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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
Lost His Temper Bat Found For
tune.
Boston post.


A few years ago, a young man
named John Peck secured situa-
tion as conductor on the Metropolit-
an railway, Boston, and it chanced
that during the first days of his SER
vice his car was several times
thrown from the track by rails be-
coming misplaced. ts
One day the end of the rail flew
up and became fast in the car track.
He lifted and pushed, and lost his
temper in the effort to get the car on
the track and the rail in place again,
and at night was so disgusted with
his work that he threw up.his situa-
tion. But his experience set him TO
thinking, and in few days he call
ed on an officer of the road and said
that he could make ''chair" that
would hold the rails firmly together
at the joints.
The officer laughed at his con-
fident assertions, and told him that
he had heard similar stories dozen
of times. But the ex-conductOr ex-
hibited his model and drawings,
which appeared so promising that
he was told to go ahead and make
a trial. The result was a complete
success.
To-day, Jno Peck's patent railway
chair, for which he secured his first
patent in 1872, his second in 1876,
and his third and last in 1881, is
used by all the street railways in
Boston and by many OF the great
steam railways of the United States.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
How Tney See the South.

Few things in this life are so de-
lightful as the charming way in
which the average ''staff correspon-
dent" discourses of 1.-THE South, F"
when the line of his travels happen
that way. A week or two, or at
most a month, of hasty fitting
across several Southern States by
rail, with more or less frequent
stops in the larger towns ne comes
to, seems to qualify him abundant
ly to explain the entire Southern
situation in all its phases and de-
velopments. What he does not
then know about the South is not
worth knowing. Every aspect of
the problem has become intelligi-
BILE to him-political, industrial,
social, domestic, educational and
religious. With an ease which
might be characterized as tiippan-
cy, we're it not the result of a COM
plete familiarity with the subject,
he dilates instructively upon each
branch of it in turn. His talk
sounds just a little oracular some
times, but this is the privilege of
him who has mastered wisdom by
deIigent and prolonged investigsi-
ton. His bright and receptive
mind has taken in during a flying
journey, covering perhaps couple
of fortnights, more than the ordina-
ry slow-going observer has discov-
cred in solourn of a dozen times
that number of years. His infor-
nation is marvellous in its variety
and extent, and the philosophical
reflections and deductions with
which he favors his readers are
more wonderful even than his facts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

Postmaster-Gene James II adj
dopting some very stringent rules
and regulations governing the pos
tai service. He has ordered that
supplements" 10 newspapers must
contain "home news" reading mat
ter, and must be headed by the
name Of the paper, number and
date. The department has been
outrageously swindled by the "sup-
plement" dodge, anC we OCCASION
ally receive papers with hand-bills
folded in them, although the depart
ment ruled them out years ago, and
fixed the penalty at So for each hand
bill so sent. Mr.. James is working
number of much needed reforms
in the postal service, aside from
wiping out the infamous "siar
route" thieves Chattanooga ColH-
nlercidI.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

The longest dream lasts less thar
three minutes. A man fell asleeE
as the clock tolled the first stroke O
twelve. He awakened ere the echo
of the twelfth stroke had died away
having in the interval dreamed that
he committed a crime, was detected
after five years, tried and con-
demned. The shock of finding the
halter about his neck, aroused him
to consciousness, when he discover
ed that all these events had hap
pened in an infinitestimal fragment
OF time.
Mohamed, wishing to illustrate
the wonders uf sleep, told how a GER
tain man, being shlek, found him.
self for his pride, made a poor fish
erman, that he lived as one for SIXTY
years bringing up a family and
working hard and unnn walking up
from this long dream, so short Il
time had he been asleep that the
narrow necked gourd bottle filled
with water-which he knew he
overturned as he fell asleep-had
not had time in which to empty it.
self.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

