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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
Connecticut Tohaeon,..

|. The reports about the total failure
of the cropof 1872, in consequence of
mildew and rot, says the Hartford
Times, have been much exaggerated.
It. is story told, in the interest of
packers and SPECTATORS. A great deal
Of the last years crop, it is true, seems
to be hopelesslyospoiled !; the more's
the pity; for good tobacco crop makes
great deal of difference in the pock-
aets of the farmers ,hereabout, and pro
.duces a decidedly '''easierY money
market. Last years tobacco promised
to make a superior crop, and the quail
ity was superior. Against such con
tingency as the misfortune which has
befallen it no foresight.or care could
effeotually guard ;Ibut the calamity is
not total. A good many lots have been
saved in good shape-firnl, clean and
strong enough to answer all require
ments-Tand these will bring good
prices. Holders seem to be in no hurry
to sell, feeling. assured that the lots
they hold viii be worth more by and
by than they are now. On this point
the News Letter of Westfeld says 40
p The weather has not been favorable.
to tobacco stripping, and but little of
the crop has been taken down. Afew
buyers, or rather examiners, have been
around investigating the weed, but few
sales are reported: Present inaica-
tiens are that 1t viii be late in the
season before stripping viii be fairly
commenced, and those who place i'm
plicit confidence in the representations
of most of the buyers will be apt to
consider their crop nearly worthless
and sell it for a song, as we understand
that some of the would-be purchasers
say they would not give ten cents
pound for the whole crop, There is
unquestionably much poor tobacco,
and it therefore becomes very important
to the farmers that they take unusually
extra pains in sorting, for really good
tobacco unmixed with that which is
injured viii be sure to bring a good
round price. Care in sorting will pay
this year if never before.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
The Act of the General Assembly
B Concerning the Payment of Poll

The Act of the General Assembly
Concerning the Payment of Poll
Taxes by Voters. tee.f....-
The following act has been passed
by both houses Of our present Gener-
al Assembly, and has been duly APP
proved and certified to, being hence
forth a law: s5H-,w ..a
An act to repeal so much of section OF an
act entitled AN act to regulate the
elective franchise, in accordance with ar
ticle w., section /, of the Constitution of
the State" as requires the payment of a
poll tax 10 entitle avoter te vote:
SECTION 1. Be il enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee, That SO much of section |,
of an act passed June IL, 1870, enti-
tied An act to regulate the elective
franchise, in accordance with article
w., section l, of the Constitution of
the State, ," as requires that each voter
shall give the judges of election, when
and where he offers his vote, satisiac-
tory evidence that he has paid the poll
taxes assessed against him for the year
preceding the election, be and the same
is hereby repealed
SEC, q Be it further enacted, That
this act take effect from and after its
passage, the public good requiring it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

pop up here and there and changehis
vote to Hobbs another and another
arose until twenty members.had chang
edfrom the different candidates Black
burn included), to Hobbs, wboreceived
ffty-seven votes. ....
Treasurer VIM. Morrow received Sc
votes on the first ballot for rezelection-
handsome compliment, - 4 =
ThesSeRate treassembled and aadrs
journed in the midst of a debate upon
furnishing civil officers with the State
statutes, at theexpense Of che State. "a
WEDNESDAY, Jan. a2nd.-In the
Senate. . resohissiissn offered by DIR.
Richardson, authorizing the Comps
troller to draw upon the Treasurer for
the amount expended In the arrange
meRts for the Inauguration of Cow
Brown, was adopted. Bills were in
troduced by Mr., Mccall, authorising
notaries public to take acknowledge
ments of deeds; by Mr.. Mcconnell
of Trousdale, to secure greater accura-
cy in surveying, and also to regulate
the rates of toll on ferries; by Mr..
Brandon, to repeal so much of the act
to protect fish as applies to Stewart
county; by DIR. Robertson, to enforce
the act prohibiting the sale or giving
away of Intoxicating liquors ON Sunday.
Senate bill to provide justices of the
Peace throughout the State with
Thompson and Steger's code, was
passed on its third reading by ayes IA;
noes 10. Senate bill to repeal the act
/ allowing parties defendant to sever so
as to have the cause transferred to the
counties in which, they reside, was
passed on its third reading.
/ In the House petitions were pre-
scented by Messrs. Orr and Eckel, pray
ing that Thompson and StegerIs Code
be furnished the civil officers of Mar
shall and Jefferson counties Mr.. Viii
Hanson offered a resolution instruct
ing the Comptroller to audit the bills
of costs on file in his office, certified
from the criminal side of the Common
Law and Criminal Courts of the city
of Memphis for the years 1853, 1860
and 1861, and refer those that are I'M
paid to the Attorney General for his
OpiHlOu, anu IL the DJdtc - QccHicQ IL
able for the same, that warrants be is
sued on the Treasury for the same
Bills were introduced by Messrs. Lind
sley, Ferguson, Houk, Washington,
B. NJ. 1'illman, Eckel, Trousdale.
Wester, Couch, Leach, Wilson, Peake,
and Board, to prevent the abusive sale
of spirituous liquors; by Mr., Cum
mings, to effect labor reform; by Mr.
Kerr, to construe section 1108 of the
Code and provide for public roads
by Mr.. Campbell, to fix the time and
places of holding the Chancery Courts
in the ninth Chancery Division; by
Mr.. Lindsey, to authorize the people
to call Constitutional Convention,
the question to be voted on at the cleo
ton of the Legislature in November,
1874, and the convention to assemble
the last Monday in that month; by Mr.
Preston, to amend the revenue laws
by Messrs. Orr and Noblitt, to preserve
the public credit and fund the bonded
debt Of the State.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

