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BLIGHT BLOOM.

LIE hath lts barren years -
When blossoms fall uutimely down;
When ripened fruitage fails 20 crown
The summer toll ; when natures froxn
Looks only on our te.rs
Life hath its faithless days.
The golden promise of morn
That seemed tor light and gladness born
Meant only noontide wreck and scorn,
Husiied harp instead Of praise.
Life hath its valleys too,
~ Where we must walk with vain regret,
With mourning clothed, with wild rain wet,
Toward sunlight hopes that soon may set
All quenehed in pitying dew.
Life hath its harvest moons,
Its tasSeled corn and purple weighted vine;
It's gathered shetves OF grain, the blessed sign
OF plenteous reaping bread AID pure rich wine;
Full hearts for harvest tunes.
Life hath its hopes fulfilled;
It's glad frui!ions, its blest answered prayer,
Sweeter for waiting long, whose holy air
Indrawn to silent souls breathes forth in rare
Grand speech, by JOY distilled
Life hath its Tabor heights;
Its lofty mounts of heavenly recognition,
Whose unveiled gluries fash 10 ear tn muniticn
OF love and truth, and clearer intuition.
Hail. mount Of all delights,
, 1875-08-14

SECRETARY BELKNAP sports the most
snowy turnout in Washington Secor
Robson drives another of the same
sort, and has his coachman and foot
man that would astonish the English
and now II tuIns out that both these
high officials maintain their family
eauipages after the manner of the late
Attorney General VII Jams. Will MIR.
Secretary BeIknap tell US where he
gels authority for keeping family
turnout at the peoples expense, and
making coachmen, and footmen, and
even house servants of the men who
are down on the rolls of the War De.
parIment as messengers and laborers
II was an illustrious statesman John
Andrew jackson Creswell, we believe
who first set the example OF making
COOKS, walters and eoachmen OF men
who were down on the Post omoe
roll as messengers, and paid as sucn'-'
". Y. Sun.
, 1875-08-14
AN ACTRESS CAREER.

Eventual Life of a B-,aatifaI Woman She
shares i'm the SpoiIs Of the TanmRny
Ring, and ReveIs in Luxury la Paris n :
Mrs. Peter u. sweeney.
, 1875-08-14

oxrv une Of the Siuux icidal Black Hills
,>.n,nr,.rs. so far ss is learned, has stuck
~ ,h,. rruion and he, not being able to do
- hin ut mining. hns set up real estate
~ 81. ~ The fuor or Harney's Peak, near the
IA s,ocknds. His tract CONSISTS OF Ito nam
U,I Us-v desirable piece, six feet by tBO' is'iDg
the west.
, 1875-08-14

A NASHVILLE cat lately gave birth
TO seven kittens linked and concaten-
ated together, with seven heads well
displayed, forming q perfect round
ball.
, 1875-08-14

"WnAT LUCK?" asked q collector Of his
bow, who had been Interviewing hard case
"Oh, Smith was out and be told me 10 call
again /" How could be be ont when he
WAS asking you to come back p He was
out of pocket, SIR
, 1875-08-14

II you want to get around Boston
girl, tell her you understand her grand
father was killed at Banker Hill.
That makes her smile sweetly on
YOU.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

REFERRING to the act deferring the
collection of taxes this year until after
the harvest, the Chattanooga CON-
mercial says:
There is every reason to hope for
and expect the close of the present
year to show a healthier and more
satisfactory balance sheet than the
close of last year exhibited, but that
better showing can be attained only by
undiminished self denial and increased
energy and foresight. :
Let us rise higher than our Legisla-
ture, and show them, by prompt pay
ment of all our taxes, that we under
stand government finance too well to
lie duped into either an increase of the
bonded debt of the State, the floating
debt of our cities, or, as the alterna-
tive, into crippling the efficiency of
government, thereby checking the
whole system Of progress and improve
ment which depends upon the efficiency
of government, State, county and
municipal. If, On the other hand, the
people of the State as a whole avail
themselves of the postpouement grant
ed by the law referred to. the air of
November will be blue with the curses
of the disappointed taxpayers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10
Employer and EmplOye.

