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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
RE- NOV Al!
REDUCTION
PRICES! f!
Y. |. WILLIAMS
TO OCCUPY
New Quarters,
RAPIDINCREASEO OF BUSINESS
THE CAUSE.
MUST SECURE
A
LARGER STORE ROOM.
THE COMING FILL TblDE

In order to reduce my stock, prepar-
atory to receiving Fall Goods, and
also in anticipation of my removal, l
will offer a great many desirable
Boots and Shoes at GREATLY RE-
DUCED PRICES until the 1st day of
September next. Straw and Cloth
Hats AT COST and LESS THAN
COST. Call early and see the bargains
being given. About September 18th
l will commence to occupy Store-room
No. 25, Franklin Street. This room
is on the Southeast corner of Frank
lin and First Cross Streets, just one
door East of my present place of bust
ness, and Immediately opposite the
Grocery House of j. j. Crusmar.
Being the same room occupied by Geo.
Alwell, as a confectionery, last year.
When visiting town notice for the
place, as 1 shall have it literally
placarded. expect this Fall to offer
the people Boots. Shoes, Hats, &C., at
prices especially adapted to the exs
tremely hard times. l am fully aware
of the failure of crops, and duly ap-
preciate the embarrassing position in
which it places the farmer, as well as
the merchant, the mechanic, and all
who eat meat and bread; and in view
of these difficulties | shall have my
Shoes made especially adapted to
present emergencies, and will offer
them at such prices as will place them
within the reach of all, notwithstand-
ing the great scarcity of money.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
Liberality of Newspaper Publishers.

The following rules and regulations
respecting newspapers are so well un-
derstood by the general public that
they need hardly be repeated, but the
members of the press, although re-
minded in various ways that they are
not forgotten, will attest to their cor
rectness
The model newspaper publisher will
always send his paper free to any re-
ligious association or reading-room as
sOciation that requests it, satisfied to
know that the inhabitants Of the
country will walk two miles TO read
the free paper rather than subscribe
for it.
Any person can have forty or fifty
copies of the paper free, at any time,
by coming in and saying he is 'an old
subscriber, or used to take the paper
Any person who advertises to the
extent Of four and sixpence will be
entitled to take away three or four
dollars' worth of paper ON the date
that his advertisement appears, and
have the paper sent to him free ever
after.
Whatever the price of advertising
may be, the publisher will always be
prepared to make discount.
II you happen to get an advertise
ment into the Bungtown Banner for
two dollars a column, remember that
is'the standing price for all other news
papers.
The best way to have your adyertis-
ing done cheap is to have letter head
printed, reading, Advertising Agency
ofShyster, Chears & Co, andthen send
your order to the publisher, request
ing him to deduct the usual commits
sion of 81 per cent"
When there is an unusual demand
for the paper, send up to the Office for
an extra copy, free, and say yours has
not been left. A crowd of these ap-
plications always shows the Publisher
on what day there is anything un-
usually attractive or spicy in his paper,
and how many people will lie for six
pence each.
If you change your residence or
place of business, do not take the
trouble to order your paper left at the
new location, but drop in the office
three months afterwsrd, and blow the
clerk up for not having the paper left
correctly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

determination on the part of the gen.
eral assembly to meet the liabilities of
the State would secure the confidence
of capitalists, enhance the value of the
State securities and promote the best
interests Of our internal improvement
companies" /" Not an
ARGUMENT
is here urged by the honored statesman
and financier, then the president of
the bank, in favor of sustaining that
institution which does not now apply
with ten-fold force in favor of re-es-
tablishing it.
l do not hesitate to say that, with
circulation of 81 800, 900, the Bank of
Tennessee and its branches would. at
the end of the first six months from
its establishment, place a large sum
from its net profits on loans, discounts,
exchange, etc., to the credit of the
treasury, and that within two years
from Its esta blishment the net profits,
after paying the interest on the bonds
issued and sold to obtain the bank
capital, would be sufficiently great to
pay from one-half to two-thirds of the
taxes which would otherwise have to
be levied to meet the obligations of the
State | do not think it extravagant
to predict that within ten years the
entire annual Indebtedness of the
State would be paid from the net profits
of the bank.
Tn the foragoipf, T haua said nothino
of the great advantages which the peo-
pie of the State, with its mining,
manufacturing, agricultural, indeed all
industrial interests would derive from
the re establishment of the bank and
its branches. | have said nothing of
the great political advantages that
would accrue in building up in every
State a powerful antagonist to the
present national bank monopoly, which
will ultimately prove the greatest
power in support of central despo-
tism, as the State bank system would
prove powerful opponent to centrali-
cation and a powerful influence in favor
of the constitutional doctrine of self
government. To discuss these points
would require more time than | can
spare to-day. / suggest them for your
with the simple remark.
that in his contest with the old United
States bank, General Jackson found
potent allies in the banks organized
under State authority.
Respectfully,
JNo. G. BURCH, Comptroller.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01


