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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10
delegation in both Houses may dis
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delegation in both Houses may dis
play during that time.
Many of the principles which
have hitherto been advocated exclu-
sively by the Democratic party will in
all probability be embodied in the leg
islation proposed by their antagonists,
this will be a severe trial to the self
control of the Democrats for it is not
a pleasant position to sit still and see
rival establishment stealing ones
thunder; but it will be fatal to the pro-
gress of the party in securing the flu
ture support of the nation if. under
these circumstances they should take
counsel of their passions rather than
their judgment and offer factious Op-
position to sound legislation because
it comes from their anita gonists.
Their true policy is to watch closely
the incoming administration in all its
procedure, to hold them rigidly to any
! pledges of amendment they may have
made or may make in the future and to
meet with uncompromising opposition
any relapse into old ways condemned
by the nation even where Republican
influence prevails; there must be nc
time or energy wasted in angry recrim-
ination, still less in hopeless despon-
dency, and above all the organization
of the party must remain intact
or rather it must be more firmly
consolidated than ever; and under
these conditions, the ceremonies o
this 9th of March will we firmly hope
turn out to be the commencement fol-
us of victory rather than the NANTES
tations of our defeat.
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No answer TO this had been received

HALE is strongly spoken of for the
Navy Office. His main recommends
ton is that he Ia the son-in-law of his
father in law Further there are dam
ming secrets slowed away in the Navy
Office and it is believed that Hale will
not squeal. His votes have always
been given against the investigation of
any abuse however glaring. He would
be fitting successor to Robson, but
then, if they are going to do as bad as
that, why not retain Robson? They
know he is safe. Since the above was
written, it has been stated that Hale
declines.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10
THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA

On Friday March End, President
Grant telegraphed to Governors Pack
ard and Nichols that he should give
Gen. Augur immediate orders, rescind-
ing the maintenance of the status quo
and that after that, the military would
take no part in the local affairs Of the
State except in case of a riot which
the State authorities might not have
the power to control. In the telegram
to Gov. Nichols, it was suggested that
he should issue proclamation com
handing peace and order, and declar-
ing general amnesty, security and
equal justice to all.
1t is understood upon, what authority
we know not, that this announcement
was made with the concurrence of the
incoming President Hayes.
Notwithstanding these messages the
military were not removed on the
third from around the State House, a
fact which has excited some uneasi-
ness and the Louisiana congressman
had sent the following message to
President Grant:
I'VE beg leave respectfully to inform
the President that the troops have not
been withdrawn from the streets and
vicinity of the State house in New
Orleans, in compliance with his orders.
We suggest to the President that it is
due to himself and the assurances
given to US by him that the instruc-
tons, if misunderstood, be made more
explicit, so that the troops may be
withdrawn from the support of Pack
ard"
No answer to this had been received.
1t seems not to be anticipated that
President Hayes will take any further
steps for sons weeks after his inaugur-
alton. If not he deliberately leayes
things in a most dangerous condition
for which he incurs serious response
bility.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

ALEX. STEVENS of Georgia has en-
tirely recovered from his late attack
it would be a joke If he should live
long enough to pay Doak off and write
his obituary. Pho Mono is not dead
either. When Gabriel blows that horn
of his, he will find both these iucor-
rigibles still alive and as wella as can be
expected.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

Mr.. HEWITT has resigned the chair
manship of the Democratic Executive
Committee. He was an up1i yht gen.
tleman, and an industrious politician,
but was not the right man in the right
place Grit was deficient in him. Sen
ator Barnum of Connecticut is his
successor.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

HoLLowAY's PILLS AND OINTMENT.
We stand aghastat the thousands hour
ly hurried to premature grave, vic
tins of having neglected the first
symptoms of disease. Whether the
complaint originates in the body, or be
introduced accidentally through the
skin-fatal results may be warded off
by timely recourse to one or both of
these medicines. % cents per box or
pot.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

THE Courier-J ournal suggests as a
motto to Hayes coat-of-arms the fol-
lowing:
"Ordered-that the evidence offered
be not received"
Won't do at all, it is too long in the
first place, and then latin is de rVieur
for heraldic notices, all the better If
it be dog latin or law latin. No the
motto for Rutherford's coach pannels
is "ALIUNDE."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

IT is reported that Justice Bradley
Is to be lmpcached for bribery, of
which satisfactory evidence has been
procured. The Presidency as a gift
from Spencer Wells and Aliunde
Bradley must be a morsel rather cal
culated to pail on a squeamish stom-
ach-but our President De facfo does
not seem to be squeamiSh.
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Sherifs Sale Of
REAL EST ATE.
State Of Tennessee--MOntgOmery Co.
Rice, Broaddus & Co. VS., j. \. TAFT.

