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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25
General Agency For All.
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EERE, SHOULD M6fE--AiN'f
AT UUNE--NDT IN.

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and wagon Repository. and leave yoar or
ders for anything in agricultural, nutt or
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flowers and you shall have IL At maauftc-
turers' prices, delivered iree OF freights,.
TRANSPORTATION. &c. Your orders solicit
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4. 4. Burnley & Co. Louisville, n.y., Steel
Flows. Cultivators, &c.
Hoover s. o.. M.amsburg. Ohio. ReaperS
500, comDineds $50, Iron and Wood Frames
~. 8 in. and feet cut.
Isaac straGb & co.. 8Iil Machinery, an
kinds
Florence and Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Ma
chimes, or any other you may prefer.
". ID. Meriwether & Go. = Flows, Harrows.
&c.
Whitfield, Bates & Co. = Castings. fEon
Fences. Tobaceo Screws &C
John :. Dawner 4 Sons Nursery. Fruit
Floral, ornamental Trees. intending WteO
mature Grape Vines OF psy FaiSing. or any
thing else In this line, from flnsntnE. n
Y. To California. II. H. PORTER.
Feb. -. 74-If.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

GEN. Wa A. QUARLEs, of Clarks-
Vile, is prominently mentioned as a
for Uulted States Senator,
before the next Legislature. General
Quarles is well and fayofably knoRn
throughout the State, is a gentleman
of ability and most unexeeptionable
private character, and would reflect
honor on himself and his State in that
position.-Memphis Register,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

WHATEVER may be their general
standing, the men in the North,
who lend themselves to the iniquitous
doctrines of Woman's rights, are at
heart, hcencious free lovers, and ad-
vocate from passion, that which their
honest convictions condemn. Ask
Beecher and Tilton if this is not true?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

We presume that the people have
made up their minds as to the import
anee of the mass meeting, on the first
Monday in August, and have made
their calculations to have full meet
ing, and to be properly represented in
the two Conventions to which delegates
are to be appointed We feel a deep
interest in this matter, because it is of
prime importance that, in the work of
organization, no opening shall be left,
through which boilers can, plausibly,
escape from the obligations of party.
We hope this reminder is altogether
unnecessary, and that the spirit of dis
cord is giving place to the harmony
which is the spontaneous expression
of a general desire and determination
to reform abuses in the administration
of the peoples government.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

Triton has not displayed much dis
erection in submitting his investigation
to committee selected by Beecher.
Tilton stands as much chance for fair
trial as Mrs. Surrati did before court
organized to convict.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

Ii the real people intend to run
their government, it is time they had
resolved, not to be victimized, year af-
ter year, by the Radicals of the State,
who make their raids upon the white
settlements, under the lead Of nom
inal Conservatives and Democrats.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

The Bowling Green Wooden Mills a
few days ago sent at one shipment over
5000 yards of Jeans worth about Sl6,-
600. They have now large and COM
plete stock of their goods on hand,
which are not surpassed in quality any
where. Merchants can not get goods u
equal quality for the same money else
Understanding Green Democrat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25


