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The Portland daily press., 1878-09-12
Two Ladies from New York

Small Farm for Sale,
SITUATED at Walnut Hill, No. Yarmouth 70
~ miles from Portland, and known as the Sam'l
Chadbourn property, consisting of about 20 of
land, with story house and barn. The house con-
tains finished rooms well arranged, good well Of
water. &C. This property is very pleasantly located
within minutes walk of Walnut Hill station the
NJ c. R. r., and scnool house, and is in excellent
neighborhood. Will be sold at a bargain, on easy
Stanwood, No. Yarmouth, or of F. o. BAILEY g..
CO., 35 Exchange ST., Portland, Me. sel2dtf
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NOIlCE IS hereby given, that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed and taken upon himself
the trust of Administrator of the estate Of
ELIAS c. LANE late of New Gloucester,
IN the County of Cumberland, deceased, and given
ponds as the law directs. All persons having de-
mands upon the estate of said deceased are REQUIRED
TO exhibit the same and all persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
BENJAMIN w. MERRILL, Admir-.
new Gloucesier, Sept. Sd, 1875 w3w37
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For Baltimore.

- The first-class Sch. "Mnnie G. Tay-
a1/ lor," Capt. Taylor, now lying at Central
Mk Wharf receiving cargo, will have imme-
-4gRAA diate despatch; parties having freight tor
6tbe above port will please apply at once.
RYAN & KELSEY, No. 16l Commercial st.
sep12 dlW'
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Dissolution of COnartnershin,

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
the trust of Administrator OF the estate Of
ALDEN G. LOWELL, late of Windham,
in the County of Cumberland, deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands
upon the estate of said deceased are required to
exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
Windham, Sept. 80, 1873 w3w37
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Large WaternaelOns.

TUST RECEIvED-3OO Jersey WatermeI-
- Ons-the largest and best melons ever seen in
this city. For sale at No. 18 MARKET ST.
sepI2d3t* S. P. BARBOUR.
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AUUIIUN COLUMN.
Fine Carriages F. 0. Bailey & Co.
New Furniture, &c-F. o. Bailey IL Co,
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Aid for the South.

The following additional subscriptions have
bsed received in this city:
At Merchants Exchange:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

from the Turkish army, lies massed
in South Bosnia. Her preparations
for effecting the friendly occupa-
ton" of the country now amount
to what she would have to under
take in starting a first-class war.
Meantime she is angrily remon-
strating with Turkey for not requir-
ing the submission of her former
province, but Turkey has the prompt
reply that she has no power to en-
force it, since the interference of
England, Austria and Russia has
long ago deprived her of all power
in her distant dependencies.
We see no prospect of the Austri-
an occupation becoming effective
before winter; and when she has
captured her elephant, the animal
will soon shake her Heterogeneous
empire to pieces.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
AUSTRIA'S ELEPHANT.

Austria did indeed gain Bosnia
md Herzegovina by the adroit man
ipulation of her customary tactics.
THESE consist in not making war
herself, but demonstrations, and, at
tho same time, so maneuvering that
neace could not be made without
her. But she has clearly drawn a
prize which she she has found 1t
very hard to handle. In taking
possession of it she has already lost
one pitch battle with her camp ana
equipage, and retreated to reorsan-
ize her forces and get reinforce
ments, and yet has advanced oniy
one hundred and twenty miles into
the country, while the whole mill
tary force of the province, heavily
reinforced by several battailons
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
ME LOSsEs UNKNOWN.
THE YELLOW FEVER.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 21.-TO-day
| 107 new cases and 40 deaths were
reported. The death list includes
Geo. Paschai, M. Hernandez, of
San Luis POtOsi, Mexico; Col. Fred.
H. Stout, Mai. J. E. Austin, Walter
Farrant, Lewis Alcus, the latter at
| Bay st. Louis. The Times reporter
visited a number of prominent ply
sicianS with a view to learning the
percentage of mortality from yellow
fever among their patients, and
thus arrive at about the general
percentage throughout the city.
According to the published reports
of the Board of Health, the deaths
are about 36 per cent, which is
largely in excess of the actual pro-
portion.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 21.-Reports
from various relief committees and
Board of Health up to noon show
that the hopes of abatement yester-
day were at least premature. Last
| night and this morning there was
quite an increase in the number of
new cBses, % being reported from
p. NJ. yesterday to noon to-day.
There is an increase in the death
rate also, the Towards alone report
ing deaths, with reports of some
visitors not in. Another feature
developed this morning is that no
part of the city enjoys immunity
from the plague, as the cases re-
ported are located in different parts
of the city, several being found on
Linden street in the southern part
of the city. Relief is being received
by the citizens committee, and
many persons are this morning
awaiting themselves of the use Of
tents to get their families out of the
city.
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. q, 1878
Mrs. n. Schwartzenburg, of Mem
phis, died here of yellow fever, con-
tracted before leaving home. The
hotels are full of refugees. No fears
are entertained.
GRENADA, Aug. 81, 1873 Seven
deaths. Negroes dropping down
like sheep and will not help each
other. Ninety-two deaths up to
date.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22.-New
cases, 49,; deaths. So.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

