Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-11-08
CLOSE OF THE VOLUME.
The Chronicle and Louisville Courier
Journal for 1895.
Life-size Pictures, painted and Framed
by McCormac, offered as Pre-
miums for Clubs.

The present number closes aDoth-
er volume of the CHRONICLE. In tax
ing a retrospective view we find that
under the name of CHRONICLE, our
paper has been in existence for at least
55 years. OF its early struggles, hopes
and fears, we know but little, as but
few of its first patrons and friends sur
vive from whom to obtain the desired
information. One of the present pro-
prietors began his apprenticeship in
this Office in 1843-the other in l849.
Thus it it will be seen that one has been
connected with it 30 years, the other
q years. Sixteen years ago the pre-
sent firm bought the Office and fixtures
from our present veteran editor, r. w.
Thomas, and we have from October,
1857, been furnishing the best paper
we could produce to its readers. Dur
ing its long and eventful career it has
encountered the opposition of various
Journals in our midst, but it has wealth
cred the storm, and has increased in
size from medium to double impe-
rial sheet, and we are vain enough to
believe that it has retained the
good will and confidence of its read
ers.
We earnestly desire to make our
paper more acceptable, in the future,
and would appeal to our friends to as
sist us to accomplish this desired re-
suit. We will still retain the services
of Mr.. r. W. Thomas, as the politi-
cal editor. As profound thinker,
earnest and decided in expression of
sentiment, fuency and grace of style,
he has no superior in the State. His
articles command and receive the ad-
miration of all whose good opinion
we covet. In every department we in
tend to strive TO improve, and to this
end We earnestly solicit the cO-opera-
ton of our friends At the urgent So
licitations of many, We offer the fol-
lowing inducements to all to work In
our behalf-while the offers we make
will not reduce the price of our paper
only to the extent Of commissions to
workers, but will be paying something
handsome TO all for their labors in
helping to extend our circulation and
consequent usefulness.
Our first proposition Is to furnish
our paper and the Louisville Weekly
Courier-Journal to advance paying
subscribers, for 1875. This PROPOSE
ton includes old subscribers who pay
all arrearages and then in advance for
twelve months from that date,
Remember if you club with the
CHRONICLE and COURIER-JOU
prior to Jan. l, 1874. you have chance
to draw one of the handsome premi-
ums offered by the COURIER.
By our arrangement with Mr.. Nc
Cormac, we are enabled to offer to any
one sending us ten names and twenty
dollars in money, either porcelain
picture, worth 800, or whole-sized
Rembrandt, $500.
To any one sending us forty names
and eighty dollars, we will give life
size picture-India Ink-wOrth 5 30. 90.
For fifty names and one hundred
dollars, we will furnish life-size pic
ture, painted in colors-worth 5000.
All of the above mentioned pictures
will be framed in elegant style and
furnished complete
This offer is open for all clubs gotten
up any time between now and the LIST
of January, 1873.
In order to get our subscription list
paid up in advance, we will give those
getting up clubs the privilege of send
ing the names of old subscribers when
such subscribers will pay all nrrearages
to date, and then pay two dollars in ad-
vance
We prefer this method of increasing
our subscription list to that of offering
a premium to every fifth, tenth, or
fiftieth subscriber, as we think each
subscriber gets the worth of his two
dollars in ffty-two numbers of the pa
per, and therefore we offer the premi-
ums not to the subscribers, leaving it
to chance who shall get it, but to those
who ,oork for us, and thus fairly earn
the remuneration we offer.