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FEVER SEED.

Administrator McCaffrey has been notified by the
Board Of Health that the practice OF filling streets
with street and gutter scrapings Ia injurious TO the
Subtle hesith This IL nuisance OF very long
standing, and which, in the opinion Of our every
prominent physician. is damnable and should be
ahatAd.
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PARISH COMMITTEE.

The Democratic Parish Committee will meet on
Sunday ut noon at the Morning Star Hall, No.
Zig Poydras street. for the purpose Of calling the
Tenth and Eleventh Wards together TO elect DEL
egates TO the Senatorial convention OF the dis
trict composed OF these wards.
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GREAT BARGAINs.-This day, at II o'clock M,
city property, comprising well located stores
and residences in the First, SECOND: Third and
Fourth Districts. and advertised positively 70 be
sold for succession and other account, by G. e,
Girardey, auctioneer. We especially commend
thig opportunity to the attention OF our readers
terms term 81 and full particulars see Descriptive
advertisements and plans at sale.
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The production OF tea In India has reached
thirty million pounds recently.
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Coal was never lower in New York city thar
1t lis now.
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Trinity church, In New York city, is worth the
E4oderate sum Of $50 100000
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A MURDER In PLAQUEmINEs.

New American Sewing Machine. 1876 Ca
street.
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New American Sewing Machine. 1856 Canal
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WEATHER AND RIVERS.

New American Sewing Machine. 1876 Ga
at
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New American Sewing Machine. 1ss Cana
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New American Sewing Machine. ls5 Canal
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Thos. A. Adams. I
Sam'l B. Newman, }
Sam'l FL. Kennedy. 1
John Phelps, J
Adam Thomson. Z
Henry Abraham. 4
Victor Meyer, !
Edward ]. Gay. !
Joseph Bowling. \
Simon Hernshefm, 4
Simon Forchefmer. y
Jos. B. Wolff, I
r. B. Post, 7
Ed, PilsburV !
Jno. e. King. ]
Reuben g. Bush, :
my22 1y
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Fred'k Camerden
). L. Harris.
Andrew Stewart.
Joseph Stone,
George Martin,
Alfred Moulton.
L. G. Jurey.
Edward Male,
Geo. w. Sentell.
A. Levi.
VIM. H. Matthews. :
Paul Il. Mortimer.
John v. Moore.
w. b. Conger.
Henry M. Preston.
]. J. Irby.
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The Board of Trustees this day resolved, thar
CENT Capital Stock ofGompany. that dividend
of TWENTY PER CENT In cash be paid. On
MONDAY June II, to those parties entitled tC
roc the same.
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TWENTY EIGHTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
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DIRECTORS:
r. Maspero, Ely. Beebe.
.. A. ChafYraix. y. Toby,
r. Fourchy, ]. III. Allen.
81 Relf, d. W. Smith.
Charles Lafltte. D. Fatio.
jes t J.J. Fernandez.
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SUN MUTUAL INSURANCE.
COMPANY.
Paid UP Capital, $500, zoe.

FROM TIE TWENTY-FRST AENUAzaA
STATEMENT FOB 1874 1
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THE
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
BULLD0ZING MORTON.
His Eyes Partially Opened to the True
State of Politics In Indiana.
Nax,r varlr Chr,


