Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-28

: Miss Mary Fields. a charming
! and accomplished young lady from
:. Virginia, is visiting her cousin
: Mrs. Chas. Anglen, of this city, tbs
!, present week.
! Friday was the 25th anniversary
! of Mr.. John Bakers marriage. We
trust he will live to celebrate his
!, golden wedding and that we may
!, be in attendance.
t Miss Callie Weeks, pleasant and
interesting young lady, of Tobacco
! Port, Tenn and Messrs. J. p. Weeks
and Henry Rehkoff, of Paducah,
; KY, spent several days. this week
visiting Mr.. Berry Lyle's family.
f Mr.. r. NJ. Hogan, a prosperous
, farmer and fine tobacco raiser. OF
: Todd county, KY, was attending
the sales here this week. He came
|, up and renewed his subscription for
the sold Reliable"
Cards are out for the approaching
marriage of Mr.. Philander B. Pen
dleton and Miss Lizzie Leavell, both
) of Christian county, KY. The high
contracting parties are well known
in society in our city.
Royal st. John. White, and new
American sewing machines and
needles, and attachments for all
machines, forsale by Owen & Moore.
Machines sold on the installment
plan.
Misses Laura and Addie Beau
mont left for Nashville last Tues
day, where they will spend several
weeks with friends They expect
to spend several weeks on visit to
their aunt, Mrs. DIR Finley, at Leb-
anon, Tenn. before returning home.
Mr.. 10. b. Williams, formerly of
Guthrie, KY, now representing the
extensive hardware manufacturing
company of +. and p. Corbin, of
New Britain, Conn.,, was in the city
this week, visiting our hardware
merchants.
DIR. p. d. Winship, who has been
associated with DIR. Larkin for the
past three months, and who has
been so successful in the treatment
of special diseases, will leave to-
/ DoOrrORu e.uoOiDn for ,;o l,o,,,o =,
Iowa. He is gentleman in the
true sense of the word and has made
host of friends here. DIR. Larkin
is now able to be at his office, and
will give attention to all patients
at present under treatment, and to
all others who may desire DIR. Win
ships speciality.
Mr.. J. r. Richardson, who has
been living for the past four years
in the Lone Star State, came home
the first of the week on visit to
his fathers family. Dick used to
be one of our best known and most
popular young men, and his long
absence has not obliterated him
from the memory of his many
friends in this city, who were de-
lighted to see him. They will be
pleased to know that he is doing
finely In Texas, having a position
with the large wholesale grocery
house of Moore, Stratton & Co., of
Galveston, for whom he travels.
He will remain on a visit to his
fathers family for several weeks.
Society OratiOns.
We bespeak for the young men
of the literary societies of South |
western University large attend
ance on Monday night. Their rep
resentatives will deliver orations, to
which it will be we'll worth your
while to listen. Mr.. Talmage has
lately lectured in Nashville on
"Big Blunders." Among such,
might be classed the growing indif-
ference to any literary effort made
by the young people. We are not
in sympathy with that sentiment
which must go from home to be en-
tertained, and which pronounces
"school exhibitions and everything
Of that sort, you know, bore"
Commencement week ought to be
a grand, social occasion, in which
people may, for a time, lay aside
their busy cares and lose them
selves in the fresher flow of life.
around.
We have frequented such Occa-
sions with as much regularity as
Bow Brummel did Bow street.
Something always pays US for
going. We gather interest now on
the pale young man who, more
than thirty years ago, made his APP
pearance before a rustic audience,
under bush arbor, and in sepul-
chrai voice asked "And is Time
dead ?" But if our sympathy is stiH
stirred for him, the tide is turned
into another channel as we recall
the next young orator, who, in
stentorian voice, and with the ac-
companying action, called out
" Friends! friends lend me your
ears" We remember an old gentle
man saying, soto Uoce, ''a cruel re-
quest, young man, and don't insist
on it."
These speeches never tire or bore
us, unless they come off just at din
ner time, when we're hungry, the
house is full of company and the
cook in a bad humor. Under these
circumstances, the finest flowers of
oratory lose their sweetness. But
on a summer night-when the stars
are shining-and baby goes early to
sleep and the walk is less than a
miIe-the man or woman is mex
cusable who stays away from such
a forensic feast-a feast which, (as we
said), is continually repeating itself
for the seeds which drOD from the