Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-06-26

CAPTAIN 8. w. HAWKINS, house
and stable, near Huntington, Ten
nessee, burned Friday evening.
Mr.. J. ID. DANEsoN, an old mer-
chant of New Orleans, died on the
10th.
JOHN H. SURRATT has zone into
the commission business In Balti-
THE Louisville city authorities
burned $685. 500 of city bonds, We'd
nesday. ~ oi'f
THE corn in Northern Ohio was
considered damaged by the frost last
week. 7h tni .f--iI
JAMES Il. GRAHAM, of ALLEGHENY,
is candidate for the Republican,
nomination for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. lf... ,...s.. = ~
THE Great Republic, from Hong
Kong, arrived at San Francisco yes-
terday with 1850 Chinese immi-
grants.
ONLY three citizens of New Or
leans return incomes i'm excess of
thirty thousand dollars. 1ar
QUEEN ISABELLA is about to leave
Paris and take up her residence in
Prague. n
THERE are seventy-one Masonic
lodges and 5000 Masons in Minneso-
tn. m 3no8iiY ~ ~
THE total amount of bonds issued to
the Union and Pacific Railroods IL
500, 100000.
CHICAGO has contracted for its CITY
gas for the next ten yearsfor 50 so per
thousand feet, exclusive of Govern
ment tax. fu-1 h4t',r34 ufrT
Mrs. ANN b. WINSTON, wife of
the well known DIR. c. X. Winston,
of Nashville, died Friday.
+ FIVE hundred and eighty German
emigrants from Bremen arrived in
Cincinnati on the 22d.
MIR. MATT JOHNSON, of Water
Valley, Mississippi, shot himself to
death near the little town of Sarenta
q few days ago. Cause: Unrequited
love.
The crops through the valley of
Virginia are represented as wonder
full. The wheat crop, now ready to
harvest, is unusually good both in
yield and quality. ! aDdi 840a,
A DAY nursery is about to be estab-
lished at the Cincinnati Union Beth
ell, for the accumulation of the poor
mothers who are compelled to labor
for their living through the day.
THE bridge across the Mississippi
at Keokuk is to cost $S50,O00. The
length of the structure will be 2,l9O
feet. The draw will be 1873 feet long.
leaving passage ON either side of the
pivot pier of 100 feet on the square.
A FBEIGHT train of eleven cars
and locomotive was thrown into
Passalc river on Sunday night by the
engine drivers commission to notice
that the draw was open. Those on
the train escaped. o3 .l
THE troubles in the Australian par
Lament continue. The members re-
Gently expelled for bribery have been
e.elected, and the parties guilty of
bribing Legislators, who were sent to
Jail by order of parliament have been
released by the judges on the ground
OF wrongful Imprisonment.
HEREAFTER all mail matter in
tended for Japan, China, Sandwich
Islands, and the Pacific States will be
sent to the Chicago postoffice, and
there made up in sealed packages for
Canton, Yokohama, San Francisco,
&c., and the mails from these points
will be sealed from these points to
Chicago for distribution through the
States. r -
WASHINGTON, June 21.-After the
close of the present fiscal year, June
30, and until further notice, instead
of weekly purchases of bonds and
sales of gold, the Secretary of the
Treasury will purchase one million
bonds on alternate weeks, commence
ing Thursday, July lst, and will sell
one million of gold on alternate
weeks, commencing Thursday, July
Sth. The Assistant Treasurer at New
York has been instructed according
ly. 80
CALIFORNIA holds two general
elections this year; one in September,
for Legislature, and in October for
two Justices of the Supreme Court.
The retiring Judges are Lorenzo Saw
yer and J. B. Crockett, both of San
Francisco, the former a Republican
and the latter q Democrat.
THE old saying ga fool and hi,
money soon parted" found new il |
luStration in the case of Stokes, whenJ
speaking at Athens, East Tennessee.
the other day. He said he would |
give Gov. Senter ten dollars if he
would come square out and saw
whether or not he was in favor of the |
Chicago platform. Senter answered
yes" and pocketed Stokes X.
A HAVANA letter that Gen. Jor-
dams tillibuster expedition has been
as highly successful after landing as |
It's most sanguine promoters could |
reasonably hope. 1t is also stated |
that the Havana volunteers were al |
armed at the announcement that the |
new Captain-General, De Koda,
would bring with him from two
thousand to four thousand troops, and
consulted the commander of the
Spanish Junta, and requested Gener- I
al Espinar to telegraph to Madrid
that no more troops We're needed on |
the island, as they feared DeRoda
would use the troops against the vol
unteers.