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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

lied State honors," whenever the people
seek to sustain Justice OF punish wrong is
"fuss and fury signifying nothing" The
people will maintain their rig1ltS-family
support and education of youth being the
first and most sacred, nor will they be de-
tered from this 0y the bondholders sueing
the State in the courts of the United States.
The intention to do which is but one more
evidence that the money power lis an enemy
to State rights and liberty.
8. That we will support no man for any
office OF honor or profit who is not in accord
with these resolutions.
.. That we invite all independent voters of
all nationalities, colOrs and conditions in life
to unite with on these resolutions as
necessary for purifying legislation, restoring
prosperity to productive industry and root
ing out the foul rings and official peculation
in Office which have brought dishonor on
the nation and age.
Z. That open, notorious and unpublished
disregard of law, as manifested in riots and
murders all over the country, calls for the
sterneSt enforcement of its penalties by
officers, courts and juries, regardless of the
wealth, official position or condition in life
of the offender. As citizens, we stand
pledged to cultivate good will and peace be-
tween the races; TO oppose all efforts to ar
ray one race against another, and to main
tain the rights of all unsecured by the laws
of Tennessee.
8. That we invite the Independent voters
of Robertson and Stewart counties to meet
us in convention at GAINESVILLE, on the Doth
day of August, to nominate candidates to
represent the Senatorial and Pictorial dis
trictS in the next legislature.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

THE Democrats of Christian
county, KY, nominated the follow
ing county ticket: County Judge,
E. w. Davis County Attorney, w.
p. Winfree; County Court Clerk,
John w. Campbell Assessor, Thos.
l.. Moss; JailOr, Aquilla B. Long ;
Surveyor, J. G. Stroube; Coroner,
John b. Cheney.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
The independent convention.

The Independent Convention met
at the City Hall on last Monday,
and was presided over by Col. T. l..
Yancey, as Chairman, with I. NJ.
Riley and r. II. Williams as Sec
retaries.
The Committe on resolutions re-
ported the following
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

A CALL is made in the last Leaf,
on FINS Ewing, Esq, of Dis. No.
l to become a candidate for the Leg
islature. Should Mr.. Ewing be the
nominee of the Democratic party,
we will support him cheerfully.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
TUIk Or. JOHNSON,
Chairman Dem. Elk. Com.

The following are the names of
the committee: DR.. B. w. Ussery,
w. H. Crouch, S. A. Caldwell, It.
F. Henry, VIM. Kleeman, DIR. L. B.
Chiffon, w. D. Taylor, DIR. n. l..
NorthingtOn, J. W. Attaway, VIM.
NJ. Daniel and Polk G. Johnson,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Saturday, June 10Th, 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. ID.
Fletcher's east boundary line, runs south AZ
poles to q stake; thence west 2O15 poles TO
stake, George Booths corner; thence south
O. east 3315 poles to stake thence south o.
east 1867 poles to a large white oak thence
north 52f5o 1917 poles to a black oak thence
south So east f21a poles to black oak bush
and pointers; thence south 621ao east Y poles
to a Stake and pointers thence north ooI30
east 571s poles to a stake in the centre OF a
big hollow; thence up said hollow with us
meanders 1897 poles to stake, FIetcher's
sonfhyvest corner of % acre tract; thence
north so poles to a stake in the centre of the
Dover road thence north oO1a0 west with
said road 40 poles to the beginning. Being
same laid conveyed to John r. Martin by
John H. Tandy.
TERMs-Cash. No redemption.
POLK G. JOHNSON,
G.. Il NJ. and Commissioner.
June 8, IS7S-tdsprf $40 90.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
THE PRIZENfEN.

