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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Governors of Tennessee.

William BlOunt was. appointed
Governor of the territory of the
United States south of the Ohio river
by President Washington in 1880; as
such he served until March %, 1896,
when the State government of Ten
nessee was organized.
John Sewer was elected first Gov
ernor of the State of Tennessee in
February, 1886, reelected 1877, and
again in 1893, serving nearly six
years.
Archibald Roane was elected in
August, 1901; served two years.
John Sewer was elected in August,
1903, 1905, and 1907; served six years.
Willie Blount was elected in Au-
gust, 1909, 1911 and 1913; served six
years.
Joseph McMinn was elected in Au-
gust, 1915, 1917 and 1919, serving six
years.
William Carroll was elected in Au-
gust, 1921, 1923 and 1925, serving six
years.
Sam Houston was elected in Au-
gust, 1927. He resigned in 1928, and
William Hall, as Speaker of the SEN
ate served out the term.
William Carroll was elected in Au-
gust, 1929, 1881 and 1888, serving six
years.
Newton Cannon was elected i'm Au-
gust, 1885, and 1887, serving four
years.
James K. Polk was elected in Au-
gust, 1889 and served two years.
James C.. Jones was elected in Au-
gust, 1871 and 1Si3, serving four years.
Aaron V. Brown was elected in
August, 1915, served two years.
Neil S Brown was elected in Au-
quit, lS47, served two years.
William Trousdale was elected in
August, lS49, served two years.
William b. Campbell was elected
i'm August, 1851, served two years.
Andrew Johnson was elected in
August, 1858 and 1850, serving four
years.
Ishman G. Harris was elected in
August, 1857, 1859, and 1861, serving
six years.
Robert l.. Caruthers was elected in
August, 1868, under Confederate au-
spices, but never qualified.
Andrew Johnson, under appoint
ment from President Lincoln, was
Military Governor from 1852 to 1865.
VIM. G.. Brownlow was elected in
February, 1865, and in August, 1867.
He resigned in 1869, and Dewitt G.
Senter, as Speaker of the Senate,
served out his term.
Dewitt G.. Senter was elected in
August, 1869, for two years.
John G. Brown was elected in 1871
and is now in his last term, to which
he has been reelected for two years
more.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
The Presidents Louisiana Message

1t is all very well for the President
- say, as he does in his Message, that
he is extremely anxious to avoid any
appearance of undue interference in
State affairs; but words amount to
nothing when the action is so different.
The greatest tyrants often talk loudly
of liberty while they are destroying it
insiduously Nothing was better es-
tablished or more sacred in our sys-
TEN of government, up to the time of
the war, when the Republican party
came into power, than the non-inter-
ference with State affairs by the Fed
eral Government. The very basis of
American freedom was local self-gov-
ernment through the municipalities
and States. In fact, the germ of our
liberty was found in the municipal
governments of England, though it
grew and became much enlarged on
the congenial soil of America. Un-
fortunately time deserving politicians
and tyro Presidents have lost sight kf
that, and are going as fast as possible
to centralized despotism. The En-
foreemeut Act referred to, in the hands
of narrow minded or sham statesmen,
goes far to destroy the foundation of
American liberty. Ifa Federal Judge
on any pretext, from ignorance or to
serve partisan poleical purposes, can
set aside an election in Louisiana,
why not in New York or Massachu-
sets? The pretense of carrying out
the Enforcement Act of Congress
could be used in one State as we'll as
another. Only think how monstrous
it is that one man can convert the
machinery of government, defeat the
will of the people and throw a State
into anarchy? Have our liberties no
better foundation than the caprice or
partisan prejudice of one Federal Off
Ger?
There appears to be Pandora box
of troublein this enforcement Act.
The time might come when an aspir-
ing tyrant could use it as a pretext to
place large portion of the county un-
der military authority. 1t is easy to
say there has not been fair election
and that certain citizens have been
coerced to vote or restrained from vo-
ting, and then to find some flexible,
corrupt or partisan Judge to issue his
process and cause the necessity for
military interference, We have had
that on small scale in Louisiana, and
we may have it on larger one What
would follow? In all probability the
def auded and injured citizens would
revolt against such despotism, and an
archy and civil war and military rule
be the result. Judge Durell, the
other Federal office-holders of New
Orleans, the President and partisan
Congress are treading upon dangerous
grounds.-Neo York Herald
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
He Knew Him Like a Book

