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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
Concealed WeaDOnS.

Judge Underwood, in his charge to
the grand jury of Chattanooga county,
Ca, on the 9th instant, spoke as fol-
lows on the offense of carrying con-
cealed weapons:
Ny deliberate judgement is, that
more than one-half of the hom!cides
in this State, result directly from the
shameful violation of this law. The
blood of the slain cries from the
ground and urges to the enforcement
of this law, Human life is held too
cheap, aud blood flows ike water.
How often is this law violated? Can
you not find out by a diligent enquiry /?
Men go through the country loaded
down with these instruments of death
Some of them are walking and riding
arsenals thoughtless persons wearing
these engines of destruction concealed.
No one has right TO carry arms to a
place of divine service or worship even
openly, or to a court of justice. Are
we afraid 4? Afraid to execute this
law? / urge you to rise In your pow
er, vindicate the majesty and supre-
macy of the law. | solemuly believe
and declare that the great interests Of
the people demand the faithful enforce
ment of all the laws of the land, civil
and criminal. JHrEs.e F.a
The richest legacy we can leave to
posterity, would be faithful enforce
meut Of the law of the land. If we
set the example, and il is followed by
those who come after, crime will cease
in our midst, good order will prevail,
and Christian civilization will make a
march unprecedented in this age.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
Drilling Wheat.

Is it economy to use wheat drills on
our farms? Will it pay? If there is
a labor saving machine that will pay
at all, the wheat drill is one of them.
There is none, according to the in
vestnent, that will pay larger per
cent. 1t is so constructed that the ex-
act quantity of wheat designed for one
acre of land can be gagged to frac-
ton. Ode bushel or more can be
sowed and every grain of it saved and
put just where we want it. Not so in
sowing broad cast with the hand.
There IS not only obliged to be a loss,
bat we are apt to get too much or too
little in the ground. In drilling all
this is avoided. We have no doubt. on
cur Target farms, the worth of one of
these machines could be made in
year or two in the saving of the seed
alone.
But there is still another aspect of
the matter. Consider the immense
saving of labor. Every farmer must
give due weight to consideration like
this, especially in these times when
the labor system is so sadly out of
JOINT. But. independent of this, wheat
put IN with drill will stand the win
tiers better, for The reason that it is
dropped iuto a small furrow which, by
the constant crumbling into it of the
adjacent soil, protects its roots and
keeps the soil packed around them
Age and Oatlook.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25

whether a lucky chance was about to
befriend her as It had befriended her
before. a CHEEKY voice. sounded below.
George had just come In, dripping but
cheerful, from the post-ofice.
Hello, moiherl what's the matter?
Crying, aud discouraged? Why. this
will never do in the world Come.
little folks, run off to the barn every
one of you, and play. The FIRE smokes,
does it? Well, never mind I'll have
things all straight, in minute, with
few kindlings. The fact is, mother.
you sit at home too much You get
nervous. | must contrive some way
of taking you out to drive every day."
A sly, dinnp.ed smile CAME into Lucy
Darls face as she heard the strong,
caressing voice Of her lover, bringing
hope and courage with 1t, and reflected
that he was certainly of a different,
stamp from Eugene Folliott, whose
dashing manners and city airs and
graces had so nearly captiyated her.
1t was quite evident that he would
wash and wear. according to aunt
Judith S theory.
u suppose am a little nervous at
times, George" Mrs Haven answered !;
hut | never feel it when you are here.
/ don't know what | should do with
out son ike you. But if you ever
get married"
But Lucy Darl could not stand this
she felt ike little innocent caves
dropper, as she was, and hurried down
stairs.
you here, Lucy ~ cried Mrs. Ha-
ven, who was busy at her stocking
darning.
You here, Miss Darl?' exclaimed
George, who had just brought in an
armful of fresh kindlings.
Il couldn't find any one up stairs, y
said Lucy, blushingly, and looking
painfully conscious. Il looked ali
over I've just come to ask if you
got the root of Hartford fern you
promised me, Mrs Haven't"
Its set out in flower pot, under
the back kitchen window" said Mrs.
Haven. But you u stay all day, now
that you are here, Lucy dear p
Miss Lucy did not refuse.
Mr.. Eugene Folliott lay in bed un-
til eleven, and read novels. At noon
he came down stairs.
"Confounded dull here, without a
soul to speak to, " said he.
y OF course his mother and sister were
outside the pale of civilized humanity
And at sunset, when the crimson
beams of the declining orb of day
broke radiantly out through parting
clouds, he tied on his best neck-tie
and pinned pink carnationin his but
ton-hole. r. lC e.H q.
II think I'll go over to Mrs. Darls
for little while, said he.
You needn't, " said the astute Nell
why not?'
Because Lucy was here this morn.
ing, aud heard you scolding at poo
mamma; and because | saw her 60 by
just DOW with George Haven; anC
they're engaged"
How do you know?"
} By instinct
Mr.. Foilliott made a grimace, un
! pinned the carnation, and stayed a
, home.
The engagement became a publ,
: affair the next day and Lucy Oar
wrote back to her aunt Judith tina
she had accepted lover whom sh,
could warrant as an article that would
wash and wear. rr.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
Arrival and Departure or Mails