I.oulsville. Commercial

The prodigious work of regrowth
and improvemint that is going on
i'm the South is forcibly shown by
an uncontradlcted statement that
there has been subscribed in the
North and in Europe in the past
eighteen months one hundred mil
lions or dollars for investment in
the South! or course the big per-
centage of this sum Is for the pur-
chase and building of railroad lines,
but there have been marked invest
ments in cotton manufacturing en-
terprises, in development Of coal
and iron mines, in erection OF fur
naces, and in schemes like those in
progress In Florida for the reclama-
tion of waste lands. Capital IL abun-
dant lit is seeking outlets and 1t Is
going southwards.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13


THE Democratic members of the
New York Legislature say, in their
recent address to the people of the
state:
"The State of New York, with it's
5,000,00 ofpeople, has been deep
ly wronged and disgraced both by
the Republican Senator'S action in
Washington and by the action of
the Republican party in power at
Albany. In the one place the
Chief Magistrate Of the Govern
ment, for daring to put in practice
the principles of Executive right
and authority in the choice of a
public officer, nearly lost his life.
This sad and terrible crime came
not alone through the personal
madness of a single man, but from
that personal fanaticism which was
and is the fruit of greed for pub
lie Office and of a false and danger
Gus political education. Now, if
ever, is the time to teach all men
that public Office is the property of
the people, and that places of Off
cial trust can only be rightfully dis
tributed to men of noble purposes,
of pure lives, of wide experience
and of unqualified fitness for the
work to be performed. Phe Demo-
cratic party of the state desire to
inculcate and enforce the doctrine
with which the Democratic party
came into existence, as when Mr..
Jefferson declared that the only
Qualification for Office rested upon
the wise, safe and patriotic platform
of personal capability, personal
honesty and personal fidelity to the
Constitution.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
The DrOuth im Summer
Gallatin Examiner.

We have made much inquiry in
regard to the condition of the corn
in this county, and have the fol-
lowing conclusions
The greatest damage to the corn
crop is between the river and the
ridge. The west portion of the
country from Gallatin to Mansker's
creek has suffered the most, and it
is almost past the saving power OF
rain. The damage is less east of Gal
latin, and between the Hartsville
pike and the river. While north OF
the same pike to the ridge It has
Jared better. From Gallatin to
Coatstown, on the Scottville pike,
the prospect is fair for a considera-
Bile yield, if early rain should come.
On the north of the ridge and west
If the l.. & N. railroad the damage
Is very great, while east of the
same line the corn looks well. To
summarize, west Of Gallatin there
will be but little corn, while east OF
the same line, draw north and
south, the prospects are good.
And now we have piece OF ad-
vice to give to our farmers. Save
all your wheat straw for the COM
ing winter. Chopped up, with lit
tie bran upon it, it will carry your
stock through the winter, and keep
them fat without a grain OF corn.
The whole county Is supplied with
straw, and if you let that spoil IL
will be your own fault.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
Yennor FOR August.

Mr.. Vennor, the Canadian wealth
er prophet, makes the following pre-
dictions for August: August, in
striking contrast to the same month
in 1880, looks decidedly moist, and
will probably resemble that of 1877
in Canada and the United State2
The mouth will enter warm but
cooler and rather unreasonable
weather may occur ou the 4th and
5th, after which sultry and stormy
weather will again set in. Thunder
and lightning and hail storms are
likely to cause considerable damage
over widespread areas, both in Can-
ada and the United States, especial
ly in western sections, and the
month again promises to resemble
that of the year 1877"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

Young men often fail in the
world because they neglect small
opportunities. Not being faithful
in little things, they are not pros
NOTED to the charge of greater
things. A young man who gets a
subordinate situation sometimes
thinks it not necessary for him to
give much attention. He will
wait till he gets a place of response
bility, and then he will show peo-
pie what he can do. This is a very
great mistake. Whatever his stu
alton may be, he should master it
in all its duties faithfully. The
habit of doing his work thoroughly
and conscientiOusly is what is most
likely to enable a young man to
make his way. With this habit,
a person OF only ordinary abilities
would outstrip one of greater tai
ents who is in the habit of sighting
subordinate matters, But, after
all, the adoption by young man
,,f this great essential rule of sue
cess shows him to be possessed of
superior abilities.-Ec.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
virtues of Democratic MIX.


