Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-12-09

The great Nashville eaton factory
In " won.
ANorssER all Of snow enveloped
Memphis last Saturday night, and
sleigh-riding was the order OF the
day yesterday. rr,es~-rsurr.ss ss.z
James G. J.-Nilliams has received
the appointment VI Attorney Gener-
al Knox county under the act recent
~ passed creating such an Office.
Cotton to the amount of 0, 149 bales
was shipped north over the Louis
willie and Nashville Railroad, last
month, against ~, 127 bales during the
same month last year.
The Memphis Appeal says 1t is adj
vised that the Finance Committee Of
the State Senate twill propose to re-
duce the rate of taxation to fifteen
cents on the hundred dollars.n
The GallatIn Examiner says that
large droves Of hogs and cattle con-
tinue to be brought through that town
daily, on their way to tile slaughter
houses of Louisville, Nashville and
elsewhere. saff.
The Banner says: Large shipments
Of hogs are now being made over the
various lines centering in Nashville.
Twenty car loads per day are trans
ported over the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad.
The Nashville Banner says: The
new bridge on the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad, 'ovcr the
tennessee River, IL making rapid pro-
gress. When completed, it will be
the best bridge on the road.
A Mrs. Williams OF Knoxville,
Tenn, communicated with An in
FAINT child In her arms one night last
week. She fell In a cistern while
asleep aud on being rescued was her
self dangerously injured and her child
killed.
We learn from persons who arrived
here from Spring Hill last evening
that j. l.. McKissack, who, during an
insane fit, attempted to kill his
mother aud sisters, Is still in a critical
condition. Neither he nor his moth
err are expected to recover.
A Mrs. Farley, of White county,
Tenn, fell into the fire while under
the influence of fit one day last
week, and was burned to death, the
fire communicating by her clothes to
her baby's crib, near by, also burn
ing the child to crisp.
The Memphis Press has the follow
ing: ut Is said that Tom Scott hav-
ing failed to make terms with Stan
ton for the Alabama Road, has his
eye on another route to the Mississippi,
which has caused quite fiutter on
Madison street, and certain railroad
stocks are looking up, or rather have
been retired from the markets.
Memphis was never so full ofthieves,
swindlers and confidence men as at
the present time. These chaps fire.
quent hotels and drinking saloons for
the purpose ofenticing the unsuspect-
ing into quiet game OF cards, and,
of course, fleece their victims. Our
police should drive the vandals from
our midst.
Mr.. Hugh Lastly of Benton county,
was robbed on the train as he sup
posed ut Humboldt, two or three days
since. His pocket. book containing
$3.50 in currency, was in his panta-
loon pocket. Some expert in the
business cut open the pocket and all
stracted the book with its contents.
The Greenville TENN Sentinel
has been shown All old relic, being the
muster and pay roll Of Captain
Thomas Gurley's company, In the
ninth Pennsylvania regiment, com
manded by Colonel George Nagle, in
the Revolutionary war, In the year
l777. The pay of q captain then was
fifteen dollars per month, and a pri-
vate soldier two dollars and fifteen
cents per month.