Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-12-27

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| For the SPECTATOR.
Raleigh. Shelby County, Tennessee.
| Mr.. EDITOR ri parted company
with you in Memphis q little while ago.
Yesterday, the 9th inst, in company
with some friends, I took passage on
the Memphis and Louisville Railroad,
and got off at the National cemetery,
some seven miles from Memphis and
two miles from this place. Spending
an hour there, waiting for conveyance
to bring me here, strolled into the
cemetery in which sleep 1900 yankee
dead, less the number of horse bones
inferred as though Of the bfped race, as
the most infamous swindle was prac-
tlced upon the Government, ~ Is uni
versally believed, In the sepulture Of
i've acres g enclosed here, and illinois
stands first In the proportion of her
dead, Indiana, Ohio, &c. West Vir.
ginia has eight representatives, Virginia
none. The Register was opened on 7th
May. 1877, and to the moment I in
scribed my name there had not been q
visitor from Virginia. ! was told that
the negro dead constituted . big element
Of those buried there.
I crossed Wolf river just before reach
ing this. the ancient capital of Shelby
county, for which Everett, on the rail-
road, four miles distant, was substituted
some years ago. From having been q
place Of some Importance, with perhaps
one Thousand inhabitants, it Is now
village of less than hundred. The
leading and most prominent citizen IL
the gentleman under whose hospitable
roof am q guest. He is one of the
most prominent citizens of the county,
chairman of the Democratic Committee,
President of the Board having charge
of the paupers and criminals Of Shelby ;
county, and IN the city of Memphis
where he is engaged in business as COM
missioner of deeds for all the States,
Justice of the Peace, Notary Public.
and commissioner for taking deposi-
tiOns. find every moment Of his time,
from 8 A. M. to 10 o'clock at night, oc-
cupied. Residing here, rs he did, dur
ing the awful scourge Of 1873, he buried
four of his sin children, and escaped the
disease, after q long illness, by carrying
out his own theory as to its treatment.
Six or eight years ago he accidentally
row valley, embraced within the limits
of the village and on land owned by
himself. He had one of the most emil
nent chemists in st. Louis to make q
thorough analysis of the waters, and
they contain all the hygienie properties
In half-dozen of the springs
Of Virginia. He expended many thou.
sands of dollars in their improvement,
and among the improvements COM
was q narrow-guage railroad
the place with Memphis.
The company, after having the cars to
run to the railroad referred to at the GEM
etery station, failed, and the springs, af-
ter acquiring immense reputation, and
thronged with visitors from Memphis,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and West Ten
nessee, have been permitted to 60 down,
20 far as the buildings are concerned.
The largest hotel, owned by this gentle
mans mother, was burned q few years
ago, insured however. From loose,
frlable soil, that becomes quilted more
easily than any that I ever saw, the
most formidable gulches are formed In
oNcIy uAcCtlOus tu0t gives tuo VulH&0
and its surroundings very antiquated
appearance. Wolf river is the stream
that furnishes Memphis its water, and
The works are 80 low down in the
stream, high water in the Mississippi
backs up on the works and carries the
dlth from the sewers, that empty be-
low, back In the works, and corrupt the
water to such an extent as must tell up.
On the health of the city. To obviate
this, it is contemplated to bring the wa
ter from the Mississippi some distance
above the city, but the heavy debt, in
Cured in the drainage of the city, will
perhaps pr0crastinate this most import
ant undertaking. It will be remem-
bered that the city of Memphis and its
many years ago, belonged
to the State of Mississippi, and in adj
Iusting dispute between the two States
it was turned over to Tennessee. The
strip, thirty miles long and eight miles
wide, called the chickasaw belt, en-
braced the city. I am entirely at loss
to know what kind Of weather you are
having In Virginia, but here am out
on the porch writing, and the shrub
berry around me showing little, II any,
impression from frost. I have just re-
turned from ramble and an examina-
ton of the chasm near the village, that
is of such depth that the top of an or
dinary sized tree growing In It could
reach the level of the surround.
ing lands. It was deeper in the early
settlement Of this country, when one
Tapp, one of the pioneers, built his
cabin on the banks Of Wolf river hard
bye. He was q great hunter, and the
hole being favorite resort of the deer,
be would enter it through the narrow
gap. a few feet in width, and kill all,
Rs none could escape. It bears the
name of '"Tapp's Hole' from this cir
just east Of 1t, jutting up
and cleaning white among the bushes,
are pair of white marble tOmb~stones,
the resting place of one "San.
derlin" and wife. On his is engraved
the familiar couplet: Co,r.,.
Remember youth as you pass by,
As You are now, 80 once was !"
1t is said he selected the propinquity
to this chasm. 30 that at the great shak-
ing up he might the more readily be
tnmbled into hell. In the bottom of
this hole is fair quality of coal or lig-
mite, that was tested years ago by one
Of the Oldest citizens, who burned it
Cured to me the first day I spent in
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was enquiring for the place of business
Of the only personal Acquaintance that
I had in the city, as I then supposed.
and the young gentleman enquired of
told me would find him at one of the
fifteen sheds under which cotton is
stored and sold. Whilst waiting a mo-
ment for a Car to come in sight that
would carry me to the point in question,
and finding that was Virginian, he
remarked that his mother was q Vir-
ginian. What name, If you please?
Why, said I, she was a native Of Am.
herst, I expect, and shortly after the
war, when engaged in mineralogical
examination of that county, the house
in which her parents lived was shown
me, and she was sister to the first wife
of the late Rev. John Hendren, D. d.
That is go, said he, and my name is
Rivers Grove. He directed me at what
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