CLOSE. a.
For Louisville and beyond, 2 P. NJ. and
S:30 pm. 5
For Nashville, 7:3n p. NJ
between GAINESVILLE and Louisville, $50 p.
II.
southeastern Railway, 20 p. M
Southern, 6P.M.
bower, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 7:3e A.
n.
New Providence, Peacher's Mill and Hop
kinsville, Wednesdays and saturdays, 7:5O
A. NJ.
-McAllister's X Roads, Wednesdays and
Saturdays, il A. ".
Woodford and Rossview, Fridays, II A. NJ.
ARRIVE.
louisville and Northern cities, els A. N.
and $50 r. VI.
NashviIIr and Southeastern $40 p. NJ.
Between GAINESVILLE and Louisville, 6:30
p NJ.
Southern. 3l5 P. N.
tlew Providence, P. NJ.
Dover, Tuesdays and EEjdays, p. NJ.
HopkinsvIlle, Wednesdays and Saturdays
4P.k.
McAllster's X Roads, Wednesdays and
Saturdays, l0A. N.
Woodford and Rossyiew, Fridays, 10 A. NJ.
Office hours, daily. from A. II. to 5P. N
Sundays, 8 to 81 IN. After evening mail
is distributed, Office is open Is minutes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25

Tennessee has given her country
three Decentralization Polk, and
JohnsOn-and it is queerer still tina
they were al born in Carolina.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Announcement of marriages and deaths
free-tributes of respect and obituaries
half price.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-25
QUARTER BONDS
OF THE
OF THE
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION Co.,
Five Dollars Each.
$500,

VIII buy quarter Bond of The Industrial
Exhibition Co. of New York.
Each Quarter Bond participates in Four
series allotments every year, until II Is re-
deemed.
The following Premiums show what any
Bond may receive. A quarter Bond would
receive one quarter of the below named
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LOWEST KxoWk RATES CONSISTENT
IN WITH SRCURifr.
frustee's Notice.

Having q uaiified ss Trustee sof }. J. Ham,
istt, all persons having claims a&ainst him
ars notified 70 die the same with me.
Those Indebted 70 him are reqvssfsd 20 call
WA. n. D4kEfEL.
Aug. IA. 1876 3m. TrnStee.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
A Royal Present.
From the New York Sun, Jan. 2Sth.


The wedding gift from the Khedive
of Egypt to the daughter of General
Sherman reached New York by
steamer on Tuesday, and was on
private exhibition in the Collectors
parlor of the Custom House yester-
day afternoon.
The present is parure Of diamonds
necklace and eardrops, said to be the
most magnificent and valuable in this
country. The necklace is composed
of four stransd Of diamonds, each of
which is a brilliant. Not one Of them
is worth less than 81 900. The chain
is studded with the gems, and they
are set so closely together as to hide
the gold. There are 50 many Of them
that Deputy Collector Lydeckcr tired
in the count. He counted $50, which
is only about half of the whole num-
Der. The strands are joined by ten
immense stones, each of which is en-
circled by smaller gems. The one in
front is the size of a hickory nut, and
is worth $4,000. Pendant from the
front is fcstoon of briliants with
five big pcar-shaped stones of finest
water lustrc hanging from it. The
ornaments for the ears are single
stones equally rs large as the rest
The entire set is appraised at from
$26O,OOO to 100000.
The case for the jewels splain mo-
rocco, without inscription. As soon
as the Secretary of the Treasury or
ders free permit for them under the
special act of Congress they are to be
delivered to the Turkish Minister,
and by him presented to the fair
bride on behalf of the Egyptian po-
tentate.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

