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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
win of Mrs. s. A. Dorsey.

BEAUvOIR, HARRISON Co., Miss.
Jan. 4, 1S7S.-I, Sarah Anne Dor
sey, of Tensas Parish, La, being
aware of the uncertainty of life, and
being now in sound health in mind
and body, do make this my last
will and testament, which / write,
sign and seal with my own hand,
in the presence of three competent
witnesses, as l possess property in
the States of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Arkansas.
owe no obligation of any sort
whatever to any relative of my
own. / have done all / could for
them during my life. I therefore
give and bequeath all my property,
real, personal and mixed, wherever
located and situated, wholly and
entirely, without hindrance or quail
iticatiOn, to my most honored and
esteemed friend, jefferson Davis,
ex-President of the Confederate
States, for his own sole use and ben
eft, in fee simple forever and |
hereby constitute him my sole heir,
executor and administrator. If JEFF
ferson Davis should not survive me,
/ give all l have bequeathed to him
to his youngest daughter, Vavina.
| do not intend to share in the in
gratitude of my country toward
man who is, in my eyes, the high
est and nObleSt in existence.
In testimony whereof, sign this
will, written by my own hand, in
the presence Of w. L. Walthall, L.
F. Hughes and John G. Craig, sub
scribing witnesses, resident in Har-
rison county, Miss.
SARAH ANN DORSEY.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

A SAD story comes from La Sale,
Ill. Stella Haley, aged fourteen,
lived all alone. Her mother died
last summer of hard work and a
broken heart. The girl went to
school, but one day she was miss
ing. Several days went, and she
did not appear. Search was made,
and she was found lying in a corner
of her impoverished home, dead.
She had starved to death and made
no sign. Her brave young soul
chose rather to pass out of the world
in silence than to unbend from her
heroic pride, and tell the people of
ampler lives that she was dying for
the want of food. Imagine her at
school among happy, well-fed and
comfortably clothed children. She
with the gaunt wolf of hunger at
her side, and the majestic passion
of pride in her hearti There was
heroism! In her childish Wayne.
perhaps she was never childish, for
the children of the very poor know
no childhood; life is old to them
from their birth-in some inscruta-
BILE way. pehaps, she saw the terri
BILE end of her life approaching, but
she said nothing. a VOID might
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

GUTHRIE, KY, July %, 1979.-At
a meeting of the citizens of this
place and vicinity, to-day, the pro-
priety of establishing & hospital in
or near our village was discussed,
and the following preamble and
resolutions unanimously adopted:
Whereas, We have learned
through the public press and other
wise that the State Board of Health
had established quarantine against
Memphis and other infected points,
and that hospital is contemplated
here for persons sick with yellow
fever and other infectious diseases,
who shall be taken from the trains
at this place to be put in; therefore
be it
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
Guthrie and vicinity, en- DldsSe, do
earnestly and solemnly protest
against the establishment of any
such hospital at or near this place,
as injurious to the business of this
place and an outrage on the COM
munity.
Resolved, further, that we will
resist the establishment of said hos
pital, if need be, with extreme
measures.
j. w. KENDALL, Chairman.
w. LEWIS, Secretary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

water-valves, ETC., had been con-
trived before this for preventing the
refux Of sewer gas but In practice
all these have been found inefficient
unless aided by copious ventilation
of the sewers themselves in other
words, unless the sewers along their
whole course in the public as well
as the private portion are provided
with frequent openings commune
eating with the open air which per-
nit the escape of the sewage gas
and so prevent its accumulation and
compression in the apparatus. How
this is done it is impossible to de-
scribe within our present limits, and
indeed we have all along avoided
going into engineering details, as it
is our main purpose to show the
necessity of employing skilled en-
gineers for the purpose. We may
mention, however, one method
which has been adopted for the
ventilation of the private portion of
the sewerage, which is to continue
the drain-pipe backwards by terra
Gotta pipe Of the same calibre run
ming upwards through the principal
chimney so as to emerge above the
top of the house, the heat from the
chimney securing an upward cur
rent Of the gas.
This must conclude what we have
to say about the private portion of
the sewerage; as the public portion
is the same thing on larger scale,
requiring the application of the
same principles as the private por-
ton, what we have to say of it will
be given very briefly in our next
paper, and will leave us room to
discuss the necessary legislation and
financial arrangements in eonnec-
ton with it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
CIarksViIIe Wholesale Market,
CORRECTED BY j. ]. CRUsMAN,

