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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
TIE COMING ELECTIONS.

Ex-senator Logan, who is in
Washington, is very gloomy in re-
ference to the prospects of the Re
publican party at the ensuing cleo
tions. He says Wisconsin is as GER
tain to go Democratic as New York;
says the Democratic victories in
Ohio and California are entirely at
tributable to the new civil service
rules ard he fully expects Pennsyl.
vania and Massachusetts, to follow
suit. Senator Hoar is said to have
predicted defeat of the Republican
party in Massachusetts,.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Moody Episcopa,;aus

Whether Mr.. Moody has been con-
verified to the EpiscOpalian faith, or
has converted the EpiscOpalians to
his idea, the fact is certain that the
Episcopal Convention has Endorsed
with great heartiness the system of
preaching, and the work of evange-
lists, which Mr.. Moody has brought
prominently into notice, and prOp0-
ses that every parish minister shall
select fit and proper persons to act in
this capacity. This is much for a
religious body to do. 1t shows that
the Episcopal Church intends to
make an earnest effort to reach the
MASSES; and it is evident, from the
spirit of this convention, that the
whole power of the organization is
behind the effort.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
p vi. &. KEY.

And now we have the rumOr that
the President and General Sherman
are in favor of Key for the next
President. Key must wonder how
he got so high up rs that, but then
Hayes and Sherman are below par
on the score of political influence at
present. We would just as soon
hear that town constable had NOM
mated us for President as the pres
ent incumbent.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

THE subscription price of the
Rural Sun has been reduced to 1920
for single subscribers, and only 81
for two subscribers sending together
for the paper, which places it within
reach of everybody. We recon-
mend it as a first class agricultural,
stock and family paper, and we hope
all who read will now subscribe for
it, as it is just entering upon its sixth
volume, and is especially adapted to
to the climate, the habits of the peo-
pie, and their manner of farming
and rearing stock in this and the adj
joining States, containing each week
valuable contributions from practi-
cal farmers throughout Tennessee
and contiguous States.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

One night last week Squire 10.
a. Thompson heard a noise in his
hen house, and got up and went to
see what it was that was creating
the disturbance. When he got near
the hen house he saw two eyes that
glOwed like two large balls of fire.
He stopped up the cracks about the
house and proceeded to the wood
pile, where he armed himself with
an immense stick. Then he went
back to tackle his unknown foe.
He boldly entered the house, and
with one fell swoop laid his enemy
low. He brought a light, and found
that he had killed one of the largest
owls that has been seen in this sec
ton of country for years. 1t meas
ured five feet from tip to tip of its
wings.-iSheIdyUiUe Gazette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

THE Nashville Journal of Medi-
cine and Surgery is always a well
come visitor to our office, and the
number of this month is a very
strong one. The most important
among the original papers are one on
Urinary Pathology by T. o. Sum-
mers, M. D., of Nashville, anda re-
ported case of successful Ovarioto-
my by DIR. Jas. Guild, Jr., of Tus-
kaloosa, Ala. This latter is pa
per of great interest. He attributes
his success mainly to the efficient
drainage established first by making
the incision larger than usual, and
secondly by frequently placing his
patient in prone position. The in
creasng prevalence of ovarian dis
ease renders all the points very i'm
portant and interesting.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
A GOOD BEGINNING.

Speaker Randall sets a laudable example
of frugality in his mode of living. He oc-
cupies a very neat, but small and plain
house, i'm block of the size and stamp uSu-
ally occupied by third-claSS clerks, or navy
or army officers who live on their small pay.
-COITieT-JOtg7tGi.
Let us hope that this is begin
ming of better things. Among the
things which led us to anticipate an
improvement in the social arrange
ments of the next season in Wash
ingtOn was description of Mrs.
Hayes first reception there in which
it was stated that the lady of the
White House did not wear a single
jewel. Oh, if she will stick to that
she can do more in week to reform
the civil service than her husband
can in his whole Presidential term.
There has been no more fatal source
of corruption in official circles than
the eXtraVagant expenditure every
one was required to keep up who
was in society. Poor unhappy Mrs.
Belknap, Tor instance; how we used
to hear of her velvets and laces, her
exquisite jewelry and her splendid
saloons, and then, like a clap OF
thunder from a cloudIess sky, came
the catastrophe which revealed the
shameful source of all this Ostenta-
tiOus expenditure. Let American
statesmen and their families pride
themselves upon a Spartan simplic-
ity in their household arrangements
and we shall have no more such re-
voting contrasts Ofglaring sumptu-
osities on the surface with cOrrup-
ton and rOttenness Immediately be-
meath If
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

