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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
True, Very True.

The following article is from the
HopkinsvilIe (Ky.) New Era, and
is not only sensible talk but is
strictly true:
The man who deserts the ranks
of the Democracy when his party is
swiftly marching triumphantly to
power and will soon have control of
every branch of the National gov
ernment, in order to join helpless
band whose sole purpose is to under
take the work of financial reform
that was inaugurated and is being
successfully prosecuted by the DEM
ocratic party, is personally commit
ting political suicide. There is no
probability that the National Green
back party will, even under the
most favorable auspices, acquire
sufficient strength within the next
ten years to effect the legislation of
the country, and as the Democratic
party has aVOWed and reiterated its
devotion to the greenback cause, the
success of that cause can only be ac-
cOmplished through the instrument
taiity of the Democratic Organiza-
ton. Unreasoning men may not
choose to see, and conform their ac-
tions to the logic of the facts, but it
will nevertheless be sustained by the
result of future political contests.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Democrn.x of Delaware.

DOVER, DEL, Aug. 8.-The DEM
ocratic State Convention, to-day,
nominated John w. Hall, of Kent
county, for Governor, by acclama-
ton, z. l.. Martin, of Sussex cOun-
ty, was nominated for Congress.
One resolution endorses DelaWare's
Senators and Representatives in
Congress, and concludes as follows !:
sin accordance with the time-hOn-
ored and constitutional faith of the
Democratic party, we hold that the
only honest and lawful money of
the people of the United States is
gold or silver coin or paper curren-
cy, convertible into such coin at the
will of the holders"
The resolutions hold that the Re
publican party is responsible for the
depressed condition of business and
vigorously denounce the conspiracy,
which, through corruption and
fraud, gave the electoral votes of
South Carolina, LOuisianaandF Flor
ida to r. b. Hayes, for President,
and w. A. Wheeler, for Vice Pres
ident, against the clearly expressed
will of the voters of these States,
and declare firm conviction that
the refusal of the Republican MEM
bers of the Electoral Commission to
investigate the charges of fraud,
whereby the certificates of election
were given to the Hayes electors in
said States, was violation of their
public duty and a betrayal of the
trust reposed in them, and we here
by indorse and apprave the inYesti-
CATION instituted by the House of
Representatives for the purpose of
exposing to the whole country the
means hy which said frauds were
perpetrated and the will of the
American people defeated in the
election of their Chief Executive.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Leuisiana Democratie platform.

BATON ROUGE, August 6.-The
Democratic State Convention to-
day adopted platform. 1t recon-
mends the levee system calls for
aid to the Patific Railroad and Bra
lillian Steamship Line; indorses the
Nichols government; indOrseS the
State funding law, and approves
the fraud investigation by either
House. The resolutions favor the
next Legislature calling Constitu
tiOnal Convention asserts that the
interest of the industrial, wealth.
producing classes is of paramount
interest to the people of the United
States. Those whose labor and en-
terprise produce wealth should be
secured in its enjoyment. They eX-
press sympathy for the laboring
classes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the ruinOus finan-
cial policy and unjust legislation of
the Republican party, and pledges
the Democratic party to reform
these wrongs upon its ascendency
to power.
Resolved, That the Louisiana
Democracy demands that the ma
tional banking system should be
abolished, and national bank notes
retired, and in lieu thereof that the
government of the United States
should issue an equal amount of
treasury notes, commonly known
as greenbacks, and we also demand
the unconditional repeal of the laws
imposing a tax on State banks. We
demand also the immediate and un-
conditional repeal of the resumption
act, and are unalterably opposed to
the ruinOus policy pursued by the
Republican party, whereby the vol
ume of currency has been contracted
far below the business requirements
Of the country, and failures, depres-
sion, scarcity of labor and pauper
wages have been entailed.
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this Convention that all bonds and
obligations of the National govern
ment should be paid in legal tender
greenback notes of the United
States, except when it is otherwise
provided in the original law under
which they were issued. We fur
ther demand the repeal of all laws
passed subsequent to the original
law creating the public debt, by
which the obligation of contract
have been made more OnerOus.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
How yellow Fever is spread.

