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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
Cut this out and Save it.

A correspondent of the Southern
Plantation writes as follows about
the flower of a well known plant:
l have discovered a remedy for
pulmonary consumption. 1t has
cured number of cases after they
had commenced bleeding at the
lungs and the hectic flush was al
ready on the check. After trying
this remedy to my own satisfaction,
/ have thought philanthropy re-
quired that should let it be known
to the world. tits common mullen,
stepped strongly sweetened with
coffee sugar, and drank freely. The
herb should be gathered before the
end Of July, if convenient,
Young or old plants are good dried
in the shade and kept in clean bags.
The medicine must be continued
from three to six months, according
to the nature of the disease. 1t is
very good for the blood vessels also.
1t strengthens and builds up the
system, instead of taking away the
strength. 1t makes good blood, and
takes inflammation away from the
lungs. 1t is the wish of the writer
that every periodical in the United
States, Canada and Europe should
publish this receipt for the benefit
of the human family. Lay this up
and keep it in the house ready for
use.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
GRAIN.
The Yield OF 1877 the Largest Ever
Produced in the United States.
New York sun.


The grain crop of the United
States this autumn is vast increase
over that of any preceding year in
the history of the country. 1t
amounts in the two main cereals,
wheat and corn, to 325, 900, 900 bush
els of the former, and 1880, 900, 900
of the latter, according to the careful
estimates of Mr.. Walker, the statis-
tician of the New York Produce
Exchange. The movement of this
enormous crop has just begun to be
felt, as up to the past eight weeks
the expectations were of last years
crop; but the sudden increase already
noted gives good promise of a gol-
den future. During the brief period
mentioned our exports of wheat
from the ports of New York, Mon
treal, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, New Orleans ana Portland
have aggregated II, ,525, ,l88 bushels,
against an expectation from the
same ports during a corresponding
period of last year of 1898, ,951
bushels, showing an increase of
Z, ,5S6, ,237 bushels. There has also
been an increase of 70S, ,234 bushels
in the expectation of rye during the
same time, and in peas an increase
of 81 ,409 bushels. In corn alone has
there been a falling off to the extent
of $685. ,054 bushels in that time.
The following table presents the
increase of production and eXpOrta-
tiOn in the two leading cereals in
the past ten years:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
The ohio Revolution.

The stunning Democratic victory
in Ohio surpassed the highest hopes
of the successful party, and strikes
the vanished dumb with amaze
ment. It is not mere defeat 1t is
a revolution, and it leaves the Re-
publicanism that has woven the
greenest chaplets of our history in
its better days, in the starless mid
night of hOpelessness. 1t is idle to
explain that Greenback, Labor and
Prohibition diversions decimated
the Republican party, while che
Democracy stood in solid ranks
when the decisive battle came upon
them. Republicanism was disinte-
grated, not because its voters loved
Greenback, Labor or Prohibition
doctrine better, but because they de-
manded some channel of egress from
the befOuled Republican temple
and the Democracy stood to their
guns because they were out of power;
because they wanted to win power,
and because Republicanism opened
its own gates for the enemy to enter
and Overwhelm it.
The verdict of Ohio is unmistaka- |
BILE. 1t is a crushing defeat for Pres |
ident Hayes, and it comes from |
those who should have been friends /
as well as from consistent foes. 1t /
comes from incongruOus elements /
which found unity without arrange /
was hated for his faith to the peace |
of the nation, he was smitten by
thousands who felt that he wears
crown, and he was desert
ed by many because of the distrusted
leaders who gave him half-hearted
and vet loaded him with
their friendships. Judge West
the campaign with fatal
stab directed at his own vitals, and
the party floundered under his awk-
ward efforts to retrieve his irretrieV-
able blunder. Stanley Matthews
was a double milestone about the
neck of the President and a dead
weight upon the tottering party,
while cross purposes and a general
spirit of vengeance within the Re
publican household, made il an easy
conquest for the practically united
Democracy.
Whether the majority for Bishop
shall foot up twenty or thirty thou
sand matters little. 1t is not less
than twenty, and more is needless,
for it carries the Legislature and a
United States Senator, and dates the
final destruction of the debauched
Republicanism that was first ar
at Cincinnati in 1872. 1t will
sweep down the last vestige of hope
full opposition to Democratic success
in Pennsylvania, and even Phila-
1elphia will swing from her Repub-
Iican mOOrings in November
Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
Perished i'm the FLAMES.

