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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
CAVE NOTES.

Josh Rice says, if the Lord had
located the garden of Eden around
the cave that Adam and Eve would
have been there yet.
The managers intend to have
large picnic, brandance and barbe-
cue in a few days which will be the
biggist affair of the season. Every
body will be there.
The grand barbecue and picnic
at Dunbar's cave has been post
poned until Tuesday the Both inst.
Ex-Governor Coleman, of the Rural
World, st. Louis, NO., has promised
to address the people on that day.
The way the cave will be lighted
with magnesium is this: the COM
pany will be conducted to the pref
test part of the cave and placed in
position. Then the magnesium
will be lighted and burnt long
enough to have a good view.
The people, especially the ladies
and children, continue to flock dali
ly to the cave with undated inter-
est and pleasure. Now that the
weather is cooler and there is not
so much dust the drive ont is de-
cidedly pleasant.
If you want to be highly enter
tanned while at the cave just button
hole Pete Johnson and make him
tell you about his experiences "by
food and field" in Texas. They
are rich, rare and racy.
Mr.. Rice by request of friends
who have seen the cave by magne-
SUM light, will light it on the day
of the barbecue, the Both inst. La
dies, bring your old listers and see
the cave as by daylight: These
lights cost about so cents per min
ute, and he cannot afford to burn
it unless he has good company:
tickets 80 cts.
We reckon JoshRice is as near
heaven as he will ever get. He has
said while raising and giving away
roses by the thousand that all he
cared for was to makethe women and
children happy. With the addition
of the cave and Pete johnson he is
making a little paradise for the
children. There was particularly
large crowd out on last Tuesday,
with at least seven children to each
adult. The ladies in attendance
must have borrowed a good many.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
REPORT OF THE COURT-HOUSE
OMMESsIONERS
10 The People Of Montgomery Con-
f,y Tennessee

10 the People Of Montgomery COM
tn, Tennessee
On the night of April Is, 1878, the
old courthouse of Montgomery
county was destroyed by fire. The
Quarterly court had adjourned only
a few days before, and was not 10
meet again until the following July,
but there was a strong demand
from all parts of the county that
steps should be taken at once look
ing to the rebuilding of the court
house, and a petition was signed by
many Of the Justices asking the
county judge to call the magistrates
of the county together in extra ses-
sion at once for this purpose.
This call was issued, and the
Quarterly court convened at the
market-house, in GAINESVILLE, on
Monday, April %, 1873, and after
discussion, elected five commission
ers "for the purpose of rebuilding
the courthouse"
The names OF these commissions
ers were: Griffin Orgain, w. S. Mall
lory, G. III. Slaughter, q. G.. Smith
and Chas. w. Tyler and .
son motion it was ordered by the
court that The said commissioners
act under and they are hereby vest
ed with ali the power conferred
under the code and statutes of the
state of Tennessee"
The first duty of the commission
ers was to select a lot upon which
! to erect the new courthouse. They
advertised for sealed proposals
from persons having lots to sell,
and ON Monday, July l Quarterly
court being again in SESSION., re-
commended the large lot opposite
the Methodist church as a suitable
site for the building. This PROPOSE
ton meeting with strong opposition
from many business men of Clarks
vile was voted down by the court
and the commissioners were in
structed TO recommend another lot
they retired for consultation, anc
on the same day reported that one
of them recommended the lot
known as the Johnson lot; another
the lot OF DIR. Cobb; while three o.
the commissioners were in favor o.
retaining the old courthouse lot fol
the time, and not then purchasing
another.
The court decided by vote O
seventeen ayes to fifteen noes tC
purchase the johnson lot, the price
paid being sixteen thousand three
hundred and fifty dollars, of which
four thousand eight hundred and
fifty dollars was paid cash, and fol
the remaining eleven thousand five
hundred dollars notes ). ere given
payable five years after date.
The lot having thus been chosen
by the court, the commissioners
proceeded to the selection of a plan
for the building. Desiring to have
as many different designs as posi-
BILE from which to choose, they
placed the following advertisement
in the newspapers of the county
the Nashville American and the
Courier Journal, at Louisville:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

THE Internal machines are get
ting aIarmingly common in this
country, it would seem. The report
now comes that an effort was made
10 blow up a liquor saloon, out west
with one Of these death-dealing ex-
nlosives. 1t is questionable howev-
q. whether It was not spontane-
o,s combustion of some Of Cincin-
MATHS ~blue ruin" whisky. IT Is far
deadlier than dynamite.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
Trust Sale.

