Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-10-23

ExPREsIDENT Pierce's estate is es-
timated at $l,0O0,000, the bulk of
which which will probably go to a
nephew, Who is being educated at
Princeton Colledge.
SOME of the Illinois farmers are
marrying the dumb females from the
Jacksonville asylum, and they de-
clare that they make dumb good
wives.
THE new Secretary Of War was
born in Florida fort.
A Virginia exchange states, that
four hundred students have been en-
tered at the University, and there are
many present who have not been en-
tered. 1t is calculated that the num-
Der will be increased to five hundred.
Generally speaking, the students are,
we learn, older than those heretofore
at the University since the close of
the war-a fact, If it be fact, for
which it would be difficult to assign
NAsHvILLIANs are moving for a
free bridge over the Cumberland, at
that point. "a ~
THERE Is to be a grand hunt
through Africa for the missing DIR.
Livingstone, bya corps Of English
explorers. -...-..
Iowa possesses, doubtless, two of
the oldest persons in this country
Both are colored women. One lives
at Clarinda, and Is over 100 years old
and is in good health. The other re-
sides in Dies Moines, and was liz years
old last July. She was born In Vir-
ginia, and was slave until rs years
of age. She is hale and hearty. Her
eye-sight is good enough to thread a
q needle. She never wore glasses,
and is able to do much work every
day. A few days since she buried a
daughter rs years old.
A FELLOW who was nearly eaten
out of house and home by the con-
slant visits of his friends, was one
day complaining bitterly of his Num-
erours visitors. "Shure and I'll tell
We how to get rid of 'em," said the
maid of all work. "Pray, how %
Lend money to the poor ones, and
borrow money of the rich ones, and
nather sort will liver trouble We
again. e. ID. ..-t - y I. IA
THE Holmes county (Ohio) Far
mer says: A young gentleman OF
this place is to be married to q beau
tiful young lady ON the second day OF
the county fair, on horseback, in full
view of the thousands who will be
there assembled"
Miss KATE MURPHEY, whose feats
of jumping, in Massachusetts town,
have been generally chronicled by
the press, Is q pure myth. There's
no such girl, and she hasn't made
any such jumps.
J.C. Pannell n ashville typo, re,
Gently killed rattle-snake, with six
teen rattles. fFsat Ggdl~
THE population of Sweden is d.
minishing, and the decrease is caused
by the emigration to America.
THE Washington Chronicle thinks
the Supreme Court will grant the de-
sired writ in the Yerger case.
THERE have been imported t.
England this season sc, 0O0, 900 pounds
of black tea. te
THAT writer does the most whC
gives his readers the most knowledge
and takes from them the least time
THE following sentiment is attri
buted to Napoleon Bonaparte: "A
handsome woman pleases the eye
but good woman pleases the heart
The one is jewel-the other treas
ure." .E .r.#..i .,....
JEFFERSON DAVIS is en- route, by
steamship, from Baltimore for New
Orleans, whence he will proceed t.
Jackson, Mississippi.
JUDGE DENT writes from Missis
sippi that he is confident of his cleo
ton by an overwhelming majority
THERE are 1O,4lO pupils in the pub
lio schools of Cincinnati studying tn
German language. ...
Mrs. PORTER, the newly appointed
post mlstress at Louisville, was To ms
sumo control to-day, but, owing Il
illn ess, was unable TO do so.