SUGAR-CutLo Loaf, Crushed, Powdered and
Granulated, 91z9l01ze; Clarified, 74@9c
MoLASsEs- Orleans, 81 to 4Oc.
SYRUP-40c to 81 90.
COFFEE-We quote Rio, IL to Ice; Java,
q to 32c.
SALT-Kanawha, 7 bushel bbls., 81 IS; by
the car load, 81 IS.
FLOUR-Superfine So so to 4 90; Extra,
81 % to 4 70; Choice or Fancy, SIS 90 to 80.
STAR CANDLES-I215 to 15c.
WHISKY-Common country, 81 00@l 20;
best brands Robertson county, 81 % to 90.
CHEESE-PIime factory, S@l0c.
RICE-Carolina, 6 TO Sc.
TIMOTHY SEED-Sl 40 to l 50.
CLOVER SEED-S4 10.
RED TOP-50 TO Csc.
BLUE GRASS-S0c.
ORCHARD GRASS-SI %.
SOAP-Bar, 46l7c.
OILlS-Coal oil, l5c; lard oil, 6Oe; lfnseed
oil, raw, zoe; boiled, 73c,
/ TURPENTINE-S Spirits, &c.
RARMISH-Copal, 81 90; Japan, SOC.
GLASS Window, sxlO, 81 % per box; 1Ox
PoWDER-Rifie, s. 90 per keg; lead, lOc
per ID.
Shots so tolls.
CAPS-40@50c per 1000
OYSTERS-l and 2 ID. cans, 7fc69i. 10
SARDINES-I3 to l5c.
MACKEREL-No. 3 per Dbl, So 90 to IS co.;
kits, Nos. l, 2 and 3, 81 90 to 60
BLACKING-35@l55c per dozen.
NAILS-S2 30.
IRON-Kentuclxy, 214c; Tennessee, 4c.
ROPE-l4@20c.
TRACES-S5 90 to II 90 per dozen.
COLLARS-S4 90 to lG 90 per dozen.
HAMEsS- 81 so to 10 90 per dozen.
AXES-S6 80 to 90 per dozen.
The following are the prices paid here at
this date for country produce:
BACON-Hog round, &C.
LARD-7c.
TALLOW-5c.
EANUTS-40@50c per bushel.
GINSENG-60c to 75c.
BEESWAX-20c.
FEATHERS-new, 30 to Zoe.
BEANS-White, 81 90.
PEAS-75c to 81 90.
P0RK-Gross, Sc; net, 4c.
EGGS-l0c per dozen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
Corbandale Items.

The corn crop is very fine, never
having suffered for rain in this
neighborhood. Mr.. U. ID. Tomlin-
son had roasting ears three weeks
ago.
There is some complaint of tobac-
co frenching. Not full crop set in
this section.
The free schools will be started
in this district soon. Hope they
can be continued some time.
The Sunday school at Tarsus, un-
der the management Of Mr.. U. d.
Tomlinson, the able superintendent,
is progressing finely. They expect
to have picnic some time in Aug
ust, and hope to secure Rev. j. r..
Plummer to deliver an address on
the occasion. Will inform you
when the time is definitely set.
Rev. G. II. Clover, a colored
preacher, having charge of circuit
near here, says that the only way
to stop the plague at Memphis, is
by fasting and prayer. Says the
people there need it, and if they
will fast and pray for three days, it
win stop the plague at once. His
family lives there and he sends
them provisions occasionally.
Ike Hamilton, colored, ferryman
at Palmyra, was accidentally
drowned on the 9th ult. by falling
from his canoe while running a
trOt-line.
The people do not seem to be
very much interested in the COM
promise question, and / do not eX-
pect a full vote will be polled in this
part of the county. j.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
ne VOTING NEXT THURSDAY.

