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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
The wheat Crop this state,

The big scare has somewhat worn
off of the farmers in many sections
of Tennessee, and they are begin
ming to have brighter hopes for the
wheat crop now soon to be harvest
ed. A careful cleaning of our eX-
changes also prompts us to say that
there is hardly any doubt but that
considerably over half a crop will
be garnered. The recent heavy
rains have, in many counties,
seemed to wash the sO-called rust
from stalk and blade, and impaired
new vigor to the plant. A brighter,
fresher look has given place to the
sickly yellow that was so alarmingly
reported for three weeks past. This,
of course, is taking the crop as a
whole. There are sections hereand
there in which too much of the life
of the plant was extracted by the
fly and lice, which the most refresh
ing rain will not revive sufficiently
to produce more than one-third of
proper yield. This, we are glad to
say, is the exception and not the
rulp
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

Mr.. S. d. POWER, editor of the
Cheatham County Plaindealer, pub
fishes the following card, announcing
himself as a candidate to represent
the counties of Cheatham, Dickson
and Houston in the lower branch of
the next Legislature:
I announce myself as a candidate
to represent you in the lower branch
of the next Legislature of Tenn. In
doing so, l am not unmindful Of the
importance of the steps taken.
Grave questions will be involved in
the next canvass, and 1t behoOVes
you to know how each candidate
stands on these questions before you
commit yourselves to his support.
Never having entertained an
| opinion upon any public question
| that | was ashamed to aVOw, or
shirked to defend, it is too late now
to begin such a line of policy. Be
lieving the State debt question to
be the question of the day, | will
say that l am for a settlement of
| that, upon fairand honorable terms,
and at once take this bone of con-
| tention out of the State, and no
longer leave it as a hobby upon
which men ride into office.
/ am also in favor of well regu-
lated system of public instruction,
by which every child in the State
/ mayat least obtain a common school
education; believing as | do, that
| it is infinitely cheaper to the
property owner to pay for the in
| telligence, than the ignorance of the
community in which he lives. |
| think the system of road working
in Tennessee Is radically defective
and unjust, and should be changed.
| think the pruning knife should
| be applied to every possible eX-
| crescence of extravaganza, so as to
| reduce the expenses of the State 10
| the lowest possible standard com
| patiblc with state pride and dignity.
/ Other questions will doubtless arise
| i'm the course of the canvass, when
they do come up | will not fail to
express my views upon them. In
due time | propose to- discuss all
questions that may arise, publicly
before the people, if they will come
out to hear me. In the meantime,
l ask a suspension of public judg-
ment until you are acquainted with
/ the position Of the various candi-
dates. Respectfully,
S. d. POWER.
Ashland City, May -, rs.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

A CORRESPONDENT of the Balti-
more Sun, who describes the open
ing ceremonies of the Paris Expo
sition, writes of the assemblage; 81
must say that most of our Ameri-
can men from the West and South
in physical appearance hold their
own well in any European groupe.
Some New Workers 'top-ofF many
of the British modern nobility.
Nearly all our American women
excel Europeans. l say this with
out hesitation, as far as refined per-
sonal appearance goes"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

DURING a speech a few days ago
a Democratic member of the Ken
lucky Legislature said that 'snO car
pet-bag, scalawag government of
the Radical-cursed, down-trodden
States of the forsaken South was
ever subject to such legalized rob-
berry as has been perpetrated by
Legislatures composed of heightened
Kentucky gentlemen"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
In Chancery at State of
Tennessee.

CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
May 80, 1873.
Emma Louisa Welsh, Complainant, VS.. Mar
tin Welsh, Defendants.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
GauSe, that the Defendant, Martin Welsh, is
a nonresident of the State of Tennessee
1t is therefore ordered that he enter his
appearance, herein, before or within the
first three days of the next term of the
Chancery Court, to be held at GAINESVILLE,
on the first Monday in July next, 1878, and
plead, answer or demur TO Compartments
Bill, or the same win be taken for confessed
as to him, and set for hearing eX parte and
that q copy of this order be published for
four consecutive weeks in the GAINESVILLE
Chronicle, POLK q. JOHNSON,
Clerk and Master.
SMITH & LURToN, SOl'rs for COmp1t.
June |, IS7S-4tprfS5 90
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