BY virtue of n writ of venditioni exponas
10 me directed, from the Circuit Court OF
Montgomery county, Tenn, l will sell to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court
House door, in GAINESVILLE, on
Monday, April ?, 1877,
a tract of land lying In District No. !, OF
Montgomery county, Tenn, and bounded
as follows:
Beginning at S. III. MOrgan's Northwest
corner, then running along his line East l57
poles to a stone thence North one degree
East 81 poles to stone; thence West 10
poles to a stone; thence South one degree
West IS poles and Is links to a stone thence
West SO poles to q stone in II. ID. MarshalLs
line thence along his said line and the line
of Mrs. Adkins South two degrees West So
poles and 10 links to the beginning; con-
tanning about 20 acres and OF poles.
Levied on as the property of j. A. TAFT 10
satisfy a judgment in faver of Rice, Broad
duS & Co.
JAMES f. MOSELEY, Sheriff.
March 10, lS77-4wprfSS 90.
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me DEHOCkATIC ADDRESS.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The f

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The fol-
lowing address of the Democratic
National Committee is made:
ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
At the caucus of Democratic members of
the House Of Representatives, held March 3,
1877, in the hall of the House, the following
address was unanimously adopted.
L. @. c. LAMAR, Chairman.
HENRY B. BANNING,
VIM. NJ. ROBBINS, Secretarys-
ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
COMMITTEE,
At meeting of members of the National
Democratic Committee, held March 3, 1877,
the following address was unanimously
adopted. a. S, HEWITT, Chairman.
+. o. PRINCE, Secretary.
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THE following is cut from the Shell
byyille Commercial.

\ DyNilIG
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle is out of humOr
with our present Legislature because the
membership disposed to act in compliance
with majority OF their constituents IN
reference to the conventional interest law.
The editor thinks that because two weeks
consumed in electing a United states SEN
ator and the adiourning OF the General AS
SemblY for another week, that State IegiS-
Iation is growing to be a farce, and is of
the opinion that most of the blame sho uld
be laid on the people who elected them.
The Doctor is opposed to the people send
ing men TO represent them, instructed to
IegiSlate in acco rdance with their wishes.
We Judge from the wording OF his article
that he wants the members of that body to
be dictatorial bOdy-the mastefS-and the
people their slaves That is in favor of the
few ruling the many, We are fearful
our able and clever contemporary of the
Chronicle loves mammOn more than cOun-
try, or he would not take the repeating of
the conventional interest law to heart so
seriously.
We have no objection to the Shelby
vile editor ventilating our opinions on
popular sovereignty or any other sub
ject provided he gets them right. We
are hardly disposed, however, to recog-
nize the above statement as adequately
representing our views, and prefer to
state them ourselves.
We recognize the fact then that the
people is, and of right ought to be
sovereign in these United States. Yes,
the people are sovereign; but like
other sovereigns they are liable to be in
the wrong aud are constantly beseiged
by courties, Called demagogues in the
court of King Demos) who for their
own purposes, are constantly urging
them to a ruinous policy. These dem
agogue courtiers whose main occupa-
ton it is to lead King Demos by the
nose, to his detriment and their own
profit, are much preferred by the old
monarch to plain honest men, who
give him sound advice without iatter-
ing him-but we are no courtier and
if the old gentleman cannot appreciate
our telling him the truth; we can't
help 1t; in this matter of conventional
interest, we are satisfied that he had
bad advice from as mean lot ofboot-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

