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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

Madison (Ind.) Courier.

Capt. John T. CURE, the celebrated
submarine diver, who has been here
for several weeks in the interests of
the owners of the .sunken Calumet,
makes a proposition to attempt one
of the most astonishing feats ever
thought of. He proposes to walk
from here to Cairo on the bottom of
the Ohio river in twenty-five days,
and has friends who will back him
for $4,000! If he attempts it he
will have a float to accompany him,
upon which will be placed an air
pump and other necessary apparatus.
He will claim the privilege of COM
ing up whenever he deems it neces-
sary, but proposes to walk every
foot of the distance in the time spec
flied. Mr.. G. is a s'solid' man,
mentally and physically. He is
thick-set, strong and tough. His
exploits seventy-fVe feet under the
waves at st. Louis made him IA
nous throughout the country as a
diver, and those who know him
personally equally admire him for
his social qualities and stamina of
character. He is a modest, unassum-
ing gentleman, and when he makes
a proposition to walk from Cincin-
natl to Cairo on the bottom of the
river, those who know him best
know that he means it, and he will
accomplish the feat or approach it
as near as possible for an air-breath-
ing mortal. Compared to such an
undertaking the exploits of Boyn-
ton on the surface of the waves,
with his inflated rubbers, appear
bubbles. AS this is Capt. Cures
first announcement of his PROPOSE
ton we forego further comments
until parties are heard from who
have money, and are willing to put
it up against the submarine pedes-
trian.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Shurz on the Campaign Fund.

In response to iquires from clerk,
Secretary Shurz has written the fol-
lowing letter:
DEAR SIR: I have received your
letter submitting to me the follow
ing questions connected with the
circular received by you from the
congressional cOmpaign committee,
asking for contributions to the cam
paign fund: Whether you are
obliged to pay such contribution
whether you are permitted to do SO
and whether your doing so will
affect your official standing and pros
poets i'll this department? l. You
receive your salary as an employee
of the government for certain SER
vices rendered in your official
capacity, not as a member of
political party. The salary so earn
ed belongs to you, and, unless taxed
by the law, it is in no sense subject
to any assessment for any object
whatever. In return for it you are
expected to perform your official
duties faithfully and efficiently;
nothing more. In this connection
| have to call your attention to the
following statutory provision 90
stat, p. 1863, sec. g.: THAT all exc
cutive officers as employees of the
United States not appointed by the
President, with the advice and con-
sent Of the Senate, are prohibited
from requesting, giving to or re-
ceiving from, any other officer or
emplOye of the government any
money property or other thing of
value for political purposes; and
any such officer or employee who
shall offend against the provisions
of this section shall be at once dis
charged from the service of the
United States and he shall also be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanOr,
and on conviction therereOf shall be
fined in the sum not eXceeding$500.
2. You are as free as any other
citizen to spend your spare money
in any legitimate way you please,
and as your principles or your pub
lie spirit may suggest, provided you
do not violate the above quoted pro-
vision of the law, either directly or
or indirectly. 3 Your contributing
or not contributing, asabove stated,
will not affect in any manner what
ever may be your official standing
or prospects in this department"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
bishop IcCIOskry's Case.

The House of Bishops of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church were to
have met in New York city, Mon
day, for the purpose of taking action
upon Bishop McCloskry's case, he
having recently resigned the Bish-
Opric of Michigan. The reason for
the pOstpOnement is in consequence
Of number of the Bishops having
gone to Europe to attend the An
gelic Communion, to be held at
Lambeths Palace. Bishop Smith,
of Kentucky, has decided to call the
next meeting on Aug. %. 1t is un-
derstOOd that the resignation will
simply be accepted, and no inquiry
made into the case which led to the
Bishops resingnatiOn. At this
meeting of the Bishops the sue
cessOr of Bishop McCoskry will be
appointed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

