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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-18
Saturday, Jan. Is. 1873.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUA-
pIE EApaT


JAS w. Smith ct ais. VS.. Catherine Hester
ei ais.
In obedience to an order of the County
Court of Montgomery county, made at the
August Term, 1872, will offer for saleto the
highest bidder, on the premises, on
Saturday, Jan. Is, 1873,
tract of land lying in district No. 4 of
said county. bounded by the lands of n.
Hester, Jr., Jas. Fletcher, Jas. II. Wall and
Merritt & Gold, containing Do acres, more
or less, 100 acres cleared and the balance is
in timber. The same will be sold as a
whole or divided into two or more tracts
to suit purchasers. A plat of same will be
exhibited on the day of sale. The saidland
belongs to the estate of Nathan Hester, ST.,
deed, and is sold for division among the
heirs.
TERMS: A credit of IL. is and "a months.
Notes with good security required and a
lien retained to secure the purchase money
PETER ONEAL. C'k & Com'r.
Jan. 4, '7S-2w-pr fee adv & bills So 50.
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ARIZNNA CLIMATE.

The January Overland Monthly contains
an article from DR.. J. P. Widney in which
he says: "Fort Yuma has for days at a
time temperature of 12O degrees, rising
sometimes to $50 degrees" When accom-
panying troops from Wilmington, Calfor-
MIA, to Northern Arizona in the spring Of
1867, the Doctor saw two men sun struck
on the 10th of March in travelling the dis
lance of only seven miles across the upper
end of the desert. This desert is estima-
ted 10 cover an area Of $500 square miles,
and is known to be $50 feet below sea-level.
1t is probably the lowest ground in the
United States, and explains the high tenn
perature of the district, and to some extent,
its aridity. 1t reminds one of the Dead
Sea aud Plains of Sodom in Palestine.
Lake Tiberiss, from which the
river Jordan flows, is 336 feet
below the level of the Mediterranean. This
stream falls 9S4 feet in running few miles
down to the Sea of SOdom so that the
Dead Sea is thirteen hundred and twenty
feet lower than the Mediterranean. While
there are hills of salt near the plains, there
are also some fresh water streams for irri-
CATION. Wheat-felds on the plains, watered
from the fertilizing streams, gave the Sodom-
stes 100 bushels of grain for one of seed, as
Isaac raised, and made them probably under
the great weseht of peculiar atmosphere,
both fat and w;ck,Nd In wonderful degree.
Arizona climate calls Cor similar irr CATION
to cover its hot, sterile Pa ans Win ir'l''
ful vegetation. Its peculiar Ca nStic con-
ditions might develop people as >us'lhc'
and peculiar as the ancient Hebrews, Ii
modern Americans could stay in one place
long enough to crystalline its local infuen-
cas-. But when three -fourths of the Yam
KEGS leave New England to settle in very
different climates in the West and South,
ard their places are filed by Irish, Dutch,
Scotch and other Europeans, what becomes
of the Mayfower PuIitanism? 1t goes out
like negro slavery fastened on the old, thir-
teen British colonies. No Americans will
be SO deep below the sea level, nor SO high
on mou utains, that railway locomotion will
not mix them often together, and finally
give existence to one homogeneous people
on this continent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19

The London Mark Lane Express OF the
ID instant gives the following summary OF
the appearances of crops at that date,
"The wheat, where it was got in eariy on
well cultivated farms, is looking healthy
and well, but there is a considerable breadth
which wss put in badly, late in the autumn
and early in the spring, now losing color,
thin in plant and very backward, and can
not, in our opinion, yield at all well at har-
vest. All the spring corn cropping wss
much retarded by the continual wet weS-
ther; large breadth has suffered much from
drouth. cold nights ano wireworm; conse-
quently, the crop will be light. There are
some good pieces of clover, but this cannot
he ANYTHING like an average crop; the grass
will be light, the growth being much check
ed by the cold nights. Cherries will be
Partial crop; apples fair; gooseberries and
currants very much cut by the frost the
10th.
Reports from France, Germany and Other
nations in Europe are not on the whole faV
orable. In this country there has beer
considerable complaint of an excess otraln
particularly in the Southern Atlantic and
Gulf States. Cotton is likely TO be much
below an average crop.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19
THE DEMON OF DIVORCE.