We are informed that the Hon.
Emerson Etheridge is the nominee
of the Republican State Convention
for Governor which met in Nash
vile on Thursday. Now we shall
see the fur fly. Chancellor Marks
had better look to his printing, for
he has got big fight on his hands.
We learn since the above was
written that Mr.. Etheridge refuses
to accept the nomination.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
Terrible Disaster from lightning
Powder Magazine Exploded.

The spring and summer of the
present year have been made men,
orable by series of meteoric and
electric disturbances throughout the
North American continent unparal-
leled in our previous history. Hur-
ricanes and cyclones in all ATTITUDES,
deluges of rain here, drought de-
structive to vegetation there, shat
tering hail storms, earthquakes
where they have never been heard
of before even volcanic perturba-
tions, if we rightly understand the
phenomena of Bald Mountain,
North Carolina, have been the symp-
toms of disturbed equilibrium of
those forces, whose equable balance
generally ensures us physical tram
guilty.
We have now to record a disaster
arising from a thunderstorm in
which the fires of heaven caused
the ignition of explosive material
on earth, with the results of death,
mutilatiQn, and ruin produced with
out warning in an instant of time.
We take our account of the disas=
ter from the New York Herald,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

man OF the Montgomery delegation,
and trusting to our daily contempo-
rary, the Nashville American, and
the conversation of our friends on
their return, for information regard
ing the last days proceedings. We
are inclined to think that the mem
bers of the convention had come to
the same conclusion as we had in
regard to the inevitable arrival
sooner or later of the dark
which was to win. No sign,
however, of this conviction was
visible until after the with
drawal of Mr.. Savage's name by
Mr.. Driver. From this time vari-
Gus names were tentatively put in
by various delegations-Gordon,
Wright, Burns, Guild ,>&c., but the
cat was not yet let out of the bag,
though several evidently knew she
was there.
Immediately after theseventeenth
ballot pussy very nearly came to
light. Gen. Garner, Of Robertson,
leaped up on the stand and said,
"The time for coquetting and COM
plimentary is passed; we cannot
nominate any of the distinguished
citizens in the race if westay here y
Convention now understood what
the General was at-he had got the
bag in his hands and was untying
the string but it was not yet time,
and the convention set to work sup
pressing the General with porten-
tious uproar. The General, how
ever, is not very repressible per.
sonage; he struggled, and conven'
ton reared; at one time he was
audible so far as to say, 81 wish tC
present the name, the first choice"-
drowned in uproar again long and
continued. The General, however
beat the convention and did at las
succeed in making audible the
words, 81 wish to put in nOmina
ton the name of Chancellor Marks
the author of our platform" Thu
cat was out of the bag. Gen. Gar
ner would never have got back t.
Robertson alive if anyone else haC
succeeded in nominating the win
ming horse. But the eighteenth
nineteenth and twentieth ballot
were taken before it was acted upon
and Judge Guild, of Smith county
and John Y. Wright, of Maury
were both nominated and got con
siderable votes before the cominj
man came to the front.
At last in the afternoon session c
Saturday, on the twenty-second bal
lot, county after county began vot
ing for the Chancellor. A stamped
followed of counties changing thei
votes to Marks-the great agon.
was over and A. S. Marks was de
clared the nominee of the conven
ton by an overwhelming majority
The customary congratulatOr.
speeches followed, of which Col
Colyar's contained some infusion c
aqua forts, and convention gladl,
: closed its protracted meeting, an
: delegates hurried off in all direC
lions to enjoy quiet Sunday afte
their arduOus labors.
On our way home we met laTg
crowds from the South fleeing iron
the pestilence, among them an oil
friend, Mr.. J. I. Irrelevant, of Mem
phis.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