Gen. Fred. Knefler, the newly APP
pointed Pension Agent, was serena
ded by the indianapolis Drum CORPS
at his suburban homeon West WASH
ington street. About 200 citizens,
among them Major Jonathan w.
Gordon, one ofIndiana's leading at
torneys Col. George w. Parker,
Gen. George f. McGinnis, the Hon.
John Hanna, Congressman elect
ex-Mayor Mitchell, a number of
Knefiner's old army comrades were
present and participated in the
speech-making and hand shaking.
The General was taken completely
by surprise, and told them that he
had nothing in the shape of refresh
ments to set out, but as he didn't
want to appear inhospitable or I'M
grateful, they might go down to the
fish pond and help themselves to
water crosses.
This appointment of Gen. Knefier
has created more excitement in the
community than any similar event
did, and it has been a terribly bitter
pill to Senator Morton, who at first
recommended the retention of Gen.
Buck Terrell. Congressman Hanna
is the law partner of Gen. Knefier,
and he determined he should be APP
pointed.
There was stormy interview be-
tween Morton and Hanna, in which
| they almost came to blows, which
was ended by Hanna telling Morton
that if Knefier was not appointed,
he { Morton should not have single
vote from his Congressman district
in the next election for United States
Senator, and he called on the Sena-
tor to mark the prediction and wit
ness the verification when the time
/ came.
Morton has not been accustomed
to such talk, and after the first mo-
ment of rage began to be alarmed.
He sent for several of his henchmen
and asked them to candidly tell him
the state of public feeling. They
admitted they had deceived him,
and belittled the opposition his DOM
ineering course had excited in the
party. He sent for perhaps a score
of quiet Republicans, and the sum
of their testimony caused the cold
sweat of apprehension to break out
all over him. The result has been
a complete back down, and the re-
commentator Of Knefier. 1t was
bitter medicine, but he made the
best oft, and swallowed til a pulp.
Judge Gresham of the United
States Court, John d. Rowland,
Mayor Gordon, and a few other
prominent anti-MortOn men held a
private jubilee ON receipt of the
news of Knefier's appointment
Gen. Ben Harrison, though inn
mersed in the practice of the law
found time for a quiet laugh in his
sleeve at the discontinue of the
Senator.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

SENATOR CoNELING, who was lately Mt
port for Europe through the subordinateS OF
Mr.. Evarts precluded personal intercourse
with that gentleman. 1t is said by his
intimate friends that he did not call at the
White House nor did he meet the President
and further that he has abStained entirely
from making recommendation of any ma
ture in behalf of persons who seek Presi-
Dental favor.-EE.
Senator COnkling has good reason
for quarreling with the executive
The investigations in the New York
Custom House, and the wholesale
decapitationS in that Department
have cut away the ground on which
the Senator was standing frightful-
ly. Six months ago the Custom
House was Conkling and Conkling
was the Custom House, but a new
king has arisen in Egypt who knows
not Israel, and Israel is gone off to
Europe in the sUlks. Oh, Conk-
ling, leave us a lock of your hair,
some say that it is a wig but never
mind it will suffice.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
"The best is yet to come.

VOORHEES, AND MORTON.-The
next great political fight will be wa
ged in Indiana. 1t is now an open
secret that VOORHEES,, the tall syca-
more of the Wabash, will contest
thesea of Morton. Both are power
full men, and have left their impress
upon the times. Voorhees, is per-
haps the most eloquent man in the
United States, = and he combines
alike a dashing audacity and manly
conservatism. He has few equals
on the stump, and proposes to can
VaSs the State. 1t will be a war of
giants like that between Lincoln
and Douglas, and will attract the
concentrated gaze of the nation.
Mr.. Morton is able, willy, and pOlit-
ically unscrupulOus, and will be
beaten only after a hard and bitter
resistance. He will contest every
inch of ground. We think the
times pOrtend the success of VOOr-
hees. The democratic party lost a
President by fraud, and the mem
DRY of so great wrong will nerve it
to deeds of herOism. 1t will enter
the contest clothed in the thickly
panOplied mail Of a righteous cause,
and will bear down impetuOusly
upon its covering foe. Those who
think the old party dead are dream
ing. New issues cannot absorb the
living fact, most potential in It's
power, that Tilden was sWindled
out Of the Presidency. - Jackson
Wing and Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

A telegram from Goshen, H.,
says: ga very singular law suit came
up in the Circuit Court to-day. Last
fall, several days after the Presiden-
tial election, Isaac Ayres, of Elk.
hart, offered to bet 800 that Tilden
and Hendricks had received a ma
jority of the electoral votes cast,
Several Republican politicians ac-
cepted the offer OF Ayres, and James
f. Hunt, a dry goods merchant, was
appointed the stakeholder. When
the result of the election was de-
clared by Congress, Hunt turned the
money over to the Republicans UNI
der protest, Ayres at the time de
claring that he would sue him for
the money. Ayres sued Hunt in
Elkhart and was beaten, but APP
pealed the case to the Circuit Court,
which came up before Judge Woods
and a jury this afternoon. The jury,
after hearing the testimony, return
ed a verdict in favor of Ayres for
800. This is the third case of the
kind that has occurred in the United
States, each one resulting the same
as this one did"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.

