Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-12-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has fully re-
covered from her insanity.
The United States has one hundred
and seventy silk manufactures.
They have two-story railway cars in
Switzerland.
The Tennessee peanut crop OF 1870
amounts to 500, 900.
England has twice as many profess
sional men proportiOnate to pOpula-
ton as the United States.
The Texas Democratic State Con-
vention is to be held in Galveston on
the first Wednesday of January next.
One hundred and eighty-four mem
bers of the next Congress take their
seals in that body for the first time.
The new constitution of Alabama
decreases the expenses of the State
Government fully sl60, COS per annum.
Several Tennessee horses will par
ticipate in the New Orleans races,
which will commence to-day.
The Department of Agriculture re-
ports fewer hogs for fattening in al
most every State than last year.
In the event of the death of Presi-
dent Grant, Senator Ferry of Michi-
gan, Vice President pro tempore-will
be President.
New York has $50 miles of street
railway, 1900 cars, drawn by 12,000
horses, and carrying annually 100, Co.,
900 people.
Vanderbilt University now has 200
students in its Medical Department,
160 in the Literary, 80 in the Thoologi-
cal, and 20 in the Law Department.
Col. r. B. Cheatham has sold to
Mr.. w. r. Linck weaving colt by
| Bonnie Scotland, out of Fannie
Cheatham, for 800 cash.
Liverpool is to have tobacco ware
house to cover fourteen acres, and to
cost more than million and half
dollars.
In the next House of Representa-
tives, which meets on the 9th of De-
cember, there are ISL Democrats, SO
Republicans, 6 Liberal Republicans
and Independents.
A Dragonville, Va, woman recently
gave birth to triplets, two of whom
were born with jaw teeth and the other
with front teeth.
Col. Tomlinson Fort was elected
mayor of Chattanooga on the 18th ult.
by 2S3 majority. He is the first Dem
ocratic mayor that city has had for
years.
There will be twenty-four contest
ed election cases to settle in the next
National House of Representatives
Nine of the contestants are Republi-
cans and fifteen are Democrats.
The total amount paid by the three
hundred and fifty churches of New
York city for their choirs is not less
than half million dollars year.
W. ". Gates is going to move the
Advocate from Henderson to Jackson
to be called thereafter the Wing Ban
ner.
Formerly, when man got tired Of
the world, he went in cave and dwell
alone; now he accomplishes the same
results by opening store and neglect
ing tc advertise.
There are nine Congressional candi
dates IN the field to fill the Office made
vacant by the death OF Judge S. NJ
Fife, of the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict of Tennessee.
Acton Young, the irrepressible anc
peripatetic hotel keeper, was burned
out in Sherman, Texas, recently. /
was his one hundred aud fifty-fourtf
hotel.
The taxable property of Alabama
amounts to S160,000,000. Her State
debt is thirty millions, of which four
teen was contracted on account o.
: railroads.
f VIM. B. Astor, one of the riches
men in the United States, died in New
York on the 9th ult He was tn.
founder of the Astor Library, one O
the largest and most valuable in thi:
country.
The old bell which called together
! the Virginia Convention of 1775, il
Richmond, when Patrick Henry utter
ed his stirring sentence, Give me lib
r erty or give me DEATH, is still in US,
in Martinsviile. in that State.
The only descendant of Geo. ID
; Prentice is a grandson of fourteen
years Of age, who bears the same name
He is now canvassing the South fo
E his grandfathers forthcoming book o
( poems.
A French expedition is being fittet
.. out to make a tour Of the world in tel
t months, under the auspices of Geo
graphical Society. The excursionist
: will visit India, Japan, the interior Sc,
of Japan Chinese ports, Australia. tn,
United States, &C. A special librar.
and cabinet of instruments will b,
taken.
The noted flag that waved over For
McHenry at Baltimore in September
1914, during the British bombardment
and which suggested to Key the com
! position of Star Spangled Banner,
is now on board the Tallapoosa, which
is lying at Portsmouth 1t is badly
torn and has thirteen stars, and il
owned by Mrs. GeOrgianna ArmisteaC
Appleton, of Boston, daughter of Col
' oneT Armistead, who commanded a
the fort at the time. 1t is to be ex
, hibited at the Centennial.
The citizens of Chicot county, Ar
E kansas, have addressed a petition t.
, Governor Garland urging HIM to issue
+ a circular to the Governors Of the diff
, erent Southwestern States, Alabama
, Louisiana, Texas. Mississippi, Tennes
see, &C., asking them to unite in cal
for convention of the Southern State.
to be held in New Orleans during the
, coming Winter, for the purpose o
uniting the different States in COM
mon effort for the encouragement and
f protection of immigration to the South
and especially direct immigration
F from Europe. He will doubtless grant
the petition and issue the circulars as
requested.
Gen. Jos. Z. johnson, Gen. Sher-
man and Gen. Beauregard exchanged
geetingS amid enthusiastic demonstra-
tons, on the platform at the prelimi-
nary organization of the Texas Pacific
Railroad convention at ST. Louis.
Such straws as these are added evil
dences that the bloody chasm is
being bridged over by the people. Let
1t be said TO the immortal praise OF
Horace Greeley that he inaugurated