Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-06-28

MurfreesborO News G. A. Mathes
Brownsville States.
Secretary, r. L. Q. White, Leba-
non Herald.
Treasurer, w. A. Wade, Milan
Exchange.
Executive Committee, Ira p.
Jones, Nashville American, B. A.
Enloe, Jackson Tribune & Sun; A.
F. Griscom, Chattanooga CONNER
cial, l.. j. Brooks, Milan Exchange,
Robert Boyers, Gallatin Examiner.
We may here add that, to COM
plete the list Hon. Proctor Knott
was elected to deliver the address
at the next meeting, which is to be
held at Jackson, and Miss Jennie
! + az tt Ell, Of Clarksyille. the poet
laureate to read an original poem on
the occasion.
/ We will not attempt to give the
i general business transacted at these
meetings, most of it was of such a
nature that it would be difficult to
render it ineligible to general
readers and impossible to make it
interesting to them.
One transaction, however, must
not be passed by in silence; it was
the recognition by the association of
the heroic death of Col. w. Ivie
Westbrook, of Brownsville, editor
of the Brownsville Bee. When the
alarm of yellow fever was first
raised in Brownsville, and panic
was carrying away from it all who
would have been able to grapple
with the horrors of the situation,
all who could aid the suffering or
help bury the dead, Col. Westbrook
was the first to stay the flight by
his protest and his example, and
thus became a centre around whom
those could rally with home charity
was a more controlling infiuencethan
fear; he subsequently became Sec
rotary of the Howard Association,
and died at that post of honor and
duty of the fearful pestilence whose
terrors he had braved in the interest |
of humanity. The society did it
self justice by adopting eulogistic
resolutions in memory of the dead,
and appointing committee of one
from each grand division of the |
State to devise means for erecting
monument to his memory at |
Brownsville, the seat of his labors.
The following appointments re-
manned yet to fill, and they were
well filled:
Orator at next meeting-The Hon.
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky.
Essayist-Major Charles II. Smith,
better known by his non de plume
of Bill Arp.
Poet-Miss Jennie Mattill, of
GAINESVILLE.
The proceedings of the associa-
ton wound up with an address from
DIR. Dickerson and a poem by Col.
Henry Stanton, of Kentucky, both
read with great eclat at the Metho-
dist Church.
During the stay of the association
in Gallatin, the hospitable citizens
made constant efforts for their enter
tainment On Thursday evening the
Sumner Guards, a remarkable fine
looking body of young men went
through their drill on the Public
Square with great credit to them
selves and their commanding Off
Ger, Lieut.. Vertrees. On Thursday
night a brilliant ball with all the
loveliness of Sumner county to
grace it, was given by the citizens
to the great delight of our dancing
editors. On Friday afternoon there
was general turn out of buggies
and carriages in which the visitors
were conveyed around the beauti-
full .suburbs of Gallatin, and on Fri
day night a sumptuous banquet
was spread at heSindle House with
unlimited champagne and convivial
toasts, speeches, &c. In short, the
press was treated in Gallatin as
cherished guest to whose pleasure it
was the highest pleasure of the citi-
zens to minister.
The jaunt to the Mammoth cave.
After the farewells to the people at
Gallatin had been spoken, our |
friends jumped on the cars for the
Mammoth cave whpre they ex-
pected to meet the delegates of the
Kentucky Association.