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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
CEDUNT ARMA TOGE.

When we went to press last week
a dense thunder-cloud seemed to
Overspread the European sky which
moments atmospheric disturbance
might cause to discharge its pent-up
forces in a crash of artillery a flash
ing of cold steel, causing havoc and
ruin over half the continent or more.
This week the diplomatists seem to
be taking the matter in hand, and
the war of shot and shell is appa-
rently to be superseded by one of
protocols.
Let us look back little and try
to make out how that thunder-clOud
was discharged without an explO-
sion. Prince Bismarck seems to
played the part of thelightning-
rod man, and it was done as follows:
The tendency to war eliminated
when, to the question of Lord Derby
what the advance on COnstantinople
might mean, Prince GOrtchakOff re-
piled that the terms of the armistice
under consideration were the con-
Germ of the belligerent Governments
and of no one else. This sounded
very much like what Touchstone
would call the counter-check guar
relsOme. There was sardOnic grin
at the back of it which had a pecu-
liarly aggravating effect upon John
Bull. TO such cOunter-checks it is
Johns way either not to reply at
all, or to reply by acts rather than
words; he sent his ships through
the Dardanelles to the Sea of Mar
mora, where they anchored uncOm-
fOrtably near to the Golden Gate.
This was step for which the Rus
sian court had evidently been I'M
prepared. The previous vacillating
policy of Lord Derby and the debates
in the House of Commons had led
them to suppose that in no case
would the English Government
proceed beyond verbal expostula-
tiOns. In short, the Emperor Alex
ander had made precisely the same
mistake as his father, Nicholas, did
before the Crimean war. He had
come to the conclusion that the
GladstOne-Br Bright party of peace at
any price had paramount influence
with the English people, whereas in
the face of such prOvOcatiOn as
GOrtchakoff had offered it had none
whatever.
The Russian Government, with all
its bravado, is far from desiring an
other war; Turkey had cost too
much to subdue and England was a
good deal worse than Turkey. But
what was to be done? Admiral
Horribly with his iron-clads had
taken a position from which it was
evident that no retreat was cOntem-
plated. Could it be possible that
the Russian Chancellor would have
to eat his words In the emergency
the Russian Emperor consults his
| brother Emperor of Germany,
whereupon enters the man with the
lightning rod. The Gar agrees not
to occupy Constantinople or Gallip-
oil On condition that the British
feet is withdrawn forty miles from
STEAMBOAT, and they shall then re-
main in statu quO, pending a Con-
gress of the leading nations of
Europe, and so it is settled after all
that other parties besides the bellig-
erents are concerned both in the
terms of the armistice and in those
of the ultimate peace; if peace it is
to be.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
THE NEW POPE.

