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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
Our Fire Department Promptly
Respond.

Respond.
On last Tuesday morning, about
IL O'Clock, IA telegram reached our
city, Uia Bowling Green, over the
railroad wire, addressed to Mayor
j.. j. Crusman, stating that Nash
vile was on fire, and requesting
that our fire engine be sent to their
assistance. The Mayor promptly
ordered the ringing of the fire bells,
which Immediately brought out the
full force. The telegram vas read
to them, and they were ordered to
prepare to start for Nashville inn
mediately. The work of prepare
ton was but a moment, and in a
very few minutes the fire engine
and hose carriage and the hook and
ladder truck e out of the engine
house and flying towards the depot,
where an engine and two fiat cars
were soon placed at their service,
and in just about three quarters of
an hour after the news reached the
city the locomotive pulled out of
the freight depot and went tearing
to Nashville. The full force of the
fire engine and hook and ladder
companies, with about thirty vol
u~nteers, with Mayor Crusman at
their head, went along. The prep
aration and departure was an ex-
citing scene, and as Jack Rehl, the
brave and efficient engineer who
had charge of the train, pulled the
throttle valve wide open and the
train bounded out of the depot u
loud cheer went up from the crowd
of spectators who had gathered to
e the departure of the companies.
The run to Guthrie was made in
good time and the train was bound
ing on at a rapid rate towards
Nashville, when a telegram was re-
ceived at Ridge Top, stating that
the fire was under control and they
would not be needed. The fire en-
CINE was sent back from this sta
ton, but the companies went IN
into Nashville to see the ruins, and
after being treated to an elegant
supper at the Maxwell House, re-
turned home that night, arriving
here about 4 o'clock A. NJ. next
morning. Our citizens are justly
proud of our fire department, and
they ought to be, for the alacrity
and c~heerfulness with which they
always answer to any call in behalf
of life and property is s~elf-sacrific-
ing and noble in the extreme, and
this will be all the more appreci-
ated when we reflect that it is an
entirely voluntary organization.
The citizens of Nashville, we know,
will take the will for the deed, and
truly appreciate this generous effort
at assistance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
Public SchooI Notes.

Lately our public schools We're
visited by DR.. Fairleigh, Il member
of the School Board at HOpkinsville,
and by Prof. Dritrich, Superintend-
ent of Schools of that city. Both
these gentlemen expressed them
selves as gratifed with what they
saw and heard. The elocution and
reading particularly pleased them.
From Supt. Perkins we learn that
about the same number sin attend
ance as WAS a year ago; thata cheer
full, workingspirit prevails generally
among pupils and teachers. Pupils
are very busy in their reviews, and
are making substantial progress.
Unusual efforts have been and are
being made to create and sustain an
interest among pupils for intellec-
tual work. A genuine thirst for
knowledge and its advantages is
sought to be inculcated.
The late changes in the colored
school, n~ecessitated by the resigns
ton of the late principal, have not
in any wise worked injury to the
said school. The school has moved
on prosperously under the judiciols
management of the new principal,
Mr.. Henry Merry. Order and work
are the two things which strike any
visitor. He is ably assisted by MI.
Harris, Misses Jackson, Block and
Blackman.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
Presbyterian sunaay-sehool Ami