The following are the main sections
of an act passed by the General As
sembly intended to remedy an evil OF
which there has been great compliant
in the rural districts
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ten.
nessee that, hereafter it shall not Big
lawful for any person in this, State
knowingly tQ'hire, contract with, de-
coy OF entice away, directly or indirect.
ly, any one, male or female, who Is at
the time under contract or IN the en-
ploy of another; and any person or
persons so under contract or employ
of another, leaving their employ with
out good and sufficient cause, before
the expiration of the time for which
they were employed, shall forfeit to
the employer all sums due for service
already rendered, and be liable for
such other damages as the employer
may reasonably sustain by such VIOLA
ton of contract
See. 2. Be it further enacted, that
any person violating the provision OF
the first clause of the first section OF
this act shall be liable to the party
who originally had and was entitled to
the services of said employe by virtue
of previous contract, such damages as
he may reasonably sustain by the loss
of the labor of said employe ), ana ne
shall also be liable for such damages
whether he had a knowledge OF an eA-
isting contract or not, if he fails or re-
fuses to discharge the person SO nlreo,
or to pay such damages as the Original
employer may claim, after he has Deen
notified that the person is under con-
tract, or has violated the contract WIZ
another person, which amount shaii
be aseertained and the COLLECTION oe en-,
forced by action for damages oeio.e
any Justice of the peace OF sald county
where said violation occurs or me
party violating said section may re-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

THE following conundrum was pro-
pounded to us few days since, by an in
telligent and hard-working friend:
What is the difference between the
highway robbers, and the capitalists
who monopolize the necessaries of life
and demand, of the laborer, their own
price, or the starving of his wife and
children?"
1t will require a more subtle casuist
than We to draw the moral distinction
between the two. The leading differ
ence is that the monopolizer acts under
the sanction of law, whilst the robber
does not. The latter demands your
money, or your life-the former, your
money. or the suffering ofyourselfand
family. Money is the object of both,
whilst the morality of their conduct
will be settled, each, by his own con-
science. Both usage and law sustain
the heartless and grasping avarice OF
cipital, whilst enlightened humanity
condemns both-the one as a crime
against the majesty of the law, to which
the robber is amenable, and under
which monopoly finds protection. The
suffering consequent upon robbery Is 5
thousand fold less than that occasion.
cd by capital when employed by those
who own and use it exclusively for it,
increase regardless of the comfort o.
the millions from whose hard earning
capital is accumulated, and against
whom its power is constantly exerted.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10
Poisoned to Death.

A healthy liver secretes each day
about two and half pounds of bile.
which contains i great amount of waste
material taken from the blood. When
the liver becomes torpid or cOngested,
it fails to eliminate this vast amount of
nOxious substance, which, therefore,
remains to pniSGn the blood and be
conveyed 20 every part OF the system.
What must be the condition of the
blood when it IS receiving and retain
ing each day two and half pounds Of
poison? Nature tries to work off this
poison through other channels and
organs-the kidneys. lungs, skin, etc.,
but these organs become overtaxea in
performing this labor, in addition to
their natural functions, and cannot
long withstand the pressure, but be-
come variousiy diseased.
The brain, which is the great cleo
trical centre of all vitality, is unduly
stimulated by the unhealthy blood
which passes to 1t from the heart, and
it fails to perform its office BEAUTIFULLY.
Hence the symptoms Of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache, incapac-
ity to keep the mind on any subject,
Impairment Of memory, dizzy, sleepy,
or nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings
and irritability Of temper. The blood
itSelfbeing diseased. as it forms the
sweat upon the surface of the skin, is
so irritating and poisonous that it pro-
duces discolored brown spots, pimples
blOtches and other eruptions, sores.
boils. earbuncles and scrofulous tu-
mors. The stomach, bowels, and other
organs spoken of, cannot escape be-
coming affected, sooner or later, and
costiveness, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia,
diarrhea, female weakness, and many
other forms of chronic disease, are
among the necessary results. As a
remedy for all these manifestations Of
disease, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery with small daily doses of his
Pleasant Purgative Pellets are posi-
lively unequalled. By it the liver and
stomach are changed to an active and
healthy state, the appetite regulated
and restored, the blood and secretions
thoroughly purified and enriched, and
the whole system renovated aud built
up anew. Sold by all frst-class drug
gists and dealers in medicine.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