AN ERRoR.-In discussing the cabi-
netappointments, the Louisville Court
er-J Journal makes a strange mistake.
He describes Mr.. D. NJ. Key as a
Senator from Tennessee, filing the
unexpired term of Andrew johnson.
Mr.. Key is not in the Senate at all.
Judge Bailey of this place fills John
sons term, and Ex-Gov. Harris is
our other Senator. The G. j. is gen.
orally very accurate, but missed it here.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

The Grand Central Hotel, New
York, is becoming more popular every
day since IFS reduction from $500 to
$3.50 and $500 per day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-03-10

licking sycophauts as ever surrounded
the sacred person of Louis XIV, or
a George Ill, and he will fBd so TO
his cost if he persists in taking their adj
vice; there we leave him and them.
As to our devotion to mammon we
make no plea, but let judgment pass in
default-when We were urging King
Demos to pay his debts, or at least the
interest on them, we were held up to
public Indignation as bloated bond
holder, and now as an avaricious Old
usurer putting out his hundreds of
thousands at 16 per cent, and closing
on widows and orphans like rascally
old Shylock or Overreach. All right,
gentlemen, we accept the description
as correct portrait. only would that
youcould convince our bankers Messrs.
Kennedy and Glenn, of the fact; it
would facilitate our transactions con-
siderably, when it might be desirable
to contract loan of million or two to
pay the editorial board and washing.
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Sherif's Sale Of
REAL ESTATE.
State of Ter essee-MOntgOmery Co.
H.H. Mason VS.. Hubbard Dennis.

II. II. Mason vs.. Hubbard Dennis.
By virtue of writ of venditioni exponas
to me directed, from the Circuit Court Of
Montgomery county, Tenn. / VIII sell TO
the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court
House door, in GAINESVILLE, ON
Monday, April 2, 1877,
a tract of land lying i'm District No. 3, Of
Montgomery county, Tenn, and bounded
as follows:
ON the North by the lands Of II. II. Mason,
ON the East by same, on the South by the
lands of VIM. Davidson, and on the West by
fIle lands Of Geo. Washington (coloredl !;
supposed to contain about fifteen acres
more or less.
Levied on as the property of Hubbard
Dennis to satisfy Judgment in favor Of
H II. Mason.
JAMES E. MoSELEY, Sheriff.
March 10, 1877 -4wprfS7 60
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sheriHs Sale Of
REAL ESTATE.

State of Tennessee---MOntgOmery Co.
Thomas ogburn vs. NJ. A. c. ogburn.
By virtue of a writ of Venditioni expOnas
to me directed, from the Circuit Court OF
Montgomery county, Tenn, / viii sell to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court
House door, in GAINESVILLE, ON
Monday, April 2, 1877,
a tract of land lying in District No. 8, Of
Montgomery county, Tenn, and bounded
as follows:
On the North by Ogburn, South by Og-
burn, East by Allen, and West by Lizenby !;
containing one hundred and eignty-five
acres.
Levied on as the dover interest of Mrs. NJ.
A, Q. Ogburn to satisfy a Judgment in favor
Of Thomas Ogburn.
JAMES L. MOSELEY, Sheriff.
March 10, lS77-4wprfs7 so.
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Our 09lio.
The Taurup, or Great Turtle,

