Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-12-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| The Federal Council of German,
has voted an increase of the arm,
estimate.
Scarlet fever and diptheria are quits
common and fatal among the children
of Louisville.
Snow is one foot deep in Buffalo, N
Y, and still deeper in New England
and the northwest.
The Alfonsists, in Spain, have gained
some slight advantages over the Car
lists but nothing ola definite character
The castor oil bean crop of Cass
county, Mo-, will, this year, sell for
over forty thousand dollars. This is a
new industry.
Spain has nine iron-elads and thirty
gun-boats ready for active service,
manned by experienced and hardy sea-
men, ard we'll officered.
1t IS estimated that $3.50, 900 are ex-
pended in the city of New York an
nually for music by the various church
es. one of them paying as high as
$15, 900.
Canal coal beds aggregating 400 feet
in thickness, have been discovered in
Uintah county. Wyoming. There are
sixteen beds, the largest being 20 feet
in thickness.
There has been a very busy move
ment in the dock yards of the United
States, which, some think, is in antici-
patton of some Cuban recommenda-
tion to the next Congress by the Pre-
sident.
There is hotel going up on the
Centennial grounds, Philadelphia, to
cost $500. 900, in which the cigar stands
rent for $4,000 for three months, and
the newspaper stands for 81, 900 for the
same period.
The Indians are still very much dis
satisfied about the Black Hill affairs,
and there is much mauuevering among
the braves, with threats from the young
men, of action in case things don't go
to suit them.
Russia is quite busy moving and con-
centrating her troops, while Herzego-
vinia is sending deputations to the
European powers defining her position
in regard to the revolt against Turkey.
These things are but omens of what is
to happen in the future.
The cold spell at the North is un-
precedented in its severeness for
November. The thermometer is 36
degrees below zero at White Mountain,
Y. H., and correspondingly low
throughout Canada and the northwest.
Probably as cold weather in November
has not occurred on this part of our
globe for fifty years.
Restocking of the Western rivers
with fish of the best quality should be
a special object with all sportsmen and
agriculturalists. TheSmithsonian In
stitute, at Washington. has taken un-
der its charge the fish hatcheries of
the country, and will. on application,
furnish eggs and young fish when asked
for by proper persons or associations.
A very large convention represent
ing thirty States and territories, met
last week at St. Louis to deliberate on
railroad matters, and particularly In
regard to building the Southern Paci-
fic Railroad. Much useful informa-
ton was given to the country by the
convention on railroad matters, aDd
resolutions passed requesting Congress
to endorse the bonds of the company
so far as to guarantee the payment of
the interest on the same from year to
year.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas,
says The federal grand jury in their
report say that from Brownsville to
Pecas river, a distance of six hundred
miles in length and one IN width, to
Neuces river, all American rancheros
have been ordered to leave2their homes
by Mexican raiders on pain of death
and that one hundred thousand of
stolen cattle are driven to Mexico an
nually by Mexican marauders. Num-
bers of federal officials have been as
sassinated. post offices burned, custom
houses robbed, mail carriers and in
spectors of customs killed while in
discharge of their duties, and the per-
petrators of these crimes have gone
unpunished; and that general insecur-
ity of life and property prevails on the
border.