Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-20
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE.
Wednesday Jan. 81, 1918.

With many thanks we receive from
Mr.. James w. Cade, of Smithland,
Kentucky, a copy of the GAINESVILLE
Weekly CHRONICLE of the above date.
1t lacks one year of being sixty years
old.
While we fatter ourselves that in
Typography and many other points the
CHRONICLE of the present day is an
Improvement upon that of sixty years
ago. some of the news we now commu-
nicate is far from an improvement.
Thus the first news item is the report
of Mr.. Crawford, Secretary of the
Treasury, in which the whole estimates
for the year, including civil list, mis-
cellaneous expenses. army and navy,
are given at something under eleven
millions.
Motions are made in the Congress
sional report by two members who
were afterwards elected President and
vice-President on the same ticket viz:
Messrs. Harrison and Tyler.
The political matter mainly treated
of in the editorial from the National
Intelligencer, is the struggle of the
South American provinces for indie
pence-the editor hardly writes as one
would have supposed a nation itself
not very long emancipated from colo
NAL subserviency would feel-he is
willing that these States should be-
come Independent, but then PertfClious
England is intriguing there and he
knows not what commercial treaty she
may make with them to our detriment:
and upon the whole the embryo
Monroe doctrine peeps out very strong.
Then there is an article upon the
United States navy from Niles regis
ter, and another from the Messenger
on the Ohio banks, not complimentary
to those institutions.
Then an account of great fire at
st. Johns Newfoundland and then we
come to local matters. First the
Montgomery County Court of which
Henry H. Bryan, VIM. Z. Williams,
Sterling Neblett, Stephen Thomas and
Stephen Cooke, constitute the quorum
for the year.
The grandson of the Sterling Neb-
lett there mentioned is now one of the |
proprietors of the CHRONICLE. Near
ly all the others we believe are repre-
sented by citizens now or recently res
ident in GAINESVILLE.
The obituary of Judge Bennett |
Searcy occupies nearly a column, and |
an advertisement warns trespassers
from cutting wood on the land of the |
deceased.
The list of left letters is signed by |
James Elder as Post master.
The chronic need of Chronicles and /
all other journals is pathetically stated |
and subscribers requested to pay up.
A. Cheatham and H. L. Wells are
Rangers; prominent merchantile ad-
vertisements are inserted by Sam.
Vance, John II. and r. Poston and
Caldwell and Laird. Samuel Sledge
advertises his academy at Mt. Pleas
ant. VIM. H. Burton as Sheriff of |
Humphreys county advertises various
land sales, and almanacs are sold at
this office where job works also neat
ly executed.
This number of the paper is No. 80
of Volume 4 Of the new series, which
will throw back the origin of the /
CHRONICLE into historic times.
We did not know how old we were be-
fore.
1t may be here mentioned that the
title of our paper has been changed
several times since the date of this
relique, it has been called the Rising
Sun, also the Recorder, but returned
to its original title, which it has held
ever since, in 1888. We never intend
to change it again and confidently hope
that GAINESVILLE people will be reading
the GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE in 1877.
While writing about old CHRONI-
Giles we cannot resist republishing the
following advertisement from the
CHRONICLE of Dec. 10, 1888:
Notice e! .N0ISce q!
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