PLANTATION by Senator Gordan alluded
to in the dispatches:
ATLANTA, GA, July IL, 1874.
Editor C6nstitutioa:-I feel impelled
to correct misapprehension which
some of the press have received from
the report in the Herald, of conver-
sation with myself.
Personal considerations would not
induce me to speak; but, lest the COM
ments which | have seen in some OF
the Democratic papers should cause
damage to the Democratic party, L beg
to saw that. whoever interprets me as
advocating any other than a purely
Democratic canvass, with Demo-
cratic platform, and the truest of Dem
ocratic candidates upon it, or as doubt
ing the probability of Democratic sue
cess, misinterprets me.
1t is not Decessary, | hope, for me
to say that | haYe not claimed any in
timacy with Gen. Grant. nor to know
anything whatever of his views or pur-
poses from anything that he has ever
said to me; for | have never talked
with him upon any party issues or par
ty programme, of the past, the present
or the future. The reporter entirely
misunderstood me. All ! now say, or
have said is that Gen Grant is cordial
and courteous to Southern gentlemen;
and my ideas Of his purposes are based
entirely upon observation.
With my thanks for the justice you
have sought to do me, ! am,
Very truly, yours.
j. B. GORDON.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
A Whole Family in Heaven.

The following eloquent passage is
from the pen of the Rev. Albert
Barnes a whole family in Heaven
Who can picture or describe the ever
lasting joy? No one absent. Nofath-
er, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter,
areaway. In the world below, they were
united in faith. and love, and peace,
and joy. In the morning of the resur-
eotion, they ascend together in united
alteration. On the banks Of the
of life they walk hand in hand, and
as a family, river have commenced a
career of glory which shall be ever
lasting. There is hereafter to be
no more separation in that family
No one is to lie down in a bed of
pain. In Heaven never is that fam
lily to move along in the slow process
sion, clad in the habiliments of woe,
to consign one of its members to the
tomb. God grant in his mercy every
family may be thus united"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

DISEASES Is very various, said
Mrs. Partington as she returned from
a street door, in conversation with DIR.
Rolus. "fbe doctor tells me that poor
old Mrs. Haze has got two buckles on
her lungsl 1t is dreadful to think Of,
I declare. The disease ia so various
one way we hear of peoples dying of
the lungs, another way of the brown
creatures here they tell us of the
elementary canal out Of order, and
there about tonsors Of the throat; here
we hear of neurology in the head, there
of an embargo; one side of US We hear
Of men being killed by getting a pound
of tough beef in the sareofagus, and
there another kills himself by diseov-
ering his joeular vein. Things change
so that / declare don't know how to
subscribe for any disease nova days.
New names and new nostrils take the
place of old, and | might as we'll throw
my old herb.bag away"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
Look for Fall Advertise
Iaent at Proper Time.
MANHOOD; HOW LOST, HOW RES
ToRED,

Just published, n new edition of DR.. CuI.
verwell's Celebrated Essay on the rad
ical cure without mi edicine) of SPERMAToR-
RHGA or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary
Seminal Losses, IMPoTENCY, Mental and
Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Mar
riage. etc; also, CONSUMPTION, EPILEPSY
and FITS, induced by self-indulgence or
sexual extravaganza.
BB- Price in a sealed envelope only six
cents.
The celebrated author. in this admirable
essay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty
years successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of self-abuse may be rad
icaIly cured without the dangerous use of
internal medicine, or the application of the
knife; pointing ont mode of cure at once
simple, certain and effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his
condition may be, may cure himself cheap
Iy, privately and radically.
ms This lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every man in the land.
Sent npder seal, in a plain envelope, to
an address, postpaid, on receipt of six
cents, or two post stamps. Address the
Publishers,
CHAS. J. C. KLINE & CO.,
l27 Boyery, SeY York, P. o. Box, 45S6.
Oct. Is ls73-iy,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

A PHYSICIAN Of skill and expert
ence says mustard plaster should
never be mixed with hot water, but
with the white of eggs; and when so
prepared does its duty as eountsr-ir-
ritant without producing the anguish
Of blister. as in the old method.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

