Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-02-01
KENTUCKY ITEMS.
The epizootic still fingers in Mercer

The wretched weather has greatl
affected the Fayette hemp crop.
The rolling mill in Paducah has bee
stopped some time for want of coal.
DIR. Crane, who was here about tw
weeks ago, leetured in Russellville las
Thursday night.
Paducah is soon to have Republi
can weekly paper. 1t should be pub
lished in some African dialect.
1t is said that out of sixteen hun
dred negroes assessed for taxation il
Paris only twenty have paid their taxes
Hon. Willis B. Machen was elected
on Tuesday of last week, United State
Senator from Kentucky, to FIJI the un
expired term Of the late Hon. Garret
Davis.
Hon. Thomas B. Cochran, Judge o.
the Louisville Chancery Court, dice
suddenly in Louisville on Tuesday Of
last week.
Henderson congratulates herself up
on paying better prices for tobacco
than can be obtained in Louisville
They are both far behind GAINESVILLE
in that respect.
The small pox has nearly disappear
ed from Paducah and that village
wants to quarantine people from the
great cities of Cairo, Evansville and
Opossum Town.
Since the 1st day of August last up
to the present time 9,2OO gallons of ap-
pie brandy was distilled in the counties
of Boyle and Lincoln, and the tax
thereon, at 20 cents per gallon amount
ed to the sum of S6,440.
The game laws of Kentucky allow
game to be killed in that State as fol-
lows: Quail, partridge or pheasant,
from October l, to March l; wild
geese and ducks from September l to
May !; woodcock, june l to January
1 female deer from Aug. l to March l.
We learn from the Richmond Reg
lister that, Notwithstanding the town.
ordinance of Harrodsburg to keep peo-
pie away from that place who came
flom towns where the smallpox was
known to be, and in spite of all the
precautions to prevent the disease
reachiugits citizens, several cases have
in the town and more are ex-
pected.
A Casey county correspondent writes
to the Danville Advocate that Samuel
accidentally shot and
his sister Sallie on last Sat
urday evening. He was sitting in the
family room, with shot gun lying hor-
across his lap, which he sup
posed was not loaded, the cap having
been removed, when it discharged it
self. The whole contents of the bar
rel passed through the muscular part
of her thigh tits very bad-looking
wound, though it is not considered
'atal.
The Lexington Press of the 9th
'ays: "Mr. Thomas Clay, grandson of
Harry of the West was married at
he residence of the brides father yes
erday at II NJ, by Rev. J. S. Shipman,
o Miss Annie, youngest daughter of
,ur highly esteemed fellow-citizen,
Benjamin Gratz, Esq. The happy
couple too the afternoon train en- route
or Elizabethtown, where Mr.. Clay will
,ngage in business. Lexington society
has lost one Of its most brilliant orna-
nents. Miss Gratz was widely noted,
,otonly for her her remarkable beauty,
,ut for the very superior charms of |
Ter quick and highly cultivated mind,
or her warm and generous heart, and |
or the irresistible grace and attrac-
ions of her manner. Her place will |
lot soon be filled"
Kentucky has two lunatic asylums
nd now wants third. This shows
bat in that State the sane people are
D majority, and wish to have the lu-
latics confined and properly provided |
or. In other States, where the insane
re in the majority, one or two asylums
re considered sufficient to hold all |
hat are in their right mind, while the
razy portion ofthe people amuse them
elves with increasing the public debt,
evising impracticable systems of pop
liar education, retarding general i'm
and voting for Andrew
Johnson and the Independents. In
roof of this assertion, it may be stated
hat the public debt of Kentucky is
ess than a million dollars the public
ebt of Tennessee is more than twenty
billions.