs further
than to shed few tears over the
penitentiary lease, ETC., but the
way he went for the National adj
ministratiOn was sinful. He
laid all the ills of the land
at the door of " class legislation.
Glass legislation overthrow Rome,
caused an operation on the bowels
of that old volcano and Pompei was
buried alive; caused the grasshop-
pers to over-run the West brought
the blight into mems grape vines;
fattened the bondholder and render
ed lean every man who was too lazy
to work; it saved the country from
the ruin of war and made our
national credit as good as the world |
had ; it turned over old Mother
Grimes ashhOpper, played the devil
generally and gave Mr.. Offutt a
longing to float into public notice.
Mr.. Bakers speech was as good as
his friends could hope for and made