Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Wisconsin.
INDIANA paid SO, 2,51e,57s ofinternal
revenue last year.
THE "war debit of indianapolis is
only about S3s, 900.
SAVANNAH, Georgia, Is shipping
pine lumber to Scotland.
THE wages of bricklayers in New
York range from S4 80 to So 90 per
day.
QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain now
thinks of abdicating in favor of her
son.
III is thought that Longstreet will
not be confirmed Surveyor of the port
of New Orleans, Notwithstanding he
has the almost undivided support of
the Southern Senators,
ONLY thirty miles of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad re-
main to be built to complete the road
to the Missouri river, connesting 1t
with the Union Pacific railroad
TIE gentleman who finds that he
has insulted or injured an innocent
person, however humble that person
may be, will seek the earliest Oppor-
tunity to make apology or restitution
and he who does not this Is no gem
tlemen-Ihe may assume the airs and
demand such recognition In commu-
nifty, but he Is, to all intents and pur-
poses, bogus.
IT is said that the number of ex-
treme. .Ritualists i'm England Is exceed
ingly small. Out of 5SS churches in
London, only eight use incense, and
only fourteen are in favor of Euch ar
istic vestments. The old fashioned
High Churchmen have, therefore,
some ground for the opinion that ad-
yanced Ritualism is only one of the
eccentriclties of the day.
THE present heir apparent of Rus
sia, according to several German pa
pers, is said to be suffering from the
same malady which carried OIL his
elder brother two years ago at Nice,
and the Emperor, apprehensive of a
similar fatality, has recently con-
to deliberate on the possibility of such
an event.
1T Is stated that the first discovery
made by the new sergeant-at-arms of
the United States Senate, is that his
predecessor had the names of seven
teen men on his payroll without the
authority of law. This Is another
evidence of the corruption of the
party in power, especially such of
them as are connected with the Uni
ted States Senate.
THE telegraph says the census sta
tisticians for 1870 have figured out one
hundred and seventy thousand as the
number of inhabitants requisite for a
representative in Congress; and this,
1T is said, will give 270 as the whole
number of Representatives.
Under 1t, Tennessee will probably
be reduced in her quota. Well, the
fewer the better Of the kind we have.
THE WHEAT CROP.-The Lebanon
Herald says: ave still continue to
hear encouraging news in regard to
the growing wheat crop in this coun-
ty. An unusual quantity was sown,
and ii has passed through the winter
without injury. 1t is thick upon the
ground and of fine color. With n fl-
Norable season from now until har-
vest, the yield will equal, If it does
not eclipse, the famous crop of 1865"
AN Iowa paper, in order to be even
with contemporary who told mar
Vicious pin story, vouches for the
truth of the statement that lady In
that village, when quite child, ac-
cidentally ran a splinter into the
thumb of her left hand, and was as
founded the other day by having n
saw-log, ten feet long and twenty
three inches in circumference, jump
from her heel.
SOME body discovered that there
was law forbidding the appoint
ment of u Postmaster for one town
who lived in another. This was re-
pointing his friend Foulds, of Coving-
ton, KY, Postmaster at tCincinnati.-
The discovery was hardly promulga-
ted before Foulds "picked up his
traps" and moved over to Cincinnati,
and is now resident of that city.
THE Knoxville Wing states that
Andrew Knott, Esq, has been APP
pointed United States Marshall for
East Tennessee, and that Mr.. ID. III.
Nelson, the present clerk of the. State
Senate, islikely to be appointed Asses-
sor OF Internal Revenue for the second
congressional district. The Press and
Herald states that all the postmasters
on the line of the railroad between
Knoxville and Bristol have been re-
moved. This presagesa clean sweep,
and all incumbents had as well fix up
their papers.
NJ. ToUNEY, a Frenchman, has in
vented "A process that Is expected to
reVolutioniae paper making. BY his
process old papers can be converted,
m course of few minutes, into very
white and nice paper. He first COM
municated his intention to NJ. Delah-
ave, II leading paper manufactures ot
Iroyes, who was so greatly surprised
nj what he saw that he exclaimed
Touney, you are wiZZardW And
when the inventor fully explained to
Delahave added, "Good-by, paper,
mills ~
THE telegraph states that one o
the pardons issued by President John.
son the day before he retired from
otllce To Massachusetts man, and
subsequently revoked by Gen. Grant,
has again been sent 10 the United
States Marshall Ia be- delivered to the
party for whom ii was intended. Tho
first official act of Attorney General
Hoar, after entering upon the duties
of his Office, was 10 advise Grant that
his action in the matter was wholly
unwarranted by law, and, therefore
void, and that the prisoners are en-.
titled TO release.
A CONpUcroR's duty on the Pacific
Railroad involves certain Dcrsonal