Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-04-01
WHOLE NO. 1854.
n 4 VS. CLEANING

The wheat and fruit prospect In
lower Fast Tennessee was never bet
ter at this season.
Gatewood, well known In Tennes-
see as q guerrilla during the war, was
recently killed in an ariray at Waco,
Texas.
The county of Maury was named
in honor of Colonel Abraham Maury,
of Williamson County, and was or
ganized on Monday, December p,
1907, under an act of the General AS
sembly Of the State, passed at Knox
vile on the 9th of November 1907.
There Is a negro man, Familiarity
called "old Randall" living on Brad
shaw Greek, Giles county, who is los
years oil d. He has recently walked
from his home to Pulaski, u distance
of ten miles.
Geo. Roberts, a negro, was arrested
some time since in Memphis, for
sleeping out. He told the Judge a
long story, and said that five months
ago he LETT Natcliez, Miss, to 60 10
New York, on a steamer. He was
badly treated, left the steamer, and
having no money, he walked to Phil
adelphia, thence To Baltimore, then
to NOrinik, ami thence to Bristol,
Tenn :, sleeping out at night, and eat
ing what lie could beg OF peo-
pie along the road. The Recorder
discharged the negro, and he went
on a boat to work his passage to
Natchez.
Col. A. II. Wynne, of Castalian,
Springs, has sent us u sample of to-
bacc0 raised by Mr.. John Gardner on
his new home In Montgomery
ty. We have shown the sample to
several good judges of the article, and
they pronounce 1t extra fine. For the
benefit of our planters we would like
to know the price 1t brings in Clarks-
vile or Louisville Huntsville Ndotte.
The population of Haywood county
Is reported to he 25,0l5, and the num-
her of farms 652.
California is expected to produce a
very heavy wheat crop this year, the
breadth of land sown being fully
twenty-five per cent more than last
year.
A pet goat, belonging to al Irish
man In Macon, Ga, eat up seventy
dollars in greenback, which he found
in an open trunk in his masters
room. The Irishman gave the goat a
Sound beating and dOsed him with
castor oil, but didn't get his money.
The Lexington Gazette, not to be
outdone, tells of Stephen Morris, of
thrt tnNIn "a nNtnrat ,tftz.., ~ 10
summers, who is still vigorous and
hearty. He was born in Loudon
county, Virginia, in 1863, and came
to this State in the early part of this
century.
THEY have u steam shovel OH the
Mississippi Central Railroad which
takes from the solid bank of earth
and loads IA train of eighteen dump
cars i'm thirty-nine minutes, carrying
out about seventy-five cubic yards of
dirt.
The two oldest ladicsin Allen coun
ty reside In Sc0ttsville. One of them,
Widow Bailey, is now no years OF
age, and the other, Mother Grigt =, Is
about 100 years old. They are very
pious old ladies, and are noted for
their good works within the pale OF
tne baptist anu Methodist churches,
WIN which they are respectively on
nected. So vOuches a correspondent
of the Bowling Green Democrat.
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"John Bowssum the heaviest man
in the State of PENNSYLVANIA, is dead.
He weighed 494 pounds.n
"A Washington special says that
there are 2 defaulting Internal Rev
the total amount nf whose injahtaJ'
na.u fnoto mn ovor twanty ,niIIi,ns
siy-tweniietbs nf which T. iua ron,
tom individnaIs
TIE Executive orders to our naval
commanders to open war upou the
Haytien republic, i'm certain cases.
has created "A breeze i'm Washington
1t is rumored that Mr.. Merton viii
shortly leave the Senate, and, per.
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THE Brownville States prints n
communication from John w. Med.