CAPTAIN a. d. PAYNE, an ex-
Confederate officer, of Warrenton,
Va, met Gen. G. X. Warren and
Captain Judson, of the United States
Army, last week, on the second
battlefield of Manassas, for the
purpose of pointing out to them the
position of Confederate troops in the
battle there. Mr.. H. d. Gardner,
Of WarrentOn, has been retained by
Gen. Warren to aid III a survey of
the field and preparation of map
of it. The evidence obtained will
be used in the re-hearing of the case
of Gen. Fitz John Porter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

THE daily mail and stage line
from Fort Worth to Yuma was
formally inaugurated to-day with
a professor of Concord coaches and
two hundred horses. This line is
one thousand five hundred and
sixty miles in length, with daily ar
rivals and departures, and carries
the United States mail under the
Chidester contract, thus affording
quick and direct connection
with northern Mexico, Arizona,
New Mexico and western Texas.
A complimentary banquet, given
by our citizens to the proprietOrs,
Chichester e. Adams, is now in pro-
gress. The opening of this line,
with its mail and travel facilities,
calls forth universal graduation
from our citizens, and the decision
of the Postoffice Department in
opening this route meets the wants
of the southwestern Worth
Special to Memphis Appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
In Chancery at ClarksVille-State Of
Tennessee.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
MnN ~ lSzN

CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
May 3d. 1878.
Emma Louisa Welsh, Complainant, VS.. Mar
tin Welsh, Defendants.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, 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, 1873, and
plead answer or demur TO Compartments
Bill, or the same will be taken for confessed
as to him. and set for hearing ex parte; and
that copy of this order be published for
four consecutive weeks in the GAINESVILLE
Chronicle. POLK G. JOHNSON,
Clerk and Master.
SMITH & LURToN, Sol'rS for Compt.
June l. lS7S-itpTfS5 90
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Iu ChanCery at ClarkSVilIe-Statc
Of Tennessee.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE, I
Nov II 1879

CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
May IA, 1878. !
Albert White, col, Complainant, VS.. Mar
garet White, col, Defendant
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
case, that the Defendant, Margaret White,
col, is 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
Chance. Court, to be held at GAINESVILLE,
on the first Monday in July next, 1878,
and plead, answer or demur to Complain
ants Bill, or the same will be taken for
confessed as to her and set for hearing ex
lished for four consecutive weeks in the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE.
POLK G.. JOHNSON,
Clerk and Master.
QUARLES Il DANIEL, Sol'rs for Comp'ts.
May Is, lS7S-4tprfS5 %
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
State of Tennessee-MOntgomery Co.

By virtue of several writs of venditionl
eXponaS to me directed, from the Circuit
Court of Montgomery county, Tenn, will
sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at the
URDAH, July ID, 1873, the following des-
cribed real estate, to-wit
\ lot of ground in the city of GAINESVILLE
bounded as follows: North by Washington
street, south by the property of Mrs r. +.
Gilbert, east by First street, and west by an
alley. Levied on as the property of Mrs. j.
j. Hamlet to satisfy a judgment in favor of
the city of GAINESVILLE.
A lot in the Qjty of GAINESVILLE bounded as
follows: North by Commerce street, south
by the property of Samuel Hodgson, east by
Second street, and west by the property of
Mrs, l., Indy. Levied on as the property
of Mrs. NJ Moore to satisfy judgment in
favor of the city of Clarksvil e.
A lot in the city of GAINESVILLE bounded as
follows: North by the property of jim
Beasly, col, south by the property of E.
Anderson, col, east by Spring street, and
west by the property of W. p. Indy.
Levied on as the property of ]. NJ Moore to
satisfy q judgment i'll favor of the city of
GAINESVILLE.
A lot in the city of GAINESVILLE bounded as
follows; North by the property of Whitfield
and Elliot, south by Union street, and west
by Dunlap alley. Levied on the property
of John Elliot to satisfy a judgment in favor
of the city of Clarksville.
A lot in the city of GAINESVILLE bounded as
follows: North by Greenwood avenue, south
by the property of John Brady. east by
Madison street, and west by the property of
Il. ID. johnson. Levied on as the property
of Mrs. J. II. Johnson to satisfy judgment
in favor of the city of GAINESVILLE.
a lot in the city of GAINESVILLE bounded as
follows: North by the properly of F. F. Fox,
south by Madison street, east by Seventh
street, and west by the property of f. $.
BringhurSt. Levied on the property of
i. ID. Johnson to satisfy Judgment In favor
of the city of Clarksyille, CO,
JAMES (. MOSELEY, Sheriff.
June %, lS7S-4w
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

