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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
The Chronicle for 1874.
ADDITIONAL INDUCEMENTS.
Life.size Pictures, painted and Framed
BY McCormac, offered as Pre-
miums for Clubs.

All new subscribers who will pay
s4.O0 in advance will receive the
CHRONICLE for one year, and enc
of McCormac's wholesale Rembrant
Pictures, beautifully framed and war
ranted to give satisfaction. Old sub
scribers who will pay all arrearages to
date and then pay s4.OO in advance,
will be entitled to the same.
These pictures retail at s. 90, and
are worth the money, but the arrange
ment we have entered into enables US
to furnish the picture and the paper
for 81 90.
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 $500, or whole-siEed
Rembrandt, $500.
IF ten names are sent with A.00
each, each subscriber will be entitled
to one of the wholesale Rembrandts;
and the getter up of the club to the
choice of the Rembrandt or the Porce-
lain Picture.
To any one sending us forty names
and eighty dollars, we will give life
size pieture-India Ink-worth 35. 90.
IF forty names are sent with 800
each, each subscriber will be entitled
to one of the wholesale Rembrandts,
and the getter up of the club to the
life-size India Ink Picture.
For fifty names and one hundred
dollars, we will furnish life-size pic
ture, painted in colOrs-worth 5000.
IF fifty names are sent with $4O0
each, each subscriber will be entitled
| to one of the wholesale Rembrandts,
and the getter up of the club to the
life-size picture painted in colors.
Those getting up clubs will get the
same premiums as above by sending in
lists composed of both $500 and A.OO
subscribers-those paying S400 re-
ceiving both paper and picture, those
paying $500 receiving the paper only.
Parties entitled to these Premium
Pictures can have their own likeness
taken, or that of any member of their
family.
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 1st
of January, 1875.
| 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 arrearages
to date, and then pay two dollars in ad
vance.
We will continue to furnish the
CHRONICLE and COURIER JOURNAL for
81 25 to all new subscribers, or to all
old ones who pay all arrearages and
then in advance. The drawing of the
Courier journal embraces $4,000 in
presents, and all who subscribe be-
tween now and Dec. 81, 1874, will be
] entitled to ticket in the drawing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
A Definition of an Editor,

We have seen many definitions of
many names, words and phrases, but
the following of an editor, given by
Josh Billings, is about the best ever
encountered:
An edityr is male being whoze buz-
iness is to navigate a nuze paper. He
writes editorials, grinds out poetry, in
serts deths and weddings, sorts out
manuscripts, keeps a waste basket,
blows up the devil" steals matter,
ftes peoples battles, sells hiz paper for
dollar and 80 cents a year, takes
white beans and apple sass for pay when
he can git it, RACES large family, works
19 hours out of every "a; knows no
Sunday, gifts damned by everybody, and
once in a while whipt by somebody,
lives poor, dies middle age, and often
broken hearted, leaves no money, is
rewarded for life ov toll with short
but free obituary puff in the nuze pc.
pers. Exchanges please copy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
The Home Paper.

Do the city papers say anything in
regard to your county? Nothing.
Do. they contain notices of your
chools, churches, meetings, improve
ments, and hundreds of other local
matters of interest, which your papers
publish without pay! Not an item.
Do they ever say a word calculated to
draw attention to your county and its
numerous thriving towns, and aid in
their progress and enterprise Not a
line, and yet there are men who take
such contracted views of the matter,
that unless they are getting as many
square inches of reading in their own
paper as they do in the city paper,
they think they are not getting the
worth of their money. This reminds
us of person who took the largest
pair of boots in the box simply because
they cost the same as q pair much
smaller that fitted him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

THIRTEEN MEN ACCIDENTALLY
SHoT-On Monday last, Robt. Searcy
set loaded double barrel shot gun on
the pavement against the building, in
this town, just east of Harris & Ed
wards grocery. The pavement was
covered with men, it being county
court day, and by some means the gun
was knocked down, and one barrel Of it
discharged by the fall, by which a
number of men, yariously estimated
from ten to thirteen, were wounded.
1t happened that the shot all took eff
feet in the legs of the men, and were
only about the size of turkey shot /;
consequently no very serious injury
was inflicted. The discarge created
quite flutter in the crowd of men.
1t is hoped none of the wounds will
prove serious. Mr.. Searcey's conduct
in handling the gun so carelessly in
such q crowd is severely censured.
Had the gun been loaded with heavy
buck shot, the consequences would
have been serious indeed WaUerly
Journal FEB. 5.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

sYxArz PUTNAM oseoop.

