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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10


Don Piatt, himself a Republican,
thus describes class who have grown
up as fungion the Republican body
polite:
There Is ring ofloud mouthed pro-
fessors OF extra piety here that has
more to show for its stealings, than
any other ring In Washington. Its
members are prominent In all pious
and charitable moves. They preside
over meetings of citizens looking to
benevolent works, and make tremen-
dous speeches in behalf of missionary
enterprises. The internal scoundrels,
they roll to church in carriages built
of stealings, and gilded and varnish-
with public iniquity, drawn by stolen
horses, and they walk in clothes
woven of public plunder, and hold
under. theirhypocritical noses velvet
bound, gilt-edged, hot pressed prayer
books that represent SO much money
filched from the treasury. And
when they kneel it Is to get closer to
Satan, to hear the whispered schemes
of further rascality. They make me
cling closer to the. precious beliefin a
hell hereafter, and what Burns called
"tidings 0'damnation." They are
prosperous here. but IL fail to see
them hereafter crawling around to
get on the cool side of the big Goals,
and crying aloud to Christian states
men for drop of their ice water,
shall be greatly disappointed, and
consider our plan of salvation u great
er failure than Fisk and Gould's run
on Wall street.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Here and there about the street cor
ners and around the doors of amuse-
ment you will see a lot of urchins,
some Of them decently clad and pre-
senting o respectable appearance, who
are engaged In asserting their man.
hood by pulling aw2y at execrable
cigars. 1t is fair to presume that
their anxious mammas are not aware
of the foul habits their darling boys
pick up and practice outside of the
parental roof; but for their benefit
they should know that 1t is stated
that French physician has investi-
gated theetfect of smoking ON thirty
eight boys, between the ages of nine
and fifteen, who were addicted to the
habit. Twenty-seven presented dis
tinct symptoms of nicotine pOison.-
In twenty-five there were serious dis
orders of the circulation, indigestion,
dullness of intellect, and marked ap-
petite for strong drinks. In three
was heart affection; in eight decided
deterioration of the blood; in twelve
there was frequent epitoxis; ten had
disturbed sleep; and four had ulcera-
ton OF the mucus membrane of the
mouth. 1t is easy, then, to see how
the ranks of the drunkards and dis
solute men "about town" are recruit
ed when there are so many boys in
training for delirium tremens and all
the horrors of northumberland
COurier-Journa
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10
Another $4,000 Horse.

Cincinnati Commercial N Y. Special, lst.l
To-day the long-pending match
between Mr.. Alleys fine colt Startle,
by Hambletonian, and Mr.. Norcross'
colt Lothair, by Gilbreth Knox, came
off. 1t was one of rival blood, and
has created great expectation. The
race turned out one of single heat,
as Startle beat and distanced Lothair
In the first one, doing the mile in 1886,
and carrying sixty-two pounds weight
extra, and that with ease, and never
making any brush, excepting in the
last forty rods. 1t Is beyond doubt
the finest performance of three
year-old ever seen, and the colt Is GER
tainly the finest three-year-Old that
ever showed In the trotting world.
After the race he was bought by Mr..
Robert Bonner for 5000.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10
Curious Prophecy by Talley rand

To what extent can men prophecy,
and is the gift confined to the just
made perfect? Talleyrand is made
to speak as follows In his memoirs
1--WE must not delude ourselves; the
European equilibrium, of which we
laid the foundation at the Congress of
Vienna, will not be eternal. Some
day it will tumble, but it promises us
some years of peace. What threat
ems to break it up at a period more or
less distant are the aspirations which
are becoming universal In the center
of Germany. The necessities of dc
fense and of common danger have
prepared their minds for German
unity. This idea will continue to de-
velop, and some day one of the great
powers who form part of the confed-
GRAFTON will form the desire to realise
this unity for its profit. Austria Is
not to be feared; being composed OF
scraps and mOrsels, and having no
unity at home, she cannot dream of
expecting it abroad. 1t is Prussia,
then, that should be watched. She
will try the venture and If she sue
ceeds, then all the conditions of the
balance of power will be changed,
and it will be necessary to seek fol
Europe new basis and new organ
.zation."
Having examined the more or less
difficult circumstances amid which
this reconstruction will be effected, M
Talleyrand indicates France as being
the nation most interested in combat
ing the unification movement or in
seeking to be compensated for it,
All this reads as If written after the
facts instead of many years before
them.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

