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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06
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Diphtheria, which for several
years has made great ravages in
Russia, seems to be gaining more
and more ground. "The disease, /"
says the NovOe Vremya, "has at
tanned such frightful proportion in
some regions that the percentage OF
mortality far exceeds that of births.
In the small district of Mirgorod,
where the epidemic has been raging
since 1875, there were Ala deaths
from the disease. In 1867 there
were l 300 deaths.
In Odessa, since May last, diph-
iberia snatched away 76 per cent.
of the children, and in Stavropol in
the course of four months one-half
the infant population fell victims to
the disease. In KishenOf and in
the vicinity of Kief and Poltava
the epidemic has been raging for
the last two years without Interrupt
tiOn. In the village of Kaploon-
Okla, in the government Of Khar-
koff, fifty children died in two
weeks. In the hamlet of NakOmokO
more than two hundred children
have been carried away by the dis
ease since January last, in addition
to large number Of adults. In the
village of TamOrofka not a child
has escaped the epidemic. MariOpol
district showed an average daily
death-roll of ten"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06
ALereI ruenned Negro.

Fred. Douglas, Jr., remarked The
other day that the negro exodus
was "an attempt to stop up one hole
by boring another" lie, like his
father, warns negroes that the story
of homes and employment In the
North is all a delusion. "If," he
said, "there is SO much milk and
honey in the North and West in the
way of employment, how can you
account for so many Northern coll
ored people seeking homes in the
District Of Columbia and the South?
/ am a printer by trade, and never
worked in any Office outside the one
owned by my father up North in
my life; the Republican offices were
always full when knocked at their
doors seeking employment"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06
Things not To Bc Forgotten.
Cincinnati Enquirer

Grant Is the man who wiped out
local nuthority; who planted can
non around the State House at New
Orleans to enforce the Federal
power; who stationed United States
troops in the capitol az Columbia mt
the assembling of the Legislature.
aud stationed Deputy Marjhsl at
every voting place; who called an
army to Washington 20 see that
Hayes was seated III the Presiden-
tial chair. lie il was who. ns the
representative Of centralized Gov
ernment, was ready 10 ride rough
shOd over all State Governments.
These things will not be forgotten
by the South. Instead Of giving
Grant strength they will take Il
from him, for the white race is DOM
inant, and viii be I'm the south for
years to come. The North Is the
section TO which Grants friends
must look for support, and upon IL
alone can they rely on his nOmina-
fiOn
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06

air go pure that great many rict
New Workers have built elegant
houses there and keep them in good
style. One of the editors of the
New York Sun has a lovely home
out there. Several literary people
also have summer residences, stay.
ing in New York in the winter
season. Here and there, dotting
the hillsides or nesting in the val
leys, are the little Dutch houses,
and the women and children, in
queer-stuff gowns, patter to and
fro in busy occupation the live-long
day. saw some Dutch farmers in
broad hats and long-tailed coats, in
manner as stoical as the carved fig
ures over their own doorways.
They are very industrious, though,
and look well to the making and
saving of The pennies. Hence some
of them are quite rich. Just think
of it! Living as near as they do to
New York, some of them have
never seen this great city, nor have
a desire to do so. They go upon the
principle of eating, drinking and
keeping in their own confines; are
happy, prosperous and honest
people universally respected and
liked? Each one follows in the
footsteps of his forefathers, allowing
no modern invention to creep into
his household and perfectly con-
tented to let the wo.l Id go by with
out a thought of the rush and whirl
of its pleasure SO long as they don't
come near enough to disturb the
even tenor of his way. They inter-
marry so that the property. may be
from father to son.
Woe to the luckless swain of alien
blood who falls in love with a
Dutch girl, for 70 matter
how dearly he may love her or the
shining dollars of her father, he can
never hope to obtain either while |
that same stern parent is around.
These people adore Jefferson; they
are proud of the beauty of his face,
lit up by the glorious eyes so bright
and large, and the firm contour of
MS mouth. His hands, too, are
exquisite; white and shapely, with
ong, slender fingers and transparent /
nails. AS to the New Workers, they
nave the strongest antipathy for
hem all, saying that the city people
ire entirely too "high-toned" to-
nix or be friendly with them, and
consequently there is a marked
,oIdness in their demeanor towards
hem.
Their vehicles are Of the qualntest
lind, being a hitch between mar
Iet cart and carriage, generally
lrawn by fat old horse as Dutchy
IS his master; and sometimes this
is filled with maldens
nd youths on high frolic-very
much elated with each other and
themselves. Once year they have
grand feast, to which all the old
men, maidens, swains and
hildren in the whole village come,
nd ancient games are played by
'oung and old, songs sung, stories
old, and adoring Hans breathe
Dutch love into the eager ears of
Kathrinas. They then
AVE funny dance, and break up
n the evening well pleased with
heir long day of rest and joy.
EVA WILLIAMS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06
BorH the North and south make

