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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, is civil
service reformer in earnest. PromlSi
ing that honesty, and economy shall .tad
be the watchword Of his admlnlstra- IRA.
ton. and that he will be the governor
of the whole people, he says: went
through the campaign without promls.,
ing or even intimating to any man that
I /" Should appoint him to any Office,
declined all offers that involved that
idea of obligation; / am, consequent. 7.
ly, free to select for public posltlohpI %
only those men that l consider th'
best qualified to fill them. In makipl
mn nv list of appointments L shall b
1p;ded 9 solely by the question of fit
ness. hess All applications for offices ar.
being filed, and | shall lesuTely, .h dur dur
t;on. apply the test of fitness to tn
| onnIicants, and choose therefrom thos
Who appear to me to best stand tn
test"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

Hon. Mr.. B-A majority of the ne
groes in the State would vote the Dem,
ocratic ticket if they were not afraid
of their lives.
Reporter-Wbat sort of people are
the white Radicals2
Hon. Mr.. B-If there is more than
one honest man in the Radios party
I have not the honor of his acqualnt-
ance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

THE LARGEST SHOES on RECORD.
Geo. w. App, a shoemaker OF this
CITY, exhibited at the Ayalane he othco
last night a monster pair OF brogans,
made by him, on order, for a negro
nreacher at MARVEL, Ark. The length
Of each shoe is la inches. The meas
urement around the instep is lS inches,
and around the ball Ia inches, The
nrice of the shoes aud the last (Which
latter was made to order) was Sl6,
The man who can make such a pair OF
shoes and survive the effort must sure
ly be a first-class shoemaker. The
height of the negro is seven feet full ,
and his weight 400 pounds. He aud
his brogans should be sent TO the
! Philadelphia observation-disclosures
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
TOtal Receipts at the Centennial.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17.-Total of
receipts of the exhibition from al
sources from May 10 to Nov. 10, may
be stated approximately as follows:
From admission fees, S3,sl372I
fron concessions. $3.50 900; from per-
oentaSes nj, and royalties, S2O5,OlO; grand
o It'll 81 .3O8. .735. The Chinese Cow
Lament has presented to the United
States the general chronological and
;ndnstrial collection in the government
building. The cash admissions to-day
we're 81 500.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
CLARKSVILLE, TENN.

desire to call your attention to my large stock pio oi
Wagons Buggies Wheat Drills hay Kakes bes d I11T T"
G ne al Doube o shoge Thomas Smoothing Harrows Wheat
Fans Corn shelters Road and PORd sGrpsP snd sng prng
ne ali kinds Steam Engines and Separators Reap
ers spd Movers Cutting Boxes Single and Double Trees
Choice Northern Rye Orchard Grass Blue rds Grass a
Ra Corn Flour and Lime Etc Orders promptly filled
at Lowest Prices Call and examine All goods are war
ranted. very hesPecUiuny'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
How Judge Jere Black Figures it Out
washington Special to the CinclnnAlA En-
dufrer, Nov. IL.

As to the issue of the Presidential
contest Judge Black advances the
Uon noroI ;das that it will result in the
noS1; nIoot;nn ut of Tilden and Wheeler in the
foIiowine fGI manner He believes Louis
!ollomrpd iolS "nd Florida gave a majority for
la;ldon M bnt that the vote of each will
- ,ic iccounted for Hayes, and, as result,
the votes of these States Wlil pc tnrown
ont by Congress when 1t shall u, meet u "
uni the Electoral vote. This will
throw the election of President into
the Senate. The former WoulI ~,
doubtedly elect Tlldsn the Ia.'Gl
Wheeler. So Judge BLACK hgures Il
nI1t
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
The use of Religion.

