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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
THE Wan FOR THE PLACE.

Gov. Hawkins, in his message to
the legislature, speaking of our agri-
cultural, manufacturing and min
ing interests, the great fountain
heads from whence spring all our
prosperity and wealth, uses this
language:
Agriculture, manufactures and
mining constitute the great sources
of our wealth. 1t is therefore i'm
pOrtant that these interests should
be carefully guarded and sedulously
encouraged.
The bureau of agriculture, statist-
les and mines has already accom-
plished much in bringing our great
agricultural and mineral resources
to the knowledge of the world. The
fertility of our soil, the richness of
our mines, the salubrity of our eli
mate, the variety of our cereals,
fruits and vegetables, the value of
our staples, and the products of our
forests, have been extensively por-
trayed. The advertising of these
resources, however, constitute but a
single faction in the process of de-
velOpment-impOrtant, it is true,
essential to our rapid growth, still
only one among the many by which
the desired end is to be reached.
This deserved and high compli-
ment to the management of one of
the most important departments of
our state Is nothing but just and
due, although tacit, acknowledge
ment by the governor of the SUI
preme fitness and capacity of our
fellow-countyman, COLI. b. Kille-
brew, who is now at the head of
the bureau of agriculture, statistics
and mines, and whose untiring en-
ergy and skill have done so much
to build up our state and to "pOr-
tray" to the emigrant world its
many valuable resources.
We can hardly think that the
governor will be so bitterly partisan
as to GUST Il man from the head Of
this bureau whose splendid man
agement has wrung from him the
above praise, and whose only fault
is that he is Il democrat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
THE THREATENED FINANCIAL
PANIC.

The money circles of the eastern
cities have been in an excited and
uncertain state for the past ten days,
and the country has been threatened
with just such another terrible finan-
clal crisis as swept over the entire
United States in 1873. The cause of
the depression is said to be the bitter
opposition of the national banks TO
the three per cent. funding bill,
which was about to be passed by
congress. 1t is a bad sign for the
prosperity of the country when these
institutions can, by their beck and
call, throw the entire business inter-
ests of the people into jeopardy and
paralyze the actions of congress. 1t
looks as if the national banks DELHI
erately, selfishly and tr titorously
tried TO throw business into a disas-
trous panic, which they could but
know would involve the ruin of
thousands in time of real prosper
ity. This high-banded measure
may at last Fecoil upon their own
heads, and furnish a most powerful
for their opponents to urge
in favor of their entire abolition.
We are glad to see that Secretary
Sherman did not countenance this
bold movement. He has seized the
of the hour, and hap
PLY relieved himself of the imputa-
ton of unduly favoring the banks.
Garfield could not do better than
retain him in his present position.
He is the ablest financier of the age.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
An Episcopal Horse.

The Rev. DIR. Broaddus, an old
Baptist parson famous in Virginia,
once visited a plantation where the
darkey who met him at the gate
asked him which barn he would
have his horse put in.
"Have you two barnes ?" asked
the doctor.
"Yes, sah," replied the darkey !;
"dar's de ole barn, and Mas'r Wales
has jes build new one"
Where do you usually put the
horses of clergymen who come to
see your master ?''
"Well. sab, if dey's Methodis's or
Baptis's, we gen'ally put 'em in de
ole barn, but if dey's 'Piscopals we
puts 'en in de new one.n
"Well, Bob, you can put my horse
in the new barn; Pm Baptist,
but my horse is an Episcopalian."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
THE GOVERNOR AND col. KILL
uERRExV

