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The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-06-23
TIMBER PLENTY

for all practical purposes, and more
convenient than is usually TO be
found in connection with Prairie
Farms in This section Of the State.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-06-23

I. W. SooTT, Secretary.
HoUsroN, MISS June Is, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

JOHN KELLY, the Grand Sachem
of Tammany and the same that de-
feated Hancock for president last
year, after a short period of COM
mendable silence which the country
at large had hoped would be indefi-
mite, isagain becoming obstreperous
and wants to take hand in the APP
preaching democratic State conven-
tion in New York. 1t strikes us its
about time the honorable gentleman
was notified that the democracy of
the country has had enough of his
Questionable support and that his
room wolld be better than his COM
pany. He says he wants unity.
Yes, unity is doubtless what he de-
desires. His past course shows that
but his desire for unity is very SIM
liar to that of the intelligent juror
who said "We could have agreed if
there had not been eleven id con-
trary men on the jury"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
Commissioner Hawkins Report
for August.

Commissioner Hawkins Report
for August.
In view of the drouth of the past
summer which has prevailed with
greater or less intensity, not only in
Tennessee, but throughout the great
corn belt of the Union, it is now
evident that there will be a scarcity
of corn for the ensuing year, and
that it will rule high in the markets.
In view of the scarcity and conse-
quent high price of this staple, L
suggest to farmers in Tennessee,
that they adopt every reasonable
economy in its use.
Let every particle of provender
which eau be made to act as a sub
stitute for corn be saved. Let all
surplus stock which can be got into
marketable condition and sold with
out sacrifice, be disposed of. Keep
no more through the winter than
is necessary for your next years
business. During the comparative
leisure of the autumn prepare COM
Portable winter quarters for all the
stock which it may be necessary to
keep over. Sow full crops of rye
which will yield valuable pasturage
during the winter months and
make good returns as grain crop
or serve good purpose as fertilizer
if plOwed under In the Spring.
Barley will answer the same pur-
pose for pasturage and is, perhaps,
more profitable as a grain crop.
After thorough preparation of
your land, SOW wheat as largely as
is practicable. 1t will give pastur-
age for winter and bread for sum-
mer.
The partial failure of the corn
crop furnishes no occasion for a
panic. 1t of course curtails the
profits of the farmer and produces
a general inconvenience, but if the
dictates of prudence prevail, need
occasion no great loss or suffering
in the country. If it should lead
the farmers of Tennessee to adopt a
different system of agriculture, it
may, after the immediate hardship
is over, prove blessing in disguise.
A. w. HAWKINS,
Commissioner.
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. II, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

Mr.. HARVEY WATERsoN, father
of Mr.. Henry Waterson, of the
Louisville Courier-JOurnal, writes
in that paper: "John Bell, Of
Tennessee, was a native Of the State
and graduated at the Nashville
University. He studied law and
was admitted TO the bar in 1916.
His first race for Congress came off
I'm 1897, and Felix Grundy was his
competitor. i well remember the
excitement IL produced. There was
only one party in the State at that
time-the Jackson party. Both can
didates were friends to the old hero,
and the choice lay between Iaen.
Mr.. Grundy was iifty-seven years
of age and Mr.. Bell thirty. Here
let me say that II sprightly young
man Is pitted against an old man
in political contest before tho
people, everything else being equal.
he will defeat him nine times out
of ten. The reason Is that he rallies
to his support the active, enthuslas-
tic young fellows, and even tho old
men who have n son like to encOur-
age the boys. The result was that
Mr.. Bell was elected by majority
of few hundred votes. He WIS
continued in Congress for fourteen
years, officiating during one term
as Speaker of the House. In 1874
he was elected a Senator in Con-
gress, and reelected in 1858, serv-
ing until 1859. In 1860 no was
nominated for President, and re-
ceived the electoral vote Of Tennes-
see and several other States. /
favored his two elections to tho
Senate, for he was head and
intellectually, above any
of his Whig competitors. / was
looking to the honor Of my State.
He died few years after the war,
aged about ~ years"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
Origin of ssI'he sweet BYe-and-
Bye"

