Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-07-22

en- rrencnmen, all speaking at once,
and gesticLlating as though they had
designs on each Others lives. say
that if it was not for occasional scenes
like this, we would hardly know that
the grandest display of art and science
that were ever gotten together were
on exhibition in this city. But so it
is, and if you could step in some fine
morning and find that some thirty or
forty thousand people had already
passed the gates, you would begin to
think that something was going on,
and then when or the inside, if you
were called on to make an estimate of
the number of people there, you would
say about one thousand, the magni-
tude Of the place totally annihilating
numbers. Many Of the States have
erected beautiful buildings as a rem
dezvcu for the visitors that may come
from their own States. These build
ings are mostly furnished elegantly,
having all their own State papers, a
fine reading room with good library,
a parlor and ladies' room in which
you can always find a good piano or
organ-and in some they have both.
They all have fine, large register, in
which citizens of that State can give
their home and also their address
while in the city, so that any friend
from home viii have no difficulty in
finding them.
A few days since l was passing from
the Delaware to the Iowa State build
ings, when l passed from a tent ex-
pecting to see picture on the outside
of ''the learned pig" or fiat woman, T"
what was my surprise to see single
bearing the name of Tennessee. On a
closer inspection l found a pile of
iron ore about as high as a mans
head ON each side of the entrance, to-
gether with three or four pigs of the
same precious metal. Inside was a
square sheet-iron stove-what for, /
cannot tell, as the sun was pouring
through the canvass hot enough to
take 2 feet Thermometer to keep up
with it. A rough pine table and two
chairs finished the list of furniture, or
contents, except that On the table was
a small register nearly torn to pieces,
and both In size and general appear
ance bearing strong resemblance to
a last years almanac, and a pile Of
old and dirty Tennessee newspapers.
On removing the brick that was placed
on top to keep them from blowing
away, I found that the top paper was
the GAINESVILLE Chronicle, of June 10.
Just then an Englishman entered, and
after staring around for a moment,
while the perspiration poured off in
streams, he exclaimed We'll, it's 'ot
as ell in Tennessee" and left. So did
/, vowing that henceforth l must GER
tainly repudiate.
Business in Philadelphia is fearfully
dull. Thousands are walking the
streets out of work, and with no better
prospect in view.
The nominations are received with
a good deal of the old Quaker indif-
ference-no enthusiasm whatever.
Some of the principle street rail
roads are taking off their horses and
replacing them with steam dummies,
and have reduced the fare from &c to
5c-the former price being the high.
est of any place that l have visited in
the United States.
The thermometer hanging over my
desk indicates 1902, so you know that
it is pretty warm for a Northern eli
mate.
July 8. '76. P.
Pa During the parade, to day, Of
American Mechanics, large number
were overcome by the heat, and -four
have died.