A SCRAP OF HIsToRY.-An old cit
izen of Charlotte gave Us little scrap
of history yesterday. His father had
told it to him. Every reader of the
history of the United States is ac-
auainted with. the life and character of
Aaron Burr, and will remember that
some time between the years 1900 and
1910. Two do not remember the exact
datej while he was living on the island
in the Ohio with the Frenchman,
BIannerhassete, the friend whom he so
cruelly betrayed, he was sent for and
arrested by order of President Jeffer-
son. His captors carried him through
Charlotte on the way to Richmond,
and on the day the party arrived here
having Burr with them, confined in a
carriage, a general muster was in pro-
press on the old green, on Tryon street.
Burr saw the crowd, and, putting his
head out ola window, told them who he
was and called upon them to rescue
him. The guard made him draw back
Immediately, but not before he had
been heard.
The muster was suspended, and
consultation was held. Burr had many
friends in the crowd who were strong
IL inclined to heed his entreaties,. but
thew were dissuaded by the Others
The guard, however, were maen
frightened. and drsFs rapidly ahead,
not stoppiag opfe uptsl 'psy ieafnee
Salisburf.-Caert2he y. " 0eSFFsf.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

The following sections of the code
refer to millers and their duties:
SECTION 1908. Every grist mill that
has ground for toll, or shall at anv
time have ground for toll shall be a
public mill"
SEC. 1921. Every miller or keeper
of a public mill shall grind according
to turns, and shall well and sufficiently
grind the grain brought to his mill,
aud shall take no more toll than one
seventh if steam mill, and one eighth
if water mill, of the corn, wheat or
rye, and one fourteenth for chop
ping grain of any kind"
SIC. 1922. But the owner of a
steam mill may, by special contract,
take greater toll not exceeding one
sixth"
SEC. 1923. Every miller making de.
fault herein, viz: Not grinding ac-
cording to turn; Not grinding the
grain brought to his mill we'll and suf.
ficiently Exacting or taking more toll
than herein set down and allowed
shall, for every oilense, forfeit and pay
TO the party injured the sum of three
dollars to be recovered with costs, be.
fore any Justice Of the Peace of The
county wherein the offense is commit
:ed."
SEC. 1926. ANY miller in the State
who shall swap or change the grain
meal or flour Of any person or persons
except by aud with the advice anC
consent Of the owner thereof, shall b,
fined ten dollars, to be recovered be
fore any Justice Of the Peace, one hal
to go to the common school fund o
the coanty, aud the other half to go I,
the person complaining to said Justic'
OF the Peace"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10
Ncw Orleans Bulletin.l


That we are to be visited by high
water during the spring-a disastrous
food-seems decidedly more than pro-
badly. The heavy rain and snow storms
which have prevailed throughout the
west and northwest lately al monish Us
of an immense flow of water through
the Mississippi during the spring, and
with many of our leyees demolished,
and those standing in weak and I'M
reliable condition, there is in view
nothing less than an utter devastation
of the most fruitful regions of our
State. A sick ly picture will we pre-
sent after this impending food shall
have taken from the already impover-
ished toilers Of one-third of the State
the last yestige of that little which
now remains to them in the way OF
property. 1t is very patriotic in our
Democratic and Conservative friends
in the State, AMI touching to behold
them battling oratorically Tor our po-
litical ameiloration, but rather dis
couraging to know meantime they are
letting our material interests drift
placidly into the Gulf stream. 1t ap-
pears to us that if half the energy ex-
pended by our delegates, who have
been working to effect what they are
pleased to term a compromise, had
been directed to urging the necessities
of an appropriation for the building
of leyees, the necessary funds to pro-
vide against the certain ruin now
staring US in the face would now be
forthcoming, and they would secure
the lasting gratitude of people who, we
fear, for the benefits to be derived by
the so-called adjustment, will never
have occasion to offer word of praise
for the energies expended.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10
Whaet Crop Prospects.