There is a story that the popular
hymn, "The Sweet Bye-and-Bye,"
was the work of two men while in
toxicated. Joseph p. Webster, who
composed the music, died several
years ago. DIR. S. f. Bennett, au-
thor of the verses, lives in Rich
mond, Ill. He says thatthe charge
of intOxication is untrue, though
Webster was a free drinker. The
two wrote a hymn-book in 1874,
and "The Sweet Bye-and-Bye" was
one of the pieces jointly produced
for it. The suggestion came from
a chance remark by Webster, who
was habitually desDondent, that all
would be well "bye-and-bye."
Bennett at once made the rhymes,
and Webster brought the music out
of fiddle, which was his customa-
ry aid in composition. The hymn
book had its day and is forgotten !;
but this one tune is put into every
new publication of the kind, and
has sale of ten thousand copies
year i'm sheet form. DIR. Bennett
says that he and Webster were not
orthodox Christians when the
hymn was written, and that he is
now even less a believer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
Wallace GrueIIe "Gives Breclxin.
ridge HE'LL"

Twenty-Five or three years ago
we were the foreman of the Win
chester Chronicle Office. We also
did all the writing on the paper
except the political articles. The
politics Of the paper was native
American, and our own being un-
mitigatedly Democratic, the pro-
prietor of the paper had to look
elsewhere for his political amuni-
tion, our venerable friend, Judge
Flanagan, being his principal
political writer. One day the pro-
pfietor and one of the young Gays
started off for week car two fr0lic,
and left note informing us that
Jno. G. Breckenridge was to speak
in Winchester on the following
Monday County court day., and as
Judge Flanagan was absent from
town he expected us to take notes
of Breckinrigde's speech "and give
him hell" This part of the in
struction was heavily underscored,
and a postscript assured us that the
more hell we gave Breckenridge
the better pleased would be the
patrons or the Chronicle. Now
there were two important considera-
tiOns our empoyer had overlooked.
l. 1t was not in the contract for
us to perform any editorial labor
whatever on the paper. 2. AS a
good and true Democrat, giving
Jno. G.. Breckinridge hell was a
species of blasphemy we did not
propose to engage in. Well, to
make a long story short, Monday
came around, and with it came the
then Vice President of the United
States. We had been his warm
admirer for years, and had never
lost an opportunity to hear him
speak. We went and took cOpious
notes of his mastery address. And
you may be sure in the next issue
of the Chronicle the Knownothings
of Clark county were treated to
more genuine, soul-saving political
gospel than they had ever had par
taken of before. We not only re-
produced the chief points of the
distinguished statesman's speech,
but we elaborated and explained
and argued until any one picking
up the paper and not aware of its
political bias, would have imag-
ined that the Chronicle was as red
hot a Locofoco sheet as ever issued
from the press: and we wound up
the article with the finest and most
eloquent eulogy of Mr.. Breckenridge
that we could pen. You had better
believe there was a commOtiOn in
camp. Indignant Knownothings
came prancing into the office and
had their names stricken from the
subscription list, and for the space
of about a week the name of the
proprietor was the most unanimous-.l
ly execrated cognomen within our
knowledge. They damned him up
hill down hill and across lots. |
Traitor, scoundrel and villain were
the mildest epithets applied to him,
and when he returned the fun grew
hot and furious. At first he was as
indignant as any of them, but we
plainly give him TO understand
that he must stay at home and take
care of his own paper that when
ever he left the burden of it on our
as in the present instance,
we would certainly issue Demo- |
cratic sheet. Finally his explana-
tiOns and apologies and promises
to keep closer watch on the pa |
per prevailed, and peace again |
reigned in Warsaw, but not before |
the Democrats of old Clark had |
their full fun out of the way we |
tgaVe Breckenridge hell"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

FROM various counties we learn
THAR the people are rapidly paying
thei taxes, instead of relying upon
demagogue promises, which either
never amount to anything, orresult,
as the suspension of the taxes for
1880 did, in a double tax in one year.
The small taxpayers, especially,
who pay more in proportion than
the large Taxpayers, are coming up
with their payments, preferring this
to waiting and rislking the certain
falling together again of two taxes
in case of suspension. The move
ment for suspension is generally
from the larger taxpayers, who pay
the least proportion to the amount
of their property. There has never
been any suspension of taxes in this
State which has not resulted in
greater hardship from a double tax
than a prompt and timely collection.
We grant the hardship of payment,
but we cannot consent to advocate
a policy which would do the people
a greater injury than present pay
ment.-NdShUiILe american.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
The virginia Campaign.

