Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-02-07
News items.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is a poor
man, yet he gave 500 to the Irish
relief fund.
During the next thirty days
thirteen iron furnaces Will be put IN |
operation in the vicinity of Rome,
Ga.
The excess of American exports |
over imports for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1879, was $251 ,35O,477.
The Pearl river oil mills at Jack
son, Miss, consume 200 sacks OF
cotton seed daily, and produce fif-
teen barrels of oil.
The Kentucky Legislature has
passed an act allowing Judge Eli
otis wife one years salary, in regu-
lar instalments of 81 900.
The Kentucky Senate has passed
bill fixing $3.50 as the lowest
amount on which an appeal can be
taken to the Supreme Court. The
amount now fixed by law is $50.
The Supreme Court in session in
Nashville last. week decided that
the Mayor of a municipal corpora
ton is not bound to collect the State
tax from defendants fined for vio-
lation of corporation ordinances.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee
has decided that all judgments or
DEGREES not satisfied, or new suits
brought on same within ten years
from rendition, are barred from en-
forcement.
VIM. A. Knight, recently elected
| Trustee of Davidson county, Tenn,
has rendered his resignation, from
the fact that the County Judge re-
fuses the acceptance of any official
bond he may offer unless at the end
of compulsory litigation.
Nashville American: During
the past term of the Chancery Court
judgments have been taken against
property owners i'm this county for
State, county and city taxes, due
and unpaid, amounting to about
100000.
New Orleans Democrat: With
in the last two weeks the arrivals of
mules here have been quite remarka-
BILE, and notably yesterday. when
ten car loads arrived by the Jackson
road. This importation is account
ed for by the fact that the planters
have made good crops and desire a
little more stock for the coming sea-
son.
| Nashville American: Theamount
of money invested in steam
boats running in the Nashville
trade, from 1918 to 1916, was over
| $4,000 Now the investments in
steamboats, can be counted only by
the thousands, instead of by mil
lions, the railroads having, to
very large extent, absorbed the
commercial business of not only
Nashville, but the entire country.
A poor stranger died in the gen.
tlemen's sitting room Of the l.. & n {.
depot, at this place, on Monday 3lst
ult. He appeared to be about forty
years old, had brown hair, blue eyes
and light, curly mustache; was
about five feet, six inches high
Guthrie Gazette.
Athens Post: The municipal
charter of Athens ceased to exist on
the 1st instant. The property be-
longing to the corporation was sold
to the highest bidder. The corpo-
ration is in debt few hundred dol
lars, with unpaid taxes to more
than cover the amount stated, so
that a receiver will have to be ap-
pointed to settle up the business.
The Argus says the physicians of
Humboldt, in order to protect them
selves, have adopted the "black
list" system. Persons who get their
names on this list will not receive
medical aid from any M. ID. in town,
unless remunerated in advance.
They are going to have printed no.
tees to this effect circulated through
out the country.
The Republicans of Massac coun-
ty, Ills, have an eye-sore in the
shape of a colored candidate for
Circuit Clerk, They have pretend
ed to love the negro ever so much,
you know; but now that one as
pires for Office they stick up their
noses-that is, they can't swallow
him. 1t would seem from this that
the negroes as voters are very ham
dy for the Republicans, but as office
holders they are n. e., which, being
interpreted, meaneth no good.