BOTH the North and South make
a mistake when they advance men
to legislative or executive positions
simply because they were good
fighters in the battles Of the rebel
lion. The issues of to-day are those
of peace, not those Of war, and the
war era is-hehind US. War itself Is
only an instrument Of peace, and the
war men are merely those who cease
to be useful when the labOrs of peace
are resumed. For our public men,
therefore, we need prospective not
retrospective men. We are not at
the end but at the beginning Of an
important era and that era may be
defined as one Of material prosperity
and governmental reforms. - Pr0Ui-
dence Press (Lld.), NoUem5er 25.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-06

Chief Justice Waite has granted a
writ Of error TO the Supreme Court
Of Appeals Of Virginia in the case
Of John q. Finsley, colored, against
the Commonwealth Of Virginia, in
volving the eonstitutiOnality Of the
statute Gf that State which prohibits
marriage between whlteand colored
persons. Finsley, the plaintiff in
error, cameto the District OF Ctilum-
bia about a year ago aud married "a
white woman. Upon his return 20
Virginia he was arrested and tried
for the Offense, found guilty and
sentenced 20 the penitentiary,
where, pending this appeal, he re-
mains. The persons interested in
the final settlement of the question
Of the constitutionality Of the Stste
law prohibiting intermarriage OF tho
races have brought the case 70 this
court for It's decision.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
the cream is in the churn ready for

the cream is in the churn ready for
churning.
MANY farmers labor for years ignorant
OF the fact that close well set sod is
the foundation of good farming and the
basis of good crops. Soil that will pro-
duce an immediate and firm set of grass
will bring a good crop of any kind.
There is no better way to test the pro-
ducing capacity of soil then by it's grass
production. If field yields a scant
grass crop, and is uneven or full of bar
rem spots, it will not be safe to depend
on such soil for any other crop without
extra heavy manuring, and even the
crop is not of so great certainty as if the
ground was covered with firm sod at
blowing time. There is something in a
heavy soil that will perfect crop even
in an unfavorable season. Inever have
failed of good crop on such land.
Soil will soon be renovated after partial
deterio1 alton, if grass can be densely set
on the surface; and this mode of reno
walton, claim, is the quickest, surest
and cheapest of any. There never was q
mistake made so full of loss to the farm.
ers as to allow naturally good soil to de-
teriorate at all, and when the farmers
understand and act on this principle our
productions will never fall below an
average, or even to this point. Isl.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
Going A-Nutt1ng.