We have to apologize for rather G
lame number this week as regards
the general contents of the paper,
Our time has been taken up not only
with attendance on the delibera-
tons of the Press Association, but
with carrying out those arrange
ments for the comfort of our guests
which were essential to the charac.
ter of our city for hospitality and
courtesy.
Even the records of the AssOcia-
ton itself will have, in a great part,
to stand over till next week, mas
much as the most interesting part OF
it takes place after our hour of going
to press III o'clock A. NJ. on Friday
morning) and we are employed for
once in acting history rather than
writing it.
We will only say that we were
most agreeably surprised with the
dignity and orderly proceedings of
the society and the quiet and grave
demeanOr of its members. A pro-
fame public persists in looking upon
the topographic fraternity as a roll
licking whiskey drinking lot, with
more jollity than wisdom to qualify
their proceedings. Such a public
would have been astOnished to be-
hold the solemn cOnclave which met
in the Academy hall last Thursday;
our reverend President himself can
not have witnessed in Synod or con-
VentiOn or cOnvOcatiOn a more
decOrous assembIage of "grave and
reverend seigniOrs" than joined in
those sublime conference. Flood
for instance of the Dover Record
with his majestic presence and inn
pressive manner suggested to us
nothing so distinctly as the idea of
a Bearded Pasha of the first rank
Neal of the Dyersburg Gazette, a
severe and truculent Senator OF
Rome during the severest period of
the early republic. Len. FaXOn
again, one of the deputies of the
Kentucky Association-but every
one here knows well the stern CRAWL
ty and severe dignity of the FaXOn
family, comparable to nothing but
that of a Synod of Presbyterian
elders of the days of John Knox.
We are really alarmed! we are
writing at an hour before the festiv-
tiles come off, which have been pre-
pared for our guests at the South
ern Hotel, and fear that the amuse-
ments we have designed for them
will be disdained as puerilities, or
sternly condemned as frivolus vani-
ties. We shall know better next
time.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

The Washington Daily Nation
changed hands Friday. The retir-
ing editor in his valedictOry says
ave were regarded as rash in at
lacking a man like Secretary Sher-
man and urging his removal. That
we honestly believe his policy is
running the country, and not once
have we failed to speak plainly
when we believed the public inter
est demanded it. In regard to Mr..
Sherman, the seed we have sown is
bearing good fruit, and within four
months from this date he will have
ceased to be a member of Mr.. Hayes
Cabinet.V
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
4 Letter by Postmaster General Key