But Judge Tyler seriously argues
that Montgomery County is not losing
anything by the measure complained
of. Well, [ must confess that [ can't
see it in that light. If the twenty-five
hundred dollars Is in full for his pay
and he draws in addition thereto the
sum of seven or eight hundred dollars
from the county Treasury, the county
certainly loses precisely the amount
drawn. But he says the county pays
a less commission for receiving and
disbursing the railroad fund than for
receiving and disbprsing the county
revenue. Grant it-does that save the
commissions paid upon this railroad
fund to the county, when those COM
missions go into the pocket of the
County Judge, who has already been
paid IN the way of stated salary?
The whole argument of the Judge in
relation to this pay to the financial
agent" fails TO make distinction be-
tween the Office of County and Crimi-
nal Judge and that of County Judge.
Judge Tyler says that | am the Ad-
ministrator of Judge King and have
never insisted on refunding any part Of
the commissions received by Judge
King, nor notified the county authori-
ties that considered the taking of this
commission illegal. l never knew
that Judge King received any
such commissions besides | ad-
vertised to the world, shortly
after my appointment as Admins
TRAITOR, for all persons holding claims
against Judge King to present them,
and Judge Tyler as the financial
agent" of the county has never present
ed any such claim, and as for NY not
notifying the county authorities that L
considered it illegal, it will be seen by
reference to my first circular that [
considered this commission business
wholly illegal since the passage of the
law on the 9th of July, 1870.
But the Judge tells US that he will
get one of the attorneys for the county
to carry the question, as to the legal
ity or illegality of receiving this COM
NISSAN, before the Supreme Court.
VIII that be an exparte proceeding,
VI both cidCo VI bhC HuCotiOu NC
argued by counsel? one representing
the interest of the county and the
other that of the office.
In conclusion | ask, can it be the
law that the County and Criminal
Judge shall receive a compensation so
largely in excess of the salary of our
Circuit Judges and Chancellors, whose
duty it is to hold the courts of eight
or ten different counties, when he re-
mains at home almost the entire time,
having to go to Houston county three
times year, and then only for few
days? [ leave it to the decision of
the voters of Montgomery and Hous-
ton counties to decide who is right in
this matter, and by your decision |
will abide.
Very Respectfully,
III. G. MERRITT.
July "a, 1874.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

AN independent and upright Judic
larry is the only reliable safeguard of
liberty and justice To make it indie
pendent, remove it beyond the infu-
ence of popular prejudice and caprice,
and to make it upright, let its tenure
of office depend upon the honesty
and ability with which it discharges
its duties.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

THOSE inclined to follow A. j., in
the direction of reputation, should
examine the record and see how many,
and what sort of bonds were issued
during his Governorship. Having
done this, let them weigh his influence
in saddling Brownlow's administration
upon the State; look into the amount
and character of the debt created by
that administration and then infer
from the facts, the motives which
prompt his luminosity towards the fund
ing bill. He has no right to take ad-
vantage of his own wrong doing, in or
der to make political capital out of the
crcdulity and mistaken sympathy of a
portion of the people of Tennessee
who, if true to themselves. will illus
trate in his own case, his famous doc
trine, that treason must be made obi
Gus.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

WHAT sanguine body of visiona-
ries, were the founders of this govern
ment, who predicated it upon the idea
that virtue and intelligence would al
ways be in the ascendant And what
a villainous batch of successors who
pride themselves upon having made
ignorance and vice the rule, virtue and
intelligence the exception! Does the
spirit of Washington smile when it
looks down upon the South dominated
by African stupidity corrupted by the
vices of christian civilization, or upon
the North, cursed by the fiendish de-
vices of refined education and relig-
ion, as far as possible, removed from
the spirit and teachings ofits Divine
founder? Such is the picture, howev-
er, upon which his spirit must look, il
this blot upon the face Of christian
civilization is visible from the realms
above.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

Miss McHenry, of St. Stephens
Church, Philadelphia, sets a noble ex-
ample to women who wish to be of use
in the world. She has raised $500, 900
for three church homes, which care for
600 children. go
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

THERE is very general call upon
candidates, throughout the State, to
define their position on the Civil
Rights Bill. The call is made upon
the suggestion that some are riding
foul, mounted on the white horse,
when with the whites, and the black,
when with the Civil Rights color.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

FROM present indications the
Beecher- Tillton quarrel will develope
the fact that the principals are no bet
ter than they should be, and that Ply
mouth church is hot-bed of free
love.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

WHILST some Southern Generals
seem to have a leaning towards the
Radical North, Gen Beauregard,
choosing the wiser part, takes his way
towards the tropics, preferring semi
bararism to educated brutality.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

TIE dispute in regard to the boun-
Diary line between Virginia and Mary
land isto be decided by Hon. Jere s
Black of Pa, and Hon. w. A. Ora
ham, of N. c., as arbitrators, with
power 10 call in an umpire. The con-
test about the boundary line has been
going ON over a century.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25


for the county. Now the law which
created the Office of County Judge de-
clared that it was his duty to act as
financial agent as well as many other
duties, and if he can receive pay for
one of these duties separately. why not
of the others? aud why not the five
dollars per day f7
Judge Tyler says the reason why he
has not received the FIVE dollars per
day is because the court has not in
structed him to receive it, and that he
is not in the habit of acting without
authority" IF he will examine the
act which gives it he will see that it
requires no action or appropriation of
the court, and he can as lawfully draw
the five dollars per day as the 3 per
cent. commission, and in this way swell
his compensation to about as follows j:
Salary of County and Criminal Judges, 500
/" Judge, IS per day saySl 500
per cent. Com. on &. r. Tax, Says $50
ToxoI "a -5A
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25
Commissioners Sale Of Town
Lots i'm GAINESVILLE.

