The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1897-07-24
FROM SHAW, TENN.
SHAW, TENN, July II, Is

SHAW, TENN, July II, 1897.
Mr.. J. W. BUCHANAN,
My Dear Fricnd:-ThinAing tnat q
letter from this section OF the country
might interest your many readers, l
thought would let you know what
is going on here. OF the half.dozen
papers that come into my family, the
SENTINEL is the best and first sought
after. l feel best acquainted with it.
Its articles, items and letters are char
acteristic Of the Sunny South" and
has the good old Democratic ring.
Well, Buck, l feel like kicking my
self, or you, don't know which. On
Wednesday morning, June 23rd, /
learned you were in Nashville attend.
ing our reunion. put myself out to
find you. hunted all day and the
next day until time to form for the
parade, but no fud. You were as hard
to find as gold standard man in our
midst. Ifelt very sorry that l did not
meet you again, for l would rather
have met you than any one or earth
except my dear friend, Dr. W. F.
Barksdale, Of your county. Every one
asked about you had just seen you
few minutes before. I would have
liked SO much for you to have gone out
home with NE after the reunion. But
regrets are all in vain, and I hope you
enjoyed yourself, as nearly every one
else did at the reunion.
When you visited the Centennial II
hope you did not mics the ''cycleram->
mer," las the Texan called III for i'll
you were never in battle this picture
of the battle of Gettysburg is as aear
real as can be. AS stood viewing the 4
scene, and sew how the troops we're
charging ard tighting, everything
looked so natural felt like giving the
''rebel yell'' and go in and help the /
boys in gray. Every young man ought
to see it for they would then have some
idea of what battle is and what their
fathers went through so many times
for our beloved Southland
The prospects sfsr crops are very
fattering in this section of the country.
Corn. although little late, is making
healthy growth, and is mostly Laid
by in good, clean condition. The
crop has been we'll cultivated, and
needs only sufficient rain at intervals
for further satisfactory results. Tbs
most remarkable wheat crop ever
known is now being threshed. The
season has been perfect one and the
farmers had planted an unusually large |
crop. The output will be enormous,
the quantity and quality is above the
average. A good crop Of winter oats
has been harvested. The drouth early
in the season greatly shortened the
Irish potato crop, which was a source
)f good revenue to our farmers annu-
ally. The tobacco crop is all set and
The plants are growing fairly we'll. The
not weather has been severe on young
clover, kpastures and meadows have
oeen failing for the past three weeks,
md as q result the hay crop is shorten
ID and an increased area in millet is
necessary to supply the deficiency.
The fruit crop will be short as the hail
Il the early season bruised the early
'rop; blackberries are plentiful. The
sorghum crop is fine and promises we'll
low. but the future will have to decide
"a fate. Fields of this crop are plant
ID and when right for grinding, is cut
nd put up in shocks for young stock
through the winter; il is very fine and
viii tatten stock when properly cared
or. Il
Stock of all kinds are plentiful and I
D good condition, though very low in I
rice. Good mules 2 years old l44 to +
5 hands high, fat, sell for from thirty c
We to fifty dollars; weanling mule {
otis from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. +
food horses that would have sold two t
ears ago for one hundred and twenty k
We dollars can be bought now from a
fly to seventy i've dollars and so on. v
ersey mileh cows are the only kind OF
tock that hold up in price. Cream c
ry's are the cause Of that. You will
ear from me again, as ever
Vnur fr;on1