By virtue of the authority given me in o
and wife, E. N. Taylor, on the 10Th OF Au.
gust, 1879, and which will be found recorded
In Trust Deed Book s. pages 239 and 240 Of
l will sell to the highest bidder, on the
premises, Oh the oath day of September
1881, a certain lot or parcel of land lying
near the city of GAINESVILLE, and bounded as
Iege and Ninth streets and runs eastwardly
with College street 200 feet, thence north on
Il line parallel with Ninth street $50 feet
thence westwardly 200 feet to Ninth street
thence southwardly with Ninth street to
the beginning.
TERMS OF SALE-Two hundred dollars
No redemption. ~ &
J.P. Y WHITFIELD, Trustee.
S-2O-4w EHFf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20


Payments 5O,O45.50
Balance. ,l2l99
The commissioners have thus en-
deavored to state, for the informa-
ton of the public, precisely how
they have discharged the trust re-
posed in them, which was to have
courthouse erected according to
the plans adopted by the court in
August, 1873. 1t will be seen that
the building as it now stands will
cost the county according to the
contract, as understood by the COM
missioners, SOC, 5000, of which
$50,045.56 has been, already paid.
That it will cost the county, accor-
ding to the contract as insisted up
on by the contractors, Mccormack
Il Sweeny, 5,784.35 more, or &c.,
1908 nall. This, it will be under
stood, is for the building proper, it
does not include the furniture for the
house, or the arrangements for heat.
ting or lighting it, the architects
commission, or the insurance upon
it, or any other item not contempla-
ted by the court in accepting the
plan of G. w. Bunting at the price OF
$50, 10000. 1t of course does not in
clude the lot on which the house
stands or the grading of the lot, the
fencing, the pavements, the sewer
age to the river-all of which are
necessary before the entire under
taking is complete.
The court might have appointed
another committee to attend to
these matters, but it has left it to
the courthouse commissioners to
see all these arrangements carried
out, and while complete report
cannot yet be made as the work is
incomplete, statement can be rem
dered of the expenditures to date
and the entire cost very closely APP
proximated.
The following is a complete state
ment of all expenses incurred and
paid to date, in connection with the
building, outside of contract with
Mccormack & SWeeny:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

THIS is the kind of a canebrake
that / don't like" was what Pom
pey remarked when his master
broke a walking-stick over his
shoulders.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

As an evidence of the parched
condition of vegetation in this sec
ton, an engine set fire to field OF
clover lying along the track, on the
farm of r. w. Hall of the city, and
burned ten acres, one day recently
Tribune and San.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
Scholastic reputation for 1854

Enumeration of the scholastic
population in district No. II, Mont
gomery county, Tennessee, between
the ages of six and twenty-one
years, is as follows:
No. of white males in the city,. ....327
No. of white females in the city--..--.S24 Dol
No. of colored males in the city .........257
No. of colOred females in the city-...-.266 52S
Grand total in the city. .............. liza
No. of white males in the district..Ia5
No. of white females in the district---2A S96
No. of colored4 males in the distrIct..z70
No. of col. females in the district...--.3ll 5Sl
Grand totalin the district....-...... 81
No. white males and females in city. .65I
No. OF col. males and females in city 523 liza
No. of white males and females in
the district. - .-s96
No. of colored males and females in
the district 977
Grand 2I5i.
Respectfully,
JAMES 4. WOOD,
Scholastic Census Taker.
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
Executors Notice.

Having qualified as Executor of the
estate of Bailey Allen, decd, herbey no
tify all persons indebted to the estate to
come forward and settle, and any persons
having claims against said estate will file
them as required by law, or they VIII be
barred. NOBLE ALLEN,
aug. 20, 'Sl-4w. executor.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
Go south, Young Man.