Under the tre!lis, to and fro,
Walking and talking 60 two together,
Over their heads the branches blow.
Under their feet the grasses grow,
In the sweet season OF Spriugtide
weather.
Under the trellis, to and fro,
Whispering close, go two together.
sTremulous, misty, long and low,
The meadows loom through the sunset
glow,
In the hot prime of the Summer wealth
er.
Under the trellis, to and fro,
Silently pacing, go two together.
Over the yellowtng poplar row
The harvest moon comes large and slow
The wandering ghost OF the Autumn
wheather.
Under the treliis. to and fro,
Hand in hand, 60 two together.
Thick is the air with threatening snow
Chill winds weerily come and go,
Telling the tale of the Winter weather.
Little of season or scene they know,
Under the trellis, the two together.
April glimmer or Autumn glow,
Suitry August or Winter snow
For lovers 1t always Is Summer weather.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
MOrs sofa .tdtetar
OudntyL1 siRt ko5aiatup corpusculd.

How TO BUILD Up A TowN.-The
town of Stanton, the growing city Of
the great Valley of Virginia, has i'm
provad faster and increased her d.
mensions and population since the war
to a greater extent than any other in
the State. At that time she claimed a
population of $500, and now she
boasts of 5000 to 1000, or about
double in the brief period that has
elasped-eight years. In answer to
the question what has caused this pros
perity, correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier, writing under date Of
December 18th, 1873, gives some of the
reasons, which we commend to the
consideration of the citizens of Char
lestown. He says: Perhaps the
main channel through which money
has poured into this small city are the
large female schools. There are no
less than five schools, and some of
them have almost a national reputa-
ton and have well sustained it for
some years past. At three of these
schools, there are about six hundred
young ladies from distance; and es-
timating (the estimate is far less than
those who have to pay would put it)
each to spend $500 in the community
we may well see how the whole city
is flooded with money. But the fact
is nearly, if not all of, half million
dollars are thus distributed among all
classes yearlyp' What an incentive
for the building up of first class
schools in our midst.-Spirit Of JEFF
fersoR.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
Hints to Business Men.

If you are only able to spend so or
800 year in advertising, you had bet
ter devote at least one-half OF the sum
to regular advertisement or card as
large or small as it will pay for, and the
balance to special advertising, or local
notices at the opening of your sea-
son, or when you have special advan-
tages to offer your customers. The
standing advertisement which you keep
in the paper all the year round keeps
you before the attention of the readers
of paper for all that time, far better
than the sign over your store attracts
the attention of passers by, and when
they want anything in your line they
are apt to remember you, from having
seen your name in their paper. The
best rule for an advertiser is a certain
amount of advertising all the time, and
twice that amount in your own partlcu-
lar season. ."-Dyersburg Gazette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
From q Hard-shen Standpoint.

A hard-shell Baptist preacher thus
characterizes the religious sects in
Kentucky: "The Methodists go out
into the wilderness and new countries
and blaze the trees for the Baptists to
come along after them and cut out
roads for wagons and carts. When
macadamized turnpikes are made, you
will see the sturdy old Presbyterians
come numbering along in their buggies
and carriages but after you hear the
steam whistle sounding over the rail-
roads, then you may look out for the
kid -gloved and silk-stockinged Epis-
copalian, a running round and talking
about the church, and succession, and
ordination, and all such stuff as that,
as if. there never had been any church
or religion until they got there.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
AC Correction

