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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

gently speeds its way amid the flowery |
streets and wales of this, our heavenly |
home. When we land on these bright |
shores, happy band with heavenly
banners and sweet enchanting music |
will come to welcome us there. The
Christian friends of our few years of
earthly career, who have gone before,
will be with that happy band to greet
us and welcome us and join with US in
our everlasting songs of joy and hap
piness. The good old father and
mother who left us many long years ago
will be there to clasp us to their fond
and ever loving hearts. The noble
brother and gentle sister who were cur
loved ones and playmates in child
hoods happy days, but who bid us fare
well in years gone by, will be there
The pure, loving wife who left us
heart broken and alone when she babe
us "be good and meet her in heaven"
will stand in bridal robes with a crown
of glory on her brow, ready to unite
again her pure and gentle heart with
ours. The noble christian husband
will also be there to welcome home the
precious and loving wife he so reluc-
family left to struggle amidst the cares
and sorrows of this thoughtless world.
The noble sons and sweet, gentle
daughters who left our fold and went
home to heaven in their happy youth
full days, will stand amid the tbrong.
and greet us with joyous embrace as
they sing songs of welcome and happi-
ness. And our sweet little babe,
whose pure angel spirit took wings and
went back to heaven ereits little tongue
could lisp mother" or ''father," will
stand with outstretched hands ready to
clasp its tiny arms around our neck
and sing its pure little angel songs of
joy, welcome and happiness. When
we have elapsed within our fond en-
brace all of these dearly loved ones
who have so joyously welcomed US,
when we know that we may be ever
surrounded by them, ramble with them
through the beautiful streets and parks
of this noble city and dwell with them
forever and forever amid these sweet
enchanted wales of heaven, then we
may know that at last we have found
that pure and priceless gem, happiness,
pure and unalloyed, eternal happi-
ness. R 81 - a. -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07
The Lightning-ROd Man.

Up in Blossburg, the other day,
lightning rod man drove up in front of
a handsome edifice standing in the
midst Of trees and shrubs and spoke
to Mr.. Summers, who was sitting on
the steps in front. He accosted Sum-
mers as the owner of the residence
and said:
Il see you have no lightning-rods
on this house"
No" said Summers.
Are you going to put any up
well, / hadn't thought of it, " re-
piled Summers.
you ought to. A tall building like
this is very much exposed. I'd like
to run you up one of my rods; twisted
steel glass tenders, nickle plated tips
everything complete. May | put one
up to show you? I'll do the job
cheap"
Certainly, if you want to. 1 hav-
emit the slightest objection, said Sum-
mers.
During the next half hour the man
had his ladders up and his assistant at
work, and at the end of that time the
job was completed. He called Sum
mers out into the yard to admire it
He said to Summers:
Now this is all we'll enough, but
if it was my house, I'd have another
rod put on the other side There's
nothing like being thoroughly pro-
tected.
That's true" said Summers. lit
would be better.
I'll put up another, shall ?" asked
the man.
why, of course. if you think it's
best, said Summers.
Accordingly the man went to work
again and soon had the rod in its place.
That's first rate job" he said to
Summers, as they both stood cycling it.
Il like such man as you are. Big
hearted, liberal, not afraid to put
dollar down for a good thing There's
some pleasure in dealing with you. L
like you so much that d put couple
more rods on that house, one on the
north end and one on the south, for
almost nothing"
1T would make things safer, | sup
pose" said Summers.
Certainly it would. I'd better do
it, hadn't I-heyY'
Just as you think proper" said
Summers.
So the man ran up two rods, and
| then came down to Summers, There,
that's DONE Now let's settle up.
DO what?"
why, the jobs finished, and now
I'll take my money" .-. ssE ,
You don't expect me to pay you, |
hope?%
"Of course I do. Didn't you tell
me to put those rods on your house 2
My house" shouted Summers
Thunder and lightning Inever or
dered you to put those rods up. 1t
would have been ridiculous. Why,
man, this is the court house, and I'm
here waiting for the court to assemble.
I'm on the jury. You seemed to be
anxious to rush up your rods, and as it
was none of my business, | let you go
on. Pay for it Come, now, that's
pretty good.
The Blossburg people say that the
manner i'll which the lightning rod
man tore around town and swore was
fearful. But when he got his rods off
the court house he left permanently.
He don't fancy the place.-Nar Ad-
eIer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