Golden October, with it's mellow sun
shine-it has been very mellow during
the past week-its crispy frosts, the dewy
delicious mornings, and the hazy, dreamy
afternoons bring back recollections of
youth. If that " springtime" was passed
in the country, the autumn brings mem
cries Of chasing the squirrels from the
corn-felds and the hickories, of gather
ing ferns and bright-colored leaves with
the girls, of fishing and cunning, and
best of all, "going a.nutting.'. The boy
who never gotta lickin' for tearing
his trousers on the ugly shag- bark;; !"
who has never sat under the beeches and
crunched the triangular little nuts that
the wild turkeys love so well; who has
never been frightened half to death by
the farmer whose young walnuts ne was
clubbing and stoning, who has never
worn his hands in mahogany for weeks
after walnut shuck;;" who never
pounded his thumb to a jelly in his
efforts to crack butternut on end; who
does not know soft-shelled hickory
from a bitternut, is to be pitied. For if
he has grown to mans estate, whatever
that may be, he has gone by days that
will never return; he has missed an ex-
perience that can never be obliterated
from the memory of the genuine country
bOy.-Detr0it Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
European Tramps.

Wandering bands of gypsies are still
found in parts Of Europe, and even in so
well settled and strictly governed a
country as Germany. They travel with
their women, children, houses and bag
gage, and are sometimes numerous and
strong enough to overawe the farmers,
and even bid defiance to the village con-
stabulary. Nominally they are in Ger
many accorded permission to stop for a
limited time in the neighborhood of the
hamlets which they meet on their cratic
course, but in reality they often stop as
long as they please, with or without per-
mission, while their horses Craze on the
farm lands, and game and poultry mys-
teriously disappear from the vicinity.
A newspaper correspondent, writing
from Kostheim, near Mayence, gives an
amusing account of the audacity of q
band of these European tramps who en-
camped near that place, made havoc
with the adjacent crops and fields, defed
the messengers of the burgomaster and
did not move until the military reserve
of the village had been called out, even
then not retreating without making a
show of battle and evidently giving way
only to superior force.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
Josh B1lllngs on Marriage.

Sum marry because they think vim
min will be scarce next year, and live to
wonder how the crop holds out.
Sum marry to get rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one that
two could play at and neither win.
Sum marry for love without..a cent in
their pocket, nor friend in the world,
nor a drop of pedigree. This looks des-
perate, butt it is the strength of the game.
Sum marry in haste and then sit down
and think it carefully over.
Sum think it carefully over fust and
then sit down and marry.
No man kin tell exactly where he will
fetch up when he touches calico.
No man kin tell exactly. what calico
has made up her mind to dew. Calico
don't know herself. Dry goods of all
kinds is the child of circumstances.
Marriage is safe way to gamble; if
you win, you win pile, and if you
loose, you don't loose anything.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15

window into the low light of the rising
moon, the rich strain of the tenor SEEM
ing to roll upon the dusk sweet as fra
GRANGE from flower.
Rosamond fingered to loosen her dress
from Miss Effingham's chair which de-
tanned it. Miss ,Efngham was crying
softly to herself. "Ah, see," she MUIR
INJURED, working the knobby fingers in
the lace mittens, and forgetting whose
contemporary she was" see how selfish
age is! She remembers all her own part
in it; she forgets mine. For I also-it
is so long ago-I loved Paul."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
a Valuable Stone.

At Old Lyme, Conn, on the estate of
the Hon. Charles J. McCurdy, there is
deposit of Labradorine felpspar, or
carnelian granite, sufficient for not only
for building the most enduring mansions
and costly edifces, but for erecting mon
uments in the presence of which ordin-
airy monuments appear as shadows re-
fected from a polished mirror. This
stone has already received choice prem
ium medals from the American Centen-
NAL and also from the late Paris Expo
sition, and as business revives it bids fair
to become an important industry and
source of national wealth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
A Female CObbler.

A southern girl, who has seen better
days as a member of one of the first
families of Virginia, is now earning her
living by plying an awl at the shoe.
makers bench in Petersburg. She served
an apprenticeship of four years, and, it
is said, can turn out as good shoe as
any man in the business who has not had
more experience. She is now thinking
of manufacturing shoes on her own &C
count, and if she can find suitable one,
she may be induced to accept a male
partner, provided he will agree not to
make love to her and offer to dissolve
the mercantile partnership and go into
a domestic one.-Georssa Pepper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
He Suspected Everybody.

