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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

IN the Cincinnati Enquirer of 18th
inst, Gath, in protesting to give
list of Southern states that have re-
pudiated their obligations, includes
Tennessee as having repudiated, or
scaled, upwards of sixteen millions
of her debt.
This charge was made and refut-
ed on the floor of the United States
senate some month or two ago. 1t
was clearly shown that the charge
was wholly without foundation, in
fact, and that the debt of Tennessee
had been reduced by a sale of her
interest in delinquent railroads, and
that she had never scaled or repudi-
ated a dollar of her debt. Notwith-
standing this well known fact, this
hired slanderer of the South and
her people, republishes the eXplod-
eel falsehOOd as the truth. This
man Gath belongs to Il class of
chronic 'haters of everything South
ern, who, when the truth might
serve their purpose as well, seem to
prefer a lie for the love of the
thing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

So coolly and delightfully."- has
June glided in upon us that we are
hardly conscious that summer is
really here. Lake City, nestled
down at the base of beautiful noun
tains, presents no parched streets,
no blighted, wilted foliage. That
impartial monitor, the sun, shines
as steadily down upon us as upon
our Eastern kindred, but the lofty
altitude and long mountain
shadows keep US cool "0lld pretty
comfortable This Colorado cli-
mate is beyond question the finest
on the Continent. Each day bears
health and purity on its face, and
claims an atmosphere too elevated
for Iow-born malaria to enter.
How shall / paint to absent eyes
the beauties of this grand and pic
turesque state ? The poetical effect
of roses and snow SO happily COM
mingled-for ours is also a flower
wreathed June. Never have / seen
anything SO delicate and rare and
lovely as the purple, satin-leaved
easter flower, the mountain column
bine and honey-suckle, and the fra
grant wild lily. The rocks loom
up above It's gray and peculiar,
iron-stained, silver-veined and
holding untold wealth. And speak
ing of rocks l must describe visit
up
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
THE NATIONS TROUBLESOME
WARDS.


1T seems that the Ute Indians are
disposed to violate the treaty made
by the government with them last
fall, and not only decline to move
to the new agency set apart for
them, but face the u. S. Commits
sioners boldly with the assertion
that no such treaty was ever signed
by them, and no agreement made
looking to any change of location
on their part.
The commissioners are reported
to have been considerably astonish-
ed and the Indians to the number
of about ;. thousand to have been
heavily armed and very determine
ed, and unless the government or
the red skins one back down, there
is likely to be good deal of trouble
ahead. 1t seems to us that the
whole policy of the government
towards our Indian population is
radically wrong. We can see no
sense III these frequent treaties be-
tween the supreme power of the
land and its own subjects.
The Indians are human beings,
and should be treated rs such.
They should be dealt with in their
individual capacity, and not recog-
nized as tribes ut all. Ifany num-
Der of Indians desire to locate upon
government ground they should be
allowed to do so, each taking his
160 acres of land as any other settler,
locating upon it and obeying the
laws of the state or territory where
he happens to have east his lot.
Those who insist upon leading the
lives of vagabOnds and lawbreak-
ers should be treated as vagabonds
and lawbreakers, arrested whenev-
er they can be caught, tried by the
civil authorities and penitentiaried
or otherwise punished like other
williams, without any romance about
it.
In the Indian Territory much of
the finest land on the continent is
rendered absolutely valueless by its
having been set apart years ago to
certain Indian tribes, who endeavor
to make no use of it and are furnish
ed by the government every year
with about money enough to keep
them in tabacco and whisky and
encourage them to lead worthless
lives.
Give every man in this great
country fair chance and an equal
start in life and let the law of the
survival of the fittest" apply to
all. fthe noble red man cannot
keep pace with the advance of civil
ization, then the sooner he goes to
his happy hunting ground the bet
ter
The Indians and the commits SION
ers of the government, however,
are not disposed to take this view
of the case and where each seems
bent on making trouble, there is
apt to be trouble before this knOtty
problem is finally solved.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
TO the Ladies Of ciarksvilIe.


