Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-04
STATE ITEMS.

The Columbia Journal boasts of
its narroW-gauge railroad. The
gross earnings of the road, only
running twenty-one miles, are 81 900
per mile, and when the road is COM
pleted to Fayetteville, it is expected
that it will be the best paying road
in the State.
The Knoxville Chronicle says
"New wheat is being shipped in
large quantities from all stations ON
the East Tennessee, Virginia q
Georgia railroad to New York, Bal
timOre and other Eastern markets,
this season. This is rather a rever-
sal of things, as our wheat has, here
tofore, all gone to Southern mar
kets."
james Barker, of Nashville,
aged % years, height about 5 feet 6
inches, and weight about 40 pounds,
walked from HOpkinsville, KY, to
Nashville, a few days ago, dis
lance of seVenty-tWo miles, from 4
o'clock in the morning until 7 O'Clock
at night.
The Jackson Tribune and Sun
says that, on Sunday last, the Rev.
B. A Stubs, of the Ripley circuit,
while on his way to fill an appoint
ment to preach, was killed by a fall
ing tree. He was riding along the
road eight miles from Baldwin,
when a tree fell upon him and his
horse, killing both instantly. When
1,n Ii !, 10, HI
mangled, although he still grasped
the reins tightly in his hand. His
legs and arms were shattered and
his head crushed to Il jelly.
AS a specimen of the increase of
tobacco culture in Houston county,
there have been 225 acres set out in
District No. yellow creek, against
80 acres last year. This information
is kindly furnished by Mr.. L. L.
Shelton, a citizen of the district, and
is reliable. 1t makes a good show
ing for the industry Of our people.
If every district in the county has
increased in the same ratio, we are
going to have better times.-HOalS-
ton County ReCietc.
1t is estimated that $4,000 logs
have been RATED to Nashville from
up the river this year. Most Of the
lumber came from Jackson, Clay
and the adjoining counties. There
has been brought to this market so
far, during the present year, from
other points, between 10, 900, 900 and
15,0O0,000 feet Of lumber, mostly
walnut, poplar and ash.
Fully three-fourths Of the lumber
used here is poplar, and it has no
as to quality anywhere.
Cedar lumber is obtained mostly
from Rutherford and Wilson cOun-
ties and the headwaters of the Cum
berland.
"A party of men, under the di-
rectiOn of an engineer, are engaged
in improving the river at Bartlett's
Bar, an island a few miles above
Rome. The river at that point is
into three channels or chutes,
when the water is low, and they
propose to damn up two of them,
thus turning all the water into one.
This will be valuable improve
ment, for boats and RATS can then
pass without difficulty, while the
place in its present condition is much
dreaded by them. 1t is considered
by steambOatman the worst place on
the upper Cumberland.
An ffairOccurreda at Union City,
Tuesday, which has Occasioned no
little excitement in that town. 1t
appears that a woman claiming to
be the wife of a man named Gun
piano tuner, had been
very sick for several days, and Gun
ningham was given ten grains of
with instruction to adj
minister not more than one grain at
4 time. Instead of carrying out the
instructions he was I'M
lerstoOd to have given the woman
the ten grains in one dose, which
soon after caused her death.
The community began to enter
ain the belief that it was not a mis-
axe, but when they went to look |
or him, yesterday morning, it was
iOund that he had left the town for
parts unknown. When questioned, !
previous to his disappearance, as to |
whether the woman was his wife, |
he declined to say whether she was
II not.
The Bolivar Bulletin says that |
IN Sunday night of last week |
IN old gentleman named A. O.
Shields was waylaid and murdered
Is he was returning from neigh
DOr's, by his step-sOn, Avis Phil
Ups, and VIM. Burrass. The first
hot took effect in Shields left arm.
Shields ran toward home, near by,
by the two men. After
two or three hundred yards
ne climbed over a fence into a to-
)accO patch and here the first bloody
Iced was cOnsummated. They first
stabbed him fOrty-seven times, and
hen finished the fiendish work by
out his teeth with an ak.
rhe cries of Mr.. Shields aroused a
ady and boy who lived near, and
hey ran out and witnessed the last
Gene in the bloody tragedy. Bur
ass and Phillips threatened them
With death if they ever told on them,
)ut they Immediately gave the
alarm, and Monday evening Phil
fps was arrested by party of citi-
ems, and brought to town by Con-
stable HuddlestOn and lodged in
all. Burrass has not yet been ar
'ested. The cause of this murder
vas family quarrel, Phillips accus-
ng Shields of mistreating his
mother. !