THERE is a man living in Calhoun
county, Miss, who is supposed to be
the strongest man In the State, If not
the entire South. He is thirty fl We
years of age, and weighs two hundred
and twenty-five pounds. He has been
known to carry three bars of railroad
iron, when 1t takes from three to five
ordinary men to carry one. He can
take cask containing forty gallons
of whisky or water (the former is pre-
ferred we presume), and raise 1t from
the ground and drink out of the
bunghole with as much ease as Others
could out of common pitcher; and
he has frequently taken barrel OF
-four under each arm, and, balancing
sack of salt on his head, carried
them for several yards with apparent
ly but little effort. He offers to bet
that he can lift thirteen hundred
pounds.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

FIRE!--We are pained to learn OF
the burning of DR.. J. H. Scarbor-
ough's fine dwelling near Clark Fur
mace, on last Friday evening. About
10 o'clock fire was discovered in the
kitchen, but not In time to check the
flames, which spread with rapidity all
over the building, cnveloping 1t in
one sheet of fire; the building was a
new one, and had just been completed
and furnished; very little was saved.
The Doctors loss isupwards of So, 900,
no insurance; 1--WE understand that he
was talking about insuring two or
three weeks ago, but failed to do so;
how different it would be now if he
had, and in the short space of one
hour all that remained of com forta-
ble house, was q mass of burning
ruins.-Doper Record 31st inst.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

How OLD Ross DIEp.-Old Ross
was the most conceited, Grabbed, op-
inionated fellow to be met with any
where. What he didn't know wasn't
worth knowing, and he took it as an
insult II any one essayed to give him
any information.
A. last he fell seriously Ill, and was
more grabbed and opinionated than
ever. 1t soon became evident that
he was near his end; but no one liked
to tell him of his condition. A pious
old neighbor finally took upon him
self the solemn task.
"Neighbor Ross, said he, "there is
something that l feel it my duty to
tell YOU"
"You tell me anything" snapped
old Ross, In great scorn.
"But l tell you, Mr.. Ross, you are
dying"
Mind your own business; / guess
l know what I'm about" grOwled
the old man with his dying breath.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Joseph Joslin, Esq, of Poultney,
VT, gave his daughter, on her mar
riage, the following "worls of wis.
DOM" which we will do for every
pair:
Never talk at but TO each other.
Never both manifest anger at the
same time.
Never speak loudly or boisterously
to each other.
Never reprove each other in the
presence of Others.
Never find fault or fret at what can
not be helped.
Never repeat an order or request,
when understood.
Neglect every body else rather
than each other.
Never make remark at the others
expense.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10
The Defenses Of Paris.

Paris is not an ordinary fortress; it
Is vast intrenched camp, defended
by more than half a million men,
and protected by a wall ofcircum valla-
ton eighteen miles In circumference,
defended by ninety three bastions,
and fortified In accordance with the
most perfect rules of the art. Nor is
this all. These strong defenses are
themselves defended, at distances
varying from one and quarter to
four and half miles, by girdle OF
fifteen detached forts, provided, with
seven great Outworks, fianking each
other, and forming second inclOsure
Of thirty miles circumference, whose
powerful artillery can sweep every
thing before 1t distance ofsix miles.
Paris, finally, is defended by the
Seine, by the Marne, and by n circu-
lar railroad TO which all the lines In
France are connected, and which rem
ders 1t impossible to convey troops
with great rapidity to the points
menaced in the outer or inner line of
Notifications. A place of this extent
can be subjected neither to proper
siege nor to an investment complete
enough to shut out re-eniorcements
aud supplies. 1t can then only be at
tackled ut a given point, and the ques-
tion remains what is the most vulner-
able point of this immense circuit.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

How TO BE NOBoDY.-It Is easy to
be nobody, and we will tell you how to
do 1t. Go to the drinking saloon and
spend your time. You need not
drink much now; just little beer, or
some other drink. In the meantime
play dominoes, checkers, or some
thing else to kill time, SO that you
will be sure not to read any useful
book. If you read, let 1t be the dime
novels of the day. Thus go on keep
ing your stomach full, and your head
empty, and yourself playing time
killing games, and In a few years
you'll be nobody, unless, (as is quite
likely you should turn out drunk
ard or professional gambler, either
of which Is worse than q nobody
There are any number of young men
hanging about saloons, billiard rooms
and other rum shops just ready to
graduate and be nobodies.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10
Diamonds in Africa.