The CoOkeville Chronicle gives
the following horrible details Of a
late fire, i'm which two innocents
perished:
One day last week Mr.. Buck, Of
Overton county, left his house to go
a very short distance to feed some
hogs, and at the same time his wife
went to milk the COWS, leaving two
small children at the house. Mr..
Buck had been gone but'a short
time when he saw an unusual smoke
ascending from his house. He has
tened to the scene, and found his
house on fire, and searched for his
babes, which he had left few min
utes before, and being unable to find
them, started in the direction of the
COW pen, supposing they had gone
with their mother, but finding they
had not, again rushed to the house,
but the fire had increased so rapidly
it was impossible to enter, and the
two little ones perished i'm the flames.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
Rev. Samuel RimggOId.

Habbinal (Mo0 Courier, Semptember2S
1t is with sincere regret that we
learn that Rev. Samel RinggOld,
for several years past Rector of Trim
ity Episcopal Church, this city, has
accepted a call to Cedar Rapids, Ia,
to which new field he will proceed
next week. During his residence
in Hannibal, Mr.. RinggOld has en-
deared himself to a very large circle
of friends, not only within the linn
its of his own Church relationship,
but among our citizens of all de
nominations. His cathOlicity of
spirit, his uniform urbanity, his ge-
NAL social qualities, combined with
his excellence as a Minister of the
Gospel, have made him welcome in
all the best circles of society. His
departure will be felt to have Occa-
stoned a serious loss to our city, and
to have made wide breach in the
array of brilliant ministerial talent
of which Hannibal has, of late, had
lust occasion to be proud. Trinity
Church will be indeed fortunate to
secure q successor who will as ably
fill the pulpit.
To his new home the best wishes
of a host of friends will accompany
him and his accomplished wife; and
never will the pleasure be forgotten
or the friendships suffered to grow
cold, which their residence in Han
nibal has in such eminent degree
given rise to.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

MACK, of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, spent three days in trying
to grasp the situation of the national
capital, and finally reached this con-
clusiOn:
1 find that ignoring the grand di-
vision into two parties-Republican
and Democratic-the assembled pO-
litical wisdom of the nation may be
be divided i'm two distinct classes {:
First, those who indorse what the
President has done, but deny his IT,
tie to the office of President second,
those who defend both the title and
the policy, and enjoy in return a
lively sense of favors to come. |
think this is a fair analysis. GER
tainly have not yet seen a Democrat
who did not dispute the title, or
Republican who did not denounce
the "policy," unless among the lat
ter l include the ephemeral breed of
small politicians to whose existence
the sunshine of official favor is
prime necessity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
decentralization.

When we differ with the West
Tennessee Whig we do so frankly
and in a friendly spirit; but we
much prefer agreeing with him,
which we do heartily when he writes
as follows:
1t is cheering to every lover of
peace to witness the perfect recon-
ciliatiOn now prevailing all over the
country, but more especially in the
South. The few impracticables in
the North can no longer fiaunt the
"bloody shirt" to arouse the mad
passions of the public; and the eX-
treme partisans in the South can no
longer cry "RadicaP' against every
body who don't sneeze when they
take snuff. The occupation of both
these disturbers of the peace of the
country has been most etfectually
put down, and peace, gentle peace,
comes with healing on its wings.
The Republican party, as an Or
ganizatiOn, having virtually dis
banded, all over the South, it leaves
the great body of the people free to
come together, without the fear of
secret or open Radical opposition,
and exchange views upon measures
affecting their future interest. Well,
in this council we may ask "Where
are we ?" and the response must be
''altOgether"- least upon the only
live issues of the day. So far as we
are concerned we have no quarrel
to make with those who adhere.
with undying tenacity, to a name.
Our Democratic friends of Tennessee
are now with us on two out of the
three measures that use to separate
us. We go with them on the tariff
question, and they are with us on
the currency and internal improve
ments by the general government.
We long since abandoned a pro-
tective tariff, because it had ans
wered the purpose for which it was
created-the protection of our infant
American manufactOries-and it
should now stalk out in history.
Internal Improvements and ma
tional paper currency were cardinal
tenets of the old Whig party, and
are now cherished with filial devO-
ton by every old line Wing. They
are live issues to-day. and most
gladly do we welcome to their sup
port our old Democratic friends.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
How TO Work.