A BILL has been introduced in the
Legislature to make adultery the only
cause for divorce. Some such string
ent measure is needed to restore the
sanctity of marriage, check the ill-ad
vised haste with which it too often
consumated, counteract the dangerous
doctrines of free love" and arouse
parents to greater watcbfullness over
the moral and intellectual training of
their children. Where the marriage
bonds are hastily entered into and as
easily thrown off for trivial causes,
there follows frightful depreciation
ofsocial happiness and public virtue.
And as marriage is one of the old in
stitutions, Young America is striving
to abolish, we hope the bill will pass.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

A PENNSYLVANIA paper is disgust
ed at the fact that whilst it takes from
one TO ten thousand to buy a New York
legislator, the same article can be
bought in Harrisburg at from five to
fifty dollars per head The price in
both States, is greatly above the par
yahe ofsuch brutes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

PINCHBACK, Grants mulatto Gov
crnor. of Louisiana. says his master is
not understood. and that 10 far from
dcsiringto be an Emperor-not having
the ability to work ont such reyolu-
tion-he is only striving to BET second
Washington. His dwarfed mental and
moral proportions make the imitation
a disgusting caricature. Assmallmen
as Grant have been Emperors, but ten
thousand such would not make a pass
able imitation of Washington.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

WE are glad to see that the status of
Railroads, in relation to the States
through which they pass, is becoming
;he subject of public Investigation. 1t
IS only by placing them upon the same
footing With ,turnpkes, that their
dangerous Influence over the great in
terests of the eonntry can be MURAL
lied. A monopoly of any sort, con-
tains she germ of 'tpischics, and the
monopoly Of Railroads. already built
up, with immense capital, is a danger
Gus power that cannot be too speedily
checked.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

Senator Acorn, of Mississippi. is
now llviEg with his third wife. and
twenty-che children can proudly ex-
claim, My father is a Senator from
Mississippi" = Savannah Advertiser.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
s ThsLeziqgtqs Rspertdr says tllAt
Mr.. Gam Br6E of Madison, Wide
oat hHhtipg "a NE l1tk, captured On
animM thAt had thu. bodr of doom
and the head Of a dog. The cooneats
The jackson Plgindealery say5;I
1.-THE recent vote Of Columbia has