AS the third discourse in the Chan
ming Fraternity Huntington Hall
course. Rev. DR.. Ellis, of Boston,
Sunday evening, the 29th ult,, returned
an answer to the query" VIII Is tho
Use of Religion p The three uses
which we're specially enumerated were
The Christian religion puts a man
right with himself; It puts him right
with his fellow-men II puts him
right with God. Nothing else Ia all
the world can accomplish these ends.
,,od is not willing merely, but anxious,
to save us. The parallels of the lost
niece of money, OF the strayed sheep,
of the prodigal son, prove this salts
factorilv. In the catacombs Of Rome,
where sleep the earliest Christian pros
elytes, the prevailing picture displayed
upon the walls is that Of the Good
| Shepherd. Afterwards, when perse-
cution arose aud mytyrdom was fire.
ouent, more symbols were used but
this was the primitive conception OF
God and Christ. We need TO grasp
that idea more generally, intimately
and personally. We need TO look
upon this religion as altogether benev-
oient and loving-not that Il Is desti-
tute of recompenses for transgression
INC divine laws, ii broken. visit pen
allies on all. But they are not vindic-
tive they are disciplinary and correo'
tive.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25
bepeOple demand an honest declar

The people demand an honest declar,,
alton of the decision of the majority OF
the voters of Louisiana, whether 1t be
for Hayes or Tilden, and it is to be
boned that those who have control OF
the machinery in that State car. be
made to feel the force of public opln-
ion. and be restrained from unfair
dishonest and revolu tionary action
Boston Globe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

CINCINNATI. Nov. 16.-The libe
case of John I. Gibson vs. the Cin,,
cinnati Enquirer Company was decided
to-day in iavor Of the plaintit toE
$3.50 damages.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

The Nashville American says; Ex-
Governor d. w. @. Seuter voted ioi
Porter. We get this from q gentle
man who stood by him at the polls
when he deposited his ballot"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

PATRICK HENRY, in his speech be-
fore the Virginia convention OF 1859,
during the debate on the acceptance
ofthe Federal Constitution, the powers
of the Government being under dis
cussiou, said: "S:r, the military pow,
or ought not to interpose till the civil
mower refused. If this be the spirit
of your new Constitution that the laws
are tn be enforced by military CO.
ercion. we may easily divine the happy
consequences which will result from 1t.
\ X Man is a fallen creature, a
fal;abIe being, and can not be depend
ed on without self-love. Your presl--
dent will not have the same motives OF
self-love to impel him to favor your
interest. His political character is
hut transient, and he will promote as
much as possible his private interests
n In 1853 the British nation
exnelled their monarch for attempting
to tramp on their liberties. The. doc
trine of divine right and passive obedI
ence. was said to be commanded by
heaven. was inculcated by his minion
and adherents. He wanted to possess
without control, the sword and purse
The attempt cost him his crown. Thl
Government demands the same pow
ers. Isee reason to be more and mo?
alarmed. I fear 1t aciu terminate q
desnotisn,." Patrick Henry appear
to have possessed dark forethough
of Grantism and possible system Z
Catalinism brooding down upon th
republic to harry the people and dc
story their liberties Courier Jo"T''a
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-25

If this does not open the eyes OF
those Democrats who in supporting
Thomas believed that they were fol-
lowing an honorable lead, We do not
know what will. They were literally
sold like so many sheep to satisfy the
Iong;nps of the Avalanche and the
Radicals and Thomas leaders of Mem
phis.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