Are our people awake to the inn
rtance of the question which they
j to determine next Thursday at
) polls? 1t has been well can
Sssed in this county at least; a
tiley and a House, a Smith and a
aneey, Lurton, Quarles and a
bmber of personal canvassers have
i some weeks brought the ques-
IN before the people in every point
view; both the papers printed in
is city have discussed it in season
nd out of season; for ourselves, we
ave now no more to add-we have
lhausted the subject so far as we
e able to discuss it. If our argu-
rents have anything in them, they
ave been all urged and must do
leir work for good or for evil, for
ne right or for the wrong, in those
Kinds which have considered them.
he day of argument is past with
s; those whom we have not con-
inced must remain unconvinced
Y us. But what we do desire to
npress upon our readers is that,
neither they take our view of the
uestiOn or not, they cannot neglect
citing on it without signal viola
ion of their duty as citizens. We
on understand person voting
gainst our position, which is that
acceptance; we cannot understand
he spirit which treats the question
S Of trivial importance, not worth
Journey to the voting place. The
lightest reflection must convince
our citizens that it is one of vast
Importance, a question of interest
lot simply to those who go into the
game of politics as they commence
4 game of cards, but a matter of
business to every man who has
property, to everyone who has a
business by which he can gain or
lose, to everyone, in short, whose
prosperity is identified with that
of the State. The man who fails to
vote on this question is blind TO his
own interest and honor as we'll as to
the interest and honor of the State
ne acts as unwisely as he would if
he were to remain inactive when
matters were in progress by which
he may make his fortune or become
bankrupt. 1t is not now
a question who shall be in Office
and who out; it is not a question
between Democrat, Republican or
Independent, between State credit
or low tax politicians; all these dis
tinctions have vanished before the
dominant weight of this question,
and all unite in urging upon voters
the one solution, as they deem it, of
the embarrassments which have so
long shackled the business activity
of the State.
What more can we say? Go to
the polls and vote the acceptance of
the compromise; but whether you
do that or not, go and vote. Don't
leave it to others to settle a matter
where your own business, your own
money, your own property, your
own sacred honor is at stake. After
next Thursday it will be too late.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

cfple. He does not urge his boat onward by
the powerful oar-strokes of his own arm,
a sail to catch every wind that blows. Yet
even the storm does not terTify him when
he discovers, by his always cool process of
calculation, that it will not presumably last
50 long but that he may consider himself
safe from al serious danger. For no objiAa
can he risk everything, for in the last anal3.-
sis he never cares for idea; always fH
himself and himself alone. Not what he
strOve for, but how he strove to attain his
end, gave 1t to him to leave behind him the
peasant inn-lSeepeF from the President Of
the United States. In place of the policy of
ends he puts the policy of means. He did
not climb to the height of the statesman,
but neither did he descend into the depths
Of real demagagism. From the very first to
the last he remained in that clafactefleSs
middle, in the shallow, stagnant water Of
trading politics.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
VAN buren,.

Van Buren,, on the other hand, reaching
only precisely the middle height, in blame
less toilet, his smooth snow-white shirt
bosom in complete harmony with his round
floe carefully shaved with the exception of
very decent side-ThislSers, his large double
chin finding pleasant support on his broad
black cravat; the only Characteristic folds
proceeding from his fleshy under-lip; a set
tied smile in which a studied, obliging man
ner, native good nature and shrewdneSs
have equal shares; in his bright-colored,
vivacious, twinkling eyes, the same quail
ties to be read; a round high forehead,
which appears higher still from the absence
of hair on the crown and bears evidence of
without, however, wearing
the stamp of the thinker; a friendly, we'll
meaning bourgeois, in whom the largest
and best part of simplicity and honesty are
scarcely much more than skin-deep, in OPP
position to which the diplomatic reserve is
more than a thin varniSh, laboriOusly ac-
Quired by the parvenu. His wide mouth is
certainly able in speech, but it is still better
skilled in the art of a silence conscious of its
object. The man understands how 10 walt
without manifesting the least Sign of impa-
thence, but he viii never walk away from
mark which he has once aimed at, and he
thinks himself good enough for the best.
Even if his temperament should not pre-
serve him from palpable misdeeds he would
never become guilty of them, because he is
wise enough to know that they would be
Irreparable mistakes. With happy facility
he reconciles himself to the most different
convictions and parts, and even TO those of
the man sure of himself and rooted in prin-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

How viii the colored people vote
on Thursday? This is no question
between Republican and Democrat ;
Pettibone and Butler, the two ablest
Republicans in East Tennessee, are
stumping for the compromise, and
the united colored vote will be Civ
en- for it in Giles county (see report
of the colored meeting in Pulaski,
in another column). The colored
men who vote against it Will alien
ate friends in the North, whether
Republican or Democrat,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

