Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-17

The women of Nashville have
raised $491 for Fernandina.

The women OF NaShVllle have
raised $491 for Fernandina.
g. Levine, of Brownsville, has
obtained judgment for ten thousand
dollars against the Louisville, Nash
vile & Great Southern for killing
his wife.
The Chattanooga Times says:
"Mr. David Massengale was out last |
Wednesday looking for his cows on
Suck creek, about seven miles from |
this city, and saw seven black |
bears"
in 1873 Jacob Harris and Isaac |
White quarreled in Anderson coun-
ty, Tenn, about some feature of the
late war, and Harris killed White. |
On Saturday last the Supreme Court
sentenced Harris to be hung at
Clinton, December 23d.
The new court house at Waverly
is rapidly approaching completion.
1t is admirably designed and sub
stantially constructed, and will be
one of the handsomest country court
late our friends of Humphreys upon
this evidence of their enterprise,
progress and prosperity.-N0shUilLe
american.
Richard d. Mulloy, administra-
tor of the estate of John J. Mulloy,
has brought suit in the Circuit Court
against James H. Wilson, receiver,
and the st. Louis & Southwestern
Railroad Company, to recover $20,-
600 as damages alleged to have been
sustained by the killing of John J.
Mulloy on the 18th of November,
1873, at Henderson, Ky.
The Knoxville Tribune has the
following paragraph in a lengthy
editorial on the question of the
State debt: "The objection to an
extra session on the score of its ex-
pense, we are constrained to regard
as trivial in view of the magnitude
of the interests at stake. An extra
session is limited by the Constitution
to twenty days. At most, the ex-
penditures could not legitimately
exceed twelve to fourteen thousand
dollars-asumt that grows absolutely
inconsiderable in comparison with
the probable adjustment of our State
millions of dollars at a discount of
forty, or perhaps fifty, per cent"
The American of Tuesday has
the following: "Maj. H. G. Bate
will to-day present to the Tennessee
Historical Society a copy of the
Daily Huntsville Confederate, pub
lished at Marietta, Ga, Sept. 8, 1863,
and the Chattanooga Daily Rebel,
published at the same place, Oct. s,
1868. The first contains President
Davis address to the soldiers of the
Confederate States. Among other
articles in the Rebel is q list of the
wounded of the Twenty-Third Ten
nessee regiment browns brigade)
in the battle of Chickamauga, 10Th
and Goth of September. At the head
of the list appears the name of John
p. Mcclure, wounded slightly
Col. Mcclure is now the hOnOred
President of the Nashville Mer-
chants Exchange"
On the 10Th of last March the
Legislature passed an act creating
the county of Haynes out of portions
of Benton, Carroll, Henderson and
Decatur. The election to provide
for the organization took place last
Wednesday. 1t is understood that
an injunction was obtained to pre-
ventany officer who might be elected
from serving. Citizens of Benton
county also obtained an injunction
against the Governor and Secretary
of State prohibiting them from issu-
ing commissions to such officers.
The petition for an injunction is
signed by 81. f. PressOn and
Others" The power to enjoin the
Governor and Secretary of State
from issuing commissions to officers
elected by the people is a matter of
doubt i'll some legal minds, and
should the question of organizing
the new county come into court,
which seems inevitable, this would
be one of the leading problems to be
solved.-AmegicGn,
The following statictics of the
Masons are given in Grand Master
Edmundson's report to the Grand
Lodge: "You will, I trust, pardon
me for calling your attention to one
subject, thatin my opinion, deserves
special legislation. I mean the sub
iect OF generalization, Although
there are quite a number of aces
sions to our order each year, in this
jurisdiction, yet the membership of
the lodges in the aggregate diminish
from year to year, and the nom
affiliates-properly demonstrated as
'drones'-are continually increasing.
During the last nine years-from
1868 to 1877 inclusive-there have
been 14,700 Master Masons added to
the subordinate lodges of Tennessee,
and these added to the membership
at that time, viz: 1901, would give
an aggregate membership of 80, 301,
when, in fact, there are now only
about 1904, being 527 less than
there were nine years ago, showing
10, 227 that have died, moved away,
stand suspended or expelled or gone
into the ranks of the nOn-contribut-
ing MasOns. Unless something Is
done to curtail the privileges en-
jOyed by this class, we will find
their ranks swelling more and more
and the contributing ones growing
cOrreSDOndinClV less -