The attention of the ladies of
GAINESVILLE, irresl ective of class or
denominations. is earnestly called to
a brief explanation of the design in
regard to the grounds, consisting of
some twenty-five acres, surround
ing the University buildings.
First, it is intended to beautify and
adorn the grounds with the ulti-
mate design of affording to all the
citizens of CJarhsriUe a beautiful
park, the advantages of With can
hardly be estimated. To effect this
most desirable object it is proposed
to constitute an organized body of
ladies, consisting of president, secre-
tary, treasurer and an advisory
board of two ladies from each de-
nomination in the city, together
with the ladies of the faculty and
DR.. Waddell to represent the board
of directors of the University. All
ladies interested in developing the
beauty and promoting the prosperi-
ty of their city are invited to at
tend a meeting at Mrs. Hume's, on
Main street, Monday afternoon, at
5 o'clock.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
Friendly Chats with Old Friends.
Committee.

Friendly Chats With Old Friends.
EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE In
giving the quotation from the
Franklin paper concerning our pros
pective Tennessee bishop, as the
Review and Journal would have it,
you have in parenthesis, 81 don't
think sou when 1 put in brackets,
"Ed don't think So" My meaning
was, that Ed Brewer, of whom l
had just spoken, did not think that
our good brother had any superior
as a preacher. Tried by the apos-
tolic standard I am willing to COM
nit myself to the same opinion, but
knowing that he read the Chronicle
l did not wish to praise his preach
ing to his face, as it were No man
is more honored and beloved in the
Tennessee Conference than Brother
Burr, and none less ambitious of
fame or promotion. Like other
good men, doubtless, he is pleased to
know that he is appreciated by his
friends, but asks not the praise of
men for doing the work of the Lord
and of the chu: CHI.
In truth this thirst for flattery on
the part of some divines is detesta-
bic, not to say wicked. To deliver
the message of God to man concern
ing the most serious and sacred in
terests of humanity, and then pro-
coed at once to "fish for compli-
ments," as to the excellence of the
sermon, is certainly putting the
man before the D1iniSteT-getting be-
fore, instead of behind the cross, as
the old ministers would put it.
When we get so charmed with our
own exploits, on general principles,
as to induce us to sound our own
trumpets, however modestly (feign-
ned often), we areat once Pharisees.
Enough.
The grapes in Williamson county
have fine appearance at present.
Wheat which is being harvested, is
much above average; oats a full crop
look unusually well and corn and
cotton, though having had Il hard
struggle with the grass, are now dis
encountered, and growing rapidly.
My son, with whom many of
your readers are we'll acquainted,
has just returned home from Nc
Kenzie College, of which he and the
Rev. E. B. Chappell are principals,
after having closed out a very pros
porous session. This institution,
about three hours ride from Clarlxs-
vile, am gratified to know, has
the hearty endorsement of Bishops
Paine and McTyeire, and other
leading ministers and laymen, and
gives promise of a career of decid-
ed success.
And Plummer has left GAINESVILLE,
has he? May prosperity ever
crown his efforts; and may success
attend the Iabors of his successor.
The name of Collins is as ointment |
poured forth in casters Arkansas
and West Tennessee, but the friends
of the Academy, about GAINESVILLE,
must be rid of their lukewarmness,
if they would have developed what
Judge Smith calls "the latent posi-
bilities of the situation" The
friends of education must take an
active part in upholding good schools
else the half-fedged ones will crush
them out; then alas for the mental
training of our children.
DOUGLASS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

GEN. w. II. SHERMAN, the mill
tary blatherskite, who is pensioned
on the taxpayers of this country to
the tune of about fifteen thousand
dollars per annum under the fraud
ulent guise of salary as general of
the army, seems to be greatly eX-
cited over some remarks in regard
to his vandalism in burning Column
bia, South Carolina, made by Jeffer-
son Davis in his recent work. Sher-
man denies the charge, and in a
speech recently made by him, says
That he will allow no man TO ques-
tion his veracity. Our opinion is
that his veracity is such a small
quantity that it is not worth the
noise he makes over it. He
admits that he charged Wade
Hampton with burning Columbia;
not because it was true or because
he believed it to be true, but to
make Hampton and his cause
odious to the Northern people.
That will do, Teeumseh-you may
stand aside. We shall not call any
witnesses to assail your character.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
Too Much Iron.