Next in order was the delivery of
prizes. President Flynn had offered
three prizes, one for proficiency in
metaphysics to the Junior class, one
in Greek to the Freshman, another
in Greek to the preparatory class.
The winners were MessrS. Francis
Grundy Gilbert, Junior; Lewellyn
Price, Freshman, and John A.
Dortch, Elementary. DR.. Palmer,
of New Orleans, was prevailed upon
to present these prizes, and, high as
is our estimate of his rhetorical
powers, the address with which he
did so was astonishing to us. For
over half an hour he spoke to these
young scholars upon the value of
the Greek and Latin classics as an
academical study in a style which
would have led one to suppose that
he had spent his life as Greek Pro-
fessor in a College. DIR. Palmer is
one of the few men who come up to
the Oratorical standard laid down
by Cicero Ode OratOre l., g. "Qudn-
guam CiS OratoriS, prOfassj0qlte ipSa
6eRe djceRi hoe Sttscipere ct pOIIjceri
cidetar, ut Onad de re, qlecunaque SIT
propOsjta, 06 60 ornate copiOseque
dicdtlr." The address must have
been strictly imprOmptu, and yet
there was no hesitation for a word,
and it was always the right word.
The cOpiOSe and ornate of the great
master of oratory were fully realized
in the abundant wealth of ilIustra-
ton and polished beauty of language
with which this gifted man adj
dressed the youthful prizemen of
the S. w. p. University.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
Meeting of the Democratic Exec
utiVe Committee.

utiVe Committee.
The members of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Mont
gomery county are requested to
meet at the City Hall in GAINESVILLE
on Saturday, June Is, 1878, at -
o'clock, NJ. Business of importance
will be brought before the COM
mittee and it is hoped every MEM
Der of the committee will be present.
Doll q IoI1nrcON-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
SATURDAY.. June %, 1873,

Saturday, June %, 1878,
about four acres of land lying near the city
of GAINESVILLE, and just across the railroad
from Bradleys brick yard. This property
has been sub-divided into seven lots, 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
FINE ICE POND.
This property is very desirable, and would
make fine brick yard.
TERMS OF SALE-One-fourth cash, balance
on credit of and u months, with interest.
Notes with good security required and lien
retained. No redemption.
POLK G. JOHNSON,
c.. & NJ. and Commissioner.
June s. 1S78-tdsprf s. 10.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08
FINE ICE POND
Polk G. Johnson, Admir- and Receiver,
VS.. John X. Martin and Nj. j.
Martin.

In pursuance of a decree in this cause, at
the February Term, 1873, of the Chancery
Court, at CIarksville, / 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, 1878-06-08
Chancery Sale
Fine Ice Pond and Lots.
w. s. Dick VS.. John Bradley.

In pursuance of a decree in this cause, at
the February Term, 1878, of the Chancery
Court, at GAINESVILLE, l will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, at tho old
Court House door in ClarksYille. on
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12

Sd, resulted in the election Of the entire Re-
publican State and Congressional ticket, by
a somewhat reduced majority. The Gov
ernor ELECT is Col. Redfeld Proctor, of Rut-
land.
The New Hampshire National Greenback
Convention was held at Manchester on the
9th. Warren G. Brown, of Whitefeld, was
nominated for Governor.
The steamer Reliance, running between
Jacksonville, Fla, and Savannah, Ca, ex-
ploded her boiler on the night Of the 9th.
The first engineer, VIM. Moulton, second
engineer, Josiah Armstrong, and second
mate, VIM. DARTS, were killed or drowned.
None of the passengers were seriously hurt.
Several Of the crew were injured by steam,
and George Edmondson, cook, fatally.
The Maine election, held on the 9th, re-
suited in the reelection OF Selden Connor,
the Republican candidate for Governor, by
somewhat reduced majority. There is 4
large increase in the Greenback vote and a
decrease in the Democratic vote. The Re-
publican Congressman appear to have been
elected in the first three districts, but in the
Fourth District Powers, Republican, is de-
feated by Laid, the Democratic Greenback
candidate, and in the Fifth Hale is proba-
bly, defeated by Marsh, Greenbacker.
Later returns from the Vermont election
indicate that Barlow, the Greenoack candi-
date for Congress in the Third District, has
beaten both Of his competitors, and is prob
ably elected, although, as it requires ma
/ jority vote to elect, another vote may be
necessary.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
GENERAL.