THE United States may be re-
garded as the greatest tobacco
growing country in the world. 1t
can be grown in every one of the
States. From the beginning in
Virginia, this country has now
reached a production Of four hun
dred million pounds, worth about
$50, 200, 900 in its manufactured
state. Fully fifty thousand persons
are employed in its manufacture,
earning $l4,000,000 in wages and
turning out product worth $72,-
100000. Tobacco ranks sixth on
the list of our exports, and last year
we sent abroad about $4,000, 600
worth. Germany is our best Gus
toner, but Great Britain follows
closely.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
Sale of Town Lot.

By virtue and authority of a mortgage to
us, executed by Henry and Celia Roberts, on
the 18th day of March, 1879, on Tuesday, the
I'd day of September, 1879, we will sell to the
highest bidder, for cash, on the public square
in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, the following premises
to-wit: A house and lot owned by the said
Roberts, in lannon's addition to the town
OF GAINESVILLE, bounded as follows Begin
ming at the Northwest corner, Bose Reve-
leys, on kellogg street, running north with
said street IS feet to Daniel Towns corner
thence east with his line lbs feet to an alley,
thence south 70 feet to Bose Reveley's COR
ner, thence west with his line lbs feet to the
beginning. Said sale for the purpose OF pay
ing debt due us from said Roberts, of $40
and interest. F. p. GRACEY & BRO
BY John J. West, Ag't and Atty.
aug 2-79-4w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National
Board has issued a circular on dis
infection. 1t advises thorough
scrubbing and moist cleansing, to be
followed by fumes of burning sui
phur at the rate of Is ounces per
1,000 cubic feet of space to be disin-
fected.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

BALLANFANr, who wants the
whele debt i,epudiated because of
the BrownloW bonds, admits that
he was privy to the issuance of those
bonds. Ballanfant is stumping the
State to get the 50-4 compromise
rejected.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
SEWERAGE-NO. ?.

This writer makes no pretensiOns
to being an engineer, and if he
dwells upon the many difficult
problems to be solved before an I'M
Objectionable system of sewerage
can be constructed, it is not for the
purpose of displaying his own
knowledge, but to establish the
position that this necessary appa-
ratus cannot be safely entrusted to
ans but a skilled engineer, and that
too to one specially skilled in this
department of engineering. We
shall be compelled to dwell eXclus-
lively upon two great principles, to be
kept in view, leaving the details of
their application to experts in the
mechanics of sewers.
The two leading desiderata, then,
are to convey as quickly as possible
all noXious refuse from our dwell
lings and their vicinity, and to take
due precautions against their pro-
ducing disease while IN t'dlsitu.
The former of these ought to in
clude both sub-soil drainage and do
nestle sewerage, though we shall
be compelled to limit all detailed
remarks to the latter of the two.
We cannot, however, entirely neg
lect the other. We will therefore
say the little that is indispensable
about it first. BY atb-SOH drainage
we mean the provision Tor carrying
Off the superfluous moisture of the
soil itself, and with it those noxious
principles with which in cities that
soil is always impregnated. BY
domestic sewerage, the conveying
from houses the filth which results
from the oflscOuring of laundries,
kitchens, water-closets, bathrooms,
etc.
sUB-SOIL DRAINAGE.
Every hOuse-keeper knows what
n damp house means and has a feel
ing sense of the many losses and
discOmforts entailed on those who
occupy one; but it Is not everyone
who knows the pernicious effects
upon health of such a dwelling.
We cannot here explain the D1OI,tS
operdRdi by which sub-soil damps
produce these effects, but will say in
general terms that no house is a
completely healthy one which is
not surrounded by n drain deeper
down than the lowest cellar in the
house, that drain being continued
TO some spot much lower than the
portion which surrounds the house.
But so far we have provided only
for the health of a single house. AS
we said last week of the sewerage,
unless the drainage can be carried
out of the town altogether, what is
done so far is only the transfer of
the evil TO other localities, where ii
will be concentrated, and therefore
aggravated. Hence a general out
let for both the sewerage and the
-sub-soil becomes essential, and it
may be added that the surface
washing which Mt present accumu-
Iates in low-lying districts like that
of the Mcdaniel pond should find
its outlet in the same way.
These subjects have been una
voIdabIy mentioned together be-
cause a portion Of the work required
could be made subservient to all
three. and indeed one job properly
conducted would do for the sub-soil
and surface drainage, with the small
additional provision OF openings
into the main drains from the SUI
perfieial CUTTERS which now imper-
fectlv drain our streets. Not that
the sewerage proper could be safely
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