This story comes from Bangor, Me-:
Near Bangor, in little village, there
dwelt, many yeaY gone by, lay
member, who kept week days coun-
try store, and on Sunday he would
preach or exhOrt around among the
neighboring towns, where he could
find a vacant pulpit.
He was man of Timber tongue,
and could sell Yankee notions and
preach the Gospel very handy.
1t was his way to load up a wagon
and peddle all through the country,
leaving his store in the charge of his
wife during his absence.
Finding himself, late in the week,
upon q certain time, too far from
home to get back, and having sold
his load, which at that time consis-
ted of dried apples, which, by the
way, were little wormy, he gave
notice that he would preach the next
day, which was Sunday, to the peo-
pie.
Many gathered to hear him. His
text was: "And by theii fruits ye
shall know them" He handled this
subject in his usual gallant manner,
and, closing up his sermon with a
glittering paragraph, he repeated,
the text. "Yes my friends, and by
their fruits we shall know them"
Just at this point up jumped a re-
tail grocer in the place, who had
dealt with the exhorter the night be-
fore, and said, loud enoneh to be
heard if the church had been twice as
large: eyes, friends, and by the
worms-in their dried apples, too"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no
attention to slanderers and gossip
mongers. Keep straight on in your
course, and let their back-biting die
the death of neglect. What is the
use lying awake nights, brooding
over the remark of some false friend,
that runs through your brain like
lightning? What's the use getting
into a worry and fret oyergossip that
has been afloat to your disadvantage,
by some meddlesome busy-body, who
has more time than character ? These
things can't possibly injure you, I'M
less, indeed, you do take notice of
them, and in combating them, give
them standing and character If
what is said about you is true, set
yourself right; if it is false, let it go
for what it will fetch. Ifa bee stings
you, would you go the hive and des-
troy it? Would not a thousand come
upon you? It is wisdom to say lit
tie respecting the injuries you have
received. We are generally the losers,
if we stop to refute all the back
billings and gossipping we may hear
by the way. They are annoying, it
is true, but notdangerous so olOngas we
do not stop to expostulate and scOld.
Our characters are formed and sus-
tanned by ourselves, by our own ac-
tiOns and purposes, and not by Others.
Let US always bear in mind that seal
umniators may usually be trusted to
time, and the slow but steady justice
of public opinion
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
GRANDMoTHER's GARDEN.
BY CELESTE.

Ny grandmother's old-fashioned garden
All! never again shall see
A spot of such exquisite beauty
And wonder0us enchautment to me
For there, in my earliest childhood
swhiled away long summer hours.
And gazed on its treasures with rapture,
Or filled my young hands with flowers.
The trees in the orchard-long branches
Iseached o'er the mossy stone wall
That mid the soft border of grasses
Their first golden apples might fall.
Those prim garden beds, TO my vision,
Seemed crowned with each ioveljest hue
Ard passers-by, young and old, fingered
The beautiful garden to view.
The crocrs first whispered of beauty
safe hidden beneath the spring SHOWS;
And hyacinths, fragrant and lovely,
Next woke from their winters repose
From then till the cold winds of autum1.
so ruthless, chilled summer away
That spot was my fairy land gorgeous,
And each charming flower was Fay!
The lilac boughs trembled with sweetness.
Those mornings so dewy and bright;
The woodbine flowers bloomed on the lat
And humming-birds sought them at
The snowballs grew high in the corner.
And lilies so stately and tall,
Near daffodils, tulips, and roses:
And robins song fioated Ger all.
Oh, many the flowers in that gardeni
Their names are all dear now to me.
S,yeet-Williams Hove, for they grew there,
A charm has the gay Jfeur-de-iis;
For memories linger around them,
Each one to my heart hat h a tone
o violets, sweetest and dearest,
loved you, and called you my own!
sat in the vine-covered arbor
When clusters of purple peeped through,
Near by rushed the musical river,
And verdue-clad hills rose TO view.
All then. in my grandmother's garden,
knew naught of sorrow or tears,
And life was as sweet as the roses
That bloomed in those earlier years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