y The jackson Plaindealerg says;
1.-The recent vote Of Columbia has
settled. thezmatter.tkats the narrow
gauge railroad from Memphis to the
Tennessee river will 60 BY Bolivar,
Henderson and Jacks creek aud not
by jackson. ''sf1e 81 sra t7JHfs9 II
Ss-as esau,i sfis sasssas ~ fo ESQ E5siI
DR.. James Summers, who; next
month viii have passed through 101
winters, has just subscribedto the Do
verI Record .dtHe lives at Indian
Mound, and as the Record is printed
IL, large, clear type, We hope he can
read it withputspectacles. 4
398d sw dsIaf fisasT - sa.sai eai
The Knoxville Press and Herald.
calls attention to the fact that VIM.
Rule, of the Knoxville Chronicle, the
Republican candidate for Mayor, is a
special mail agent, and by, the Presi-.
dents late order forbidden to accent
Office under State or municipality. 1si''s
Haywood county is out of debt.
She paid $4,000 interest on railroads
bonds 1i.for .1S72,sii and took up
rnd cancelled bonds to the amount
of $500. She has, also, 81 ,3l5 50 of
surplus railroad money lying in bank,
with which to buy up and cancel more
of her bonds. bal nfiF l7it5'si g
Robinson, Yeatmap died in Nash;
! vile Jan. 18th, at the advanced age
Of scgenty-two years. The deceased
was bora in Kentucky, but came to
this, city in early youth. Hewas iden-
tilted here with the bank of Yeatman
& Woods, the first enterprise Of the
kind ever established in Tennessee.
After operating the Tennessee Iron
Works for some time he went, to
New Orleans, where he wasreeognized
as one Of the. largest tobacco and cot
ton merchants in the United States.
| There is bill now pending in the
Legislature which provides that,
| hereafter. no justice of the peace shall
be eligible to any place of profit or
trust, the appointment or election to
which isvested in the County Court.
Butall incumbentsof offices now held
by justices so elected are to reman un-,
I disturbed until the expiration of the
term for which they were elected. 1t
/ simply imposes upon members of the
County Courts the same restrict ons
that the State constitution imposes
upon members of the Legislature
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25

ANOTHER immense land swindle is
attempted under the guise of land
grants to honorably discharged soldiers.
The scheme is evidently for the benefit
of Railroad rings.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
Original Attachment. :
State OF Observation-Disclosures Co.

A. S. Wood VS.. Z. W. Terrell. a.,
In this cause, II appearing by affidavit of
tho plaiutif, that the defendant, f. W.
Terrell is justly indebted tothe plaintiff,
and is a NONRESIDENT of the state so that
ordinary process of law ca o not be served
ing been issued on his property. It is
therefore ordefed that publication be made
in the Ciafksville Chronicle, a newspaper
published in the City of Clarksyille for
to appear before me, at Woodlawn Tenn.
on Friday, the DIST OF February, 1873
and make defence TO said suit atsai INST him
or it will be proceeded with ex parte. This
Jan. y ls72: - = W. s. MALLORY, ]. p.
Jan.25 lS73-4w. .aoi,.,tei,, M ,i1iy +,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
Death of Balwer Lytton.

LONDON, Jan. 19,-Right Ho., Edward
Bulwer LyttQn, Baron Lytton. the
well known English ar ,hor died this
afternoon aged 81. 81 ~ -r."-r-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
Walter Mcc0rab z Co.
sHERrlFF,s IsALE,...
NONRESIDENT NOTICE

III. c. Merritt, Adm'rof NIX, LeaveH vs. n.
20. ss't- B.Leaven ct ais.
happening from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the defendants n. B. Leayell
George Leaveu and W. b. Mason afe non
residents OF the State of Tennessee; 1t is
therefore ordered thatthey enter their APP
peaTance herein. beforeor within the first
three. days of the next term of the Chance
ry Court, to be held at Ciarksviile, on the
fourth Monday in February next, 1873, and
plead, answer or demur TO compIainant's
bill, or the same viii be taken for confessed
and that = copy OF tn is order be published
for four consecutive weeks in the Clarlzs-
vile CHRONICLE. A copy-Attest.
ir.iatia1 POLK q. JGHNSGN.lC. " NJ I
) BAILEY q LURToN, Soi,rs- for, CoInplt. e.
Jan 2S 1S73-4w 1ts p . ~ IL i7aFt- 7'''i-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-25
IN THE HOUSE.