IT is universally observed that
there was never known before such
a revolution in public sentiment as
is now, and has been going on for
weeks throughout the State in ia
vor of the 50-4 compromise.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

have saved her, but it was not
spoken. There was no instinct of
the beggar in her. She could die
when the last bite was eaten in ST.
lence. What sorrowful contrasts
she must have drawn between her
own life and the lives of other chill
dren at the school, where she sat
wrapped in her poor garments and
great pride. And size never uttered
a word that revealed her destitu-
ton. She was as patient, obedient
and industrious as anyone, though
she was starving. No wonder that
La Sale mourns over her, and. is
shocked at the awful fact that she
starved to death amid plenty! No
Drawer heart than that of this child
heroine will ever throb within its
borders. No wonder that mothers
wept over her emaciated body, and
upbraided themselves for their neg
lect of her; and that children gath
cred about her with hushed voices
and wondering faces. She was a
martyr to Il noble sentiment. Hun
dreds of homes would have been
open to her If they chad only
KNOWN An angel had dwelt
among them, and they knew it not.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

If the State debt is not settled
before the next Presidential election,
Tennessee will be given over a
helpless wreck into the hands of
the Radicals, and the stalwart Rad
icals at that and the only. possible
settlement is the 50-4 compromise.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

SWELL, you'll own she's got a
pretty foot, won't you ?'' eyes, I'll
grant you that, but then it never
made half as much impression on
me as the old mans 7"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
Sheriff's Sale of Real Estate.
Original Attachment.

State MISUNDERSTANDING Co.
Grange Warehouse Association VS.. Nathan
Ewing.
In this cause it appearing by affidavit that
the defendant is justly indebted to the
plaintiffs, and is n non president of the State,
so that the ordinary process of law cannot
be served ON him, and an original attach
ment having been levied on his property,
by punishment:
I6 is therefore ordered that publication be
made in the GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE, a news
paper published in the city OF G arksville,
for four consecutive weeks, commanding
the said Nathan Ewing to appear before
me, or some other acting Justice OF the
Peace for said county, at my office in ClarlIs-
Vile, in the 18th civil district of said county,
on the 30th day of August, 1879, aud make
defence to the said suit against him, or it
will be proceeded with ex parte.
s. A. CALDWELL,
]. p. for Montgomery county.
August 2, ls79-4t
MAGISTRATES Blanks for sale at
Chronicle office,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02

THE best plan to remove grease
from wallpaper is to lay several
folds of blotting paper on the spot,
and hold hot iron near it untn the
grease is absorbed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
Won Hoist ON JACKS ANL
VAN BUREN,.

1t at first sight seems strange that
foreigners have made the best COM
mentaries on the Constitutions and
political methods of the countries of
their sojourn. Thus for many years
the standard commentary on the
English Constitution was that of
De Llome, a French refugee, and
De Tocqueville on Democracy in
America, at the time it was pub
lished, (about forty years ago. was
the most searching and thoughtful
exponent of American ideas and
institutions which had been pro-
duced down to his time. On second
thoughts this is not surprising. A
man grows up taking for granted
the political methods of his own
country as settled principles not
needing exposition, but when
brought to the notice of methods
altogether different from those I'M
der which he was educated, his
powers of observation are stimu-
lated, his faculties of comparison
and discrimination are called into
activity, and that which to the ma
tive is a matter of course is to him
a problem of absorbing interest.
On this account it is subject for
congratulation that Prof. Won Hoist,
of the Fribourg University in Ger
many, has come to reside in the
United States and has devoted his
labors to an elucidation of the con-
stitutional history of the United
States. We have not seen his book
yet, and are far from anticipating a
concurrence in all its cOnclusiors,
but we give the two following ex-
tracts from a review of the book by
the New York World as specimens
of his description OF character They
are taken from his second volume,
and are given as characteristic
sketches of Jackson and Van Buren,:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
Ready-Made Clothing Extra Cheap.

These are real bargains and should fail to see them