all these men would be found shouting
for Tilden and Hendricks. Now, my
friends, keep ont Of the Democratic party;
do not vote that ticket, any yOunx man who
is going to cast his first vote-do not place
your future in tho hands of that party. The
Republican party, On the other hand, is the
party of reason, of progression and educa-
ton. The Republican party ID the one that
believes in the equality of human lives. l
believe it. / am willing to give to every
human being every right that l claim for
myeelf. Every man who won't do that Is a
rascal. NV friends, I believe the world is
GOING to get better. / do. believe we
are getting better all the time. Samuel j.
Tilden says we are nation OF thieves and
robbers. I don't believe it. If we were.
he ought to be President. / believe We are
getting better, and every day the kePuo-
iioan party is in power we vii! be getting
better. And howl BY free labor and free
thought. Free labor will give US wealth
Free thought will give us truth. Free
labor has done everything that has been
done in the United States, because the
problem of free labor is to DO the most
work in the least time, and slave labor Is
to do the lea t work in the most time;
IA voice: How about the free schools ~
want free schools, and l want
them divorced from sectarian influence.
of science, in which shall be taught the
laws of nature, in which the children shall
be taught actual facts, and l don't want
that echoolhouse touched or that institute
of science touched by any superstition
whatever. Leave religion with the church,
with the family. and, more than all, leave
religion with each individual heart and
man. Let every man be his own bishop;
let every man be bis own pope; let every
man do his own thinking; let every man
have brain of his own; let every man have
q heart and conscience of his own. We are
growing better and truer and grander. And
let me say, Mr.. Democrat, we a-e keeping
the country for your children; we are
keeping education for your children; we
are keeping the old flag floating for your
and let me say, as prediction,
that there is only air enough on this con-
tinent to float that one flag. Well, you have
heard from me, and You will hear from
Ohio and Indiana, and those three silver
bugle sounds, Hayes and Wheeler, and the
nation, hearing those next November, will
say that the men who saved our country
shall rule; will say that the men who saved
The ship of State shall sail it. And now,
aides and gentlemen, l thank you again
and again.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24
BY JOHN BOYLE o'RRILLY.

What man would be wise, let him d,iak of the
That bears on its waters the record of time;
To teach him to creep till he knows how to
climb
Who heeds not experience trust hin not; tell him
The scoops of one mind can but tIifies achieve:
The weak st who draws from the mine will excel
The strength of mankind is the wisdom they
leave.
For peace do rot hope; to be just you must break
it.
Still. work for the minute and not for the year.
When honor comes t. you, be ready to t,ke it;
But reach not to seize il before it 10 near.
Be silent and safe; silence never betrsys you.
Be true to your word and your work and your
friend
Put leest trust in him who is foremost to praise
Tor j.dge of day till it draw to the end.
stand erect in the vale nor exult on the mountain.
Take gifts vi . sig h-mosf Ecu give to be paid.
II had" is . h artache; * have" IL a fountain
You're worth what you saved, lot the million
you male.
Trust toll not intent or your plans will m'scarry
Rule children by reason not rod and mine, marry
Your girl when you can-and our boy when you
plt ase,
Steer Ell hit the wind will allow but be re ady
To veer just point to let travellers pass:
Each sees his own Ste stiff is too steady
When this one to Meeting gees, that one to Mase.
Our stl came not SO wide but tw 0 arches may span
it
Good Neighbor and Citizen; these for a code
and this truth in sight-every man On the planet
Has just AZ much tight ss yourself to the road
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24
A Little Too Fast.

A favorite programme with the hotel
dead beat is to hand a large sealed en- velope.
stuffed with paper, to the clerk, and ask
him to take care of "those $500 for few
dsye;" The game has been played at one
hotel in this city, and the clerks are on their
guard. A seeay-looking old man regstere d
at the house yesterday, and after did ner he
handed the clerk an envelope marked
$780," and aske d that it be put in the SAFE.
You can't play that game on me, mistel!,
replied the clerk, and he tore the package
in two. As he held up the ends his ewes be-
gan 20 bulge out. He had torn eighteen
new ten dollar bills in half, and re had in
suited the owner. One reason why he waen't
st his post tho balance of the afternoon was
because he was pasting those bills to-
eether.-DetrOi Free Press.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24
remarkable Engineering Eeat.