Rev. HENRY BoEHM, the patriarch
of American Methodism, was one aun-
dred years old June 8. He has been
preacher sevensy-six years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

WARS, comets, pestilence and top
ling dyuasties may fll the world with
fear or wonder. but nothing goes down
to the marrow of mans soul so much
as the announcement Of his baby's
first tooth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

THE comet is supposed to be dog
star" run mad-a sort OF rabld skye
terrier.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01

Depot for all Patent Medi-
cines-Simmons' Liver Reg
ulator, Vinegar Bitters, Hos
letters Bitters, Rangum
Root Liniment, Danforth's S
Sanative Dentifrice, etc. We
sell ALL PATENT MEDICINES,
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, at
manufacturers prices.
OWEN & MOORE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
Senator Gordon Explains.

The following is the letter of ex-
PLANTATION by Senator Gordon alluded
to in the dispatches
, 1874-11-11

ed and grave fears began to be entertain
ed that the good weather in September
would be of no avail. In onr last we had
the pleasure to announce the beginning of
a sort of weather which may be described
IN few words as heavy thunder and light
ming accompanied with plentiful rain, as
our rain reports show. We wrote the last
short notice just at the moment of going
to press on Saturday, when reports from
all parts of the island had not yet been re-
celved. AS We expected, the rain was gen.
eraI and also heavier down the country
than In this town and vicinity. In some
places they have, up to yesterday, from the
night OF the 9th, reached fully 100 lines,
and In no place has the fall been less than 90,
so that it can now be set down as beyond
the least doubt that the crop will be con-
siderably above average. Had this rain
come in the beginning of October instead
Of November we might nearly have reach
ed IFS crop. AS it is, it would not be
reasonable to expect that, as we may soon
have the cold northerly winds which be-
long to the season. Up to yesterday the
intervals between the showers were warm
and sultry, but a change took place then,
the wind being northerIy accompanied with
more rain. A favourable Circumstance
with this whole rain is that the fall has been
SO gradual that the thirsty land has absorb
ed a much greater portion of it than is usu-
ally the case here, and there has been no
wash. For the same reason the roads are
comparatively good, considering the guam
tity of rain that has fallen. 1t is a blessing
that it fell in this manner, as otherwise not
only would there have been "a wash" in
furious to the crop, but, as no provision
whatever is made any where to entrap some
of the water that falls, it would, owing to
the conformation of the island andthis want,
have all run into the sea carrying much of
the best mould with it. Can nothing be
done artiicially to correct what, from a
human point of view, seems a defect in
nature 2 Other islands have ponds and
traps, natural and artificial.
From S o'clock yesterday morning to 8 O'Clock
this morning l34 lines of rain more in town.
, 1874-11-11
c 0 L 0 N L.
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4 N TIG U A.
From the" Antigua Times y

\AJOW nc L1HttS@O Il EMcS
There has been less rain AMI more SUI. shine
during the past than the preceding fortnight
From tie frs' Of the month to the 10th, the
rainfall amounted 20 2.90 inches in the city, AMI
from that date to to-day it was LA inches
total to date for October 4,04 inches but near
the centre of the island the fall has been rather
heavier than in the city. From every district
we hear very favorable accounts Of the appear
anoe of the Sugar Canes. The prospects Of
the planters now are much brighter than they
we're at this time last year but still it is ne
oessary that weather such as we have had for
the past four or FIVE weeks should continue to
the end of the year, in order to be sure of reap
ing a large crop next year. Thus far, present
appearances indicate a continuance of light
showers and sunshine.
For some years past Yam and POtatoe plant
ing have been abandoned upon most of the su-
Gar plantations in the island, causing g scarcity
of native grown provisions, which has led to
large quantities Of yamS being periodically i'm
ported from Grenada, St. Vincent, and other
islands This trade has given rise to a demand
from these islands, for Ponies and Donkeys
large numbers of these animals being frequent
ly purchased at very low prices for exporta.
ton.
The announcement that a Company was
forming in London for the purpose of purchasing
abandoned estates in the West Indies, and the
establishment of Factories for sugar manufac-
ture, was we'll received in this island, and it is
to be hoped that upon careful inquiry as to the
value of the lands to be di posed of, the Com.
pany will be sufficiently encouraged to embark
in the proposed undertaking. Perhaps it would
be more satisfactory, if the promoters first sent
out a Commissioner to these islands to see for
himself and report accordingly. This hint is
taken from a Dominica paper.
It>gives US pleasure to observe that in the
midst of great dullness in trade one of our City
merchants-W. II. MOORE Esquire has taken
advantage of the depressed condition of the
"land market" and purchased several extern
sive properties near English Harbor. in the
southern part of the island. We understand
, 1874-11-11

In CHRIsTIANsTED
t. E. Mendes, Esq. Trustee.
Counsellor S. W. van Brake, Member.
In FREDERIKsTED:
Counsellor L. Faber, Trustee.
s. Wescott, Esq, Member.
JOH. F. GOLDBERG.
President.
st. Croix, 10Th November 1874.
, 1874-11-11
UNCLAIMED LETTERS IN CHRIS
TIANSTED'S POST OFFICE.