THERE is nothing in Mexico to
steal, and one side loses everything
and gains nothing. If we win Next
co, we will have won an elephant,
and to effect a conquest win cost
$4,000 lives and countless millions
of money.-Aatsti,a Ter. Statesman.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

SENATOR BLAINEwas summoned
home from Washington on account
of his daughter being accidentally
shot, but was prevented going by a
sudden attack of illness, which
seems likely to develope into ty-
phOid fever.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
THE TRAlIPs AGAIN.

We have more than once urged
upon our readers the great probable
ity of the South being infested this
winter with tramps of troublesome
and even dangerous type. Our pa
pers upon this subject have furnished
much matter for pleasantly to our
neighbor of the Tobacco Leaf, who
has kept them for a standing joke
long after the articles ceased to APP
pear in this paper. To all this we
have no objection whatever, never
having been thin-skinned where
gOod-humOred jests are flying. We
have not reciprocated, however,
though we are generally quite at our
friends disposal for little harmless
repartee; in this instance we re-
Trained, because we look upon the
matter as a very serious one and
wish our readers to do the same.
Our attention has been recalled to
the matter by a letter we have re-
ceived from the lower part Of this
county, where the nuisance has al
ready presented itself in a very ugly
form. We are not authorized to
give our correspondents name, but
our readers are assured that if pub
lished it would carry weight with it
as the utterance of gentleman not
by any means likely to give false
alarms. The letter runs as follows ::
The tramps have commenced moving
South lively from two to fifteen pass down
the road daily. They generally go in squads
of four and five, and when night comes on
them, if no clubhouse is convenient, they
build fires Of fence rails and raid corn fields
and potato patches to get something to eat.
They are more insOlent than usual when
they go to a house to beg; if they find there
are no men around they demand Uict1dES.
They are a source of great trouble to farmers
living near the railroad, and something will
have to be done with them. &"
Our correspondent then proposes
to organize vigilant committees, and
adds:
The people at the different stations along
the road have such an idea in view. A tramp
was found sick ON the roadside near Palmyra
last week and was taken to section house,
where he died next day. He was a German I;
had some money and q iCdtch on his person.
Nearly all Of them hare pistols nom, and 1
think 1t unsafe for ladies to be riding out
near the railroad.
So far for our correspondent. We
trust that this matter will be con-
sidered with the seriousness which
its urgentimpOrtancedem demands. The
pleasantly of our contemporary was
excited by our proposition to organ
ize a military cOmpanyin view of
possible complications in Clarks-
vile. Well, here is a case for which
that measure would be evidently in
applicable; will he therefore resist
the temptation to write facetiOusly
about the "SkidmOre Guards" ard,
if possible, look at the matter seri-
Ously and suggest the remedy? If
he will not, we believe that we have
many readers who will, and shall
be glad to hear from them. For
ourselves, we say nothing except to
concur heartily with our correspond
ent when he says something will
have to be done with them"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
October 20, 1877.

THE press was represented on the
occasion of the unwilling of the
Blount monument, by Messrs. H.
NJ. Doak, of the Nashville Ameri-
can, NJ. C. Kirkland, of the Rural
Sun, and w. J. Broaddus and J. L.
Duff, of the Houston County Re-
view, besides the editors of the To-
baccO Leaf and Chronicle
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Advertised Letters,

