Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-15
NEWS ITEMS.

with q large proportion of the express
md a few pieces OF private baggage
The Express safe and chest were both
lost, aud 50 rapid and sudden was
the progress Of the fire that the
messenger'barely escaped from thct
car, leaving nearly everything be-
hind. A portion Of the local mail
was saved. The origin of the fire
was not known, but supposed to be
caused by flying spark nom the To-
eomotive, which was not discovered
until too late. The remainder of the
train was saved by being cut loose
from the express, while the engine
was run forward and then cut loose. /
On the Knoxville, (Temessee)
criminal docket there are vet about
one Thousand cases of treason. ,Imi
most of these cases, however no, ar
rests have yet been made. In the
list of those indicted are JEFF. Davis, !
Governor Harris, Generals Bragg, Z. \
Kirby Smith, Buckner, Breckenridge,
McCown, Longstreet, Wheeler, For
rest--iii fact nearly every Confeder-l
ate General or Colonel who com
mnnded n brigade or regiment with
in the limits of East Tennessee att
any time during the war. In vJ,i8
THE heirs of Rip Van Dam, de-
ceased more than acentury ago, have
recently found his will. He was sup
posed to have died intestate, and his
property was distributed accordingly.
1t is now discovered that the property
on which both of Stewards stores,
( being, the whole south side Of Union
Square, N. ", md other property
! worth $50, O00,000 or $50, 900 900, be-
longs to them, and they intend to
bring suit for its recovery. feiw'a
! IT turns out that the saucy negro,
/, Menard, who claims a seat in Com
"a single vote in the district which he
claims to represent. But, having AIN
.nounced himself rs a candidate, he
! came to Washington to claim q seat.
This Is not astonishing for a negro,
but the refusal of his white brethren
in Congress to admit him Is surpris-
ing. They are taking backward
step. -y6,..
WITHIN the past week twenty
|, boys under the aye of fifteen years
have been arrested at Worcester, Mas
sachusetts, for petty larcenies.-
Some ofthem were sent to the scholar
ship, and others to the truant and re-
form schools. The preachers In that
| region have been so absorbed in the
| elevation of the African that they
seem to have forgotten the "Greeks
/ at their doors" ',',''.',1
THE passenger train on the n. &
, G.. railroad was thrown from the
track at Christiana, Tenn, OH the
9TH inst. Determining to ferret the
scoundrels out who perpetrated the
? outrage, officer t. s. Ford, assisted
= by Mr.. j. M. Woodruff, set to work
and traced it to two negroes, John
Epps and Wesley Winter. Upon
being arrested one of them acknowl-
:, edged his guilt. d,aJ 10.
, --LATEST advices from Africa con
: firm the recent report relative to this
safety of the great African traveller
, DR.. Livingstone. It is said he II
y some where in the vicinity of Lake
!, Lyassa, near the confines of Zangue
bar. Owing, 1t is thought, to tn,
wars between the. native tribes, his
!, progress has been iinpeded, and con
g sequently he has been unable to reach
the sea coast. ..''
dl ACCORDING to a German chemist
a very simple test to determin
whether wine has been colored arti
# ficially or not Is furnished by addin.
!. powdered superoXide of magnese t.
r the suspected liquor, shaking then
| together for quarter of an hour an
J. then tiltering. If the liquid be thel
! light-colored and transparent, tn
il color is natural; If darkened, the con
n trary is the case. .p
: On Friday night last, twenty mill
III tia of CattersOu's command entere
G. Selma, Ark, and completely quite
d the stores The list of losses are Civ
l. en-, which amount in the aggrega at
to about $1,000. On the same nigh
st they robbed two stores in Monticello
u The town Of Hamburg i'm Ashlan
rs county, and Warren, in Bradle
IL county, have shareda like fate.
y The Henderson News says that til
: tobacco market was rather inacIiy
A. during the holidays, thouA h pricesr'
70 main firm, crops selling from So
ia SO Is for good Tugs. The inclemeu
~ wheather, whilst good for strippiu,
q. prevented much from being brougf
4, to market. The prospects are flatte
ing for brisk time this week.
The Union City Herald says tina
VI the Odd Fellows and Free Mason
- have under consideration schem
vi for the building of AN institution
w learning, TO he situated i'm that cit,
CT for the free education of all orphan
H. ~, and also of their respective societie
d. THE Trenton (Tenn.o Gazette sa,
he that house of Mr.. James Nortl
&C. cross, occupied by his negroes, W:
IL burned few nights ago with tw
cr children. The Older negroes we
absent as Is generally the case wht
similar fires occur.
IN AFLEET of iron barges Is now beir
en- built for transportation of grain an
)e- merchandise ON the Mississippi rive
by They will be loaded at st. Pau
We Winona, Dubuque, Quincy, etc., NJ
tn will feed line of steamers at Ne
no Orlea ms, connecting with New Yo
MS and Liverpool,
Is NEWARK, New Jersey, had
church panic last Sunday, caused
the ice and snow sliding OF the re
~ of the building with a terrific nOis
y" Some OF the congregation ran
,I their lives, but the majority thong
NV church the best place for them.
1T, IT Is said that one of the last thin
at the great Rothschild did before d
he ing was to direct his family a.
NJ friends TO "sell Lombardy shar
= Short knowing that his dea
= would produce n panic in these secu
TX ties.
he
in a woman in New York State |,