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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
So Near and Yet So Far.
BY JOHN A. woMACK.

"Oh, it is so sad and dreary to night
The cold winter rain, how it does pat
ter upon my roof! and the chill wind,
how it roars around my lonely dwell
ing and signs and sings a funeral strain
in unison with my sad heart. Ny
thoughts are far away amid the vine
clad hills Ofthe Sunny South, the home
of my childhood
My friends-where are they?-Some
are sleeping silently in the village
churehyard; there the birds may sing,
the squirrel may gambOl, the rains of
winter and the summer sunbeams may
fall, but they sleep. quietly sleep and
heed not the summer rain. nor the win
ter's cold-The bright sunbeam is not
seen by them. Sigh on, o, winter rain
and spring, weave chIplets of flowers
around their love guarded dust =
Shine brightly, . sun, and pour thy
golden beams in a halo of glory upon
their graves.
Mother thy maynard son has not for
gotten thee Mother let me lisp thy
name tonight as ofyorel A mothers
love: what a holy, what a lovely thing.
Mother, thou art thinking of me to-
night feel it, and oh, may we meet
again; thy once raven tresses are white
as snow, but thou art my own dear
mother yet. Father, brothers and my
only sister, are you thinking of me to-
night? Do they think of me, or are
they listening to the clear, bright
streams of Tennessee? Perchance
they are asleep; ifso, may the sunny
smiles ofguardian angels protect them.
Roll on thy swift wheels, oh, ruthless
Time You have plowed deep burrows
in my soull When will the spring
time of Eternity come to me with its
amaranthine flowers and its angel mu-
sic? Do the angels think of me?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
TO TAX PAYERS.

We call the attention of those whose
land is advertised for sale in the sup
plement accompanying this issue to
the following sections from the tax
law under which these sales will be
made, and would urge upon them the
importance of paying the taxes and
costs which have already accrued be-
fore the sale is made, as after that
time interest at the rate of fifty per
cent. per annum will be charged in all
cases where the land is redeemed:
SECTION II. Be it further enacted,
That in each and every case of sale of
real est tie under this act, where a writ
of possession has been issued, it shall
be the duty of the Sheriff to put the
purchaser thereof, his, her, or their
agent or attorney in possession of the
same, with full power and authority of
use and occupation of the same, and
the enjoyment of all rents and profits
arising therefrom, and the right to
sell any crops belonging to the owner
growing thereon, and to cut, remove or
sell timber from said land until full
and complete redemption of the same
by owner or owners, his, her or their
agent or attorney has been effected, if
within the time prescribed in the sue
ceeding section of this act.
Sec. ~. Be it further enacted, That
the owner or owners of real estate
sold at said sale, his, her or their
agent or attorney shall be entitled and
allowed to redeem the same and recover
possession thereof at any time within
one year of the day of sale; but at no
time thereafter, and to effect such re-
demption, shall pay, or cause to be
paid to the clerk of said court the
amount of taxes, penalty and costs
with interest on the same at the rate
of fifty per cent. per annum, from the
day of sale, on the payment of which
Judgment of redemption shall be en-
tered of record in the court, aud if
the purchaser thereof shall refuse
possession to said owner a writ of pos
session shall be issued, and the Sheriff
shall place the party in possession.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
Farming as q Business.