On last Tuesday a committee of
gentlemen from the Tennessee Stock
Breeders Association waited on
Gov. Hawkins and presented res
olutitsn of that body asking for the
retention of Col. j. B. KilIebrew.
The governor, in hunting around
for some evasive reply, indirectly
stated that it had been charged that
Col. X. had unlawfully misappro-
priated 81 ,000in employing an assist
ant. In reply to this Commissioners
Killebrew said that he felt no APP
prehensions whatever in reference
to the charges made. Any man of
ordinary capacity could take the
law and see that he had the right
under it to appoint an assistant,
not only for one place, but for seve-
raj places. The law provided that
if the commissioner should, in his
opinion, find it necessary to appoint
one or three assistants, one for each
division of the state, he could do so.
GOV. Porter had requested him to
appoint Mr.. Hatch as assistant under
this law, and he did it, and Hatch
was paid $1,000 per annum, the
salary being fixed by Gov. Port
er. When Gov. Marks succeeded
Gov. Porter he requested Commas
sioner Killebrew to appoint DIR. w.
M. Clark as his assistant, which he
did, and he had the legal right to
do it, and there was no misappro-
priation of the 81 900 alluded to, but
it was expended in pursuance of
law, according to the construction
of Gov. Porter and Gov. Marks.
Had he desired, he could, under
the law, have appointed three as.
sistants, but for the sake of econo-
my, he had appointed only one.
Believing that the law creating the
bureau of agriculture, statistics and
mines required that he should do
everything in his power to bring
capital and immigration to the
state and if he thought employing a
man in New York would Invite i'm
migration he had a right to employ
him, so he did not go beyond the
appropriation.
We do not think for one moment
that Commissioners Killebrew has
violated the law in this matter, and
are thoroughly certain that a clear
investigation of the law will prove
this.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
CORBANDALE ITEMS.

The weather is becoming more
spring-like, and blowing, sowing
oats, etc., has been begun. There
was very little wheat sown in this
vicinity and that little looks bad.
There has been until recently an
immense robin roost on DIR. Will
sons place, opposite here. Num-
bers of people came and killed them
by hundreds. On one occasion
while watching for the robins to
come to roost, Rev. J. r. Reagin
came very near getting shot by the
premature discharge of his gun.
l learn that two OF Mr.. B. II.
Dunbar's little daughters caught
fire recently, and severely burning
Mabel. She had not improved much
at last accounts, but 1 hope will have
a speedy recovery.
While Mr.. Dunbar was feeding
his cattle one day last week his I'M
ruly bull attacked him, tossing him
up considerably, but not hurting
him seriously.
DR.. K. Wilson's son Berry, who
the Doctor has not seen since the
war, came from Texas last month
to live with him.
Mr.. Frank Williams who left last
December to find better home, has
returned. After trying several
places in Kentucky, he says there's
no place like Montgomery county.
Last Tuesday was a bad day at
Lucas saw mill. Mark Boze got his
hand partly sawed off and his house
burned, and John Sisson knocked
John Murphy in the head with a
stick, infiicting a severe if not a
fatal injury. Sisson left at once.
All were mill hands.
There Will he some little White
Burley planted in this district on
trial. When the White Burley crop
il made wont we need the iron aUdg-
ON to haul it on? b. j. G.
March /, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
Gov. HAWkINs. sAY.

Gov. Hawkins sent in his message
10 the legislature last Friday week,
the 18th ult. We have not the in
cIination or space to go into a full
and complete analysis Of the mes
sage, or TO give it in full to our
readers. We do not deem its sub
stance sufficiently new or original to
interest the general reader, and
therefore will not make him wade
through three or four columns of
matter only to read what he has
already heard before. His recon-
mendatiUns are generally good, so
far as they go, and we are prepared
TO endorse most of them, while we
are free to confess we think his mes
sage is too full of "glittering gene
ralities," and lacks practical and
pointed suggestions. He presents
many good recommendation, but it
seems to US his language fails to
point out with sufficient detail and
practicability the ways and means
by which he desires these to be car
ried out. How are the legislators
to do what he recommends shall be
done? We do not think he discusses
a single point which has not already
been more fully discussed by the
press Of the state. 1t Is the duty of
the press and people to discuss the
measures that ought to be carried
cut; the governor and legislature
ought to go farther and discuss the
ways and means. He points out
wherein some of our legislation is
lacking and defective, but he does
not point out the remedy, or, if he
does, at least not with sufficient
perspicuity. He does not embrace
the prerogative he has, as governor
of the state, Of being leader and
guide to the legislature, whose every
action has finally to come before
him for sanction or rejection. He
offers no plan or suggestion on the
most important questions which
will come before that body for ac-
ton. His history of the state
debt Is full, clear and correct, and
will meet with the approval of ev-
cry true and good citizen and lover
of his state. But upon its final adj
justment he does not seem to be
nearly so bold and OutspOken as he
was before his election. He says
we need a settlement, but does not
offer any plan, not even the slight
est intimation of plan, of how to
arrive at a settlement. He con-
cIudes his remarks on this para
mount subject as follows;
The basis and details of any settle
ment must be left to your practical
wisdom, cOnfiding in which and
your exalted sense of justice, refer
the matter to you, feeling assured
that in your deliberations and con-
illusions upon thiSgrave subject you
will rise above all considerations
save those of justice and a sacred
regard for the honor and best inter
ests of the whole country.
The language and composition of
this his first state paper is good, and,
in this respect, it will compare fa-
vorably with the average state pa
pers of the day. 1t is somewhat
rhetorical, and perhaps even a little
too florid at times, as when he
speaks of sour sparkling streams,
which still with untamed glee pur-
sue their devious paths to the sea"
However, we guess this won't do
anybody any harm.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
shakespeare a Myth.