The advocates Of capital punish
ment, in urging their plan as best
calculated to prevent crime, are wont
to ask, triumphantly, "Who would
not rather go to prison than be hang
ed?" There is one murderer in
Iowa at least who prefers the rope to
prison-bars, if the Dubuque Times
can be relied on. A reporter of the
Times the other day visited Charles
Wagner, incarccrated in the Jail of
that city awaiting his trial for the
murder of Frank Rhomberg, a few
months since. In speaking of his
approaching trial and its possible re-
suit, the prisoner told his visitor that
he would prefer capital punishment
to incarceration for life, and, with
apparent calmness and deliberation
announced that in case the jury should
return a verdict of guilty, he had de-
termined to take his own life rather
than suffer a living entombment with
in the walls of the penitentiary.-
Here is man who regards the latter
punishment in the light of hell,
and yet it was not sufficient to deter
him from his bloody revenge, show
ing that the character of the punish
ment has little to do with the proven
ton of murder.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

WHEN the White League dis
patches came from New Orleans on
the 4th of January, the New York
Times, overawed and inundated by
the concerted clamOr of the Bourbon
politicians and their independent
allies, foolishly suffered itself to be
drawn into what it supposed was a
grand demonstration of popular in
dignation against the Administration,
pervading the whole country. The
wind storm is over and the Times
once more Oh it's feet, and, calmly
surveying the indications of public
opinion, is forced virtually to admit,
with humility, that it made goose
of itself and entirely misinterpreted
the situation. 1t says:
ave are bound to confess, as simple
matter of fact, that two letters out of ev-
cry three which we have received on the
subject are in favor of the President
course, and even of General Sheridan
dispatches. And these letters are all sign
ed by the writers, and come from all parts
of the country. This is sign of the
times to which some people may not be
disposed to attach any importance what
ever but we have generally found that it
is not without significance.
The experience of the Times with
it's readers, as recorded in the above
extract, is that of almost every prom
inent Republican journal III the conn
try. The Republican party is practl-
cally a unit in support Of the general
policy of the President.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

The Conservative seeks to con-
vict us Of inconsistency in publishing
the Presidents message, and not
publishing the lengthy report Of the
Louisiana Sub Committee. TO which
we say that in publishing the mes
sage we but followed our usual prac-
tice, and in retaining from publish
ing the long report of the Commit
tee, we did the same. If any other
reason is needed, we may offer that
the message was a plain statement
of facts without argument, except so
far as the facts were telling, while
the report Of the Subcommittee was
labored effort to pervert facts that
have been notorious for months. In
detailing what the committee sought
to establish we gave the whole gist
of their paper, for they failed to es-
lablish a single point by evidence.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Tho Proposed Constitutional Amend
meut.

