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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
mARRIED Fon

Yes Jack Brown was a splendid fellow,
I rsma married 3h 7 for love you know
sweet little Kitty Dunau.
Pretty, and loving, and good,
ana bright as a fairy Elf.
4 was very much tempted in deed.
10 marry Kitty myself,
"Bes her friends were an Of them oor
And i knew / should never be
with love In a COTTAGE content.
80 Jack was the lucky WOer,
or unlucky-anyway
You cs1n see how shabby his coat,
And his hair is turning gray,
I'm told he thinks himself rich
With Kitty and homely joys:
a cot far away out of town
ruiz OF noisy girls and boys.
P2Or Jack! I'm sorry and all that,
but OF course he very well knew
fellows who marry for love
Must drink ofthe liquor they brew.
"And the handsome Augustus smiled.
His coat was in perfect style,
And WOmeh still poke OF his grace,
And give him their sweetest smile.
But he Thought that night Of Jack Brown,
And said Il am growing old;
! think ! must really marry
some beautiful girl with gold"
Yeus passed, and the bachelor grew
TlresOme, and stupid, and Did:
he mad not been able to find
The beautiful girl with gold.
1hAaa ~ HIS AAlAC lie AMElLa
Alone In the rOwde town,
I'LL one day he suddenly met
Thefriend of his youth, Jack Brown.
"why, GUS" ~why, Jaekl" What a meet
ing!
Jack was so happy and gay;
Ine DachelOr sighed for content
As he followed his friend away
To the cot far out Of town,
Set deep in its orchard trees,
Scented with lilies and roses,
Cooled with the ocean breeze.
why, Jack, what a beautiful place!
What did IL cost ~ @Oh, it grew,
There We're only three rooms. at first.
Ihen soon The three We're too few,
so We added "A room now and then;
And Oft in the evening hours,
Kitty, the children and l
Planted the trees and the flowers.
"And they grew as the children grew
JACK, Harry, Grace and Belle)."
And where are the youngsters now ?"
"AN happy and doing well.
Jack went TO Spain for our house
His road is level and clear
And Harry's a lawyer in town,
Making three thousand a year.
"AndG Grace and Belle are well married
n married for W as is best
But often our brides come back
To visit the dear old home nest.
So my sweet wife Kitty and L
From labor and care may cease;
We have enough, and age can bring
Nothing but love and peace"
But over and over again
The bachelor thought that night,
@Home AID wife, and children!
Jack Brown was, after all right.
Ohtifin the days of my youth
a honestly loved and wed
Fol now I'm old there's no one cares
Whether I'm living or dead"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
by Pencil.

The Kennebec journal says /:
''Mr. Samuel Clarke, of Vasselboro,
has been in the habit of carrying a
copying pencil in his coat pocket.
One day last week Mr.. Clarke,
came to Augusta, and while in the
city he purchased some troches for
a cold, which he put loose in the
pocket, where they were constantly
coming in contact with the lead.
While returning to Vasselbor0 on
the cars he felt a tickling sensation
of his throat and to allay the irrita-
ton partOOk of several troches.
His tongue began to swell and then
turn black, and by the time he
reached home he was deadly sick.
A physician was summoned, who
promptly administrated antidotes
for the poison. 1t is said that Il
piece Of the lead of one of these
pencils half the size of a pea will
cause the death of robust man.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16

WE trust this is the last time the
subject will ever seriously agitate
our general assembly. We most
fervently hope the law just passed
is in such a form as will enable the
creditors to enforce their claim in
the courts of the country. We
want it eternally out of our local
and State politics, and it has finally
been landed-where all questions
between debtor and creditor ought
TO iand-in the hands of judges and
Iuries and sheritfs, il will be the
best days work IA Tennessee legis-
lature ever did. Chattanooga
Times:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
The Nashville American!

h faithful and u~nwavering advocate of
Democratic principles, views the result of
the late National and State elections, as
only an additional incentive to every sim
cere lover of his country and its inStitu-
tionS, to look more closely han ever, into
the administration of pablo affairs by the
peoples servants. 1t will be the province of
The American to approve right n de-
ounce error as heretofore, II to give the
people such information as will lead them
to correct conclusions. The facts il will give
will be without bias, upon which its read
ers can form their own opinions. Time N
the recurrence of popular elections, show
that q very large portion of the voters of the
Union act from n impulse of the moment,
rather than from settled convictions in re-
gard to correct principles of government.
Hence the greater necessity for the use of
public journals to obtain juSter and more
settled views on governmental questions.
This, The American will endeavor with the
utmost pains, to supply.
The American Will continue the well
known and highly appreciated extensive
volume of general news, State and National,
and will strive to deserve what it already
paper south of the Ohio river, regardless of
politics or location.
THE WEEKLY AMERICAN,
Will be furnished in future, at the exceed
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Address THE AMERICAN,
jams 81 Nashville, Tenn
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16