"' ''s PiIutou ~ D3tD, Nteu OeE
county, New York, gives the following:
"A very competent engineer has made
some careful SURVEYS and estimates to de-
termine the possibility of moving Lake
heuka about eight miles further mn the
river. We are happy to be assured bv him
mat the project is feasible, and that the
expense will be much lower than has been
supposed. The plan involves the hnving
OF strip OF farms extending from the head
OF OF the lake up to the corporation bounds OF
tAis village, trench being then dno Of
sohelent depth, and a line Of barrels filed
with nitro ely cerine carefully laid IN .He
potion. single explosion, it i, ca,cu-
iated, will lay open q chesm seven and a
malt miles long and half q mile wide INTO
which the water will rush in narfact
deiuge. Penn Yam will then be LETT eiobs
miles from the foot of the lake, and all that
space which is now covered with useless
water will become in a few years fruitful
farms, occupied by an honest and industri-
GUS population. The expense of this great
Improvement will be but q trifis over
$l.OOO,OO0. The moneyed men of Bsth
have already subscribed $500, 900. and the
balance will easily be made up ov small
subscriptions. A public Meeting viii
shortly be held to secure tits imnortant
movement.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

~ ~. compare, III you please, mat Win
Mr.. Tildens refusal to sign q call for a
headed by that honored man who was at
that time a staunch Democrat. General
John A. Dix. Rutherford B. Hayes lie, as l
said, patriotic man; he went and dis.
persed rebel meetings when Mr.. Tllden re-
fused to dispense these meetings. He bears
three wounds in his flesh received while
helping hi, country IN this manner. He is
also man OF good character, and, as said
before, good character can not be made in
day; good character is made I'D of all
good thingf; all the ennObling things &C
complshed go into this grand thing called
character, and the character of Rutherford
b. Hayes rises before the people to-day like
dome OF honor, of patriotism, and integ-
rlty. All the Democratic snakes, with their
poisonous tongues thrust out, can not find
crevlce in the character OF Mr. Hayes in
which to deposit their malignity. Imagine
a man SO good that the Democratic party
can lot lie about him. l would also say
William A. Wheeler is also q staunch Re.
publican as ever there was in the party
Ihere Is no one q greater advocate of reform
than he.
1 have told little about the condition of
the country when the Republican party
was born, what 1t achieved, and little
ABOUT the Democratic party, and little
ABOUT Mr Illden, and now l ain going to
wind this thing up. want you ali to re-
collect that the very men who fought for
Ems Union, with very few exceptions. were
Republicans. There were some ID 9mo-
Gratis, but | can not tell you why they were
there. With these exceptions, the Demo-
cratic party is made up OF the worst eie-
ments OF society. The worst wards in New
YORK are the ones that will give the largest
democratic majority. There is not peni-
Tertiary in the United States that Tilden
and Hendricks oan not carry five to one.
10 the Democratic party can be found the
Vicious and foul. The man who wishes to
answer an argument with blows, he is in
the Democratic party. All men who sym.
pathized with the South in it's efforts to de-
stroy this government are now in the
Democratic party; all the men who shot
our soldiers at the dead mark are now for
honesty and reform, and if Tildon should
be elected President of the United S,ates.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

have mines Of coal, iron, MIA ~
quicksilver. When the eminsss I
Sir Charles Lyell was in this ~
Cushing was told that in the UsissI a
there was . single bed of coal - y
tent that II al the coal could b -. q
the whole OF Great Britain mi,ss = I
into the excavation. So with al a
sources, said the speaker; bat. bs ~ q
We have the wealth of good man ii!
men, who, possessing the enerrv ~
longs to our blood, will cons.;s u
utmost of that power which skss,.
keep our country on the hisksss Z
among the nations.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

Take things e they arc, and make tho
oest OF them. That 10 the only true and
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