DIR. Woodward, Surgeon General
of the Marine Hospital Service,
who, by law, has authority over. all
quarantine in the United States,
says that yellow fever is not com
municated from sick person TO
well person. The poison is conveyed
in clothing or baggage, especially If
confined in trunks or boxes. The
favorite lurking places of the disease
are damp, filthy holds and bilge
wafer of vessels. When the poison
finds lodgment in a boat, a house or
a locality they become centers of
infection, which tend to spread i'm
every direction If on land. "Quar-
antine by land, beyond disinfecting
clothing Orthe effects fpassengers,"
says DIR. Woodwork, sis, in my
opinion, impracticable, if not use
less, not taking into account the
harm that is done to commerce,
which is no small consideration"
DIR. Woodwork says that if u boat
affected with yellow fever should
come to st. Louis, Louisville or
Cincinnati, the Infection might
spread from the vessel on it, but, he
says, there is not so much danger
from a river boat as from the ocean
vessels, as the former are more open
and better ventilated. lie does not
believe the disease can be carried
by mail.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
The Eclipse From Pixies Peak.
C. B. Lamborn in Philadelphia Press

Gen. Myers had very kindly adj
Vised our party where, and how, to
look for the coming shadow, and
we had taken our station on the
northern edge of the summit several
minutes before the period of total
observation of thesun's disk. With
out the aid of a glass the eye could
at this time distinctly note the
shimmering of the bright sunlight
on the mountains, more than one
hundred miles to the northward.
Suddenly we observed them disap-
pear, and a great wall of darkness,
stretching out on either side as far
as the eye could reach, concealed
them from us. With incOnceivable
rapidity the shadow swept toward
us, its front clear black line, bord-
cred with fringe of yellow. 1t hid
from sight range after range of the
more distant mountains, and quick
ly covered with a CHASTITY pail the
peaks and foothills and plains close
beneath us.
When the shadow reached and
enveloped US, the eye could dimly
outline the nearer mountains and
could single out with strange dis
tinctneSs the houses and farms in
the valley below. The sky over
head seemed heavy and laden, and
every visible object was pallid and
ghastly. The very shadow seemed
tangible and to weigh upon us, but
the horizon all around us was
brightly illumined by flashing rays
of red and yellow lights like those
of the Aurora. While we on the
peak were still enveloped in the
depth of the shadow, its upper line
passed over the far-otf range to the
nOrthward, and the clear sunlight
struck the mountains, and away
beyond and through the darkness,
they burst suddenly into view. In
an instant other and nearer noun
tains appeared, and then the dimly-
shaded parks and the wooded Di-
vide were bathed in sunlight, and
the shadow rushed past us.
During the period of darkness, the
view around us was weird and ter
rible; but the sudden burst of sun
light which appeared upon the dis
tant mountains, as they seemed to
spring up inStantaneOusly from the
bosom of the earth, was one of the
most sublime and joyous visions
that it is ever given to mortal eyes
to witness. 1t brought a sense of
relief AMI delight, and no one who
saw it can forget it.
There was one peculiar phen0me-
non of color connected with the ap-
proach and disappearance of tie
shadow of total observation which
may perhaps have some scientific
value, and be worthy of note. 1t
was observed that along both lines
of The shadow, and especially along
its departing edge perhaps more dis
tinctly than its advance line, there
was well-defined strip of yellow
color, shading off into orange and
light red. This appearance was
well defined and bordered the dark
lines like a fringe. These lines of
color were noted by three or four
persons, who all agree as to their
appearance. viii sQma scientist
tell US why they were there and
what they indicate?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
s,ckHendache.
One of our exchanges has the fol-

