Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-19
NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

A Georgia Editors Impressions of That
Favored Regional Defense of Gov
ernor Blackburn.
GRAYsoN, KY, July 15.-Thinking
that your readers may possibly be inter-
ested in reading a few items from Geor-
glan, who is sojourning for the summer
in Northern Kentucky, l propose favoring
them occasionally. Carter county. where
l am now, is one of the northeast coun-
TIES OF kentucky, and lies in the tobacco
belt of the State. Grayson, its shire
town, is beautifully situated on the Little
Sandy river in the midst of the fertile
sandy valley, than which there
IS not in the State more pro-
ductiye body of land. The
valley is not only rich, but the hills.
which in Georgia would be called moun-
talns, are fertile, and covered with the
best OF timber, suitable for building or
mechanical purposes. The principal
agricultural products are corn, wheat.
hemp, barley and tobacco. The very best
OF timber grows in abundance here. such
as poplar, ash, scaly bark, hickory. white
oak, sugar and hard maple, beech, locust,
chestnut, elm, etc. So plentiful is
poplar that it furnishes thej weather.
boarding for all the buildings. The princi-
pal exports are hemp, tobacco. whisky.
lumber, coal and iron; while the lands
furnish the best lumber, and its soil DrO-
ducClVe enough to reward the Industrious
husbandman for his labor. The streams
abound with the choicest table fish. such
as trout, pike, salmon, perch, Dream, blue
cat, etc., and the woodland furnishes
pheasants, wild turkeys, wOodcock and
quail i'll great abundance. The climate
Is cool, pleasant and invigorating.
and the water nearly as cold as
ice and pure and sweet. All this Country
lacks to make it present the very best in
ducement to the home seeker is the want
of educational facilities and dearth of re-
nned people. No country of which have
knowledge offers greater inducements TO
educators than this, and know that such
is the anxiety of its people to properlv
educate their children at home that they
would gladly welcome and liberaIlv sun-
port competent teachers who would locate
here.
The political contest in this State WAY
eth warm, but will result. in tba
election OF Proctor Knott Governor by the
usual Democratic majority. When the
campaign begun the Republican candi-
date agreed to joint discussion through
out the State. He met Proctor Knott for
TWO weeks. ignoring national politics and
attacking the present Democratic admin
lstratlon OF State affairs. He was
specially severe upon Gov. Blackburn for
exercising the pardoning power too freely
but when Mr.. Knott assured the peOpIe
that the Governor, in the exercise of
the pardoning power, had inyaria-
bly, consulted the best citizens in
counties where the crimes had been
committed before he pardOned the CON
VIcI, ne sald IL was very strange that his
conlpetltor, colonel Morrow, should criti-
10, oIrbr
when he had indOrsed the applications If
twenty pardons himself and had zone
personally to the Governor with Detlfions
asking the pardon of seven convicts con-
Vlcted IN his own county as a favor: and
IL was a greater surprise that these peti-
tions were drafted and circulated by
CoIonel MorroW, and that each one of the
conVlcts thus DardOned had been not only
Ihe clients of his competitor but were
negro republicans. In proof of this asser-
tiOn Mr. Knott exhibited an exact and Ger
tlned copy of the penitentiary record
proving the same. WhereupOn Morrow
became offended, saying it was discour-
teous in Col. Knott to take advantage OF
hlm IN that way, by calling to his aid the
certlncates OF Democratic State officials,
Col. Knott, in rejomder, correctly stated
that Gov. Blackburn could not consist
emily defend himself, and that he was nus
tlhed In thus defending him, which
he would continue to do i'm
every speech he made during the canvass
MORROW then ignored his engagement, and
mas since been canyassing Northern Ken
lucky, where the Republicans have ma
lOrlty. Ny health is still bad !; I fear hope
lessly, / have been confined to my bed
and room nearly all the time since / saw
Colonel Estill at the Kimball House i'm
Atlanta, en- route to the Southern Press
convention at Chattanooga. l shall re-
nam here until September, when | hope
to be able to return to the editorial charge
OF the M0disOnidR and battle again for the
success OF Democratic principles.
Respectfully,
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