The business of farming in many re-
spects differs from any other business,
but we have never been able to see that
in the general principles on which it is
conducted it is exceptional in charac-
ter, or differs from all other pursuits
more than they differ from each other.
A man may be a successful mer-
chant, or an unsuccessful farmer, and
vsce rersd, and precisely the same rea-
sons operate in both cases. Success in
any pursuit implies that man must be
interested ia it, that he must make
himself thoroughly the master of it
in principle and practice, and then he
must attend to it energetically andper-
severingly.
1t is utterly impossible to make law
yers, doctors or preachers out of some
people. We know of one person who
failed three times as dry goods mer-
chant, and afterwards succeeded and
made fortune as a machinist. We
happen to know of another person who
seems to have dislike for green fields,
and would never go into the country if
he could help it. Place him in possess
ion of fine farm, well stocked with
the finest cows, horses, ETC., and we
should soon hear of farming being un-
profitable.
Aversion to business of any kind
is no more certain to result in want OF
success than is ignorance of the proper
way, and the want of energy and per-
severance to manage it will meet with
disastrous failure.
A farmer born and brought up in
the country. accustomed to laber, ear
ly rising and abstemious habits, who
by inclination and necessity has been
taught to look after his paternal acres
as the only source of competency not
wealth, is almost certain to succeed as
farmer and to delight in his occupa-
ton.
Farming, like any other business
requires unremitted care and attention
and unless person intends to devote
his best energies TO The work, he has
no right to expect success in farming
or any other business.-Fdrmer's I'm
dicdtOr.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
OVER THE RIVER.

.-fH7te
Over the river, over the river,
The river silent and deep,
When the boats are moored on the shadow
shore,
And the waves are rocked TO sleep,
When the mist, so pale. ike a bridal veil,
Lies down on The limpid tide,
hear sweet soundsin the sill nighttime
From the flowing rivers side.
Aud the boats recede from the earthly
Out DER the limpid lea
over the river, the deep, dark river,
My darlfngs have gone from me-
over the river, over the river,
Once in the summer time,
The boatman's call was iaintly heard,
Like vesper's distant chime;
And a being fair, with soft dark hair,
Pause by the rivers side
For the snowy boat with the golden oars
That lay on the sleeping tide;
And the boatman's eyes gazed into hers,
Over theriver. the silent river,
She passed the shadows through.
Over the river, over the river,
Scarce fifteen moons ago,
When pale young bride, with fair slight
form,
And a brow as pure as snow:
And music low, with silver flow,
Swept down from the starry skies,
As the shadows slept In the curling hair,
And darkened her twilight eyes;
Still the boat sped on to the spirit shore,
With a motion light ard free
Over the river, the cold death river,
Ny sister has gone from met
over the river, over the river,
When the echoes are asleep,
hear the dip of the golden oars
In the waters cold and deep;
And the boatman's call. when the shadow
fall,
Floats out on the evening air,
And the light winds kiss his marble brow
And play with his wavy hair;
And hear the notes of AZrael's harp
As they sweep over the liquid lea:
over the river, the peaceful river,
They are calling calling for me.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
The Nineteenth Century.

In 1907, Fulton took out the first
patent for the invention of the steam
boat.
The first steamboats, which made
regular trips across the Atlantic Ocean
we're the Sirius and the Great Western
in 1888.
In 1913 the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
About the year 1892, the first rail
road in the United States was COM
pleted.
In 1910 the first experiments in
photography were made by Daguerre
The anthracite coal business may be
said to have begun in 1920.
In 1886 the first patent for the in
vention of matches was granted.
In 1874 the first telegram was sent
The first successful trial of reaper
took place in 1888.
In 1916 Elias Howe obtained a
patent for his first sewing machine.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
ANAPPALLING DISASTER,
Two Hundred Persons Killed or
Wounded by the Falling of
Church Floor in Syracuse,
New York.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, June 23.-An APP
palling catastrophe occurred here to-
night. A strawberry festival was pro-
crossing at the parlour Of abe Central
Baptist church, when, without any
warning the floor gave way, precipita-
ting the roomful into the story below.
The parlor was on the second floor, and
the room underneath was also full.
A fire alarm was Immediately given
and the firemen hurried to the scene.
Some ten thousand people were there,
and tremendous excitement prevailed.
1t is impossible so give particulars at
this hour. Five dead bodies were ia
ken out, and the work has hardly com
menced. Probably hundred persons
are more or less injured, many very Sc
rIously.
Ex-Alderman Austin Barnes is very
seriously injured. The bodies are
supposed to be all recovered now. Two
hundred persons are injured, but it is
impossible to get the names tonight.
The city is filed with lamentations.
AsCENE BAFFLING DESCRIPTION.
The scene in the streets around the
church battles description. Thousands
gathered there asking after friends,
waiting for the dead and attending to
the injured. The entire police force
and fire department of the city were
called out and took charge of the work
of receiving the dead and the wound
ed.
The broken timbers were hoisted ul
with difficulty. The walls of the
church did not fall in, but are serious
ly damaged. The church is compare
lively new one.
A few minutes before the floor gave
way, it trembled so that many persons
left the room, fearing TN accident
which had been predicted by many.
The accident was caused by the Civ
ing way of the joists that supported the
floor. The joists ran from both sides
of the room to a cross stringer, the
middle ofwhich was supported by iron
rods from the roof
The stringer gave way, pulling the
ceiling and roof down upon the people
and precipitating them into the room
below. The work of recovery was ex-
ceedingly slow as it had to be done in
the dark and it was feared every mo-
ment that all would fall in.
Rev. Geo. 7. Bowling, pastor Of the
church, is dangerously injured; also
his wife, who is not expected to live.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
10 CORRESPONDENTS.


