Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-04-17


Washington City, and begging for a
District Assessorship.
THE wheat in the Valley of Virgin
la the Rockingham Register says,
never looked more promising.
COAL tar is applied to corn before
planting by Georgia farmers to pre-
vent the ravages of moles and birds.
FROM the LIST of January to the 3lst
of March, q ,5i4 emigrants were
landed at the port of New York.
FRANK PIERCE's cablnent was
the only one in the history of the
United States that remained unbrok-
en- from the beginning to the end of
the administration.
The Morristown Gazette SAYS the
reports from all parts of East Tennes-
see, as to the prospects of a good
wheat crop are very encouraging, and
that the fruit crop is likely to be very
good.
ANOTHER colony, intended to en-
brace one hundred and fifty families,
thirty of whom are now collected, Is
organizing in Brooklyn, New York,
for settlement near Springfield, Mis-
souri,.
THosEwho have notes of the South
ern Bank of Tennessee must present
them for payment at the State Comp
troller's office by the first Monday in
May next, otherwise they will be re-
pudiated.
LOUISVILLE Is making arrange
ments for Tobacco, Fair, to be held
on Wednesday, June2. Premiums
to the amount of $4,000 will be dis
tributed among thirteen classes or
grades of the weed.
BRowNLow got 81, 5000 of the secret
service fund placed at the disposal of
Andrew johnson while Military Gov
ernor, to aid in establishing a Union
press. Wonder if any other news
paper man got any portion of that
fund?
A BILL is now before the Arkansas
Senate prohibiting the sale of intox-
lcating liquors in quantities. less than
nve gallons, except upon prescription
of physician. All the saloon Keepers
are preparing to take out licenses to
pTacllce neulclne.
TIE prospects for q fruit crop i'm
the West are becoming better as the
season advances. The peach crop of
Michigan this year will be the largest
ever gathered, and in Southern ILL
nois the late frosts only killed off the
superfluous buds, which could be
spared.-[St. Louis Democrat.
THREE negroes in the list of diplo.
matte appointments sent in by Grant:
one Is to go to Liberia and another 10
Hayti, while third is to represent
the digninity and interests of the
Great Republic among the mongrels
OF Central America. The party con-
tanning 'all the decency, refinement,
cultivation and morality" will die
of the black vomit yet.
COLLECTOR GRINNELL, of New
York, says the employees ofthe Gus
tomhouse may hold their own opin-
ions-that every man there has "as
good right as he himself to hold
what opinions he pleases in politics.
Collector Grinnel's master said about
the same thing before and since his !
Inauguration, but his practice shows
that he entertains quite a different
opinion
THE Illinois Legislature, at its late
session, enacted that "a married
woman shall be entitled to receive, |
use and possess her own earning, and
sue for the same in her own name, |
from the interference of her husband |
or his creditors; provided this act
shall not be construed to give to the |
wife any compensation for any labor
performed for her minor children or
husband.
THE Albany (Ga.) News says =.
" After diligent inquiry, we estimate
that our planters have put in about
forty per cent. of corn, ten of oats,
and fifty of cotton. The corn lands
have been thoroughly prepared
and well MANFRED, and the stand is !
probably the best ever known. We
are glad to announce that our people
have made up their minds to raise /.
their own bread"
THE Frankfort Woman says =
" A. j. Alexander, Esq, of Wood !
burn stock farm, on Tuesday last, sold |
to Mr.. Alex. Patterson, of New York, |
his trotting horse Tattler for SIT, 900. |
This is the largest price ever realized |
in this State from tEotting horse,
and is two thousand dollars more
than the price paid for LeXington.-I
Tattler il five years old, by Pilot, ST.,
out of Medoc mare, and trotted at |
Louisville last fall mile in 2.26."
RETURNS received at the General
Land Office show n disposal of 36,33S |
acres of the public domain during the /.
past month, at the following local |
offices: junction City, Kansas, 1919
acres; Humboldt, Kansas, 0,003 acres,
La. Crosse, Wisconsin, i,424 acres
lronton, Missouri, 1884 acres; Mona |
sha, Wisconsin, 2, 295 acres; Topeka, |
Kansas, 4,7O9 acres for actual settle |
ment and cultivation, under the
homestead law.
AN English physician has just dis
covered that the moon passes success
lively, during its different phases,
from II temperature of molten lead To
that of the congelation of mercury
While the sun darts its rays upon her,
a thermometer, suitably construed,
would indicate a Temperature of near
ly five hundred degrees. While, on
the contrary, upon the side opposite
the sun, the instrument would de-
scend to seventy degrees below zero,
thus giving fortnight of Siberian
winter followed by fortnight of SUI
pertropical summer.
THE principal creditor of the En-
peror Macmillan, of Mexico, was a
Greek jew of Trieste, named
Ephraim. MaNim!lian owed him
at one time a million and n half of
tlOrins. Ephraim's claims have not
yet been settled entirely. At one