w. d. BALDWIN, a North Caro-
lima merchant, was attacked by Il
pack of some twenty savage dogs.
His horse was bitten aud his stir
rups TORN from under his feet, and
he sought safety in flight; but the
dogs followed him into the town of
Shoeheel, and had to be driven of
by armed citizens who came to the
rescue. Next day a general hunt
was organized, the military cOmpa-
ny taking part, and most of the ami
mails were killed in some woods
near the town. Clark county, Ark,
is also excited about dogs. Several
deaths have occurred from hydro
phobia, the most recent being a Mr..
Young, who died in terrible agony.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16

THE Senatorial struggle: Elec-
ting high officials is very much
like putting your hand in a bag
containing ninety-nine snakes and
one eel. You may get the eel, but
the chances are against you, and
when you do get him he is a very
slippery kind of a customer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16

THE Galveston News said that a
stranger in that city asked an old
resident how malaria fever cOnld
he distinguished from yellow fever.
AS a general thing" was the re-
L. Sy0u can't tell till you have
tr;ed f. If YOU amt alive, thsR it
most likely yellow fever"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
The Lips THAT TOuch E.aquor Must
Never Touch Mine
mnhlin Girl,s Mnftn

dublin GIFTS MOttO.1
You are coming to WOO me, but not as Of
When / hastened to welcome your ring at
For I trusted that he vino stood waiting me
Was Tie brightest, the truest, Tie nobIest Of
YonT lips on my own, when they printed
farewell
Had never been soiled by the beverage Of
But they come to me now with Bacchanial
And the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
/ think Of that might in the garden alone,
When in whispers you old me your heart
That your love in the future should faithful
Unshared by another, kept only forme.
Oh sweet 10 my soul IS the memory still,
OF the lips that met mine e they muir
INJURED 81 will"
But now to their pressure no more they in
For the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
I love you-oh dearer than language can
And you saw it, you proved it, you knew it
But the man of my love was far other than
Who now from the tap-room comes realing
In manhood and honor so noble and
right
His heart was so true and his genius so
right
And his soul u~nstained, unpolluted by
wine;
Eut the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
You promised reform, but / trusted in vain,
Your pledge was made to be broken again;
And the lover so false to his promise now,
viii not, q husband, be true to his vow
The word must be spoken that bids you de-
part
Though the effort to speak it should shatter
my heart;
Though in silence, with blighted affection l
Yet the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
If one spark in your bosom, OF virtue re-
main,
Go fan it with prayer till it kindle again /;
Resolve with "God helping in future to be
From wine and its follies unshackled and
free;
And when you conquer h i foe of your
soul
In manhood and honor beyond his control,
This heart will again beat responsive to
thine
And the lips free from liquor be welcome to
mine.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
Put Life into xour work.

A young mans interest and duty
both indicate that he should make
himself indispensable to his en-
ployers.
A young man should make his
employer his friend, by doing faith
fully and infinitely all that is en-
trusted to him.
1t is a great mistake to be over
nicely Institutions about work.
Pitch in readily and your willing
ness will be appreciated, while the
t'high-tOned" young man who
bubbles about what it is, and what
it is not his place to do, will get the
cold shoulder.
AN Englishman who went to see
an Irish friend, knocked at the
street door and asked, "Does Mr..
Mcclure live here" "He does,
sorr but he's dead !" "When did
he die ?' eff he'd lived till to-
morrow" was the response, "he'd
have been dead a fortnight"
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16

n fakes but a moment to close
.hn door tightly against temptation
when it hastens elsewhere. And
this Is better than to live hours,
d d or years under the shadow Of
regret
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-16
In County Court at GAINESVILLE
State of Tennessee.

CLERKS OFFICE, February y, 1881.
Jno. ]. West. admir- Of Salina RoIloNv. col
complainant vs., The heirs Of Salina Roll
low, defendant.
II appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that h Defendants, who are un-
known heirs ofSalina ROlloV, col, are nom
residents Of the State OF Tennessee.
It's therefore ordered that they enter their
appearance, herein, before or within the arss
Court, to be held at ClErEsyiile, on the irst
Monday in April next, 1881, and plead. an
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weeks In the Cl6rksville Chronicle
*. d. MOSELEY, Clerk,
BY C.. H. Bailey, ID. e.
Jno. ], West, sol'rs for complit.
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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21
She Saw HAim . Few Better.