The deliberations of the Sacred
College have terminated in the cleo
ton of Cardinal Pecci to fill the Pa
pal chair vacated by the death of
Plus the Ninth. Cardinal Pecci has
been a member of the Sacred Col
Iege since 1853. 1t is believed that
he would have been elected Cardinal
seven years sooner but for the oppo-
sition of Antonelli, the Papal Secre-
tary. He is man of considerable
executive ability and moderate,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
FARM PRODUCTS Of THE STATE.
sSl,0s,l96 s4s,254,2Sl
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An1inaiS, lOE sNtugntefs lz,45UsfOo loYooo,ooV
ssl ,77s,l96 s4s,254 ,28l
bits, 1876
Balance in favor of Is70............ sic, 40 L35
Thus on three of the most impor-
tant items of farm produce the value
for 1870 was 80 per cent. more than
it was before the war. sob, but"
it will be said, ''the staples we sell
abroad are what we pay our taxes
with, and you have not put them
down." Very well then; has the
yield of cotton fallen off since the
war? No! the number of bales sold
by the United States in the last
seven years is ahead of the number
sold during the last seven years be-
fore the war by 2,714,516 bales, of
which it may be safely said Tennes-
see produced her share. How about
manufactures? How about coal?
tures...,.....,...-.,.e.-sl7,ss7,22 5 s4,aa2 ese
1887 ,22d
Balance in favor of 1870 81, All
So that our manufacturers have,
since the last year before the war,
nearly doubled in value. But the
shrinkage in values; ah, that is the
point. We can't pay 40 cents on
the 81 90 because values have fallen
so. Let us examine that little:
What has shrunk in value, and
what has risen? If we examine in
to this matter we shall find that
those things which have shrunk in
price which constitute the expense
of production, and those things have
risen which constitute the profits OF
production. What constitutes the
cost Of production ? First, the price
of land; it is a hundred per cent.
less than it was before the war.
Then the articles which, not pro-
ducing on the land, the farmers
have to buy for money-clothing,
hats, shoes, farming implements,
coffee, medicines, etc. Letany farm
er go down Franklin street and price
these things as they are now and az
they were before the war, and he
will find everything far cheaper now
than they were then. All, but the
labor question. That, it is said, costs
so much more now. Is that so GER
tain? Before the war we had tC
furnish our negroes food, lodging
and clothing, in addition to sinking
very large capital for their pur-
chase money. We now furnish them
the same things without sinking
that capital. Moreover, we now pay
exactly what negroes we want and
no more, while, before the war, the
planter fed and housed and clothed
a large number whom he didn't
want and who produced him moth
ing-the aged, the sick and the chill
dren and then the doctors bills
we know from sore experience wha
we are talking about now. Befort
the war every owner of negrOe
made it his business to get them thu
best medical treatment prOcurable
and the bill for this was a serious
item in the plantation expenses
and a mighty good egg for the doc
tor to hatch. Now the darkie eithe
gets we'll without the doctor, or die
for the want of him, or gets hi
treatment at the doctors expense
clear gain for the former, but yer,
bad egg for the doctor.
So much for the expenses of pro
ductiOn now for the profits of pro
ductiOn. We return to Mr.. Good
pasture and his figures. Here is
short table of comparative prices o
farm produce:
1851. IS77
! Hogs, per 100 lbs, ......z2 6} ~ /
Indian Corn, per DUshel, ............ 20 j
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Wheat, per bushel, ...................... rs p
Lastly, cotton for seven years be-
fore the war averaged II LA cents
per pound, and for seven years end
ing 1877, II IL cents.
Now the inevitable inference from
all this is that farmers are making
more and at less cost than they did
before the war. We know how hard
they find it to believe this, how I'M
willing they are to believe it, how
pleased they are with people who
will talk ''hard times" with them,
but it is perniciOus talk; it teaches
them to sit idle and moan and pity
their own hard case when, by indus
try and economy, by intelligence
and energy, they could be the most
independent people in the world.
Now, we have been answered when
we have talked to men in this way,
"NOu didn't know us before the
war. Why, bless your heart, men
had lots Of money to spend i'm those
days, and they spent it, too" Alas,
they did, Their boys loafed about
town and rode fine horses, and their
girls wore fine dresses, and neither
boys nor girls dreamt of having any
work to do, but had plenty of ne
grOes to wait on them, the more
the pity. They had more money to
spend, because, owning farms at
high land prices, and owning ne
grOes, they had unlimited facilities
for borrowing and buying on credit,
and they did borrow and buy on
long credit ard spent fast what they
got so easily, and, if the war had
not ruined them, debt would soon
have ruined them instead. Let
them go down on their knees and
thank their maker that borrowing
is not as easy as it was; that living
on credit is not so attainable a con-
ditiOn as it was; that public and
private debt is not likely again to
be so luXuriously INDUCED in as it
was, but that the golden rule has to
be returned to, that which says,
"work for what you want and pay
as you CO." Under that rule Tennes-
see needs no such advice as she gets
from the COlyars and Savages to de-
clare herself pauper and bankrupt ;
she is no pauper, she is no bank
rupt; she is able and willing to pay
her debts, and prosper, too.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23

produce of the State, which is much
less than its gross eanings.
But much more evidence has been
produced by Mr.. Goodpasture to re-
flute the pauper and bankrupt the
Dry, which IS so injurious a libel
upon the thrifty, industrious and
productive State of Tennessee. He
adopts two methods of testing the
assertion. He compares the Ten
nessee of the present day with Ten
nessee before the war, and also COM
pares Tennessee with other States,
and both comparisons triumphantly
refute the pauper and bankrupt
theory. Take first a comparison of
the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23

WE are indebted to DIR. II H.
Marable for an invitation to attend
the thirty-seventh annual COM
mencement exercises of the Univer-
sity Of the City of New York, medi-
cal department, which took place
on the 18th inst, at which time our
handsome young friend graduated
as an NJ. d. Hart, we wish you
both fame and fortune in your
profession. .#G
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE
PREROGATIyE.