The Howard Association, which is so no
bly, doing its best to alleviate the misery Of
the yellow fever scourge, is an organization
which was formed at New Orleans during
the prevalence of the same plague in 1888.
1t took its name from the famous English
philanthropist, John Howard, and it is a
society permanently established to provide
nurses, medical treatment and provisions for
sufferers by yellow fever. 1t has spread to
all places liable to its terrible visitations.
Like the Sisters of Mercy, its members sink
individuality in the name OF the association,
and they are whole -souled men, pledged to
stand shoulder to shoulder in devoting their
own time and means and the contributions
of the charitable to relieving those whom a
panic-stricken community hastens to desert.
Bishop McCoskrey, formerly of Milwau-
kee, has been formally deposed from the
ministry by action of the Episcopal House of
Bishops, his refusal or neglect to appear
and answer the damaging charges pending
against him being deemed tacit admission
OF his guilt.
Gen. Butler has made engagements to
speak at indianapolis on the goth and at
Terra Haute on the 2ist, under the auspices
Of the National Greenback party.
The Congressional Custom-house Com
mittee, of which Fernando Wood is Chair
man, commenced its sessions in New York
City on the I'd.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Extraordinary Enterprise.

A quarter of a century ago there was
memorable conflagration at Sacrament
to City, Cal, by which the entire bust
ness portion of the city was laid in
ashes. When the great fire was at its
maximum fury a wealthy merchant
named McNulty, who owned some of
the heaviest business establishments in
the city, gazed for few moments upon
the work of destruction, and then, in
stead of folding his hands and weeping
over the disaster, he went to the nearest
livery stable, hired a feet-footed horse,
rode like John Gilpin during the re-
mainder of the night, and before day
light the next morning had purchased
every foot of lumber and every saw-mill
at Grass Valley and Nevada City.
There is, possibly, no human being on
earth who would think of running off
by the light of his burning property in
order to literally make his fortune out
OF the disaster except an American.
McNulty did so, however, and almost
Immediately realized out of the sale of
his lumber fourfold' as much money as
he had lost by the great fre.-Grass
VGIlCy Union.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
EAST AND SOUTHEAST,

Charles G. O'Neil, aged %, an employee
of the goods house of VIM. Barr & Co.,
ST. Louis, committed suicide in New York
City on the ID, where he had gone on bust
ness for the firm. No cause is known for
the act.
Orville Grant, brother Of General Grant,
has become insane and is now confined in
an asylum at Morristown, \. j.
A Convention Of Freethinkers has just
been held at Watkins, n. Y. During its
session several of its leading members were
arrested upon complaint Of the orthodox
citizens, charged with selling and circu-
lating obscene and sacrilegious documents.
The parties were held to bail in the sum of
81 600 each, to await the action of the Grand
Jury.
The Vermont State election, held on the
Sd, resulted in the election of the entire Re-
publican State and Congressional ticket, by
a somewhat reduced majority. The Gov
ernor-elect is Col. Redfeld Proctor, Of Rut-
land.
The New Hampshire National Greenback
Convention was held at Manchester on the
9Th. Warren G. Brown, Of Whitefield, was
for Governor.
The Vermont State election, held on the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
The Great Geyser.

