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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
DiPhtherIa aad its caunes.
prooi<f,.,. III

! Dlphtheria has become epjfanin
NOT only IN Brooklyn but IN nthar
cities, and not only In cities but In
country places. II prevails nthe
United states, England AID Russia.
~ various localities and uuder con-
ul.ions which, in the very nature OF
Lhlngs, differ widely. In point af
iaet, the only elements that appesr
10 De constant are mankind ana the
eHects OF the disease. In this vie,v
oI the case, the acceptance OF n tbe-
ory which confines the origin m tha
disease 10 one source only must hn
errOneous. This one source NJ tha
medical opinion Is sewer pas. II Il
PROBABLE that recent DEVELOPMENTS
nave, IN a measure, changed this
Oeilei. lt Is obvious that III sewer
gas Is the only cause OF diphtheria.
then sewer gas must be present In
sufficient quantity in the Villages
ana towns of the United Sfafes
England and Russia. But IN n
country like Russia, where the non.
ulation is very sparse. and the hoilses
are a little better than huts. where
there IS not a foot Of sewer I'd the
mile, and therefore no sewer gas. II
y absurd to attribute the pestilence
70 that cause. Moreover, In Brook
lyn, New York and Chicago, which
are well-drained cities, the disease
has appeared in no special locality.
In our own city the houses of the
rich, which are severed, areinVaded
by the disorder equally with those
or the poor; high ground provides
no immunity, nor does low ground.
Thickness Of settlement and com
parative isolation offer no guarantee
OF safety. 1t may be cOntended that
the russian peasant is a very dirty
fellow, but what has he I'm common
with the American property owner
except liability to the disease
Surely the millionaire on theheights
is not dirty. According 70 the sewer
gas theory he suffers because the
poisonous vapor escapes into his
bedroom, but why are not All we'll
drained houses exposed, and why
are not all well-tO-du citizens at
tackled? The fact of the matter Is
that modern science Is at fault I'm
the analysis of disease. IL has re-
solved morbid conditions into vari-
Gus forms, zymotic, developmental.
constitutional and so on. It has
accepted germ theory for cholera
and for yellow fever, but witheut
being able to verify it. The COM
mission sent to Memphis TO capture
the yellow fever germ came back
without it. Indeed, whenever a
fact cannot be obtained, theory Is
always ready.
The only course left open to our
medical men seems to be to study
symptoms and treat them as well as
they can. There are different views
even of this subject. One regards
diphtheria as a local disorder. and
treats the throat another finds the
throat deposits but a symptom Of
constitutional disorder, and so on.
The virulence of the disease, how.
ever, one would think, should bring
together To combine
and contrast their experiences and
inferences. This would be far bet
ter than generaiizing upon imper-
feet data, no matter how pointedly
they appear to designate a principle.
AT all events, so far as diphtheria is
concerned, the truth seems to have
eluded all attempts to reach it, and
one theory after another has van
lshed in the presence of hard facts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
The way TO settle the Debt.
Nashville American.


1t begins to be apparent that the
best thing the legislature can do
with regard to the state debt will be
to procure from some Of the more
liberal minded creditors who can
take careful and calm survey of
the entire situation in this state a
proposition and come to an agree
ment and settlement, leaving the
terms open for certain time to all
others who may desire to avail them
selves of its provisions. With such
a settlement, made upon terms
which shall be strictly just in view
of all the circumstances, it will be
sustained by the entire people of the
state. 1t will be voted for with al
most unanimity, and this will be
a complete guarantee of future good
faith. The creditor knows that it is
not unreasonable that he shall bear
a part Of the burdens which have
fallen upon the estate from which
he is to be paid, while the debtor
ought to know that the creditor Is
entitled to have the prospect of pros
perity and renewed and increasing
wealth also taken into the account.
The first interest payments will be
burdensome, as all changes in reve-
nue. to a higher rate are. They will
be more easily borne after that.
They should be light at first. If
such a settlement can be made, with
small bonds to be negotiated at
home, the debt will son be held in
our own state, and with the reserved
right to take up the bonds in
short time, prompt payment of i'm
terest will very soon enable the state
to procure the lowest rate of interest
paid in the United States, or at
least rate a very little lower than
that on United States bonds.
Thus making u settlement and leav-
ing it voluntary with creditors
whether to accept or not we believe
they will accept it. If they chose,
however to differ with us and trust
to the future, they should and must
be left that option, with no declara-
tion affecting or attempting to affect
the validity Of their bonds.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
jan l so If