The Pittsburg Dispatch is author
ity for the statement that at least
twenty furnaces in the Lehigh and
Schuylkill valleys alone, which
were in active operation a fortnight
ago, will have gone out of blast
within a few days. and that the
condition of the iron trade is such
as to warrant grave apprehensions.
The extraordinary revival of this
industry in the fall of 1879, says the
Dispatch, stimulated production to
the point OF excess, and at the same
time spectators ordered large ship
ments from England. The combin-
ed product thus placed upon the
home market greatly exceeded the
demand, and the result has been a
serious loss upon the English inn
pOrtations, amounting in single
to $3.50, 900.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

HAYES recently gave it as his
opinion that Conkling was crazy.
What Conkling's opinion Of Hayes
has always been the country well
knows, and the country agrees with
Conkling by large majority. The
best thing for Hayes to do is to
keep his seat and undergo the sure
process of fading into oblivion. He
cannot delay that process by trying
to shoot off his mouth in the public
ear
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

The jury on the case of J. n. Ed
wards, which occupied nearly all
the time of the late session of our
Circuit court, failed to agree on a
verdict. There was eleven for ac-
quittal, and one for conviction to
the Penitentiary for a term of two
years. The jury was discharged,
and court adjourned. Mr.. Edwards
renewed his bail bond, to appear at
the next term of the Circuit court.
He is again at his post in the train
dispatcher's Ofice.-PgiS LltelIi-
geaeeF June 16.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
NeEro,s Land Of pron.ise.
Georgia Exchange.


On Friday last Elijah Gordon,
colOred, reached Hawkinsville, Ga,
after an absence of about ten years
in Liberia. About ten years ago a
large party of colored people left
HaWkinsviile for Liberia-a cOun-
try represented to them az the
Gland OF promise'-5 ,OOa miles
across the ''briny deep" In the
party were Cesar Brown and his
wife, grandfather and grandmotI er
of Elijah Gordon, Little Granny,v
and two uncles and two aunts.
"LigeD was then about eight or
nine years ofage. He is now about
eighteen or nineteen years of age,
has some education, ard can tell a
great deal about his life in Liberia.
Cesar Brown and his wife are dead,
Little Granny has also passed
away, and his two uncles and two
aunts nave also found graves i'm
that far-off land. "Lige's' father
is Charles Gordon, a weil-to-do coll
ored man of this county, and last
Christmas Charles sent his boy $50
to pay his passage from Liberia
to New York. The vessel was for
ty-one days on the trip-the dis
lance estimated at $500 miles.
Lige says that the emigrants, on
reaching Liberia, take the fever,
and many of them die. Nearly all
of them would return Immediately
if they had the money. He de-
scribes the climate as very warm
no difference between summer and
winter. Coffee and ginger are the
only money crops. The people
live on fruits and ''casadas," Il kind
of root something like a sweet pota-
to. These crops are never gather
ed, but taken from the ground as
they are wanted for food. Plows
are not used in the cultivation of
the land. Lige says a cotton seed
planted when they arrived ten
years ago, made a large stalk,
which grew like tree, and was
still growing and bearing cotton
when he left. The people have no
stock. The natives subsist in a
nude state-living upon the natural
products of the land, and are separ-
ated by tribes which hate each 9TH
er and are continually at war. He
does not think the country is inn
proving any, as the main efforts Of
the immigrants, after they have
seen the country, are devoted to
plans or means to obtain money to
return to the United States on. But
we saw last Monday a letter from
Prince Williamson TO his father,
old Jim Williamson, of this county,
telling him that Liberia is a great
country, and advising all the fami-
ly to fix up and go out to it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
A HYPOTHETICAL CHANGE.

