Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
STATE ITEMS.

tinue three days.
The members of the Seventh
Tennessee (Confederate) Cavalry,
who live in Shelby, have a reunion
on the 3lst inst.
DIR. ]. +. Grant, of Pulaski, has
sent to Col. j. B. Killebrew, Com
missioner of Agriculture, Statistics
and Mines, for exhibition before the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science, a large male
rattlesnake IA years old.
The Milan Exchange says Mi
Ian ought by all means TO have a
large merchant Touring mill. Talk
about cotton factories-the same
money invested in mills here will
make twice the profit. This isa fine
opening for capitalists.
The plan of A. G. Bruce, a Knox
vile architect, formerly of Nash
vile, for new court house at Chat
tanooga, has been accepted by the
Hamilton county commissioners.
1t will be one of the handsomest
public buildings in the State.
Physicians believe Shoat Fra
zier, who recently killed Mr.. Spence
in Bedford county, and who was
shot when captured, will die Of his
wounds. He was shot three times,
one of the bullets lodging in his
chest. This wound has rendered
him speechless.
DIR. John Chester. of Jackson,
who died on the 4th Of June Of small
pOX, was a member Of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. On the
10th of July his heirs received the
$1,000 benefit due from the order.
What life insurance company was
ever so prompt?
The Nashville Banner says;
Preparations are being made by the
members of the Tulip Street Church
to prepare lodgings for the visitors
to the annual Tennessee Conference
which meets at that Church i'm Oc-
tober next. Nearly enough homes
have already been engaged.
The Nashville Banner says: The
railroad State tax assessors are still
engaged in their work. They have
not vet completed the schedule of
any road. Certain items have sprung
up which have caused considerable
discussion. The assessors hold ddaily
sessions in the senate chamber,
The quaint little town Of Phila-
delphia, Tenn, situated on the Il.
II. Va. and Ga. II. r., six miles be-
low LoudOn, is one of the Oldest
towns I'm the State, and has a post
master, Mr.. ID. r. Kennedy, who
has held the Office for over thirty
years i'm succession. There are no
doubt but very few pOstmasters In
the United States who can say as
much.
Prof. A. w. Brayton, Of Chicago,
and ID. $. Jordan, of indianapolis,
accompanied by Messrs. John ~.
Oliver, p. w. Ritter and O. III. Gill
bert, of indianapolis, are inspecting
the various streams and rivers of
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
They are connected with the United
States fish commission, and are
sending specimens Of the water OF
these streams to Washington for the
purpose of having analyses made of
them with a view of supplying the
streams with young shad, They
are at present in Alabama, having
visited Chattanooga days since.
The Tennessee Federal Soldiers
Association will meet ON the 18th
day of next month at Maryville. A
poster before us signed by General
James p. BrOwnlOw as President,
and Will A. McTeer as Secretary,
announces the fact, and calls upon
eX-Federal soldiers 10 come with
"three days cooked ratiOns i'm their
haversacks." A number of distin-
gulsheG speakers have been invited,
and are expected to be present and
address the association. A large at
tendance is expected and desired,
and we see no reason why the "boya
in blue" should not have a pleasant
as well Us q profitable time.
The Knoxville Chronicle says !:
The marble which Is TO be converted
into monument for the tomb Of
Gov. Wiley BlOunt, at Clarksville,
Tenn, was shipped from this place
yesterday evening by Mr.. Boss, of
the Knoxville Marble Company. II
consists Of four large pieces, which
are Just hewn out in the rough and
to be dressed ut Clarksville. IL
makes a car load, and, when erected,
the monument Is To be seventeen
feet high. The marble Is beautiful
the finest that could be gotten out,
and if it Is properly dressed and
put up, 1t will make n tombstone
not to be surpassed anywhere.
The Huntingdon Republican
says: We are informed Of a foul
murder committed near RalstOn,
Weakley county, ON Saturday last.
A man by the name of "A. l.. Cow
ington went To the residence Of G..
w, Stephens, with a double-barrel
shot gun, and asked him out, but
Stephens refused. saying he did not
want to have a difficulty with him (;
Covington then told him he wanted
| to have a friendly conversation with
him. Stephens then came out,
when COvingtOn placed the gun To
his breast and fired, infiieting a fatal
wound, from which he died a day
or two afterward. COvington had
tried to get up a difficulty with Ste
phens the same day on their way
from mill, but failed, and in the
evening murdered Stephens as above
stated. There Is a great deal Of eX-
citement I'm the neighborhoOd over
the affair. CovingtOn has not as yet
been arrested, but a posse OF men
are searching the country for him.
"A special dispatch 10 the Nash
vile American of Aug. 10th, from
Huntingdon, states that General
Henry Darnell, on trial at Upton
vile, Lake county, bulldozed the
court mt that place Wednesday and
Thursday with twenty-five armed
men, the Sheriff and deputies being
entirely inefficient. Darnell recently
gave himself up, but refused To 20
to iail, and instead was placed In tho
custody of one Of his friends. il
having been shown that the bond
was insufficient, II was so announced
i'm court, and Darnell was ordered "a
jail. The Sheriff refused 10 act, and
the armed mob walked out Of the
court room denOuncing the cOuri
and defylng the authorities. Tho
Sheriff refusing 10 obey an order "a
summon a posse, Gov. Porter wRs
telegraphed to send the Chickasaw
Guards, Of Memphis, to Ills relief
but the order was c0untermanded,
Darnell and his squad having left
for X qntuclxv