All new subscribers who will pay
$500 in advance will receive the
CHRONICLE for one year, and enc
of McCormacs wholesale Rembrant
Pictures, beautifully framed and war
ranted to give satisfaction. Old sub
scribers who will pay all arrearages to
date and then pay $4.00 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 a whole-sized
Rembrandt, $500.
IF ten names are sent with S400
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 picture-IndiaI nk-worth S $500.
IF forty names are sent with $500
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 pic
ture, painted in colors-worth $1,000.
IF fifty names are sent with S4.00
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 800
subscribers-those paying $400 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
to date, and then pay two dollars in ad-
vance.
We will continue to furnish the
! CHRONICLE and COURIER JOURNAL for
s. % to all new subscribers, or to all
old ones who pay all arrearages and
then in advance. The drawing of the
Courier-J ournal embraces $4,000 in
presents, and all who subscribe be-
tween now and Dec. 81, 1874, will be
entitled to a ticket in the drawing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

STATESuperintendent Fleming made
the following statement before the
recent State Educational Convention
in Tennessee:
"The most important offices connec-
ted with the system are those of Coun-
ty Superintendents. Experience has
demonstrated that without efficient
County Superintendent all the other
appliances of the system are COMPARE
lively worthless. No matter how well
the efforts of the other officers may be
administered, if the county is not sup
piled with a live, energetic and prompt
Superintendent, the whole operations
of the school system in that county will
only tend to create disorder, and prac-
tically the system will prove failure
in that county"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

How TO BIND THE Widest HORSE
FOR SHoEING AND THE Widest Cow
FOR MILKING.-The way to do it is
simply this: Put around them just
back of the fore legs. a strong rope or
chain; into this twist stick, so that
at every turn the rope will be drawn
tighter, until the animal will submit
to being handled at your pleasure.
The most unmanageable animals can
be subdued in a few minutes in this
manner.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

We are supplied with a
large and a small power press
and are prepared to print
anything from the smallest
card to a mammoth poster,
in the best style, at moderate
rates.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

PROFESSOR BLACKIE, of Edinburgh,
one of the foremost Greek scholars of
the day, IS making strenuous efforts to
reform the generally accepted pronun-
citation of Greek, and incidentally,
Latin. He thinks that contemporary
scholars have no bowels of compassion
for the dead languages.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

IT Is not generally known that the
leaves of geranium are an excellent
application for cuts where the skin is
rubbed off, and other wounds of that
kind. One or two leaves must De
bruised and applied to the part, and
the wound will be cicatrized in a
short time.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07
Its walls are all OF precious stones
lis streets are paved with goId.',

'ItS walls are all OF precious stones,
Its streets are paved with gold
Its mansions are all more beautiful
than mortal eye on earth hath ever
beheld; its streets are all bordered
with beds of sweet scented grasses and
lined with endless rows of beautiful
trees of blooming evergreens; mag
nifccnt parks, whose stately trees are
ever covered with the brightest foliage
of spring, interspersed with sparkling
chrystal fountains of pure and living
waters. with millions of beautiful
fragrant flowers sending forth their
sweetest perfumes, and numberless
birds of radiant plumage warbling
forth the sweet enchanting music of
heaven, surround the many bright
mansions of this great and beautiful
city. Eternal day reigns supreme, and
joyous thrOngs of pure angelic beings,
with happiness beaming on every face,
are ever promenading the beautiful
streets and lawns and singing songs of
praise to Him Who has made this en-
chanting land their pure and happy
home forever. The once old or young,
rich or poor, high or low of earth
know no distinction now, but all are
equal, all is peace, all is love, and all
is Joy and happiness here. The fears
of want, nor the cares of riches, nor
sickness, sorrow, pain or death can ever
reach the pure and healthful air that
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

WHEN young farmers wife made
her first boys pants precisely the same
before as behind, the father exclaimed !:
" Goodness he won't know whether
he's going to school or coming home.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-03-07

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18
West Tenne see Asylum.

Now, that the Webb site, at Memphis,
for the West Tennessee Asylum, has
been disapproe ed, the matter Of an as,
lum for that end of the State will hAely
have to he settled bv the enactment of
another law under which the commits
sinners have beeH acting having. it is
trOught, expired by limitation. TIL site
would have been located at Brownsville,
had the people of that place paid for it
They proposed to give all but 5000
tow I'd it. aud would doubtless have ap-
propriated that amount in addition, had
the comm issinners made it paramount,
which 1t was, TO the !ocLtiun of the insti-
tuition at that point Banner
Yes, but the matter has all turned
out very well, and the people of West
Tennessee want new deal all around,
for the reason that the commissioners
have been remiss in their duty in that
they have been looking to the interests of
particular localities and not to the inter-
est, of the inmates of the asylum when
established.
We know that the criticism of some of
the country newspapers has not
set we'll on ,he stOmaUhs of acme peO-
pie, but such criticism has doubtless res
suited in good TO those most vitnllv inter-
ested. and the action of the Governor
cannot possibly result in but one thing
that can be detrimental, and that ia the
delay Of getting the building ready for
occupation.
Better that it should be so than thar il
should be located in an unsuitable place.
We imagine TRAIT the new governor
the new legislature and new set OF c"m'
missioners. with all the lights before
thsm, will settle the question satisfacso-
rilY
This ends our comments AMI those
who have done wrong can step down
and out
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18
Prem ature Obituaries.
4 Word Of Timely Warming to South
EN- QudcE Politicians.