Every nation which has a written
constitution finds it in the course of
time supplemented and even modi-
fed by an unwritten one enforced by
usage and prescription; and there
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
RECOYERED.

Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who
has been quite sick, has resumed
his place in the Senate. He has
many friends here who will rejoice
at this intelligence.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23

THERE have been introduced in
Congress 3,S17 bills and 1913 resOlu-
tions since the beginning of the pres
ent session.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23
w EST ERIN
Tobacco Inspection,
Erie Basin Stores, Brooklyn, n. Y.
office, IA COenties slip, n. ".
J.P.&G. ROBINSON, PrOprietOrs.
TowNsE y T 4; THOMAS, inspectors.

On the I'd day of January, 1873, we opened
our large flre-proof stores at Erie Basin,
Brooklyn, for the Inspection and Storage OF
Western Tobacco, under the name of west
ern Tobacco Inspection" We have con-
tracted with MeSSTS. TOWNSEND 4. & EWING
NJ. THOMAS, TO perform the duties OF Inspec-
tors, who are gentlemen well known to the
trade of New York and the West. From
the favorable recommendations concerning
them, we can promise their faithful atten-
ton to the inspection OF all Tobacco re-
ceived by us We will store all Tobacco on
first floors as prevention of Shrinkage.
For delivering to trucks, lighters or ships,
our facilities cannot he eXcelled, as our
Docks extend along the entire front of the
Stores (Which are 1900 feet long on one side,
and across one end, with depth of water
sufficient for the largest ships to discharge
and receive their cargOes, and are free from
obstruction by ice in winter. Our appli-
anccS for eXtinguiShing fire are such that we
can guarantee the forrest rate Of insurance.
Our experience as WarehOGSemen juStifieS
us in saying that all business intrusted to us
will be discharged with such care as will
guarantee satisfaction. q
n. B.-Bill your Tobacco: WESTERN
TOBACCO INSPECTION, Erie Basin Stores,
Brooklyn, n. y, which will insure free de-
iveries from all Railroads to stores.
We. the undersigned, cheerfully recon-
mend MeSSrS. TOWNSEND A. q EWING NJ
THOMAS, as worthy gentlemen, ana Wen
qualified for the position OF Iopaeco m
ing of MeSSrs. j. p. K G. c. ROBINSON ana OF
their Warehouses, will afford every facility
requisite for the business;
Sawyer, Wallace & Geo. +. Nash,
Co. sOttinger & Bro,
Pollard, Pettus & Co. Joseph HiTsch,
T n Mllrphv d Co, NJ. RAIDER & Son,
Robert L. Maitland kremelbeTg & Co.,
Il Co. ;. ). Edmonston &
RlalSeIlere Mayo & Bro,
Co. NJ. Pappenheimer,
Fatman & Co., Drew & Dean,
d. j. Garth, Son +. w, Tagenhorst &
Co Co.,
Toel Rose 81 Co., A. II. Cardoza,
Keynes Bro. Il Co, y. W. Dodd,
Cl1as Iuling 4 CO., o. Reusens,
Iinnecut n Bin, J. P. Quinn & Co.,
r n owen. Fred. Fisher,
Hermann Soop 4 j. A. PAUL.,
- Ernest Muller & Co.,
CARROT & Grinter, J :. Cans, Son q Co,
]. H. Moore & Co., ROBERT moore q 20.
Calling the attention Of our friends, ana
the Tobacco trade generally 70 lh6 aDoNe
testimonial OF Factors Buyers anu i2lLoheIs,
we take this opDortunity of stating that we
VIII exert our best efforts % lastAlluliiy uls,
charge our duties. and hope 70 merit anu
reeve tf,i a fair portion Of your Tonocco.
tte Vol ~ tages OF first floors I9F stolase,
facilitiss ted Inspections hoont, ltls ssatat
,s,,,sf 1917 III receiving delivering ana 81 p
~ ~ ~ JI with the commercial stahd-
loote ". a, -aJIse with whom we nave con-
.oNs't ...Itsl VIII commend hseit 70
such advantages for business We ask the
assistance of our friends.
Very respectfully,
TOWNSEND A TT4Osf Al.
EWING NJ. THOMAS.
Feb. p, ls7s-sw.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23