THE GAINESVILLE Chronicle, with
this weeks issue, enters upon its
10th edition. Our esteemed con-
temporary, under the editorial
management of DIR. d. F. Wright,
and the business management of
Messrs. Neblett d Titus, shows the
ability, neatness and general air of
a thrifty and successful, as it is a
dignitied and courteous, newspaper.
American, Jltlae 16.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
The Laboratory Of the system.

The stomach is the laboratory of the sys-
tenn, in which certain mysterious processes
are constantly going on. These result in
the production of that wonderful viVifying
agent the blood, which in a state of
vitality to the remOteSt parts of the system.
But when the stomach is semi-paralized by
dyspepsia, blood manufacture is carried on
imperfectly, the circulation grows thin and
sluggish, and the system suffers in cOnSe-
quence. MOrOvef,i indigestion reacts upon
the liver and bowels, rendering the first
sluggish and the latter cOnStipuIated. 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 nourishment
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, 1878-06-29

WHITE negroes are occasionally
10 be met with in the West Indies.
There is one now living in the town
of Statrock, the capital of Demerara.
He is known by the familiar title
of White Jenny. Both his father
and mother were healthy, jet-black
engrOeS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
North British
& Mercantile
Insurance Co.
OF London and Edinburg,

con- mends itself to All Thoughtful property
holders for reliability and profnptness 10
meet its losses.
A great fire occurred in ClaTlssyiilc, April
- lS7S destroying a vast amount OF prop
erty. This cOmpony lad eight stock policies
property. covering Sla,B8 80. The fire Oc-
currcd ON Saturday night and sunday
morning. and on Monday morning the adj
juster was promptly In the city and ny
Saturday night every loss was satisfactorily
adjusted and paid, Notwithstanding the
Inability of some Of the insured 10 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 tnsnflng - not
worth having. Apply to
SAM. JOHNSON, Agent
May II, lS7S-8m GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

BISHOP WHITTLk, of Virginia,
refuses to administer confirmation
to any man or woman who PERSISTS
in the practice of round dancing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Saturday, June 18th, 1878,

saturday, June 18th, 1878,
the following described property, lying in
District No. of Montgomery county, Tenn.
containing 81 acres, and bounded as follows:
Begins at a stake in the Dover road in A. d.
Fletcher's east boundary line, runs south n
poles to a stake; thence west 202& poles to
stake, George Booths corner; thence south
81 east 1873 poles to a stake; thence south SO
east 1861 poles to large white oak thence
north 521ao 1917 poles to a black oak thence
south 81 east I212 poles to black oak bush
and pointers; thence south 6213o east % poles
to stake and pointers; thence north $50
east 5754 poles to a stake in the centre of a
big hollow thence up said hollow with its
meanders 1881 poles to stake, Fletcher'S
southwest corner of % acre tract thence
north 80 poles to a stake in the centre of the
Dover road thence north S015o west with
said road 40 poles to the beginning. Being
same laid conveyed to John II. Martin by
John H. Tandy.
TERMS-Cash. No redemption.
peck g. JOHNSON,
G.. & NJ. and Commissioner.
June s, IS7S-t1sprf SO 90
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
STUDEBAEER FARM WAGON.

