Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-11
NEWS ITEMS.

lGB COiOtCu lSOpiC va IhduibOll
have large pay school in blast.
Two women were found starved to
death in a basement in New York.
JAMES OTIs, q prominent insur-
ance man Of Boston, Is dead.
THE appointment of Jesse Bayles
postmaster at Louisville, KY, is Off
cially announced.
THE old clearinghouse of L. A.
Benoist & Co., of st. Louis, suspen-
ded yesterday. M
JIG. HOWE, an old and well-known
merchant of Boston, died on Tues
day.
THE Farmers and Merchants In
surance Company of Quincy, not be-
ing able to comply with the new law,
have made an assignment with more
liabilities than assets. rei
A REDUCTION of passenger fares is
currently talked of in New York, and
several prominent railroad men say
that tickets to Chicago will be sold
for ten dollars within the next two
weeks.
Tup sprvev of the Memnbis and
Selma RaiIroad has been com nI,.tad
from Columbus TO Marion. Ala n
distance of 1O1 miles.
Dpxrrp trotted under saddle IN
EaSh;on Coursa Long Island. FRIDAY
a fternoon last In 2:i7s thus beatiny
he memorable time on the same
track when he went in 2:1S is.
Tup Supreme Court of Georgia
now in session ut Savannah. has inst
rendered a decision that notes given
ne n consideration for slaves are not
recoverable by law.
,o,o c,,;oou hod 10 ooo ,,l.h;
~ 1910 Cncasu iau a0,V 900 in. .,'.,
.am. S,, anu ,,VW o liz, 20 '% o i w
wouIu SHOW .ne oi.y " ia.e uoupieo
geoinetLicaiiy IN apou. noe
All eli Ll,ioat Ti,;aooa , ri i'S au
VanU .,i, ueiieses v,do -, 1eaS WI" navy
u niiiioh vi peopie III 1000
1T Is sald that an ,hioTlnai .enuet OF
tne rresiuency U. ehe tt"S G sie on,-
versIty mas peeii ni"ue W oeN' 'oseph
H. 'ohhsoh'
THE receipts of cotton at Nash
vile during the cotton year Just closed
were only 95, 900 for the year previous,
q ialling OH I'D a single year Oh zs'i"o
oaies'
THE collored people of Tennessee
have deposited in bank in this State
Ine sum OF @lio,ooI 40, o. WHEN ,no 81
20 Is az Cna.sa Hln * Soo,4o9 30 az
Memphis' eni POO i4o AZ at Nash'iiie.
/ MR.. SINeLErARy. of Rutherford.
cut 10. $40 pounds of milIet-nearly
ten tons--off three acre., of ground
tnis season, worm S2oo.
NEWS from along the Arkansas
and White rivers saw the cotton crops
are splendid and the balls are open
ing nneiy. FROM along tne Misslss-
IPpl I0r TWO nunureu miles Deivw
memphis tne orouth mas cut on tne
crop one tniIu. Iouhg p'lis are siieo'
aing on, anu only tne lower or oot'
tom pails VIII mature
The schools throughout the State
are pelng organlzeu as IasI as posi-
ole' , ~ o eose couhtles hearu llonh enert
are ioo,uV scnoiars ehroileu, Will
Iwenty-one c0unties 10 near from
wnlch IL Is est EST nna VIII SVEN tht
nuiiioer W io''o"'
The INDIANS paid WISH 10 Muertt
station, Iorty mics ABOVE Fort DAVIS
recently, anu carried OH hIteeh muie'
anu the ehtire stock Oh horses.
Mrs, CATHARINE n. WASHING.
TON died in Delphi, Ohio, on Satur
day, at the age OF eighty. She wa
the Xenerable relict or the late sam
uel washington, VINO was agrand
nephew OF den' washington.
THE rice crop of Louisiana befor,
the war only average about ten thous
ana barrels. Now 1t amounts to sew
ehty thousand.
AN OMAHA dispatch saws the iur,
in the United States Court, in tn
case of Mccoy d Co., distillers, for de
frauding the government, brought II
verdict confiscating all the proper
W owned by the firm, amounting Il
F''''0''
THE coroner of st. Louis held sew
enty-eight inquests last month. TIL
most prominent causes of death wer
as follows: Sunstroke, 81; drowning
13; appoplexy, II, suicide;9; accidents
u "'' "A' "
THE twenty-second, session of tn
st. LOUIS Annual conference of tn
NJ. e. Church, embracing the terri
} tory of the Missouri river, is now il
session in st. Louis, Bishop Pierce
u "oo's'"' pee.
PENDLETON, of Ohio, says the wei
prepared speeches of Sumner, tn
immortal chawls," will melt befor
the Tennessee oratory ofJohnson.
rT,o,,o, Doo,aro, Assoo,ot;o
~ Washinton b has issued n c;rcuIar :
~ ,is,n aaaia.s th,n,,nhomt ~,
c c,u J' uronosin~ n convention i
I Donan,hapr 'p's WIN '
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