Bad us are his habits (the pickerel, }
however, he is not the only nor the worst
enemy of the poor, pestered trout. The
great turtle, the taurup or torper of the
aborigines, the swapping turtle Of more re-
fined dialects, is a deadlier foe, for he takes
the mature fish, not the mere fngerlings,
which satisfy the pickrel.
The taurup is a horrible creature, one
of the antediluvians, cruelty in its eye,
strength in its muscle, imperviousness in
its shell, and neither mercy nor gentleness
in its heart or bowels. With equal indie
pendence it lives on land or in water, with
equal courage it defends itself from man
or beast. One of forty, fifty or even sixty
pounds, to which weight they often attain,
is no mean antagonist; when captured and
drawn into the boat, or cornered, it turns,
and rising on its black and wrinkled legs,
not crawling prone like an ordinary turtle,
but with head extended, little yellow eyes
glittering, and sharp beak ready for the
test, it advances, defiant of all created
things. Then it is no pleasant object, nor
agreeable companion within the narrow
limits of an ordinary boat, and the captor
at such moment wishes he had done
something else, aud been a good way of
instead Of being just in that particular
spot at that moment Of time. remember
one l captured, of quite sixty pounds
weight-dragging him ashore by the tail,
and then chopping his head off with an
axe-which cleared the kitchen quicker
than the "Ole folks, young folks, when
we undertook to put him into the wash
boiler of boiling water with a view to tur-
tie soup; and another which moved its legs
twenty-fOur hours after it was not only
decapitated, but disemboweled. These
fellows are dangerous to deal with, and
must be approached with care; their bite
is terrible, their jaws never relaxing till
the piece seized upon comes out, and they
are possessed of quickness of motion
which no ono would expect from their
heavy, awkward shape. They lay their
eggs in the sand during the warm days of
early June, depositing about thirty or
forty, and scratching out hole about half
the depth of their bodies for that purpose.
The eggs are round, nearly an inch in d.
ameter and of delicate orange color, the
shell being thin, like transparent paper,
and they are left to hatch of themselves
under the heat of the summers sun.
Swapping turtles destroy and devour some
of our finest trout, approaching them for
that purpose from below, rising slowly from
the bottom, and looking more like some
black, rough barked log than a living crea-
ture, till they are near enough to dart out
their long neck and big head The trout
sometimes escapes, but carries with him
thereafter the clear imprint of the two
horny jaws on either side of his abdo-
men.-App'eton's Journal.
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Evils Of the Credit System,

1t has involved a large majority Of our
people in debt, who are no more able to
pay to-day than they were the day they
contracted their Indebtedness. At least
large majority of them may be.so consid-
cred. II makes men extravagant and in
different when they can buy what they
need without paying for it at the time.
They become indifferent about collecting
the money due TO themselves, and there
fore lose n great many accounts which
might have been collected if attended TO
in time, whereas, not being required to
pay cash at the time, they become indif-
ferent as to whether the bills due to them
selves are paid. The consequence is they
lose a great deal by neglect and have event
ually to pay their own bills with interest,
which often takes the profits of many
months and even years of hard toll Then
let our people look to it in the future and
pay cash, or do without many things which
may be considered luxuries and not among
the necessities of life. While this system
cannot be adopted in day where the
credit system has been SO long in vogue,
yet our people will find it greatly to their
advantage 70 begin at once 10 reform the
system Of labor and business, and pay cash
for what they get, and do without many
things for which they could not pay.
When this system is once adopted, there
will be fewer Constables' or Sheriffs sales,
and more independent men among US.
The competition in business is one Of these
evils. 1t causes men to force sales where
there is the least possible show to get
money, in order that their sales may be as
large or larger than their neighbors. The
first thing they know their shelves are clear
of goods and they have no money to buy
more. Then one note after another ma
lures in bank, 50 that their credit is either
gone or they must make sacrifice of some
article Of property in order that they may
keep up their credit or keep out Of the
hands of the Sheriff.
1t is true that many men have made
fortunes from small beginnings, and often
those small beginnings we're borrowed cap
ital, but where one man has risen to emi-
nence or to fortune in that way, thousands
have amassed wealth by paying cash for
everything they bought. They were care
full not to extend their business faster
than their knowledge to control and man
age it was acquired, and this is just as i'm
portant as the means themselves, and may
with as much propriety be called cash
capital, for without such skill it is utterly
impossible to succeed at any business.
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laid about half Of sheet of Persian bread,
thin, tough and aabby. Upon the bread
was a heap of kababs-peces of meat
about an inch square, we'll cooked, aud
covered with the remainder Of the bread,
which was turned over them. Each guest
raised the bread flap, took kabab with
his fingers, added a piece Of the flap, or
wiped his fingers upon it, as he pleased.
For three hours this was the form of the
entertainment; the talk and the music
went on while the kababs, the arrack and
the wine circulated. About ten o'clock
the real dinner began. A table was
brought in, cloth spread bowls of sher-
bet, piles of boiled rice, other piles Of
pillau, mixture of rice and stewed fowls,
we're introduced, In one huge dish was
placed lamb, roasted whole, presenting
horribly sacriicial appearance. watched
the khan, curious to see if it was possible
that appetite for boiled rice remained after
he had drunk about pint Of raw alcohol,
intermixed with kababs. His attendants
the servants of every guest share in the
work on these oceasions-drew couch
toward the table, upon which the khan
lifted himself; then he pointed with loud
laugh to the soup-tureen, from which the
British agent, an Armenian, was helping
himself "That's what makes you such
little fellow" he said. 81 like pillau."
He barred his huge arm to the elbow to
vindicate his preference, and for the bet
ter handling of the rice. Pluugiug his
fingers into pile, he kneaded huge bo-
lus of the greasy rice at single pinch,
and pressed it into his mouth; another and
another followed, until he had made great
hole in the heap of pilau, For nearly an
hour there was little talk, much eating and
drinking; then some coffee; and after that
the guests were hoisted on to the high
saddles of their steady, patient mules, and
logged homeward through the narrow
streets, lighted only by the lanters of their
attendants.
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How to Break Gun-shy Dogs.