Remaining at the GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Post
Office, Saturday, Oct 81, 1877. If not called
for in thirty days, will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office:
A-Armstrong, Mrs. Lucy.
Anderson, Mrs. f. o.
B-Bradbury, p. r.
Boyd, Edward.
Byard, +. n. b.
Boyd, VIM.
Bagwell, Miss Matte.
C-Crutcher, Mrs. Matte.
D-Davis, Miss Inez.
Dabney, Miss Sophey.
Derrick, Jesse c.
F-Fehan, Henrietter.
Fort, DR..
Fuller, w. l..
G-Gray, Mrs. Mary ].
Grant, John 5.
H-Harper, Miss b. E.
Hooper, Willie.
Halyard, Pimbrolze (coD.
Hutchinson, Martha.
Irving, Joe (col).
J-Johnson, g. NJ.
Johnston, T. NJ.
K-Kennedy, j. N.
LLove, Miss Maggie F.
Laurence, Mrs. Fannie.
Lyon, Jane (eoD.
M-MaXey, A. B.
Mueete, Polly.
McCage, Mrs. Eliza.
O-OSburn, w. N.
R-Rose, Mrs. Alva.
RadclifTe, Mrs. Ella,
Rainy, Joseph.
Rinehart, G. H.
Rose, N. D.
Rice, Miss Nellie.
S-Steppe, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Straton, Mrs. Isball.
W-Walker, r. H.
Williams, Miss Ida.
Williamson, Miss Julia ~.
Willis, Mrs. NJ. j.
Watts, Joseph,
Williams, Vim.
Vowel, Miss Irene.
Persons calling for any ofthe above letter
will please say advertised.
SAM'L REXINGER, p. NJ.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Non Resident Notice.
D. Grant etsals. VS.. L. H. Ferguson and
wife, ct als.-Petition to sell land
for division


wife, ct als.-Petition to sell land
for division.
1t appearing to the satisfaction of the
Clerk from the allegations of the petition,
that l.. H. Ferguson and wife Charlotte
Ferguson, Martha A. Lipford, Mary LipfOrd
and Nancy Lipford are non-residentS of the
State of Tennessee, so that the ordinary pro-
cess of law cannot be served upon them:
1t is therefore ordered that publication be
made for four successive weeks in the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE, q newspaper pub
lished in the City of GAINESVILLE, notifying
said nonresident defendants to appear be-
fore the Hon. c. w. Tyler, County Judge of
Montgomery county, at the December term
of said court, to be held at the Court
House in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, on Monday,
the Sd day of December, 1877, and plead,
answer or demur to compliments petition,
or the same will be taken for confessed as
to them and set for hearing eX parte.
y true copy-Attest:
PETER ONEAL, Clerk.
CHAs. g. SMITH, Sol. for Compts.
Oct. q, lS77-4w
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

EArSI hOuh0 Oh quarterly MeetAhSS
Springfield station, Oct. 20, q.
Ashland City station, Oct. q, %.
Port Royal and Salem station, at Port
Royal, Nov. 3, 4.
New Providence and Bethel station, at
New Providence, Nov. TO- IL.
Montgomery circuit, at Asbury, Nov. II, Is
Saline circuit, at Rose Valley, Nov. "a, %
Blooming Grove circuit, at Central Chapel
Dec. l, 2.
Palmyra circuit, at Palmyra, Dec. 8, 8.
Antioch circuit, at Martha's Chapel, Dec
10, Is.
Cheatham circuit, at Pleasant View, Dec
p, %.
Red River circuit, at New Chapel, Dec. 49,
90 H
Cedar Hill circuit, at Adams Station, Jan.
s.,
Asbury circuit, at Union School House,
Jan. u, IL.
Clarksvslle station, Jan. 10, 20.
The District Stewards will please meet me
at the Methodist Church in GAINESVILLE, at
IL o'clock A. NJ. on Thursday, Oct. %, 1877.
Business of importance demands a prompt
and full attendance.
WELBORN MOONEY, p. E.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

Historical Society of Tennessee.
The meeting of this organization
will be held in Nashville on the first
Tuesday in November. An inter
esting session is anticipated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

offer for sale to the highest bidder, at his
late residence, Woodstock, Todd county,
KY, six miles from Trenton, eight from
Guthrie, and twelve from GAINESVILLE, the
finest Stock Farm in Southern Kentucky,
with elegant two-stOry BRICK DWELL
ING, several large Tobacco Barns, Cribs,
Stables, Pork House, Ice House, Blacksmith
Shop, and a large number of other out
houses; a large, never-failing Spring, an
excellent Cistern, five or six large ponds of
stock water, with many other conveniences.
Farm about 500 acres, 70 of which have been
Sowed in wheat, and sold for one-fOurth
cash, balance in one, two and three years-a
minimum price being fixed on the same.
We will also sell the Furniture, Stock, and a
very extensive assortment of Farming I'm
plementS, a lot of fine Bacon, 5000 pounds of
Tobacco in barn, old and new Corn, Hay,
Hogs, Sheep, Horses, Mules, and herd of
North Devon Cattle including thorough
bred Bulls, Pork and Stock Hogs of the pure
Berkshire breed, and several Angora Goats.
TERMS OF SALE-All sums under IS, Cash !;
all sums over So, twelve months credit will
be given.
NJ. C. GOODLETT,
r w. HUMPHREYS,
October q, lS77l-t Executors.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