This consists of a pool of boiling
water about so yards in circumference,
2 or deep, in the midst of which there
is deep round funnel about feet
broad, up which the boiling water is
emitted. There is always a supply
coming, for there is always a certain
amount of hot water running out on
two opposite sides of the pool. Here
the visitor may amuse himself by dab
bling with his naked feet, scalding his
toes if he goes too near the pool, warm
ing his toes comfortably at an increased
distance. Excavations suitable for bath
ers there are none-as there are, so de-
lightfully formed and so deliciously
filled, at the Geysers in New-Zealand.
At little distance, in ravine, there
was a hole in which some of US, one
after another, endeavored to sit and
wash ourselves. Had it not been in Ice
land, it would have been thought to be
a most uncomfortable tub. Occasion
ally, perhaps once in every four hours,
larger and somewhat violent supply
OF hot water is thrown up the funnel,
which has the effect of emptying the ba-
sin and ejecting from it the hot water
rapidly. This occurs with q noise, and
is no doubt the indication given of a
real eruption when real eruption is
about to take place. But the indica-
ton too frequently comes without the
eruption. This, when it does take place,
consists of fountain of boiling water
thrown to the height of 60, S0-some be-
holders have said 200 feet. During
the "a hours that we remained at the
place there was no such eruption-no
fountain-although the noise was made
and the basin emptied four or five times.
About half furlong off from the Great
Geyser, or Geyser Primus, as we might
call him, is Geyser Secundus, to which
has been given the name Strokr. This
name we may perhaps write as Stroker. !
obedient Geyser. 1t has no basin of |
boiling water, but simply funnel such |
as the other, about feet in diameter,
at the edge of which traveller can stand |
and look down into a caldron boiling |
below. 1t is a muddy, filthy caldron,
whereas the waters of the Great Geyser |
are pellucid and blue. The Geyser Sc
cundus will make eruptions when duly
provoked by the supply of a certain
amount of ailment. The custom is to
drag to its edge about a cart load of
turf and dirt, and then TO thrust it all in
at one dose. Whether Stroker likes or
dislikes the process of feeding is left in
doubt. He bubbles about furiously with
the food down in his gullet for half an
hour, and then elects it passionately,
throwing the half digested morsels so
feet into the air with copious torrents of
polling muddy water. As far as we
could judge the height was 0feet. We
ire told that in 1889 Sir John Stanley
Jaw water thrown up from this well 1872
Get. That last figure in the total will
,e held to be convincing by many
TTollope in Fortnight
y ReUieIO.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Scieace and Industry.

Two hundred thousand well grown
roses will make an ounce of oil.
"A little sugar added to any writing
fluid will make good copying ink.
In Lumpkin County, Ga, 40 gold
stamps will be running before the sea-
son closes.
Two hundred stem-winding Ameri-
can watches have recently been sent to
India for railway service.
The sponging fleet from Key West
Melted over 100000 for their gathering
on their first trip of the season.
Mr.. Bowers process of protecting
iron from rust by coating it with film
of magnetic oxide has been tried at Dud-
ley, in England, and has proved to be of
so satisfactory a character that there is
reason to believe that henceforth iron
structures may be regarded as practical
ly indestructible.
Prof. james Thomson, of England,
has recently constructed a machine
which, by means of the mere friction of
a disk, a cylinder, and ball, is capable
of effecting q variety of the complicated
calculations which occur in the applica-
ton of mathematics to physical prob
lens. By the simple process of turning
a handle, an unskilled laborer may, in a
given time, perform the work of ten
skilled arithmeticians.
"A bread-fruit tree is now acclimated
and in bearing condition at Sacramento,
Cal. The fruit is shaped like a pear,
four inches long and three in diameter,
and has cantaloupe flavor. The milky
juice of the tree makes the toughest
meat tender if stepped in it for ten min
utes. The same effect is produced if
meat is hung in the tree, the vapor of
which acts upon it.
Oatmeal is an important and valu-
able article OF food. With the exception
of Indian corn, it is richer in oily or
fatty matter than any of the other Gull
tivated cereal grains, and its proportion
of protein compounds exceeds that of
the finest wheaton flour. So that, both
with respect to its heat and fat making
and its flesh and blood making princi,
pie, it holds high rank.
A company has just been organized
in Jersey City for the manufacture of a
new motor. 1t is something like the
Keely motor, but the inventor, Mr.. Win
tiers, claims that he has his motor under
control, and that it performs all the du-
ties of steam. Cold water is poured
into one cylinder, set of pumps, valves,
etc., are put in motion, and the motor
is generated and appears in another cyl
indcr.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Anew Pest to the Corn.

The Hartford Times of Aug. so says ::
"The Meriden correspondent of the
Times sends US samples of ears of corn,
taken from field in that vicinity, which
have been ruined by devouring pest,
and with them samples of the bug which
does the mischief. 1t is good-sized
six-legged, evil-looking bug, rather
larger and much fiatter than the potato
bug; in color brown, and having a
wide body and very small head, the lat
terprovided with pair of mall anten-
nae, or 'feelers.' The creature begins
his ravages at the tip-end of the ear of
corn, and devours the kernels as he
works onward towards the butt-leay-
ing in his track only dirty mess of
brown husks of the separate kernels,
after having devoured the substance.
Our correspondent in Burlington, 10
cality perhaps y or 10 miles northwest
of Meriden, sends US an account Of the
alarming ravages of a new pest there,
which may be this same creature. Our
Burlington correspondent says fields of
corn are ruined almost in a single day,
and, further, that acres of grass land
viii sud denly turn brown and dead, and
the turf itself can he raked of-the roots
having all been cut by the ravages of
something which the Burlington farm
ers believe to be the same bug that ruins
the corn"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Foreign Notes.