The demoraliziog possibilities of di7ofce
laws are sadly illustrated in the extraordin-
airy story that the telegraph this morning
brings from Albany, n. Y. A married
man finds his new affiuity in young lady,
and proceeds to court her and secure her
affections before procuring d vorce from the
mother of his chill ren. He wishes to be
well on with the new love, before being OIL
with the old. He appreciates the conve-
nience of having wife around the house,
and wants TO make sure Of his future in
tended before appealing to the courts for
release from his existing marital Obligations.
The denouement is double suicide. The
deceived young lady, on hearing of the
divorce suit, poisons herself, and her guilty
lover follows her. Plainly our divorce laws
are altogether too loose, either in the enact
ment, or in the practical execution given
them by the courts. 1t is time for the
press TO cease its idle persifage on the sub
jecL and urge in earnest the inauguration o.
| REFORM
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THE PACIFIC RAILROAD GRAB
BERS

The Washington correspondent Vi 'ne
New York Tribune states that something
entirely new in the TRANSACTIONS between
the Pacific railroads, or at least one OF then'
and the Government was called out 81 tne
Treasury Department last week. About
three wears ago several clerks were sent 70
New Mexico in charge Of considerable
amount of money. At L .wrence, Kansas
however, they desired TO hire special CAR
and arranged for one at $50, in addition 10
the regular fare, to take them as far as KIT
Carson. After the agreement had been
made, the officers of the railroad company
ascertained that the car was for the use of
the Government, when the price was imme-
dately doubled and the reason assigned
that since the Government retained half of
all the amounts it charged for transporta-
ton, the Company was right in charging
double the usual rate in order to hold its
own. This is the only case yet ascertained
of this character, and was brought to light
by accident. There is some curiosity in
various quarters to ascertain if such a course
has been one regularly followed by the Pa
clic Railroad companies to defraud tho
Government of even the pittsuce arising
from retaining half the transportation
charges.
The interest paid by the United States to
Jan. /, 1873, on bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad Companies: and remaining due
and unpaid by them, after all allowances
for moneys earned by them, is Sl4 $685.
5O7.72. OF this amount, the Central Pacific
owes 'S6,429, 9S5 So, and the Western
Pacific S4l7,429.14. On July next will
be due on thu same account from the rail
road companies the further sum of $685.
7O5.36, making a total then due of SIG, 262,-
2lS.OS. For this total amount Of over
Sl6,OOO,0O0, the Central Pacific and West
ern Pacific will On July l next stand
indebted to the United States in the same
proportion as now-say 1875, or nearly
one-haf.
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! The third trial OF Stokes, for the murder
Of Fisk, is not likely to take place until Oc-
tober. No change Of venue is expected, as
under the new jury law it is thought a
panel can be obtained without any difficult
ty. The new law does away with triers,
making the Judge the trier, and allows men
10 60 on the jury who swear that, though
having an impression, they can decide i'm
partially on the facts of the case. When
the counsel FIR the defence have exhausted
thirty perempsory challenges, they are then
obliged to take whoever comes, if the Judge
80 decide. UDder this law the prosecuting
officers believe that jury win be found
very readily in New York, and therefore
that there will be no need to have it else
where. 1t seems also to be the opinion OF
these gentlemen that in case the next jury
should disagree there will be no great diff
fculty in Stokes getting bail.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19
SPECULATTNG IN PUBLIC DOCU-
MENTS,

The New York Times prints the state
ment that there is no doubt that several
members of Congress sold their sets Of the
Medical and Surgical History Of the War
outright, or allowed persons connected with
or dependent upon them to make the sales
and pocket the price," And now the
Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Gazette makes this statement:
ain connection with the discovery OF the
sale Of valuable public documentsto second
hand dealers, two cases Of note have come
to light. In the first Senator was applied
7 TO by vendor of oil paintings to purchase
a landscape for 5000. The artist finally
offered to exchange for documents then due
the Senator, and the sale was made on these
terms. The artist received nearly all the
books due for the last Congress and sold
them TO second hand dealers. The othel
case was that Of Senator whose term ex,
PRED with the last session. He traded all
books due for two years for q single rsrt
volume in the hands of second hanC
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LIST OF GIFTS.