A LADY correspondent writes to
us regarding Elders Hall. She ac-
knowledges in handsome terms the
increased comfort arising from the
better warming of the building and
the carpeting OF the stage. She
complains, however, of the great
interruption TO the performance by
the noise made in seating spectators
after the entertainment has COM
menced. To obViate this requires
the concurrence of several parties.
The proprietors will have done their
part when they have matted the
floor of the hall and trained their
ushers to do their duty with a min
imum of noise, for which purpose,
by the bye, the ushers should be as
rarely changed as possible. Here
ends the duty of the proprietors
the rest depends upon the audience.
Why should people come late to en-
tertainments ? Performances very
seldom begin sooner than eight in
summertime and half-past seven in
winter, by which time people, if
they thought it worth while, could
easily be in their places. But apart
from this, most parties make great
deal more noise than is necessary in
getting to their seats; they walk
heavily and talk in a loud tone of
voice, without seeming at all aware
that they are destroying the enter
tainment of large number of peo-
pie. The same people, when once
they are seated, are most irritated |
by other people acting in the same
way.
When it is a concert which is GO
ing on, visitors should not be adj |
mitted while piece of music is in
progress, but required to stay in the
lobby till it is over. This would
give offence at first, before people
got used to it, but it would soon be
found that everybody is benefited
by it. Bnt the true remedy is for
people to come before the curtain
rises. 1t would not be bad idea,
for the ushers to be re-
quired to wear slippers and to sit
still when not required to be NOV
ing in the performance of their
duties.
Let everybody consider the pleas
ure of everybody else is the golden
rule for all such matters.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
IN Love WITH TWINS.

i We are in possession of large
pile of English magazines, dating
many years back. In CHANGING ovel
these we often meet with something
worth reprinting. The following,
from '.London Society" of January,
1868, is a specimen
Twin roses on one stem,
Twin cherries on one bough,
Twin rubies in one diadem--
perfect pair, vow.
/ / know not which is sweeter,
know not which is rarer
Aud If had to grapple
The question of the apple,
And f1aticigiOri detuT,
I'D not know which is fairer.
Sweet music and its echo sweet
A swan and its reflection
such is the pair of twins complete,
A duplicate perfection!
Was ever poor mortal
So troubled as | am
To Felicity's portal
| feel that nigh am,
And not very Shy am
But what can do
When cannot discover
OF which of the two
/ am truly the lover?
Then pity me, who
Am condemned fer my sins
To be deeply in love with the beautiful
twins.
There's Ethel, the fair,
With the rose in her hair,
| think she's the lov'lier-almost-of the
pair
Especially, too, when her sisters not there
But when Mauds in the way,
Well really can't say
For Maud has such eyes
For color and size,
And they've both neclxs and shoulders
That dazzle behOlderS,
And voices as sweet as the throstles in May.
Oh, blest is the fortunate fellow who wins
Either one of the beautiful, beautiful twins
To what can the poet distracted compare
These beauties so rare p
At loss for a figure am, l declared
They're the new double-barrel Dan Cupid is
armed with,
(His old bow and arrows no longer he's
charmed with
The prize double-bloom out of Beautys own
A charming two-voIume edition of Venus
All nature admires them The beasts and /
the birds
Find joy in their glances-delight in their |
words
And no fish so cold-blooded but twiddles his |
AS he drinks to the health of the beautiful
twins.
Oh, what shall do
To decide 'twixt the two?
For each is so neat,
So sweet and complete!
Oh, my course of true love has arrived at a
hitch,
For [ mustn't wed both, and can't decide
which
I've tried to decide
Which to take for my bride,
But my puzzling all ends in the way it be-
gins
At a loss what to do
For choice of the two,
| eXclaim to myself,
Poor unfortunate elf,
Since can't marry both-oh, why wasn't
Ttwins?''
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
A Handsome Vault.

