Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-13
Soda and Mineral Waters
Always on draught at Peter Kern's.
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Mn EDITOR | must steal few mo-
ments from mountain-g gazing to let you
know that Peppergrass ct al. still survive,
and have been feasting on the beautiful mot
exactly Ike those giants of old, and now
when the fertile valleys of Haywood County
have been reached, and within the comforta-
bic home of hospitable citizen we take
our ease in our IRON our minds revert to
scenes 9 by food and fell ~ and our eyes
still wander to the rugged mountain tops
The clouds enfold the giant trees, the rocks
and crystal fountains and the wind signs
among the ferns and flowers that cover the
brown mountain sides
In dreams / shall often start, thinking
myself falling into one of the many abysmaI
depths that we have seen yawning beneath
us, or attacked from one of those dark re
cesses by some wild forest animal
One night we spent almost at the
summit of Mount Startling. The house
was very small, but the hospitality
was not so by any means, and though the
fine mountain air came freely III through
interstices- mot windows, for the good
reason that there were none it was all the
better for our health5 as only ten Of us oc
cupied the same room.
In ascending, said No. 1, Il see bear
track"
30, yes" said No. 2, the track Of a
bare foot ~
''There are the marks of three claws
and little palm"
just then the horse started as il he would
go over the bank, snorted loudly, and with
head erect trotted or jumped forward up
the road, which was steep. No. mad no
time to make further inquiries, and No.
was left to ''plod his weary way alone.
At night we learned that the mountains
was full of bears and panthers, and
various stories were told of - bairbreadth
| 'scapes." One particularly struck me: !
man on a bridge we had just crossed was
attacked by panther. Sometimes one
would seem to win and then the other, and
! finally the animal was killed, but the man
/ had to be carried home in sheet by his
/ sympathizing friends. Just above Us tow
| cred Balsam Mountain, which is not peak,
as supposed, but a plateau of several hun
| bred acres Astounding in fine springs. What
| a summer retreat could here be made. But
! to the present.
| The people here have been engaged in an
exciting election, not between political par
| ties but prohibition and non. In this
county, Haywood, the former had decided
majority but fears are entertained as to the
result in the State on account OF large sums
of money having been sent in TO effect the
vote in the eastern counties, by Northern
men interested in the traffic of liquors.
| This morning our host asked us not to be
afraid of the butter I had refused to par
take), saying: We have no milk sick
here on our place"
Our surprise led to our learning that on
''Jonathan's Creek" near by, many
persons have died in the summer
season from the cows eating heritage on
which was poison dew, This dew was
supposed to contain large amount of arse
mic, which had been drawn from the ground
by the heat and deposited by the cooling at
mosphere.
This is land of mica. 1t shines golden
in the creeks and in various colored rocks
all over the mountain sides. Many would
think they had found gold.
This is a landof temperance. The school
houses or churches are chartered, and for
miles around no liquor can be sold Each
takes certain district, so as to cover the
whole country Some miles away a French
man has set up distillery, but there are
now seven indictments against him, and he
viii soon be abolished
We wander at our own sweet will, and
where we next may be, deponent knoweth
not