Total, 10, 600 Gifts, all cash $500 600
The money to pay all these gifts in full is now
upon deposit in the Farmers and Drovers' Bank
of Louisville, and set aside for that purpose,
and can only be used for that purpose as Will be
seen by the following certificate of the Cashier
OFFICE OF FARMERS AND DRovERs' BANK,
LOUISVILLE, KY, April I, 1873. )
This is to certify that there is in the farmers
and Drovers' Bank to the credit Of the Third
Grand Gift Concert, for the benefit OF the Public
Library of Kentucky, tve hundred thousand
dollars which has been set apart by the manag-
ers to pay the gifts in full, and will be held by
the bank and paid out FOR this purpose, and this
purpose only R. S. VEECH, Cashier.
The party, therefore, who holds the ticket
drawing the capital gift will get slOO, 900 in
greenbacks, and so of the $50 goo gift, the 80 UOO
the $50 900, the So, 600, the 5000, and all the
other gifts, 10000 in number, amounting to
The remnant of unsold tickets will be furnish
ed to those who first apply (order accompanied
by the money always having preference over
agents. at the following prices: Whole tickets,
SO; halves, So; and quarters, Sou IL wnOle
tickets for 500, Sc for $780, 113 for 81 0O0i and
575 for 5000 No discount on less than SlOO
worth of tickets at a time.
The concert and distribution of gifts will be
gin at O'Clock on Tuesday morning, July >, IN
Public Library hall, and the following will be
the order of proceedings: 1st. Music by Orches-
trail band. %. Placing of tags Zone for each
ticket sOld) in large wheel. 3D. Placing OF gltts
in small wheel. 4th. Music by orchestral band.
18Th. Explanatory remarks by President. 9Th.
Drawing of first half of gifts. It'll. Music BY or
chestral band. 8th. Drawing of last half OF
gifts. 9th. Placing of large wheel with tags In
hands of committee appointed by audience.
10th Grand orchestral concert.
The music on this grand occasion viii be the
best that can be procured, and the gentlemen
who count and place the tags and gifts in the
wheels and superntend the drawing and keep
the record of the drawn numbers Will be CHOSEN
| from the best known and most trustworthy cltt-
zens of the State. All Will be 50 conductea as 70
be perfect guaranty against complaint from
The payment of gifts viii begin on Saturday,
July u, at O'Clock A. N. Tickets drawing gifts
must be presented at room No. 4, Public Library
building. where cash checks upon the Farmers
and Drovers' Bank of Louisville, or sight drafts
upOn the Fourth National Bank of New York, at
the option of the holder, will be given for the
tickets All gifts not called for in months from
the drawing will be turned over to the Public
Library fund.
For fun particulars send for circulars.
GOV. THOS. 4. BHAMLErTE,
Ag't Public Library KY,
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY,
api7 d2taw. thursGsunSWeOw tllJuly1
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19

REMAINING that the general sentimen.
of the Republican press of Ohio is one Of
emphatic disapprovsl of Judge Binghsm's
appointment to the Japan Mission, the To-
ledo Blade thinks that gentleman "must
have the hide of rhinoceros to accept an
Office in the face of such universal condem-
nation" But Mr.. Bingham is not the man
whose refined sensibilities would lead him,
to respect the opinion of the people of hi S
party or State, where that opinion wonl d
interfere with bis accepting an Office.
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Supreme Court, Nashville.

b. W. Bedford, Ex'r, &C., VS.. A. Wheeless.
TN THIS CAUSE, AT THE DECEMBER
Term, 1872, of the Hon. Supreme Court OF
Tennessee, sitting at Nashville, the death of the
defendant, A. Wheeless, was suggested and
proven; and it appeared that Elizabeth i. Vince
less, Thomas H. Wheeless and Malone Wheeless,
were the only heirs at law Of the said A. Vince
less, decd, and that they are non-residents of
the State of Tennessee, 50 that the ordinary pro
cess of law cannot be served upon them: It is
therefore ordered that the publication required
by law be made in the Union and American a
newspaper published in the city OF Nashville,
recurring the said Elizabeth i. Wheless,
Thomas H. Wheeless and Malone Wheeless to APP
pear before Special Term Of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee, to convene at the Capitol,
in the city of Nashville, on the goth day OF june
next. and show cause, if any they have, why this
cause should not be revived against them as the
heirs at law of the said 2. Wheeless, decd.
Nashville, May IA, 1873, .,o,r,o,- r,,-,-
F. G. HUNTINGTON, Clerk.
mav15 If
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Law COurt-September Rules,
1873.
John DeKnoblaugh VS.. Eliza Ann DeKnoblal
SiU for Divorca