A gentleman who has travelled ex-
tensively through Tennessee, Ken
lucky, West Virginia, Maryland, In
diana, Ohio and Southern Illinois, in
forms the St. Louis Democrat that the
winter wheat crop now in the ground
in all that region is in excellent con-
dition. Some farmers suppose the
broadcast sowing would prove fall
ure In such States as Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Virginia and Maryland, where
the snow did not lay long on the ground /;
but examination of the plant proves
the reverse. Not only is the growing
wheat in excellent condition in these
States, but the area put in is large. In
the more northerly portion ofthe win
ter wheat belt the earth has been very
steadily covered with snow, and there
can be no doubt that when a thaw
comes it will be sudden. Spring will
be skipped, and summer will begin.
The weather will be hot and forcing,
and the growth of the wheat will be
rapid. Another thing seems to be
pretty certain, and that is, that there
will be big corn crop in 1873. Corn
is now bringing a price that will in.
sure large profit to the farmer, and
hogs are high also. Thus there are two
Incentives to produce corn largely. If
the crop should be so large as to force
prices down, it can be fed to hogs and
made to pay good profit that way
Nashville Banner.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

AN indictment for intimidation of
voters in louisiana was appealed to the
Supreme Court at Washington. 1t
was decided that the Indictment could
not be sustained by the enforcement,
act or under the Fourteenth Amend
ment. 1t was farther given as the OPP
inion of the Court, that the object of
the amendment was to restrain the
States, not the inhabitants of the
States, as assumed by the Government
The consequence of a conclusion be-
ing adopted as law, that the provis-
ions of the Constitution are addressed
to each and every inhabitant, would be
the entire subversal of the institu-
tions of the States, and the immediate
consolidation of the whole into a con-
solidated empire, whose authority and
processes could wholly disregard the
limits and laws of the States"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10
FROM NEW PROVIDENCE.


1t is not all oflife to move amid the
busy throng, or mingle with the wor-
shipping groups Of Gods children.
To wait by the bedside Of suffering,
chase away the gloom of the sick-room
and cheer the sufferer, is among the
higher duties Of human life. Aud
when am sick ! When the weary
wheels of life threaten to cease their
revolutions, throw open my doors and
let those that love me, come with sym
pathetic tear and tender touch, and
make me feel that they love me with a
love
"Fading not when life has persisted,
Living still beyond the tomb"
Rev. W. d. Cherry, of Montgomery
circuit, occupied the pulpit Of the NJ.
4. Church last Sunday night. He is
an earnest and faithful minister of the
gospel and said to be in favor with his
charge.
Sunday was a delightful day with
our young people. In the even
ing they assembled on the banks of
the Cumberland at Trice's Landing,
and sweet strains of music were borne
upon the placid waters far away to-
wards the setting sun. The trio of
songs, SO appropriate and SO beautiful
filled the little group with awe and
praise. "Shall we gather at the river?''
was rendered with zest. Let us
pass over the river" was next in order,
then Over there closed the cluster.
Other and beautiful songs were sung
with charming effect by the merry
group.
Our neighbor, Berry Lyle, has select.
ed princely site on which to build a
residence. 1t overlooks the city Of
GAINESVILLE, and presents the finest
view of that warm-hearted city that
have ever seen. | understand thai
the residence is to be in keeping with
the magnifcence Of the site. Success
to him.
Col. Goodlett will soon lie domiciled
in coy cottage, and we congratulate
him on his success.
Hard times From every direction
we hear of restitution and want
Many are now without the necessarie:
of life, with but little prospect of re,
lief The law of sympathy is great
though it does not find Judgment in
every heart. five look upon suffer.
ing stranger our hearts are moved tc
tenderness. for they are bone of oul
bone and flesh of our flesh, but to see
our neighbors and friends in suffer.
ing condition the sympathy is greatly
increased; for past associations rush
upon the memory and the feelings, and
the sympathetic chord is moved to
lCuuCl uCoo duO Oilcu W ttdTS. Il ue
restitution of the country is pitiable
indeed, but thousands also are famish-
ing for the bread of eternal life.
I By the way, the Leaf" announces a
protracted meeting for this place CON-
mencing next Saturday night at which
time Rev. Mr.. Plummer, of GAINESVILLE
NJ. E. c. s., occupies our pulpit and
DR.. Wright. of the Academy, Sunday
morning and evening. The former
itinerateG among US many years ago,
and held a protracted meeting here that
will not be forgotten for many a day
to come. Let the children turn out
and hear from the same lips the same
gospel that comforted the hearts of
their parents long years ago. The lat
ter is well nigh ION his native heath, :"
though for some years absent from US.
He has delighted us heretofore with
his forcible expository sermons.
CRAYON.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