In conversation with newspa-
per correspondent few days ago,
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee said: 81 am
confident we will carry the State
by at least 10000 majority. I felt
satisfied of this fact when our con-
vention met; since then / have not
seen or heard of anything to cause
me to change my opinion. Our
people are working in earnest. The
ranks of the enemy are in confus-
ion; the negroes are becoming dis
satisfied and coming over to our
side they are beginning to under
stand that All honest policy for both
white and cOlored citizens is best.
Yes, feel confident of victory; it
seems to me that the contest is al
ready decided. But, of course, we
will not relax our efforts in the
least until the contest is finally de-
cided at the polls"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
CIarksyiIIe Wholesale Market
coRREcrEp BY IL. cRusMAN.


SUGAR-CutL Loaf Crushed, Powdered and
Granulated, l054@l2c; Clarified, 919@l015cts
MoLAssSEEsW sWNew orleans, IS to soc.
SYRUP-4Oc to 75c.
q to SEC.
sALT-,Kanawha, bushel bbls., 81 90; by
the car load, 81 95.
6 90; Choice or Fancy. 81 50 to 60; Patent
Process, SIS so to s 75.
STAR CANDLES-121z to I5c.
WHISKY-Common country, 81 OO@l 20;
best brands Robertson county, 81 25 TO 2 90.
CHEESE-Prime factory, i2@I5c.
RICE-Carolina, 9 to Sc.
OILS-Coai oil, l4c; lard oil, Coo; lin
seed Oil, raw, zoe; boiled, 73c,
TURPENTINE-S Spirits, 36c.
YARNISH-Copal, 81 90; Japan, 9Oc.
dLAss-Window, sxlO, 81 Is per box; lOx
PoWDER1Rife, Sc so per keg; lead &c per
SARDINEs- rs per doz.
MACKEREL-No. 8 per bbl., Sc SO to IS so;
kits, Nos. l, 2 and 3, 75c to 81 25.
BLACKING-25@6Oc per dozen.
NAILS-S3 25 to 3 So
IRON-Kentucky, 211fc; Tennessee, &c.
TRACESSs5O 90 to II 90 per dozen.
COLLARS-S5 so to II 90 per dozen.
HAMES-s5 50 to 10 90 per dozen.
AXES-Sl0 90 to Il 90 per dozen.
BLUE GRASS-Sl p.
ORCHARD GRASS-Sl rs.
TIMOTHY SEEDS 25
CLOVER SEED-S6 so.
RED TOPIC.
SHOT-Sl 80 a 100.
CAPS-40950c per 1000.
OYSTERS-l and lb. cans, 81 30(0l IS.
The following are the prices paid here at
this date for country produce:
PORK-41< to 5 nett.
BACON-Hog round, ll1z cts
LARD-l3.
TALLOW-5c.
PEANUTS-40@5Oc per bushel.
GINSENG-G0c to 75c.
BEESWAX-l5 to lSc.
FEATHERS-new, 35 to 40c.
BEANS-White, 81 90.
PEAS-75c to 81 90.
E(I(IG Sc per dozen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

was one from Aunt Bess-a solicita-
tion to come as he had promised.
He went, and again met Myrtle
Bowers, and was captivated the
more by her pale face and changed
department, and something in her
manner encouraged him to again
tell the story of his love, which he
did, and was accepted. Soon after
their engagement they were invited
to attend the wedding of DIR. Will
son and Estelle Vogle. All were
very happy. And Aunt Bess said !:
at is just as / wished. Just so
after all. -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

A GREAT many papers are abus-
ing and ridiculing Governor Haw-
kins for sending letters to the Gov
ernOrs of the various states relating
to the funeral of President Garfield.
Well bet every one of these same
papers has brilliant inaprOnaaotu (9)
obituary of the President already set
up and laid away ready for use on
the shortest notice. Some of them
have actually published it. IT'S
true the Governor was little ttoo
previous but before you complain
of the moat in the gubnatorial eye,
take the beam from thine own.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
A STRANGE freak of electricity

A STRANGE freak of electricity is
attracting attention in California.
There is tract of country in Butte
county, about fifteen miles long and
half a mile wide, where the light
ming strikes tree nearly every time
storm passes over. As many as
three fires have been caused by
lightning in this tract in a single
storm, and the whole belt can be
plainly traced by the dead timber
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

Ladies you cannot make far skin,
rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with
all the cosmetics of Franco, or beau-
tifiers of the world, while in poor
health, and nothing will give you
such good health, strength, buoyant
spirits and beauty as Hop Bitters.
A trial Is certain proof. Telegraph.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24
ONE Reason for NJ.