Write upon pages of a single size,
Cross all your is, and neatly dot your is; Z
On one side only let your lines be seen
Both sides filled up announce a Yerdant
Green.
Correct-yes, re-correct--all that you write,
And let your ink be black, your paper
white;
For spongy foolscap of a muddy blue
Betrays mind of the same dismal hne.
Punctuate carefully, for on this score
Nothing proclaiias the practised writer
more.
Then send II of, and. lest IL merit lack,
lDcloSe tile postage stamps to send IL back;
But first pay all the postage on il too.
For editors look black on six cents due,
{" A shabby fellow and a wretcbed bore
Yet ere IL goes, take OFF copy clean
Poets should own q copying machine;
Little they owthe time that'sspent and
care
IN hunting verses vanished-who knows
where?
Bear this in mind, observe it to the end,
And you shall make the editor your friend
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

ONE of our exchanges says: Many
farmers content themselves with cul-
tivating their corn two or three times,
but, except on new land, from weeds,
this does not make first rate crops.
The best cultivators pillow at least four
times, and many FIVE. Years ago, the
fraternity were about equally divided
upon the question Of killing corn, but
experience has demonstrated the fact
that moderate killing is the cheapest,
and consequently the best practice of
raising corn; just sufficient to keen the
young weeds that appearfrom time time,
covered. For this purpose, the west
ern cuItivators are now admirably adj
apted.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
STRAYED OR STOLEN,

From the subscriber a bay horse muIe
strayed or stolen from John RoIiow's n, m
on spring Creek, on the 9th inst. He A.
about years old, white collar marks or,
eaeh sue OF the neck A reasonable re-
ton Ky. Holm TOGi a a.
June 10, l574-2wS
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

GAINESVILLE Lodge, No. 50, meets first
Monday night in every month.
GAINESVILLE Chapter meets first Thursday
after first Monday.
GAINESVILLE Council, meets second Thurs
day after first Monday.
The Commandery meets third Monday
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
ANorHER PLAN.-The successful

ANOTHER PLAN.-The successful
effort of lady to break up" setting
hen is thus recorded in Moore Rural
Picking some splinters from the chip
yard (somc four or five inches long,,
she bound them firmly to the hens
legs. leaving only the hip joints in
working order. Biddy was outwitted:
like the old Dutchman's hen, she
would have to set standing up.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

YOUNG ENCAMPMENT No. SO, meet
FIRST and THIRD THURSDAY in
each month.
PYTHAGoRAs LODGE No. %, meet
MONDAY EVENING of each week.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

The regular session will commence on the
first Monday in October, and continue un-
I'll the first of March. a preliminary course
OF Lectutes-free to all students-wiiI be
begun on the second Monday in September
and continue until the opening of the reg
Mar term.
J. ". BoDINE. Dean of Faculty.
For the annual circular, containing full
particu lars. address
+. r. PALMER, ". D.. Sec'y of Faculty.
Aug. 2. 1873.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
COaly COaIy

