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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24


VS. publish in full on our first
page this week, the clear and ex-
haustive decision of the Supreme
court on the question of advancing
the 1908 case on its docket. The
decision was delivered by Special
Judge Edwin HI. Ewing of Muir
freesboro, who is regarded as one of
the most learned, able and consci-
entious lawyers in the State and
would, indeed, be an ornament to
the bar of any country. The decis-
ion is rendered under the plain law
bearing upon. the case, and is so
clear and ineontrovertible that a
child could understand it. We hope
every enc of our readers will read it
carefully.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE refusal of Representatives
John r. Beasley and James Head
to vote for the resolutions of respect
to the memory of the late PrtSi-
dent James A. Garfield, when Of
fered in the House last Monday
morning by Representative Rhodes,
will, as it ought to bring down up
on their hands the scorn and con-
tempt of every honorable and re-
spectacle citizen of the United
States. They deserve the ostracism,
which such an exhibition of little
ness will entail upon them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

AFTER two or three trials, cost
ing the Government over fifty thou
sand dollars, the Whitaker court
martial case has come to an end and
results in the curt finding the sad
dle-colOred cadet guilty of mulating
his own ears and also of lying about
it and orders his dismissal from the
service. 1t is said that Whitaker
will enter the lecture field. Would
not he and clipper make a nice
team-in some penitentiary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

AT Lexington, KY, the other
day a prisoner was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for stealing a
coat. "This was his third offense
for larceny and, under the peculiar
laws OF that state the jury were ena-
bled to make a life SENTENCE" says
the report. No wonder Kentucky
wants branch penitentiary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

UNDER the new apportionment
ofState Senators and representatives
as fixed by the legislature just adj
journed, Montgomery county will
be entitled to two representatives,
and together with Cheatham and
Houston, to a fioaterial representa-
tive. Montgomery and Stewart
will compose our senatorial district.
Stewart county will hereafter be en-
titled to a separate representative,
and Robertson has been placed with
Trousdale and Sumner to compose
the twelfth senatorial district.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE Banner the other day had
an editorial headed "Milk Diet. "
When our eye first fell upon it, we
thought of course it had reference
to some of the Worlds chalk and
water editorials on the State debt,
but were relieved upon its perusal
to find that it treated of the simon
pure fluid of another kline.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE census of France was taken
on last Sunday and the population
foots up 38,50O,O0O. or course it
was very wrong for these wicked
Frenchmen to take their census on
Sunday, looking at ii from a strict
ly orthodox point of view, but prob
ably they went on the principle that
"the better the day, the better the
deed" and the enumerators and
citizens of the various towns would
not lie about the returns. Howbeit,
it was mighty quick job.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE Memphis Appeal predicts
that the Legislative investigation of
Senators Smith, Morgan and Bar
rett, now in progress at Nashville,
"like everything of that character,
will end in smoke" One thing is
certain, the chairman, Senator
Daniel will see that the charges are
prohed to the bottom, and if there
is anything in them it will be dis
closed, if not, the vindication will
be complete.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

BY the decision of the Supreme
court the act to settle the State debt
is a prima facie law, until the court
finally hears the case and settles it
one way or the other. All good
citizens should abide by and support
the laws of their state until they are
declared unconstitutional.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

AN honest confession is good for
the soul, even if it does come at a
late day. The New York CONNER
cial Advertiser, one of the most
ultra Republican papers in the
country, in speaking of the recent
career of that party, says: sit is a
stumbling, sniveling fraud under
which all sorts of crimes have
been committed in the last four
years"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE President has nominated
the Hon. Horace Gray, of Massa-
chusetts, for Associate Justice of the
Supreme court of the United States
to fill the position of the late Justice
Clifford.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

A REPORT comes from st. Peters
burg that the long lost steamer,
Jeanette, has been discovered off the
eastern Siberia coast and that the
crew are safe and sound. The ru-
NOR lacks confirmation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE Kentucky Legislature went
on a "march through Georgia," last
week. Their reception was not as
warm as Sherman's some years ago,
but hospitable Atlanta gave them
the best her crowded facilities
would admit Of.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

IT is stated that Blaine was offered
the English Mission, but refused.
He will devote his time for the
next year or two to looking after
his private affairs-and in training
for the Presidential race in 1884.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24
AdYertiSed Lefters.

rhefolIowing list of letters remain
uncalled for in the GAINESVILLE Tenn,
post-Office up to Saturday, Dec. "a,
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, 1881-12-24

THE report that President Arthur
is going to marry the daughter of
Secretary Frelinghuysen, is posi-
lively denied.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

THE Hon. Benz. III. Brewster,
of Philadelphia, has been chosen
Attorney General to fill the vacated
seat of McVeagh.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

AS Harry Joseph of the firm of j. G. Joseph Bro will
about January 1 1882 for New Mexico stock
consisting of Ladies' Dress Goods Fine Cashmeres Lawns Per-
Gales Domescs, Flannes of all coor and in everything
kept in Dry Goods house, well their Cloth
ing Hats Caps Boots Shoes Furnishing Goods Trunks Rubber
Goods Notions ETC., must will and shall be sold out
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24
Homemade Goods
AT
Wholesale Prices.

