Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-04
NEWS ITEMS.

THE Washington Governments out
of town.
Retrenchment in the National
Treasury is promised.
The cattle disease il making sad
havoc in Upper East Tennessee. 1t
first appeared mt Bristol, but soon
spread throughout the surrounding
country.
The Hon. A. III. Stephens is con-
valescing and working on his Ills
tory of the War between the States"
KILLyoN, the murderer of Bill
Lake, the celebrated show man, at
CRANKY, on the 2lst. was arrested ut
ST.. Charles, Nor on Saturday.
LANDS in the counties adjoining
Petersburg and in other portions of
Southside Virginia are being bought
by Northern men for settlement,
THE purchase of Berkeley Springs,
Va, which has been for some time
under negotiation, has finally been
contaminated. The price paid was
$4,000.
THE water famine in Philadelphia
is on the increase. Twenty-Five thous-
and dollars have been appropriated
by the City Council for the families
Of the destitute.
THE skirt and shawl factory of
VIM. Hoffman, at fremont, West
Chester county, n. ", employed 800
hands, was burned on Sunday. Loss
$50, 600; insured for $4,000.
THE official majorities for the Con-
sentative Republican candidates in
Virginia are as follows: Gilbert &.
Walker, Governor, 1884 Jno. +.
Lewis, Lieutenant-Governor, 20, 46S;
James G. Taylor, Attorney-G General,
1887. The total vote for Governor
was 20,379.
A FIELD of seventy-five acres of
wheat OH the Catholic mission farm,
twelve miles west of Topeka, Kan
sas, has produced, this season, three
thousand bushels to the acre.
THAT old grapevine still lives in
Jacksonville, Florida. 1t is SOUP
pernOng, and somebody who did not
know much about the quantity of
graves gave S192 for its crop this year.
A BOARD of Marine Revenue off,
GERS will assemble in Louisville dur
ing the first week OfSeptember, for the
purpose of determining where three
revenue cutters that are to be placed
upon the Western waters shall be sta
toned.
DAN RICE has bought the VIII. S.
Hays for SO, 1000, to transport his cir
Gus troupe along the Ohio and Missis-
sippi.
A CURIOUS old portrait has been
discovered of Napoleon !, painted at
Ajaccio, in March, 177s, by Cavaluc-
eli. The future Emperor was then
but four years old. He is dressed in a
sailors costume, of dark olive green,
and wears pointed shoes with silver
buckles. Thick hair falls over the
child's forehead.
HoPKINsvILLE is erecting large
tobacco warehouse, i'm the hope OF
diverting to that thriving town all
the tobacco now sold at GAINESVILLE,
Trice's Landing, Linwood Landing
and other adjacent points.
ONE of the chanel-spans of the
Louisville bridge over the Ohio Riv-
er, three hundred and seventy feet
long, is completed. This is the
longest span of truss bridge erected
in this country. The whole bridge
will be finished in the early part of
November.
THE rate of morality i'm the Russian
army is greater than in that of any
other European power. This is owing
to the great extent of the Empire and
the severity of the climate ut many
of the stations to which the soldiers
are sent. The Austrian army stands
second, losing two hundred and eigh-
ty men out of every thousand annu-
ally, while the rate of mortality
among the English troops is only one
hundred and fifty to u thousand.
THE Bristol (Tenn.) News thinks
Etheridge should be Brownlow's sue
cessor. 1t says that Etheridge should
stay in the State Senate, and be the
next Governor of Tennessee, and
when BrOwnlow's term expires, OF
the devil summons him to his final
account, send Etheridge to the Uni
ted States Senate.
WIN. LAKE, proprietor of Lakes
Circus, was shot ut CRANKY, Newton
County, Missouri, on the21st instant,
by q man named Killyon, and expired
In few moments. 1lillyon refused
to pay admittance to the canvass,
and was elected by lake, but soon
returned, and seeing Lake near the
entrance, drew revolver and shot
him through the body, near the
heart. During the excitement Kill
yon escaped, and 81 900 reward is Of
fercd for his arrest.
OVER two hundred and fifty points
of historical interest have been mark
cd out on the Gettysburg battlefield.
a CRAZY French legislator was
found stark naked in n railway car
riage. ~ wish my constituents to
see me just as am" was his expla'
nation.
AN impoverished fellow in Paris
gave his sweetheart ticket i'm the
last lottery. 1t won 100000, and she
will marry him out of gratitude.
THE receipts from internal revenue
this year will aggregate nearly two
hundred million dollars.
THE large freight depot of the Chica.
go, Burlington and Quincy railroad,
mt Quincy, Illinois, together with all
the offices attached, and between
| twenty and thirty cars, mostly laden
were burned on Monday night. los
estimated at about Sl00,00O. Part OF
the ears belonged To the Hannibal
and st. Joseph railroad. Several
hundred kegs of gunpowdcr in the
depot of the latter road We're thrown
into the river.
RICHMOND, Va, had n decided sen,
Satlon on Friday last. Not long ago
a citizen of Richmond, of high re-
speetability, died. Noone ever heard
Of his being married, and, dying in