ITrem tns Memphis LeiSsr-
A tew southern dHlnphnols are pros
dneing obi unTies of the Radical party.
aa~umin thac it is dead Ii is stunned
and almsst pF. ,strate, but if these serbs
blers can get the o ib.ic .,Par they can
cnme a. near breathing life into irs moss
tFils as any of the more dIstIn guiSh1d
political doctors. Perhaps i5 will dis !;
but let u give it chance The most of
people possessing any common sense at
all can see this, ami stand at respects
full distance until the maiaiy that at cts
the Radical IrHrtv does its full aud per
feet work But few 0uack pnlItic ans,
unknown and unnOriced except when
making fools OF themselves, CLAIM public
attention at his important crisis and set
themselves up al exponents of southern
feeling TIL life ar death of the RAIDS
cal party depends not upon anything it
can do, tut upon the iurbeaFancp, tens
perate utferances and conservative Course
of those who repr sent the Uppusitiun,
whether known as ID mucrats, Liberal
Republicans, or Conservatives. he
name we would say, by way of parrn,
thesis, is of very little importance st
now Let US get out Of the woods first
and have as little growing as possible.
Our dtliverance will BE- too grave n mat
ter to celebrate with hn0miLg cannon,
burning tar barrels az fruthy speechrs
The eiemruts that make up the OpPOSi
ton are on trial The pubiicans,
ma V of them. resolved e. give 1t an OPP
pnrtunitV To- redeem some uf he many
pledges made 90 often wi'hin the last
nine years The Liberals hold the
balance OF power. ami whether they " IL
fail int" Democratic ranks or - back to
the Republican party from which M ~ of
them came for better nr for worse, de-
penis entirely upon It's temper, jnig~
meut AID merit of the Dem, a. allc parS
~ The North has resolved tn give the
outhPrn people au '9utl and tar -hnw
ia the U ion # our h"tsl urS will only
krrr their mouths shut We heheVe
there shnnid b work house e~tab lsn>
ed inr this red hot Bourbon class where
they comb be made To earn something
and he iu'erdicted from comnun .uon
with The outside world Tor period of
about {" o years
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18
COL N T. POLK.

EDITORS BULLETIN.
Col W. T. Polk of this county is a
candidate refnre the next Legislature of
Tennessee for the office of state Treas
urer His whole life has been spent In
the State except when absent in the SER
vice. 4 graduate of West Point he was
commissioned lieutenant in the 9Th In
iantry and was with Gen. Ham in his
mpaigns against the Indians on the
plains of what was then the far West.
Having married be resigned his c"mS
MISSION ia the army several years before
the late war and settled down TO the quiet
lite of farmer Ia the exciting poitiO
cal cnntrst Of 1860 Col Polk was we'll
known in the circle Of his acquaintance
as "a UniOn man, believing fuat there
could I've no peaceable secession and
that the southern States would risk their
own destruction by going t" war to re-
move a grievance Of which they justly
complained
He was an ardent admirer Of Stephen
"A Douglas and supported han fDr the
Presidency
" hen, however, several of the States
had passed ordinances Of secession and
the Federal government was making all
necessary preparations to GEORGE them,
Col POLK decided that hrs FIRST duty was
to his native South His thorough Mill
tsry training fitted him for Eff .cCive ser
Vi, in the field Having raised IA ON
pany OF ArsTli ~ be was received into
the service ~ its captain. His we'll
known gatlantry carried him alw 'Ys as
near to the front as his crd, RS ptrmitfed,
and his tactics were To- atrack the superi~
or ordnance of the enemy at short range
with grape and canister
While endravnring ts maintain a des>
perHte position at Shiloh he was ST. Sc
verely wound i th al one Of his legs was
amputated by the Federal surg Uns after
he had lallPn into their hands. In few
months he was exchanged ard immed'-
ately reported for duty and remained in
the service until the su render
Col Polk nos hubbl through the
world nn crutchas. is incorTuptibly hons
eSt aud Is thoroughly competent to fill
efficiently the nfice of State Treasurer.
A consideration of his claims Is re
sppctiully asked uf the members of the
incoming general assembly, upon whom
will 4evolve the duty of selecting SUIT
able person for State Treasurer.
HARDEMAN.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18