John DeKnoblaugh VS.. Eliza Ann DeKnoblaugh
Bill for Divorce.
TN THIS CAUSE IT APPEARING TO
1 the satisfaction of the Clerk, from the allie
gations in the bill, that the defendant Is
Nonresident of the State of Tennessee, so that
the ordinary process Of law cannot be
served upon her: 1t is therefore ordered that
publication be made for four consecutive weeks
In fine Union and American, a newspaper pub
Hshed In the city of Nashville, Tenn, requiring
the defendant to appear at the Courthouse, in
the city of Nashville, on the first Monday IN Sep
TENDER, 1873, then and there to plead, answer or
demur to complainant's bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed and set for hearing ex parte
ALBERT AKERS, Clerk.
By Z. e. GO0DLETT, ID. G.
,Jno. q. Ferris Solicitor.
June 7, 1873. Jeo OaW4W~
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The New York Tribune says: "The
Hon. John ]. Perry, for four years. mem
Der of Congress from Maine, declines q
nomination to run as 8 Republican candi-
date for the State Senate, on the ground
that be cAnnct act any longer with that
party. BE thinks the Republican party has
performedits mission, and has shown its
inability To- meet the new issues which de-
mand attention. A year ago Mr.. Perry
would have been called a 'sorehead'-now
there ara lew honest men in his party who
do not agree with him"
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mo. 1901
I'm Chanceg-y at Nashville.

OTATE OF TENNESSEE, OFFICE CLERK
y and Master Chancery Court, Nashville, June
the Sd, 1S73-The City Bank of Nashville,
Complainant, VS.. Z. B. Garrett and others, De-
PENDANTS.
II appearing from affidavit filed in this cause
that the defendant, b. F. COwan, is non resi-
dent of the State of Tennessee, so that the ordi-
nary process of law cannot be served upon him;
and it further appearing that an attachment has
issued in this case, and has been returned levied
upon the folio wing property, viz: The indebted
ness of between So 500 and s. 900 due by note or
otherwise from D. |. Johns to f. b. Garrett, to
the end that same may be held to satisfy com
plainant's claim against said K. b. Garrett and
b. F. Cowan, of 50 S21.5O, besides interest and
costs, Justly due said Bank by judgment: 1t is
therefore ordered that said defendant enter his
appearance herein before within the first three
DAYS of the next term of said Court, to be held
on the first Monday in October next, (1ST3,) and
plead answer or demur to Compliments bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed as to him and
set for hearing ex parte; and that a copy of this
order be published for four consecutive weeks
in the Nashville Union and American.
A Copy-Attest:
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Mast er.
Eff Mulloy & R. H. McEwen, Solicitors for
Complainant Je4 oaW+W
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dnion aud Amefifan.
AUGUSTUS G. PERRY, Of Tennessee
stands 81 IN the class of West Point gradu-
stes for 1873.

Iris reported that all the Supreme Judges
of Illinois contemplate resigning, The defeat
of Judge Lawrence being taken IS an ihti-
nation that judge must psnder to the
popular excitement OF the time If he de-
sires 10 retain his position on the bench.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19

A TELEGRAM from Wheeling, West Vir'
ginia informs us that David Mass, brewer,
of that city, shot himself in the right temple
on Tuesday night, and died at six O'Clock
yesterday morning, the cause of the deed
being his inability to collect money due him.
If this be a sufficient incentive to suicide,
we may look for an epidemic of the dis
order.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19

For some months past the New York
Herald has been declaring war against
Spain, for the maltreatment OF its Cuban
correspondents. Secretary Fish is credit
ed with saying few days since, that the
only thing wanting to constitute the Herald
a first class Power was an army and navy.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

cRAND HOTEL, BROADWAY, loPPO-
(T site Congress Park, Saratoga. This new
and magnificent Hotel, accommodating 1,OOo
persons, Opened june 1, 1873. The proprietors
have adopted the following schedule Of prices
g1ests "a. so per day; weekly guests, o. per day.
monthly guests, $3.50 per day. For July and
August, Transient guests, s. per day; weekly
guest, 81 50 per day monthly guests 81 per DAY,
oaged for the season. Families wishin, TO en-
eaSe APARTMENTS in this modern hotel. possessing
siyantages of presses, water and electric
bells in every suit Of WIZ Apply 70 q
Saratoga, je15 LIT cod.
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The Washington Ckrenicle, which is still
owned and edited by Col. John w, Forney,,
or some member Of the Forney family, says
"fhe country is tired of the Credit Mobilier
gang, and wants no more to hear from
them" So? Well, perhaps that is the
reason Grant is sending John A. Bingham
70 Japan. & HA# b
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GIFT CONCERTS.
Library Gift Concert.
A Full Drawing Certain.
s5OO,OOO IN BANK 70 PAY GIFTS,
10000 Cash Gifts Paid i'm Full.
500, 900 for only $40.