The Jefferson City (MO.) Journal
tells this, which is a well known
fact:
About a week ago a gentleman
from Tennessee representing a capi-
tai of $40, 900, in search of location
at which to engage in business, gave
us a call, and after stating his mis-
paper. We handed him the morn
ing Journal. To our surprise he did
not stop to read newsy local "pick-
ups" or our attractive editorial
page, but he turned at once to the
advertising columns and COM
menced counting over their spaces.
"Well," said he, glancing up from
the paper, sis that all? Is that the
business Of this town 2"
ooh, no." said we, "here is the
Tribune with few advertisements
that do not appear in the Journal"
He then counted two additional
local business advertisements in the
Tribune, and again looked up with
the remark:
"And that's all, is it? Why, you
haven't got near as much of town
as / thought you had )" and then we
explained to him that we have a
great many business men who do
not advertise,
"They are not business men. to
hurt If they do not advertise" was
his answer.
We could not contradict him, and
we were powerless to vindicate the
"claims of the city"
He left us, saying if he had time
he would look around, but he
thought this was no place for him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

NEW York, Oct. 27.-Ex-Gov.
Tilden was serenaded last night. In
his speech ne said: "If our British
cousins find it difficult to get a sup
ply of food, we have q boundless
supply, and a continent in which
are vast areas of fertile soil adapted
to the use Of agricultural machinery
and connected with the centers of
trade by great rivers, vast internal
seas and $4,000 miles of railway.
Why cannot the British workmen
have cheap food, our farmers good
trade and our carriers facilitate this
commerce? Commercial exchanges
1t must be remembered, involve
mutuality. We must reform and
moderate our barbarous revenue
system, and no longer legislate
against the works of humanity and
the benificence of God"
Mr.. Tilden endorsed the Demo-
cratic State ticket and said: "This
election has some relation to ma
tiOnal politics, in regard to which
you expect that / should make some
observations. You are aware of the
result of the contest in 1876"
A voice-"You were robbed"
Tilden (excitedly)-"I did not get
robbed. The people got robbed. 1t
was robbery of the dearest rights
of American citizens, the right of
free government the right of the
people to govern themselves and
change their rulers at will. If the
American people lie down and con-
sent to sacrifice the integrity of their
control over their own Government,
they will commit wrong, not only
against themselves but the people of
every other land. One thing prom
ise-One thing | swear before the as
sembled people of America swear
that the Government of America
will be restored to the people accord
ing to the idea of its founders"
This is all true, Mr.. Tilden, but |
we will nominate a Western man
next time for President, with Wade |
for Vice President; we |
have had enough of New York NOM
inees for the present.-ED. CHRoN-
TCU T.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
Looking Up"

The following from the Baltimore
Suns New York dispatch, shows
how business is "lOoking ups"
The largest order ever known to
be received here by cable or other
wise, for wheat from the other side,
was received, a few days since, by
Mr.. Gustave Reynauds, formerly of
New Orleans. The order was ca
bled from France, and was for 190,-
900 bushels, the commissions on
which footed up the handsome sum
of 81 900. A few orders like that a
month would soon make man for
get there ever was such a thing as
"hard times" In these dispatches
the demand for our breadstufis from
France has been before spoken of,
and it is ON the increase, not only in
that country, but on the continent.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

II is among the probabilities that
Spolford will beadmitted to his seat
in the Senate. Referring to the mat
ter, the Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer tele-
graphs:
SpOfford's friends are more hope
ful than they have been that the
Senate Elections Committee will re-
port his case to The Senate without
much delay. Don Cameron, who is
a member of the Committee, says
he is uncertain how he shall vote,
that he advised his brOther-in-law,
Wayne McVeagh, to go on the Pres
ident's Louisiana Commission, and
is inclined to think that the Senate
should sustain the work of that
Commission. If the case does get
to the Senate, SpoffOrd's friends
count on the votes of Stanley Mat
thews, Christiancy and David Da-
Wis, at least, and that would insure
his seat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
Philadelphia Lost to the RePubli-
cans.