Suppose the President of the Uni
ted States should die, what a lively
commOtion there would be in the
ranks of our republican brethren.
With Chester A. Arthur, of New
York, the vice-president, duly in
stalled as president of the United
States and Roscoe Conkling, Sec
rotary of state, and the old COM
mander, Gen. Grant, Secretary of
war, and so on, down to the end of
the long stalwart line, what chance
would there be for the lowliest post
master in the most obscure village
in all the country who had not ia
ken sides with Lord Roscoe in his
present great struggle with the adj
ministratiOn.
Arthur is the creature of Conk-
ling and, of course, warmly sympa-
thizes with his boss in this inbrog-
lilo with the president. If he should
ever, by any misfortune, such as
the death of the president (for Gar
fields death would be a great mis-
fortune indeed, if he is to be sue
ceeded by such man as Arthur) be-
come president of the republic, he
would, under the lash of Lord Res
coe, straightway proceed to bounce
all of Garfield's recent appointments
and place the entire federal patron
age in the hands of the stalwaTts.
1t is to be hoped this may never Oc-
cur. Strange things happen, how
ever, and republican office-holders,
great and small, had better go slow,
and not be too warm in their advO-
cacy of the present administration
1t would be ludicrous 10 see their
sOmersaults in such an emergency.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

New YORK Evening Post says
at is sometimes said that. the
proceedings of military courts are
summary, and that they do not
give accused persons the benefit of
a patient hearing and the careful
sitting of evidence. There seems
to be no ground for complaint in
this respect in the case of Whitta-
ker. The court-martial has been
occupied with the trial of the col
ored cadet for so long a time that
the public had we'll nigh forgotten
all abont it until reminded by the
summing up Of counsel that it was
still going on. Mr.. Chamberlain in
opening his address said that dur
ing the four months of the investi-
CATION seven thousand pages of tes-
timony had been taken. Certainly
no civil court in the country could
be more patient, not to say tedious,
than the military tribunal over
which Gen. Miles so ably and inn
partially presides."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

LAST Sunday was a gala-day with
our coIored friends, the occasion
being the ministerial meeting of
the colored churches at the Opera
House. Large numbers came in
from the country and about five
hundred on excursion trains from
Russellville and Bowling Green. a
fine silver watch, premium to the
most popular preacher, was awar-
ded to Elder Daniel Jones, OF the
First Baptist church of this city, a
well merited compliment, as Elder
Jones stands deservedly high as a
faithful shepherd and a good and
useful man. Nothing of an unpleas-
ant nature occurred, and all were
delighted with the proceedings.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

Ghefollowing list of letters remain
uncalled for in the GAINESVILLE post
office up to Saturday, June 18th,
1881. Ifnot taken out within thirty
days, they will be sent to the dead
letter'office at Washington
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
In Chancery at GAINESVILLE State Of
Tennessee.

CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE
January 3, 1881.
Mary E. Hale ct ais, VS.. Giles X. Hale ct ais.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the defendant, Giles X. Hale,
is q nonresident of the state of Tennessee.
It is therefore ordered that he enter his
appearance, herein, before or within the
first three days of the next term of the cham
Gerry court, TO be held in GAINESVILLE, on the
LIST Monday in July next, 1881, and plead, an
swer, or demur TO complainant's BILL or the
same will be taken for confessed as TO him,
and set for hearing eX parte; and that
copy of this order be published for four con-
secutiye weeks in the GAINESVILLE Chronicle.
=. q. JOHNSON,
G.. d NJ and Commissioner.
By G. w. Crozier, ID. G. * NJ.
By House and Merritt, Sol'rs for CompI'ts
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

elsewhere we publish an in
terasting letter from Colorado by
Mrs. Bette Howell Holloway, Hill
da," whose pen has so often enrich
ed our columns in times gone by.
We hope she win favor us often.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
Jno. T. COutS,
UNDERTAKEN.