For two or three years past it has
been our privilege to attend the n
niversaries Of this Sunday-schooI.
The one on last Sabbath was graf
flying to all Sunday-school workers.
The exhibit of Superintendent Ken
nedy showed fa~ithfulness on the
part of teachers and punctuality on
the part of pupils. The sums con-
tributed for missions during the
year indicate that they are fully
alive to this great interest of the
Church.
The speakers were DIR. Waddel
and Prof. A. G.. Moseley. The
Doctor is at all times a ready and
instructive speaker. He met and
ably answered the objections to
Sunday-school5-such objections as
are sometimes urged by good peo-
pie. More of this sentiment pre-
walls than il suspected, and we
were glad to have it exposed by the
experience of a lifelong Sunday
school teacher. Prof. Moseley sue
ceeded admirably in enlisting the
attention of the little folks, as well
as his older listeners. This is no
small achievement on a Sunday
afternoon at four o'clock, after peO-
pie have heard a big sermon, eaten
a big dinner and the sun is almost
at noontide heat.
We have been hearing speeches
to Sunday-school children ever
since we were large enough to
I~isten--snart speeches, too-too
smart, for half the time they were
beyond the comprehension of an
average audience of men and
women. So for a long time we
have been in sympathy with the
little fellow who was ''glad that an
niversary came only once a year,
for if it came tt0ice, Mr.. Jones
would think he ought to talk twice
AS long, and put in more hard
words than we could find out all
the rest of the time"
The Professors speech, you will
infer, was neither long nor learned.
1t was better; it was short, and in
ii style to arrest and keep the at
tention of the children. He gave a
pleasant picture of the establish
ment of Sunday-schools in the Old
World, and of their introduction
into America by that great and
good man, Bishop Asbury, their
multiplication and the benefits
therefrom. All in all, the occasion
was pleasant and profitable
throughout, and the school may
well be called 'a model one"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
STANLEY MATTHEW'S CON
FMKkpKED.

We think the United States sem
ate did well last week in confirm
ing the nomination of Stanley Mat
thews as associate justice of the
United States Supreme court. lie
was nominated for the position by
Hayes, before he went out of Office,
but a fierce opposition TO his on
firmation sprung up among the
Stalwart oppOsers of the Admins
tration, and Hayes time expired
without the nomination being acted
upon. Garfield, recognizing in him
the nan above all others in his
party the most suitable for the POI
sition, again re-nominated him.
The Stalwarts again renewed their
opposition, and exerted every
means in their INSCRIPTIONS power
to defeat him. Backed by an Adj
ministration with and
courage, which has refused to be
the mere puppet of a lot of bold,
arrogant, domineering bosses, he
relied upon his purity of character
and superior qualifications for the.
place, with the success above stated.
He owes his confirmation to tie
democrats in the senate. He will
fill the position with ability, honor
and distinction. His universally
recognized and undisputed ability
as a constitutional lawyer and pro-
found jurist will easily make him
the peer, if not the superior, of any
man now on the Supreme court
bench. The bitter warfare which
was waged against his confirmation
sprung from no more heightened
and honorable reason than that of
personal dislike. They had no
good and valid grounds for their
opposition to him. The most
potent arguments which were urged
against him were, that he was from
Ohio, and had been 4 paid attorney
of Jay Gould's and other railroad
corporations. They pretended to
fear he would lean towards these
corporations in his decisions on the
bench. The first was too silly to
be considered, while he has proved
the latter to be utterly unfounded.
Even granting that lie was the at
torney of railroads and corporations,
we cannot see why this should dis
qualify him from faithfully and
h~onorably discharging the duties of
his high calling.
There is hardly a competent or
well-qualifed lawyer, holding any
post of honor and distinction in the
judiciary of the land, who has not
at some time in his professional
career accepted a fee from some
railroad or other corporation. Is
this sufficient grounds for refusing
to support a man for a position on
the bench, when everything else
would recommend him? when his
high private character and eminent
legal ability peculiarly fit him for
such a position? Since we were
bound to have a republican to fill
this vacancy OIL the Supreme bench,
we know of no man, in all that
party, whom we would rather see
occupy the place, or whom we be-
lieYe will fulfill the duties of the
Office with more justice, liberality
and fairness than the Hon. Stanley
Matthews. We are glad the demo-
Gratis in the senate refused to join in
this fight against the Administers
ton and Matthews. We think
those who voted for his confirma-
ton will have no cause to regret it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
Literary.

