Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-06-26

| THE original name Of the Hub"
must have been Bosh-town, corrupted
to Boston.
LIBERTY, Texas, has been enjoying
roasting ears for nearly a month";
Sweet land of Liberty"
Hon. JAMES M. GRECO, ex-Con-
gresham from Indiana, died at DAN
vile, In that State, the other day.
IT is not true that the President
has removed Turner, the obnoxious
negro postmaster at Macon, Georgia.
A PLOT on the part Of number of
negroes to massacre the inhabitants
and burn the torSff Of Lexington,
Georgia, has beer discovered.
THE caterpillars have succeeded In
destroying a cotton field of four hum
dred acres In the vicinity Of Tallahas-
see, Florida.
FIFrY-oNE volumes of the Con-
gressional Globe sold recently in New
York for thirty cents. Of verify
CAB is cheap!
BY direction of the President, Bre-
vet Major General VIM. +. Harvey
is retired from duty and placed on
the retired list.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel ]. H.
Knight, United States Army, has
been detailed for duty as Indian
Agent.
Iowa has increased In population
957 900 during the past twenty-five
years. She has now 1000, 900 aud Is
entirely out of debt.
A COLONY OF Poles propose to settle
on tract of $1,000 acres In North
Carolina.
A NEGRO drowned himself per pre-
scription of q Fetish" doctor, near
Augusta, Georgia, the other day.
A RECRUITING officer in Richmond
pays $50 bounty to recruits. They
are probably to be sent to Cuba.
SUMNER is sorely disappointed to
learn that the administration did not
take his. speech as basis for Motley's
instructions.
A SON of Geiietal Albert Sydney
Johnson passed throtigh Lynchburg
Saturday, en- roiite to Washington
College, where he has been entered
as student.
SPENCER, (white.) a route agent OH
the Atlanta and West Point Railroad
has been removed, and negro ap.
pointed in his stead.
SUGAR plantations are cheap in
Texas. Lafids that have yielded
crops of sugar worth at present prices
5000 per acre, are selling at SiO per
acre..
THE Empress, the largest elephant
in the world, has arrived in New
York from Russia. Her elephantship
is twenty years old, eight and half
feet high.
Mrs. STANToN's mammoth petition
charges the party Of great moral
ideas with giving the ballot to the
the very last of the most ignorant
and degraded classes of men,"
i A HEN in Georgia has laid an egg
inscribed "Woe to r. b. Bullock"
From which the Detroit Tribune in
fers that the hen who laid such an
egg belonged to the cluck clucis.
THE Traveller, a Radical paper pub
come out i'm favor of the abolition of
the DISTINGUISHING laws of the State.
THE Roane County (Teniiessee)
Iron Company have finished their
road from the iron works to the Ten
riessee river, and about sixteen tons
of iron are delivered OH the bank
daily.
THE agents of the Cuban insurgents
state that they have information
showing that about five thousand So
called fillibusters have landed in
Cuba from the United States and
South American countries.
JUDGE SHAcKLEFoRD, Of Tennes.
see, has filed notice with Governor
Senter, protesting against the issu-
ance of commission to Judge Nc
Lain until he; Shackelford, shall have
had time to examine into the validi-
ty of, the election. Judge J. A.
Campbell, who was appointed Judge
of the Tenth. Circuit by Gov. Brown
low, also files n notice protesting
|, against the validity Of the election
In tnet circulti
Mr.. J.. 6. HATcHER, of Bedford
county, Va, recently sold lot of ex-
ira fancy leaf tobacco In Lynchburg,
Va, at the marvellous price of fifteen
, hundred dollars per hundred pounds
This is the highest price by three hum
dred and forty dollars ever paid for
, tobacco in the world.
THE White River (Ark.) Journal,
of Wednesday last, says that large
|, numbers of Northern and Western
, people are visiting our county daily,
looking up lands for future hofies.-
All parties who are DESTROYS of al
yertising lands for sale can have one
Insertion In this paper, Oftwenty lines
or less for one dollar. This Is half our
usual rate, and we make tlils PROPOSE
ton in order to bring our rich lands
into notice. More than 100 copies
weekly are given away from this
office to the travelling public.
MARK TWAIN says Horace Greedy
once tried TO make q living as writing
master and failed. His copy was
"Virtue is its own reward" and the
scholars got II, "Nyashing with SOAP
Is wholly absurd"
, THE NEW ORLEANS ICE FACTORY.
, The st. Louis DEMOCRAT says that
, this establishment Is now selling Ice
of its own manufacture, and better,
, too, than the original Jacobs at "a
cents per 100 lbs. When II COM
menced to compete with the Northern
dealers, the latter were selling their
ice at 81 per 100 lbs'
, A NEW YORK gentleman last week
! bought IA, 600 acres OF rice and timber
! land In South Carolina for $4,000
D and 2,400 acres of plantation land fol