Now AND THEN.-The Golden Age
recalls the time when, while discuss
ing the reconstruction measure, Fer
nando Wood stigmatized Congress
as an infamous body and was re-
primandsd by the then Speaker,
Schuyler Colfsx, and goes on to say
A few days ago Fernando Wood
having waited long for bis revenge
rose IN his place In the same chamber
and offered resolution of impeach-
ment against the same Schuyler Col
fax, and the motion came within four
votes of carrying representative
body, three-fourth of whose members
were Woods political opponents and
Colfax's political friends. Woods Of
Tense had been an indiseretiOn of the
lips, hasty and heated phrase, an
explosive bomb fired in the energy of
debate. Colfax's crime was was in
cold blood, consisting of series of
falsehoods, steadfastly made under
oath, and ending in perjury, infamous
and four-foId.
How true it is that " times change
and men with them.r
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

"A German paper contains a reply
from clergyman who was travelling,
and who stopped at hotel much fire.
quented by what are termed drum
mers." The host, not being used to
have clergymen at his table, looked at
him with surprise; the clerks used all
their artillery of wit upon him, with
out eliciting remark in self-defense.
The worthy clergyman ate his dinner
quietly, apparently without observing
the gibes and sneers of his neighbors.
One of them at last, in despair at his
forbearanee, said to him:
Well, / wonder at your patience
Have you not heard all that has been
said against you?"
"Oh, yes, but | am used to it. Do
you not know who l amp"
No, sir"
We'll, l will inform you. / am
chaplain of lunatic asylum; such re-
marks have no effect upon me-"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

and held an unlawful selling within
! the provisions of this act
SEC TO- Belt further enacted, That
the penalties mentioned in the Sth see
tion of this act may be enforced by in
dictment in any Court of Record hav-
ing criminal jurisdiction; and all pc
cuniary fines or penalties provided for
In any of the sections of this act, may
also be enforced and prosecuted for,
before any Justice of the Peace of the
proper county. in an action of debt in
the mime of the State of Tennessee as
plaintiff, and. in case of conviction, the
offender shall stand committed to the
common Jail until the judgments and
costs are fully paid or secured.
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted, That
the selling of any quantity less than
one gallon will be violation of this
act, and this shall apply to all drug
gists, except for medical or sacra-
mental purposes, and they shall notsell
for medical purposes, except upon the
certificate of a practicIng physician,
that is essential to the health of the
pSiSch uSoiiiH iHS " puiShdcC, VI oOluc
one of his family. And the selling of
all bitters and nostrums which may be
used to intoxication as beverage, shall
be considered violation of this act.
Sec. II. be it further enacted, That
this act shall not affect such persons
as shall have unexpired licenses at the
date of its approval. nor shall it in any
wise affect an act entitled, AN act to
protect and encourage manufactures.
passed December IA, 1871, nor shall it
be submitted as herein provided to the
vote of those persons residing within
the limits of said act of December IA,
1871. All other acts In conflict with
this act are hereby repealed
SEC. Ii. Be it further enacted, That
from and after the passage of this act,
no new license shall be issued nor ex-
isting license be renewed, to run longer
than the first Saturday of June, 1873
Sec. ii. Be it further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
the first Saturday in June, 1873, the
public welfare requiring it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
A Chimney That win Not Smoke.

The Scientific American gives the
following hints te those who would
"bulid chimney which will not
smoke" The chief point is to make
the throat not less than four inches
broad and twelve inches long; then
the chimney should be abruptly en-
larged tc double the size, and so con-
tinue for one foot or more then it
may be gradually taPered off as desir-
ed. But the inside of the chimney,
throughout its whole length to the
top, should be plastered very smooth
with good mortar, which viii harden
with age. The area of the chimney
should be at least halt a square foot,
and no fiues less than sixty square
inches. The best shape for CHM
ney is circular, or many-sided, as CIV
ing less friction brick is the best ma
terial, as it is non-conductor,) and
the higher above the roof the better.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

To YOUNG MEN.-How, after the
duties of the day are over, do you
employ your evenings? This is a
question ofimportance. If you have
no regular employment, no fixed
pursuits to eEgross your attention
and operate as a stimulus to the
mind when unemployed, you must,
of necessity, have many leisure and
unoccupied hours-intervals when
time will hang hkavily on your
hands, and suggest the necessity of
some means to relieve it ofits weight.
The very time which is dissipated in
idleness would, If devoted to study,
enable many a young man to obtain
eminence and distinction in some
useful art.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