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 a figure as
will justify us in handling il; will try to be
prompt and accommodating in every way,
hut we must have the Cash for Coal when
delivered Orders left at our office accom-
panied by the cash, will be promptly filed
all others VIII have the bill sent with
them. We respectfully solicit q share {
the public patronage.
Sept. 2S Tiff
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

PROF. Goodwin Smith, in an article
in Macmilln's Magazine, backs out of
his advocacy of woman suffrage, lay
ing his conversion to Mrs. Woodruff,
and to the story of a woman in Amer
lea who employed her husband as a
hired la borer."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
University Of Louisville.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
CORNER OF EIGHTH AND CHESTNUT
Louisville Ky.
The 37th Annual Session.
FACILITY.

FACULTY.
g. W. Rayless, n D.. Profe ssor of Princi-
pies and Practice of Surgery
j. M. Bodine, M. D., Professor o + anatomy
and Dean of the Faculty
L. p Yandell, Jr., NJ. l.. Professor of Ma
terra Medica and Clinical Medicine.
T.. II. Palmer, NJ. d., Professor of Physiol-
ogy and Histology.
4. s. Bell, NJ. D., Professor of Science and
Practice of Medicine and Public Hygiene
John II. Grove, NJ. d., Professor OF Obstet-
rics and Diseases of Women ami Children
j. w. Holland M. D.. Professor OF Medical
Chemistry and TOxicology.
ID. W. Yandell, NJ. d., Professor of Clint
cal Surgery.
r. %. Cowling, NJ. D., Demon strator
Anatomy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04


miums for Clubs.
All new subscribers who will pay
S4.00 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 S400 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.. Me-
Cormac, we are enabled to offer to any
one sending us ten names and twenty
dollars in money, either a porcelain
picture, worth $500, or whole-sized
Rembrandt, $500.
= If ten 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
choice of the Rembrandt or the Porce-
lain Picture.
To any one sending us forty names
and eighty dollars, we will give a life
size picture-India Ink-worth 5 $500.
IF forty names are sent with S4.O0
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 LIES pie
ture, painted in colors-worth 5000.
IF fifty names are sent with 800
each, each subscriber will be entitled
to one of the wholesale RembraDdts,
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 800
subscribers-those paying 800 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 LIST
of January, 1873.
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
todate, and then pay two dollars in adj
vance.
We will continue to furnish the |
CHRONICLE and COURIER JOURNAL for
81 % 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, 1874-07-04
TO THE
HERyOUsaDEBIlITlTED
OF BOTH SEXES.


No Charge for AdUice and Consultation
DR.. j. B. DYoTT. graduate of JEFF
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
author OF several valuable works can
be consulted ON all diseases of the Sex
ual or Urinary Organs, (Which he has
made an especial study either in male
or female, no matter from what cause
originating or of how long standing
A practice of 80 years enables him to
treatdiseases with success. Cures guar
anteed. Charges reasonable. Those
at distance can forward letter de-
seribing symptoms and enclosing stamp
TO prepay postage.
Send for Guide to health. Price Zoe.
J. b. DY0TT, NJ. d.,
Physician and Surgeon, 104 Duane St.,
n. y jan g. 74-ly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
Knights of pythias,
Masonic.

Cumberland Lodge, No. II, meets every
Friday night, at Masonic Hall.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
Good TemplarS.
II. O. O. Il.

GAINESVILLE Lodge, No. l2S, meets every
Tuesday night
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
To all Persons i'm want Of Good
Merchantable Brick. Either
ut the Kiln, Delivered Mt any
Named Place, or Laid i'm q
Wall.

yard in the city OF GAINESVILLE, Tenn, i'm
mediately on theL- & y. & CT. Southern r.
X, very superior quality OF Brick, and
an prepared 10 contract with responsible
parties Tor any number OF Brick. at the
kim, delivered nj any named point, or laid
in wall. house or otherwise. My prices
are as follows for IneFchant tn bic brick:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04
FACULTY.:


Rev. ]. B. SHEARER, ID. D., President and
Professor of Metaphysics, &c.
JAMES DINwIDDIE. A. NJ. Professor of
Mathematics.
ID. NJ. QUARLEs, Grad. of University OF
Va, Professor of Latin, dc.
w. W. LEGARE, A. NJ, Professor of Greek
Natural Philosophy, &c. a
,. j. COLEMAN, Grad. of University of Va.
Professor OF French. German and English.
j. W. CALDWELL, A. NJ, NJ. D., Prof. of
Natural Sciences.
w. NJ. STEWART, A. NJ, Professor (emer-
itus,) OF Geology and Mineralogy.
biblical Course now taught by Rev. j. b.
SHEAREis, d. ID.
L L Il NJ -
Tuition SO to SO year, one-half yearly
in adv ;nce.
Modern Languages, extTa, ...........---s2D 90
incidental lee, in advance, ............. ) W
Apparatus fee, in advance,-.--.-... ) On
Washing extra, per year Is 90
PUPILS ENTER FOR YEAR.
Forty weeks make the year,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

VIII enter into contract with responsible
parties, guaranteeing that all brick fur
nished, and all bricx laid by-me shall be
done promptly and In a workmanIike
manner, or rs lser written contract. AlIor-
ders or contracts LEFT with or entered into
with DR.. CO oh m the Courthouse will h..
Immediately attended 10.
JOHN BRADLEY.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

Have now in store, For the Harvest of
1874, the following well known and re-
liable Machines, which they offer to the
Farmers with perfect confidence. We have
sold these Machines for the past five years,
and their actual field-work will bear us out
in what we may say of their excellence:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-07-04

u, H-N r1fs FUR iEAH.
Forty weeks make the year,
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-26

mornings BuLLrrrx, II will be seen that
Lizzie Ross, chambsrnsid Of ths Inflated
steamer Crescent Cay, lad her shalt FREQ.
tursd. Her little boy escaped unhurt.
The same dispatch says that Clarence
Adsit, one Of the cabin boys, Vas killed.
II ives expected that the City Of vicks.
burg. on which all the crew Of the Cres.
cent City, including the wounded, who are
being taken TO 81. Louis, would arrive
here Al about midnight last night, but up
TO the time Of our going to press this
morning she had not yet arrived.
AT aboat one o'clock yesterday the
dry.houss Of the Cairo box and basket
factory was discovered 10 bs on Gre.
There WAS . brisk wind blowing q the
time, and this, addsd TO the fact thu! The
hrs companies wsre delayed in reaching
the ground, gave the Gre such Roadway
% TO render il impossible to save any por.
ton Of the dry-house. A gentleman
interested In the box factory informs US
that the playhouse was valued at 81, 80
and that the loss of lumber, etc, would
amount to about 81, 900, making the total
loss $500. What amount, II any, of
there was on the property we
we're unable to learn.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-26

OWING to the hard times aud the in
ability of many of the suffering TO visi-
the NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE at
indianapolis, Indiana, three Of the Sur
geons of the Institute have yielded to
urgent solicitations, and will visit Cairo,
stopping At tho st. Charles hotel, Tuesday
and Wednesday, March Oath and 26th,
1874, with all kinds Of surgical sppara-
tus and appliances, and fully prepared to
treat such cases as may call upon them
for relief, thus saving the patient long
journey to the Home Institution. They
viii come especially prepared TO treat all
Surgical cases; Paralysis; all kinds OF
deformities of the Face, Spine, and limbs;
Diseased joints; Diseased Eyes; Catarrh;
Private Diseases; Pilss; Fistuls, &c. No
cases will be undertaken without fair
hope Of relief. Prices will DO moderate.
1t is needless to say that this institution
il entirely responsible, and the largest and
most popular OF the kind in America
curing thousands of cases annually. Come
the 2rst day, II possible, - . great crowd
will DO there. REMEMBER THE TIME AND
PLACE. Send 70 the Institute for circu-
lar. 226-3-l2-eod.bt-w-lt