Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-16
Letter from Limestone.
LIMESTONE. December IA, 1881.

Mr.. EDITOR: As it is raining to-
day 1 thought I would write a few
lines about few things. In the
first place our little town has been |
on a high boom for some time, a
great deal of trading and trafficking
going on between our three mercan-
tile firms and their numerous custom
ers. There has also been great
number of cattle and hogs shipped
from this place in the last few weeks
by our enterprising stock dealers,
Messrs. Jim & Geo. Bright. We are
also having some substantial i'm
provements in the way of buildings
DIR. A. N. Stout is erecting large
and commodious building, intended
for a drug store and other purposes.
Mr.. D. W. Williams is building q
beautiful cottage residence on o
beautiful site in north Limestone;
and our enterprising Dutchman and
merchant miller, ]. B. Keeper, has
taken the contract and is pushing to
completion good substantial wagon
bridge across Big Limestone, in tie
center of our town, which will acd
wonderfully to the convenience and
business of our place, and all the
surrounding country. So you see
we are still wide awake to our ma
terial welfare. We have had quite a
number of our Western friends
among us for the last few months;
some on business, some in search Of
health, some visiting friends and
others come to stay. DR.. P. R.
Wrigtesman, formerly of this place,
but now of Kansas, is here now
visiting friends and attending to
business. Mr.. G.. j. Keezel, of LIE
compton, Kansas, is, hero to spend
the winter and thus avoid the rigors
of Western climate, and attempting
to recruit his health; hope|he may be
successful. We have two churches
and two good Sunday schools, but
are annoyed great deal by trains
passing up and down the railroad on
the holy Sabbath day. Very often,
just about the time the minister gets
the attention of his congregation, or
the superintendent gets his school
under good Roadway, two or three
freight trains come screaming and
laundering along, breaking the
sacredness of the day, and sending
decentralization as far as the sound of
the engine can be heard. Its shame
to the civilization of this, the
ninth decade of the nineteenth
century. Can't there be something
done, either by State or National
legislation, to put stop to this
gigantic evil. Talk about suppress
sing Mormonism, incompetence and
other evils while we, IS nation and
a Christian people, are living in con-
slant violation of one of Gods most
positive commands, which says, " Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" What about it, ye railroad
kings, are you stronger than God :"
Sometimes I have a notion to present
the whole concern to the grand jury
for disturbing public worship. I re-
pressed a poor colored boy for cut
ting wood on Sunday, and he said he
had as much right to cut wood on
Sunday as King Cole had to run his
trains on Sunday. Look at the de-.
moralizing influence OF this evil, but
enough on this point now. Hope
some one else will take it up.
l notice a goodly number of Knox
vile WIG AND CHRONICLES come to
our office Am glad to see it, and
wish the number was ten times as
many. There is no estimating the
value of good, reliable newspapers in
community, and how q man can
rear a healthy, intelligent, progressive
family without supplying it with good
fresh, current literature is matter l
can't understand in fact l don't be
ieve it can be done at this age of the
world. Better do without tea, coffee
or any of the luxuries Of life than a
good newspaper. Why, T can tell
the difference in passing mems farms
and dwellings, between those that
read and those that do not. Can al
most smell the difference. And I
don't know of any better paper any
where than the Knoxville WH1a AND
CHRONICLE that was founded by that
grand old hero, w. g. Brownlow, who
stood so firmly by the Union and
constitutional liberty in the dark
days of 1861 to 1865. Long may the
CHRONICLE wave and dispense light
and knowledge, and receive the sup
port of a brave and generous people.
Yours truly,
PETE HADLEY.