Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-06
TENNESSEE NEWS.

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The colored people had "a successful
barbecue at Raleigh Springs on the
10Th.
The Methodists of Columbia have
bought lot and will build a parsonage
at once.
Rev. e. Esperandieu has just been.
elected professor of French in East
Tennessee University, says the Press
and Herald. ss = s4s
The trustees of East Tennessee
University Saturday passed resolutions
in respect to the memory of two de-
ceased members, David A. Deaderiek
and Thos. A. r. Nelson.
The States of Tennessee, Alabama
and Indiana have been awarded med
ais at Vienna for their minerals.
The Paris Intelligencer states that
Munroe Haynes wife, near Henry
Station, last week gave birth to trip
lets, one girl and two boys. All doing
well.
The Columbia Herald says: "One
of the most brilliant ladies in this OF
any other place is reading law. Ifshe
should take a notion to practice,
wouldn't she wheedle the juries p
The Memphis Appeal published
ninety columns Monday morning, and
forty columns Tuesday morning. 1t
proposes to publish forty columns
daily hereafter. Its net profit on Mon
day issue was over $1,000.
The Dover Record of Aug. 20 says:
Our corporation departed this life on
Wednesday of last week by general
resignation of Mayor and Board of
Aldermen the co-partnership was
dissolved by mutual consent, and we
are again adrift.
The Banner says that the plan of
the architect (Wm. C. Smith, of Nash
ville) for the building to be erected for
Vanderbilt University, has been sub
mitted to and approved by Mr.. Van
derbilt, and proposals are advertised
for.
The Memphis Register heartily in
dorses the following opinion of the
Jackson Wing and Tribcne I'VE
have read and reread the Ohio Demo
cratic platform, and if there is in
America single man, black or. white,
Democrat, Radical, Conservative or
what not, who can not stand upon it,
then we would like to see him"
The Union City Herald says: "We
have done nothing to take the life of
the Courier, but have attended strict
ly to the padding of our own dug-out,
and we have the credit to say that if
we were to break a paddle in the river
of life our dug-Out would not go round
and round like spotted sheep with
fit of blind staggers."
The Memphis Ledger reports that
Saturday forenoon Toney Wesler, a
stone mason at work on the Masonic
Temple had occasion to remove an
iron bar from under one of the heavy
masses of rock on the pavement. The
bar slipped and the rock fell over upon
him and pinned him to the ground.
When relieved by his fellow-wOrkmen,
it was found that his right leg, below
the knee, was terrible crushed, as was
also his left foot and ankle. 800
The Nashville Union and American
records the death Saturday morning,
in Marshall county, of Charles A.
Baird, for several years ook-keeper
of Gilbert, Parkes & Co., of Nash
vile, under the following extraordin-
airy circumstances Some months
ago, while fixing up a package of mon
ey to be expressed to the country, a
particle of burning sealing-wax fell
upon his left thumb nail, which, after
months of pain, necessitated amputa-
ton. This it was found did not check
the progress of the disease, and a Sec
ond amputation was performed, taking
it off at the second joint; but alas
for human hopes and skill. The can
GER extended up to the arm-pit and |
finally settled upon his lungs"
The venerable w. w. Gates, of the
Jackson Wing and Tribune, in retir-
ing from that paper makes a lengthy
of his new enterprise,
from which we extract the following
On the first Saturday of October
next | shall issue, in this city, the first
number of paper to be called the
Jackson Courier. Capt. w. r. Ham
BY, young gentleman we'll versed in
he newspaper business, will be inter-
,sted with me in this undertaking, and
will aid in the business; but [ shall
nave the guidance of the new journal
nits editorial course, without any re-
'triction. This control l did not real
y have over the journal from which I
AVE Just withdrawn, after the Wing
md Tribune offices were united; and
hence state, in justice to myself. that
ome of the views editorially express
ID in that journal did not meet my full
pprobation. This, however, is not
Intended as censure upon the Wing
md Tribune
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