One or our eXcnanges mas tne IOl-
lowing:
"This complaint is the result Of
eating too much and exercising too
little. Nine times In ten the cause
Is in the fact that the stomach was
not able TO digest the food last in
trOduced into il, either from its hav-
ing been unsuitable, or excessive In
quantity. A diet of bread and but
ter, with ripe fruits or berries, with
moderate continuous exercise in
the open air, sufficient TO keep up a
gentle perspiratiOn would cure al
most every case in a short time.
Two teaspOonfuls of powdered char
coal i'm half glass Of water and
drank, generally gives instant re-
lief" We are inclined 10 think
that the above remedy may do In
some but not i'm all cases. A sover-
eign remedy for this distressing dis
ease is not easily found. A cores
pondent in Connecticut contributes
the following on this subject "Sick
headache is periodical, comes on at
regular intervals, and is the signal
of distress which the stomach puts
up to inform us that there il an over
alkaline condition Of its fluids; that
il needs a natural acid to restore the
battery to its normal working con-
dition. When the first symptoms
of headache appear, take a table
spoonful of lemOnjuice clear fifteen
minutes before each meal, and the
same dose at bedtime follow this
up until all symptoms are passed,
taking no other remedies, and you
will soon be able to go free from
this unwelcOme nuisance. Many
will object to this, because the REM
edy is 50 simple; but have made
many cures in this way"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
The Confessions of "a Drnnknrd i'm
an American Prison.

"When / was little baby, and
cried from pain, they gave me soOth-
ing syrup. That made me drunk,
and of course l went to sleep and
cried no more. When j was a lit
tie boy, and some one gave me a
penny, / would 20 and buy a wine
drop. This Is the trap which the
Giant Intemperance sets for the
children.
Mother put wine and brandy in
her pudding sauce and nince pies
sometimes she made "brandy
peaches" i began to think every
thing with wine and brandy in IL
"very nice" When my father drank
his glass Of wine, beer or cider, he
always gave me some, and / would
drink the brandy and sugar I'm the
bottom of the glasses when my faith
er's friends had been drinking.
When l was only twelve ye.lrs old,
/ got drunk on the fourth of July,
and sat i'm the corner Of the depot
before l got sober enough to 90
home. Oh! how the people did
stare at me! When l grew up TO
be a young man, drank with the
other young men, ana treated them
because / did not want to be mean.
/ began to feel sick and weak q
great many days, 50 ! got into the
habit of taking a little something
-"bitters," so they are called-be-
fore each meal, To make me feel
better. / began often to leave my
work, and go into the saloon for n
few moments for drink. Then 1
lost my place, and spent whole days
in saloons. ] spent all the money
had for drink. Then / borrowed
from my friends then / got trust
ed F; then | sold my coat and shoes
to buy drink then | stole money tO
buy il; and here am in prison.
Nobody trusts me; everybody des-
pises me; but l am my worst enc
NV"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

No CLASS of people can inhict
such martyrdom on their associates
as those who are given 10 the habit
of reminding Others of their pecul-
iarities and failings. You are never
safe with such aperson. When you
have done your very best to please,
and are feeling kindly and pleas
antly, out will pop some bitter
speech-a sncer which il masked,
but too well aimed to be misundor-
stood. Setting aside the unkind-
ness OF the habit, and observing il
i'm a worldly point Of view, IL does
not pay to say disagrceable things
to those whom we love, as IL Is sure,
in the end, to recoil upon our own
heads.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, said
in talk with reporter Of the Gold
Hill News, Of the Southern policy
of President Hayes:
The election of President Hayes
was all that prevented Gen. Grant
from pursuing the same course. /
know that six months before the
Inauguration of Hayes, Grant had
determined that the colored voters
Of the United States could not be-
protected by United Stateo troops,
Our Government is a peculiar one,
1t Is founded on the principle that
the majority will rule, and that the
fact that it is majority invests it
with power to protect itself. In
such a Government, If the majority
cannot or will not protect itself, it is
almost impossible to protect it by
any agency outside of itself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

