Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-09-13
4 vIsIfORs VIEWS. OF cLARKsvnLE
What \ YirginIa Gentleman Thinks About

by Capt. Il. @. Morton OF Staunton,
Va, who recently spent some time
in ClaTksville
GAINESVILLE, TENN, August
26, 1884.-This Cumberland river
town of seven thousand inhabitants
is the principle tobacco market ia
Tennessee, and as the adjacent
country is perhaps as fine as any in
the South, the writer has made
some observations which he can but
think will be as interesting TO the
readers of the Dispatch as they were
to himself.
have never seen city of the
size of GAINESVILLE give so many evi.
dences of prosperity and wealth. 1t
is the county-seat of the rich coun-
ty of Montgomery, and boasts of a
magnificent courthouse which cost
&l1O, 900, and will vie in architect
ural size, and appointments with
not a few State capitOls. IL is a city
of churches and tobacco warehouses
and factories, tall, graceful steeples
and broad, extensive roofs showing
themselves everywhere. The finesl
churches gre the Presbyterian, the
Methodist, and the Episcopal, each
of which cost over $40, 200, and they
are all elegant buildings.
NATIVE vIRGINIANs.
One meets with Virginians al
every turn. The largest tobacco
dealers here are M. II. Clark & Bro,
who came from Richmond, and are
sons OF DIR. Micajah Clark, q former
distinguished physicianof your city
The elder of the firm is president oil
the Tobacco Exchange, and a most
popular and public-spirited citizen,
The pastor OF the Presbyterian
church is Rev. DIR. j. w. Lupton,
formerly OF Winchester, a very
effective preacher. One OF the most
successful medical practitioners is
DIR. G. w. Beaumont, a native oil
Lynchburg, and his brother Sterling
Beaumont, Esq, is president OF the
First National Bank here, of which
Mr.. Macrae, of Culpeper, Va, is
cashier. Another of the Oldest citi-
zens, and a popular hotel-prOprietor
is Major FOwlkes, formerly OF Farm
vile. Rev. DIR. j. b. Shearer, OF the
faculty of the Southwestern Presby-
terrain University, is an old and
well known teacher OF Halifax
county, and Professors S. j. Golf
man, of Harrisonburg, and Edward
Ii. Massie, OF Albemarle, are mem
beers of the faeultyof the same in
stitution, which last session had LOG
students, whiIeone OF the wealth.
lest citizens Is Mr.. Bryce Stewart, OF
Richmond, a retiled tobacco king,
And so / might go ON al Li5tt,tnl.
TOBBCco.
This county of Montgomery is one
of il not the best tobacco county in
the State and the crop is SO much
larger this year than ever before
that, though there are five or six
large warehouses in Clarksvile and
Il number of stenmeries and prIzing-
houses, several new ones are build
ing in order To accommodate the
trade OF the approaching season.
Last year the tobacco handled here
amounted to seventeen or eighteen
thousand hogsheads. The quality
made is dark shipping, and the
price commanded is better than at
any other market south of Virginia,
often reaching SIG per hundred, and
ii is much sought after by foreign
buyers. a great deal of tobacco
comes here from the counties OF
Christian and Todd, i'm Kentucky,
which State line is twelve miles dig
tant, and the county Of Christian is
shown by the agricultural statistics
TO be the second largest tobacco
producing county in the United
States. The variety cultivated
is mostly OrinOca and Pryor.
The present crop, is scarcely dam
aged by worms at all land the earth
is laden down with the heavy green
growth, of which the late rains have
almost secured an uneXampled crop.
.. STOCK.
This county is well adapted to
Blue grass, and the farmers are be-
ginning to find that there is money
in grazing. The stOck-men had Il
cattle show here the other day, got
ten up by this and two or three adj
jacent counties, and though the
number on exhibit was not as large
az / uave seen at the fairs in Rich
mond, Lynchburg, and Staunton, j
never saw finer ShOrthUrns, Jerseys
SOuthdOwns, and ShrOpshires, Berk-
shires, and CheSterS, and new breed
of cattle that l never saw exhibited
in Virginia. These are the Hol-
stems, just imported from Holland
few months ago. They are very
pretty black and white striped,
every one OF them. The black is as
black as jet, and the white as
white as snow. There were
twenty-five or thirty of them.
Two cows, particularly noticeable,
had cost $500 apiece. The record of
one was gOOd-fOrty-five pounds of
milk Il day-which is, you know, at
eight pounds a gallon, nearly six
gallons. / was told of another that
gave eighty pounds day-ten gal
Ions of milk daily-and well anthem
ticated. One of the bulls was the
largest animal of the kind | ever
saw; would weigh 1900 pounds if
fat. caught the name of one of
the breeders, Mr.. GoOdpasture.
What an appropriate name /
thought for a stOcK-manL The bull
man was Mr.. Smith. SO there are
in Tennessee, too, | found /;
and there was Gopher Smith there
too not Hplong the cattle, however,
but new Name for the family
which. | respentf present to our
friends the Smiths OF Virginia.
AS to the hogs,st they could not be
beat ahyW here, and while looking
them over Il came across some OF
the family or Asn0ted couple Which
had 5weigheslQ 500 pounds, .the
mother Weighing 200 pounds Hess
than the head of the family. This
pair had been The prop
erty of a DIR. Greenfield. What
nice, suggestive names these stock
men have. The Doctor sold them
TO an enterprisIng fellow, who made
Il show of them, and when he put
them ON strong oak floor here In
GAINESVILLE TO exhibit them they
would break through the floor as
they work around, and the floor
had TO be doubled. Barnum found
out these hogs, and sent his agent
down, paid - 800 for them, and
placed them in wider sphere OF
THE LAST CONFEDERATE OFFICER.
The NJ. Ii. Clark to whom have
above, it will be recOllect-
ad by those familiar with the last
days of the Confederacy, was the