Heraid-Enterprise, Russellville, Ky.
Mr.. Samuel Hodgson, the we'll
known monument manufacturer of
Clarksville, Tenn, was i'm RUSSELL
Vile on business last week. While
here he showed us the drawings for
very handsome vault he has con-
traeted to build for Mr.. Rand. III.
Caldwell. The walls OF the vault
will be built of white oOlitic lime
stone, from G. p. Burgers RUSSELL
vile quarry, the quoins, or corners,
of thestucturet to esmOOth-dressed,
and the rest pitch-face work with
margin draft. Two marble columns
will stand on each side of the en-
trance door, above which the name
Caldwell will appear in relief. The
floor of the vestibule will be made
of white aud black marble tiles.
Mr.. Hodgson has placed a good
deal of his work in the city ceme-
terry and other burial grounds about
town, some of our finest monuments
having come from his establish
meDt. His first work here was put
up In 1854 or 1856. Mr.. HOdgsOn
speaks very highly Of the RUSSELL
vile white limestone; he says IL is
the best he can get of the kind, and
that he uses ii in preference To any
other, because 1t Is stronger, for
bases. Whenever any of our friends
desire work in Mr.. Hodgson's line,'
whether a simple headstone or the
finest marble or granite monument,
they will do well to write to him
he keeps an advertisement regular
ly in this paper, so that they can
always obtain his address. He Is
prepared to ship to any part Of the
country. M
To the above notice we are able
to add of our own knowledge that
Mr.. Sam. Hodgson, jr., now makes
all the drawings for the designs
used in the establishment. With a
very little instruction SAM. would
make fine artist.--ED. CHRoN.
es---s---
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. %, 'SC
Godew,S Eadv,s EzooIx


We have just received Godey's
Lady's Book for January, 1881. As
usual it comes to us highly embel-
lished with the latest fashion plates
and choice reading matter. 1t has
adopted a new plan which we think
viii give great satisfaction to its
patrons: it will have "A complete
story in each number, so you will
not have to wait Il month to finish
reading a story which you are anxi-
Gus to see the end. We will furnish
the CHRONICLE and Godey's Lady's
book for $500 in advance.
TEXAS has doubled her popula-
tion since 1870.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

AN editor once said to a young
man who WAS abount to wed the
scissors and paste: "My friend,
you are about to become, / learn,
the editor of a newspaper. Permit
me as on old man to give you this
advice" "If you desire success in
that caparity, you should publish
one colIrnn fora sensible man and
two foY fool .~-Er.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

MIssoURI's population has been
increased 479, 900 within the past ten
years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
FRONs TEXAS.

EDITOR CHRONICLE: 1t would
be difficult for you to realize with
what peculiar interest we have Just
read communication in your pa
per of the 9th inst, headed "From
one of the boys" Whether we can
justly endorse ~the sentiments ex-
pressed in the publication we leave
the community to decide for itself.
But facts are facts, and one salient
fact which we would present to
your young readers is that the west,
and Texas, of itself, is a vast do
main, and its territory is so wide
and free that with proper effort they
can develop for themselves Il per-
manent and lasting prosperity in a
country whose greatness is already
established, and whose future is
bOundless. If it is true that the
young men are turning their faces
westward there must be some as
signable reason for it. And we must
not imagine for moment that be-
cause young man is Il young man,
with all the hardihood of ambition
and determination to succeed, that
he can sever all home ties, leave all
the dear faces and fond voices of his
earlier days without a heart-pang,
and cast his lot and future among
strangers. Life, we all agree, is a
fight, and the worthy must come to
the surface. If we can not have suf-
ficient inducements offered to us at
home, in business sense, we must
go where we can find the materials
with which we can secure to our
selves the garden of fsuccess.
The interests of new country are,
of necessity, go varied that the
special talents of every individual
are called into play, and if he can
not direct them with success in an
old community, when his efforts are
not appreciated, he at least can put
them forth where individual merit |
is appreciated, and where business
capacity is measured by the al
mighty dollar. Sometimes there are
old towns which grow old and older,
and never seem to realize the fact |
that native merit may be as high as
that which is imported without re-
Where this is true
has to suffer. Mathemati-
cal calculation will not have to lead
us far to reach the result. Young
men with the responsibilities of life
staring them in the face can no
longer live by floating along with
the tide, unless they can find at
home inducements to keep them
there, which are, at least, equal to
those offered to strangers, they must
pitch their efforts where cOmpensa-
ton is more liberal.
Sometimes there is a superauity
of native young men, and the surest
way to get rid of them is to refuse
to them living wages, and force
them upon a community where
there is more room for outsiders.
j.
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. %, 80.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18
Arkansas Items, and So Forth.