Look UPwARD.-Hope on, frail
mortal! What though thy path be
rugged and strewn with thorns p
Thou hast only to persevere, and thy
reward awaits thee. Many days and
nights, perhaps years, hast thou
struggled with adversely. What
though thou art poor, despised by
those, it may be, who are thy interiors
in all save wealth? ? What matters
it, that thy short life is exposed to
the rude blasts of adverse fortune, il
at last thou art crowned with inn
mortality, which those who rudely
push thee from them think not off,
Hope on, then, in thy poverty (; as
pire to be great by being truly good.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Sixth Division of the Chancery Court.

The Chancery Court for this, the Sixth
Division, Hon. c. q. SMITH. presiding, is
held at the following times and places:
HARTsvILLE, Trousdale county, lst Mon
days of February and August.
8 GAINESVILLE. Montgomery county, 4th
Mondays of April and LIST Mondays of No
vember
GALLATIN, Sumner county, lst Monday of
June and 4th Monday of December.
LEBANON, Wilson county, End Monday
of April and End Monday of October.
SPRISGFIELD, Robertson county, 18th
Monday March and 3rd Monday inSeptem-
ber.
DOVER. Stewart county, End Monday in
February and 4th Monday in October.
ASHLAND CITY, Cheatham county. 3rd
Monday in January and End Monday in
August.
day in February and 4th Monday in August.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

TRUE PoLITENEss.-H who has q
heart glowing with kindness and
good will towards his fellow-men,
and who is guided in the exercise of
those feelings by good common sense,
is the truly polite man. Politeness
does not consist in wearing q white
silk glove, and gracefully lifting your
hat AS you meet an acquaintance; it
does n OF consist in artificial smiles
and fiattering speech, but in silence
and honest desires to promote the
happiness of those around you; in
the readiness to sacrifice your own
ease and comfort to add to the enjoy
ment of others.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

The Chemist and Druggist contains
the story OF a sea captain to whom a
sailor applied for reIieffor something
on his stomach" The captain con-
suited his book Of directions, and pre-
scribed mo. 15.p Unfortunately,
however, there had been a run on No.
ID, and the bottle was empty. But the
skipper made up dose by combining
No. Sand No. Z, saying, g and z are
15;" and the sailor, to whom the cal
culation seemed quite natural, took
the mixture with startling effect.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

IN the Tyrolean mountains it is
the custom of the women and child
rem to come out when it is bedtime,
and sing their national songs until
their husbands and brothers answer
them from the hill, or on their return
home. On the shores oftbe Adriatic
such custom prevails. There the
wives of the fishermen come down
about sunset and sing melody. Af-
tersinging the first stanZa, they listen
awhile for the answering strain from
off the water, and listen till the well
known voices come borne on the
tide, telling that the loved are almost
home.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

AS a man on bridge waiting for
his friend plucks a handful of weeds
and flowers, and in the caprice of inn
patience, drops another and another
in the flood beHeath without discrim =
ination and without respect to the
beautiful above the mean, to the bud
ding sprig more than to the decaying
stalk, intent only to mark how they
are borne away by the current; so is
the dispensation of death over ths
children of men.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Railroad Earnings.

The gross earnings Of the leading
railroads in February amounted to =
total of s., 1910, q net increase OF
Sl6O, ,S99, or about five per cent. as
compared with the same time in 1872.
The severe weather of last month
was unfavorable to the operations
of the railroads, especially in the
West. The earnings of the leading
roads for the past two months foot up
S25, I03, Isl, against $15,2l1, ,374 in
1876. The earnings of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern RoaGs
in February Were 81, 1861, 1858. The
above figures do not include the busi-
ness of the Union Pacific and Central
roads.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

A Acouple Of Yanke girls put bull
frog in a hired mans bed to see il
they could not get him to talk
Daniel threw the frog out Of the win
dow and never said a word. Soon
after he put half bushel of chestnut
burs in the girls bed; and about the
time he thought they would make the
least shadow, Daniel went to the
door and ratified it furiously. Out
went the candle, and in went the
girls, but theydidn't stick, though
the burs did.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Tenth Judicial Circuit.