Will run lighter, last longer and is war
ranted for two years.
Avery's Steel and Cast Plows, Points, etc.
GAINESVILLE Steel and Cast Plows, Points,
etc, etc.
Meikel's Steel and Cast Flows, can work
either cast or steel points.
South Bend Chill PloWS, etc.
Diamond Iron Chill Plows, etc.
Iron Double Shovel Plows, all kinds and
make.
Superior Grain Drills, with and without
fertilizing attachment.
Hooking Valley Corn Shelters.
Farm, Bells, Baby Buggies, Webster's new
Amagam Pens, Whips of all kinds, Tools of
ali kinds, Locks, Hinges, Nails, Builders
Hardware of all kinds, Gum Betting, Pack
ing, Leather, etc.
Call and examine before purchasing else
where as you will be waited on politely by
ED. TURNKEY, j. S. ELDER,
FRED NAYLOR, j. II. TURNKEY.
March 2, lS7S-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Saturday, June %. 1878

Saturday, June 90, 1873,
about four acres of land lying near the city
of GAINESVILLE, and Just across the railroad
from Bradley's brick yard. This property
has been sub-divided into seven lots, a plat
of which can be seen at my office. This is
the property sold by Dolan and wife to John
Bradley. and sold in this cause to w. S.
Dick. Upon one of the lots is a
FINE ICE POND.
This property is very desirable, and would
make a fine brick yard.
TERMS OF SALE-One-fourth cash, balance
on credit of and Z months, with interest
Notes with good security required and lien
retained. No redemption.
POLK G.. JOHNSON,
c. q NJ. and Commissioner.
June s, 1S78-tdsprf So IS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29

feeling deeply the humiliation of
the South, to the people of which he
bore all the love that Brutus ever
felt for Rome, he would strike down
that night the leading men of the
victorious hosts who were then
shouting their p@ans of triumph.
When dying, with his face lit up
with the blaze of the burning barn
upon the Garrett farm, just at the
break of day on the morning of
April "a, he muttered some words;
a soldier bent over him and caught
them from his fast ebbing breath.
First, a message for his mother.
"Tell her did it, as I thought, for
the BEST" and then | said, 'tTell
Others that the communication
wrote addressed to the National In
telligencer, will explain why | did
what did" During the conspiracy
trial at the arsenal the Hon. Joseph
Holt, the judge advocate, called on
John f. Coyle, then the publisher
of the National Intelligencer, and
asked if that communication had
ever been received. His reply was,
mo" cit was" continued Mr..
Ford, "burnt in the CRATE of a
chamber of boarding house, and a
Catholic priest now living in Wash
ington had the fact confessed to him
soon afterward. / had the occur
renee revealed to me-With the
! added information of the confession
by the party who was the custo-
dian of the package. This fully
sustains my theory that John
Wilks Booth had not contemplated
the assassination of President Lin
coin when he met Mrs. Surratt at
midday, and he never met her
again.
WILKES BOOTH DESCRIBED.
In order to demonstrate that his
brain was turned by the poetic and
dramatic glamOr which transmitted
! the story of the Roman assassination,
said Mr.. Ford, it is but just to de-
scribe him at this time1 In person
he was remarkably handsome, with
face of singular manly beauty, in
| perfect health, less than tWenty-siX
! years of age, and almost idOlized by
his friends. AS an actor he could
earn at least $4,000 per annum. He
| ing an engagement at the Museum
hundreds of ladies have waited to
see him leave the stage to 90 to his
hotel. The facts and opinions will,
/ think, show the great danger of
| clarifying assassination under any
| circumstances. Julius Caesar was to
Rome "the union of the scholar,
soldier and the gentleman"
mighty Caesar! All Rome did love
him once not without cause" Yet
Cassius did say
| How many ages hence
| Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown?
Was this, added Mr.. Ford in
closing the interview, the incarna-
ton of dramatic prophecy, suggest
ing the crime that occurred 1909
years after, sin States unborn and
accents yet unknown" when Caesar
| died?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents vet unknown

Was this, added Mr.. Ford in
closing the interview, the incarna-
ton of dramatic prophecy, suggest
ing the crime that occurred 1909
years after, Gin States unborn and
accents yet unknown" when Caesar
died?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Polk G. Johnson, Admir- and Receiver,
VS.. John K. Martin and Nj. j.
Martin.