Willard Adams, Mrs. Cathreen A. Crahaus-
sor, Cornelias BENIN, Miss Buffort, Miss Julia
Carly, Phillip Crowl, Miss Anna Carly, Miss
Louisa Carol Thomas de Wendt, Mrs. Bill
Under Ellis, Christian Francis, Miss A E
Fletcher, Miss Antenette Gorge, Miss Martha
Hendrich, Mrs. Maria Heyliger, Mrs Annie
A Henry, Miss Mary L. Hatohett, Miss Lou
lisa Hoyell, P. Hanson, Miss M, Josephine
James, Miss Margreth A Jackson, Miss Flor
ence Jastrame, Mrs. Eliza James, Osman
James. Miss Maria Krause, Miss Sophia Lar
sen, Miss Margreth Larsen, George LANCE
bale, Miss Elizabeth Richard, Mrs. Mary H.
Lewis, Miss Eva Mace, Miss Z. Nautrup,
Frederik Nickolos Amelia Thomas, Ann Cath
rine Petersen, Miss Sarah Grace Rose, Miss
Caroline Schuster, Miss Christiana Spencer.
Pete Sohuster, Marian Williams, Mrs. White,
Johannes Walrad, Miss Sarah Bell Williams,
Chr. Ogaard, ~.
Christiansted's Royal PostoAice
, 1874-11-11
RIDE or THE DAY
for the Colonial Councils Ertraor-
binary Meeting Wedaesloy the
1lM November 1874,
10 o'clock noon,

2nd Discussion on Draft Of Ordinance
concerning Credit Associations.
2nd Discussion of Draft of Ordinance
concerning Central Factories.
2nd Discussion on Draft Of Ordinance
concerning power for the Govern
ment to take up a further loan.
Continuation of lst Discussion on
Draft Of Ordinance concerning an al
teration in the Military Ordinance.
Eventually 3rd Discussion on No.
II.
, 1874-11-11
THE ''AVIS"
CHRISTIANSTED, ST. CROTX
WEDNESDAY lIrH NOVEMBER 1874.

The Order OF the Day for the Councils
extraordinary meeting to-day shows that
that honorable body got through a good
deal of business in the meeting day before
yesterday, and also that some despatch ii is to
be used to day, the 3 first items b~eingexpect-
ed to be finished from the Council in this
meeting. Those measures, as we'll as No.
4 on the Order of the Day for the meeting
to-day, are Otsuch vital Importance for the
future OF this community that we may be
excused tor not getting up for this issue
q report which must needs be hurried, and
therefore less accurate than the matter re-
quires. Our readers must await the Off
cial report which, if even sometimes little
tardy, is generally full and ample and
therefore more satisfactory han a hur-
riedly written one, which might give
wrong impressions from want Of that de.
tail which is necessary for the full under
standing of what has taken place.
Towards the close of the meeting the
Vice Governor communicated that Mr..
A. Hills tender for 400 puncheons of
cornmeal at S27 per puncheon had been
accepted. Mr.. W. Moore had rendered
for $28. SO in F~rederiksted and 500 in
Christiansted.
If the results Of the Councils delibera.
tons do not always meet general APPROX
al, nor even, at times, any approval at all,
but rather sad faces and disappointed
hopes and expectations, particularly in
the direction Of retrenchments, in which
the Government does not think it posi-
BILE to go as far as the people wish, there
is one subject just now which is sure to
brighten every countenance and tighten
every heart from the gloomy forebodings
which a protracted drought in some of the
growing months had spread in the whole
community. 1t is the subject of the ne
cessary quantity of rain to produce a crop.
We had a good September and October
opened well, but the rain was not e~ontinu-
, 1874-11-11
80
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