Some said he was naturally suspicious.
This was partly true. But others say
that in early life some unfortunate
affairs had an unhappy effect on his
moods and tempers. If felony was
committed in his neighborhood, and
there hung mystery over the question
OF the perpetrator, our hero looked wise,
and seemed to hint that he knew the man.
In this way he once came to be seriously
suspected of being an accessory after the
fact. But he was wholly innocent.
One day he was walking down the
street and saw some men talking and
laughing. Occasionally they looked up
the street. By the time he reached the
group his face was very red. He looked
vexed. He supposed their laughter was
in some way at his expense. Fortunate
ly, he paused long enough to find that
they were making merry over the sayings
and doings of q political meeting of their
own party.
One lent him book which had been
read with care, and several passages were
marked with pencil. He supposed the
owner of the book intended to hurt his
feelings by calling special attention to
certain clauses, ana yet 1t was tact that
the owner did not know that there was
q pencil mark on any page.
In fact, our friend often suspected
same evil intention in the kindest acts
of his best friends. A strange minister
once delineated in the pulpit the char
acter Of litigous man. Our friend
went home silent, if not surly, and com.
planned of personalities in the pulpit.
His children caught his spirit. At
school he often considered themselves
sighted. Thus family feuds were en-
gendered.
Of course he was unhappy-miserable.
The signs of his conscious wretchedness
were infallible. ALI this was quite un
necessary. He was his own tormentor
If he would read this paper, he woul d
say: "The author of that piece misun-
derstood me. Why willno people mind
their own business, and let others alone?''
He has no enemy who does him as much
disservice, or inficts on him as much
pain as he brings on himself. If his
nervous system were shattered, one
would make many excuses for him
But he seems to have fine health, and
certainly he eats rs much as is good fol
him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
Wednesday, October Is, 1879.
ETATE XIX.

AVAVE XIX.
Nineteen! of years : pleasant lumber;
And it were well
If on his post old Time would slumber
For Isabel
If he would leave her, fair and girlish,
Untouched by him,
Forgetting once his fashions churlish,
Just for within!
But no. not he; ashore, aboard ship,
Sleep we or wake,
He lays aside his right OF lordship
For no mans sake; .....
But all untiring, grds his loins up
For great and small
And, as miser sums his coins up,
Still counts us all.
AS jealous as nine-days' lover,
He will not spare,
Spite of the wealth his presses cover,
One silver hair;
Bat writes his wrinkles far and near in
Ltfe's every page,
With ink invisible, made clear IN
The fire of age.
Child while the treacherous fame yet shines not
On thy smooth brow, .-.-.-..-.--
Where even Envy's eye divines not
That writing now.
In this brief homily read you .-..-.-.......
There should be found
Some wholesome moral, that mightlea you
1U 1OOk
And think how swift, sunlight passes
Into the shade, &c.. ..-.--- .......-. ...
The pretty pct ure in your glass is --s.r
Foredoomed to fade. ....-......
But, faith, the birthday genius quarrels .,
With moral rhyme, - .........
And I was never good at morals
Atany time. ,-s--..
While with i'll omens to alarm you
'Twere vain to try;
To show how little mine should harm you.
Your mothers by!
And what can Time hurt me, pray with
II he insures
Such friends to laugh regrets away with
AS you-and yours? ~.
The University Ma qasine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
SHE ONLY SAID COOLEY.
SARAH M. B. PIATT .

This is a world where the wild swans fly.
This is world where the thorn hangs on
When the rose it's time is gone, is gone,
Good-by-good- by-good
Good-by, If it please you, sir-good-by.
You are here and away-I care Bot why
This is a world where a man has his will.
A world where woman had best be still,
Good-by-good- by-good-by.
Good-by, if it please you. sir-good-by.
This is world where-we see the sky;
After while the stars will fall,
And the end will-make an end of it all
-by-good- by-good-by.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
USEFUL FAMILY HINTS.
SHIRRED EGGS.