RECEIVED of the best looking
man in GAINESVILLE, by the hands
of Billy Link, a silver quarter, pay
ment in full for that pewter bullet
about which there has been so much
said. See what agitating the SUBJ
ieet did, Now let silence reign-as
soon as the congratulations are over.
ASBURY.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
Independent Convention

Not having attended the indie
pendent convention on Tuesday
we give the account of its proceed
ings furnished by our neighbor of
the Tobacco Leaf who did:
This convention met pursuant to
adjournment last Tuesday in the
City Hall. The body was called to
order by Col. T. L. Yancey, chair
man, and at once proceeded to bust
ness. The convention, it will be
remembered, adjourned from the
Sd of June to above date, for the
purpose of considering the action of
the State Democratic Convention
and to nominate a candidate for the
Legislature. The first thing before
the house was the consideration of
the following letter from Mr.. Polk
c. johnson. chairman of the DEM
Ocratic executive committee.
JOHN w. JONES, ESQ, Chairman, ETC.:
Dear Sir The recent Democratic con-
VentiOn at Nashville, having referred the
question of the state debt TO the people,
there seems to be no longer any reason for a
division Ofthe party in the county, as we are
all agreed upon Federal politics.
With a view therefore of uniting all of
our party against the common enemy, you
are earnestly requested to meet us in con-
vention, at GAINESVILLE, ON Sept. I'd, to NOM
mate candidate for the Legislature at In
dian Mound on Sept. 18th, to nominate a
FlOater, and in GAINESVILLE on Sept. 4th, to
nominate a Senator.
Should your party agree to unite with us,
it is hoped you will secure a good attendance
at the meetings in the districts, in order that
the party may be properly represented in
the above conventions, and no cause of COM
plant given.
BY order of Dem. Elk. Com.
POLK G. JOHNSON Chm'n.
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 20, 1873.
After several speeches pro and
con, in which full and free dis
cussion was had, the convention
adopted the following resolutions
and adjourned:
Resolved, That the Independent party of
Montgomery county halls the adoption of
the platform of principles by the late Dem
Ocratic convention as a promise of coming
blessings to the people; we rejoice that
the Democratic party of Tennessee is again
brave in the cause of truth.
Second-That recognizing the platform as
identical in principle with that adopted by
this convention on the first Monday in June,
we hereby adopt it as our own; and recog-
nize Hon. Albert Marks a true and tried adj
vOcate of the platform we ratify his nOmi-
nation, and pledge zeal for his election to
the gubernatorial chair of Tennessee.
Third-That this convention adjOurnS to
meet in GAINESVILLE on the I'd of September,
for the purpose of harmony and union with
the re gular Democratic party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
A MOMENT OF DEsoLATIoN.

Cheerful hearthstones and pianos
were hurled into cutters a mile
away. The fragments of ali these
houses and business structures went
flying through the air like bursting
shells. The life of no one was safe.
Slate roofs, masses of flooring, huge
sections of timbers, chimney towers
and foundation stones were all
mingled together and in the twink
ling of an eye they were flung into
the blazing clouds, only to come
laundering down again and crush
the terrified citizens of POttsville to
mutiIation and death.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

At the same time and place will offer for
sale, at public auction, the three parcels of
land allotted to Miss M. l.. Poindexter, heirs
of John PoindeXter Jr., and my own chill
dren, in the division of the late Mai. John
Poindexter's estate, being lots No. I, 2and 3;
all lying in a body in the form of paral-
elOgram, and containing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
tract, all wood land, containing
SO AND IA ACRES,

Lying in Tennessee, adjoining the Blame
place, and bordering on a creek, which sep
arates it from Mabry's lands. These two
tracts are part of the farm on which the
late Mai. John PoindeXter resided, situated
near Garrettsburg, KY, and known to be
one of the best farms in Christian county.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
225 ACRES.