1t will be remembered that when
Garfield went to Washington, and
it was announced that he would
keep COW, the iSt0a advised him to
do so, and by all means to buy a
Democrat COW. We never knew
how the advice turned out, whether
he bought a COW of a Democrat or
not, until he began to recover from
the assassin's wound, but when we
saw in a paper that the President
was drinking milk with a dash OF
rum in it, we know that the well
meant advice had been needed.
There are few cows in the country
that give milk with a dash of rum
in it, and those few are generally
owned by Democrats. We know
that the milk from that Democratic
COW, with the dash of rum, saved
the life of Garfield, and we don't
care what the Temperance Societies
say about it. Doctors are all right
in their place, feeling around for
bullets, and talking Iearnedly about
peritonitis and perforated liver, but
Democratic milk is what touches
the spot.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
Unhappy Marriages.

The universal expectation of mar
ried people is that their lives will
always be happy ones. Deluded
dreamers! They imagine that they
are different from other people, and
that when they enter the portals oil
matrimony, love, peace and pros
perity will ever be their attendants,
Such had better consider themselves
the same as others, but form iron
resolutions to do different from
other married people-resolutions
that will keep them from the dan.
gerous coasts on which so many
have been wrecked and ruined.
Unhappy marriages depend upon
causes. Previous to marriage many
try to appear more intellectual, more
amiable or more accomplished than
they really are. Depend upon it,
that love brought into existence by
a moonlight stroll, strengthened by
deceit and fashiOnaple Displays, and
finally consumated through the in
fiuence of intriguing friends, will
fade in after life almost as fast as
the flowers that compose the bridal
wreath,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
what Ingsr.oll shoula nave naa.
samuel colorldre.

1 had just one hogging. When I
was about thirteen Invent to a shoe
maker and begged him to take me
as his apprentice. He being an hon
est man, Immediately brought me
to Bowyer, who got into a great
rage, knocked me down, and even
pushed Crispin rudely out Of the
room. Bowyer asked me why
had made myself such a fool {? To
which answered, that had
great desire to be shoemaker, aud
that / hated the thought of being n
clergyman. "Why so ?'' said he.
Because, to tell you the truth, sirn
said /, al am an infidel." For this,
without more ado, Bowyer fiOgged
me, wisely, as think, soundly. as
i know. Any whining or sermon
izing would have gratitied my van
ity, and confirmed me In my abb
surdity; as il was, was laughed
at, and got heartily ashamed Of my
folly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

1T is the proviEce OF the intelli
gent newspaper 10 elevate and in
struct--to give strength tO thought
and activity TO the mind-and pro-
mulgate such ideas as lead TO a
higher civilization and a more COM
prehensive consideration and s,ppre-
citation ofour duties toward ore an
other. While the press does this,
It Is the duty of the community
around IL to give 1t encouragement
in every way, to the end that its
field OF usefulness may be widened
and its capacity for good increased.
--,SbeLbvUiLIe Gdzette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
DV~- She Live tn "a ahoe,
Richmond State.

Mrs. Julia Ann Estep, of Forest
vile, Va, now in her 9lst year, Is
probably the head of the largest
family on the continent. She Is
the mother of twelve children
nine sons and three daughters-the
grandmother of elghty-six children,
and the great-grandTnother Of one
hundred and forty-six children, and
the Observation-Disclosures OF ten
children--two hundred and fifty
four souls in all. One son has only
one child and another only two chill
dren, so that the other ten children
OF Mrs. Estep have eighty-three
sons and daughters--an average OF
more than eight each.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

Ifyou will stop all your extrava'
giant and wrong notions In doctor
ing yourself and families with ex.
pensive doctors or humbug curealls,
that do harm always, and use only
natures simple remedies for all
your ailments-you will be wise,
well and happy, and save great ex.
pense. The greatest remedy fol
this, the great wise and good will
tell you, is Hop Bitters.-Press.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
ADVICE 20 Yonnr m.n.

