Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-24
Letter from PowelPs Station.
PowELL's STATION. Augu

PowELL's STATION, August 90
Mr.. EDITOR: This section has been
blessed with refreshing rains since harvest,
sufficient to revive the willing corn and
pastures, yet few gallons more to the acre
would serve a good purpose just now. 1t
seems that little dry weather goes further
this year than common The sun must
have put in new set of headlights this
summer.
The threshers are about winding up, and
report exceedingly short crops of wheat.
The general feeling is that the next viii be
a scarce year. Let every one prepare for
it in time. Prices are going to be
high for grain and provisions, and
if we have severe winter
it will be a hard one to get through. The
railroad boom in this section will help to run
the prices up, and poor people who have
not been able to raise years supply will
find it no easy task to purchase it.
The improvements being put on the K &
o. Railroad are of first-class workmanship.
The road is being Strengthened and leveled
up from Knoxville to Clinton. Heretofore
the road has been climbing the ridges like a
snake, but now it will be cut down and
made to run like a railroad should.
Shaky trestles are to give way to
| iron bridges, stone culverts and dirt fills.
| The Black Oak Ridge is being cut down
near thirty feet, the work to be completed
about October. The other improvements
are notyet surveyed. The line of tele-
graph along this road, like the skirmish line
of prosperity, is, being put up and will soon
be completed Offices will, I learn. be
opened at Powelrs, Heiskelrs, Clinton,
Coal Creek and Careyville. The present
depot agents are a little shaky, not being
| able to operate the telegraph.
The new public road law is being put into
practice this week in this section and will
II think, give general satisfaction, from the
the present indications. One of our over
seers, Mr. William Lewis, drove me over a
section of road where he had been working
a few days. The work is being done in the
best of style. The bitches are being cut
wide and the middle of the road made full.
| When ditch is left narrow it soon chokes
up. 1 observe that some oyerseers throw
the dirt from the bitches up on the banks,
leaving the road little higher at the sides
| than in the middle. Where this is the case
! the water cannot run from the road-bed into
the bitches. Mr.. Lewis has one rule which
| is very excellent one He cuts away all
| the trees that overhang and obstruct the
road or that have dead limbs With the
trees cut away the sunlight can come in and
keep the road-bed dry. 1t also gives the
road more cheerful appearance, especially
| where it passes through dense woodlands.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bishop, died at Mrs. Conner's
this morning, after protracted suffering
from laryintitis. She was the wife of J. NJ
Bishop, and had been living in Washington
City for some time, he being clerk in one
of the departments. Mrs Bishop left q
pIrpla pf frJa 10 thai~ 1ncS IN
her death. The husband, the brother and
especially the mother have the sincere
sympathies of the community.
The funeral will occur at Woods grave
yard Wednesday at 10 a. M, the Oath inst.
Young Mr.. Donald Collier is lying at the
point of death from fever. His attending
physicians gave him up, and called DR.. A.
b. Tadlock to take charge of the case.