A VALUABLE diamond was re-
Gently discovered in Japan. A
keeper of a secondhand store first
bought it from a countryman for
five sen (abOut four cents and upon
showing it to a foreigner was at
once offered 49, 900 for it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
The Laboratory Of the system

The stomach is the laboratory Of the sys-
TEN, in which certain mysterious processes
are constantly going on. THESE result in
the production of that wonderful vivifying
agent the blood, which in state OF
vitality to the reInotest parts of the system
But when the stomach. is Senni-paraliZed by
dyspepsia, blood manufacture is carried on
sluggish, and the system suffers in conse-
quence. Moreover, indigestion reacts upon
the liver and bowels, rendering the first
sluggish and the latter cOnStipulated. The
brain also suffers by sympathy, and sick
headaches, SleepleSsneSS and nervous Symp-
toms are engendered. Hostetter's Stomach
BitterS reforms this state of things, gives
permanent tone and regularity to the stom-
ach and Is associate organs, the bowels and
liver, and ensures complete nOuFishment
and increased Vigor of the system. 1t is the
most popular as well as the most efficient
anti-dyspeptic and tonic in America.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
la ChanceFy at GlaFkSVilIe-State
Of Tennessee.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE, l

May IA, 1878.
Albert White, col, Complainant, VS.. Mar
garet White, col, Defendant.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the Defendant, Margaret White,
col, is a nonresident OF the State of Ten
neSSee:
1t is therefore ordered that she enter
her appearance, herein, before or within
the first three days of the next term of the
and plead, answer or demuT to Complain
ants Bill, or the same viii be taken for
confessed as to her and set for hearing ex
parte; and that copy of this order be pub
fished for four consecutive weeks in the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE.
POLK G. JOHNSON,
Clerk and Master
QUARLEs & DANIEL, Sol'rs for Comp'ts.
May Is, lS7S-4tprfS5 90
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
The Fate of po1and

Bassells History Of the Rnsso-T Turkish War.
1t is unnecessary to follow the
fortune of Poland with much detail.
The history of the nation has been
one of unrelieved wretchedness, of
frantic struggles for renewed indie
pendence, and of continual failure,
followed by fresh prosecutions. The
rise of Napoleon's power excited the
hopes of Poland, and for awhile
those hopes seemed to be on the
eve of accomplishment but Napo-
leon, after defeating the Russians,
concluded an alliance with them
by the peace of Tilsit, in 1907. This
was a great blow to the Polish cause,
yet the territory which had been
taken by Prussia in 1888 was
erected into a sovereign State, under
| the title of the Duchy of Warsaw,
/ with the exception of the province
of Bailystok, which was given to
| Russia. At the peace of 1915 the
| congress of Vienna, after handing
! over certain portions of the Duchy
| of Warsaw to Prussia, and other
parts to Austria, erected the city Of
Cracow, together with a small sur.
rounding territory, into a republic
and furthermore established what il
was pleased to call the Kingdom Of
Poland, which, however, was placed
under the sovereignty of Russia. In
| itself, the arrangement seemed fail
enough, at any rate in comparison
! with what Poland had endured fol
many years but it was not in the
nature of things that it should con
tinue. The new kingdom was en-
dOwed with a system of parliamen
tary government, with the liberty
of the press, with use of the natiOna
language, and with national army
But this liberal constitution wa!
placed under the direction of a DIES
potic power like Russia. No ont
can have doubted what the enc
would be. The Poles and tn
Russians were at issue from the
arrangement. The Poles though
they were granted liberties to tn
end that they might use them. TIL
Russians regarded those liberties a
convenient means of satisfying
the scruples of western Europe, anC
it was their determination tina
they should not be used. If tn
Poles had been cOntented to do ex
actly as the Russians desired, al
might have gone on quietly bu
when they evinced determination
to live their national life which wa
the very object of the constitution
the Russian government soon unde
ceiVed them in the most effectua
manner. A national rising in 1890
81 was stamped out with terribl
severity, and in 1882 Poland wa
: declared an integral part Of tn
: Russian empire.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