Certain parties are exceedingly
anxious to make it appear that the
Eads jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, below New Or
leans, are dead failure, and that
the $5,OO0,O00 paid out on their
account by the government is next
to a dead loss. When it is remem-
cred how the shippings of grain
which has heretofore been monOpO-
lized by Northern parties-has in
creased at New Orleans because of
their jetties, the secret of the attack
upon them may be guessed. COL
ltnl6us, Ga, Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

WRITING to merchant Of Au-
gusta, Ga, Hon. Warner Miller,
one Of the Senators elect from New
York, says: 81 assure you the South
will never have cause to regret that
am in the Senate. prefer TO de-
vote mysel to the development of
the unbounded resources of our
common country. Ihope the South
will not long lag behind the North
in this work. ! know that your
thriving city OF Augusta will not"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

WORDS are little things, but they
strike hard. We utter them 30 ca
silly, that we are apt to forget their
hidden power. Fifty spoken, they
act like the sunshine, the dew and
the fertiIizing rain, but when unfit
ly, like the frost, the hail, the dc
vastating tempests.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

CLEAR HEAD and voice, easy
breathing, sweet breath, perfect
smell, taste and hearing, no cough,
no distress. These are conditions
brought about In catarrh by the izse
OF Sanford's Radical Cure. Conn
plete treatment for 81.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

OUR lives are like some complica-
ted machine, working on one side
Of wall, and delivering the linish-
ed fabric on the other. We cannot
cross the barrier and see the end.
The work is In our hands--the COM
pletion Is not.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-09-24

MANY complain of their memory,
but none complain Of their judge
ment.
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08

During the recent session Of the in
ternational law conference at Cologne,
David Dudley Field, of the
United States, offered a resolution.
which was unanimously adopted, pro-
Vlding that neither assassination nor
attempted assassination, as a means of
redreSsing grievances, should be deemed
mere political ofIense within the
meaning of the treaty, and that the
privilege of asylum should he de
MED the perpetrators of such crime
That should have been the law long
ago, beyond doubt or quibble,
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08

1t is well known that many Ameii-
can cattle are sent abroad. but it is not
so well known that the hides are sent
back to America to be tanned. Tan
ing bark is growing scarcer every yeal
III Europe, and costs from $S35 to $40 "A
ton in England, while American hem
lock bark is worth in this country only
%3 to So per ton. For many years
American hemlock-tanned sole leather
has been exported to European coun
tries, ana the exports now reach $40.
100000. The exports of live cattle
from New York were 22,5OO in 1876
10000 in 1877, 100000 in 1873, 33,295 il
1879, and 81 ,4O6 in 1890. inter OceaH
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08
A Young scotchman Bilked Out Of all His
Money,
omaha bee.

omaha bee.
\ esterday young man WAS made
the victim of confidence game by u
couple of men at the [. u. depot. The
| young man, whose name is Alexander
| Mcqueen, arrived ut Omaha Yesterday
| from Scotland. This afternoon he
went down to the depot to look after
| his baggage and while there was ac.
cOsted by IA well dressed man with a
red iace and about six feet tall. The
man asked young Mcqueen where hc
was going and he replied that he was
| looking for work. The confidence man
said his father was SCOtchman and
was looking for a young man of his
nationality to take care of his horses
After some talk the confidence fellow
engaged McQccn 10 go to work for his
father. At this iuncture another in
purpOrted to be bill for freight
against the first confidence man. The
man last appearing said he had left
them at the freight depot and would
not haul them up town until he had
got his money that he had advanced
for freight charges. The first man
said he had check for large amount.
but no cash. lie asked young Nc
Queen whether ne had any cash. and be-
ing answered in the Affirmative, pre-
sented check on CALDWELL Hamilton
u Co.'S bank, drawn in favor of George
y. Hamilton for $T20 and signed by
Howard & SON The young man adj
yanced the money on it, to the amount
of 500, all the money he had on earth.
After the men went away he began to
suspect that all was not right. 50 he
went up To the /. i. Office and asked
person that was there if it was. The
man saw that the young man had been
dupcd, and telephoned to the bank
about it. The bank replied that the
check was a forgery. The young man
rushed up town and got officer McCune
to his assistance The officer is look
ing for the man.
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08
Exterminate the Bad Insects.