| the Legislative Houses, but the
work was not completed until the
last Presidential election was re-
ferred to the Supreme Court and
party completely captured the judic-
larry.
We can only indicate in this pa
per the heads of the method by
which some of these steps have to
/ be retraced if the Constitution is to
continue to be practicable method
for the government of this nation.
/ Each one of these will, as we have
opportunity, be the subject of dis
cussion in future papers. At present
/ they are only enumerated
First-The President should be
elected for six or eight years and
taken out of politics.
Second-The Cabinet should be
placed in more direct cOmmunica-
ton with Congress, and be made so
far responsible to it that if irrecon-
cIlable differences arise between it
and Congress it must retire to make
way for one whose views are in har-
mOny with Congress.
Third-That money grants and
appropriations must not only origi-
nate in the House of Representa-
tives, but the Withholding appropri-
ations for any specific purpose must
be followed by the abandonment of
that purpose by the Government.
The discussion of these PROPOSE
tions will be introduced as may be
rendered possible by the course Of
public events, according as they
leave us space and leisure unOccu-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-02-23

Anu even llldl uOCS uOt give CTeUlI
for the large production in the State
of mineral wealth, which, as Mr..
GoOdpasture shows in a subsequent
paragraph, have within the last five
years increased over 200 per cent;
nor the vast quantity of produce
produced and consumed on the farms
themselves, which, to make Mr..
Colyar's argument good, should all
be paid for out of the 81 year
Adding all these, the So, 900 900 al
lowed for by Mr.. COlyar a. thevalue
of Tennessee products may fairly be
multiplied by 4 and be stated at
500, OO0,00O, which divided by
1870, 900, the population of Tennes-
see as estimated by Mr.. c., gives
nearly S15S as the share per head of
Tennessee produce instead of $4I.
But, even If we granted his glaringly
impossible figures, Mr.. c. slips in
another quiet fallacy of enormous
dimensions. In his eagerness to
stamp the brand of poverty as deeply
as possible ON the brows of Tonnes
scans he talks about a man support
ing his family on the 81 per year
he allows him. Observe how he at
once multiplies his figures by 8 with
out saying a word about it. He
first makes the produce of Tennessee
s4I head (not one-fourth of the re-
ality) and then treats the subject as
if 1t were Sal a family Of FIVE. BY
his own figures even this would give
$2O5 instead of 81 for the family to
live On, and, BY the true statement
as we have corrected him, $40,
which even then would be only the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-19
Choosing n Wife.

A mans frat necessity is to find a
woman physically able to support the
cares and duties which attend that posit-
ion. Solomon, who from large expert.
ence with wives ought TO know what
constitutes a good one, described his
iayorite wife as one who spun wool and
aAx and took ARE Of the house, Nc, In
short he means TO say that she shall pos.
sess a large share OF physical potency.
It Is the power 10 do, without which no
woman deserves the name Of wife. With.
In the past decade some young men In
choosing wives have disregarded this ad.
vice OF Solomon, and have since repented.
But young men, are fast becoming more
careful and wise In the matter. They
are learning that a pretty face and form,
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though doubtless desirable accompani-
ments, are not the whole requisites Of q
good wife. It Is true that there are some
thoughtless exceptions among the young
men, but they are slmpletons. But
above them are thoughtful men, Who
do not and will not fall in love bliDdly,
but who are looking for the vile which
Solomon commends, and who will not be
satisfied without such a one. / do not
wish to reveal any ones secrets, but l
have had men say to me when talking
upon the subject OF this discourse. "Girls,
nowadays, are too irail to marry Does
any one think the young man to blame
who says this and then stands alooi from
the marriage atari Surely not. And does
the young lady who Is too weak 10 sweep
her own room or make her own toilet
think that such a young man will hasten
to propoSe2 II 80, she Is mistaken,
Young men Of to-day are fast becoming
wise through the experience Of their
unfortunate friends.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-19
souree Of InieetIous DIseases.