SAID John A. Logan, in the course
of a speech recently delivered at
Vandalia:
What did the South do before the
war, with backing of but one
third of the population of the coun-
try? They held the Presidential
chair sixty years out of the eighty
four previous to 1861 they had
eighteen Judges of the Supreme
Court to eleven for the North; they
had twenty-fOur Presidents pro
tempore of the Senate out of the
thirty-five; twenty-three Speakers
out of thirty-five; fourteen Attor-
ney-Generals out of nineteen, and
eighty-six Foreign Ministers as OPP
posed to fifty-four. The South held
a majority of the offices Of the navy.
They held the honOrs and the power,
and the North paid for 1t.
And where was John A. Logan
before the war? asks the Chicago
Times, and it answers: Why, ex-
actly where he has been since that
unfortunate event. On the side of
the offices.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

THE weed known rs the common
beggars' lice is said to be a wonder
ful product, and is being cultivated
successfully in parts of Florida and
Southwest Georgia. Poor lands arc
made rich, and deserted lands int
proved by its culture thereon. IL
takes the place of clover, is a fine
producer Of milk, stock fatten very
rapidly on It, il Is palatable and nu-
tTitious, makes a flne forage, and
can be cut as many as three times
per season.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
A Story of the Turk.

1t is about 500 years since the first
terrible Turkish invasion poured
into Europe, in the very districts
where the war is now being carried
on. In eleven years it will be pre-
cisely 500 years since Amurath L.
overthrew, on the borders of Servia,
the then mighty kingdom of Servia,
in one of the "World battles" that
of Kassovia, a bloody struggle which
so impressed itself upon the minds
of men, and was followed by such
immense consequences to that
portion of Europe, that the Servian
and Bulgarian peasants all refer to
it as an event which still affects,
even now their destinies. And
they do not eXaggerate its cOnse-
quences. After Amurath followed
BajaZet, surnamed the "Light-
ning," and in his track was desOla-
ton and hills of human heads. The
Turk then was no "sick man" but a
barbarian of unsurpassed vigor,
with, it must be allowed, a certain
talent for command. He swept
over all eastern Europe, and but for
the long and heroic defense of Hun
gary, would no doubt have con-
quered and held southern Germany,
as he afterwards conquered and
held Thrace and the Danubian
countries. 1t was more than half a
century from the battle of Kossova
before the Turk wrested from the
decayed Cheek Empire the City of
the Golden Horn, which he has
held ever since.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Ancient Castles md Modern shoes,
IandOp truth,

1t Is becoming the fashion for la
dies to have their cOronets-and il
they have no coronets, their mono
grams-embroidered on their shoes.
The difference between this fashion
and that adopted three centuries
ago on the Field of tile Cloth OF
Gold, is that whereas the mobiles of
France and England recognized
each other by glancing at the cas-
ties, ETC., which they wore upon
their backs, you will now have to
examine a lady's shoes If you de-
sire to know who she Is. The new
style has one decided advantage-it
gives you good pretext for looking
at a pretty girls ankles.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
beautiful River.

Sabbath days IN the beautiful river
in the weeks Of time. The other
days are trouble streams, whose
angry waters are disturbed by the
countless crafts that float upon
them; but the pure river Sabbath
flows on to Eternal Rest, chanting
the sublime music Of the silent,
throbbing spheres, and timed blythe
pulsatlOns Of the Everlasting Life.
Beautiful river Sabbath, glide on !
Bear forth on thy bosom the poor,
tired spirit 10 the rest which itseeks,
and the weary, watching sOul, to
endless bliss.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

THE human heart is the work.
shop for JOY and sorrow; il Is the
haven for love and faith. IL Is the
anvil on which the outer world,
with heavy strokes, the inner forms.
The heart Of man is cradle and grave
for the twin sisters, happiness and
misery. 1t Is the resting place for
peace OF mind, the torture closet for
unattainable desires, and the place
of rejoicings for its fuliillment. It
is the cup of the flower OF hope; IN
il wits the heart will break II IL
n kingdom wherein love rules. It
is a paradise full Of hopes and beau
tiful presentiments. It Is a star, a
sun ii lights and warns our inner
self. It is a temple, church, with
bell-ringing, church songs, prayer
and blessing. 1t is the hOllest Of
holy in man, for God dwelloth
therein.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Mistakes Corrected.