Everywhere in my travels | find that
there is prevailing impression that
the Farmers Clubs and Oranges are
one and the same thing. This is a
great mistake. They are totally dis
similar, not alike in single feature.
| hope you will allow me to make this
correction. Inotice that the clubs have
introduced politics in their discussion.
This is fatty disallowed in the Oranges
by the organic law of the order. No
one does any such thing. Then again
clubs are loose, ineoherent and ire
sponsible bodies, without any special
government, responsible to no other
power and inefficient in their opera
tions. Not so with the Oranges.
They are compact bodies, united COM
paetly by laws, and controlled by other
and higher organizations. For exam
pie, there are State and National
Oranges to which they are subordinat-
ed and which control and direct them.
Again the public minds eonfounds
the Grange movement with the anti
Monopoly, the anti-Tariff movement,
the Farmers Clubs of the Northwest.
Here is another grand mistake. All
the sins of the last named movements
are laid on the Oranges when they are
not responsible in any way for their
acts. Respectfully, etc.,
c. w. CHARLTON.
General Deputy for East Tenn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

A SCRAP BOoK.-Every farmer
should keep a scrap book in which to
paste agricultural scraps. Every one,
In reading a paper, will see a number
of things which he will wish to re-
member. He will perhaps see sugges-
tions, the value of which he will desire
to test, or hints which he will want to
be governed by in future operations:
And vet after reading the paper he will
throw it down and will probably never
see it again. In such case all the
valuable articles will be lost. To pre-
vent such loss every reader should clip
from the papers such articles as ne de-
sires to preserve, and remember and
paste them in scrap book; at the end
of year or two they will be very in-
teresting and valuable.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

FLORIDA is one 'of the States that
furnishes illustration Of he..manner in
which the carpet-bag is grinding the
property holders to powder. Here is
one instance, furnished by a cores
pondent of the Tallahassee Floridian ::
"Gov. Hart says" taxes are never
high" In 1860, gentleman in this
county (Jefferson) paid taxes on 5000
acres of land, 100 slaves, 40 head of
horses and mules, $50 head of cattle,
$50 head of hogs, 100 head of sheep,
and good outfit generally-taxes on
the whole, $243. In 1872, the taxes
paid upon the same property, minus 100
slaves, 425 head of cattle, 225 head Of
hogs, % head of horses and mules,
poor outfit and lean corn cribs and
smoke house, amounted to 1872, or
about three times as much as in 1860.
But when the value of slaves, etc., is
taken into consideration, the difference
really amounts to seven to nine times
as high. The tax receipts can be shown
in the above cases"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
From the New York Tobacco Leaf.
Meeting Of the Kogshead Leaf Tobae-
co Trade.

At a meeting of the Trade in Lea
Tobacco in Hogsheads of New York
embracing the factors, buyers and in
spectors. held this day, the 22d oi
January, 1874, at the office of Messrs
Sawyer, Wallace 4 Co., Mr.. d. p
Garth was called to the chair, and Mr.
A. Z. Lamotte was appointed Secre.
tary.
The object Of the meeting having
been explained, and, among other
things, the fact mentioned that there
was some diversity of opinion as to
the responsibility and liability of the
inspectors in respect to the samples
drawn by them, the matter was fully
discussed, and the inspectors, by all
represented, unanimously admitted
their liability for the correctness of the
same.
The following resolutions were offer
ed by Mr.. Wallace, and were passed to
take effect from date.
Whereas, Disagreements have arisen
between buyers and sellers in respect
to the liability of the inspectors, and
the mode of marking the sample tick
cts and other matters connected with
the trade, it has been found desirable
to the trade to appoint a Committee
to whose decision disputes may be re-
ferred. Therefore. be it
Resolved, That committee of three
persons, with alternates shall be ap-
pointed to serve for one year, and that
said committee be selected, one from
the factors, one from the inspectors,
and one from the buyers. [Wbere-
upon Mr.. j. j. Thomas was chosen by
the inspectors and Mr.. N. j. Stith as
alternate-Mr. j. A. CAN'T by the
buyers, and Mr.. A. G. Lamotte as al
ternate-Mr. ID. j. Garth by the fac
tors, and Mr.. Stephen Pettus as alter
nate.
Resolved, That charge of SIS shall
be made by the said committee for
each case adjudicated by them, and so
be paid as awarded by said commit
tee.
Resolved, That the inspectors, as
heretofore, draw fair and just samples,
showing the true quality and condition
of the tobacco, and noting on the sam
pie tickets any damage or defect, and
also the net weight of the hid.
Resolved, That the Tobacco Leaf
be requested to publish these proceed
ings.
On motion the meeting was ad-
journed.
d.. GARTH, Chairman.
A. G. LAMoTTE, Secretary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
A Grateful Nan.

