Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-05-24
TULLAHOMA.
A Flourishing Tennessee Town.

A Flourishing Tennessee Town.
To the Chronicle:
Tullahoma is in a fiourishing
condition. The wooden mills, steel,
file, hub and spoke factories, also
the Touring mills, and one planning
and saw mill are doing a thriving
business in other words are sin
full blast"
Educational advantages are good.
The writer had the pleasure of Wis
iting, and spending a portion of
to-day at the TulIahoma high school;
found teachers (Profs. Garden and
Farris, also Miss Cothburn and
others, comprising an able corps),
enthusiastic in their work /; pupils
went through their exercises with a
vim and correctness, thereby show
ing the effects of good training and
close application. A card in Sat
urday's paper informed the public
that Profs. Garden and Farris could
not accommodate any more pupils
this term; before the fall term
opens they will enlarge and i'm.
prove the building they now occu-
Ply.
The farmers are little backward
in their work, but are happy over
the wheat prospect, which is good
throughout this and adjoining sec
tions.
Tullahoma, numbering near
three. thousand inhabitants, and
beautifully situated, possesses many
attractions for strangers. North of
the town may be seen one OF ma
lures grand projections, in the
shape of a waterfall /; tits called the
Cascade, and has fall Of seventy
five feet, but does not descend in
one column. 1t reminds us, IN its
dashing and splashing of "The
water as it comes down at Lodore."
This picturesque spot is reached by
a three-mile drive over smooth
road, and is quite resort for the
young, and lovers of the beautiful.
Hurricane Springs, seven miles
distant are so well known that
nothing new can be said of the
wonderful waters; tits enough to
say that visitors are there during all
seasons of the year and from all
sections of the country. All sound
the praises of the health-giving
fountains. But 1 must here declare
that ] am somewhat disappointed
in the scenery around Hurricane;
it does not compare at all with the
surroundings of Idaho, and that
delightful retreat and wonderful
curiosity, Dunbar's Cave, in the
vicinity OF GAINESVILLE. To my
establishment many, even at this
short distance from GAINESVILLE
know little or nothing of Idaho or
the Cave. Where does the fault
lie?
Speaking of Tullahoma To the
southwest, six miles distant lies
Pylant, rich in romantic beauty;
only poet could do justice in pen
pictures of the place. The waters
are said to possess the same healing
properties as those of Hurricane,
and may in time prove a very
formidable rival tits only of late
that those springs, or Pylant, l
should have said have been improv-
ed; the cause, a good title could
not be made to it.
I came near not mentioning the
distillery, which is said to be doing
a good business. Probably the
temperance lecture delivered at
this place few nights since by
Mrs. Saxson, had something to do
with my forgetting that prohibit
ton was not the law of the land.
She was very much in earnest, an
nouncing at once that she was not
for prohibition, but humiliation, in
regard to liquor. Her predictions
were, that the cause she espOused
would in time prove victorious, the
temperance dimes were fought by
whisky dollars. Through her in-
fluence a prohibition club was or
ganiZed at this place.
AS / write, mellow strains from
the silver band, are waited through
my windows; the members of said
band comprise the best young men
of the town.
Across the way, merry girls and
boys are passing the time pleasant
ly on roller skates in fact the town
is full of life, both day and night
until time for honest people to re-
tire, then all sounds of hilarity
cease, but through the stiffness of
the night may be heard the distant
of the cow-bells, bringing
to mind "The herd" wind
ing "slowly DER the Lee"
Will close this letter by saying
boasts of six churches.
M. BURTON.