My work will all be handmade, and no
Eastern 5hoddy, but the buyer will get value
received for every dollar.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24
Regardless of Cost!

the firm of j. g. Joseph Bro will be dissolved January
st 1892 by mutual To each and
article would require much space This opportunity
buy bargains at less than cost the firm will quit January
Ist 1882
Suits at 81 90, former price 81 so to SO co.
Good Jeans Pants lined 81 co. former price 81 80 81 co.
Overcoats at 81 so, former price "a 90 to IS 90.
and in fact everything in proportion Call and the prices
Goods of all description at what they will bring the firm will
be dissolved January 1 1892 Remember the
and Franklin streets, opposite Dorty, Wood Co.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-24

All persons having claims against the firm of joseph
Bro viii present them before January let 1892 for coec
ton and all those knowing themselves indebted the above m
requested pay January 1892 THEN accounts
will be put in officers hands for collection.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Iridium is found mixed with gold in
Oregon, and appears as black shining
sand, in particles little coarser than
blasting powder.
The invention of the pianoforte, long
a disputed question, has been lately de-
cided by Mr.. A. j. Hipkins, in Mr..
Groves Dictionary of Music and Musi-
clans, article ''Pianoforte,'' in favor of
the Italian Cristofori.
The company in Florida that has
been experimenting with palmetto for
making paper has met with such graft
fying success that it will erect about
twenty paper mills in the State, where
palmetto trees grow in abundance and
where the transportation facilities are
good.
I'll have long ceased to doubt"
says DR.. Schrodt, that, apart from the
effects of wounds, the chances of health
or disease are in our own hands; and if
people knew only half the facts pointing
that way they would feel ashamed to be
sick or to have sick children"
An ingenious application of elec
tricity is shown in store in Rochester,
N. n bflcl COIilCCbOo WIN R
thermometer and clockwork regulates,
with the aid of electricity, the damper
of furnace in such a way that the tenn
perature of the room can be kept at any
degree desired without variation.
LES Mondes has recorded very un-
usual instance of suppression of tele-
graphic communication. Some time
ago it was found that no messages could
be sent between Sioux -el-Arba and Med
iez-el-Bab. Those who had been de-
tailed to make an inspection found that
an enormous serpent had coiled itself
around the wire and post, and thus
interfered with the conductivity of the
line.
1t is stated by DR.. Kenzie that q pc
culiar kind of tin-plate, the coating of
which is largely made up of lead, is
coming into general use for roofing,
eaves-troughs, and conductors, and it is
suggested that much of this lead will
eventually be dissolved and find its way
into household cisterns. Susceptible
persons may be poisoned by washing in
the lead-charged water, and all who
drink it, even after it is filtered, are in
danger of chronic lead poisoning.
There is also risk in the use of glazed
earthen vessels, if, as is often the case,
the glazing contains oxide of lead.
Although DR.. j. Gwin Jeffreys has,
during a period of between forty and fif-
ty years, dredged, as an explorer, all
the seas of the British Isles, besides a
considerable part of those on the coasts
of North America, Greenland, Norway,
France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and
Italy, he never found anything Of value
except to naturalist, nor any human
bone, although many thousand human
beings must have perished in those seas.
The gems, g dead bones,' etc., that were
thought to form the floor of the ocean
appear to exist only in the imagination
Df the poets.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
PITH AND POINT.