The editor of a Honesdale paper has
a soul not above gratitude. He writes
in this pathetic strain of a recent epi-
sode:
Like the shadow of rock in a weary
land comes to US the gift of half peck
of onions and bottle of ginger beer
from rural subscriber. How sweet
it is to be thus remembered-in the
midst of earking cares, and the buck
wheat crop short. We dote on onions,
and the delicate donation brings tears
to our eyes. So long as the fragrance
of the onions and the gripes of the
beer linger round US, we will hold the
gift in swift remembrance. Our force
speaks highly of the beer, and the
empty bottle is a valuable addition to
the armory of the fighting editor.
Such little acts as these nerve us to
renewed exertions. Our subscription
will remain the same.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

A PARIS physician relates the par
ticulars of curious case he has under
his charge. 1t is that of young girl,
eighteen years of age, who is afflicted
with what is termed nychatopia, that
is to say, she loses the faculty of sight
in daylight and RECEIVERS it in darkness.
Although her eyes do not present any
special morbidcharacter, she is forced
to keep her eye-lids closed during the
day, and to cover her head with
thick veil. On the other hand, when
the shutters of a room are heremeti-
eally fastened she reads and writes
perfectly in the deepest darkness. She
feels no pain beyond a slight lassitude
when the solar strikes her visual or
gan
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
Modern Legislators.

The Missouri Legislature met last
week. Its members are thus compli-
mented by the Western Celt:
"The gentlemen who make up thai
body can do more work, drink more
whiskey, and play poker better than
any other Legislature in the United
States. A Missouri Senator, no mat
ter what his ability, must possess some
free and easy qualifications, without
which his talents are all moonshine.
Good whiskey, good cigars, and a lit
tie spunk in betting on risky hand,
will go further in sending him on his
road to Washington than stump ora
tory, legislative ability, or actual
knowledge of the State"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

JEFF. DAVIS ON STEvENs.-A gen.
tleman of our acquaintance, who was
in Memphis week before last, called
on ex-President Jefferson Davis, hav-
ing known him well previously. In
the course of conversation, forgetting
for a moment the differences which
had existed between the late President
and Vice President of the Confeder-
acy, our friend referred to a recent re-
mark of Mr.. Stephens, in Augusta,
that We must take Cuba at once,
when Mr.. Davis, with loox of infin-
ite disgust, said: Well, am glad Mr..
Stephens is getting up to the fighting
point, at Ldst.-Charlotte ". G. OJ-
serUer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

Sir JOHN LUBBOCK has become the
champion of Helen of Troy. He can
find in history no proofs against her.
He has collected all possible informa-
tion, Homeric and anti -Homeric, and
the more he learned the more incredi-
BILE did it appear that the beautiful
Helen ever gave even the slightest
cause Of uneasiness to the gallant
Menelaus.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
To GrnH Large Frnif.

CROWN hills. Mulch heavily with
straw or hay. Water literally with
liquid manure, which can be produced
by filling a barrel full Of manure and
running rain water through it. Pick
off all but one or two fruit stems, and
thin out these, and specimens of fruit
will be produced that will astouish
the native" if the variety
be of the large sorts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

THINK of fattening hogs on figs
The San Diego, CAL, World advises
greater cultivation of the fg-tree be-
cause the food is so good for hog feed.
An acre of figs will fatten more hogs
than will an acre of corn, and it seems
all that is necessary is to stick a hg
cutting down and in three or Eve
months the plant will bear fruit, three
years the tree attains the size OF a
twelve-year old apple tree. The same
paper says firm of honey-raisers, the
first year of their cultivation of bees,
cleared 81. ESQ on their honey crop.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