In pursuance of a decree in this cause, at
the February Term, 1878, of the Chancery
Court, at Clarksville, will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, at the old
Court House door in GAINESVILLE, on
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
Chancery Sale
OF
Fine Ice Pond and Lots.
MS. Dick VS.. IoIn Brndler.

In pursuance of a decree in this cause, at
the February Term, 1878, of the Chaneery
Court, at GAINESVILLE, l will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, at tho old
Court House door in GAINESVILLE, on
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-29
1913. 1878.
SADDLES and HARNESS.
OLD RELIABLE, TIME TRIED AND
FIRE TESTED.
JOHN YOUNG.

p. ST. desire to return my grateful ac-
acknowledgements to one and all for kind
assistance rendered me ON the night of the
fire. JOHN YOUNG.
April 27, lS7S-3m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-03
Misfellaneous.
REfICEyCE.

In the high and difficult art of speaking
the truth, silence is to speech what shadow
is to light. So to place ones silence as TO
increase the amount of truth conveyed is
as important part of sincerity as chairo-
scuro is of painting. II Is not only that
silence in many cases bears so obvious an
Interpretation that it is just az easy and just
as dishonest to deny the truth by silence
as by words. The Importance of discre-
ton in abstaning from words lies in this,
that truth requires not merely that what
we say or imply shall not be inconsistent
with facts. 1t requires Gin its perfection)
that the impressions we convey shall cor
respond with realities as a good portrait
corresponds with its subject; that the pro-
portions shall be preserved. and the rela-
tions with surrounding objects truly indi-
Gated. We see this at once in thinking of
the truth of history. A writer who gives
undue prominence to one set OF facts, or to
some favorite parsonage, distorts and mis-
leads as surely as he could do by definite
Inaccuracies of statement, and often in
much more important sense. And so in
that continual presentation of the affairs
of daily lite in which we are all engaged.
to alter the proportion of things by una
vowed reticence is more subtle and more
dangerous kind Of untruthfuness than
mere verbal inacuracv. The fact is, that
we do not take sufficiently large view of
truth We do not consider enough how
deep and wide foundation Of patient
thought, of forbearing Justice, and cleaI-
sighted generosity must be laid before
perfectly transparent surface can be even
possible. Perfect sincerity is the result of
deep inward order. in which the true
relation Of things are grasped so firmly
that our words, our silence, and every
thing e.se which goes to make up our in
tercourse with each other, fall into their
right places without an effort. For 81
lence has its right place as well as speech.
There are subjects yelled by natural deli
cacy, and facts marked off by confidential
barriers, and tritles which healthy
mind shakes off like dust, and wounds to
be gently shielded. and delightful discov-
cries to be reserved for favored explorers,
and many other spots sacred to silence.
The question is, how to combine the
perfect preservation of these sanctuaries
with the openness which inspires perfect
trust. We can no more confde in one
whose mind seems to be full of dark
places than in one who lays everything
bare. We look to a friend for sheltering
wings to brood over our condolences, not
for magpie tricks of concealment. -Satur.
ddy RerieU.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-03

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Western Mail arrives daily, Sundays excepted,
Al, 399 and So p. Nj; closes at l2.l5 p. NJ :, and
for the night Pullman train at 40 7. M.
a, 5'57 A. NJ. ana l237 p. NJ. closes at 1920 and
7.40 T. NJ
Luchfeld Mail arrives on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and SATURDAYS. at 10 A. M; closes Sundays
Tue ,days and THURSDAYS at 2. NJ.
O lice Hours from 7 80 A. NJ. to $50 p. M. As
no mail arrives on Sunday, the Office will remain
closed on that day. Mails made up on Sunday
evening for the Monday morning trains. =,
E. ROWELL, p. Nj.
Hsllowell, Oct. 10, 1878.