The following is the full text Of
Senator Morton's proposed amend
ment to the Constitution, providing
for a change in the manner of elect
ing the President and Vice President
of the United States:
Resolved By the Senate and House
If Representatives, IN Congress
assembled, t,co-thirds Of each
House concurring therein, That
the following article is hereby propo-
sed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and when
ratified by the Legislatures of three
fourths of the States shall be valid to
all intents and purposes as part of
the Constitution, to-wlt:
ARTICLE /. The President and
Vice President shall be elected by
direct vote Of the people i'll the man
ner following: each State shall be
divided into districts, equal in num-
Der to the number Of Representatives
to which TIE State may be entitled
i'll Congress, to be composed of con
tiguous territory, and to be as nearly
equal III population as may be; and
the person having the highest num-
Der Of votes i'll each district for Pres
ident shall receive the vote of that
district, which shall be counted one
Presidential vote.
2. The person having the highest
number of votes for President in the
State shall receive two Presidential
votes from the State at large.
3. The person having the highest
number Of Presidential votes in the
United States shall be President.
4. 1.-two persons have the same
number of votes in any State, it be-
ing the highest number, they shall
receive each one Presidential vote
from the State at large, and if more
than two persons shall have each the
same number Of votes in any State,
it being the highest number, no
Presidential vote shall be counted
from the State at large. Ifmore per-
sons than one shall have the same
number OF votes, it being the high
est number in any district, no Presi-
dental vote shall be counted from
that district.
5. The foregoing provisions shall
apply to the election of Vice Presl
6. The Congress shall have the
power to provide for holding and
conducting the elections for Presi-
dent and Vice President, and to es-
tablish II tribunal for the decision Of
such elections as may be contested.
I. The States shall be divided in
to districts by the Legislature there
OF, but Congress may at any time by
law make OF alter the same.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

The new Massachusetts Senator,
though target for the abuse of low
down Democratic papers like the
Dubuque Herald, and the object of
carping, querulous criticism by Gin
dependent" journals like the SPRING
field Republican, is nevertheless not
without genuine appreciation by his
Democratic colleagues in the House.
Beck, of Kentucky, whose Democra-
cy is of the model sort, and whose
partisanship is mcompromising
enough to suit the most tastidlous, is
constrained in simple justice to say:
dawes, in money matters, is one of
the salt of the earth. | have sat be-
side him in the committee-room, and
watched him in open House for six
years. His political ideas and mine
differ as widely as those Of any two
men who We're ever III Congress-
But admire an honest man, even if
he comes Fl ON Massachusetts. Dawes
fills my ideas If incorruptibility. l
have seen his children padding
through the snow to school, and his
wife riding in unhealthy street ears,
while the families of his associates
were whirling around Washington in
carriages they never could have rode
in honestly. The man who carries
us little cash out Of Congress, alter
saying eighteen years in the House,
AS | know Dawes to possess, is EMIT
led to all the good words | can give
him"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

JUST how Andy Johnson came to
be elected United States Senator,
by the Democrats of the Tennessee
Legislature, and just why the Dem
ocracy of the North are going into
spasms ofjoy over it May possibly
be explained by the following state
ment by his Accidency just before
the vote in the Legislature:
"My whole public acts demonstrate
that have exhausted all the powers and
prerogatives of office in behalf of confcd-
crate soldiers. Now, us to my Democra-
cy. think no one who can read can be
ignorant of my political views / think !
am in line with the Democracy of the ma
ton, and the unwilling testimony of my
political opponents has established that |
was nominated rs Union Democrat for
Vice President, and think that my whole
life shows me to be Democratic--an UNI
adulteratcd Democrat"
The above was intended by Mr..
johnson to be an apology for, and
mitigation of his offence of having
been a candidate on the same ticket
with Abraham Lincoln. As such it
was accepted and forgiveness extend
ed him in the shape of the election
to the Senate.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
The Democratic Clerk of the Louis

The Democratic Clerk of the Louis
lana Returning Board was arrested
upon a charge of bribery, and he con-
fessed that he had agreed five negro
Republican members of the Legisla-
ture one thousand dollars each and
expenses, if they would quit the city
and remain out Of reach. In this
way the Democrats would have had
majority in the House, and they
could have carried out their revolu-
tionary designs without difficulty and
in accordance with the forms of law.
1t was characteristic trick, but it
failed. 1t will be in order now for
the Democrats of the country to howl
about the corruption and venality
that exist among the negro members
of the Legislature, and to ignore the
confessed crime Of the agent of the
Democratic party.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
State News.