The Colesburg, Cape of Good Hope,
correspondent of the World writes I:
l have but just time to write you a
few lines about the diamond fields,
before the closing of the mail for
England. lam on my way there,
and at this place have formed a
company. We take an eight-mule
team and wagon, tent, large pump,
and set of sluices and sieves. The
diamonds are found 1000 yards from
the river bank (the VaaD, and the
banks are fifty feet high. The sur
rounding country is fiat, grassy, and
treeless. There Is no chance of get
ting water for sluicing by going up
the river and cutting a canal, as they
do in California, SO the next best plan
Is to rig pump on the banks OF the
river and lead the water to the sluice
boxes. have had my sluices made
wider than the gold sluice boxes of
California, and at the lower end have
u chest of drawers, the bottom of which
are different sized sleeves, thus assOrt-
ing the stones as they are washed,
according to their size, and making
it easier to pick out the diamonds
The only plan used now Is to
Is to cart the diamOndiferous earth to
the banks of the river, and there wash
1t by hand or through a long tom.
There is the greatest excitement in
the colonies of the Cape and Natal,
aud great rush is being made from
all parts to the diamond fields. Dia-
monds are coming in by the hund-
red. There are three hundred men in
the fields now.
Two governments and a native
chief claim the grounds-"The Trans
val Republic," the Free States" and
the Chief Yanki-but the miners
have made their own laws, and in
tend to keep the country themselves;
so the above governments are afraid
to try and enforce their demands of a
royalty on the diamonds found, and
the miners invite corners from all
parts Of the world. Provisions are
plenty and cheap, but mining-tools
of the right kind are scarce.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

SOME days ago, says the London
Echo, Marshal Bazaine had gathered
together at his dinner table at Metz
the members of his family, of whom
several are in the army. They were
waited upon by servant of remark
ably good appearance and manner
so good, indeed, that the Marshal's
wife was struck with 1t, and expressed
her astonishment when she left the
table. The Marshal at first laughed
at his wife's remarks, assuring her
that the servant was not grand sig
ncur in disguise, but ralet dc cham
bre. Nevertheless, the MarshaPs
wife insisted so strongly, that the
handsome-looking servant was arrest
ed. He turned out to be q Prussian
officer.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

SToNEwALLJACKsoN.- .-On the move
from Swift Run Gap, at the begin
ning of Jackson's celebrated valley
campaign, his army marched until
very late the first night, and through
a terrible rain. Aboutmidnight, Col
onel Baylor, Of the 9Th Virginia,
heard one of his men, Dutchman,
grumbling and swearing to an Irish
comrade. He wound up by saying :
81 wish all de Yankees vas in hell
emmy how"
"Well, / don't thin," said Paddy.
"Der tuyful you don't; and watts
der reZun? ?"
"Begorra, and wouldn't ould Jack
son be after having us up afore day
agin, wild three days rashins, pursu-
Ing iv'em ?"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

THE war talk has not produced a
better thing than the following which
we find In an exchange:
A pair of precious little damsels at
Troy, N. V, were overheard the other
night, on the sidewalk, exchanging
notes on the Franco-Prussian war.
~ know" said No. l, "that France
will beat, because the little Prince
Is with him." "Go away with YOU"
chimed In No. 3. al know mighty
sight better. The Dutch will whip;
for my pa Is n Frenchman and my
ma is Dutchman. They fight every
night, and ma always licks."
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