! IN THE HOUSE.
In the House several bills were in
troduced relating to the sale of liquors.
By Mr. Bond To prevent Attor-
General from collecting fees in
certain cases.
By Mr.. Peak: To encourage the
killing of wolves, wildcats and bears,
and to dispense with juries in misde,
meanor cases.
By Mr.. Brown: To reduce the num-
Der of peremtOry challenges.
By Mr.. McCollum: To amend the
laws re-organizing the schools.
BY Mr.. Kerr: Requiring appeals to
be prayed for and granted within thir-
ty days after Judgment.
By Mr.. Kerr: To prescribe fees for
taking dispositions.
The Spea ker>appOinted Mr.. G. c.
Plummer Journal Clerk of the House
SATURDAY, Jan. 1S.-In the Senate,
Mr.. Snipes introduced a bill to dimin-
ish and reg uate the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors.
In the House, Mr. Cummings offer
ed resolution instructing the Cover
nor and Secretary OF State to ask for
the report of the Trustees of East
Tennessee University.
The two houses met in convention,
and ON the thirteenth ballotC. n. Gibbs,
ofObion, was elected Secretary of State.
The vote was as follows: Gibbs 80,
Donaldson 43, Williams and Butler
l. The convention then proceeded to
elect Comptroller, the following gen.
tlemen being put in nomination Ed.
r. Pennebaker, the present incum-
bent; j. L. House, of Williamson;
Samuel A. Taylor, of Shelby; VIM.
NJ. Robinson, of Robertson; James L.
Dunlap, of Davidson, and W. W.
Hobbs, of Humbhreys, After voting
eight times, without effecting an cleo
ton, the convention adjourned to Mon
day.
MONDAY, january 20.-In the SEN
ate petitions were presented by Mr..
James, from citizens of Grundy county
praying to be allowed to vote on pro-
position to remove their county seat
and by Mr.. Jones, from Davidson
County Board of Education in regard
10 the present school law. Mr.. Melton
introduced a bill regulating the sale of
intoxicating liquors.
In the House, no business was trans
acted, the day being consumed in vot-
ing for Comptroller.
TUESDAY, January 2lst.-In the
House, Mr.. j. Il. Bond, representa-
tive from Madison, Haywood and Har-
deman, was administered the oath of
Office. The balloting for Comptroller
was resumed before the convention,
and the members got weary almost to
drowsiness before any decisive result
could be reached. The name of House !
was withdrawn, after the second ballot. |
when test of Gen. Dunlaps strength 1
was made The friends of Hobbs, /
however, who proved to be the coming
man, held firm and hissupport strength |
ened steadily with every ballot. On
the thirty fifth ballot, Hobbs received /
IS votes and Blackburn forty-three.
when the members began to prick
their ears and put thler heads to-
gether. The strong vote for Black
burn had evidently created some alarm
among those who opposed him. On
the thirty-siXth ballot, the House roll
was called first, the vote being about
as desultory as it had been during the
past six ballots. Before the result
could be announced head began to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30

in muslin and lace and given over to the
care and companionship of ignorant hire
lings, are so practiced upon and deceived
and frightened, and, in short, lied to, that
it is wonder that after all most of them
grow up tolerably truthful. We think it
speaks we'll for that much maligned thing
human nature. But servants are not the
only nor the chief offenders We charge
mothers and fathers with being very cul-
pable and wicked in their sins of com
mission in this regard.
II have never deceived my child, " saws
Mrs Laura Love, who is reading this
number beside her baby's crib. When
you pretended, dear lady, the other day,
that you were not going out when you
were, and when you tiptoed off with your
bonnet hidden behind you lest baby
should cry to go, what were you doing
but deceiving him? When you pretended
that the abominably tasting stuff YOU
were about to give him out Of vial was
good, smacking your lips as if you en-
Joyed it, what were you doing but acting
a lie?
Children have very quick perception
Very young children learn to see through
the ways that are dark and the tricks that
are vain of their foolish elder compan-
ions. Still, as we look into their soft
eyes, we seem to hear the solemn words
that fell from the tenderest lips that ever
spoke to man: "Take heed that We offend
not one of these little ones. "-Hedrh and
Home cod
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
The Secret of a Wife's Power.

NOTHING is more beautiful than the be-
lief of the faithful wife that her husband
has all the talents and could, if he would,
be distinguished in any walk OF life; and
nothing would be more beautiful
unless this is very dry time for signs
than the husbands belief that his
wife is capable of taking charge of any of
the affairs of this confused planet. There
is no woman but thinks that her husband,
the green grocer, could write poetry if he
had given his mind to it, or else she
thinks small beer or poetry in compari-
son with an occupation or accomplish
ment purely vegetable. 1t is touching to
see the look of pride with which the wife
turns to her husband from any more
brilliant personal presence or display OF
wit than his, in the perfect confidence
that if the world knew what she knows
there would be one more popular idol
How she magnities his small wit and
doats upon the self-satistied look in his
face as if it were sign OF wisdom.
What a counselor that man would make !
What d warrior he would be! There are
a great MANY corpora's in their retired
homes who did more for the safety and
success of our armies in criti-
cal moments in the late war
than any of the "hlgh-cock-a-lorum" COM
manders. Mrs. Corporal does not envy
the reputation of General Sheridan; she
knows very well who really won Five
Forks, for She has heard the story hun
dred times, and will hear it a hundred
more with apparently undated interest
What general her husband would. have
made and how his talking talent could
shine in Congress.
There isn't wife in the world who
| has not taken the exact measure of her
| husband, weighed him and settled him in
her own mind, and knows him as well as
if she had ordered him after designs and
specifications of her own. That knowl-
edge, however, she ordinary keeps to her
| self, and she enters into league with
her husband, which he was never ad-
mitted to the secret of, to impose upon
| the world. In nine out Of ten cases he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
The Miseries of BOyhOOd.