A MOB broke into the Jefferson :,
Texas, Jail and carried a negro twelve
miles to where he had murdered a
little mail boy, and there hung him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Administrators Notice.

Having qualified as Administrator of Mrs.
F. l.. NJ. Prouty, decd, all persons indebted to
the estate are hereby notified to come for
ward and settle at once, and all persons
having claims against the estate will present
them to me for settlement within the time
prescribed by law or they will be barred.
SAM. JOHNSON, Admir-.
October q, 1S77-4t
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
THE official statement of the vote
for Bishop and West in Ohio is

The number of votes was mucb
smaller than any recent election -.
Gov. Bishop received 1860 fewer
votes than Gov. Allen in 1879. and
West received AZ, 1856 few than We're
cast for Gov. Hayes in 1879.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
FIRST Round of Quarterly Meetings

GAINESVILLE DISTRICT TEN
NESSEE CONFERENCE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Public Sale F.!
REAL A ND
Personal Property.
Friday, November I'd, 1877,

AS Executors of Charles N. MeriwetheI
deceased, we will, on
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

Am Anxious Talk Over the FreSi-
dents POIicy-ThOrnbu
Disgust.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27
Our correspondent then proposes
to organize vigilant committees, and
adds:

The people at the different stations along
the road have such an idea in view. A tramp
was found sick ON the roadside near Palmyra
last week and was taken to section house,
where he died next day. He was a German I;
had some money and ICdtch on his person.
Nearly all Of them hare pistols nom, and /
think 1t unsafe for ladies to be riding out
near the rniIrOad.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

Persons calling for any ofthe above letters
will please say advertised.
SAM'L REXINGER, P. NJ.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-27

Remaining at the GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Post
Office, Saturday, Oct. q, 1877. If not called
for in thirty days, will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office:
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-22
A Remedy.

The remedy is clear, and should
be applied without delay. Congress
will meet three months hence, il
October. 1t should, without the
least hesitation:
First-Repeal unconditionally the
date of the resumption law.
Second-Remonetize the silver
dollar as it was before 1878, and au.
thorize its free coinage.
Third-RepeaI all war taxes on
private capital engaged in banking
and business.
Fourth-Continue the existing
law for the retirement of sum OF
greenbacks equal to 80 per cent, of
all additional bank-note circulation,
this to go on without limitation.
Having done these things, the
menace under which property is
shrinking. and money is boarding.
and capital is idle-under which Ia
bor is arrested, machineryis is rustin g.
and workmen starving-will be re-
moved. A definite policy being
adopted. the cha ~acter of the future
will be assured, confidence will be
renewed. and the machinery of trade,
labor and production will he again
put in motion.-Chicdgo Tribune.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-22
Weston ON Silver.
United states Economist-