NEW YORK, September 2.-The
Sun says; We have just learned with
deep regret, that Chief Justice Chase
has for some time past been suffering
from "A paralytic stroke, which, with.
out entirely destroying the use OF bis
limbs, incapacitated him from walk
ing without help, and seriously affects
his mind. His recovery Is desired
rather than confidently expected. =
Indeed, II Is considered doubtful
whether he will again be able to re-
sumo thearduous labors of the bench.
The Chief Justice Is now ut the coun'
try seat Of Senator Sprague, his SON.
in-law, on Naragansett Bay. where
he has the hest Attendance the coun'
try can alurd.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Two GREAT QUESTIONS. s.-Finance
and taxation will pretty soon be the
absorbing question Of the day. The
East puts the screws to the West,
and the West howls accordingly.--
Now let the South buy more spar
ingly of the West, and the howl will
increase I'm volume until practically v
amounts to revolution. II the South
would feed herself for one year, a re-
construction and its attendant villa
MES would be as dead as Hector and
as damned us Judas.-Augustd, Ga,
LOusfifufiOuQfisf.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Ave months as two or three men
could pick out during the rest of the
year. With the advent of this ma
chine, all this will be changed. Here.
after, two men can easily pick out as
much in two or three months as fifty
or even :one hundsed men can pro-
duce during the cotton growing sea-
son. And, therefore, 1t is that we
may justly claim that Shirley, Ap-
perly & Pearce's teasle cotton-picker
will bring about, for the exclusive
benefit of Southern landowners, a
revolution In the dominions of "nap-
py king cotton" second only to that
wrought by the fortunate and now
world renowned Whitney when he
stumbled upon the ''saw-teeth cotton
gin." j. p. p.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Irrom the Army and Navy Journal

From the Army and Navy Journal
Two years ago distinguished
American soldier General McClel-
LAM called upon General Won Moltke
at the War Office in Berlin, where he
found the great Prussian strategist
poring over his maps of the Rhine
frontier. "If you will permit me,
General Won Moltke," said our friend,
~ should like TO ask an impertinent
question, which you must answer or
not, as you think best.n "Certainly,"
replied the General; task it.n Laying
his hand upon the open map with
significant gesture, he inquired "Are
you ready? ?" ayes" was the answer;
"only we can not in case of a war
with France hope for such good for
tune as attended Us in the campaign
against Austria, The great difficulty
Is that onr King can not Inc persuaded
to declare war and thus give u the
initiative
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

THE NEW ORLEANS TINES says
"rhe longest lived people in the
world appeared to he French gener-
erals. Think Of paraguay d'Hilliers
growing furious under his seventy
five yearsat not being sentto the front;
Changarnier at seventy-seven lam
menting, In published card, "bltter
sorrow" at not receiving a command;
and, lastly, the old Duke M0ntemart
Offering himself and the "stlrrups
wore at Jena In the first dragons. 4"
The patriotic faith OF such irascible
old gentlemenhas somethlng sublime
In il.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

MECHANICS. They are palace
builders Of the world not stick Is
hewn, not stone Is shaped In all the
lordly dwellings Of the rich, that
does not owe its beauty and fitness 10
the mechanic. The towering spires
that raise their giddy heads among
the clouds depend upon the mechan-
ic's art for their strength and sym
metry. Not an edifice for devotion,
or business or comfort but bears the
impression OF their hands.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

ONE of the most surprising things
about modern London Is the rapidity
OF its growth. Notwithstanding It's
already enormous size in 1910, not
fewer than 225,3 new houses have
been added to 1t since then, Turning
sixty nine new squares, and 1881
new streets, Of the total length Of !, :
$50 miles.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

A GOOD story IL told of clergy
man residing at Calais, Maine. In
the kindness of his heart the rever-
end gentleman invited a foot passen-
ger to get into his wagon and ride
The clerical gentleman asked his CON-
panion "ifhe was prepared to die"
where upon the latter leaped from
the wagon and fed to aplace of safe
ty, doubtless, considering the ques-
tion synonymous with "your money
or your life."
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

THE firm Of Proctor h Gamble, tht
well-known Soap, Candle and Lard
factors of Cincinnati, did business
last year of 50, 900, 0O0, an average o.
$500, 900 per month. Their business
this year Is comparatively IN amount
the same. Their labor roll amounts
to $1,000 per week, or 100000 pei
year.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