0 is used without an exclamation
point, and is always followed by
the name of person, or subject in
Voked. Oh takes an exclamation
point and stands alone.
Sew, Sow. We sew with a needle
and thread. We SOW grain. Both
words are pronounced alike.
Through, is applied in the case of
a single passage. Thorough means
in every part.
Accept of. "Please accept of this
book" Say, "Please accept this
book"
Admits of. "His conduct admits
of no apology" Say, ellis conduct
admits no apology"
Both of. "Give me both of those
books" Omit of.
Cover over. "He covered it over.
Say, "He covered it,"
Cannot by no means. Say, "Can-
not by any MEANS"
Sunk down. Omit down.
Says l to him. Say, in cases,
"Said l to him."
Was you? Always say, "Were
you ?"
Let you and /. Say, "Let you
and me-"
1t is me. "Say, at is l."
If / was him. Say, eff were he"
The two first. "The first twO,"
is better.
And we might add to the above,
HI have got two kittens, etc, which
we often find the little folks using,
when the "got'S is superfluous, 81
have two kittens" being sufficient.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
The Women Trying to Save Virgin
las Credit.
Petersburg (va.) Index-Appeal.


The contributions so far to the
women's fund for the liquidation of
the State debt are very encouraging,
and give a practical aspect to the
scheme, which at first appeared
visionary and almost impossible,
and which even now is but in a
crude state of development. The
ladies, however, have laid hold of
the enterprise with right good will,
and when these energetic and en-
thusiastic creatures are thoroughly
in earnest, they inevitably succeed.
One cannot repress a thrill of pride
while reading a report of these con-
tributions and promises for the
future. The unselfish and patriotic
spirit there displayed is worthy of
Spartan mother or Roman matron.
The bOndhOlders could very well
afford to contribute largely of their
bonds to foster the enterprise. Ef-
forts will be made to organize fund
in every city and county in the
State, and, if successful, the effect
will be to crush out an agitation
which has already seriously i'm
paired the credit of the State and
tarnished her character for good
faith.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17
Danger of "PaternaI" Govern
ment.
Roane County CTenn.) Herald.

Roane County (Tenn.) Herald.
A sign of the times which is dis
quieting is the growth of a habit
among tho people of looking to the
Government to take care of them.
The idea seems spreading luxuri-
antly that the Government is some
thing above the people, with distinct
abilities and resources and that its
function is not so much to represent
as to protect-that it is not the SER
want but the master. We see ii
labor troubles at Washington. The
mob assumed that the Government
was rich and was depressing the
poor. It did not seem to occur to
the men composing the mob that
they were the Government; that
the public property, that public
economy was for theirsake; that pub
lie money saved was their savings !;
that Government was a creature of
law, and had to act according to
the forms of law that the contracts
taken at certain bids were under
the laws made by the Representa-
tives of the people to prevent favor
iteism. The mob saw nothing but
unseemly low wages, and looked
upon the Government as doing q
wrong, when it was simply an
agency through which the people
themselves were transacting their
business according to the prevalent
condition.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

ACCORDING to official returns the
wheat crop in France was "a, ,800,-
600 bushels in 1877, against 228, 8,02D,s
900 IN 1870. Latest mail adYices iI2.
dieate a favorable prospect for the
yield Of the wheat crop Of 1878.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

Two thousand American cattle is
the average weekly number arriving
at Liverpool per steamer, and in
that city's cattle market the Amer
lean animals have for weeks pre-
dominated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

Gov. NICHOLS has signed the
death warrants of four cOl0red men,
who n1urdeIed a woman in 1876, to
be hanged at pqHaldsanYille, Aug,
l4th, ~
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-17

"THE girls of our day are very
badly educated" said one of a
committee ON education to the
Bishop of Glouster. ''That cannot
he denied" retorted his lOrdship.
1HOWeVer, there is one consolation,
the boys will never find 1t out"