Arkansas Items, and So Forth.
Every circuit preacher should
own a maui and a monkey-wrench.
l brought my monkey-wrench from
Asbury with me, but left the maui
for Putnam, thinking | would find
plenty of maui timber in my new
charge. In this, however, i was
greatly disappointed, there not be-
ing a maui tree that / know of in
Douglass. / have just returned from
Arkansas, where such timber is
abundant, and brought a maui home
with me. Now Dock and Rush are
call right" and beech logs will be
converted into firewood without
much trouble. The maui was dressed
up in calico and red flannel, and
many were the erroneous guesses
along the route as to what it was.
Conductors and passengers looked
at it curiously and inquiringly, but
niUer q bit could they tell what it
was. might say a good deal about
mauls and mOnkey-wrenches, as
important furniture for a "circuit
rider" but will leave you to phil
osophize for yourself. Finis.
Eastern Arkansas still moves for
ward, and the evidences of increas-
ing prosperity are manifest. For
two consecutive years the cotton
crop has been above average, and
the prices very good. Merchants,
landowners, renters and labOrers
are on better terms than they have
been since the war. Formally, there
was almost universal distrust among
these classes, each regarding the
other as unworthy OF confidence.
In those days various enterprising
mortimer, who had suddenly
learned more of negro character
than was known to those who were
reared with them, came down to
try ''niggers, mules and cotton"
thinking that overwhelming for
tunes would be the inevitable and
immediate result of their farming
operations One gentleman from
Philadelphia took charge of a large
cotton plantation on st. Francis
river, with capital of 100000 in
cash to begin with. He hired a
of negroes, erected taste
full tenement houses, which he sup
piled with brass-bound cedar buck
cts, cocoanut dippers, duseing
et id Onane genus put up
steam gin and patent press; farIned !
two years, and, not having money
enough at the end of that time to
pay his way home, walked back.
And this was fair sample of how
carpet-baggers Jared in the
hands of "nigger5 and cotton"
some of the unreconstructed rebels
lad not the heart to weep owe. the
financial downfall of these unfedged
md conceited cotton-planters.
This country promised at one
ime to become the "saving clause'
If the Clarksville Female Academy,
,ut the yellow fever struck Mem
ohis just at the time. and broke in
Wo all the routes leading to Clarks-
lille. But for this / am satisfied
hat ere this the Arkansas patron
Ige would have been sufficient of
tself to have sustained the acade-
ny. The tide can yet be turned
hat way if the friends of the acade-
ny will do their full duty. So /
hink. A. Il. GOoDLoE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

THERE is perfect dearth of polit-
ical news. The only subject of spec
ulation is Garfie!d's cabinet and the
disposition of the rest of the spells.
The game of grab has now super
seded everything. Well! we are
well out Of it; we know well enough
that no fragment of patronage will
make its way down here, SO we are
minding our own affairs and taking
no stock in the general scramble.
Somebody will be bowling soon,
for it is certain that there is not
swag enough to go round.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

UNDER the laws Of the state of
Mississippi d legislator gets $400 for
the regular session and five dollars
per day and mileage for special ses-
siOns.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

ABRIHAM s. DITMAN, Washing
ton Hights, ILL.,, says: / have al
ways found a ready sale for A. s. IT.
Co. Tipped Shoes they take the
lead III children's shoes. and my
customers will have no Others.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-18

TEXAS has doubled her popula-
ton since 1870.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08
HUMOROUS.