Alas, and alack a-day! And now
comes Col. John H. Crozier in the
Knoxville Dispatch and knocks the
immortal Shakespeare into a cooked
hat. And yet Notwithstanding this
learned gentleman's decisive die
tum, we opine the literary world
will continue, as it should, to "crook
the pregnant knee" and bow down
to the name of the deathless bard
If Avon. Here is how the Colonel
backs up his assertion:
The proof that Shakespeare is not
the author of the plays attributed
to him, is very strong, and we may
say overwhelming. Lord Camp
bell, formerly Chief Justice of the
Kings Bench, and author of the
lives of the Lord Chancellors and
Chief Justices, has said that the au-
thor of Shakespeare plays has made
hundred and fifty illusions to
principles of law, and that in every
one he was cOrrect-that he under
stood the Freemasonry of the law,
that it is technical and arbitrary
law-the secrets of the law which
none but initiated lawyers can I'M
derstand. Was Shakespeare law
yer? If we are to believe his adj
vocates he had studied every pro-
fession and vocation in life, and he
knew all things. | don't believe
he ever wrote play. am salts
fed that the author of the plays at
triputed to Shakspear was scholar,
a gentleman, a nObleman, lawyer,
and a philosopher, and Shakespeare
was none of these.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
meigs Digest.

We, members of the barOf Clarks-
vile, Tenn, having examined the
advanced sheets of the 1st vol. of
the revised edition of Meigs Digest,
now being published by w. A. Mill
kin, Esq, of our bar, desire to ex-
press to the profession in this state
our entire satisfaction with the
work as it is being done, and our
belief that it wifi be the best Digest
of Tennessee law that has been pub
lished since the original work. The
system and plan of the original is
preserved, pruned of all that is OBJ
solete or overruled, and brought
down according to that plan, to 4th
Lea and 9th Baxter inclusive.
We can accord it no higher praise
than to say that it is in all respects
worthy of the original.
The first volumne is now out, and
is elegantly printed and substanti-
ally bound by Neblett & Titus of
the CHRONICLE Office.
Jas. f. Bailey.
Horace Fl. Lurton,
Polk G. johnson,
Chas. G. Smith,
Quarles, Daniel q Goodpasture,
Rufus n. Rhodes,
f. G. Hendrick,
II. N. Leeeh,
j. w. Scales,
III. @. Merritt,
A. G.. GOodlett,
Jno. J. West,
j. w. Rudolph,
A. I'll. Munford,
Jas. f. Rice,
Thos. l.. Yancey,
Clay Stacker.
Ed. G. Campbell.
GAINESVILLE, March 1, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
UNHAPPY IRELAND.