This land lies in Christian county, KY, on
on which the late Mai. John PoindeXter re-
sided. There is large, new tobacco barn
ON the tract, also good stock pond. About
one-half is cleared, and all very rich.
Terms same as above.
JAMES /. GLENN.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

Adjoining the lands of the late Major John
Poindexter's estate, and known as Une
Blame place, the same purchased by w. R.
Poindtxter of j. ID. Kendrici in 1879. There
are on this tract a good dwelling, good barn
and other out-housls, and a stock pond near
the stables. A large spring branch runs
through the farm.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
SIXTY ACRES,

In Christian county, Kentucky, on the State
Line road, being lot No. of the division ad-
Joining the lands of Ike Bennett and z. b.
POindexters heirs of the same division,
About one-haIf of this tract is cleared.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

The lands allotted to W. r. Poindexter by
the commissioners appointed TO divide the
real estate of his father, the late MAJ. John
Poindexter, viz: a tract containing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
Friday, January 3rd, 1879.

One-haIf of said land is in cultivation, and
the balance in timber, consisting principally
of black jack, red and white oak. This land
will be sold at great bargain as "A whole
or, if desirable, may be divided into two OF
three parts. There are two improvements
on the place, consisting of double and single
log houses; five tobacco barns, stables, cribs
clear pond for stock and fish; on the place Is
a young apple orchard in full bearing, also
peaches. Terms easy, say one-third cash,
balance in one and two years at six per cent.
interest. If not sold privately before Friday,
January Sd, 1879, we will sell said lands pub
licly on that day; and if not sold, will be
rented for the year 1879. Reason for selling:
declining health and old age. Col. II. q.
Davis, at Woodlawn, or myself, will take
pleasure in showing the place at any time.
Il. d. LEONARD, Real Estate Agent.
August "a, lS7S-tds
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

the former place; part of tract OF 62}
acres, known as the late Maj. John PUindex-
ter's WoOdchuck place.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
A tract containing
l2a AND l-2 ACRES,

Lying in Montgomery county, Tennessee,
GAINESVILLE to Dover, about ten miles rom
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
A PICNIC DESTROYED.

At the very moment when the
appalling catastrophe was about to
occur, party of young people were
holding picnic in a pleasant grove
about half a mileaway. Girls were
chatting with their partners, chill
dren were filling the woods with
their happy voices, when suddenly
the storm burst upon them, and
vivid lightnings made the sky seem
to their young eyes as if it were
filed with 10000 burning, blazing
ribbons. In the midst of this scene
of wild and awful splendor a long
zigzag meteor of light hurled its
dazzling mass of light into the
bowels of the powder magazine, and
before the astonished company
could catch their lost breath, a swath
fifty feet wide was moved through
the forrest. The picnic grounds lay
directly in its path.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
202 ACRES AND 40 POLES

A tract of land lying in district No. 4,
Montgomery county, Tennessee, on the State
line road containing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

Living between the lands of James Fletcher
and j. w. Smith, being No. of the division
of the lands OF the late Nathan Hester, ST.,
and the same bought by the late Nathan
Hester, Jr.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
ON THE PUBLIC SQUARE IN
GAINESVILLE, TENNESSEE

The following very valuable tracts of land,
lying in Montgomery county, Tennessee,
and Christian county, Kentucky, belonging
to the estate of w. II. PoindcXter, deceased.
JAMES l.. GLENN, Executor.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
FOR SALE

The Col. II. G. Davis farm, containing 440
acres as fine tobacco, wheat and corn land
as any in Tennessee, located upon the edge
of Stewart county, one-half mile from the
Montgomery and one mile from the Christ
ian county line, eighteen miles from New
Providence and ten miles from the old Cum
berland Rolling Mill, will be offered for sale
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
100 7-8 ACRES,

A tract of land in district No. 4, Montgom
cry county, Tennessee, containing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
THE SCENE IN PoTrsyILLE.

