Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-28
STATE ITEMS.

Athens had a shock of earth
quake. last week, that lasted three
seconds.
THE West Tennessee fair will
in Jackson on the 23d OF
October and continue five days.
The last register of Vanderbilt
University shows an attendance OF
382 students. OF these tennessee
furnishes 1874.
IN Polk county, last week, dur
ing an ARRAY, Ezekiel Waters shot
at Marion Dempsey, but killed ms
own brother-in-law and friend, Lew
p. Dunn.
The wheat crop of Maury county /
has been harvested, and much OF IL |
fbreshed and sold. The amount |
raised is variously estimated from
SOC. 900 to l, 100000 bushels.
The seventh annual fair of the
Humphreys County Agricultural
and Industrial Society will be held
at the fair grounds, near WaVefly,
Oct. 18th, 18th, 18th and 18th.
The Memphis & Charleston
Railroad has passed into the hands
of the Fast Tennessee Il Georgia
Railroad, under a lease OF twenty
years,
Mrs. Mary Cheek, of Nashville,
died Wednesday night in her 9Sth
wear, She was the daughter OF John
and Catherine Hagey, Her father
served in General Lafayette's body
guard.
The surviving members of the
| Forthwith Tennessee regiment
and TWenty-Third Tennessee Bat
tallion will hold a reunion meeting
at Murfreesboro on the ID Thursday
in September next.
THE Paris Gazette says: "Mr. Pen
Dawson. livingat Bells depot, made
three hundred dollars over and
above every cOnceivableeXpense, on
two acres of strawberries this sea-
son. How is that, compared with
cotton"
ON Friday before the second
Sunday in October next, the Genefal
RaDtist Association of East Ten
nessqe will meet at Knoxville, and
t on Friday before the fourth Sunday
, in fine same month, the Tennessee
BaDtist Convention will be held at
Chattanooga.
The city tax collectors of Mem
nhis assert that during the past two
= weeks Lot a sufficient amount o.
e money has been collected for taXe'
wherewith to pay for removing th'
- dead dogs which line the streets aht
7 alleys. The taxpayers are paylhs
n i'm scrip and other city Indebtedness
e which they can purchase at a us
F.; count.
n From the Nashville American
# we learn that the court OF arbltra
ti0n i'm the case of certain par1e
, AGAINST Brien and Woodland, hell
II that the sale of property for take
;, does not communicate any title, Du
Is the owners Of the property ar
>, required to pay all taxes, damages
- costs and interest on the same, an
q all the costs of the court below, an
n q lien was declared on the propert
Ne for such payment.
k After a few weeks drOuth, VINE
a. did some damage to the corn an
tobacco crops, as well as to the gal
Vi dens. we are now having coplOI
Mt showers. WeIearn that a consider;
of bile amount Of corn in this count
id has suffered very badly, not oni
40 from dry weather, but for want
~ work. If these warm showers COZ
us tinue many days, we shall hear
or howl about sprouted Wheat.-I'dr
mt IlteJtigeacer.
We Stephen Boyd, a cOlored blacl
ut smith in North Nashville, died late
- of bvdrOphobia. He was man
-, sixtV. well liked and had fOndne
mt for dogs. Three months ago he w
of handling a black and tan terrie
do which had been badly Worsted IN
figbf and the animal bit him in Il
q hand. He tied the dog up, kept hi
1Io so for two weeks ana thell XIII |.
re. him. The animal had given no
ne dications whatever OF beng ihao'
NV The uncertainty of the law ma
nd he illustrated by the fact that the
he l. now in the hands of the clerk
'ii0 the Sunreme Court for the MIDI
ne Division of the State So, O0O |
I'm which there is no owner. rms ful
itv has heen handed down since t
l,y, days of the late James p. Clark, al
~ though the various clerks VINO ma
ne succeeded him have used eve
RS ovartion. no owner has been foun
emit The fund was several years ago
,iu vested i'm United States 0-z9s, u
~ we suppose the State viii ial M
to it.--AgaericG1l.
DIR. Mat. Hillsman, OF Irentt
APP Tenn. has been Baptist minis
I'M IN This State for forty years, ana
all been connected in some way w
o. every ever important denomination
On e e,tesnrise Of the Baptists. He Y
ire. for fort MANY wears editor OF the Bapl
ave yVafehman. published at KnoIvll
has HIeorganized the first Baptist chal
ded Chattanooga ever had, ana lSeV' !