Jno. T. Woods VS.. Mary NJ. Woods ct ais.
Pursuant 10 a decree of the County Court
of Montgomery County, made at the July
Term, 1874, will, on
Saturday, August 8, 1874,
offer for sale 10 the highest bidder, at the
Court House in GAINESVILLE, two certain Iots
in the town OF GAINESVILLE. known as OUT
lots Nos Is and 4 of Roberts addition 70
said town. a description OF when MI d,i, Dc
given on theday OF sale. Said Io5s oeio iI
to the estate of u. NJ. Woods, dec u. anu arc
TERMS. onelthIrd cash, and balance on
credit of six an 1 twelve monts; NOTES VIII
good security required bearing in. aa,tSt
from date, and lien retained " sspH9e
payments, ,,psrER ONEAI
July IS. '7i-4w. pr $3.50 Clerk and Conn.,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25
Original Attachment.
State of TennesSee--MOntgO Co.

]. c. Bean VS.. William Boyd.
In this cause 1t appearing by affidavit
that the defendant, VIM. Boyd is indebt-
ed TO the plaintiff, and is nonresident
Ofthe state, so that the ordinary process of
law cannot be served on him and an original
attachment having been levied on his
property Thy garnishment y 1t is therefore
ordered that publication be made in the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE. a newspaper pub
lished In the city of GAINESVILLE, TOR four
Successive weeks, commanding the said
VIM. Boyd. to appear before me, or some
other Justice of the Peace, at my Office in
GAINESVILLE, on the 18th day OF Aug, 1874,
and make defense to said suit against him,
or ID will be proceeded with ex parte.
July ll-4w X. ID. READ, j. p.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT.
(Non- Resident notice.
]. W. Leigh ct ais. VIZ. Geo. b. Cherry ct ais
Petition to Sell Land.

w. Leigh ct ais. VIZ. Geo. Il. Cherry ct ais
Petition to Sell Land.
1t appearing to the satisfaction of the
Clerk, from the return of the Sheriff, that
Geo. b. Cherry can not be found. and that
his residence Is unknown: 1t is therefore
ordered that publication be made for four
successive weeks in the GAINESVILLE CHRoN-
ICLE, n newspaper published in the
city of GAINESVILLE, notifying said de-
PENDANTS to appear before the County
Court of Montgomery c)unty at its August
Term, 1874, to be held at the Courthouse in
GAINESVILLE. on Monday, the I'd day OF
Aug. 1874, and plead, answer or deInnr TO
said petition, or the same will be taken for
confessed as to him and set for hearing ex
parte. PETER ONEAL, C1'k.
July IL, lS7i-iw-pfs5.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25

No. Blanks or every teserIp-
lion, for sale 90 this Nflice.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-25
LAND FOR SALE.

Several tine farms ami town lots for sale
For particulars apply 10
u. u. JOHNSON, Ae~hI
July 4 lszl-1w.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