WE are pleased that Messrs. Gordon
and Lamar, took no part in the Con-
necticut campaign. The time has not
come when ex-Confederate Generals
can be proftably heard, for their cause,
BY mixed northern audiences. The
cloud of ignorance and prejudice is
still too dense to be penetrated by the
rays of patriotic wisdom which ema-
nate from the minds and hearts of
those distinguished expounders of the
constitutional rights of the hated
South. A people who have manifested
a willingness to lose their own liber-
ties rather than see others, of their
own race and country, emancipated
from the thraldom Of sectional tyran-
ny, have neither the intelligence nor
the disposition to profit by the utter
ances of southern statesmen.
The time has come, we think, when
speakers and writer's should cease their
appeals to the North, for a more init
mate knowledge of the South with an
eye to mutual forbearance and JUS
tice. Those appeals are responded to by
renewed and vindictiye ISLANDERS, con-
cocted by the dominant faction. whose
sole object is to keep the South poor
and TO degrade it in the estimation of
the civilized world, that it may not be
strengthened by immigration and the
capital that may come whit. North
ern capital knows thatitcontrols south
ern commerce, northern mechanics and
manufacturers know that the South will
continue to depend upon them for i'm
plements of industry and convenience
and for almost everything it needs.
Knowing this, what care they for a
knowledge ofour manners, morals and
customs. Money and power are the
things they aim at, and for the attain
ment Of these objects, what need have
they of knowledge beyond this? And
besides the futility of such appeals,
each one of them is construed as an
indirect confession of guilt and a
suit for pardon. Then let the South
stand more upon its dignity and main
tain it by spurning even the semblance
of q suppliant attitude. This course
strengthened by determined effort at
commercial independence, will do
more than all humiliating appeals to
enlighten the North on the subject of
the South. The poor, whether States
or individuals, are comparatively
friendless, whilst wealth buys syco-
phancy and adulation and exalts to
high places, in politics and society,
men who ought, in justice, to be sery-
ing terms in the Penitentiary. Wealth
in the South, obtained by honest and
manly effort, is the only means by
which it can command the respect of
the North and secure its simulated
friendship, and its honest desire to &C.
ment the commercial intercourse be-
tween the two sections.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-04-10

IT is said that the Emperor of Bra
I'll is about to abdicate, and become a
citizen of the United States. Perhaps
he looks upon this as an inviting field
for future empire, and intends to run
against Grant. If we are to have an
Emperor, let US have one with royal
blood in his veins, instead of alcohol,
who has prestige aud experience in the
business. Empires may have been es-
tabllshed, in the past, by besOtte1 ty-
rants, but, having the option, tie peo-
pie ought to begin with something
better.