A Wenona correspondent writes to
the Chicago Inter OceaH as follows:
please notify all the farmers and
gardeners, now these dark nights, to
gather all the old straw and hay into
long rows around their orchards,
potato and cabbage patches, and set
fire to one end to burn against the
wind all night, and they will burn up
millions and millions every night of
the male insects that fly, and bugs of
all kinds and descriptions. such rs
destroy the trees and potatoes and all
the cabbage, and the Canker- worms on
the apple trees. They will fly right
into the blaze and burn their wings off,
and drop into the fire. | told man
to do that who said the ground in his
pOtatOe patch was crawling alive with
pOtatoo bugs. He plowed "A ditch
around and filled it with straw, and he
raised big. crop Of potatoes. The
prairie fires in former years use to
burn them all up. DO this and you
will soon be rid of the whole miller
tribe of insects
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08

The Wabash Railroad Company are
being sued 10y the Magill Bros. of Clin-
ton, ILL.,, for damages to large ship
ment of wool which was caught dur
ing tho flood at Toledo. The company
refuse payment on the ground that
the Hood was the act Of God, and they
are therefore not responsible. Many
other cases, amounting to near
$i'Ooo,o0o, will depend on the decision
in this case.
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08
NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
What a Comet Did.

In 1912, Winston, an eccentric Mil
lcnaran divine and astronomer, who
served as deputy to sir Isaac Newton
when Professor Of Mathematics at
Cambridge, Eng, predicted that com
ct would appear at noon on Wednesday
Oct. IA, and that the world would bC
destroyed by fire on the following Fri
day. The comet came and had an eX-
traOrdinary effect, More than one
hundred clergymen waited on the pri-
mate on the Wednesday to request that
proper prayers might be prepared, and
thousands of men, who believed that
the end OF the world was coming, on
Thursday married women with whom
they had been living. Many people
embarked on the water, thinking that
safer when the fire came, and Sir Gil
bert lIeathCotc, chief director Of the
bank Of England, issued instructions
to the fire officers to keep sharp look
out on the bank, on which there was a
prOdigious run, presumably by those
who thought that, though they brought
nothing into the world, they might be
able TO take something out. The cap
tain Of Dutch ship in tho Thames
threw I'LL his ponder into the river.
Winston is only remembered now by
his translation Of JUsCrhus.
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08

OF Major Daniel, the Bourbon candi-
date for Governor of Virginia, the
Ureensboro lN. c. NorM state says
that he lis the same man who made Il
speech in the Court House in Green's
horo last year, and advised the young
ladies to ostracise all young Republi-
cans. lie said: Don't go to church
with them; don't go riding with them
do not be seen in amy public place with
Them; they are not fit associates fol
yOu.'
Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-08

The Lincoln Democr0t, although the
hittcre,t opponent Of prohibition,
wants Che present ilquol laws cnluccd.
1t SAYS:
Those men who violate the Slocumb
law, now that it is pronounced con-
StltutiOnal, are the worst enemies of
the liquor traffic, and will make it
necessary TO enforce the law at all
hazards. Free whisky or free beer
should not be tolerated "a decent license
Is the best regulator of deccucy in
saloons, and the best mode to restrict
drunkenness. License does not make
wine, beer or whisky any higher to the
consumer than no license: but license
regulates, while no license, as prohibi-
ton, disOrganizcs. We want the
SlOcumb enforced, because it is law,
and because there is no appeal from it
except through the next legislature.
The low rum shops are mmderOuS hell
holes To the body and soul, and we are
opposed to them; we favor respectable
saloons and reasonable licenses alone
can secure them. Those who Violate
the SlOcumb law are not better than
Finch himself; they become his allies
10y disurgani2ing the trade and enabling
him to continue his crusade; they are
playing into his hands and against
their own interests.