MONTHLY advertisements, inserted every other
DAY, to be charged two-thrds of the above rates.
Second page monthly advertisements, each
square, S2oper month
Transient advertisements, having the run of the
paper, first insertion 81 per square; each subse-
Quent insertion fifty cents per square.
Second page transient advertisements, each in
UertiOn, per square.
dvertisements inserted at intervals to be charged
- new each insertion.
Regular advertisers, who advertise largely, will
b allowed such discount from above named tran
dent rates as may be agreed upon provided that
u no case shall luch discount exceed twenty five
pr cent.
All business no. ices of advertisements tn be
charged twenty cents per line for each insertion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN

spubished every Saturday morning, and contains
torials, local matters of general public interest
commercial and monetary reports, and everything
that appears in the Daily except such items are
Ct little public moment. The WEEKLY RE-
PUBLICAN is an excellent family paper, valuable
Ncn on the current topics of the day.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

| idea Of justice in the United States when
the Republican party was born.
When that party was born the bay of the
bloodhound was the music of tine nation.
The dome of the Capitol at Washington
cast it's shadow upon slave pens in which
crOuched and shuddered mothes from
whose breasts babes had been torn by
wretches who are now for honesty and re-
form. Then if poor negro had titled a
farm and watered it with the sweat of hon
est labor, and if Democrat came along
and seized upon the result of his labor, the
courts of the Unite States did not know to
whom that corn belonged. And when that
question came to be tried the learned
judges read all the books and all the plat
forms Of the Democratic party, and pushed
their spectacles back on their noble and ex.
panslve fOreheads, and came to the con-
clusion that the Democrats owned that
corn. At the time the Republican party
came into existence, slavery was not salts
ned With being local, but endeavOred to use
!ts infamous lepiosy, as it were, for pus hing
It into every Territory OF the United States.
Kecollect the condition of the country at
that time. Boats went down the Missis-
sippl river loaded with wives torn from
their husbands, with children torn from
the breasts of their mothers, while the same
men who did this are now shouting for
1llden and reform. At that time we were
nation OF hypocrites. We pretended to
be free government. 1t was lie. We
pretended to have free constitution. II
was lie. We pretended to have Justice in
our courts. 1t was lie. Above all our
pretenses, and above ali our hypocrisies
rose the crime of slavery like Chimborazo.
above the clouds. The Republican party
came into existence in 1860, when it elected
Abraham Lincoln, tie greatest man that
was ever President of the United States,
As soon as he was elected tue South said:
lyon have no ii ght to elect a man opposed
to the extension of human slavery" and
James Buchanan said that they had
a right to 60 out Of the Union,
and there was another little man who
said: II say so too," and his name
was Samuel J. Tilden. He read the con-
stitution of the United States and several
Democratic platforms, and decided that the
government had NO right to do anything
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24
RULES OF THE ROAD.

Transient advertisements same terms as in in the
Daily. Monthly advertisements inserted for
ourth of the daily rates.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-09-28
From Ohio State Journal, Saturday,
Sept. l6.l
Colonel Milton Barnes.


This gentleman is now the object
of a concentrated fire from the
Democratic mud machines, chiefly
because he happens to stand at the
head of the Republican ticket. II
he is personally offensive to the ma
chimes, it is because he is personally
too worthy and decent a man to suit
the taste of his slanderers. The fact
that he is gentleman of high intel
ligence, a citizen Of blameless char
acter, and a soldier of honorable
record, is enough, Of course, to ex-
cite the envy of the corner grocery
Democratic organs, and arouse their
low ambition to bespatter him with
filth. 1t is only necessary that the
people of Ohio should fully under
stand who Colonel Barnes is, and
what he is, to comprehend the inner
motives for the fusilade of dirty wa
ter which is being squirted at him.
His principal crime seems to be
that he is too decent man to suit
the Democratic mud singers. He is
temperate, sober and industrious,
and these honorable traits are made
the groundwork for the bulk of the
abuse that is heaped upon him. The
plain inference is that the yilifiers OF
Colonel Barnes want Secretary OF
State who is Incorporate and profit
gate, and such being their prefer
enee, they must Of course look else,