The Ladies Pearl, a monthly mag
azine published and edited at Nash
vile Tenn, by Rev. S. P. Chestnut,
ID. ID. is a fine magazine for the la
dies, and contains each month a
well-written and interesting selec-
ton of short papers and sketches,
and poems, which cannot fail to in
terest and entertain them. 1t is de-
voted exclusively to the literary and
moral culture of women, and oughr
to be found in every household.
Subscription price 81 III per year.
Address S. P. Chestnut, d. d. Nash
vile Tenn.
The reader must be hard to please
indeed who in the diversified con-
tents of the North American Re-
view for June, should find nothing
to win his attention. First we have
an article by the Hon. Hugh Nc
Culloch on "Our Future Fiscal Pol
ICY" treating of the problems of re-
funding, the emonetization of silver
and the restoration of the United
States to their just rank among the
maritime nations of the world.
George B. Loring writes of "The
Patrician Element in American So
ciety," but the reader need appre-
bend no Qualification of artificial
rank, for in the authors estimation
the patrician element here is simply
the strongest popular element-that
portion of the people, whatever their
lineage, who are engaged in devel-
oping the mental, moral and mate
rial wealth of the republic. Dorman
B. Eaton makes a spirited defense
of civil service reform; Prof. w. G.
Sumner states very clearly the ar
gument for free ships ; friedrich
Douglass writes of The Color Line:'
Desire Charnay, of "The Ruins of
Central America; DIR. Austine Flint
discusses the benefits of vaccination;
j. M. Mason asserts the lawful pow
er of the government to regulate
railway charges /; and finally Prof.
E. s. Morse sets forth the evidences
of the exhistence of man upon this
continent in prehistoric times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21

A prominent physician of Pitts
burg said jokingly to a. lady patient
who was complaining of her con-
tinued ill health, and of his inabili-
ty to cure her, "try Hop Bitters ~
The lady took it in earnest and
used the Bitters. from which she
obtained permanent health. She
now laughs at the doctor for his
joke, but he is not so well pleased
with it, as it cost him a good pa
tient.-HdrTisbuyg Patriot.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
what the Country People Say Oi
the New Passenger Depot.

what the country People Say of
the New Passenger Depot.
EDITOR CHRONICLE M is
being said with regard to the loca-
ton of the new passenger depot,
and but for some of those who are
writing upon the subject, bringing
in the convenience of the country
people as a plea for not wanting the
depot built at the brick-yard, we
would have remained silent upon
the subject, and in order to show to
the public where the country people
would rather have the depot, we
have decided to write short article
on the depot question.
Now it is very plain to every
one that GAINESVILLE cannot possibly
extend westward, and this of itself,
we think, is sufficient reason for not
locating the passenger depot where
the freight depot is, to say nothing
of wagons, drays, hacks, ETC., all
being crowded up together. The
objection to the place which MI.
Clark has selected is, if anything,
more serious than that of the
freight depot. 1t would require a
great deal of labor to get the site,
which MI. Clark speaks of, ready
for building, aud after all was done
that could be, it would still remain
a little, narrow, hemmed up place,
which the hacks from n stable
would completely blockade. l will
admit that there is a "set" near the
brick-yard location over which the
city authorities have no jurisdic-
ton, and the plan to get them away
is to build the new passenger depot
at the brick-yard and the city will
naturally grow out in that direction,
and Scufftown will eventually be
bought out and. settled up by re-
spectacle citizens.
l have made it a point to ascer-
tain of business men, who live in
the country, where they would
rather have the passenger depot,
and / have the first one to address
upon the subject who was not high
Iy in favor of having it located at
the brlek-yard. Let the L. & N. R.
r. Co. build the depot at BradIey's
brick-yard and then let the city
have a line of street-cars running
from the depot to the business por-
tion of the city, and then country
people who visit GAINESVILLE by rail
and don't eeldisposed to pay 25 cts
hack fec can get to any part of the
city for the small sum of five cents.
This, all of the country are inclined
to think, will add more to CIarks-
vile than all the l.. & N. r. r. Co.
can do if they are confined to the
rough, hemmed up hillside at the
foot of Second street. Respectfully,
S. q. NICHOLS.
.HALLIBURTON's x ROADS, May
IL, 1851.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21

SENATORS CONKLING and Plat,
of New York, have resigned their
seats in the United States senate.
This resignation is nothing to be
compared to the cheerful resigna-
ton with which the people receive
this sad news.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
s~TEALY's ACCOUNT.