Inmates of houses were hurled
from chairs as if they were in the
path of an avalanche. Large and
deeply-rooted trees which had with
stood the elemental fury of a hun
dred storms were torn asunder,
snapped off like twigs, while their
massive fragments were scattered to
the winds. All this was but the
work of an instant, yet the destruc-
ton was terrible and complete.
Twenty-Five houses were crushed as
if they were eggs under locomO-
tive. Solid and substantial houses
were literally torn into kindling
wood.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
MISSILES OF DEATH.

The thousands of cubic yards of
stone in the foundations of the mag
azine were rent into square cannon
balls as large as dry goods boxes
and propelled with the sWiftness of
birds shot through the sWaying
trees-so that venerable trunks were
cut off level with the ground, and
the bodies thrown with remorseleSs
fury among the helpless children.
There was no time to pray, no time
to call mother; no time to seek
shelter behind the adjoining rocks.
All nature was in combat; all ma
ture was seeking the innocent pleas
ure-seekers to destroy them. Trees,
boulders, timbers, roofs of houses,
blocks of stone, foundations, iron
girders, branches of trees-all came
laundering down, amid darkness,
rain and flying desolatiOn.
/ have walked over the ground,
and the sight revealed is simply
beyond description. Ruin and death
have joined hands, and they have
devastated fair and considerable
portion of our prosperous city.
THE LOSSES UNKNOWN.
With confusion all around, and
the groans of the suffering and dy-
ing, with mothers looking for lost
children, with children seeking the
mutilated remains of parents, it is
difficult to get full details of this
carnival of meteorological horror.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
TERMS OF SALE

One-third cash, the remainder i'm two
equal installments, payable in twelve and
twenty-four months; notes bearing interest
from day of sale, and lein retained TO Sc
cure the same. JAMES L. GLENN,
Executor of w. r. PoindeXter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

which paper always copious in its
details of meteoric phenomenal re-
cords violent storms Of wind, rain,
hail and thunder in Northern New
York and Rhode BLAND on the same
evening:
POTTsvILLE, PA, August, IL,
1878.-At half-past four O'Clock this
afternoon a mass of black and terri
flying clouds swept up in majestic
grandeur from the west, and in a
few moments the entire heavens
over PottsvilIe were crashing and
blazing with electric discharges.
The storm ragged in sublime fury,
then spread its wings to distant hor-
lions and sped on toward the East.
While the sky over Pottsyille was
in full possession of the terrible
storm, and bolts of electric fluid
were playing among the neighbor-
ing mountains, a shaft of red-hot
forked lightning descended with a
frightful roar into the very founda-
tions of a powder magazine. The
arsenal belonged to Weldy & Co.
About eleven hundred kegs of giant
powder were stored away in the re-
cesses of the massive building.
THE MAGAZINE EXPLoDEs.
But with the INDISPENSABLE bright
ness of the lightning the magazine
and all the buildings around it were
| literally blown into atoms. Words
can give no idea of the shock.
1t was like the bursting forth of a
vocanic crater, where explosive
gases have been accommodating for
ages. PottsvilIe is a large town.
Its buildings rest on solid rock foun-
dations, but on this afternoon, when
the l 200 kegs of giant powder were
touched by the glowing lightning
the town and all the earth around
it shook as if a planet had struck
them. To recount the numberless
distant windows destroyed on this
remarkable occasion would give but
faint idea of the terrible force OF
the powder.
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7 UIlFN U JVtI4NoOIN NIIIII
Clarksville, Aug. 20, 1873.

After several speeches pro and
con, in which a full and free dis
cussion was had, the convention
adopted the following resolutions
and adjourned:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24

We ought here to state that it
took till Friday night to arrive at
the thirteenth ballot, by which time
we had come to two conclusions,
that none of the candidates then in
the field would ever get the two
thirds vote which was necessary for
a nomination, and that we had had
about as much convention as was
good for ourselves or our readers
so, still accompanied by R. F. F.,
we started for GAINESVILLE on Satur-
day morning, leaving the Hon. J.
r, GOodpasture an efficient Chair