II is bad policy for those wno own
large tracts of open land in this county
t, hnld II at high pri es while the fenoes
are rotring down, the bill sides are wash
Jog inta guIlies and the taxes On it are
I" be annually met Bitter sell of u
part If it at Iow prices aud inIuce i'm ,
migrants TO occupy ami improve it TINS
C. urse w"uld enhance the value of the
pnrti"n retained, give us more pOuula-
ton and-thprrby increase our laboring
forer-tbe chief source of wealth.
Who will be the 6rst to Offer some
good land in small tracts at low prices to
mn who are RrIling to come into the
country and tilt the neglected soil for q
living.
Land in large bodies in this county
is rather d'ubtful invest nent with tax
alton Mt rho present rates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18
Legislators and Free Passes

Several of the nfhaiais recently elected
to the State and National legislatures,
we learn nave held a caucus, not upon
the subject oi the State Senator~hip, but
t" co"sIirr the prOpriety OF accepting
free tickets from raiirnad companies. 1t
was agreed that. in case any railway
company should tender sueh courtesy,
the fuilnwing should be the mode of a.
ceptance. 1t sir, your railroad tenders
the ticket as compliment to me
AS a great man, an individual in whose
hands rest the welfare of tn people, the
whole Leople and nuthing but the people,
then | for one am willing to receive the
ticket But, sir, if you mean to inSIn~
uare that the bestowal of free pass rm>
poses with its acceptance an obligation
to gislate for ynur bPnefr, then !, for
all of us, am unwil ing TO rec i've a pass
over the roads This, sir, is my stand
/ will run on this track, with my Guns
science as the great headlight of honor,
nor will b. switched off by any such
kindness it dc, III be switched The
caucus was not convened upon the fact
of ticket having been rendered the del
egates, but in the ev n that such al of
Ter might be made Memphis appeal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18

s-lVes from prejudice we submit, if it
.souId not be better far the Directors 20
be allosed to make contracts IF console
dation, upon some such aasis a. We :.ase
Indicated, with such schools a. are al.
ready established throughout the State.
| and thus let the limited school fund be-
come an auxiliary TO those ssho Is, in
stead IF an actual dr,riment
These schools we're established 81 b
money secured from p ivate urc-e, and
in many instances BY the Toll of tearh>
ers, who were LIFT des,itute at the close
of the war, when the state was not able
10 off-r The small pittanee she is now
Offering to her children With her prrs-
ent indebtedn ess the State cannot p,ssiS
oily increase by additional taxation her
school fund for many years to come
Under these circumstance it ought to
be considered fortunate that there are so
many schools established by private en-
terprise With which the public school
system can he made 10 Cooperate to the
advantage of all concerned.
We would have e said no longer that
because Mr.. A. who i, perhaps, n
large taxpayer, chnoses to send his
children to an efficient and weiI-estab-
lished school, instead of To a short lived
and inefficient o. e. that he shall be de-
priyed OF his part of the public lund-this
being an especial hardship if Ms "a. has
contr buted both energy and money to
the building up of the school of his
choice
Finally, the plan suggested would ems
courage rhe establishment of schools in
communities in which they now have
none, and could nos possibly work a
hardship to those neighbOrhOuds in
which there are not likely To be any ex>
eepL the short-lived public schools.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-18
SI03I3,33.
S4472O9

.............................. S4472 90
This last amount with insolvency and
deductions will make the Indebtedness
of the county at the beginning Of the
present year about $500.
The amount of warrants issned this
year is about $4,000, making total
de0t of about Sl4, 5 O.
Now to m ct this We have as shown
above $I4679 90 of assessed taxes. but
due allowance must be made, of course,
for the usual delinquences and insol-
vencies
We find on examination that the
Trustee has on his books unpaid war
rants registered something over $4,000
The non>payment of these warrants is
just what depreciates their marketable
value, aud this is the question that the
county csurt will have to deal with.
In addition to our usual expenses, we
understand that the contemplated inn
provemeut of the Jail will cost about
$4,000. Special provision will be made,
of course, for this, but then it adds to
our burdens and will necessarily elicit
the usual amount of grumbling.
But with these figures before them
cannot the County Court see very clear
ly what is their plain duty?
Before the people had scarcely recov>
cred from the disastrous effects of the
war No huilt Court House, paid our
current expenses. and still our warrants
never dropped TO where they are now
The people very ma ally ask if We cam
not pay our expenses, build a iew
bridges and still bold our warrants up
TO some hing near par.
The county will Inevitably lose money
in every trade 1t makes with contracts
or; for knowing hat he will be forced
to receive warrants in pawn ut fer his
work, which are ut discount of p per
cent he will Of course make allowance
for the difference by placing his bid
c"rres2und,ngIy high Other reasons
might be assigned why the County court
should look very carefully to this mats
ter, hut as we proOose to refer to the
sui CT again we here close q is artioIe
with The oye that it may provoke dis
cu-si n on the part of those more ezpe>
riencei in such things, and therefore
mnre cumDetppt