Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-08-07
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For the Fayetteville Observer.
/ August 4.-Mr. ~. O. Val
lace Being impressed with the
Idea that You would be as much
pleased to hear from this as any
other portion of the county, you
shall have the following. Agree
able to the declaration of our old
est citizens and earliest settlers,
as well as that of the thermome-
ter, we've had the warmest spell OF
weather ever experienced in Mid
die Tennessee. Sir, everything
from the size Of a young musqui-
to to that of a full grown negro
painted with heat. TO say it has
been remarkably dry doesn't tell
the tale. Crops were damaged
to some extent by the drouth.
However, recent rains caused
them to present quite a different
appearance, all for the better.
So far as we have been able to
learn in regard to the drouth
throughout the State, it is notso
general as people thought but
rather in streaks. The farmers
in this locality are done thresh-
ing wheat. The general decis-
ion is that the yield was not so
great in quantity but superior in
quality. We are under the i'm
preston that the county viii be
bountifully supplied with bread,
and that green persimmons will
be in no demand. The health of
this locality is tolerably good;
however, some. neighborhoods
have been visited by chills and
fever. Farmers and mechanics,
and in fact men of every pro-
fession, are going ahead with bus
mess and moving things in the
right direction. We are supplied
with churches and schools, and
in fact with public institutions
of every kind and character from
a steam saw mill down to a pat
ent churn. We have two gram
ges in good working order in our
vicinity-viz. Cold Water and
Pleasant Plains.
There seems to be a good deal
excitement among some. of the
citizens of this section of coun-
try in regard to a mysterious
and very huge monster that made
his appearance some time since
in the corn field, or rather in the
weed field, of Prof. Green. At
ter the Professor and his friends
thoroughly examined and inspec-
ted him, they pronounced him a
species of orang-outang. Some,
however, concluded that he was
closely allied to old nick. Prof.
Green, we are informed, collect
ed a large amount of fuel and
erected something similar to an
altar, then with courage led his
victim forth and placed him there
on and consumed him instanter.
The fine new mill west of Blanche
that ground so rapidly, now stands
still. Some time ago herd of
cattle went into. the race and
drank it dry, and it never turned
again. The young Americans
to which your attention was di-
rected some time ago are doing
admirably. They talk of having
a grand celebration this month.
The same being in honor of the
gent who invented parting the
hair in the middle. We are in
formed that the gent who has
his hair parted the nearest the
middle on that day is to receive
a medal worth a hundred dollars.
The gent who can hold heel
tap of tobacco in one cheek and
swear most fuently is to receive
the second premium, and have his
mustache vanished and his name
immortalized, as a youth of enter
prise. Enterprise is the life of a
nation, and a man without9pub-
lie spirit is a drone. MIA. p
Hays, who has Charge of cur
county poor-house, is immortali-
zing his name as Superintendent.
The farm shows that he is man
of industry and economy. The
paupers show that he is a man
who has a Christian heart. AS
Mr.. III. is one of the county's|
best citizens, we think it would
be to the interest of the county
to keep him where he is. Ex-
pectihg to write more frequently
in the future than in the past, we
hid Won faraxralI CrcAp