Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-04-24
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TWO DOLLARS 4 YEAR, IN ADVANCE
$3.50 II Paid Within SIX Months.
400 at the End or the Year.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SIOUX CRY, Indiat1a, has 1000 in
hahftahits.
A COPY Of Bossnett sold recently In
Paris for 81, 200.
JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMfDT has
gone to Hamburg to live.
THE fancies of fashion fiji the fe-
male mind at present.
vANDERBILT's conductors appeal
to hinr for an increase of salary.
Mrs. s. n. PiKE's diamonds aro
vafdei at Sl50,O00. Whisky did 1t.
DEsszEr, an actress Of eighty odd
years. has been pensioned by Ma
poleon.
CENTR&Lf& VIII give $50, 900 10 se-
cure the Southern Illinois Normal
University.
THOMAS SUFFiERSs,. d prominent
North river capitalist; died in New
York Monday.
THE Rock Island Railroad has
reached its Tooth mlle.post west of
Des Moines.
TIFF pleasant fashion of the season
is to present baskets Of fruit instead
Of flowers. at..
The Milwaukee City Temperance
Society now numbers upward of 900
members:
A NEW YORK piper says suicide Is
chronic In that city.
hTTLETURNoUR began to turn DER
at the Tammany Theater, New York,
Monday evening.
THE Hon. James w. Grimes, of
Iowa, accompanied by his wife, will
sail for Europe tomorrow.
ALADY at the Seventh Regiment
ball had thirty Thousand dollars worth
of jewelry on her person.
A PARIS writer estimates the num-
Der OF persons killed in battle, be-
tween 1854 and 1868, at 1,736, 400.
FRANCE Is anxious to cultivate tho
Chinese bamboo, In order to open u
new braffcfi Of industry.
WHITrER's poems sell better In
France and Germany than the works
Of any other American poet.
THE fairy, fairy Lillian" of Ten
nysOn's early dainty muse, Is o Mrs.
Rawnesley, mother Of seven children.
A TRAVELLER at the South writes of
city there "This city Is beautifully
laid out-so are most of its capi-
talists."
MARGUERfTE BELLANGER, an old
mistress of Napoleon's, Is again EN-
joying unusual privileges ut the court
of st. Cloud.
A LIGoNIER, Ind, barber got a wig,
called himself Spaniaru, and mar
ried a white woman of Michigan u
few days ago.
HUGO Is said to have dozen nov
els on hand, but holds eleven Of them,
doubtless out of philanthropic regard
for his fellow creatures.
SPEAKING of the recent death Of
the Marquise de Lavalette, the Paris
Liberte regrets that 80 few French
statesmen marry American women.
CHARLES CADwALLADER, engi-
neer on the Central Pacific road, has
souf1ded the Donner Lake TO the depth
Of l 800 feet without finding bottom.
In 1868 Ireland drank 4,673, ,7lO gal-
Ions of whiskey. Scotland, with half
the population of. Ireland, 4,9O6, ,701,
and England II 900, 600 gallons.
/ A NEGRO college has lecn opened at
Berea, Madison county, Kentucky.
Twelve thousand dollars have been
subscribed North for its support.
THE Duke of Aumale has purchased
a magnificent estate In Sicily, where
he will henceforth reside. The eli
mate of England does not agree with
his wife.
DIR. SAMUEL SPRING, a well
known physician Of New York, and
eldest son of the venerable Rev. Gar
diner Spring, died on the Sth instant,
after brief illness, In the sixty-sec-
ond year Of his age.
BY the recent fire at Madison, Ca,
property to the amount of 500, 900
was destroyed, of which but S75, 600
was covered by insurance. The Ex-
aminer office lost its books, files, aud
papers.
FRED Busy and Patsy Reardon
have signed articles for prize "mill'
within fifty miles of ~. Louis, In
three months, for the middle weight
championship OF the Northwest, aud
$500 q side.
Ax,,gen;ous Frercbman IN phila-
delbhia skins frogs bv drawing ali
tne ,h.er'o. Paros .n,ous us,s s"1 ,Inne oJS, ,n
anu 'he" s'uis 1,s anu ,',s t,'.,,J,s ." III
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