Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-11-13
, NEWS ITEMS.

DELAWARE hds a female Bible so
ciety. G.f + u % ilt 3 LAG
GEEMAN emigrants are pouring
into Texas.
SAVANNAH is having its first street
railroad laid. WfE .f
THE Pacific land sales in October
were 20,000,0 900 acres. a- IN.
A MINNESOTA lady has killed sew
enteen ducks at one shot.
GEORGE SANDS says she spend,
half her income in charity.
THERE are nineteen contested cleo
ton cases before Congress.
THERE are fifty thousand children
in the London ragged schools.
DARTMOUTH CoLLEaE has thirty.
eight one thousand scholarships.
GENERAL LEES college will have
twenty-five newspaper scholarships.
PITTsBuRG Is agitated over the
fact that her butchers sell diseased
meat. .a@' ~
PERE HYACINTHE isn't going to
start a paper in the Norwegian Ian
guage. .,..,el
A NEW YORK dentist pulls his
own teeth after giving himself cholo-
form. AL tEar LA
THE st. Cloud hotel in Nashville
is to be converted into a. dry goods
store.
REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES STEW
ART died at Bordetown, New Jersey,
Sunday. $50, .rtr .ss
CHINESE girls are numbered in
stead of being named, 1t being consid-
cred cheaper. r 80. Iltsr az
Iris estimated that one-f fourth
the whole tobacco crop in Barren
County, Kentucky, has been des-
troyed by the late freeze. ,r u.
Mrs. FARRELL does the principal
part of the burglaring In California.
She n under arrest in Sacramento for
breaking into several stores.
THE Alabama Indian tribe in Tex
rs are asking the State for more lands.
They live in Polk county.
PORTLAND has an association pro-
viding for the relief of aged women,
which spends $1,000 a year. .' u .' q
Florida papers report that Reed,
the carpet-bag Governor of that
State, has sold himself for Sl2, 800.
THE late Hon. Thomas HI. Sey-
mour is to have a fine monument
erected tn his memory, by the Ma
sonic fraterity. 'l
An accident at n BATTALION ascen-
sion, at Rome, Georgia, the other
day, killed Charles Morrison and
John Appleton. iEHfp u
The Methodists of Pittsburg are in
a big muss about their graveyard. A
man wants to buy it, and they are
undecided. .,. Id,
Three ribs of human being, with n
shell fastened in them, were picked
up near Battery Wagner, Charleston,
last week. s
There are $4,000 barrels of oil at
burning Springs, West Virginia,
ready for shipment on the first rise
in the Little Kanawa river.
Alexandria, Virginia, a place of
$4,000 inhabitants, has no billiard or
saloon. 1t IL queer how
some people live without such neces-
saries of life.
DURING q thunder storm flock of
sheep shut up In pasture in Libson,
VT, and huddled close together near
a wall, were struck by lightning, and
thirty of them were killed.
A FARMER i'm Mount Washington,
Mass, has raised this year 1900
bushels of potatoes. OF 40 vari-
cites he considers the Worcester seed
ling the best, and the Gleason the
most productive. rE
IN New York the whole Democrat
ic state ticket Is elected, and the Leg
islature in the hands of the Demo.
Gratis. New Jersey has also q Demo
cratic majority In both houses OF the
Legislature. This will secure Dem
cratic Senator.
IN Maryland not u single Radical
has been elected To either house OF
the Legislature. Maryland Is the
banner Democratic State. ~.
THE Little Rock Gazette saws
Large numbers of emigrants, very
comfortably equipped, from Tennes-
see, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana,
ARE passing in n continuous train of
through our streets, many of.
them for the western and southern
part of Arkansas, and many of them
for Texas
TnE Paris Intclligencer, of Satur-
lay says; The Henry County Agri- /
cultural and Mechanical Society sold
Dut last Monday 10 a joint stock com. /
pany. They We're 50 heavily i'm
lebt they could not meet their liabil- /
ties. We predict for the hew COM 1
pany great success in their new en- .
orprlsc. 4
TIM farming lands in Northeast |
I'm Virginia are rapidly changing
hands, the former owners being un-
lble 10 work the large plantations as
they existed under the former system.
Within the last few weeks, il Is an
bounced, over ten thousand acres,
generally arabic and in cultivation,
ave boon sold 10 persons from the
Northern States, at from ten 10 SOW
dollars an acre,