Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-29

of modern thought where his ideas
are lost in the haze of the distance.
/ The editor takes out upon his track,
soon brings him to his senses, but
leaves him out of breath and fret
ted. The editor throws wide the
gates of his Journal and adjectives
flow in antil the very hags of crea-
ton become perfectly splendid;"
and language unfit for the slums,
blur the pages designed for the
daughters that encircle the ingle-
side. The preacher "opens on him"
and the editor forms a secret pur-
pose to do better All this is well.
In this land, where there are so
many to talk and so few to think it
is fortunate that we guard each
/ other. 1t is an undeniable fact, that
what is said about us by thinking
minds, influence greatly our lives.
/ 1t is a consumation most devoutly
10 be wished that the things said
about us may whip US into the
| beauty of goodness. If only that
charity that would receive a
| sprain, rather than crush one out"
could obtain among us the object
would be attained. To stanch
wounds rather than solve enigmas,
should be the work of the pulpit
and the press. There is a wonder
full amount of headache in abstruse
speculations.
Matters ecclesiastic. are moving
up somewhat in this part of the
viuyard. The presiding eldership
has been greatly scotched in this dis
trict by an arrangement to buy or
build district parsonagein Pulaski.
A preachers home should be made
so comfortable, by the people whom
he serves, that his conscience would
not permit him to loiter in it. I
know preacher now who has been
making sacrifice to pay the rent of
a house that he occupied while
preaching the gospel to the poor(?)
Eight pastoral charges in Columbia
district have provided comfortable
parsonages for their pastors, and
now the presiding elder will no
longer have to live in his town
hired house" If "behind living on
little lies the art of living on moth
ingh then these prophets cham
bers" are a waste of the Lords
money; but to my mind Giving on
little' and "living on nothing" are
two rooms, the one illumined by a
dim light, the other chaos.
How delighted 1 was to see that
you had made a move for the re-
lief of the poor! When / see in
telligents hearts inspired with pro-
found sympathy for the worthy
poor, i feel inclined to deny the
charge that 'winter changes into
stone the heart of man.. Some
times there is more misery IN the
lower, than humanity in the higher
classes. Tell it not in the streets of
GAINESVILLE! You have too many
"eX-sinners" for that.
Youget our local items from three |
newsy papers. | suppose your
scissors are sharp and your eyes
wide open. The item that stands
prominent before our people now is |
the approaching trial of Holcomb |
and Porter, for the murder of Car
ter. 1t is the opinion of some that |
they will pay the penalty on that |
concretiOn of the law, the gallows,
while others think that severance
will result in theil acquital. Their I
trial has been set for Monday, Jan.
81. They ask that their trial may
be removed to another county.
Judge McLemore declines to sit on /
their case, and it is thought that he
will "sWap work." as preacher
would say, with Judge Quarles.
Poor fellows! How ] pity them
Porter is a young man, and while
1 write his aged, and almost heart
broken father nears JordOn. His
mother almost weeps herself away.
Holcomb has good wife and four
bright, sweet children. They pro-
hibit the sale of whisky on election
days. 1t is well. Why not every
other as well /? To poor unfortunate
Carter it.matters little whether it
was election day or no. He went
blindly drunken to his doom.
Heaven record it, he bought not his
whisky from q Methodist.
May this be to you the brightest
year that you have ever chroaicled.
Every subscriber a cash subscriber,
and may you have thousands of
them. May your contributors be
chaste, perspicuous, and newsy;
your job work heavy, and paid for
in advance. T. j. DUNCAN.
Columbia, Tenn, Jan. p, 1881.