1t has got so now that the daily pa
per is gradually usurping the place of
the sewing circle as dissemination of
news-L0lCeU Citizen.
They call travelling lovers scar
couplers'' out West, it is said. Married
people, probably, are referred to as
+" buffers. ."-BoSton Transcript.
-" Having few moments to spare,
| now take my pen in hand" said
farmer Fresh as he began to mend his
pig-sty. Hackensack Republican.
No better evidence of human prog
ress can be found than in the fact that
each new number of a monthly maga-
zine is announced by its publishers to
be infinitely superior to its predecessors.
-S0merrsite Journal.
-Short-sighted swell (to game-keep-
er, who has been told off to see that he
''makes bag'O: "Another hit, Wig
gins! BY the way-rum thing-always
seem to hear a shot somewhere behind
me just after 1 fire!" Wiggins (stolid-
ly): "Yes, sir, 'zactly SO, sir. Wun-
derhe place for echoes this ERE, sir!"-
Punch.
The Canary Bird is Lonesome in
the Cage. He has Drawn one of his
Little Legs up SO High you can See it
Sticking Through his Back. Poor
Birdiel Are you not Sorry for HimP
Suppose You Let him out Of the Nasty
Cage. Kitty is in the Next Room. Call
her in to See Birdie. She will be Glad
to see Birdie VIII Birdie be Glad to see
Kitty ?-Denccr Tribune Primer.
The London Lancet says: 'sAll ami
mails that are intended to feed hurriedly
have gizzards, but man, being destitute
of a gizzard, should eat slowly" We
are glad to know this; it takes q load
off our minds. For years we have i'm
agined that we were suffering from dys-
pepsia, but now we know it was the
mere fact of not being furnished with a
gizzard that caused all the trouble.
knowledge is power.-Zeras SJttngs.
A motherly-looking woman yester-
day carefully handed the stamp clerk at
the Post-office letter marked Sin haste"
and inquired if there was any extra
charge for writing that on. "Oh, none
at all" elbow soon will the letter go
outp" sIn about forty minutes "No
sooner than that?'' "Well, we might
hire special train and get it off in
about twenty minutes ''Would it be
too much trouble?'' ssOh, none at ALL"
She thought for a moment, turned the
letter over three or four times, and
finally said, 81 guess L won't ask you to
hire special train, but if you will be
kind enough to telegraph my sister that
+ have ur.ittan bpr q lnttar tO foil hpr
that can't come till Monday, and to
be at the depot to meet me, and that
mother did not 60 to Toledo after all, |
shall be ever SO much obliged. Good
morning. ."-DetroU Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
Telegraphing from a Moving Train.

A patent has been issued to resident
of Santa Barbara, Cal, for method
of telegraphing from a moving railroad
car. The invention enables each freight
or passenger train to have its own tele-
graph office. Two wires are required
instead of one, and these are suspended
directly over the track, and above the
moving train. They are parallel, and
about eighteen inches apart. One wire
is connected with a battery at the sta
ton from which the train starts, and the
other with a battery at the terminal
station. They are SO suspended that,
by somewhat ingenious arrangement,
light running wheels can move along
them from one end of the road to the
other, but are connected with wires
which pass down through the roof of
the car to the operating instrument, and
through it complete the circuit. As the
car moves the wheels are drawn along
on the wires just above it, and a con-
stant current of electricity is maintained
between the initial and terminal stations
through the moving car. Ii this inven-
ton is found to work satisfactorily it
promises to become of great value to
railroads.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
Wonderful Longevity of Our Widows,

The widows of the soldiers and sailors
of the war of 1912 are, fortunately for
themselves and unfortunately for the
public Treasury, blessed with marvellous
health and strength. According to the
latest official reports from Washington,
$4,000 of these interesting ladies pre-
sent themselves every three months be-
fore the accredited agents of the Gov
ernment and draw their pensions with a
precision that shows high condition Of
financial discipline. Their ages, indi-
vidually or collectively, no one of course
will be so ungallant as even to hint at,
but the date of the last war with Great
Britain is pretty well back in the centu-
ry, and is a more trustworthy record
than even Judge Speir's family Bible.
In the darkness and uncertainty that
envelop the Pension Office at Washing
ton, regarding the possible claims
against the Government arising out Of
the late war, the roll of the relicts of the
heroes of that patriotic epoch in our his
tory may afford some light and instruc-
ton. The total number of killed and
wounded in the 1925 campaigns was
little more than 5000. At the end Of
nearly seventy years the pension list Of
the widows alone outnumbers that Of
the casualties by five to one. If the
widows of the veterans of the Rebellion
stand by the Treasury as patriotically as
those of 1912, the Commissioner of Pen
sions in 1850 will have couple of hun
dred thousand of them on his books
N. Y. Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
The American Invasion OF Mexico,

