Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-18

the direct control of their chosen pub
lie servants, and indirectly, therefore,
under the control of the people them
selves. To whatever extent, then, the
people might wish to improve their
roads, and bridges and public schools,
or minister to the relief of the poor,
to that extent only would they be
taxed.
L. S. GOODRICH, Esq, of the firm of
Hillman, Goodrich & Bro, called
upon us last week. Mr.. Goodrich is
interested in, and, indeed, was one of
the originators of, the Duck River
narrow guage railroad. The firm, of
which he is member, own and oper-
ate the Hurricane Mills, ten miles
South of Waverly, in Humphreys
county, on Hurricane Creek. They
manufacture all kinds of wooden
goods, and are doing a successful bus
mess.
Mr.. Goodrich highly estimates the
advantages of GAINESVILLE for manu-
featuring, especially for the manufac-
ture of iron. He informed us that
the ore, required to make ton of pig
iron, can be put down in GAINESVILLE,
at this very day, for Sc, while the same
quantity of ore, not so good in quality,
would cost in Pittsburg 49, He
says that vast quantities of iron ore
from near Birmingham, in Alabama,
are now being shipped to Pittsburg,
there to be smelted and manufactured.
This ore, we believe, is ofthe same kind
thatexists in such abundance in our own
section. 1t is known as brown hema-
tite and yields the best quality of iron.
We implore our readers to think of
these facts, and not to overlook these
treasures of iron, by proper use of
which we may most surely attain lasting
wealth. The geld mines of California
and Australia do not present more
inviting field for enterprise than the
IRON (ore) beds of our own section,
embracing Montgomery, Houston,
Stewart, Dixon and Humphreys coun-
ties.
WE have received the Nash/
vile Journal of Medicine and
Surgery for last month. This journal
was commenced on the 1st day of JAN
uary, 1851, the first number embracing
January and February of that year
twenty two years ago, from the termi-
nation of the present number. In an
editorial review of the first number we
find the following:
The editorial department opens
with an account of the origin of Med
ical Journals. This. our first editori-
al. contains a terrible blunder; we
copied the error from the Western
journal Of Medicine, then conducted
by Drs. Drake and Yandell, and were
annoyed to find that it had led us so
far wrong. A reader Oh Drake from
the beginning, we could not see how it
was possible that he could commit or
overlook so egregious an error. But
he had fallen into the pit, and we went
in after him; and a medical editor, on
the other side of the Appalachian hills,
no sooner saw our cOat-tail disappear
thas.ie clapped down the lid and sat
on it, drumming with his boot-heels
against the curb in a paroxysm of the
widest delight. This was sad start,
but we recovered from it, in part, by
reviewing this reviewer numerically
for being asleep while on picket duty,
and so letting Drake and Yandell pass
unchallenged. He should have stop
ped that ball, we argued, as was his
duty, by arresting DR.. Drake, and so
saved US from falling into that pit.
His f-congratulatory chuckle over
this error, on our first appearance, is
responsible for checkering our whole
journalistic life with occasional con-
troversial outbreaks, which we would
now erase, if it were possible. But
the printers press, like that of fate,
has fixed their perpetuity."
Nevertheless, the Nashville Journal
of Medicine and Surgery became
complete success. The present nu,
Der contains Remarkable case of
Hepatic Abscess " by JAS f. Weeds,
surgeon T. S. Army, continued from
the last number; Insect Bite, COM
plicated with Fever" by VIM. A.
Caveness, VI. D., of Cherokee county,
Texas; and other original and selected
articles; extracts from home and for
eign journals editorials, reviews, ETC.
DIR. A. CRANE, of New Orleans,
lectured on Wednesday night, at the
Methodist Church, on the Holy Land,
and Thursday night, on Electricity
and its Application to Man. DR.. Crane
was member of the Quaker City ex-
petition to the Holy Land, which
Mark Twain has made famous by his
book, The Innocents Abroad" Dr.
Crane was one of the pilgrims, and is
frequently spoken of in Twain's book
as ''the Doctor"
His lectures were attended here by
large and highly intelligent audiences,
and were greatly appreciated. Those
who heard him were deeply impressed