Butter neat baking dish, and break
six eggs into it; place in a hot oven and
when the eggs are we'll set, season with
salt, pepper and little butter and
serve Immediately. It is better to have
the smallest size of baking dishes, and
placing two eggs in each, serve them in
dividually. The eggs should be quite
soft in the center when taken from the
oven. and stirred together before eatinp.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15
Berlin Letter.
Irregular Correspondent
Berlin, Sept. 10Th,

Irregular Correspondent -,.--
Berlin, Sept. 10Th, 1879.
The undignifed squabble now go,
ing on between the Russian and Ger
man press is attracting a good deal
more notice than in reality deserves.
It is merely the consequence of an
essential personal animosity Of long
standing between Prince Bismark
and Prince Gortschakof, and, to
fghti it out, they have resorted to
the only weapons they had at their
disposal for the purpose. Prince
Bismark wishes to force the dismiss
al of Prince Gortshakoff upon the
Gar, and the latter knows it. It
was shortly after the Congress, when
the Russian Chancellor discovered
that Prince Bismark was patroniz-
ing Count Schowaloff, for the osten:
sible purpose of securing for him
the succession to the Chancellor.
ship, that Prince Gortschakof made
the first attack against the enemy.
Then came -Bismarks slashing re-
tort in the Gyenzboten. He taxed
Russia with .ingratitude, knowing
that to be the coyde sensible with
every true Russian. He drew up the
balance of obligations between Rus.
STA and Germany, revealing a good
deal that was not known, and that
did equally little credit to both par.
ties concerned. In the mutual re-
elimination that has been much
that could possibly interest outsiders
who were unacquainted with the
true nature Of the quarrel. Prince
Gortschakoff's utterances at Baden
the other day served to revive hos
tilities, which were beginning to
flag; but the fact that the Russian.
Chancellor is practically e.. yetraite
divests everything he said of the
grave significance it would other
wise have involved. Whether Prince
Gortschakoff sympathises with
France or not must be matter of
comparative indifference to Prince
Bismark,, who knows better than
anybody how much influence his
Highness posesses''at the presnet MO.
ment in the councils Of the Car.
The strong and deep.rooted hatred
with which these two statesmen are
animated towards each other cannot
affect the political relations between
Russia and Germany beyond a GER.
tain extent. It has perhaps given
rise to a momentary GOODNESS, but
nothing more. If Count Schouval-
off were to replace Prince Gortscha-
kof tomorrow there would be an.
end Of it, and we should soon see
the two Powers OH the most cordial.
terms. In'the present state Of things
Prince Bismark does not command
that predominating influence at st.
Petersburg which he would have sc
Count Schouyalof were to be ap-.
pointed Chancellor of the Empire.
M de Giers is not Bismarkian.
neither are N. NJ Hamburger and
del omini. Then there is The pos.
sibility Of Prince G tschako ff's be..
ing called upon at d critical oment.
to resume the directii lion Of affairs.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15


Yesterday was the anniversary of
the great fire at Chicago which,
eight years ago, destroyed two mil
hon dollars worth Of property. It
was an event long to be remembered
the greatest fire that has occurred
since the world began. Commence
ing on the night Of the 9TH of Co.
tober, it burned a strip mile wide
and seven miles long, destroying all
the business part Of the city and
many thousands Of residences.
Though Chicago has recovered from
The disaster the recollection of it
will never pass from the memory Of
her citizens.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15

and however remote that posi- ility
may be, yet as long as Prince Gort.
remains titulary Of the post,
it will continue to exist. Such is
briefly and, as it IS understood here,
she true character Of the Russo Ger
man newspaper war.