Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-25
NEWS ITEMS.

! IHE telcpripll llnc DclWccn bretiis-
boro and TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, will
be completed by October LIST.
KARI VoGT is provoked because the
Turner'S won't pay him $4,000 in
gold for lectures on some subject or
another.
THE wreck of the Confederate gun
boat Raleigh has just been discovered,
and accidentally, too, in the james
river. IHuUa Htl~
RoBERTsoN's new play is called
Progress and Boucicalt's, "The
Railroad to Ruin" Who says the
modern drama isn't as fast as the
modern girl? n-.
BOSTON takes comfort in the fact
that the result, of its Coliseum being
in ruins is formidable opposition to
the Roman article.
THREE hundred and twenty-five
students are already in attendance at
Hillsdale College, Michigan, which
opened last week.. .ff,i
A MAGNIFICENT cave has been dis
covered i'm Nevada, full Of stalactites
and stalagmites, which has been Wis
tied already by hundreds Of sight
seers.
IT is estimated that one hundred
| and twenty vessels We're wrecked and
several hundred injured in the late
gale off the English coast.
THE indications are that the public
debt statement to be issued on the
4 first of October will show very little
IL any reduction, payments for the
present month having been very
heavy.
\ THE Commercial Bank of Bristol,
: II. l., which has been under the con-
troll of the State Commissioner be-
cause of the cashiers Irregularities,
has been enjoined by the Supreme
, Court and u receiver appointed to
, wind up its affairs. 1t is state insti-
tuition, and has no circulation.
TT is stated that Mr.. B. F. Butler
will, early in the ensuing session of
Congress, deliver speech on the ex-
travagances of Congressional COM
mittees. Hisremarks are expected to
/ apply particularly to Ways and
Means committee, of which Schenck
is chairman. Schenck Is prepared,
having secured some most damaging
facts againgst Butler, regarding his
connection with some manufacturing
institution. ,..,. ....,.. 20.
WE understand that the receipts of
D the Virginia and Tennessee railroad
Y the present month will reach one
hundred thousand dollars. r. Il.
HENRY MCDANIEL, colored
preacher, publishes a card of thanks
, to the people of Iuka, Miss, for hav-
!, ing subscribed n sufficient sum OF
= money to pay his church out of debt.
: He states that not dollar was sub
j scribed by the Radicals. s.... r.
THE Richmond Enquirer says "that
) Baltimore is the Monumental City
:, st. Louis is the Mound City; Phila-
: delphia IS the Quaker City; New
= York is the Empire City; Fredericks.
burg is the Finished City; Peters
: burg is the Big City; and Richmond
!. is the city of Brass Bands, consisting
r principally of drum and one tune
u THE fernando (Miss.) Press says
Y the Radical party is busily engaged
y in organizing n secret party in that
y State called the "Union AidSociety,'
the object of which is to array the
If blacks against the whites.
e ACCORDING to the records Of the
g Interior Department, 1881 acres o
t government land were sold during
It August in Missouri, Michigan ant
.. Colorado. .
% SOME of the citizens of Knoxville
y Tenn, have made application t,
Is Chancellor East for an injunction
ii against the city government of that
lc place and for the appointment of ;
N receiver.
N A SOUTHERN paper advises Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stowe to go to tn,
'e Erring Woman's Home" in Chica
j? CO."
VI HENRY s. FooTE promises not t.
l. pers say of him.
y. Tom THUMB took $4,000 of tn
10 worldly dross of San Francisco at hi
recent levees there.
ar TT is again rumored that Miss Laur
ld Keene is to take charge of the Chest
;, nut street theater, Philadelphia.
- A CONTEMPORARY, speaking of tn
-. female suffrage movement, declare
!" that the Woman is evidently tn
ch Coming Man"
VI Mrs. GENERAL SToNEwALL j ACE
SON is tolocate permanently at Ricll
IL mond, Virginia.
OF THE naughty New York Worl
he says ColfaX is travelling toward Wasl
of ington, at the rate of sick smiles pr
o. hour.
A Miss Lucy LEE advertises in
.ot Mississippi paper that she " is ofgoc
'"' birth and education, and is willin
en- to marry an editor, believing herse
,r- able to support one" We don
cir know of any person in these Unite
~ States who is more likely to have
ne large mail mot to say male) for Il
We next few weeks than Miss Lucy lie
THE Nashville Union and Amer
- can announces that the lion. John
Burch has purchased and will be n
IN. |, az tached in future to its editorial sta
600 Col. Burch is an able and accor
.Iplished man, who has had experien
i5S both as writer and politician. i
% has been Speaker of the Tenness
7.4B Senate, n Colonel In the Confedera
.ey army, and II successful lawyer.
Mrs. ROBERT +. LEE is cripr
be from rheumatism, and for some yea
ate past she has been compelled to ust
aid chair with wheels, propelled by Il
set servants, to move about. Yet she
said to he most agreeable and chez
}. lul old lady, receives every one wi
II smile, and converses upon all 81
ects with intelligence, vivacity a
good humor.
yer r,,r Nou, o,Joous nono,, ,,ivo. ,
lci- o,ra ,n .Nr" "ooonI.mr iii thoo $50