The contest and agitatiOns in Ire
land continue to fill the trans-At-
lantic cables, and to furnish the
most absorbing foreign topic that
can claim the attention of the peO-
pie of this country, and from the
immense amount of space given it
in the English press and by foreign
correspondents, it seems the para
mount theme there, almost over
shadowing the African war. While
all good and peace-loving people
can but deplore these unhappy
struggles of brave old Ireland, yet
we, who once suffered under the
same tyrannical and CALLING yoke,
until "forbearance ceased to be a
virtue" and we arose in OAR might
and cast off all allegiance, can but
admire and sympathize with her in
her unequal revolutions. The con-
dition of the Irish tenants may not
be so deplorable and abject as we
may be asked to believe; still, there
Is no denying the fact that they
have been maltreated and Outra-
geously imposed upon by the Eng
lish landlords and the English gov
eminent. Few of us Americans can
understand or appreciate the true
condition of Ireland to-day, because
few of us have ever visited the
country or studied her history. Eng
land has been so long accustomed to
the protestations aud cries of her
suffering people that she has grown
callous and unsympathetic. We
believe that the queen and her chief
ministers have been, and are now,
willing and ready to deal fairly ard
honestly with the Irish people, but
there is a power behind the throne
in the shape of arrogant and cruel
landlords, who have always elOgged
and retarded any such movement,
Where the present agitation will
end ii is impossible to say. 1t may
be pacified and smoOthed over for
while, but without some very radi-
cal change in the government or
Ireland, It is destined to break forth
again at no distant day. The storm
has been gathering for years, and it
would not be surprising if it should
burst forth in all its fury without
the slightest warning. There is no
other country under tho sun that
would have borne such oppression
so long and so silently. There is
such thing as driving a pe"ple to
the wall, when they can go no
longer and no further. We think
that day has almost come to the
people of Ireland. We are not thor
Oughly posted in regard to the true
status of affairs over there, but we
are free to say that, in the light of
our information upon this present
contest, our sympathies are with
those we believe to be oppressed,
and against the Oppressors. We
sincerely believe and trust that
there is a brighter day near at hand
Tor poor, unhappy Ireland.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05


To those citizens of the north who
still profess to believe in the un-
quenched hatred and eniniiy of the
people OF the south towards every
person and thing hailing from be-
yond Mason and Dixon's line, we
would call their attention to the
hospitable treatment and friendly
courtesy shown the visiting citizen
soldiers of Massachusetts and New
York by the military companies and
citizens of New Orleans, and especi-
ally to the graceful and eloquent
tribute paid to tho memory of the
southern soldiers who lie buried in
the New Orleany cemetery, by the
Massachusetts boys. The associated
press gives the following account of
that beautiful and impressive cere-
mony.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26.-TO-day,
an impressive ceremony took place.
About l O'Clock, the Charlestown
Cadets went out TO the cemetery on
the cars, and having alighted,
marched into the grounds, drawing
up in front of the southern soldiers
graves. The company presented
arms and came to a parade-rest, and
the hymn "Nearer, My God, to
Thee" was sung by the entire COM
panY. After the hymn, a beautiful
emblem of union, made of flowers,
with crescent and star in the CEN
ter, was offered the dead and attach
ed to the marble bust of Lee on the
monument. Then the "SWeet Bye
and Bye" was sung, after which the
company marched to the city. Conn
menting on the above incident, the
Picayune says: "This act on the
part of the Cadets was entirely un-
expected, even by their hosts, the
Continental Guards, the matter hav-
ing been kept a profound secret.
1t was a ceremony conceived in a
spirit of amity and performed with
imposing dignity"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05

HARRY S. New. a son of the
Hon. John G. New, and one of the
editors and proprietor5 of the Indi-
annapolis Daily Journal, cOwhided
John q. Thompson, correspond
ent of the Chicago Times, in Indian
apolis, last Monday. Here's a
brilliant opportunity for some pun
ming paragraphist to seize his pencil
and remark that Mr.. Thompson
Thompson with p-was probably
glad of the occurrence, in order that
he might telegraph something Ne,C
to his paper.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05

Another of those exciting and IN
teresting little.episodes, a runaway
horse, occurred on last Thursday
afternoon. He dashed down Frank
lin street ''like creased lightning"
and went flying out towards Brook
lyn." His owner, Mr.. Neal, the
tobacconist, entered the ''go-as-you-
please" and overlook MIN between
town and the bridge.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
Seventeen Children Burned 4
Death.

