Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-12-25
NEW PROVIDENCE ITEMS.
Christmas gift I!

Christmas gift
Tobacco coming in lively.
Business has an upward tendency.
How is your head this morning =?
Everything is now in a good swing
for the holidays.
Mrs. Blakenoy's honse and lot will
be offered for sale at auction, Jan. l.
T. p. Edlin and J. W. Howell have
opened boot and shoe shop in our
town. Success to them.
Tandy & Whitefeld have large as
sortment of holiday articles. Call and
examine their stock.
j. N. Williams has removed his
meat store to room adjoining Wheat
ley's livery stable.
Bill Luter Osburn has taken posi-
ton as salesman with j. Ii. Pettus y
CO., wholesale and retail grocera.
r. II. Walkers fitting up commod-
ious warehouse preparatory to engaging
in a tobacco and commission business.
VIM. Donaldson and Ben. McGhee
are the only parties in our town who
furnish spiritual comforts for the in
ner man" in small doses.
G. Michigan, dealer in stoves and tin
ware, has large aud complete stock,
He says he can furnish anything In his
line of business at as low figures as
any house south of the Ohio river.
Give him trial,
Mr.. Barrow, of Christian county,
KY, has opened wagon shop in our
town. He is an industrious man, and
will no doubt receive liberal patron
age from our citizens.
Messrs. johnson & Kendrick have
a full stock of dry goods and groceries,
and are Offering them to the trade at
very low prices for cash. d. ID. John
son, JAS. Osburn and V. NJ johnson
are the courteous statesmen of the
establishment.
Next year is leap year, and all the
manageable girls are correSpondingly
tickled. The slow boys will be brought
up to time after the first of January, as
the girls propose to propose.
Geo. Rossington and g. W. Leigh
officiate behind the counters of ID. w.
Scott & Co. This firm has a very large
variety Of nice things for the holidays.
Somebody said they heard some one
say something sometime somewhere
about somebody or something. There
is nothing like getting fact cornered. |
7. Bostleman and NJ. Small repre-
sent the saddle and harness business
of New Providence. They do good |
work, at prices to suit the times.
The couple who were married here |
last week, walked all the way from
near Princeton, KY, to this place. As
they seemed determined to enter the
dismal swamp of matrimOny," they
we're accordingly accommodated. The
bride looked charming in her new
lotted calico dress.
On the 18th inst, child of jim
COL, was left alone in the
cabin, and by some means its clothes
we're set on fire. 1t ran out into the
yard, but before assistance could reach
It, was so severely burned as to cause
It's death in about an hour. This is
another lesson for parents, which
should teach them the danger of leav-
ing helpless little ones exposed to the
risk OF such fearful accidents.
NJ. b. Coleman continues to sell his
Try goods, Clothing, boots, shoes. etc
1t rock bottom price,. and will con
tinue to do so during the helidnys.
Persons wishing 10 avail themselves Of
hese liberal prices should call at once.
Hessrs. Jones. Huffman aud Barbee
mile behind the coupters, anl aout
sh the yard sticks, Jones Is the only
married. man among them, anl there
IRE the girls need not throw away
bcir spiles upon him.
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