All Of the infectious diseases undoubt.
eddy possess an original habitat, where it
Is probable they are now as always capa.
bic Of spontaneous origin in their print
tive form, whichever that may be. The
difficulty Of tracing disease-types through
various localities, and among different
people Of the globe, have, up to this time
prevented a precise knowledge upon the
point, which time may yet bring us. It
seems tolerably certain, however, that
the several acute Infections diseases NAM
ed below have the nativities here attribut.
ed TO them,
The Chosrd-Has its home in India.
The Small. Por-In the East. Known
in China nearly 1900 years before
Christ.
Tho Piague-An Oriental disease. Has
a distinct geographical range,
The TSPhuS Rsr1-Ireland is It's birth
place.
TIE Typhoid and Rslapsing Fere-Haye
fixed centres in Ireland, Galicia, Upper
sileSia, and ZONE provinces Of Northern
Italy.
The Military Eever-Is endemic in q
few provinces Of France, Germany, and
Italy.
Enthusiastically native 10 Arabia.
Epidemic Dysetey-Home in the tro-
pie,
Tie Densue-In Southern ATTITUDES,
with sharp geographical limits.
The YelOW Esper-Distinctly traced to
the Antilles.
The Gabaiongo-Chili.
The KaTuga-Peru.
Certain 1t seems that no general in
Auenee OF exposure or even bad hygienic
surroundings will establish the typical
disease away from It's local habitat,
except through the penalties Of heredity.
-L0gan's Physics ofhe Infectious Disease.
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The gos,ips dare to hint that the tri.
umph OF Beaconsfeld in the negotiations
about the eastern question is 10 be re.
warded-not alone by a dukedom, which
is u comparatively trivial recOmpense,
but by the hand Of Queen Victoria her
self. The gossips find nothing in the
surrounding circumstances which at all
dampens their certainty that SO great an
honor awaits the bold and lucky lsraelite.
II is true that he is seventy.four years
old, and that the queen is ffty.nine; they
can cite you plenty Of instances, even in
royal families, where the ages. were great.
er. It Is true the queen has shown a
rare and beautiful fidelity to the memory
Of the husband abe lost seventeen years
ago; the gossips are prepared to prove
that she has at last found her solace in
the fascinating presence Of the one man
who has been able to keep her empire as
great In Europe as Pitt made it. OF
course the story is as fal.e as it is silly;
but 1t is not unnatural that i. should
have taken shape. For it needs only
such a contamination to make the life Of
Disrael, the adventurer, the fop. the rad
ical book writer, the parliamentarian, the
tory leader, the premier-more remark
able than any fiction the novelists have
yet concocted.
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IT is stated, upon the authority Of
carefully gathered statistics, that in the
past City years France has lost 10000.
900 children, who have died from pre-
yeutable causes. Not only is the NOR.
tally among children excessively dis
proportional to that Of adults, but the
number OF still,born children Is enor.
NOUS. There Is an alarming increase in
the crime OF infanticide by mothers Of
Legitimate children, and the govern.
ment will soon be asked to revive the
old turning.bOxes in founding hos
pitals, which enable the mothers Of
children which they are unable or un-
willing to care for, to rid themselves Of
the burden without disclosing them
selves. These were abandoned twenty
years ago, on the ground that they en-.
couraged immortality; but It is found
that their abandonment has led TO an
alarming increase In inianticide.
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YESTERDAY was Alumni day at Betha'
ny College. Rev. Fred Power, Of Wash,
ington City, was the Orator, ". c. Lyme,
Esq, Of the Washington, Pa, Examiner,
the Lecturer, and Jno. r. TAFT, Of Cincin.
natl. the Poet. Mr.. TAFT graduated as
far back as 1858 and has achieved quite a
reputation as a Poet and Painter, eSpe-
cially as a landscape artist. He has re.
sided several years in Europe.
To-day is Glass Day at the College. The
class tree will be dedicated ate in the al
ternOon, on which occasion the usual lit
erary exercises will take place. Mr.. D,
o. Thomas, Of wales, is the prophet Of
the class. He has a class Of twenty to
prophecy for, and II he can succeed in
satisfactorily outlining the future to each
one Of the boys they will no doubt write
him down as possessed Of the divine al
hatus.
Tomorrow is Commencement day, on
which occasion a number OF addresses
will be delivered by members of the grad
uatins class.
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