The Circuit Court of this, the 10th Judi
cial Circuit, Hon. j. E. RICE presiding, are
held at the following times and places:
: CLARKsvILLE. Montgomery county, on
Ist Mondays in January, May and Septem-
ber. c. ID. Bailey, clerk.
SPRINGFIELD, Robertson county, the LIST
Mondaysi in February, June and October
John Y. Hutchings, clerk.
ASHLAND CITY. Cheatham county, the
3rd Mondays in February, June and Octo-
ber. w. b. Nichols, clerk.
CHARLOTTE. Dickson county. the 3rd
Mondays in March. July and November
J. A. DOdson, clerk.
WAvERLY, Humphreys county, the 4th
Mondays in March, July and November.
H. NJ. Little, clerk.
DOVER, Stewart county, 2nd Mondays in
April, August and December. W. j. Hag-
ler clerk.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

TIC PREVENT FELoNs HEADING,
Take black pepper in the kernel
and pulverize well; then soak the
pepper with spirits Of turpentine and
apply to the felon as a poultice. IL
this remedy is used when the felon
first makes its appearances, IL is q
certain cure In few applications.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Officers of Fire Department for 1878

DELUGE FIRE Co. No. 1.-John Young,
Captain; T. H. Hyman, Lieutenant; John
NJ. Cross, Engineer; Kos. Ligon, Asst Eng. :;
w. A. Jarrei, 2nd Asst Eng; Walter Me-
Comb, Hose Director; L. Glover, Asst II ose
Director; G. g. Perkins, Pipeman; ]. r.
Stephens. lst Asst Pipernan; W. NJ. Orgain,
End Asst Pipeman; J. q. Joseph, Sec'y; H.
Frech, Treasurer.
Hook AND LADDER Co.-John L. Duff,
Captain; F. @. Williams, Ladder Director;
s. b. Fuqua, Asst Ladder Director; II. W.
Beaumont, Hook Director; 10. c. Mattill,
Bucket Director; w. A. Settle, PIest; John
$. Neblett, Vice Pres't; j. H. McPhail, Re-
cording Sec'y; II. Davidson, Financial
Sec'y; ]. NJ. mouse, Treasurer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

The total shipments of German
goods to American ports last year
amounted in value to S337 900, 600, while
the exports from Paris alone to this
country exceeded s3S, 200, 900, with a
total of $50, 100000 from the whole of
Erante.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

The total tonnage of the United
States vessels entering and clearing
from the ports of Great Britain and
Ireland was S46. $50 last year, and in
the same time three times that amount
of Canadian bottoms,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

An old subscriber writes that they
have fire-fiies so large in his neighbor-
hood that they use them to cook by.
They hang the kettle on their hind
legs, which are bent for the purpose
like pot-hooks.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Masonic.

Clarksville Lodge, No. SO, meets first
Thursday night in every month.
ClarKsville Chapter meets first Thursday
after first Monday.
Clarksville Council, No. 8, meets second
Thursday.
The Commandery meets fourth Monday.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Montgomery County Criminal Court

will Oe held on 4th Mondays of January
and April, and 2nd Monday of November.
by Judge T. w. King; +. o. Anderson, At
torney General.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
Good Templars.

Clarksville Lodge, No. 123, meets every
Tuesday night.
Eureka Temple meets second and fourth
Thursdays of each month.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

Everybody loves the virtuous,
whereas the vicious do scarcely love
one another Upon the same sub
ject an Arabian happily observed
that he learned virtue from the bad,
for their wickedness inspired him
with q distaste of vice.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
I. q. q. +,

At meeting of Pythagoras Lodge No. %,
Dec. 80, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year.
Q. c. Atkinson, N. g.; b. II. Owen, V. G.;
NJ. C. Northington, r. s.; James TAFT, Tr.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29

The following fine reflection is to
be found in the life Of Lord Herbert,
of Cherbourg
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-29
j. O. O. II

YOUNG ENCAMPMENT No. SO, meet
FIRST and THIRD THURSDAY Y in
each month.
PYTHAGoRAs LODGE No. %, meet
MONDAY EVENING of each week.