Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-19
MoAllister,s Gross Roads.



Can you tell US what to do or what
we will have to do? We saved nj
oats at all /; nearly all OF the wheat
fell downs our meat spoiled last win
ter and now the corn is twisting like
ribbons twisted by the soft hand o.
some of the fair sex, and tobacco ii
looking very unlavorable. So we
havea larger crop of candidates than
anything else. They are as numer-
GUS as the tobacco worms were year
before last.
The schools In the Sixteenth dis.
trict started last Monday. We have
Ave good school houses in the west
end of the district, and hope the
commissioners will have more teach
ing and quit building school houses.
Esq. j. N. Blackford had very
fine OK to break his neck last week
while hauling saw logs he also lost
q fine mule few days before that.
A young man not far from here
was on his way to see his girl a few
nights ago. He saw something in
the road which he took to be pos
sum, so he undertook to catch it and
1t proved to be bushy tail cat, so 1
guess he got whipped out and had to
60 back home. Young men do have
hard TIME some tiInes.-James
MarlOw has moved his saw mill
from this place 10 Cave Springs, on
Barton's creek. Harvey and
Bam Swift are on the sick list. Jas.
Bull informs us that ii is a GIRL
DR.. Crouch's horse fell through a
bridge some time ago, hurting the
DIR. and horse both, but they are get
ting better.
They have good church at Mar
tha's chapel. They have good peo-
pie and always have good dinner /;
In fact the Antioch circuit is no drag
1t Is said to be the best in the Ten
nessee conference, and our preacher,
Bro. Turner, is hard to beat.
Bro. Price and wife have returned
to Pleasant View, which Is now
their hOme.--Prof. w. /. Harper, a
noble school teacher of Cedar Hill,
his wife and three fine looking little
children are visiting friends and rel
atives In this section.--Mrs. Cox
and her two sons, Of Alabama, will
return home this week, after very
pleasant visit to Mrsr--Watkin's,-
Esq. Baxter Watkins will accompa-
ny her as far as Nashville.--Miss
Ida Plummer will return home in
few days, after months visit to
Robertson cOunty.--Mr. John
Suggs and family, of Dickson coun-
~, are visiting the family of John
Lee. w. Cunningham, one of
Clarksville's best and cleverest gen.
tlemen, was at this place on business
last Friday. No one will get lone
some or low spirited when they are
with Ligie.-The teachers of this
district are very much pleased with
the examination before Prof, Tyler.
While GAINESVILLE is on boom we
wish she would get the county TO
build bridge across the Cumberland
froul the south side to this city. 1t
IL a heavy tax on us just in one years
time. We know that the south side
Is considered very small potato,
but If some Of you GAINESVILLE men
were to ride over this side of the
river through Dickson county to the
Northwestern railroad, and from
Yellow cree& TO Harpeth river, you
would be surprised to see the good
lands, and think of the produce that
could be made ON these lands if they
could just get to market without a
tax. We know the railroad will
soon run over here, but that does not
keep us from needing free bridge.
We wish some magistrate of the
county at the next term of the court
would make speech on this bridge
question with the vim and vengeance
hat Esq. Mockabee started off at
the last court. II. A. II.
July IS, 1890.