American railroads are rapidly pene-
tratlng into every part of Mexico. The
completion of the Texas & Pacific to Ell
Paso makes that town more than ever
the gateway through which will pour
into our sister Republic the manufac-
tures and machinery needed to develop
her mines and agricultural lands, and
make it tributary to our great cities. 1t
is but little while since the first locomo-
tive was seen in Arizona and New Mexi-
co, yet the wonderful change that rail-
roads have effected in the remote re-
gions is apparent even to casual OBJ
server. Instead of lethargy and inertia
there is hustle and activity. New mines
are being opened, thousands of hardy
men, ready to work at anything they
can find to do, are pouring ia and e,ary
one sees that new era has begun. The
Mexican Central, although it has scarce
ly entered that country, is doing an ex-
cellent business, and it is easy to see for
it promising future. All the railroads
projected in Mexico will probably be
successful and their owners will reap a
just profit from their operations. But in
Mexico, and in that region wrested from
her years ago, there is presenting itself
new problem of what is to be done
with the Mexican race. The national
characteristics of treachery, faithless-
ness, lack of thrift, want of ambition,
Incidence and superstition are plainly
seen in most of the population, yet it is
true that many Mexicans show clearly
that they are in all respects the peers Of
the average American. In New Mexico
our people found representatives of the
race both good and bad, but the
latter class far the most numer-
Gus. We have not Disseminated in any
way between Mexican and American,
nor has there been any trouble. The
natural law of the survival of the fittest
has done its work; those of the Mexican
race who possessed thrift and industry
have been rewarded and have become
prosperous and excellent citizens. The
idle, worthless ones still exist, but they
are like the same class in northern cities.
Americans have had their influence,
and all now alike are devoted to the
Union and its institutions. We be-
lieve that there will be seen the same
change in Mexico. Our merchants and
business men, our artists and profes-
sional men, will flock in and their in
fuence will effect a complete change.
We expect to see Mexican cities have
American laws and charters, and the
Republic itself modelled after our own,
which has stood the test. The better
element of the population will work to
the front and in combination with the
Al
fluence. The lawless ones will be pun
ished, the safety of the industrious Sc
cured, SO that there will imperceptibly,
perhaps, yet surely spread over the
whole land this revivifying agency.
Then all its industries will flourish, the
State become wealthy, and the Mexican
race will exchange its Spanish charac-.
teristics for those of our own United
States. In this way will the problem
be solved.-St. Louis RaileOay Register.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A STRONG effort is being made to re-
peal the Arrears -of-pensons act. A bill in
troduced by Mr.. Hewitt, Of Alabama, will
cut off 200, 900 claims already pending
should it become law. Several other bills
on the same subject are promised.
THE President has nominated Judge
Horace Gray, of Massachusetts, to the va
cant position on the Supreme Court bench
caused by the death of Justice Clifford.
PRESIDENT CALDERON, of Peru, be-
ing still held prisoner by the Chilians,
and Pierola having fed to Europe, Vice
President Montero is now at the head Of the
Government.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite
occurred on the 10Th at Mount Union, Hunt
ington County, Pa, by which an entire
family, save one little one, were blown out
of existence. John A. Ingram, miner,
upon preparing to go to his daily work at
an early hour in the morning, found the can
of dynamite used in the mines was frozen,
and placed it upon the stove to thaw out,
which it seems is the ordinary way
of doing it and not supposed to be
lGdufub Win any oohSOis IL eAA' AAi'IehSSs
however, for some reason not explained, the
can exploded, completely demolishing the
house and killing Mr.. Ingram, his wife and
four children, the latter being in bed over
the room where the explosion occurred.
One little one in some way escaped unhurt
from the general wreck. The force OF the
explosion was felt from one end Of the town
to the other. Nothing remains of the house,
and hardly enough of the family over which
to hold an inquest, the fragments of bodies
being collected in baskets.
ANOTHER fearful mine disaster oc-
Cured at Lancashire, England, on the 10Th.
An explosion occurred about noon in the
Orrell pit, belonging to the Abraham Min
ing Company, its effects extending to the
Arley pit adjacent. Some 200 men were at
work in the Orrell mine, Of whom at least
forty were killed. OF those escaping many
were badly injured. The men in the Arley
mine were imprisoned for some hours, but
were finally rescued, those working in the
upper seam being seriously burned.
SMALLPOX is sweeping off the Indi-
ans of Northern Michigan, twenty having
died out Of the tribe located near Northport.
The quarantine established cut off all medi-
cal aid, and Catholic priest gave up his life
in battling for the red men.
MARGARET JACKSON, an elderly wo-
man, and her daughter Nancy, were killed
instantly near Hanlon's Station, o., on the
Panhandle Road, by being struck by an
engine while crossing the track.
DILLON has been indirectly informed
that he can at once obtain liberation by
promising to leave Ireland. He refuses to
give the pledge.