That section of the country which
has SO long suffered from war and
the wounds of war is evidently ON
the eve of a great industrial devel-
opment. 1t is not improbable that
in the near future the advice to the
thrifty and the industrious will be
not go West" but "Go South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

The commissioners however, were
ready to settle in full and pay over
to the contractors, the balance due
tteIH, provided a reasonable de-
duction from contract price was
made for the above items.
The account according to the
commissioners stood as follows:
Contract price of building ......... So, 10000
Extras, as above set out................. 3,09595
S5S,O9595
Deduct unfurnished items. ..............S ,j6975
S56,5262O
Paid Mccormack & Swee-
ny...-.............. 02S.90
Paid on clock and bell. S66.66
Paid difference in blinds. 5000
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
s46,545.65 s46,545.5O


ny................ ..................S 10, 1880
Paid on clock and bell........ S6666
Paid difference in blinds. 5000
s4G,545.65 s46,5455G
The contractors, however, insist
ed that the house was completed
according to contract, and that the
commissioners should receive it as
it was. They also presented the
following bill of extras, which
had not been allowed by the COM
missioners or approved by the arch
itect:
Two chimneys and caps......-............S 10000
Extra for whitening ceilings ...... 1896
Extra masonry and excavation in
$4,000
sl,22I.6O
According to the contractors, the
account stood as follows:
Extras allowed by om'sioners........ 3,O95.95
Extras not allowed by com 'siOners. 4,224.6O
s62,l7O.55
Payments, including clock and
bell and difference in blindS........S46,545 SO
Balance ,624.09
If to this bill of the contractors
should be added the $3.50, actual
cost of the steam heater and water
tank, which they were to supply
under the original contract, it will
be seen that they were demanding
$50, 92O.5 for building a house, the
contract for which was $50, 900.
The commissioners agreed to re-
fer the matters in issue between
themselves and the contractors to
arbitration, but the arbitrator
failed to agree and rendered no
award.
Being extremely anxious to OBJ
tain receipt in full and settle the
matter finally, the commissioners
then offered to compromise, and
addressed the following note TO the
contractors:
McCORMAC & SWEENY-AuguSt IL, 1881;
Dear Sirs-After carefully considering the
whole matter, the courthouse commission
ers instruct me to say to you that they VIII
accept the courthouse in its present, as we
consider, unfinished condition, and VIII
pay YOU twelve thousand dollars tSl2,OOO) in
full of every demand on your part against
the county. Should you accept this PIopo-
sition / am authorized TO draw check pay
able to you for this amount. Respectfully,
CAAS. w. TYLER, Chm'n.
This being rejected, the commits
sioners increased the offer of COM
promise to $4,000, which being
again rejected, the matter was
dropped, as they declined to go any
farther unless especially ordered by
the Quarterly court to do so.
The statement having been made
by the contractors that they owed
about S, 800 to various workmen in
the county, which they desired to
pay at once, the commissioners
paid them this amount $4,000,
feeling that they could safely do SO,
and also took charge of the court
house, addressing the following
note to the contractors
MCCORMACK a. SwEENY-Aug- II, ISL
Dear Sirs: The courthouse commissioners
~ SaSs,nSoneihIe for any future loss or dam
noe mt admitting that it is completed &C.
cording to contract or waving any right
which they might otherwise nave nfAo-
Respectfully,
The account between the county
and Mccormack & Sweeny, there
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
TO ARCHITECTS:

CLARKsvILLE, Tenn, June 3, lSSl.-The
undersigned having been appointed Com
miSSiOnerS by the County Court of Mont
gomery county, Tenn, to superintend the
erection of Court house, hereby invite
same, to do so on or before the Sd day OF
August, 1878.
ISigned, etc.1
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