Captain Hicks Informs US that Gen
eral Buell., with one hundred and liIty
cavalry, twenty-five Infantry and
twenty Tonkaway Indians, as guides,
left Fort Grlflin on u scout, on Snllr-
day last, The troops were to go 20 the
headwaters Of the BRACES river, aud
took with them provisions for thirty
days, We hope to hear good report
from them, The evening before Cen
eral Buell. left, General Davidson, COM
mandant At Fort SILL reached dhliin
for supplies 10 furnish a line OF posts
which he has established between
Forts SIN AMI Griffin. Troops were
left at Red river, on the Little Wichita,
and ut Mlller's creek, thirty-hve miles
north of Griffin, thus forming con-
tinuous line Of posts from Sill to Grif-
fin, and they have orders to mako
daily patrols from one post TO the
other, -Four companies supply these
intermediate posts, As soon ms the
line II Completed and provisioned,
General DAVIDSON has Instructions TO
inform General Augur, the department
commander, IN order THAT he may IN
slruct other post commanders along
the line of the frontier, to establish
similar posts, and ultimately toform
continuous line with daily communl-
cation by patrols, from Fort sill, in the
Indian territory, to the Rio Grandc 1t
is believed that this Will he an ellec-
tu0l barrier TO the Indians penetrating
in to the settlements, and Is but the
initiative step to- establishing n millta'
ny telegraph along the whole line.
general Duell has been very ener-
getc and successful IN bis efforts to
give protection TO our frontier people,
Since he has been there, and we trust
that this move of the military authors
ties win rcsultm much good.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

An advertisement of n medicine, however
candid and conscientious II may be, does not
always carry conviction with II. The public
know to their sorrow that the boastful
clalmsput forth In bchalfof the many so-call-
ed remedies are literally IA deluslon and n
mare" Probably the best use, therefore,
hat can he made OF the space devoted 10
this notice of Hostetters Stomach Bittcrs IL
TO invite those who read II TO inquire of the
parties that have tested the curative and
preventive properties of the article what
they think of II. We earnestly request all
doubters to ascertain from such of their
friends and neighbors M have taken this
standard tonic and Alternative ms II protection
against malnrious diseases, or as n cure for
Indigestion, liver complaint, constipation,
rheumatism, nervous debility, headache,
low spirits, languor biliousness, etc, what
Hastettcr's Bitters has done for them. There
is no testimony so trustworthy as that which
rs the result of personal experience.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

THE oldest mason in Texas, or, per-
haps, anywhere else around the world,
is Captain Sylvanus Hatch, of Choco-
late, near this city, who was made Il
mason in the year 1909, in the state of
Maine. He has his documents still,
showing him to be siXty-five years a
member of the masonic order. The old
gentleman, who is now little over
eighty-seven years of age, having
reached that period of life the 18th of
March instant, is still in possession Of
all his faculties, and we had the pleas
ure of giving him shake of the hand
only few days since. He reads the
newspapers and Keeps up with the
times; works in the garden and enjoys
his existence as much as most men
much younger than himself During
the last elections he rode to town on
horseback-a distance of twelve miles
to vote the democratic ticket; thus as
serting his proud prerogative as free
and independent citizen, whose rights
had been so long entrammelled by rad
ical rthe.-[ln dianola Bulletin.
) For thir.y-niue years we have known
captain Hatch, who settled on the
Lavaca river NEAR where Texana is, in
1929. The army of Texas, under Gen
erals Felix Huston and Albert Sidney
Johnson, camped on his land in 1886
and 1897, and thereby he became known
all over Texas. AS General Houston
used to say, wa think the old gentle
man dates his age back dozen or two
years. He ought now to be about one
hundred and twentyyears old. Though
made a mason in Maine, he was born
at last Ealmouth, Cape Cod, Massa-
chusetts, and followed the sea many
years-then planted in Louisiana, and,
as before stated, came to Texas. Cap
tain Jim Cummings once offered to bet
three hundred cattle to darkey, that
be would live till 1880. 1ggel 01
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28
The radicals Of Dallas or,

THE radicals Of Dallas cry out "no
party" in the city election, yet their
leading men at Austin, San Antonio
and elsewhere have petitioned con-
gress again to upset the peoples gov
eminent In Texas, and remand us back
into radical, military bondage. Now,
fellow-citizens, pause and ask your.
selves this one question: Suppose this
conspiracy succeeds, our state govern
ment is overthrown and placed under
the control Of federal officers; then and
In that case how many of these pre-
tended .'sno party' radicals would care
drot for the democrats of this town
Potent question! Answer it yourselves,
as sensible and honest men. let that
dismal day come Neutrality-suspicious.
tells ua aet Tie sceaes Of Groesbeeck,
Of Limestone, Hill and Walker coun-
ties would be re,enaeted with increas-
ed ferocity ALI over the country.
1t the chiefs at headquarters have
plotted and put forth this treason,
what may We expect of the small fry
scattered ahiong dse Are they such
saints as to be trusted in the hour of
temptation? If you think so, shut
your eyes, say your prayers, and take
the radical leap of voting for them
against tried and true men, who never
betrayed yo0i In the darkest hours of
your history. Do as. ypu think best,
but blame not others for the conse-
quences. We wish none of It in ours.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