/ have engaged the services of A. T.
JONES, and placed him in charge of the
Undertaking Department. He has had
much experience in this department, and
is conversant with the business in all its
details. His Office is l, 2, 3 Public Square,
opposite the Tobacco Exchange.
mo n CDTTTG
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

THE Board of Assessors met at the
court house Oh last Wednesday,
compared their assessments, and
turned their books over to the coun-
ty court clerk. The city assessment
books have also been returned to
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
We understand from Mr.. r. II.
Williams, city assessor, that the city
assessment is much larger than
heretofore.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
sHROUDs.

l have quite large stock of Burial Robes
for gentlemen and ladies, which legitimate
ly belong to my trade, ready prepared for
Immediate demand. Persons wishing a
robe to go with the casl1et win please let 1t
be known. JNO. f. COUTS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

THE Whitaker court martial
will cost the Government 500, 900.
Let's see; Shakespeare said some
thing about the "rich jewel in an
Ethiop's ear.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

The Grand 'COmmandery of
knights Templar of Tennessee, met
their nineteenth annual conclave at
Knoxville Tennessee, on Thursday
of last week the 9th inst. The ses.
sion is said By the press and visi-
itOrs to have been one of the great
est interest. There was brilliant
and unusually large assemblage of
knights and guests from all over
the state and they are perfectly en-
thusiastic in their praise and appre-
citation of the hearty reception and
unbOunded hospitality of the resi-
dent knights and the citizens of
Knoxville.
Sir knights G. B. Wilson, Walt
err McComb and f. G. Williams
went representatives Ofthe Clarks-
vile Commandery and are full to
overlooking with accounts of the re-
ception they all received. Their
visit to the points of interest about
the city, and especially to the pala-
tiaI residences and beautifully dec
grated grounds of Major Thos.
O'Conner and other prominent citi-
zens where receptions were given
the knights, added greatly to the
enjoyment of the meeting. Emf
nent Sir G.. B. Wilson had the
high and distinguished honor of
being elected Grand Senior Warder
for the ens"ing year. Mr.. Wilson
is winning great emminence in this
ancient and honorable order.
TIE city authorities have en-
ployed Mr.. Jno. Conroy to drain
the Mcdaniel pond. He has a force
at work cleaning out the well on
Mrs. DIR. McReynOlds' lot, and is
making good Roadway This drain
kept the pond dry for many years,
and if properly attended to will
continue to do so in the future.
We are glad to see that the big
pond out at CarliSle's mill, on
Franklin street, has again run dry.
The city was just taking steps to
have it redrained when all of a
sudden, on last Monday, it broke
through one of the old wells by
which it was formerly drained, and
ran rapidly off. This proves con-
clusively that there is a natural
drain at this point, and if the city
will only keep the well thoroughly
cleaned out, the pond will never
form again.
The odors arising from these
ponds are not 50 sweet as those
waited from "Araby the blest,"
and the scattering of a few
loads of lime on the mud is
highly appreciated by the citizens
in the vicinity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

The CHRONICLE book-bindery
has recently been turning out some
fine work for Columbia, Shelby
vile, Jackson, Trenton and Dres-
den, Tenn, besides several jobs for
parties in Kentucky, and one for
Texas. They do as good work as
can be got up anywhere, and at
much lower rates than have been
charged by other houses.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

MR.. SAM. STEWART has at his
drugstore beautiful fish called the
"Golden Carp" it weighs about a
pound and a half and was caught
in a pond in New Providence by a
son of Mr.. Bob Rossington. 1t is
genuine Golden Carp, and as it is
the first one ever seen in this coun-
ty the question is, how came it here?
Sam says he can only account for it
on the popular theory of "Sponta-
neous combustion"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18
CORN FOB SALEI

l have $50 barrels of Corn for sale at my
farm in Christian county, Ky, near Oak
Grove, Ky. Price g 90 per Dbl. at the crib.
Apply to W. b. Hawkins on the farm.
JOHN w. WALLACE.
June IL, lSS1-4w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-18

ALL persons having claims against A.
NJ Fink, deceased, are hereby notlhed 70
quires, or they will be barred. And all per-
sons indebted to said a. NJ. Fink, are notifi-
cd to come forward and make payment
SIMON BLOCH, Executor.
May 7, ISSl-4w.