The italian Government, on the &C.
casion of the Inauguration OF a statue to
Giordano Bruno, proposes to republish
all the works of the philosopher.
"A Brussels paper announces that the
King of Holland, 81, contemplates mat
rimonv with his niece, Princess Eliza
beth, of Sake eimer Eisenach, "a.
"A peerage was offered to Lord Odo
Russell as a reward for his services as
one of the British Plenipotentiaries at
Berlin, but he is reported to have de-
clined the honor.
Its stated that Turkey derived from
Cyprus a revenue of 81 100000 year,
and that under an improved system of
government much larger revenue can
be raised.
-Tourgueneff says: ain a century
there won't be a king in Europe, except,
perhaps, in England, and there will be
nothing but pageant-a political num-
my shown to the populace at so much
head
In Newcastle, England, on the reg
lister of st. Andrews Church, is the fol-
lowing entry: "April "a, 1893, were
buried James Archer and his son
Stephen, who, in the month of May,
1868, were drowned in a coal-pit in the
Gala Flat by the breaking in of water
from an old waste. The bodies were
found after So years and II months"
AT a late council of the Spanish
Ministry, the question of the young King
Alfonso's second marriage was, accord
ing to report, considered. 1t was
thought that, though the project might
be premature, its speedy consideration
for dynastic reasons was essential. The
youngest sister of the late Queen Mer-
cedes is the lady named. The subject
is to be again discussed at Ministerial
council early in September.
The two rooms occupied by Voltaire
in his chateau at Ferney have been kept
lovingly and reverently as he left them.
His little sleeping apartment, with its
truckie-bed and its walls hung round
with portraits-among them Milton and
Newton-is exactly the same as when he
died there a century ago. Unclipped,
too, by Cooks tourists knives is still the
black sarcophagus in which his heart is
informed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
School and Church.

The Indiana Medical College hav-
ing shut its doors against female stu
dents, a medical college specially for
women is soon to be established at In
dianapolis.
The organ of the English Ritualists
SAYS: ''Our quarrel with the Roman
Catholic is chiefly on matters of detail,
but our quarrel with Professionalism is
about first principles"
The experiment of the American
Bible Society in issuing five-cent edi-
ton of the New Testament has proved
a great success. In order to meet the
demand, 1000 copies have to be printed
daily.
The Oldest Protestant Episcopal
Church now in use in New England is
at Marblehead, in Massachusetts. From
the parish records it appears that the
church was erected in 1714, though the
parish must have been founded some
years before that date.
Henry Marley, the evangelist, who
visited this country several years ago, is
creating q great sensation in Australia,
WucIC hO ID HdAIlLS III LID SCI u1ObS
upon the low wages paid to factory girls,
charging most of the sin and shame in
that country to this cause. His motto
is: "The pure Gospel and good wages"
The Baptists have opened a mission
at Nablous, which is the ancient
Shechem, close by which is Jacobs
well. This mission is under the charge
of YouhanHa Ell Karey, native Syri-
an, and convert from the Greek
Church. He was, after conversion,
baptized in the pool of Sloan by an
American Missionary. He was educat-
ed in London and is said to be remark
ably well qualified for his work.
The Methodist Bishops urge it as
duty of the ministry of their church to
" proclaim with its utmost energy that
the law of holiness in the New Testament
is law of holiness for men under all
conditions and under all circumstances
of life. Many of the religious guides
and teachers of the people address them
selves too little to the conscience and |
aim at other ends than the formation of
character in the principles of Christian
therefore the land is
daily Inundated by financial crimes,
frauds, defalcations, and betrayals in its
trusted citizens"