S1S,l3l 80
At the April term, 1879, G.. G.
Smith, one of the commissioners,
resigned and l. p. Howard, mag
istrate of the county, was elected in
his stead by the Quarterly court.
In July, 1879, G. w. Bunting, the
original architect of the building
was discharged by the commission
ers and G.. G. Rosenplanter was APP
pointed in his place; this change
was agreed to by the contractors in
writing. After the discharge of Mr..
Bunting, it was ascertained that he
had taken away with him or failed
to furnish 12I plans and drawings,
for which he had been previously
paid. Mr.. Bunting was written to
for these drawings, but refused to
supply them, and as it was impos.
sible for the work to proceed with
out them, the commissioners were
compelled to employ Mr.. Groves, a
draughtsman in the Office of Mr..
Rosenplanter, to make them out
He was engaged on this work about
ten months, and received as COM
pensation S675.OO, a sum considera-
bly, less than that paid Mr.. Bunting
for the same work. From this time
on the contractors were paid regu-
Iarly upon the estimates of Mr.. Ros-
enplanter, so per cent. for the value
of the labor and material furnished
by them, the remaining 20 per cent.
being reserved by the commission
ers as security for the faithful per-
Torrance of the contract.
1t will be borne in mind that at
the time the commissioners assum-
ed the obligation for the county and
the contractors began the work.
No courthouse fund proper, had
been provided for the erection of the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20

McCORMAC & SwEENY-August II, 1881:
Dear Sirs-After carefully considering the
whole matter, the courthouse commission
ers instruct me to say to you that they VIII
accept the courthouse in its present, as we
consider unfinished condition, and viii
paw YOU twelve thousand dollars tSl2,OOO) in
full of every demand on your part against
the county. Should you accept this pTOpo-
sition am authorized to draw check pay
able to you for this amount. Respectfully,
Az rrNyT ND
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-02

It was the supreme moment of his life
to that man, To be believed on his word
alone by the woman who was in his pow
er was a strange, sweet thought mo
ment he would finger on just little.
Her eyes glowed like stars as they
gazed into his, Her breath came quick
and short He laid his hand lightly on
her heart. 1t throbbed tiercely-half
with fright, half with passion. She was
his-his with all the divine impulse OF
youth and passion-his when she knew
the morrow would bring forth tears and
pain-his when for one hour with HIM
she was resolved to brave lifetime OF
disgrace. He had won his wife as he had
had always meant to win her. 49,.
"Once more. You are sure You will
never regret the past when l am gone
when you are left alone with your dis
grace?"
"Never!"
A pause, the sweet eyes gazing steadi-
ly into his.
"Then, Dotha, I want you to be my
wife. It is easy to love and trust when
the way is clear, but to love
and trust in the dark is the test OF o
woman's affection. My little girl. you
have tonight filled my ideal of the
woman began to search for many years
ago." =.
In a moment her arms we're about his
neck, and he had bent his forehead to
receive her kiss. No woman had kissed
him there since his mother died, They
sat long in the moonshine stiffness. The
whole world was as naught to them, for
they had found each other without the
worlds help.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-02

Some twenty five pretty, vain, and 70
mantle young ladies have responded to
Adam Forepaugh's offer of $4,000 for
the loveliest lady in the land, and a.
these are mostly from near by places, it
ia fair to presume that by the time the
mails come in from more remote points
there will be collected photographs
enough to form, in the language OF civ
Gus advertiser, "the grandest aggrega-
ton of female loneliness ever witnessed.
eyes," said Charles II. Day, OF the
Forepaugh show yesterday, in con-
versation with press reporter, II have
received about twenty-five responses,
and such varied collection of letters
you never saw, big letters, little letters,
white letters, pink letters, blue letters,
yellow letters, chocolate colored letters,
wide letters, narrow letters, thick letters,
thin letters, sweet scented letters, letters
written in blue, black, pink, and every
other color of ink; letters written pref
tily, cutely, badly, horribly, illegibly.
and in every other way"
"Well, how about the photographs ?"
interrupted the reporter.
"Oh! there we're some good faces
among them" was the reply, "but as
rule they were bad lot, and am afraid
that not one of them stands chance for
the prize. We have only heard from
near Philadelphia to New York. just
wait till we receive the photographs Of
the Kentucky blue grass bellies, the
beauties of Baltimore, and the big-footed
girls of Chicago. Then you will see an
indispensable collection of female
beauty. Look at that" continued Mr..
Day, pointing at penny valentine OF .
hideously ugly woman. bearing the
title: "The Prettiest Girl in Town" 1T
came from New York yesterday, with the
request to consider it the illustrated
shadow of an applicant for the SIC, 600
prize. Feeling assured that she had no
chance to capture it, tackled her upon
the wall"
Don't you think that most of the re-
sponses to your offer will come from bal
let girls and female subordinates in
theaters?" ventured the reporter.
II have no doubt that we will receive
many from such sources, but l also ex-
pect to hear from persons outside OF the
profession. 1t would not surprise me to
receive photographs from Vassar Col
lege. The girls are SO vain, you know.
It's natural feminine weakness. Every
girl thinks she is pretty. l suppose you
know that we want this lovely woman to
appear in our Oriental street pageant
dressed as a princess. 1t don't matter II
she has big feet. or is crazy, SO that she
has o pretty face. It is a question of
beauty, not brains. Why, sir. this vo-
man, whoever she is, will make her for
tune. Already We have two prominent
photographers offered to pay heavy roy
alties for selling her picture, but we will
money. The offer stands open till
March 31st, and in the meantime can
only say, good luck to the fortunate
one."- Philadelphia Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-02
The Fungi in the Nevada Mines.