We republished last week, from the
Bankers Magazine, an article by Geo.
M. Weston, Recording Secretary of the
Silver Commission, on the question Of
using silver for coin i'm this country.
wherein some points bearing on that
question are well stated; but Mr.. Weston,
like most writers thereon, does not touch
the heart of the subject; the vital points
whereon the ssue turns. This heart is
the fact that silver is not mere prom
Use, but the thing itself which a note
promises. Hence, even if depreciated-
which need not be-siIver-is far better
than paper for currency basis. Notes
promising to deliver coin can not be
over-issued as a rule, unless they have
some kind of Government Endorsement
to give them credit and circulation.
But notes for which coin is not deliver.
able on demand or short notice, or
which are not payable in any thing, can
be greatly over-issued. They can be
worked into circulation till they depre-
ciate so as to cease passing. Especially
easy is this initiation when the notes are
issued and forced into passage by Gov
ernment. Not only can large masses be +.
put afoat, but as long as the issuer is
not bound to pay such notes in coin on
presentation they can be secretly issu-
ed to an additional and almost unlimited
extent. Coin, being thing and not
promise, can not be over-issued, either
openly or in secret. If general, infia-
tion with its long train of mischiefs can
not take place with coin basis of COM
merce; and when on such basis it does,
it can not go nearly so far nor work
nearly so much harm as when 10 occurs
on a foundation of irredeemable promis-
es. There is not gold enough in the
country, nor is there likely to be, to
answer alone the purpose of currency
in the place of the green-back; but with
the aid of the silver, coin may be sub
stituted with great advantage. The
demonetization or that metal by some
other countries, is likely to be a benefit
rather than an injury to us, since il
probably secures to America an ample
supply of the metal for the purpose of
coming silver dollar full value, and
gives us a metallic coin which is not
(ike goldl liable to the danger of sud-
den and extensive export. In European
where coin can be imported
from abroad within few hours or
very few days, this consideration is not
of great weight; but in this country,
where sudden demand may be i'm
possible to meet for week or two by
reason of the distance whence gold
must be imported, it is matter OF real
IRA YitY
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-22
The Value of a Dollar.

A silver dollar represents day $
work for the laborer. 1t is given to
boy. He has no idea of what it is
worth. He would be as likely to
give a dollar as dime for top or
any other toy. But if the boy has
learned to earn the dimes and dollars
by the sweat of his face he knows
the difference. Hard work is to him
measure of values that can never
be rubbed out of his mind. Let him
learn by experience that a hundred
dollars represent a hundred weary
days labor, and it seems great sum
of money; thousand dollars is
fortune, and ten thousand is almost
inconceivable, for it is far more than
he ever expects to possess. When
he has earned a dollar he thinks
twice before he spends it. He wants
to invest it so as to get the full val
ue of a days work for it. It is
great wrong to society and to a boy
to bring him up to mans estate with
out this knowledge. A fortune at
twenty-one without it is almost ine-
vitably thrown away. With it and
a little capital to start on he will
make his own fortune better than
anyone can make 1t for hin.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-22
VictOria's Wealth to that of the
Prince of Wales
L. ]. jennings London Letter

L. j. jennings London Letter.
The Queen of England is at this
time the richest woman in the world
totally apart from the sum annually
received from the country. When
the Prince Consort chose South Ken
sington as the site for the great ex,
hibition, he invested large amount
of money in lands thereabouts, and
that money has by this time increas
ed forty or fifty fold, and brings in
a revenue adequate in itself to cover
the expenses of a good, sized king
dom. The Queen herself is an ex-
cellent manager, and had she begun
life with capital of 5O0E she would
by this time have made 50,O00E for
she has turn for money making,
and never loses a chance to increase
her store. 1t may be doubted wheth-
er she spends much. if any, more
than 25,000L a year, for she rarely
receives anybody even to dinner.
and, although she has to keep up a
large staff Of servants, $125, 900
will go long way even here to de-
fray all expenses ofthat description.
1 mentioned this sum of 25,000I the
other day to friend of mine, who
knows a good deal more about the
court than I do. and he laughed at
it as being absurdly high. However
that may be, the Queen receives
385.000L a year from the nation,
about 4O,OO0I from the Duchy of
Lancaster, and not less than 200,-
000E from her investments-or So
125,000 year. The Prince of
Wales receives O,0OOl from the ma
tion. about 6O,OOOl from the Duchy
of Cornwall, and his wife 1,000l
from the nation-altogether 11O,-
000I, and upon this he has to keep a
large family and to receive and en-
tertain numerous visitors and guests,
give garden parties, balls, dinners,
and incur vast expenses generally,
which ought properly to fall upon
the monarch. No wonder that he is
relatively a poor man. The pros
pect before him is not very bright,
for the Queen may reign for twenty
years to come yet. She is only So,
and as strong as lion. in perfect
health, and probably hopes to reign
as long as her distinguished ances-
tor, George III. who was on the
throne 60 years-peace to his memo
ry! And certainly no one wishes
any evil to happen to the Queen, or
to see the shortening Of her days;
for, after all it is by no means GER
tain that the change. whenever it
may come. will necessarily be for
the better.