DOES the hoy hope, some cold winter
morning, to economic time by hasty
toilet, and turn himself over for wee bit
of nap after the rising bell, there comes
a voice up the stairway; 90 Johnnie!
John-n-i-e" with lingering persuasive
ness. Get right up Your father SAYS
he wants you to have all the paths shovel
ed before breakfast
If little Jennie is up and ready for
breakfast, that is all that is expected. She
has nothing more important to do than
breathing on the frosty panes to get view
Of Johnnie at work. Does the boy get UP
early to get his skates sharpened-
make that noise in here!" Does he try
on those idols Of his heart to see that
every strap and buckle is in order
Haven't / told you times without num-
Der not to put on your skates in the
house? BY next spring there won't be
rag of carpet left' How does little Jen-
ME manage to keep her skates in good
condition? Why, she appeals to the head
of the household: "Pa, can't Johnnie
bore hole in this strap for me?' "John,
fix your sisters skates;" and they're fix
ed. If Johnnie tries to play in the house,
he is told to put away that top or those
marbles asked if he can't keep quiet a
minute, and advised to take book and
sit down. On the contrary, just so soon
as he hurries home, and snatches up
Robinson Crusoe" or "Swiss Family
Robinson" and becomes oblivious for
time to his unhappy lot, he is reused
anew to it by the paternal voice,
Come, Johnnie, put up that book, and
go find the COW. She hasn't come home"
Jennie, who is very busy putting her re-
fractory doll to bed, wonders how Johnnie
knows which way to turn to look for the
missing animal. Perhaps he catches a
granddaddy-long-legs, and repeats that
familiar rhyme which compels him to
point out the road Johnnie must take
Johnnie being Intercepted as to that sub
ject on his return sings his cap detiantly
into the corner, in the groundswell of his
discomfort, snatches up Robinson Cru
soc" again, mutters something under his
breath about girls" and geese" and is
again absorbed in his book. Come,
now, Johnnie" says his mother, "don't
go to reading again" It's eight o'clock"
Five minutes elapses. johnnie, did you
near me? Jennie's gone up stairs" Five
minutes more on the desert isle and a
childish voice is heard at the stairs land
ing: MA, can't Johnnie come to bed {?
Pm afraid" "Now, Johnnie, l shan't
speak to you again" A brief-a very brief
respite. ooh! only to finish this chapter!"
MA. Ma" louder and angrier "I'm com
ing down if Johnnie don't comet Mayn't
he Gomez" Enter the paternal. John
what are you up for at this hour? Shut
up that book and go to bed. Why,
Pussie, why aren't you in bed?" u want
to kiss you good-night' pleads the sweet
little fibber. "Bah. she's afraid of the
dark that's the matter" defiantly retorts
Johnnie, going up stairs two steps at a
time. II amt neither. Can't he stop
plaguing me?" Come, John let your
sister alone" That's all the sympathy a
boy gets.-N. 7. Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
Strippings.

ALL dairy-women know that strippings,
or last milk obtained from the udder, are
richer in butter globules than the other
portions of the milk This is especially
the case when the COWS remain at rest be-
fore milking. If this be doubted, let the
COWS run from the pasture to the milking
yard, and note the result. Although it
will make no difference in the butter pro
duet whether the strippings, if taken, be
churned separately from or in connection
with the cream of the other milk obtain
ed, it does make q large difference in both
the quantity and quality of the butter
produced. Hence we have always insist
ed that cows for the dairy, and especially
COWS that are kept for furnishing the fam
~ with milk and cream, be not excited to
the detriment of the quality of the milk.
In the case of these latter cows, the
strippings are Of consequence, as furnish
ing milk for coffee, etc, nearly equal in
richness to cream itself. DIR. Anderson,
of Edinburgh, Scotland, who has given
much attention to subjects connected with
milk, has proved by actual analysis that
the last gill of milk drawn from the udder
of a cow contains sixteen times the
amount Of cream incident to the first one,
the separation of the cream from the milk
taking place in part in the udder, particu-
larly in instances where the animal is suf-
fered to stand at rest for some time before
milking.-Western Ru,al.