No ONE proposes to disturb Hayes
title, as the Radicals did that of
johnson. What Congress can do is
only to show the frauds, and leave
the remedy to the judicial branch of
the Government. How this can
stir up strife or disturb the tranquil
ity of the country is difficult to APP
preciate.-NenlDhis appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
In Chancery Mt ClarksYiIle-State of
Tennessee.
CLERK 40 MAsrER,s orr1cr. ]

May TO, 1913.
P. G. Johnson, Receiver, Complainant. VS..
Clinton Poindexter, colOred, Defendant
1t appearing from the Sheriff7s return of
the process issued in this cause that the
Defendant, clinton PoindeXter is a nom
resident of the State of Tennessee:
It is therefore ordered that he eDfey his
appearance, herein, before or within the first
three days of the next term of the Chaneerv
Court, to be held at GAINESVILLE, ON the tirSsf
Monday in July next, 1873, and plead, answer
or demur to Complainant's Bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as to him and Set
for hearing eX parte; and that a copy OF this
order be published for four consecutive
weeks in the ClaFksville CHRONICLE.
POLK q. JOHNSON,
Clerk and Master.
QUARLEs & DANIEL, Sol'rs for Compt.
May Is, lS7S-4tprfs5 90.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

THE Democratic National Com
mittee in session at Washington on
the 23d inst, adopted the following
resolution
Resolved, That the action of the
House of Representatives, in APP
pointing a committee fully empow-
cred to Investigate and report upon
frauds alleged to have been COM
mitted in the late Presidential cleo
ton, to the end that the truth may
be made known to the people, and
the repetition of such frauds be pre-
vented in future, meets the approval
of this committee,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Family Grocery.

am for the present, until can do better,
located on the corner of First and Commerce
streets, where / will keep a general aSsort-
ment of Family Groceries and Connection
cries, and vii sell as cheap they can be
bought elsewhere You need have no fears
of coming in and examining my stock as
want it distinctly understood that 1 keep
no tipling house; the strongest drinks l can
give you Will be cider, lemonade and apple
NinpuDr
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

A UNION of fairs is formed for
Southern Missouri, Western Ken
lucky and West Tennessee, by
which a circuit is formed so that all
the fairs represented may be at
tended. No two of them are to be
in operation at the same time. This
union was organized at Union City
on the 18th inst.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
STORE
FOR SALE.
HilIman Block on Franklin St.
Saturday. juno 18Th, ISIS,

Saturday, June 10Th, 1878,
on the street in front of Jno. F. Couts' furni-
ture store, the three store-houses on Frank
lin street, in GAINESVILLE, known as the
Hillman Block, running through to Straw
berry alley, all three-stories high, and now
occupied by Jno. +. Couts, G. l.. Cooke and
Owen q Moore.
These houses are now rented for 81, 100, and
the purchaser will be entitled to the rents
from the date of confirmation of sale. These
are good houses, in good locality, and good
repair, and parties wishing to purchase fol-
their own use or as an investment cannot
find more desirable property in the city.
TERNs-Five per cent. cash on each house
balance on one and two years time with
interest. Notes with good security required
and lien retained. No redemption.
The purchasers will be required to KEEP
the property insured for the benefit of G.. G.
Smith, Admir-, until the purchase money il
paid, and the policies deposited with me.
POLK G. JOHNSON,
G. & NJ. and Commissioner.
May IL, lS78-tdsprf,12 %
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