A special agent of the Post Office
Department recently appointed from
Southern State by Postmaster
General Key having been assigned
to duty which he finds quite ardu-
Gus and sometimes disagreeable, has
written a letter to the department
in which he complains of the work
to which his is assigned. He speaks
in reference to his own State, where
he could be most useful to the Adj
miHistration and help his party
friends in builing up an Admins
tration party. He also, in a letter
to the chief special agent, expressed
his earnest desire that the matter
should be brought to the personal
attention of the Postmaster Gener-
al, believing that he would sustain
this view of the case. Judge Key
replied in the following letter:
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, June 15.-5H'. -,
Special Agent-Dear Sir: Mr.. Park
err, Chief of Special Agents of this
! department, has handed me latter
of yours, written to him, dated 10th
instant. You certainly labor under
a serious misapprehension in the be-
lief that it was my understanding
that you were to serve in your State
only. | should not deserve the POI
sition / hold were / to make that or
similar understanding. Special
agents of the depreciation branch of
service are charged with the import
ant duty of detecting thieves and
rascalS. A stranger is more likely
to succeed in his duty than one who
is well known. Hence our agents
must often be sent where they are
unknown, and must goand be ready
to go anywhere and everywhere as
| the exigencieS of the service de-
mana. They must often leave the
highways of travel and 90 into
mountains and territories, along
horseback and stage lines, travelling
night and day, in rain, sunshine and
storm, to detect and arrest offenders.
Not unfrequently do our agents not
sleep one hour in twenty-four. You
/ are alike mistaken in other matters.
Yon are appointed to organize and
build up an administration party in
your State or elsewhere. You were
! W NO hiiC MOlA Vi bAAC
Post Office Department. You serve
your party best by doing that work,
and shall take great pleasure in re-
moving an agent and reducing the
force when l discover that he has
time to attend party organizations
and party discipline. We must
have no greater force than is neces-
sary to do the post office work. ]
can not and will not give special
privileges to any agent. If give
you specific territory / must do so
for every other agent. / might as
well disband the force as do this.
Every agent must be a worker. He
must not only be ready, but willing
to go anywhere, in all sorts OF
weather, on horseback or foot, il
need be, to do whatever work is
needed. Like a soldier, he must
obey orders, without complaint or
objection or criticism. Truly,
d. M. KEY,
Postmaster General.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

SUMNER HOWARD, United States
District Attorney of Utah, delivered
a lecture a night or two since, at his
home in Michigan, on the Mountain
Meadow Massacre. In the course
of the lecture he told his hearers
that he had lately come into the pos
session of evidence which he be-
lieved to be sufficient to prove Brig
ham Young the instigitOr Of that
memorable crime.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

Office, the Custom House and the
Federal Collectors offices. Let any
one who has given thought at all to
the theory of our government and
it's practice in better days, study
the political action of two Of our
bedagea.r alone, the Custom Houses
in New York and New Orleans, and
he win see plainly that our republic
can institutions and ideas are not
merely endangered by them, but al
ready in great measure superseded
by them that we have already a
centralized despotism founded and
built ON the ruins of our old system
of local self-government, and that
if we are to have a republican gov
eminent hereafter it must be not
merely by guarding against the flu
ture, but by attacking vigorously
abuses already rampant and firmly
established.
Nor do we take a mere party view
of this matter. This enormous
abuse did not begin with the Re
publican party nor will it end with
it. It he's, it is true, attained dimen-
sions under the present regime new
er dreamed Of till the present day,
but the bureaucraticsystem was well
set ON foot as early as the days of
General Jackson, when Marcy orig
mated the cry, "To the victors be-
long the spoils." 1t has been the
main stay of the Tammany organ
iZations and has been deeply brand
ed with their iniquities, and the only
hope that it will not be used as free
ly and unscrupulously by the DEM
ocratic party as it has been by the
Republicans will depend upon the
demolition of the whole machinery
itself by the vigorous intervention
of Congress with a trenchant and
sweeping measure of civil service
reform. We give full credit to the
efforts now being made by the Presi-
dent in several administrative de
partments, but the President him.
self can do but little and that little
can be undone in day; moreover,
the President, if he be ever so sin
cere himself, is compelled to prOpi-
tate the party which voted for him,
and the great body of that party is
even now eXasperated with him for
the amount of reformation he has
already effected; it is Congress only
that can place reformation beyond
the reach of future Presidents to
undo. Nor will Congress itself
grapple with this work in earnest
unless impelled to that course by an
irresistible and ever wakeful public
opinion. To politicians unfOrtu-
nately, Ofall parties, the working OF
this bureaucratic machinery has ir-
resistible temptations, and unless
they be made to feel that it is the
peoples will and unalterable deter
minatiOn that bureaucracy shall be
struck down and political action de-
centraIised, any party which may
obtain the executive powers of gov
eminent will very soon be found
sliding back into the old groves and
playing the old game of making
the peoples servants the peoples
masters.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

SIX Mollie Maguires were exc
cuted in Pennsylvania on Thursday
for murders committed in 1870. The
execution passed of quietly, though
trouble was Anticipated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

THE Russian Minister, Mr.. Shis-
kin. in answer to an inquiry from
Senator'GordOn upon the subject OF
receiving foreign Surgeons into its
service, states that the Russian Gov
eminent admits into its service only
such Surgeons as are graduates of
Russian Universities, or have con-
Guided their studies in the Govern
ment Institutions for the education
of Surgeons.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
Governor Hampton in New York.