Cleveland Leader.
The public has long conceded that
the power of the hotel clerk is su-
rerior to that of President. A new
rival has sprung up in the railroad
ticket agent, as WIS demonstrated at
an Iowa station few week ago.
II want ticket to B. said
a well known lady Of the town, just
before train.
:'Tventy>four CENTS" responded
the agent, working his sausage
machine. She laid down silver
quarter. Being well acquainted and
practical joker, the agent drew
from his pocket a glittering pants
button, passed it over with a ticket
and scooped up the quarter.
SIS this legal tender' asked the
lady quietly.
"Oh, yes,' he answered with a
mock gravity, "They are the MAIN
stay of the Republic"
She pocketed it and got aboard,
leaving the agents face coruscating
with smiles.
A few days after he told it to a
brigade of runners buying tickets
for b, and while he was enjoy
ing the encore the lady appeared
with
Ticket for B, please"
"Twenty-four cents" with sly
wink at the runners. He laid down
the ticket. She scooped it and laid
down tventy>four dazzling pants
buttons, exactly like tie first.
you said they were legal tender.
They go long ways in supporting
the family" she chirped sweetly, as
she bowed from the presence of
more than Presidential prerogative.
Then he set'em up to the brigade
of enlightened runners.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21
The Virginia Republicans.

WAsHINGToN, April ia delega-
lion of Virginia Republicans, iaclud>
ing Representative Jorgensen and
some of the leading men of the party
in Virginia, called on the President
day, and protested against Ma
hone being recognized by the adj
ministration. They say large
proportion OF straight>out Republi-
cans will not consent to Mahoneism,
but will run u simon pure Republi,
can State ticket next fall, to which
the administration ought to lend its
Influence. They talk of putting up
John S. Mosby, ex- Confederate
guerilla, for Governor.
Hundreds of Virginia Readiuster
Republicans and Democrats have
been here within the last three
weeks seeking Offices through Ma
homes influence, but none are known
to have succeeded
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

The New York Tribune is disgust
ed with Senator Conkling for his
opposition to the confirmation of
Judge Robertson as collector of the
port of New York. 1t cnncludes an
article on the subject as follows: at
has become a contest, not between
the President and Senator Conkling,
but between the people and such
senators as may wish to set them =
selves up as masters over the people
and their President. If Senator
Conkling insists upon putting hin-
self in that position he will assuredly
find new occasion to remember that
no oligarchy is established by the
constitution or desired by the peo>
pie of this country"
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21
- .
TEL 4 SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 49,
The vice president laid before the
Senate the unfinished business being a
resolution for the election of Senate
officers.
Harris referred to an article recently
quoted by Malone from the Interna-
tional Review, to the effect that the
State of Tennessee had repudiated
eleven millions of her debt, and asserted
that there was no truth in the state
ment. Tennessee had at no time repu-
dated a single penny of her debt. 1t
had been stated that Porter of the cen
sus bereau, had been the author Of the
article, thus giving it semi official
character. Porter had indeed been
the author, but had, in communication
to him, authoritavely denied that it
was an official statement OF the debt of
Tennessee, He corrected various mis-
tatements in the article.
Motion to go into extra session by
Harris was lost, yeas twenty, nays
twenty.
Some time was consumed in roll calls
on varions dilatory motions.
Dawes said that he was conscious
that public business had been much
obstructed by the pending of resolution
which he had offered. but attributed
that obst uction to the action of the
minority in rcsorting to every motive
known to parliamentary law. This was
struggle whether it was the senate or
minority of the senate which is to con-
troll public business. He did not care
copper whether one officer or another
was in office, bat he desired to have 1t
settled before the country whether this
was government of the majority or
mt
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

WASHINGTON, April 17.-Agents of
the treasury department discover
that the colored people of Louisiana
and Mississippi have been swindled
out of a considerable amount Of
money recently by negro claiming
to be from this city. He travelled
about, pretending to be engaged in
the prosecution of claims for boun--
ties for colored soldiers and their
heirs, and induced negros to make
applications to the second auditor,
which he promised to put through
for fee of from fifty cents to SIS
paid in advance. The attention OF
the treasury officials was attracted
to the matter by number of these
claims presented in the same hand
writing from Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, and secret service agents have
arrested one J. B. Whiting as the
culprit.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