A correspondent Of the TarE, Field and
Farm thus tells how to break gun-shy
dogs OF the gun-shy setter dog spoken
OF in your last number, l would say
The trouble with the dog probably origi.
mated in his faulty rearing, If pistol shots
are fired over young pups when feeding
them they will not only become accus.
toned to, but grow to like the report of
the gun, and be not afraid of Il. If the
dog In question is good worker and re-
trlever 1t will be an easy matter to cure
him of his shyness. The owner should
take him out to where there is cherry or
mulberry tree, or any other on which fruit
grows that attracts robins or birds of like.
size. The tree should stand on bare
grodnd, that is, be isolated, so when birds
are shot at from it the dog can see them,
both in falling and when on the ground.
Drive a stake into the ground within
shooting distance, chain the dog to it and
SIT down close beside him. Load the gun
for the first few charges very light, but be
sure to kill the bird shot at. After every
discharge Of your gun caress and speak
gently to the dog. As soon as it is evil
dent that his first fear is overcome, com
menee increasing the charge until you
reach full quantity, and Keep shooting
until he watches you rising your gun to
fire without showing any signs Of trepida.
ton. Then take him from the stake and
lead him BY the chain among the dead
birds; permit him to pick them up and
give them to you, returning caresses each
time, but keeping your gun always in your
hand to let him see and smell it. Next set
him free, and then shoot another bird, but,
instead Of letting him drop to charge, tell
him to go out and fetch.
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The first and only railway in China, the
line from Shanghai to Woosung, recently
built by English capitalists, turns out to
be great success, There is a regular
traffic, aud a rush for the cars at the sta.
tons. The nimble natives are particularly
expert at getting inside the cars. The
Chinese themselves have now undertaken
line to run from Woosung to Soochow
and English capitalists are not indisposed
to advance the funds on an enterpris,
which promises to pay. The railway hav
ing thus become Incorporated with tn,
new policy Of the most conservative natio,
Of the world, it is estimated that befor,
many years English and American en-
glneers, contractors, and builders will b
having something to do with the vast in
terror Of the Chinese Empire.
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NATIONAL CAPIToL.--Thec cornerstone
of the capitol was laid by Washington, on
the 18th day Of September, 1898. The
building was opened for the meeting of
Congress November 18th, 1900. Elnarge-
ment and new dome completed in 1867.
The edifice fronts the east, is 751 feet
long, 348 feet wide, and covers 80 acres;
court yard, 81 acres; in all, Z acres. Tho
predominant material of the exterior il
white marble. The dome is Of cast iron,
1854 feet in largest diameter, and 2s7S
feet high, surmounted by a statue of Lib
erty l93 feet high. The interior of the
dome forms remarkable circular chamber
or rotunda, 96 feet in diameter, 1SO feet
high. One thousand gas jets, flashed by
electricity, illuminate the interior by night
The walls Of the rotunda are adorned with
historical paintings by eminent artists.
The Senate Chamber, House Of Represen.
tatives, Supreme Court rooms, and other
apartments are splendidly decorated. The
halls are lined with polished marbles from
every State in the Union. Frescoes,
paintings and sculptures abound. The
front porticoes are supported by one hun.
dred COrinthian columns of white marble.
The cost Of the building was S13, 900, 900.