NI6 Isl
C HRIST AN STED
- NOVEMBERl8 1874.
ENTERED,
4 Dan. Sch. "Hugo," G. George, Master,
from st. Thomas.
4" Dan. Sch. "Vigilant,"P P. Pentheny, Mas
ter, from st. Thomas.
9 Dan. Sch. "Vigilant," P. Pentheny, Mas
fer, from St. Thomas.
" Dan. Sch. ''Hugo,"C c. George, Master, from
st. Thomas.
CLEARED
4 Spanish Sch, sc. N. Hjardemaal,' Schmuck,
Master, for st. Thomas.
" Amer. Sch. "Chimo," E. P. Lansel, Mas
ter, for West End.
5 Dan. Sch. "vigilant," P. Pentheny, Mas
ter, for st. Thomas.
i" Dan. Sch. Hugo" c.. George, Master, for
ST. Thomas.
9 Dan. Sch. "vigilant," P. Pontheny, Mas
ter, for st, Thomas.
" Dutch Sch. "Harbinger," Leverock, Mas
ter, for Eustatius.
10 Dan, Sch. "Lizzie," Fench, Master, for
!" Dan ), Sch. "Hugo," C. George, Master, for
st. Thomas.
, 1874-11-11

From S o'clock yesterday morning to 8 O'Clock
this morning 1874 lines of rain more in town.
The New York herald., 1874-07-12

coupled with his progressiveness have brought
the congregation TO the pinnacle OF ecclesiastlca
fame and prosperity. The society therefore dld
handsome thing tine other day 10 retiring MIN on
competency, and giving hm a menentO oil thelr
esteem In a beautiful service OF silver and an en-
graved set ol complimentary resolutions. DR.. Gott
herd now becomes chief rabbi OF the eonxreRa
ton, and perhaps, by and by. DR.. r. Adler VIII De-
come assistant.
Rev. S. II. Meeger of the Old Bushwick Reformed
church Is the Oldest effective minister IN Brooklyn.
Next January he Will preach his seml-centennlal
sermon as pastor OF this church, which has existed
since 1905.
The clergy cost the United States $12 000, 900 an
nually: the criminals, $40, 00O 900; the lawyers,
$40, 000, 600 rum, $500, 900, 600.
The Rev. M. M. g. Dana mas accepted a call from
the Park Congregational church IN Norwich, Conn
Rev. Theo. l.. Day has resigned his pasforate OF
the First congregational church. at Holyoke
Mass, to accept a call to West Bedford Mass.
The little Congregational church at Hennlker,
N H., during the 104 years OF its history has sent
out eighteen ministers and Missionaries, or one
for thirty OF It's entire membership.
Rev. Isaac b. BfOkaw, OF Newark, has accepted q
call TO the South Bergen Reformed church, the
new congregation OF Jersey City heights.
The Protestants OF Australia number l, 35S, 525
out Of a population OF 1,92O,375. The Protestant
churches advance in numbers at a more rapid rate
than the population of the country.
The New York herald., 1874-07-12
THE MYSTERIOUS SHOT,
Investi CATION Before Coroner Woltln an
Disch a a the Prisoners.

knvestt t~nt1On Before coroner NCltma an
Discharge OF the Prisoners.
Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest in
the case OF the unknown man who on the after
noon OF the 4th inst, was shot through the heart
and fell dead at the corner OF Church and Rector
streets. The evidence adduced went to show tnat
John Pepper and Frederick Holmes, both bar
keepers At the above place, we're shooting at
target and 1t was strongly suspected that one OF
these young men shot deceased: but the evidence
failed to show such 10 have been the case Below
Will be found brief synopsis OF the testimony: -
John Mcmahon, a lad, the first witness called,
testified that on the afternoon OF che 4th inst ne
saw John Pepper discharge o pistol two or
three times on the corner or Rector ana
New Church streets, and q few minutes
Pepper, after the shooting entered the house
and went behind the bar; Frederick Holmes, the
other barkeeper, was also there; neard they nad
been shooting at mark: don't know rom what
direction the man came.
FREDERICK Holmes a bark eeper, testified that on
the 4th inst he nred ten or twelve snots from the
barroom door at target on plank; the shots
were fred through the Rector street door OF tho
barroom; heard Afterwards that man bad been
shot but don't know who shot him; saw tnree
boys firing pistols that afternoon; two shots were
fred IN the street by Pepper.
John Pepper, OF No. Rector street. deposed that
he was dring at board towards Greenwich street
on the afternoon OF the Ath insI heard that a
Rector street before firing at target against the
plank from the rear door.
The case was then given to the Jury, who found
that deceased camc to his death by pistol shot
wound OF the heart ut the hands Of some one to
Pepper aud Holmes we're thcreupon discharged
by Coroner Woltman. who ADVISED them to be
more careful IN iuture