On Fourth of July Eph took tea
box; upon its green sides he plastered
the papers of Chinese fire-crackers,
exploded Catharine wheels, played out
nigger-chasers, the blank cartridges OF
expended Roman candles. Great
knight was formidable looking
machine. Attached to a hole In the
corner was foot OF fuse. Eph, after
the construction, took his disbOlical
looking affair out on the Bowery, and
placed 1t on the car track. He then
stepped back and warned of the first
car. One man stopped; ten more
halted; one hundred came to a staRd-
still cars strung along for blocks !;
policemen arrived and beat back the
crowd people rushed up stairs in their
houses, and raised windows in view of
the coming conclusion. Once In a
while stage driver, more venture
some than his fellows, held his head on
one side, shut his eyes, opened his
mouth, trusted in Heaven, and lashed
his animals past the internal machine,
whose fuse burned slowly and surely
toward the dreadful engine of destruc-
ton. For blocks the avenue was
crowded. "Fall back" shrieked the
police with uplifred batons. 'A-O-w-w y
screamed the women, with fingers in
their ears. The multitude surged
backward as the glowing spark crept
up. A moment of awful suspense and
''ping" went a little fire-cracker In
side that big, hollow tea-box. And
Eph, bowlng to the immediate mour-
ners, as If to say "the performance Is
over" picked up the box, and, amid
the execrations of thousands, took him
self and his hoax out of sight.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08

Among the novel applications of elec-
tricty to the industrial arts is new stone
dressing apparatus, which is worked
by a dynamo-electric machine, and
which, the inventor claims, will dress
millstOnes or other stones and drill
rock economically, with rapidity, pre-
cision and dispatch. The chisel en-
plOyed Is fastened to a spring arm
which protrudes from case containing
magnets and armatures. This spring
arm, when the magnets are connected
with the dynamo electric machine,
moves up and down with extreme ra-
pldity, causing the chisel to strike a
blow at each descent. The inventor
states that it can be made to strike from
one to two thousand blows per minute.
Wires being used in place Of steam
pipes, enables the apparatus to be
moved readily to any angle or worked
at any reasonable distance without
much less of power; while not the
least mehtorious portion of the whole
invention is the hOrizotal frame or base
to which the electric apparatus is fixed.
This frame is portable. and by the use
of screws can be so adjusted as to cause
the chisel to strike any portion OF a
circle with either swift or a slow
motion, the number and intensity of
the blows being regulated according to
the softness or hardness of the stone.
By the use of this machine IL Is said
that a milestone can be covered in a
very short space of time with the ne
cessary grooves and burrows, ,havingthe
straightness, regularity and parallel
ism so much desired In good millstOne
dressing. The apparatus can be work
ed either autom atIcally or by hand, so
as 10 suit the varying natures of the
stone operated upon.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08

Starting with his theory that the en-
ergy of bar magnet acts along spiral
lines, DIR. Shettle surmises that the
energy proceeding from the sun and
striking the earth on the zone of the
ecliptic traverses the earth In spiral
path, and finally emerges at the mag
uetic poles. The spiral OF energy Is
"right-handed" at one pole and left
handed" at the other. like the magnetic
fLrce in magnet, and the electric dis
charge in CrOoke's vacuum tubes. Like
TO procession and mutation, he holds
that these spiral paths are constantly
;hInging and producing magnetic
variations, and he suspects that the
magnetic poles will complete a cycle
corresponding to the period of preces-
sion Altogether, spiral energy is made
TO play a most important part by DR..
Shertle. He holds that all bodies ex-
hibit magnetic properties just in the
degree that they are capable of chang
ing the energy trayersing them into
the spiral form. The solar radius on
his hypothesis would not only be the
cause of terrestrial magnetism, but OF
gravity itself, as well as host of other
phenomena, such as those of electricity
AID those attending tornadoes, cy-
clones, water spOuts, etc. The doctor
by no means intends to eoniEe his
theory 10 the earth, but makes its
operation universal.