Philadelphia Cor. of the n. Y. Tribune.
A bad feature of the situation for
the Republicans is that they can no
longer count upon Philadelphia for
its old Republican majority of from
$4,000 to 10000, and they will prob
ably not get any majority ut all
here. The local organization is
broken into two discordant factions,
one led by DisstOn, and the other
by Rowan. The Mayor has direct
ed his police not to pay one dollar
of assessment, and he seems dis
posed to let the election go by de
fault. Those who are familiar with
the influence Of the police in a city
campaign will appreciate the effect
of this Indifferent attitude this year.
1t is possible that the State Com
mittee may pluck up courage, shake
Offits lethargay and organize brisk
fOrtnight's canvass; but there are no
signs as yet of such intention on
their part, except to issue a sOnOrOus
proclamation calling upon Republi-
can voters to be true to their party,
which has reduced the State debt by
some $27, 100000, and has always
been true to its trusts. Senator
Cameron, who, it will be recollect-
ed, controlled the late convention,
might be expected to step i'm at this
critical iuncture and make a heroic
effort to preserve the old ascendancy
of the party; but it is reported here
that he will husband his strength
and money for next year, when
Legislature is to be chosen. That
Legislature will re-elect Cameron or
somebody i'm his place, and his
thoughts are naturally in that di-
rectiOn, and he is busy with plans
to carry close districts next year
rather than making what seems to
be close fight this fall.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

NOTHING speaks so loud for the
Democratic party as the figures
which attest the economy it en-
forces. In the case Of Mississippi,
for instance, the expenses OF the
State in 1874 were 81 ,O28, 424; in 1875,
$773,519 u, and under Democratic
rule in 1876 they were only $430, 14l
63, while this year they have been
reduced to 1858. $50. And yet there
are cut-thrOat Office-seekers akin to
those who here-abouts have taken
Office under Hayes, who are labor
ing to restore the government Of
Mississippi to the thieving Radical
party.-MeDlpItis Appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03
A Mothers worth.

Many discouraging mother folds
her tired hands ant night, and feels
as if she had, after all, done moth
ing, although she had not spent an
idle moment since she rose. Is Il
nothing that your little helpless
children have some one TO come 90
with all their childish griefs and
joys? is IL nothing that your hus-
band feels "safe," when he Is away
to his business, because your careful
hands direct everything at home Z?
Is IL nothing when his business il
over, that he has the blessed refuge
of home, which you have that day
done your best to brighten and re-
fine? Oh, weary and faithful moth
er! you little know your power
when you say: 81 have done Moth
ing" There is n book i'm which a
fairer record than this Is written
over against your name.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

A PHILADELPHIA firm Is build
ing a monument twenty-siX feet in
height, to be placed over the grave
of Andrew Johnson, near GIecn-
vile, Tenn. at consists Of gran
ite base, with plinth, die, and shaft
of Italian marble. The base Is nine
feet six inches square at the ground.
There will be two granite piers, one
on each side of the two graves, over
which will be sprung "A granite arch,
and upon this the monument will
rest, leaving an opening under the
arch, i'm which the graves will be
visible. On the front Is a curved
scroll representing the Constitution
of the United States, and am open
book with hand resting upon IL,
representing the taking OF the oath
ofOffice. SurmOunting the whole is
an American eagle with out-stretch-
cd wings"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