NASHVILLE, May lit was a
bad old fire, the like of which was
never seen in Nashville before. AS
the crowd in the neigborhood of
the fire grew it was Il wonder where
all the people came from. They
seemed to springu up from the ground
and the dafkies, black sakes alive /!
there must have been at least 10000
on College and Market streets. Nine
out of ten in the crowd were panic
stricken, and, as is usually the case,
determined to do something fool
ish and desperate. 1t took a strong
guard at the Maxwell House to
keep the idiuts from rushing in and
cutting the building and throwing
the costly furniture out in the
street. They swore that the Max
we'll and the whole heart of the city
was bound to burn, in spite of the
DEVIL Peacock, the clerk, stood
behind the counter, offering to bet
the crowd ten to one that the house
would not burn. He gobbled sew
eral bets. A cheap-JOhn clothing
merchant, whose store was a half
mile from the fire, was frantic
with fright, and insured his stock
several times over during the day.
The firemen worked CALAMITY, and
to their almost supeFhuman efforts
was the disastrous confiagration
finally stayed. During the fire, it
was reported that the Louisville
engines had arrived. only two
hours out from Louisville, or nine
ty-two and a half miles an hour.
Many believed the report and said
it was astonishing. / have not
been able TO learn the exact time of
the train beating the engine. A
L0w-taxer stood on the corner and
watched the destruction of the
American, with a broad smile, and
exclaimed: 81 would like to see
some S~tate-credit man save that
eussed institution" Another fell
low allowed that the Tennessee
bond-holders would build another
office, and another chap, that if the
fire ran across one of DOak's editO-
rails, ii would soon cease to spread.
Stores and residences two and
three squares off were emptied and
prevailed all through The
heart of the city. Women, as far
from the fire as High street, were
wonderfully excited and wanted to
break up house keeping in a iiffy,
but, as | remarked before, it was a
big, bad fire; not much for Chicago
but a laundering sight for Nash
vile, but Nashville viii recover
from it, and right away, for the in
=
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21

BLAINE, of Maine, is the coming
man. He knocked the third term
furore into a cooked hat at Chicago,
and now is leveling his batteries
against Conkling and his crowd.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21

SAM j. TILDEN is spoken of for
governor of New York in 1882. All
right. Governor in 1882 and Presi-
dent in 1884 is our ticket.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21

SEVERAL interesting communi-
cations from our correspondents in
the country, which arrived late, are
crowded out this week. We will
publish them next week.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-21
YOUR ATTENTION.

All persons owing me will please settle
their account by the first of June. If not
settled by that time, l will be compelled to
hand them out for collection. If / have
overlooked any claim against me, let 1t be
presented by the LIST of June, or before.
May 2l, lSSl-2w j. R. PLUMMER.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-14
A Sultana's Marriage.

The following description of the recent
marriage OfNaile Sultana, one OF the two i'm
perial brides, was furnished to the London
Standard by an English lady who was an in
yited guest "On our arrival at the house,
large building, situated up a steep, narrow
street not far from Dolina Baghtche Palace,
we were, ushered by half a dozen eunuchs
through an ante-room, in which lounged a few
attendants, into fine apartments crowded
with slaves There we were requested to
wait as the Sultana had not yet. completed
her toilet coffee and cigarettes being placed
before us to while away the time. We were
Just beginning to tire watching the throng
when the stir without proclaimed the coming
of the bridegroom, man Of "a years of age,
short and inclined to stoutness, but not want
ing in certain comelimess Male Sultana
had herself chosen him at the Friday selenasE.
This power of selecting o husband by in
spection, as it were, is privilege OF the prin-
cesses of the House of Otham, and is carried
to such an extent that even If the favored
gentleman already possesses wife he must
divorce her and wed the Sultana Cases of
this kind are rare but one at least has occurred
during the latter half OF the present century,
when an officer was compelled, much against
his will to comply with the custom. Being
rich. however, he sought consolation in keep
ing his discarded love in q separate establish
ment. proceeding which is supposed never
to have reached the ears of his royal partner
In the present instance, on the contrary, Me
hemet Bey was quite ready to embrace the
chance which fortune offered him. Poor and
without interest, simple aide-de-camp, I'M
certain of promotion, he suddenly finds him
self the husband of his sovereigns sister, a
general and Mghness to boot His appearance
was the signal for frantic rush to which he
responded by scattering quantities of silver
plastres lin olden times they would have been
golden liras) among the slaves The bride
groom having passed into the sultana's pres
ence, the ceremony of marriage was imme.
diately performed, but only, witnessed by the
sultana's mother. 1t merely consisted in the
Imam tying them together with ropt
and declaring them man and wife. Di
reotly this was over Mehemet Pasha es
capped by a side entrance to avoid he
ing mobbed and buffetted, according t.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-14
sTAUNTON, VIRGINIA, JULY.14, 1881.
LOST roy.

