Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-09
SATURDAY, APRIL 9. 1881.
MISUNDERSTANDING.

Yesterday our attention was call
ed to an article clipped from the
State Journal of Springfield, Hi
nois, and copied and commented
upon by the Tribune. We repro>
duce it. in order to add a few words |
to what the Tribune has already
said:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. %, 1851
I started from Chicago by the relia-
bic G. & A. r. R., to East st. Louis,
from there to Cincinnati via the O.
& ~, then by the Cincinnati South
ern to Chattanooga, and then by the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia to Knoxville. I first saw the
bare earth while crossing the Ten
nessee River. We were only forty
hours making this trip. We left Gin
cinnati at $50 p. m, and arrived
at Chattanooga at 7.3O a. m. The
Cincinnati Southern Railroad is an
airline from Cincinnati to Chatta~
nooga. The soil is very poor through
Tennessee. Farmers do not average
over ten bushels of corn in this
county and some adjoining (Knox
and Blount). Of wheat they have
not made the seed these last three
years. The climate is very changeae
BILE here through the winter months,
but take it all around is very pleasant.
The country is broken and nouns
famous. Knoxville is growing fast
now; they have rolling mills and a
nail factory and three railroads-the
K. and O., the E. T., Y. and G., and
Maryville short line, which will prob
ably be extended to Charleston, S.
c., this summer.
Wages are very low here, in fact
all through the South. I have been
through four or five counties here
and the wages, not including board
are 40 to so cents per day, or $40 tc
$12 per month for common labor anC
farm hands. Brakemen on railroads
get $1.25 per day, conductors 1920
on passengers $2.75 per day; Gal
are paid by the day, and not by th
month";; engineers 1925 per day; il
the nail factory for IS cents to S1.0
per day; foreman $50; carpenter
1925, bricklayers S1.75 to 500
and clerks and all kinds of labor il
proportion.
My uncle, Samuel Stone, becaus
he is a Republican, had to leave hi
farm and rent elsewhere, simply be
cause he would not vote the Demo
cratic ticket last fall. He says h
can find fifty farmers that are broke
up in their plans, and compelled t
rent elsewhere because they refuse
to vote for Hancock, and they di
move, and did assert their politics
rights for the first time since the re
bellion, and now propose to rot
them root and branch in 1882, or,
they fail, will move to Illinois
if they do, and some come to Sprins
field, ward politicians would bette
look little out, for they will knoc
man down that solicits their vote
or offers place or money for the sam
They do, above all, detest tick
peddlers and underhand backbitir
in the interest of any man or part
They hope that Horace Maynal
may be United States Senator b.
fore this reaches my many frlen'
and acquaintance in Springfield.
am saying a good word for old Sal
canon.
Grandma Scates, of Carrolton, II
was born in Culpepper, Va, July
1862, and is now living in the abo
in Illinois. She has 1876 descendant
children, grandchildren, a,
greatsgrand-children, and grea
great-grand-c children.
J. W. Boyd, postmaster at CO
cord, Tenn, can prove that polite
bulldozing is done at every electi
on the discharge and removal sy
tenn, and knows the Sam Stone ca
to be true.
CHAs. Fl. Hermann, JR.
The writer of the above was
Knoxville for quite a while, and
learn was well treated by both De
ocrats and Republicans, and how