WHEN the Radicals had undis-
puted control of Congress all sorts
of subsidies, involving millions of
dollars, for Northern Improve
ments, or for schemes in which the
North was interested, as the Pacific
Mail, were granted without n mo-
ment's hesitation, but now when
appropriations are asked for im-
provements that will benefit the
South, as the Texas Pacific railroad,
or the Mississippi levees, their ideas
upon the subject Of subsidies sud-
denly undergo a radical change, and
they denounce them rs schemes for
defrauding the treasury and increas-
ing the burdens of the poor tax
payers. Considering the immense
sums that have been given the
North, the comparatively small APP
preparations now asked by some
in the South, might, IL would be but
natural to suppose, be obtained with
but little opposition from Northern
observation-disclosures Ga
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

THE New York Produce Ex-
change has broken Off its negotia-
tions with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for their joint action
i'm collecting the loss on freight dur
ing the Pittsburg riot, and will pro-
ceed independently. Suits will be
lnstitutedat once against the railroad
company and the county Of Allie
gheny, Pennsylvania. The COM
mittee of the Produce Exchange de-
clared that the railroad company
had not inspired confidence by it,
treatment Of obligations arising out
Of the riots at Pittsburg, and by ifs
vacillating course had wearied the
patience OF the committee and for
feited its forbearnce and sympathy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

The first thing for young man TO
learn, when entering life and taxing
upon himself the duties and respon-
sibilities of business, Is accuracy,
All the trouble and expense OF law
suits come from doing business IN
careless way. Show US a man whose
time Is spent i'm the courts, whose
life is constant litigation, and nine
out of ten one will prove TO bea man
who has no system in business, who
trusts to memory, and not bonds,
receipts and book of account, and
his loose, careless unmethodieal way
gets matters i'm tange and Il takes
lawyers, judges, a jury and time and
money to get him straight again.
Lawyers realize the benefits that
result from accurate business hab-
its, and as a rule they seldom have
suit, and never with each other.
We have yet to learn Of the first
case where two lawyers had a suit
with each other about "A business
transaction. They always "put up
all the legal bars,n and the result is
they keep clear of the law. Young
men, let your motto be "accuracy
and punctuality," and your success
i'm life is assured. - TIddt Hare.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

PRAYER is too pure and holy an
ordinance to be made the tool OF SUI
pernaturalists. IL is the simplest
and most natural law within the
grasp of weak humanity, and the
benefits it cOnfers are inestimable;
but it never spreads a table, pays a
debt, builds church, or sustains an
orphan asylum. 1t can nOurish the
spiritual system with its invisible
food until the recipient is enabled
to to make a long journey in the
desert of life upon the strength re-.
ceived therefrom, but ii will never
make the sun less intense. nor re-
move the burning sand. II Is the
only way by which the finite may
approach the infinite and commune
with the unseen, and il Is nothing
less than desecration To endow IL
with the powers Of material Jug
glery. The true and spiritually
minded Christian should leave the
wonder stories and all accounts of
miraculous interpretations to the sect
that makes spiritual transforma-
tions speciality and themselves
the medium Of its operation,
and should feel that IL IL a priv
ilege to commune with God I'm
the simplest and sweetest way that
man will ever know.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

DICKENS wrote: "There Is moth
ing, no, nothing, beautiful and good
that dies and Is forgotten. An i'm
fant, IA prattling child, dying In its
cradle, will live again In the better
thoughts Of those who loved IL, and
play its part, though its body be
burned to ashes or buried In the
deepest sea. There is not an angel
added to the host Of heaven but does
it's blessed work on earth i'm those
that loved il here. Deadi oh, il
the good deeds of human creatures
could be traced To their source, how
beautiful even would death appear,
for how much charity, mercy and
purified affection would be seen TO
have their growth in dusty graves"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

THE authorities of the POstoffice
Department do not favor Senator
Edmunds' plan to prevent frauds in
thesale of postage stamps. The Post
master General will recommend in
stead a law providing that Post
masters in small offices shall be
paid percentage on the amount of
stamps Cancelled by them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-03

"WoRDwoRTH," said Charles
Lamb, "one day told me he consid-
cred Shakespeare greatly Overrated.
'There is an immensity of trick i'm
all Shakespeare wrote, he said, 'and
people are taken by it. Now, If /
had mind, | could write exactly
like Shaspeare.' 80 you see,' pro-
ceeded Charles Lamb quietly, 1T
was only the mind that was want
ing.'u