Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1857-12-25


1853, there will be two eclipses ofthe sun
and twobf the moon The first, an anna
lar eclipse of the sun, will take place on
the 15ti Of March. There will be total
eclipse Of the sun september z, 1885,
There gill be two partial eclipses Of the
moon-the first on February %, and the
other cn August %.
A collision occurred on the Chattanooga
Road, beyond Stevenson, Monday last.
Both engines were damaged, making a
complete wreck of two baggage cars
Several persons were badly injured.
PARTNERSHIPS the LIST of August
last, nine thousad persons and firms have
failed in this country.
Bethany College, (Alex. CampbelIs)
was burnt to the ground last week. Loss
S15OpO0 insured 100000.
Hon. Chas. Polk, twice Governor Of the
State of Delaware, died last, week, aged
seventy years.
Thirteen thousand eight hundred emf
grants arrived at New York during the
last month.
Seven ofthe Minnesota newspapers have
suspended, owing to the financial pressure.
Hon. Walter Coles for several years
member of Congress, died in Pittsylvania
county, Va, few days since.
Miss Annie Taylor committed suicide
at Smyrna, in this State, on the 21st ult.,
by hanging herself
The revenue derived from the tobacco
monopoly in France during the first nine
months of 857 reaches the enormous sum
of 127 ,223,000 francs,
Col. VIM. Turnbull of the United States
Typographical Engineers, was found dead
in his bed at hotel in Wilmington. Della
ware, on Friday morning. He had died
off disease of the heart
A slight shock Of an earthquake was felt
in Lewist urg, Greenbrier county, Va,
about ten o'clock on Thursday night, the
Sd inst. The same moment very large
land slide took place on the Greenbrier
river. The Chronicle says that the whole
end of mountain gave way and was pre-
cipated into the valley and river below.
The wheat crop of Wisconsin, for the
year 1857, is estimated at eighteen millions
of bushels, being an increase of six mil
lions over last year.
The Presbyterian church at Orangburg,
s. c., was destroyed by frs on Sunday
morning last.
The Harved street Methodist Church,
Cambridge, Mass, was destroyed by fire
on Thursday night week. Loss Sc, 600.
TENNESSEE STATE STocK.-At the New
York Stock Exchange, on the 14th inst.
1900 Tennessee 6's sold at 835. On the
same day $4,000 Memphis City 6's sold at
70E-interest added. On the 18th. Tenn
essee State 6's advanced ] cent, ana we're
sold at 81.
The gross receipts of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad for the eleven
months ending on the LIST Of November,
were S6O1 ,206-expenses 1912, 028-net
profits s259,177.
The legislature of Virginia organized on
Monday, electing nearly all its old officers.
Gov. Wise, not content with one message,
sent in four to the legislature.
A steamboat pilot named Charles Seed
was arrested at st. Louis on Saturday, on
a charge of having attempted to poison his
wife and her relatives at Covington, XIV.
He had thrown large quantity of arsnic
in the cistern.
LOTTERIES IN GEoRGIA.-The Georgia
Legislature has unanimously pronounced
lotteries to be swindle. 1t is thought
that at the expiration of the present char
tiers for lotteries no more will be granted.
MORE CoTToN BURNED.-On Saturday
week the cotton on train of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad took fire, and one hun
dred and thirty five bales, together with
two or three freight cars, were entirely
A movement has been made in Guilford
county North Carolina, for the erection of
a monument to the memory of General
Nathaniel Greene.
MINING EoR TIMBER.-At several places
in southern New Jersey an enormous a.
mount of white cedar timber is found buri-
ed below the marshy ground, in the salt
water. sound and fit for use, and a consid-
cradle business is carried on in mining this
timber and splitting it into shingles for
market.