"a complete History of Butler coun-
ty, from its organization to the Present
Time is the title of serial story now
running in the GAINESVILLE Star.
A barn belonging to Ray B. Griffin,
at Manchester, was burned early Thurs
day morning Of last week, and with it
three horses and a spring wagon. The
Press says that the fire was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary.
The Millers of Iowa met in State con
vention at Grinnel, Jan Goth The in
surance question was the main topic of
discussion, the rates on mill property hav-
ing been advanced to nearly double what
they were formerly. The remedy pro-
posed was mutual insurance company
among mill owners, and a committee was
appointed to correspond with mill owners
in different parts of the State as to the adj
visibility of such project.
An attorney named Geo Brown for
merly of Rockford, Iowa, was found at
the depot at Lawler, Iowa, at o'clock,
Sunday morning, badly frozen. He was
intoxicated and laid down by the depot,
where his groans awoke the operator, who
took him in The physician says he will
lose both hands and one foot, How
could we get along without saloons and
whisky?
The West Union Gazette gives the
particulars of a fatal accident to young
lad named Bellows, living north of that
town. The boy had procured pocket
pistol which he loaded, and while chop
ping wood, in some way the pistol-which
was in his coat pocket was discharged,
the ball entering his intestines, causing
death in one hour. Another warning to
boys.
Tile Anamosa Eureka tells of an aged
man in that town, who of the 70 years of
his earthly pilgrimage, has chewed tobac-
co 70 years The Ear ka proceeds to fig
urc up what the old fellow has paid for
the weed at 5 cents per day. and what the
outlay would have come to if invested at
compound interest-thc latter sum being
something over $4,000, and then solemn
ly apostrorhizes the young men, with
the inquiry if they think that smoking
and chewing will pay. We are afraid
that the boys will come back on the En-
rek1 man with the suggestion that if the
weed will carry \ man so far beyond the
10th milestone, the question whether it
will pay is an open one:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

outrages. Peace wouldnot be brought
about by classifying truth; it would
not be brought about by denials
worse than apologies for wrong; it
would come sooner or later in an
honest, manly acquiescence i'll the
system under which we live the
best system of human government
mankind has yet known, although,
like everything human, it sometimes
falls short Of working out full, exact,
even Justice.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
A Two.Edged Sword.

The Conservative is very fond of
quoting the Chicago Tribune on the
White League side of the Louisiana
controversy. To show that that wea-
pom cuts both ways, we append the
following extracts from recent arti-
Giles in that paper, stoutly defending
the President for his course in Louis
lana:
The Constitution and laws compel the
President, in case of instruction or rebel
lion in a State, to aid the government
thereof. There were two governments
claiming authority III Louisiana. He had
to recognize one or the other, and to sup
port that one until Congress should other
wise determine. By SO doing he passed
upon no question involved in the contested
election. He recognized de .facto gov
eminent, and at the same time informed
Congress that the whole election in that
State in 1872, under which both parties
claimed, was a gigantic fraud" Still,
the duty of the President was the same,
and that was to put troops there to sup
press violence and prevent war. The as
sumption that the President permitted the
military to interfere with the organization
of the Legislature of Louisiana is wholly
scandalous in view of the fact that the
President was not aware of such interfer-
ence, nor of any intention to use the mil
itary for such purpose, until he read the
report of the occurrences the day after,
and, in his message to Congress, the Pres
ident expressly and distinctly disavows
the use of troops for such a purpose ex-
cept in the extreme case of war.
Again, referring to Senator Conk-
ling's recent speech in defense of the
President and his policv with regard
to Louisiana, the Tribune says:
The debate has been mastery one, and
Mr.. Conklirg stands above all the other
participants. We agree with him in all
he said and in all his conclusions. We
agree that he exploded all that had been
been said on the other side and pulverized
Humans argument, and that his vindi
cation of the President, Sheridan, and the
Administration was thorough and com
p,Iofo
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

Prof Swing, in the .1Hio"ce, gives
the reasons for Southern disorder and
hints at the only remedy. He says:
"Vnrious reasons are assigned for this
daily slaughter of black men. The car
pet Dagger the partisan President, the
this and the that are flung out as reasons
why negro life is held SO cheap in the cot
ton States; but the chief reason is well
known on all sides, North and South, and
that reason is this, the South cannot toler-
ate negro equality u We
see no solution for the trouble south of us
except that found in the power OF the ma
ton. 1t must defend the African from
enemies just as though his face were
white"