Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-05-12

about proposed new railroad from
Cincinnati to Huntsville or Decatur
and thence further South. 1t is to
run forty miles wet of the Cincin-
natl Southern, through Tullahoma,
Lynchburg and Fayetteville. Col.
Sykes believes that the Toledo, Gin
cinnati & st. Louis Company, with
the assistance of the people along
the line, will build the road.
The Moscow correspondent of the
Somerville Falcon says that the
farmers of his section are running
in the old rut, planting all cotton
and but little corn. He sententious-
ly suggests that "we are preparing
for Il famine next year" The peo-
pie about Moscow should read the
news from other sections of the
State where big money is being
made out of fruits and truck farm
ing and quit the disastrous clinging
to cotton. The lands of that section
are fertile and productive and ought
to bring their owners opulence in
stead of famine.
Tullahoma Guardian: "Among
other manufacturing enterprises
now being projected here, it is pro-
posed to organize a stock company
for the purpose of enlarging the
Tullahoma Wooden Mills to double
their present capacity by capitali-
zing the stock at 100000. Twenty
of the fifty thousand necessary has
already been subscribed, and the
balance will no doubt be easily pro-
cured, inasmuch as the Wooden
Mills is no new experiment, but one
of the best paying and most success
full establishments in the state or in
the south. Our business men can
take hold of this with perfect conf
dence in its stability.
We haven't heard that Joe Null
hatton was in Fayette county but
the following from correspondence
to the SOmerville Reporter seems to
indicate that he is represented in
that locality: ga very strange oc-
currence indeed, but true. A man
living near Moscow planted some
Garden peas, which remained in
the ground two days and nights.
The third morning an old hen
scratched them up. On the fourth
morning, after the old hen had
scratched up the peas, she lost her
life at the hands of her proprietor.
The peas were found in her craw,
taken out and re-planted and are
now in full bloom with fair chance
for big yield"
Tribune and Sun: The following
extracts from "A letter to Mr.. s. w.
Byers of this city from his brother
DIR. F. w. Byers of Monroe, Wis.,,
is a specimen of numerous letters
which have been received here
from parties in the north and north
west. DR.. Byers says: 81 am talk
ing up Tennessee, and if l can dis
pose of my property l mean to go
south next fall for good. We have
snow banks at places here twenty
inches deep and l am sick and tired
of this frigid country. 1
think some Of our Wisconsin peo-
pie will visit you in few months.
Any who may have letters to you
from me you may know are o. X"
The above was written on April Sd.
The Jackson correspondent of the
Memphis Appeal says, jackson
promises in the near future to be-
come an extensive fruit center. |
Quite number of our farmers are
taking an active interest in planting
large strawberry patches and set
ting out large orchards of fruit trees.
Mr.. J. NJ. Samuels, of Kentucky,
moved to Malessis, in this county,
and bought farm last year and set
out several acres of strawberries and |
several thousand trees. He made |
his first shipmentOf strawberries this |
season last Tuesday. He will en-
ploy several hundred pickers to
gather his berries. We learn that |
he was few days since offered $4,000
for his fruit farm.
II. Il. Childs is the nlme of the
Lincoln county magistrate who in
troduced the motion to levy forty
cent tax for public school purposes.
If this good movement is persisted
in, the people of Lincoln county
will soon have cause to build a mon
ument to Mr.. Childs' memory. He
Is a man of broad views and pub
lie benefactOr. If we had a few
more such men in this state Tennes-
see wouldn't long suffer the stigma
of being next to the most illiterate
State in the Union. A forty cents
tax may be more than is sufficient
for school purposes; we are not
posted in Lincoln county affairs, but
TIE principle involved is a good
one. Good public schools ought to
be maintained at whatever cost. 1t
is an all important matter.