WOMAN-As the dew lies longest
and produces most fertility In the
shade, so woman, In the shade of do
mestic retirement, sheds around her
path richer and more permanent
blessings than man, who Is more ex-
posed to the glare and observation OF
public life.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

SAID Baptist to a Methodist, al
don't like your church government;
1t isn't simple enough. There Is two
much machinery about it," at Ia
true" replied the Methodist, tive
have more machinery than you; but
then you see It don't need near so
much water to run It,"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

JOHN II. ALEXANDER, the great
Illinois farmer, owns $4,000 acres OF
land, worth 81, 1886, 900, has $50, ,OOO
worth of implements, pays $76,S0ll
wages annually, and sold out last
year S493, 400 worth Of live stock, be-
sides grain, etc.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

"VAT you makes dare ?" inquired
u Dutchman, whose daughter was be-
Ing kissed by her sweetheart very
clamorously. 20, not much--7just
courting little, dats all.n "Oh
dats all, eh ? by dam l fought you va,
fighting"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

THERE are eight or nine pin facto-
ries In Rhode Island. One of these
turns out 5000, 900 pins per day, or 9,
l9l ,0OO,0O0 per year. If the Others
make an equal number, the annual
product of the article In that State is
10, us, 900, 900.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

AN elderly lady, who had insisted
on her minister praying for rain, had
her cabbages cut by hail-storm, and
on viewing the wreck, remarked that
she "never knew him to undertake
anything without OVERRIDING the mat
ter"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

BUsYBoDIEs.- Beware Of busybod-
les. A man who NEEDLES In other
peoples affairs Is sure to make mis-
chief. He generally NEEDLES To suit
himself and consequently puts differ
ent constructions on the same things
when said to different people, so that
the most innocent words get distorted
into applications which those. who
used them never intendcd they should
bear
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

Il NEVER shot bird in myllife,"
said gentleman to an Irishman, who
replied: III never shot any thing in
the shape of bird. but a squirrel, which
| killed with stone, and 1t fell into
the river and was drowned.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

CURE FOR BoTs.-One-half pint
whisky, one pint Of gun powder,
one-half pint Of molasses, and one
half pint soft soap, will cure the worst
case of bots. Another cure Is, ",s
strong tea made of Mullein.'
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

:" / say, neighbor Hodge, what are
You fencing up that pasture for?-
Forty acres of would starve cuw.,'
Right" replied Hodge "I'm fenc-
ing 1t up to keep the cows out.n
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

A YOUNG lady, who was rebuked
by her mother for kissing her intend.
ed, justified the act by qouting the
passage: "Whatever ye would that
men should do unto you, do ye even
SO to them"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

II WISH you would pay little at.
tention to what ! am saying" said
an irate lawyer to an exasperated
witness. "Well, am paying as lit.
tie as can.u
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

A YOUNG lady in Wisconsin made
her lover, during courting time, heIp
to sew together rags enough to make
sixty yards of carpet. The industri-
Gus couple were married last week.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

AN Albany papers says 1--WE
once saw woman laced SO tight
that, while STOPPING to pick up a pin,
her stays gave way, and she turned
three sOmersets I'm consequence
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10
The 81. Cecilia's Academy
ED. II. LEWIS.

VIII resume the Acalcntr Exercises on
the First Monday In September, 1870
This institution Is Situated about mile
nom Nashville, ON an elevation overlook
inH the city, and commanding view of a
hcnutinl lnntlscapc for many miles around,
The literary course IL thorough, ana the
tel1ns ns moderate rs those of amy nrt
class Academy In the South. The health
nllnesS OF the place Is not surpassed In any
locality, either North or South, not case
of sickness. such ~ Fever, having ever oc-
rurr,d In the school, Besides a chnlyheate
spring ON the academy grounds, There are
Whose medicinal properties are highly eS-
tolled. Address Superioress OF ~. secilias
Academy, Ma hyillc, Tenn,
Aug. ~, lS70-6w
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

CAPTAIN G. c. SPILLER, an old
Tennessee River steam mboatman, was
Knocked on the head with a billet by
runner for an opposition boat, at
Guntersville, and mortally injured.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-10

A PEDANT remarked to n farmer,
III can't bear a fool"
Your mother could" was the
reply.