Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-05-08
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
$3.50 n Paid within Six Months.
500 at the End OF the Year.
y o - w O II Il
Neatly and Promptly Executed.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

horse pistol ~ :" Why my son g''
Because it kicks So"
THE arabic land of the United
States is estimated at 1850, 900, 900
acres.
THERE were 90 alarms OF fire in
st. Louis last year total loss, 50, Oo0, =
SOD. Insurance, S1,855,105
THERE are 5000 ministers of all
denominations In Great Britain, with
$4,000 churches and chapels.
THE fees of the sheriff, of New York
aie far greater than the salary of the
President
SINCE the slave trade has been
abolished the tribes i'm Africa eat their
prisoners, as th'sy cannot sell them.
THE telegraph companies of Great
Britain and Ireland own ieO, 900 mile,
Of wire and manage $3.50 stations.
THE Cornell University has thirty
one professors withtwelve additional
professorships to be filed and SSS
students.
BisHoP HUNTINGTON, the new
Episcopal Bishop of Syracuse New
York, has been presented with u $685.
600 house..
THE first coinage was I'm the DAYS
OF Abraham when he paid Ephraim
q certain amount OF silver coins for
certain field
FORTY years ago man could carry
the Southern mail from New York to
Jersey City; now it requires eight
four-horse teams!
The chief difference between IL
horse and velocipede has been dis
covered to be the ease with which the
latter lies down.
THE population Of Great Britain in
1868 was 81, 1858, S45, distributed as fol-
lows England, q 100000; Scotland,
4,l25,O 900, and ireland, 5,6O0,OOO.
THE first advertiser was Lon
don haberdasher named Hervey,
who died, In 1872, abundantly rfch
from the profits OF his new discovery.
A PHILADELPHIA reporter apollo
gizes for the coarseness of his language,
because the gold pen with which he
was writing had been lately used to
open oysters.
THE heart Is six inches in length
and four inches In diameter, and BEATS
seventy times per minute, 400 times
per hour, 1OO, 800 times per day, 81
5000 per year.
THE boarding housekeeper whose
bOarders were always behind-hand ut
meals and who could stand II no
longer, has become seated, and now
feels quite comfortable
II DEFoNso, braziilan saNant, Is
has already made discoveries which
Indicate flat men we're on the hanks
A sn,,xo hos hao, ,,isooyaroj son,o
,o,,a, ,niios n"rtb of HnIonega Geor.
~ia thnn, aJic;nai nroDertias ~ which
S, ,no tn randar 4, VIZ e, t,,o," than
lU, ~ th o E,mo,s wataring n,acns
THE internal revenue for the cur
rent year. it Is now pretty certain,
will exceed tile estimate by ut least
SIC, OOO, 900. But the expenditures
will be pretty sure to over6alance IL,
rs usual.
$500. =,
THE Memphis Appeal says that
led nm tn a teIegraoh nost nj HIM
hoIdt' Inv order Of NIai5r Cjjughan' Of
the state Guards w.s wayeaid and
hot n fe,v ni~hts since Ws 10 sevor-
" ,voundod
y
TIE contract for the building OF
the link of the Nashville and Mont
awarded to Samuel Tate and others.
They agree to finish the link for five
million and fourteen thousand dol
lars.
=, " .i :,
M! Du CHALLu, IN one OF MS Iec-
lures; SAYS tnat In tne course OF ms
,raveis nc met .ne ceIeDra,eu mig
sincere token OF esteem presented him
WIN no fewer than So3 wives. Inc
lecturer poiitely declined the present.
r, .i..u
The civii war Is raging again IN
Iapan WIN increaseH yioiei'ce. Inc
opponeaa.s Vi lne Mih .. uase
s!rong meet, anu MAKE the m, lsiaia Oh
esso Iieir ieauIuar'er5' lney nave
Nfphon, whence they can raid upon
the mainland.
49,, . ~
IN JacksolS county, Iexas, mr..
stone recently roue up toa negro CABIN
10 inquire ms why, when he was shot
DOWN, anu 10Y the Drief hours ne sur
vlve1, Ia spite OF ms e .h,tete, no
was uei'ieu nunl'Siou 70 'ns cao,n, OF
even us nlucli us Blnss oi "a'er 10
PHOTOGRAPHERS at night consists
in constructing room or apartment
of an oval form for the sitter. The
camera Is placed at an aperture into
space of twenty or thirty seconds the