What Hon jeremiah s. Black Has
tOSay About the Title of President
Hayes.
Judge Jeremiah 8. Black has been
interviewed on the investigation
going on at Washington into the
frauds of 1876. It was easy to see
this part of his chat, arising, perhaps,
out of past or professional connec-
tion with the subject. He SAID:
81 take no stock in the prospect
of turning out Hayes by a quo war
ranto. No doubt Hayes got the
Presidency by means of fraud, but
he got it and has it. 1t was conce-
ded to him by the House of Repre-
sentatiVes, which ought to have
withheld it from him. Possession
under such circumstances is title to
every legal intent and purpose. Mr..
Hayes is President for four years,
unless his term shall be abridged
by impeachment, resignation or
death"
''Can he be impeached for the
fraud practiced to elect him ?''
Certainly not; but if there was
a fraud to which he consented or for
| which he bargained beforehand, and
after he got into power herewarded
! the guilt of the rascals by giving
them offices, he is Improbable for
/ that so, also, is any subordinate
officer who did the same thing. That
a fraud, stupendOnus, shocking and
outrageous was perpetrated in
Louisiana and Florida is beyond
denial. 1T has been already proved
many times, in a thousand ways
and by clouds of witnesses. The
pending investigation can bring out
particulars showing by whom it
was instigated, and paid for. / hope
and believe that Mr.. Hayes had
nothing to do with it, but certain
visiting statesmen may have gone
down there and committed the
crime, using the State officers as
mere instruments, who did their
corrupt work on contract. If one OF
these men became Secretary of the
Treasury afterward, and carried out
the filthy bargain by rewarding the
criminals, then | think the House
ought to have proceeded distinctly
and expressly on this ground, and
moved to this objective point, Civ
ing Mr.. Sherman either clean vim
dication or a just condemnation
after a fair hearing. As it is, the
investigation seems to be aimless.
The mill is going to be sure, but
there is nothing in the hopper that
can be legally ground"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
North British
& Mercantile
Insurance Co.
OF London and Edinburg

commends itself to all thoughtful property
holders for reliability and promptness to
meet its losses.
A great fire occurred in GAINESVILLE, April
Is, 1873, destroying a vast amount of prop
erty. This compony had eight stock policies
and one building policy upon the burnt
Cured on Saturday night and Sunday
morning, and on Monday morning the adj
juster was promptly in the city, and by
Saturday night every loss was satisfactorily
adjusted and paid, Notwithstanding the
inability OF some of the insured to show
their losses by books and papers.
All people should be on the safe side by
being insured in a prompt, reliable COM
pany. Property not worth insuring is not
worth having. Apply to
SAM. JOHNSON, Agent,
May IL, lS7S-3m GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Pressure for Moderate CounsoIs

A New York letter says there Is
reason for stating that a quiet but
effective pressure has been brought
to bear upon the Democratic Repre-
sentatives from that city by Demo-
cratic commercial interests to give
the Potter investigation such turn
as will dissipate apprehensiOns that
the Presidents tile is to be called
into question, thereby stirring up
fresh political troubles to interfere
with the recovery of the business
interests of the country. Not a few
of the constituents of Mr.. Potter
himself are prominent merchants,
bankers and brokers, while the men
who have contributed most money
to send Mr.. Fernando Wood, Mr.. S.
S. Cox and their colleagues to the
House belong to the same class.
These have, within the day or two
past, united in a communication to
their Representative urging eau
ton in the matter, and recommend
ing that, whatever may be the issue
of the investigation, the final decis-
of the question of Mr.. Hayes title
be left to the people at the next
Presidential election. If they are
convinced that he was Wr0ngfullY
counted in they can pronounce
Judgment in the matter by electing
then Democrat to succeed him by
such a majority as will not make it
necessary to have another Electoral
Commission.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Am Incident of the War Between
the States.

the states.
Rev. J. William Jones, in an adj
dress before the National Sunday
School Convention, Atlanta, Ga,
related the following incident: "In
the early spring Of 1868, when the
Confederate and Federal armies
were confronting each other on the
opposite hills of Stafford and SpOtt-
sylvania, two bands CHANGED one
evening, at the same hour, to begin
to discourse sweet music on either
bank of the river. A large crowd
of the soldiers of both armies gather
ed to listen to the music, the friendly
pickets not interfering, and soon
the bands began to answer each
other. First the band ON the north
ern bank would play Star Spangled
Banner Hail Columbia or some
other national air, and at its con-
clusio'i the boys in blue would
cheer most Justify. And then the
band on the southern bank would
respond with Dixie or Bonnie
Blue Flag or some other Southern
melody, and the boys in grey
would attest their appreciation with
dl Olu OOulSOSiutG SCl4s Out PICS
entity one of the bands struck up,
in sweet and plaintive notes which
were waited across the beautiful
RappahannOck, were caught up at
once by the other band and sWelled
into grand anthem which touched
every heart, Home, Sweet Home =
At the conclusion of this piece there
went up a simultaneous shout from
both sides of the river-cheer fol-
lowed cheer, AMI those hills, which
had 50 recently resounded with
hostile guns, echoed and re-echoed
the glad acclaim. y chord had
been struck responsive to which the
hearts of enemies-enemies then
could beat in unison; and on both
sides of the river,
"Something down the soldiers cheek
Washed off the stains of powder"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
FOR SALE.