ENoUGH OF THE 100000 TICKETS IS
IA sued for the Third Grand Gift Concert
in aid of the Public Library Of Ken
lucky, having been sold to insure full draw
ipg and the wish having been universally ex-
be drawn in full and paid in full without any
scaling down as heretofore, the management,
with tue concurrence of the Trustees, have de-
termined to allow ninety days more for the SAFE
of the remnant of tickets left on hand. The con
cert and distribution advertised tor April Is
therefore postponed to Tuesday, July 8, 1873, on
which day, and no other, they will positively
and unequivoeally take face in Public Library
Hall, Louisville, KY. %.
Atthis Grand Concert the following cash gut
will be distributed by lot and paid in full TO the
ticket-hnlders who draw them:
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TO Grocery Men.

ELEIsCHMAN Sc CO.'S CELEBRATED
Compressed Yeast is furnished fresh daily
at the stores. Send orders to Depot, at Junger-
man & Co.'s, No. "a College street, and to A.
Rannie, "a Broad street
ie1 cod till iesO* j. w. EODER, Agent.
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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
NEW ORLEANS.


FACULEEs
a. H. CENAS, Nj. D., Emeritus Professor of
JAMES JONES, NJ. d. Professor of obstet-
RIGS.
t. G. RICHARDSON, NJ. D., Professor Of Sur
SAMUEL NJ. BEMISs, nj. D., Professor of
FRANK HAWTHORN, NJ. D., Professor of
Materia Medica.
JOSEPH JONES, M. D., Professor of Chem
istry. ... .
The fortieth annual course of instruction in
this Department will commence on
Monday, the 18th of November, 1879,
>pd terminate on the third Saturday of March,
is-4 Preliminary Lectures on Clinical Medi-
cine and Surgery viii be delivered in the Am
e,Ntre Ofthe great Charity Hospital, begin
ming on t'Fe 10Th of October, without any charg
10 Students The Anatomical Rooms will be
opened at the same time.
THE members cf the Faculty are Visiting Ply
sicians and s irgeoHs to the Charity Hospital,
and give inst luction daily at the bedside OF the
sick.
Knowledge of Medicine and Surgery are quite as
ore at as if not superior to those afforded by the
Schools of New York and Philadelphia, the fees
required are the same, viz:
For all the Lectures, Si40; Martrlcuiatlon,
Practical Anatomy, Sl0; Graduation, SSO "a
ment required in advance.
For circular and catalogue, address
r G. RICHARDSON, NJ. D., Dean.
,eiI ,ieodlw&Wt
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New York Boarding.

NUN IUEh 0Os$N 0A"Bs
FAMILIES VISITING NEW YORK CAN
4 obtain choice rooms and Superior Board at
the centrally located private Boarding House, 80
West SD street, between Fifth Avenue and
broadway, and in the immediate vicinity of the
Fifth Avenue and other principal hotels. Street
cars to all parts of the city. In Nashville, refer
ence is made, by permission, to Frank L. Will
liams. ESQ.,, of Messrs. Bate g. Williams.
Please preserve this advertisement for future
pse. JED cod I'm
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NOTICE.

TIME SHELBYvILLE ACCOMMODATION
Train on the n. q. g. st. Louis Railway is
j. w. THOMAS,
ie12tf ~sF -,tr Gen.l, Sup't
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On the anth dax Of June. 1873,

at the office of John RUM, Esq, Register in
Bankruptcy, No. 5SK Cedar street, Nashville,
Tenn, when and where all creditors may attend
and show cause, If any they have why the prayers
of said petitions should not be granted And it is
further ordered that the second and third meet
ings of creditors be had at said time and place.
Z. X. CAMPBELL,
Clerk of the District Court, for said District.
ie1O oaw st tues