Young man, IL you are healthy
and industrious and want 10 contrib
ute something to your country's
material prosperity, dismiss emigra-
ton notions from your head and
buy you a little home and settle
down In your native land: get a
little angel to make the sunshine
and biscuit, and turn into raising
corn and mules, and domestic APP
purtenances that can be dandled on
your foot at night when the FIRE
grows bright within and the storm
roars without.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
The Now Comet Visible 10 the
Naked Eve.


Schaeberle's comet is now visible
in the NOrtheastIfrom about 2 A. NJ.
till daylight. In the first week In
August it will be discernable by the
naked eye, and even now may, 10
those who know the use Of an astro-
nomical atlas and will take the al
ready published data for guidance,
be seen through an opera-glass.
After II becomes visible to ordinary
observation it will appear in the
Northwest horizon in the evening
after twilight, and will doubtless
increase in brightness from evening
to evening as 1t makes its apparent
progress toward the west. 1t will
on no evening be visible much more
than an hour, and in the first week
of September it will be seen at a
point in the horizon about due west.
Thereafter it will be visible, with
diminishing brightness to astron-
omers and others In the Southern
hemisphere.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

THE impression seems to be en-
tertained by our esteemed Republi-
can contemporaries that when Mr..
w. Miller-W. stands for "WoOd-
pulp"-gets into the Senate and
opens the fiood-gates of his oratOry
on economic questions he will do
his party and cause rather more
damage than "the candid friend"
of history. The impression is not
altogether without foundation In
reason. How would il do to take a
leaf out of the book Of the donkey
drivers of England, who discourage
asinine oratory by the simple expe-
dient of anchoring the animal by
the head--or to speak with greater
accuracy, by the tail? When Mr..
Miller enters the Senate Chamber,
let some one designated by the Cau-
Gus Committee tack his coat tails
mildly but firmly to the chair, and
see whether, as reasoning from anal
ogy il should, this treatment will
prevent Mr.. Miller from making am
"a, that is to say, an orator of HIM
self.-NeiU York World.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

A Whitehall lady ran her last
years bonnet through clothes
wringer, and now she has the most
stylish hat in town. The ribbons
and trimmings resemble watered
silk, with smashed soap bubbles on
the strings, and miniature snow
balls ofsstarch clinging to the tip Of
the. feather.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

THE only absolute specific we
know of for sneezlng, snufidng ana
choking catarrh or head colds II
Sanford's Radical Cure, which, for
the small sum OF 81, affords instant
relief and invariably Affdf~
cal Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
MACHINERY FOR SALE.

1 have a good Engine, Boiler and
Corn Mill, together with everything
complete, ready for running, that
wish to sell to make room for larger
machinery. w. A. SETTLE.
Nav 20, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
DUNBAR'S CAVE

Is now open for the reception, of visitors.
Entrance to CaYe Grounds l0ets.; entrance
to Cave with guide 50ots., with liberal dis
counts to large parties.
Liberal terms to picnic parties. Barbecues
prepared when desired,
Sulphur water kept at Cave much cooler
and better than at the spring.
Bridge tickets TO Cave to be had of ]. NJ.
Rice at half price. j. M. RICE,
june4tf For Cave Company.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

mo, its no disgrace 20 be named
Smith. We'd rather be Smith and
own over $100, ,000,0 600, than to be
called st. Lawrence De We're and
have to hide out once a week from
the grocer and butcher"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
9 ''TIs FIVE AND TWENTY YRARs. ,

