Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-21
STATE ITEMS.


candidate. for Mayor of that city.
The wheat crop of Rutherford
county is estimated at 100000 bush-
els, and it has been nearly all
threshed.
The East Tennessee University,
at Knoxville, has been re0rgani2ed
so as to consist of three colleges
ricultural, mechanical and literary.
"A reunion of the Surviving MEM
bers of the Seventh Tennessee Cav
airy takes place at Memphis, August
31st. Extensive arrangements are
being made to have asplendid time.
"A requisition for Thos. NJ. Col
ley, who was arrested in Texas a
few days ago on the charge of muir
dering man in West Tennessee,
has been forwarded to the Governor
of Texas by Governor Porter.
State Superintendent Trousdale
is meeting with great success with
the educational Institutes he has
been holding in different parts of the
State. They are generally well at
tended and much interest is mani
tested.
Memphis Public Ledger: Over
two millions in back taxes are due
the city of Memphis, and as yet but
little has been done to enforce their
collection. The two millions, II col
lected, would relieve the city gov
eminent of many clamorous and
needy creditors.
Since the war three rolling mills
have been established in Chatta-
nooga, and during that time the
population Of the city has been
trebled. The completion of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad will
greatly benefit the iron interests of
Tennessee, which arein f1ourishing
condition.
MILAN Exchange, 18th: "Coi.
W. w. Vaughn, of Brownsville,
called on us yesterday. He is prom
| inentIy mentioned for congress at
the next election. He represented
the Memphis district under the old
appOrtiOnment with honor to him.
self and his people. A better man
for the place can hardly be found"
Since the temperance movement
was inaugurated in Nashville, sew
eral weeks ago, over two hundred
persons have been enrolled as mem
bers, some of them being 'hard
cases." The register at the police
station does not contain as many
charges of "drunk and disOrderly"
as formerly, and it is hoped that
! the number NAV continue to de-
crease. Banner.
At Memphis, Saturday after
noon last, a sharp and well defined
shock of earthquake was felt, lasting
only for a moment and doing no
damage. A wedding ceremony was
being performed at Grace Church,
and as Bishop Pierce, of Arkansas,
who was officiating, announced the
couple man and wife, the shock
came and created cOmm0tiOn among
those present.
Mr.. Samuel P. Ivans, editor of
the Athens Post, has been setting
type fifty-three years, and is said to
be a good hand at the business still.
1t is about time now for him to
rest. Each of his subscribers ought
to pay up for fifteen or twenty years
in advance, and give him a chance
to run away with the funds and pass
the rest of his life IN otto cam dig.
The work on the Confederate
monument at Chattanooga is to be
finished by the first of October. It
will be built of the fcssiliferOus lime
stone of Dickson county, Ala, and
oil bC = irs4N
feet high, and upon the large die-a
cube with a six-foot side-Will be
cut in raised letters, "Our COnfeder-
ate Dead" It will be surrounded
by a handsome iron railing, and
grass plat, carefully protected.
Mr.. w. S. McGaughey was en-
gagged last week in laying off a road
to and around the grave Of President
Johnson. Eight hands are now
employed on the grounds. The road
will probably be a winding one, the
entire length, in time to be shaded
by trees, following the course of a
tirely around the hill near the apex.
The monument, we learn, is almost
ready for delivery. The base alone
will weigh five tons, and will have
to be taken from the railroad to the
spot by means of pulleys and der
ricks.- Gree12UiILe L2teIligencer.
Great excitement prevailed in
Columbia, Tuesday, over the report
of a sudden and horrible accident
causing the death of one of her
prominent business men. 1t seems
that on Monday evening Mr.. H.
Edsall, of the firm Of Edsall & Nc
Erwin, left Columbia for Louisville,
and while the train was nearing
Memphis junction he attempted to
go from one car to another, and fell
from the platform. His skull was
fractured in three places, his right
arm and both shoulders broken and
his body badly bruised. He leaves
a wife and son to mourn his loss.
"A gentleman writing from Win
chester to the American, SAYS: at
was in this county that Senator
ISham G.. Harris came into exist
ence; it is the present abiding place
of Judge Turney, Judge Marks and
Judge Williams, as well as the for
mer home Of Col. a. S. Colyar, the
w illtC anu UilG IldllCtleN ), ana
many others of Nashville's substan-
tial merchants. 1t contains two of
the most prominent schools of the
South-Mary Sharp College, at
Winchester, and the University of
the South at SeWanee. 1t also con-
tains Hurricane Springs, a well
known watering place.
Min Wilson, colored, was hung
in Jackson, on the 18th inst, for the
murder of Policeman Newton c..
Perkins on the night of July 10,
1876. Fully 5000 people witnessed
the execution. The prisoner was
escorted by a strong guard from the
Jail to the place of execution at 1880 |
A. NJ. The fall of the platform oc-
Cured at 11.45, but owing to the
moose slipping, death was occasioned |
by strangUIation, and was of the
most agOnizing character. Forty
five minutes from the fall ofthe drop
elapsed before life was pronounced
extinct, during the first portion of
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