NEW YORK, June 19.-GOvernOr
Hampton, OfSouth Carolina, arrived
in this city yesterday, and immedi-
ately left for Ocean Grove, below
Long Branch, avoiding a company
of political friends who were await
ing him at the New York hotel.
He has two objects in view, it is
said, in visiting the north at this
time. He will attend the anniver-
sary of the Shields Guards at Au-
burn, New Yotk, Wednesday, and
he will also add to the occasion the
flag which was the ensign of the Pal
metto regiment in the Mexican war.
Then, it is said, he will visit New
York long enOuh tonegOtiate tenn
porary loan, which the Hampton
legislature authorized, to meet the
expenses Of the new South Carolina
government, until the treasury
should be replenished blythe regular
tax levy. Governor Hampton is
not expected here until Thursday.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

Hon. Daniel d. Pratt and ex-Sen-
atOr John Petit, of Indiana, died
Sunday. Mr.. Pratt died at LOgans-
port, and Mr.. Petit at Lafayette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

GRANT never led the sons of Ire
land to battle. He put them in the
front rank, to do the brunt of the
fighting, because he knew they
would fight, and preferred to be
where the fighting was fiercest and
hottest; but he never lei them there
he staid far behind; out of reach
of the balls of the enemy. Thous-
ands of Irish soldiers fell, but never
scratch did Grant receive. To
him all men, as soldiers, were, as
Falstaffsays, flood for powder" and
he fed-nOt IeCI-his troops-Irish,
Germans, and all other-tO the
powder of the Confederates with a
prodigality which has no parallel
in warfare.-,S61 Francisco E.cdBlj-
He1.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

GOD might make a worse man
than o. p. Morton, but he never did.
The Capital.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23

THE GAINESVILLE Chronicle is right
when it says that Key is the Agent
in-chief of Hayes bureau for the
corruption and bribery of Southern
men. Yes, and the time will come
when these thOughtless democrats
who are receiving Office from Hayes
will call for the rocks and mountains
to hide them from their eternal
undOing. Young men of the South
shun Hayes and his methods as you
would viper.-Frd31kIin ReUiea0
and Journal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-23
Suits from 81 90 up to $50 90!

We keep extra assortment of fine Cloth Coats fine
Black Silk and White Vests, and Black Doeskn Pants
for wedding purposes.
Also large stock in Piece Goods Black Cloths Black
and Fancy Cassmeres Cottonades and jeans Our Gents
Furnishing Goods is complete We have Laundried and
Unlaundred Shirts by the dozen Gents Linen Collars;
an extra large assortment in half hose Ladies' Fancy
Necktes, Ladies Silk Handkerchiefs Collars and Cuffs
Ladies Fishues, Ladies Lace Fshues, Ruchings. We
have very large stock of Hamburg Edgngs and Insert
ings which we bought at late bankrupt sale in New
York. which we will sell at astonishingy low prices We
also have large assortment in Ladies' and Gents Kid
Gloves all Shades colors and Sizes We offer the trade
Black Kid Glove for ladies for the exceedingly low price
OF on cents. An immense stock of White Goods Victoria
and Bishop Lawn, Jackonets and Swiss very low fine
assortment in Silk Parasols Our make in Ladies'
Misses and Childrens Shoes, Goat and Kid always on
hand Buying for several of my houses in very large
quantities for cash exclusively sell cheaper than any
other house this side of Cincinnati Give a call is all
ASK and assure the citizens of GAINESVILLE Montgomery
and adjoining counties that | will do what say Don't
forget the paceLiebers Trade Palace-and call before
buying elsewhere New Goods received daily per express