Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-04

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Major ]. r. Mccain, late court
clerk of Davidson county, Tennes-
see, was, during the war noted par
tisan ranger-one of the kind OF
boys them Yanks called guerilla
He also fought bled and died for his
country in the Mexican war, and
between fights was a steamboat clerk
on the Cumberland river. In 1849
he made his appearance in marine
circles as mud clerk of the Sligo No.
2. One trip the sure enough cap
tain Of the boat, Jack Davis, being
sick, appointed Dick to the pro tenn
command of his craft. This COM
plimentary promotion muchly |
pleased the gallant soldier man.
Like Napoleon of the Morgan Rat
tier, he was always Oh watch upon
the roof at every landing, ready to
ring the big bell, and anxious to
let the people on shore know he was
i the very first captain of the new
boat
| John Daniel McGoodwln began
| his life IS clerk of a disreputable
hind-wheel canoedlenlent, that used
to flourish down at the Mouth of
Smithland. Journalistic aspirations
however, filed his soul, so he noun
ted the editorial tripod, and went
, forever back on the marines. Poor
John was mighty good fellow gen
! orally, and a hifalutin dancer par
, ticularly, and in the old times at
! Cairo, used to sail in heavy, when
the Queen appeared at one of the
I Hoodo balls, and Len Faxon, of the
Paducah News, sung out:
Sigh McGumphry, 81,
wing-tail, wing
Hamilton, Duke Of Abecorn, owns
: 81, $50 acres of land in Donegal, and
: Ii, 9l9 in Tyrone. This Irish noble
man is a kinsman of A. Hamilton,
: the steamboat agent, of Nashville,
> in ante 6clItl1a days.
. Geo. H. Ghreist, of Pittsburg,
was, so he says, once a preacher a
!. Linton. / have known that one
. horse town ever since Ed Lewis raj
! Lime Island furnace, and have late
! lyinterviewed Col. Matt Mckinney
= talked with Squire McNichol, com
= municated, by postal card, will
= postmaster Spiceland, and all thes
= gentlemen agree in positively stat
- ing that Ghreist lies-under mis-
- take, and that he never preached
sermon in their town. Well, all W
20 have to say is, using the languag
- of the Indian chief, Red Cloud
as ''agent heap lie ~
lie o. M. Blackman loves to tell til
cd following lie: Hon. j. M. Quarle'
of Judge of the criminal court of Nasl
no Vile, an ante 6elL,tin member OF col
nd gress from this district, a might
a good lawyer, an initnitable story
teller, and a genial gentleman, To-
ed by every man, woman, and ye
low dog in this town-his old hon
80 wasonce accidentally madea steam
- boat captain, which the same ha
If pened thusly: In the winter
~ 1857, about Christmas the old 7
Kdy Ess, rattle-trap of the hin
wheel persuasion not worth thr
good hurrahs in hill, depart'
- from that good old town down
- the mouth of Smithland, wi
:" seventy-five or thirty cabin pa
- sengers, one of whom the Jol
Monk was which. Soon after t
.n ancient canoedlement got und
~ ~ way her regular captain. Ben
W ~ Egan, was taken sick-drank t
much egg-nog and it soured on hi
-whereupon he turned over t
a. =, command of his craft to the valia
- land-lubber, who willingly accel
an5 ed the situation, went upon the re
80 as proudly as Tina Hartman ever 9
40 - in the balmy days of the bu
sia THRONE, rang the big bell very oftt
let his mouth swing round loose
~ every landing, and muchly indu
a. ed in cuss words. The peol
'le along the shore wondered greatly
p the new skipper, and asked amo
1ted ,'io =, ,,,on how
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