Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i LOUISIANA estimates its sugar crop
at SO, 900 hhds.
! O1Iro paid 1897, og7,7S Of the State
debt during the month of March.
THE Mississippi fruit crops have
been seriously injured by recent frosts.
i The peach crop in the Tuscumb ia,
Ala region will prove almost an en-
tire failure.
A coUNrERpART Of the fmperiallst
is shortly to be started in Philadel-
I phia under the title of The Empire.
SECRETARY Boutwell, Is mucx
gratified by the result OF his inter-
course with business men IN New
York.
BISHOP ODENHEMIER, of Now Jer-
sey, denies the story that he refused
to impose his Episcopal hands upon
false hair.
THE waters about Now York arc
busy giving up their dead. Two or
three corpses come to the surfaces
daily.
The grape vines in France are dis
eased, and in many parts of the wine
districts the crop is said to be totally
destroyed.
A LADY In Detroit has obtained a
divorce because her husband used un-
kind language to herAnd tompel!e |
her to black his boots.
THE first crop on the lower Rio
Grande Is now certain, and IL will be
good one. The indications are
highly favorably for the second crop.
WILL. asked old percent"
what he wanted to accumulate NO
much money for? Says he: "You
can't take 1t with You when you dlo
and, if you did it tOo,itd melt"
WoNpEnsy VIII -,o.,ar Soass,u so
thinks old Mr.. John Wonder, OF Kuu.
land, Vermont, who, although the
father of eleven children, was on the
30th ult. presented with two small
Wonders. la
EVE is said be the only woman
who never threatened to go and 1.-Two
with her mother, and Adam the first
man who ever went to housekeeping
without first trying to board with his
mother-in-law.
A MARRIED woman In Wisconsin
says that when her husband is little
drunk he kicks her, and when he Is
very drunk she kicks him. She con-
graduates herself she does the greater
part of the kicking.
ca PIoUsLY inclined person was en-
horting Pat on the subject of religion.
He Indignantly answered: "Sure,
an didn't l jine the Methodists p
Fax and did. jihed for six
months; and behaved myself 50 well
they let me off with threer
THE Knoxville Press and Herald
says that q very destructive hail storm
passed over n portion Of Union
and the upper end of Knox county ON
Thursday, seriously injuring tho
growing crop. The hail stones were
as large as hen eggs, and could have
been collected by bucket fulls off tho
ground after the storm was over.
THE New York Tribune very truth
fully says: "There was time when
to be o member of Congress was to
aspire at least to the position and
bearing of statesman. or late
years 1t has been rather to become u
claim agent and solicitor Of offices
for constituents whose services must
be rewarded or purchased"
A CoNvICTlately released from the
Vermont State penitentiary after
nearly two years service, carried out
with him neat box, of his own man
ufacture, six by nine inches, COM
posed of over 1000 different pieces,
made by himself, and filled with
many small articles nicely manufac-
tered by other convicts from the bones
of the beef which supplied their Din
ner.
JOHN RUssELn YOUNG, the manag-
ing editor of the New York Tribune, Is
trying to make good thing out ofthe
exposure of his efforts to black mail
number of leading Radicals. He has
sued the New York Sun for $1,000
as the amount that paper damaged
him. He has since sued tire 1hilndel-
phia Press and the Philadelphia Bull
ietin for cool 500, 900 In addition
1t will perhaps do him good when no
gets even u small portion Of these
sums.
i SENSATIONS are the order Of the
day in Washington. Considerable
interest has been created In the In
terror Department by the alleged dis
discovery of great frauds having been
perpetrated by claim agent ON the
Indian soldiers who served In the ter
ritory west of Arkansas. 1t appears
that bounty to the amount ufS2, 20,-
600 was due the Indian brigadb when
: mustered out of the service, aud IL
, also appears that not moro than 500,
900 has been paid to the Indians. while
the agent Is credited with receiving
the whole amount.
TIFF slave trade, now carried on
along the White Nile and the borders
of Absysynia, Is about to be destroyed
by an expedition under the we'll
known Traveller, Sir Samuel Baker,
acting by authority Of commission
from the Viceroy of Egypt. Baker will
. have ifteen hundred soldiers under his
camEiand, and will have at his dis
, posnl river steamers and other suita-
BILE means for tr,snsportion. He will
advance up the Nile, destroying the
depots of slave dealers, and ON reach
ing the Albert Nyanza, will launch
) n steam flotilla on that lake aud
. thoroughly explore the neighborlng
, region. The wife or Sir Samuel Baker
will accompany him.
| A coLoREp servant boy, who has
: been In the employ for many years OF
one of our citizens, labors under
| very peculiar Authorization. ItseenIs
that some years ago he received Sc
we're injury, and since that time has
J fancicd that he Is two persons. This
: strange fancy, however, does, not ut