Death.
SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. 2S.-The
Catholic Orphanage at Hyde Park,
Scranton, was burned last night.
Seventeen children were burned to
death-fOurteen boys and three
girls. The building, st. Patrick's
Orphan Asylum, situated atthe cor
ner of Jackson and Lincoln avenues
about a mile from the center of the
city, is occupied by number of Sis
tiers of Charity, and under their
charge were forty children from six
to twelve years OF age, the boys and
girls occupying separate dormitOries
on the third floor. At nalf-past
eight Sister took the children to
their rooms and locked the doors,
and as she was descending the stairs
she discovered smoke issuing from
a room in the second story, and on
opening the door she was driven
back by cloud of smoke. The fire
was raging along the ceiling, max
ing its way to the upper floor. The
Sister darted up stairs and found
the girls room full of smoke. She
took them to the lower floor and
started back to get the boys. The
smoke was pouring into the hall in
binding clouds, and when about
halfway UP stairs she was met by
stranger, whom SHE made an effort
to pass. but he refused to allow her,
saying that the boys had been res
cued and it would be dangerous for
her to go for them. She reluctant
ly went back. The alarm brought
four companies. The flames were
raging fiercely when the fremen
got to work. They were informed
of the'belief among the Sisters that
some of the children were still in
the building and made every effort
to reach the upper floor. In
short time the flames wee beaten
back and the door of the doFmitOry
burst opon and the victims of the
fire were found beneath the cots.
Only two were touched by fire, but
all had evidently been dead some
time. There is intense excitement.
The coroner's jury viewed the
bodies of the seventeen dead chill
dren this morning. Many of them
lay on the floor with blackened ia
ees and burned wrists. The jury
visited the burned asylum, and in
spected the dormitories. The boys
room was greatly damaged by the
Large holes were burned |
in the floor. The girls room was
not so much damaged. The jury |
adjourned till Friday,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
A Great Theatrical Event.
New York Evening Post.


The respective admirers of Mr..
Henry Irving and Mr.. Edwin Booth
will gather IN great force we may
be sure, in April, when these two
performers are to act together at the
Lyceum Theatre in London. They
are first to play Othello and Iago-
alternating the two characteristic
then it is said Pierre and Jaffier in
Otway's now almost obsolete "Ven-
ice Preserved When Mr.. Booths
father acted Iago to Edmund kean' s
Othello in London, it was said by
some critics that they fairly "divi-
ded the applause. The able5t part
of the London press did not say so
however, although we hope they
may be able to say or, so far as Mr..
Booth is concerned, something bet
ter when the promising interesting
conjuncture is effected in April.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05

1t is said that the precarious con-
ditiOn of Herbert Spencer's wealth
has prompted him to set about writ
ing his autobiography.-GGine in
NelC Era.
If this is a sufficient reason for a
man to inflict the world with his
autobiography, we propose to imme-
diateiy bring forth ours. We sup
pose Gaines has already Issued his
or killed his proof reader,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05

Mr.. VIM. E. GLADSTONE, the
Premier of England, met with a
serious accident in London last
week. He was alighting from his
carriage when he slipped and fell,
his head striking the steps of his
carriage, causing a severe concus-
sion. He was picked up and driven
to his home, where hesOOn recover
ed consciousness, and nothing seri-
Gus was thought of the accident.
However, before he arose from his
bed a fever set in, and considerable
alarm and uneasiness has been felt
in England in regard to his condi-
ton. He is recognized on all hands
as the natural leader of the Liberal
party-the dominant party in Eng
land, and the embodiment of its
spirit. His death would be a ma
tional calamity to England.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
THE knowing ones of the repub-

THE knowing ones of the repub-
lican party are all very busy max
ing up president Garfeld's cabinet
for him. We think there have been
at least five hundred different COM
binations suggested to him by his
admirers, all of whom have a
"friend" in whom they are strange
ly interested. OF course they do
not want anything themselves. Oh,
no. Wouldn't it pay the General to
draw "A month or two's salary in adj
vance, and hire first-class cabinet
maker.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-03-05
HOW Georgla ooston WILL. Pay.

The directors of the Enterprise
Cotton Factory at Augusta Ca,
have just declared a dividend of ten
per cent. for the past year, after
passing a handsome sum to the sur
plus fund. The company intends to
greatly enlarge their factory, Civ
ing the entire building length of
over 500 feet, increasing their spin
dies from $1,000 to between 80, 600
and 900, making their looms 900
building, in fine, a factory with
greater capacity than any in practi-
cal operation in Georgia. The Con-
stitutionalist is jubilant over the
continued success of the factories
there, and predicts that in short
time all the water front will be oc-
cupied by manufacturing establish
ments.