IT'S FIVE AND TWENTY Y EARS.
Sitting upon our cottage stoop,
BY autumn naples shaded,
call the gentle visions up
That time had nearly faded.
| The evening light comes from the west
In streams of golden glory;
SO fold your head, love, on my breast,
And hear my Qlden story.
'Tis five and twenty years, my dear,
Since, hearts and hands together,
We launched our bark the ocean clear,
And all serene the weather.
With simple trust in Providence
We set the sails upon her;
My fortune, hope and common sense,
Your dowry, love and honor.
For five and twenty years, my dear,
The pillows lightly skimming-
One day the skies grew murk and drear,
Our eyes and spirits dimming;
How dark that night frowned overhead,
When hopGforesaw no morrow,
And we beside our firstling dead
Drank our first cup OF sorrow.
'Tis five and twenty years, my dear,
Yet music's in our dwelling,
The chi1dren's prattle that we hear
About our hearthstone swelling
God bless them all, the loving bond
So glad to call you mother,
With heart to heart and hand to hand
Clinging to one another.
Through five and twenty years, my dear,
Whene'er my arm was weary,
And scarce i knew the way 10 steer,
Your words were ever CHEEKY;
When mid the tempest and the night
With courage sorely shrinking,
Then on our way God gave us light
That kept our faith from shrinking.
'Tis five and twenty years, my dear,
Slight change in you revealing,
But DER my broW-yOu see them here
The silver threads are stealing,
Yet, let them come, while still thy breast
Retains the fond emotion
That nerved my arm when first We pressed
Our way oat on 1ife's ocean.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13

"HERE Is something new wheth-
er Ii exist In fact or not, Il forcibly
exhibits what most people call tho
instinct of bees. In hot, dry val
ley in New South Wales the bees
suffered last year from a long con-
tinued drOuth. This year, says "a
contemporary of that colony, the
wonderful little fellows have made
provision against another like
trouble by filling large number OF
external cells I'm each hive with pure
water instead Of honey. ."-Scient1-
IL American
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
SPRING AND SUMMER i!
LADIES, DON'T FAIL TO CALL AT
!NrS. ROsenYieLd's

and see the most elegant Bon
nets and Hats We ever brought
on. We can suit the most fas-
tidiOuS taste, and our variety
is endless i'm Tuscan Lace,
Straw, Steel and Mixed BOnnetS
and Hats. We. also have on
hand rPady-trimmed Hats at
from S1.25 to $3.50, i'm the very
latest style. Come and see for
Yourself. As for Flowers and
Feathers, words can't express
the variety, In our Notion
and Novelty Department, we
have a full line OF Serge, Sat-
I'm, PaSamenty Buttons, Cords
and TaSSe!S, G. p. COfSetS, FleX-
ibIe COrSetS and other brands,
Null and Fancy Ties i'm great
variety, Fans, PaFaS0lS, Ladies
Underwear. Our old standby,
Lupin's Kid Gloves, Foster and
other makes, SILK MittS OF the
Latest Shades. We are also
agent for ChIldren'S DR.. trays
Shoulder Brace. Call and eX-
anime for yourself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-13
Too MUCK oetton-More Corn.


A Cuthburt. Georgia, paper says
"We are informed that there are
people in our county who have not
had a mouthful of meat for two days
some have not had bread for that
time. Many horses and mules are
blowing that have not had neither
corn, fodder or oats for two weeks
being plowed until dinner and
then turned upon the swamp grass
and canebrakes TO Craze till they are
put to the plow again. In COM
menting on this great and unneces-
sary suffering the Augusta Constitu-
tiOnalist says eff the all cotton
craze did not bring about that de-
plorable condition, what did? We
are satisfied that in no Georgia
County need there be any such des-
titution if food crops were nrSt at
tended to and cotton made surplus
production. In all probability the
horses and mules, thus suffering for
the imbecility of men, are engaged
in plowing their hungry way along
cotton row. The old, old story is
repeated, year after year. Next
will probably wind up these social
ed planters and their starving ami
mails. Farmers in Georgia who get
out of meat and corn ought to quit
agriculture and try something else.
The lands of the south thus abused
will one day be taken away from
their present proprietors and come
into the possession of thriftier
race. Luckily such accounts as our
Cuthburt friend gives are exceptions
to the rule in Georgia.