For the purpose of forecIosing a mortgage
executed by John COnToy to Mary Wall on
authority given in said mortgage, we will
sell TO the highest bidder, upon the Public
Square, at GAINESVILLE, for cash, on
Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1878,
a certain tract of land lying in District No u
of Montgomery county, bounded north by
the Port Royal Turnpike, east by the prop
erty of Sterling Beaumont and that formerly
owned by n. BelOtte, south by the land
claimed by q. 5. Dick, and west by the lands
held by s. b. Seat, Trustee; being the sadne
land bought by said COnroy of Thas, J.
Prichett. No right OF redemption,
j. J. KELLY asa wife,
MARY KE,I.tY,
June !, lS7S-4t
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
HOW Two Fire Eating Editors Met.

HOW TWO ire EaAAns EuAtOES w Ot'
incidentally mentioning that
Colonel w. II. McCardle was spend
ing a few days with Colonel j. F.
H. Claiborne, in the vicinity of
Natchez, Miss, the Democrat, of
that city, thus tells how they first
became acquainted: They had
both been long and conspicuously
connected with the press, one a
Wing, the other a Democrat, very
pronounced and emphatic in eX-
pressing their opinions, both rather
ardent and impetuOuS. Party spir-
it was and had been for years, run
ming very high. OF course, the
leading editors exchanged many
compliments, and were not partic-
ular about expression. In other
words, the Vicksburg Wing and the
Natchez Free Trader kept up a con-
tinuous fire upon each other. Col.
! Claiborne finally removed to New
Orleans, where he conducted, at the
same time, the Louisiana Courier,
daily, in French and English, and
the Statesman, (weekly), in Eng
lish and German, while Colonel
McCardle maintained his post in
Nicksburg. They continued to eX-
change brOadsides, but during all
this time it so happened that they
never met.
One winter Colonel Claiborne
went to Jackson for Il few days in
! the interest of the New Orleans and
/ Northern railroad. He had his
room at the old Mansion House. In
/ 1t were a bed and a lounge. One
| night at a late hour, after he had
retired, the landlord came in with
many apologies, and asked per-
mission for gentleman to occupy
! the lounge, saying that every bed
was occupied, and that he had not
| even a spare blanket. Permission
was of course given and the gentle
/ man came in without a light, eX-
pressing his regrets for the intru-
sion, and thanks for the accommO-
datiOn. Colonel Claiborne was of
/ course equally courteous; they fell
| into conversation, were mutually
/ pleased, and talked for most Of the
/ night. In the mOrnining, when the
cocktails were ready, Colonel Clai-
bore proposed that they should
know each other and pronounced
his name. "What :" said the
stranger, mot J. F. H. Claiborne ?
Why, my name is McCardle."
"Great Jupiter" said the Colonel,
"not William II. McCardle?" 1t
ended in a hearty laugh, and a
spontaneous warm friendship be-
tween them from that day to this.
That nights talk when they did not
know each other, the exchange OF
sentiments and sympathies, uwarp-
ed by personal prejudice or party
bias, did the business.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Dissolution.

The Firm of Trice a Edlin Ia the dry goods
and grocery business at Stewart Station,
Tenn. WAS dissolved on the % day Of April,
1875. All claims against the firm will be
presented 90 Dir. J. = Trice, who viii con-
tinne the business AZ the same place. All
owing said flrnl win please come forward
and settle. j. T.. THICE.
May 4, l6S-ite j. b. EDLlN.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
NJ. MATTILI.

P. ST. will take Country Produce in ex-
change for Groceries. Come and give me q
May p, IS7S-:}m"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
GAINESVILLE, TENN.
Original Attachment.
State of Observation-Disclosures Co.

- business you can engage Ia.
OTVrWNS So 10 $40 per day made by
nEG a any worker of either sex,
~~~ rightin their own localities
Particulars and samples worth s. free. I'm
prove your spare time at this business. Adj
dress STINsOS q Co., Portland, Maine.