Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-03-27

spindles, and turning out 3,000,000
pounds of spun cotton yarn. vi
PROF. BOND, the wire-walker, fell
while giving one of his perilous exhi-
billions in Charleston, s. c., Oh the
9Th, and broke his neck.
AN estate of 1900 was lately set
tied in Otsego county, N. Y, in
which the lawyers received So, 200,
and the heirs-at-law the rest-abOut
$50 apiece.
THITRY-Two miles Of the Eliza
belhtown and Paducah Railroad are
now under contract, and the work Is
being pushed through with down.
right earnestness.
A COMPANY has been organized in
New York, and will shortly sail, to
raise two million dollars in specie
from the Spanish ship sunk in the
West Indies in 1740. iE'.t.
RATS and mice will not board long
in a corn-crib odorous with the fumes
OF coal or gas tar; neither can they
be happy among sheaves of oats
slightly sprinkled with wood ashes.
SOME of the office-seekers resort to
sharp tricks to get an interview with
Grant. A number of them get to-
gethcr and call upon the President as
IL delegation and then make q speech
in behalf of themselves or friends.
THE cotton crop of South Carolina
for 1868 is now ascertained to be about
$50, 600 bales, which, at 500 per bale,
will be S25,000,O00. 1t has more
money value than any other ever
produced, although falling short So
600 bales.
4 YOUNG lady, with q switch trail
ing fashionably down her back, was
somewhat startled, while waiting In
the depot ut Lafayette, Indiana, the
other day, by u kindly old lady who
was not "up in the latest styles" APP
preaching her and whispering in a
tone SO loud as to be audible all over
the room, "Your back hair Is coming
down, Miss" ."
TIE reports of the military opera
tions in Arizona for 1868, Just .puh-
lished, show 81 Indians Killed, 81
wou led, and % captured. The re-
ports Indicate that the war was car
ried on vigorously, but that the num-
ber of troops was so small that the
results are unsatisfactory. Constant
appeals by thepeople and press of Ar
iona are made for more troops.
A YOUNG woman in Chicago has
invented new branch of female use
fulness. She advertises that she will
In, nti tn
conyersing with ladies, to any young
gentlemen who do not feel at ease IN
the society of the opposite sex. Tui-
ton 10 lovers, extra" she mas Oeen
quite successful, and makes n special
" OF proposals in various forms.
A roo WHISTLE recently erected on
Cape Fourcher, Yarmouth harbor,
Nova Scotia is said to be the most
powerful signal in North America,
aud can be heard fifteen miles in calm
weather; in stormy weather, five to
eight miles; with the wind, twenty
five miles against the wind, five to
eight miles. 1t has been heard in
land, with the wind, twenty-five to
thirty miles. .. .... ....
TIE President turned Frank Blair
who fought "rebclsn for four years
out Of IA non-paying office, and put
Longstrcct, who fought with them
into a paving one. But then Long
street has the royal blood OF the Dents
in his veins. Oh loyalty" where is
thy blush!
A DISPATCH from Fort Wayne
Ind, to the Cincinnati Gazette says
the Democrats are making n vigorous
effort to re-clect the members of the
Legislature who resigned u few day.
ngo in order TO secure as far as posi-
bile an expression of the people In re
gard TO the proposed fifteenth amend
mcnt, and that the "Republicans art
seemingly unconcerned as to the re
sult.n This Is a strange indication o
the unpopularity of the proposed
monlmentin Indiana.
1t may he interesting to our reader
to he reminded of the fact that til,
nth of March, 1913, just twenty-siS
wears ago, was Just such another day
as that of sunday, the lith inst,
warm and balmy, and that the day
following there was n fall OF snow
from fifteen TO eighteen inches deep
MultI Ttlll'tilltAl WI lllC BlOuilh lbi
couple of weeks. Like the pas
winter, the weather was unusually
mild, and the season which followe,
yielded the largest crop known 70
years.
A CLERICAL clopcmcnt took plac
from PunNsatawny, Jefferson County
PSnn., last week. Rev. Mr., Short
hill, lately Baptist preacher ran OF
with Mrs. ColkCt, one of his flock
leaving behind n wife and family II
great pecuniary distress, and tn
mithless female deserts fond hus
band and two lovely babes. TIL,
guilty pair have been traced to lndi
ana, and indignant Mr.. Colket ha
started In pursuit Of his wife.
ANNA Dickson wants 10 know
men try 10 please women, and ironi
cally asks: Does woman Ike Z
have man wear dirty boots In tn
house, or wear soiled linen, or cheN
tobacco, or spit tobacco juice, or sIank
great many cigars, or drink ba
whisky, or wear the same clothes si
months, or swear! IL they wan
women To be refined and tender, an
lovely, what will they give Il
return? IL is likely that wome
like those bad ways Of men any NOR
than they like strong-minded We
men," Towhich all of the hifrcatc
garment will please respond.