The question was put to a candidate
for installation By an excellent brother:
Gould not God have changed Phar-
aoh's hearth The answer was shrewd
but evasive. Il insist upon an equivo-
cal answer" cried the questIoDer.
Gould not God have changed Phar-
aoh's hearth" After thinking a mo-
ment the answerscame: IF be had
neglected everything else, and given
his whole attention to it, / don know
but what he might"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

MEMPHIS, with a population Of
about 1000 people, has four daily pa
pers, all Democratic, save the Ava
lanche, which has done more for De-
mocracy, by the unsOandness of its
doctrines, than 4 paper of ordinary
ability could have done by talking De-
mocracy all the time.-DyersJar9
PronreSs.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

THE wheat crop Of this county is
very promising indeed. Should no in
furious effects result from the freezing
weather during the months of Feb
ruary and March, there will be larg-
er yield of wheat to the acre, in this
county, than there has been for years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

DUBUQUE man hired policeman
at three dollars a night to watch his
wife, and she was at the same time
paving the same man four dollars a
night 10 watch her husband.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

For Pure Drugs, Chemicals
Patent Medicines, Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, Window
Glass, Pure Wines, Brandy,
Whisky, Fine Tea and Spices
call on OWEN & MOORE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
COaly Coal =

We have been appointed agents for the
Diamond Coal and Mining Co., and will
commence delivering Coal here about the
18th OF october. We intend to supply a
good article of Coal at as low q figure as
will Justify us in handling 1t; willtry to be
prompt and accommodatingi in every way
but we must have the Cash for Coal when
delivered. Orders left at our office, accom-
panied by the cash, will be promptly filled
all others Will have the bill sent with
them. We respectfully solicit q share o (
the public patronage.
ANDERSON & BRINGRURST.
Sept, IS, rT2-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
Beautiful Extract.

The following beautiful extract is
from baluster on the occasion Of the
death of John Jennings Worsham,
Treasurer General of the Holly EN-
pire, July 81, 1871. by Albert Pike,
Sow. Grand Commander 4. and A.
S.R.:
VERY dear brethren, those of as
who yet survive, and may soon follow
him, need your sympathy, for we are
sad and lonely. We seem, in the still
watches of the night, to hear the voices
and see the faces of our dead, whose
bodies lie buried far apart, unconsci-
Gus and ungrateful of the sunshine
and rains alike. We are left to bear
the burden alone, and we faint and
are weary under its weight. One by
one, our helpers in the great task that
we undertook fifteen years ago are
passing away, and each blow recoils
upon the survivors and disheartens
them. So, when a great wind passes
through the woods and overthrows
part of the trees, those that remain
standing are shaken and Scared, strip
ped and MANNED, with branches torn
away.
We live our little life, plant trees,
that our thankful children or the un-
thankful stranger may recline under
their shade; and build houses for
others to inhabit after we shall be for
gotten;
"Mors sofa fdtetw
Quantltld Sat koBgiaun corpuscula."
But it is better to live and toll, than
that we alone should reap the fruits of
our labors. We shall see our brother
no more, nor clasp his hand, nor see
his kind works any more, but he still
lives, as we shall live, when we lay
down our garments of mortality, and
leave behind US the frettiDg cares and
biting sorrows of this unsatisfactory
life.
"Nortatiate relicta riUit immortali-
tate indutus."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
LOWEST KNOWN RATES CONSISTENT
WITH SECURITY.

Be not deceived and misled. The best is the
cheapest. II you wish TO insure your life,
choose u company OF age, experience and
BILE" New York Life.
Will give our attentie the buying
selling and renting Of reai estate,
March Is, '73-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

Depot for all Patent Medi-
cines-Simmons' Liver Reg
ulator, Vinegar Bitters, Hos
letters Bitters, Rangum
Root Liniment, Danforth's
Sanative Dentifrice, etc. We
sell ALL PATENT MEDICINES,
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, at
manufacturers prices.
OWEN & MOORE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

White Lead, Oil, Paints
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14

and Painters Material for
sale low at Byers'.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
OLD AND RELIABLE
New York Life Ins. Co.,

no new-fangled. untried, or experimental
company. but one time tried and tested
and ever found worthy. Undoubted in
demnity at the