Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-04-03
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IT will be important to the friends
Of immigration to learn that the Ar
kansas Legislature has appropriated
ten thousand dollars towards that
purpose.
MISS MARY GRANT, of Richmond,
was married in that city on Thurs
day last, to Mr.. Ford, of Goochland
County, Virginia. 1t will be remem-
ibered that they We're the subjects of
the article In the Southern Opinion,
which resulted in the killing of its
editor, III. Rives Pollard.
In the year 1851 a book was printed
called the Anatomy of the Mass. 1t
had 175 pages, and the author, pious
monk, was obliged to add fifteen
pages more to correct errors. This he
attributed to the special instigation
of the devil to hinder the success of
the work.
DIR. MULLER, once physician in
Springfield, Massachusetts, is under
sentence of death at Chicago for MUIR
der. 1t appears that, in company
with his victim, he stole a silver
chalice from "a Catholic Church in
Chicago, and to prevent his guilt be-
coming known, took the life of his
companion.
In the Maine Legislature, last week,
one member, II doctor, moved to
amend the capital punishment bill
by providing that chloroform be adj
ministered to persons on the scaffold.
Another doctor opposed the proposal,
as all physicians now admitted that
the administration of chloroform was
dangerous to life. The amendment
was rejected.
THE Salt Lake Telegraph, in de-
Tending the peculiar institution of
Mormonism, remarks: '"The fact is
polygamy has existed about as long
as human nature has and still only
small part of mankind are really
and truly monogamists, for most of
those who are not polywived are
polygomed" Those who are not
either, it Is to be presumed, are poly
wogs, or, as they would say down
South, scalawags.
THE evidences of increasing popu-
y
istration are accommodating daily. At
the. charter election in Woodbury.,
New Jersey, on the 18th ult., James
II. Pierson, the Democratic candi-
date for Mayor, was chosen by a
majority of twenty-ninev votes. This
is very gratifying when it is remem-
bered that Grant carried Woodbury.
by a majority of three hundred and
six in November last, showing a
Democratic gain in four months of
three hundred and thirty-five votes.
LET us have peace" ...
JUDGE w. w. GooDPAsTuRE,
Judge Alvin Cullum, j. G.. Good
pasture, Esq, apd G.. w. Overstreet,
Esq, who have been on visit to the
Capitol with referenseto the removal
of the militia FROM Overton county,
had further interviews with the Gov
ernor and Gen. Cooper yesterday, and
received assurances that the militia
would be removed, with the excep-
ton of one company. The retention
or tins nominal force was not obiec-
ted to, and the necessary order will
he promptly issued. we congratu
late the people on the SUCCESS Union
& american.
THE New York Sun relates an in
cident Illustrative of the little weight
that should be accorded to petitions in
favor of anybody or anything, that
happened in Albany several years
ago. Two members of the Legisla-
ture were disputing on this subject,
when one of them laid a wager of one
hundred dollars that within three
days he could produce a memorial
with one hundred names attached,
asking the Legislature to pass law
to hang the Rev. DR.. Sprague, one
of the most distinguished clergymen
atthe State capital. The bet was taken
the money put up, and within the
time the memorial was Produced
or course. the memoralists neither
knew nor cared what they had singed.