ID v
He went from the old homo hearthstone,
Only six years ago,
Alaughing, froickfng follow,
Hwould do you good to know, is..ts
Since then we have not seen him,
And we say, with nameless PAIN. ..Ff.6
The boy that we knew and loved 50.
We shall never see again. lifa
One bearing the name We gave him
Comes homo to us to-day,
But this is not the dear fellow ..llle SIS 2
We kissed and sent away. isI ,ltf
Tall as the man he calls father,
With mans look in his faco,
Is he who takes by the hcarthstone
The lost boys oldeh place. l'4
We miss the laugh that made music
Wherever the lost boy won't, test
This man has a smile most winsome, saT g ~
Ills eyes have grave intent ~ frs s,dais
We know he is thinking and planning
His way In the world of men,
And we cannot help but love him, q ata pI it'
Butwe long for our boy again aff WOOL "
We are proud of this manly fellow 4 fiftn ftfi
Who comes to tako his place, t@sa fia fn 80,
With hints OF the vanished boyhood s4fr5y
In his earnest, thoughtful face;
.Andlygt comes BACK the Iongl Ing. .-...,..... Y
For the boy we henceforth must miss. IT, =
Whom we sent away from the hearthstone IS
Forever with q kiss. d ls4YHls 1851 sll..tl
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-14
A Triumph of Speech.

1t is recalled now with what electri cal effect
Gen. Garfeld-with an eloquence that seemed
nspiration-quieted the passions of a raging
mob that. surged about the streets of New
York the day after Lincoh's assassination II
was q popular tuniult and the angry muttera
ing of the maddened mob set at naughtaall
restraints Of the law. A figure OF q man, then
little known was seen to rise There was
something in the MANS manner that com.
nland attention. He soids .isa - .ssa ~ az
Fellow Citizens: Clouds and darkness are
about him! His pavilion is dark waters and
thick clouds of the skiesf Justice and it1dg-
ment are the establishment of His throne
Mercy and truth shall go before his face
Fellow citizens, God reigns, and the Govern
ment at Washington still lives" ~ M =
The effect was tremendous The crowd
stood rivited to the ground in awe, gazing at
the motionless orator, and thinking of God
and the security of the, Government in that
hour. 1t was triumph of eloquence. Quiet
was restored. In reply to inquiries as to who
the man was the answer came in low wills
per, ut IS Gen. Garfield, of Ohio"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-14

Two more crazy persons appeared in Wash
lngton on Wednesday morning. One Of them hen
Went to the Office Of Adjutant General D pr
ana slapplng him on the back exclaimed. IL
am commanded to assassinate. Arthur He
was Y, instantly arrested. Another lunatic Walk
60 M up TO the doorkeeper of the White House
wednesday morning and'said II am directed
~ ~ 500 to apply this salve to the wounds Of the
rreslaens, which will then be instantly cured,
f f;.1, was s driven off The city appears to be
luil OF iunatics, all excited over lGuiteaus
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-07-14

Georgia is wonderful State, not only in its
mineral wealth, but also in Its agricultural
and manufacturing enterprises. An editor Of
one its local papers thus speaks of its pro-
ductions:, Gold is found in thirty six counties
in this State, silver in three, copper in thir-
six, whiskey in all Of them, and the last gets
away with all the rest"