Malone is inclined to stand by Rid
dlebarger, but it is understood that
some Republicans are anxious to
encourage any movement looking to
relief from that load without APP
pearing to abandon him of their
own mot on The drift of things
among Republicans now seems to
indicate Rlddlebargsr may be with
drawn at his own request.
TaE DEADLOCK.
Tie President to-day expressed
himself as very anxious that some
thing should be dons in the Senate
to break the deadlock, so that Ger.
tain very important combinations
conld be made. The President had
no idea that the contest would last
so long. Several plans have been
suggested to him by which lie could
assist in breaking the dead lock, and
it is likely he may act on some OF
them if the annoyance is mach long
eli continued.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

While Senator johnson was speak,
ing in the United States senate the
other day, Mrs. johnson occupied
a seat in the gallery, and near her
stood two Virginia readjusters
When the Senator bore down heavily
on Muhone one Of them said: lis
ten to the old liar. He says he is
q democrat, when be was an old
whig and know nothing" Mrs John
son at once turned to him and said:
"You are mistaken, sir; he was born
a democrat, reared a democrat, and
will die a democrat. | ought to
know, as l am his WIFE The Rich
mond Dispatch, commenting on the
incident, remarks: This remark
Wis worthy of the daughter of the
elder Gov Floyd, the sister of the
younger Gov. Floyd, the kinswoman
of VIM, G. Preston, and the wife of
John w. Johnson.-Richmond Led
ger.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

The report that the Brazilian Mission
hns been offered to ex Senator Bruce, is
not correct. President Garfield and the
ex-senator both well understood that
Brazil, slave holding Empire, would
not he willing to receive, and could not
consistently receive, rs a minister from
foreign State--no matter how well
qualified for the trust the appointee
might be-one who in the very nature
of things would be regarded as an aboli.
ton emissary.
This mission is the very last one that
Gen. Garfield would think of Offering to
a colored man, and it is the very last
one that Bruce would think of accept
ing.
1t is understood, however, that several
foreign appointments have been ten
dered to Bruce, and have been declined.
lie does not want to GO abroad, and is
among the hungry applicants who hang
around the President.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher expressed
himself on the subject in answer to the
following questions
"If what is known as the three wit
nesses' should be expunged from the
Now Testament. will it affect the belief
in the Trinity ?"
"No. Undoubtedly that passage was
put there to bolster mp the idea of the
Trinity. | think no scholar has any
doubt about that, or believes that it was
part Of the original record. ] recollect
rs early in my boyhood, when l was in
Boston, when that very question of the
Trinity WAS hot in the air, and the pas
sage was a broken tooth in any mans
argument who,used it, No man well read
could use that passage rs evidence with
any thing like honesty"
at is said that the only two passages
in the gospel-Luke Xxiv:5l end Mark
Xvi:9-20, In which the ascension Of Christ
into heaven is mentioned are expunged
would that affect the belief til t Christ
did so ascend 2
ut would only make difference in
regard to one thing, and that is the dog
ma that Christ's physical body went into
heaven--and heard it said only twenty
four hours ago that he went up in His
own earthly body, which Was glorifed
in heaven, That is piece of poetry,
but Ms to scientific facts is without foun-
dalton"
at is also expected that the passage
i'll Romans i:l7, wherein st. Paul says
that he is not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ, for therein is the righteousness
of God revealed, will be changed to read
"a righteousness OF Goodwill not that
affect the IDEA that Christ represents the
| righteousness OF God, and make it APP
pear that lie represented only Il quality
or some characteristic OF Col, rs any
man might be said to do?'
II cannot talk about these things for
l do not know yet what has been chang
ed or left out positively. There ure I'M
doubtedly a good many things in the
New Testament that might be changed,
or word might be dropped without al
tering the sense For instance there
might be expunged that intrusive ex-
plana'ion that certain angel went down
ut certain hours and troubled the waters
in the pool OF Bethesda Of course, that
ought to go. But as to the woman taken
in adultery-they say that IS to be
thrown out of the New Book; If it is, L
will paste it in the back OF mine. 1t is
one OF the most characteristic stories in
the life OF Christ. But apprehend that
it is not to be thrown out entirely, but
to go into some other place. L have
heard both reports. The events records
ed by the four Evangelists are not in any
one of them recorded strictly in the Or
der of time. They are collection of
remembrances, or memorabilia, and
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-21
Three stores burned cut by
an iace ndiary fire.

MOBILE, Ala, April 1S.-A dsstruc-
tive fire occurred here to night at six
o'clock, the wolk Of lncendiares, burn
ing out the three stores Of L S. Perry
man, Wholesale grocer; Wilson, Patrick
L Co., and Crawford, Eads & Co., COT
ton men. The amount of the loss is
thirty or forty thousand dollars; all
insured. When discovered the fire was
nnder full Roadway. 1t was just after
business hours. This is the third
attempt to burn out Perryman & Co.