Visitors to ancient wine.vaults or
damp coal-pits are sometimes astonished
by the curious fungi which drape the
walls with gruesome tapestry; but every
instance of this kind is thrown into the
shade by the extraordiny growths which
have recently been discovered in some OF
the deserted Mexican silver mines OF
Nevada, United States. The dark, warm,
timber galleries and drifts of these old
workings, abandoned to themselves for
years, have silently gwen birth to .
monstrous brood of morbid vegetation,
which apparently has no parallel in the
regions OF the sunlight and open air. In
general they are of snowy Wilderness.
and some Of the hooded masses rise up
several feet from the ground like sheeted
ghosts. Others, in the distance, take
the form OF bearded goats or sleeping
owls. Here great punches of long white
hair hang down from the roof; and there
hugo pnlpy masses cucumber the floor
like bosses OF brainstone coral. The
latter appear TO have sprung miracu-
lousy from something spilled upon tho
rocks in past days, while the former seem
to have been crystallizcd like hoar frost
from the atmosphere itself. Some OF tho
rounded masses have actually lifted up
from tho floor blocks Of stone weighing
ton, fifty, and evon hundred pounds 10
a height Of three feet. In the higher
levels Of the mines, whore the mir IL
drier, the fungi are far less bulky than
below and much frmer in texture. The
shapes hero are, however, more elaborate
and beautiful. One kind grows in .
twisted spiral, like rams horn. to
length OF five feet. and hangs from tho
rafters like y trophy OF the chase, or.
rather, like serpent suspended by the
tail. Another sort sends out stem the
thickness Of y pencil 10 height OF ono
or two feet, where il blossoms into
dubious knob, something like flower.
Nothing like the toadsto0l or the com
mon mushroom il " be found. and the
wondrous growths have all the aspect Of
being called into special being by the
pecnliarities Of their environments
New York Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-02

One Of the bost atteSted cases OF e!s
treme longevity IL that Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Tread we'll Weston, Of Peterboro, N: h.s
who celebrated nor ono hundred ana
third birthday at Greenfield on February
ID. II has been maintained with mucA
pains and ingenuity that thore Ii no
proof that any person In modern times
has lived 10 the ago Of 100 years; bus
most persona believe that overwhelming
evidence exists 70 upset this theory. In
The case Of Mrs. Weston, the records ars
very clear. According 10 these she was
born February 10, ITS, In Peterbcro',
and married Abs1 Weston In l798. Five
Of her children ase now living, tho cid
~ Of thea, Dsasoa Samuel Weston. q
~ eighAy.1lth yeas.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-06-30

There being no oshsr buslusss. Tfus-
tee Dsuehy In . fsv appropriate remarks
moved that . vote OF thanks b rendered
to President Fox and President (pro
tem) Mercer Tor the able mannsr In
which thsy have prssidsd on Ill ooca-
sions.
Trustee Mercer replied BY saying that
the unity Of feeling which has existed at
all times among the members Of the
Board made the duties Of presiding
officer light and pleasant. Hs thanked
the members for this marx OF courtesy
shown to President Fox and himself.
and hoped the good feeling nov existing
would continue to bind them together ~
ins-parabls friends.
The Board then adjourned sias de.