Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
THAT RABBITS FOOT.
A Farmer Tries it On a Buyer
Without Effect.
Much Doubt Expressed in Cheatham
County Over the Good Sales Re-
ported.-A Spicy Letter.
To The Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle.l

ten spoken of it as "the old reliable"
Was delighted to receive its semi
weekly visits and peruse it7 interest
ing, newsy, and, as l thought, relia-
BILE columns.
On receiving my LEAF-CHRoNI-
Gle of February q, wife and chill
dren, from largest to the smallest,
gathered around to hear the tobacco
news, and as | read from its ever
welcome columns, "Tobacco Loom
ing" "Rudolph & Co. sold two hogs
heads at $15 and $40 per hundred"
all began to smile. Then | read
"Smith, Anderson d Wood sold two
hogsheads of leaf at $3.50 and one
of Tugs at $50. The sale reports are
showing advance all along the line"
They exclaimed "Good - Then !
read to them about the rabbits foot,
and the boys said, Papa, you must
have one" Then, turning the
grand old paper over, ! read
"Clarksville Tobacco Market"
"Gracey warehouse, Hallums d
Edwards, sold forty hogsheads
new tobacco from SO to SIG, six hogs.
heads at &c." and they all cried,
"Hurrah for Hallums d Edwards,
they are Cheatham county boys and
know good tobacco when they see it,
and know where tOCell it,"
Then, like the "maid" in the old
blue back speller, Chat Charlie, Jay
and used when we went to SCHOOL,
each one was picturing in his MIND
what he would buy with his tobacco
money, for which they had lahored
so hard in the heat of the sun. Then
the boys were off to the briar patch
and soon returned with the "rabbit's
foot" when we retired for the night
and dreamed of fine tobacco and
fancy prices.
Sunday III rning we were up at five
o'clock, and as we were going to
have plenty of money, had biscuit
and coffee with sugar in it for break
fast, put on our store clothes and
went visiting. We were a prosper
GUS and happy people.
"What thing so good which not some harm
may bring;
Fen to be happy is a dangerous thing"
Early Monday morning l spied in
the misty distance lone man mount
ed upon mule, whom / supposed to
be a member of the "Springfeld
Jockey Club" but who informed me
he was only a loose tobacco buyer,
and then l tried my rabbits foot on
him, but it would not work. He
told me he had received a letter on last
Friday evening from tobacco man
of undoubted veracity who lives in
your town, which stated that tobacco
was considerably off last week and
sales were not so good as they had
been. During the same day | met
the above mentioned gentleman,
who told me the same; said there
had been but two hogsheads sold as
high as $16 and they were both sold
privately; that your reports were
misleading and ought not to be pub
lished. Now, as and my neighbors
are directly interested in this matter
and pay for a newspaper for reliable
information, we want to know the
unvarnished truth of these sales just
as they occurred. p. J.
Pleasant View, Tenn, March 3.
You can just rely on the LEAF
CHRoNI Gle, my brother, every time
The man on the mule carries a coon's |
foot in his pocket and will lie every |
time. Don't trust a tobacco buyer
who rides mule and carries coon's |
foot in his pocket; he can deceive
satan. You made mistake-a briar |
thicket rabbits foot won't do; you |
want the left hind foot of a grave.
yard rabbit. 1t must be killed in a
grave yard at night with crooked
barrel gun and silver bullet, Get
Ben Gill to learn you.
The sales reported by Hallums &
Edwards were correct, taken from
the books of the house by the report
er and were all the sales Of new to-
bacco made by the house that week
more, the sales can be proven by dis
interested witnesses. There were
five hogsheads in the sales at SIG 90,
one at $50 90, four at $l4 90, two at
Sl3 90 and the balance mt $l2 80, SIP
$lI, $40 80, SO and 50. Several
other houses sold a number of hogs-
heads at SIG. Hallums q Edwards
sold this week not quite such fine to
Hhds. at $40 to $l4 80, tour
Hhds. at IS 90 to 80 90 and nine
Hhds. of Tugs at So rs to 81 IS.
True, most of the high priced hogs
heads were sold privately, but that
is the way it is selling now. Buyers
want it so bad that they are on the
run from house to house and when
he seller fixes the price they take it
md that makes the seller sorry be
had not asked more. You need not !
De surprised if choice wrappers {
;hould po as hirh AS 500 before the