Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-01
STATE ITEMS.

Union City accepts the proposition
to make the Holly Springs, Browns
vile and Ohio Railroad narrow
gauge" and subscribes $4,000 stock.
Gibson county bas levied q tax to
build new courthouse, to cost 5 H.
900.
Maury county has voted 5 $50, 900 to
aid in the construction of railroads.
The wheat crop Of Washington
county looks Indifferent.
The Williamson county fair grounds
are advertised for sale.
An appropriation of $4,000 has
been made by Congress for the i'm
proevmentofthe Tennessee river above
and below Chattanooga.
A man named Turner, of Bradley
County, was ran over and killed by
passenger train last week. Being I'M
der the influence of liquor he had gone
to sleep on the track.
The Morristown Gazette calls for
the execution of the vagrant law.
Three prisoners have escaped from
the Rogersville Jail, by cutting through
a chimney to the hue.
w. II. Briminstool, formerly ofthe
Greeneville Sentinel, has purchased
the Rogersville Reporter.
The farmers of East Tennessee are
to have a convention at Knoxville,
May u.
Charlotte Cushman is coming to
Knoxville.
The Knox County Medical Associ-
alton held meeting on the 10Th inst.
and adopted tribute expressing the
sense of the society in the loss of DR..
Robert Martin.
Arrangements are being made for a
temperance mass meeting in Knox
vile, and a committee is endeayoring
to secure the presence of John B.
Cough.
Rogersville Reporter: There is
fine bed of stone-coal only FIVE miles
from town, near the Sulphur Springs.
and we pay 5 %, to the Knoxville coal
companies, per car load and 500 freight
Would not narrow gauge railroad
be good thing to invest little money
in to neutralize these enormous freight
charges?
The Cleveland Banner notes that
engineer Slaybeck with the necessary
assistants, left that town on Wednes-
day morning last for the purpose of
making survey for a railroad from
Cleveland to Rockwo God, in Roane
county. 1t is contemplated to cross
the Hiwassee near Kincannon's Ferry,
and the Tennessee below Cotton Port
Citizens of Milburton, Greene coun-
ty, claim to have discovered silver
mine, and the hills in that region have
already been leased to parties who
proceed at once to test the quality of
the ore.
Throughout East Tennessee the wa
tiers where higher during last week
than they have been since 1867.
Athens now has tobacco manufac-
tory, and is soon to have reading
room.
The Dresden Democrat relates the
following extraordinary condolences
in the life of Mrs Balzar whose husband
died on the 18th: Her first husband
was killed by an explosion. He left in
the morning to return at noon, and
was brought back corpse. Her Sec
ond husband died as suddenly. She
was married to her first one nine years.
She had five children by her former
husband--three boys and two girls,
three of whom died. She has had five
by her second husband-three boys
and two girls, three of whom died.
Both her husbands were mechanics,
both named Carl, and both died at
about the same age" The second,
Carl Balzar, was a German saddler
about forty years old, who removed
from Cave City, KY, about three years
ago. He was found dead in his garden.
Two little daughters of Mr.. Drenen,
of Memphis were badly burned in an
explosion caused by pouring coal oil
on fire.
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