THE democratic club of the third
and fourth wards, have been having a
seriesof pleasant meetings. Not be-
ing loyal leaguers, they meet with open
doors, transact their business in public,
have speeches, Interchange of views
and go home in-peace, fearing neither
the freedmen's bureau nor the late state
police. By the way, it Is a happy priv
ilege to walk our streets ut night once
more without dread ofthe State police,
differed by such men as Pritchett,
Smith, Jack Helms, Lupkin and their
kind, IN day time parents feel that
their children cail attend school with
out intfbslQn w. supervisors, inspec-
tors or other pensioners of doubtful%e-
pute, white or black. Melvin Wade
IT, m. c.) is no,longer an oflieial,school
inspector, reviser of registrations,
judge of elections or chief cook and
bottle washer generally. Melvin has
been superseded by men who can read
and write! What change!
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28
SOUTHWEST TEN Az.

Many of our citizens are buying prai-
RE lands and establishing farms there
on, in preference to the sticky soil of
the river valley, This species Of land
has never had, heretofore, any but n
mere nominal value IN Victoria coun-
ty, and rs II consequence some of the
best land in the county has never been
improved. The advantages possessed
by prairie land over the river valley
are. manifold. First, cheapness; Sec
ond, greater ense In its cultivation
Kindergarten certainty in securing an
early "standn and exemption from
ovcrllows. Pass the fence law, and the
prairies of Victoria county will soon be
settled by industrious iarmcrs-men
who are able to purchase from fifty to
one hundred acres of land-thc class
which comprises the bone and sinew of
any country. Thousands of poor men
are debalred the privilege of building
homes Of their own by the useless eX-
pense of fencing, and the state looscs
annually thereby IL ore than the entire
stock interest is worth in any five
years. Victoria Advocate.
a few days since an Italian gentle-
man was introduced to us by friend
as one in search ofland for n large colo
ny of his countrymen. He explained
to us his plans. He wanted to get at
very low rates, on easy payments, some
fifty or more thousand acres I'M one
compact mass good land, convenient
to railroad. This was sine qua non,
whereupon we frankly told him he
could not succeed IN this portion of the
state, stating the manifest. "Where,
then ?" said he. We replied, ain the rich
prairie lands in the county of Victoria
good lands, good climate, good peo-
pie, and railroad running forty miles
to the seaport of Indianola. We will
give you letters to good men who vii
assist you, such as Mr.. John j. Linn,
Dorwin M. Stapp and others, and you
can get all the land you want at one
dollar per acre, IN easy annual pay
ments, rs we think"
Now, as u matter of.course. we would
greatly prefer having all such emil
grants come to our section. But our
lands being in small tracts, considera-
BILE of it owned by non-resldents, avast
amount occupied as homes, by men
who will not sell, and the vacant land
being esteemed very valuable, it is
pertectlyplain that such large, COM
pact bodies as desired by this gentle
man, cannot be obtained at all within,
the settled parts of north Texas, and
they are unwilling to go on the from
tier. We simply gave him the best,
advice We could under the circum-
stances, and commend him to the
goodwill of our fellow-citizens of Vic
toriaa A46 ~ Eyl & -
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

clad In mournlng--tlle soil ran blood
mothers, widows, daughters aud sis
lers mournod their lost ones-patrlots
tremblcd aud christians prayed-bul
the wagon shop of Matamorus went
on making money, til pence came,
Then the wagon shop adjourned sine
die aud claimed u share Of the victors
spOIls.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-28

WE SAW, yesterday, n full suitof buff
silk clothes worn by George Washing
ton, together, with q package of letters
from him to his brother Samuel, vary
ing from l772,to 1884. They were at
the bank of Adams d Leonard, en
route from, New York to DR.. Washing
ton at Denison, Texas, he being a
grand nephew of the illustrious father
of his c0urltry.ss Ost4ast