Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-30
Personals.


Capt. Clifton Dancy of jackson
Tenn, vas in the city yesterda,
: looking into the tobacco trade.
: Mrs. t. H. Puryear and famil,
+ of Padncah, is visiting her mothe
! Mrs. l.. A. Atkins, on Main stree
Mr.. J. Watt Clapp of Memphis
paid our city a flying visit the fir
, of this week.
; Mr.. Jas. t. Kennedy of the Elt
phanI warehouse, has been absen
this week, in Cincinnati on bushes:
Mr.. Harper Vaughn, an activ
merchant of Indian Mound, was il
the city Thursday buying goods.
Rev. A. B. Russell of Cumber
land Furnace was in the city las
Thursday.
Mr.. J. G. Wardlaw of ShelbyviIl
Tenn, is on a visit to his brothe
and friends in this city.
Lieut. w. G. Smith, is in the city
having skipped over from Hopkins
vile, to spend the Sunday.
Nh. Frank Phillips has returned
to the city, from quite a successful
trip in Middle Tennessee for the
Chronicle book bindery.
Mr.. j. w. Campbell, representing
w. H. Kellogg & Co., wholesale
clothiers, st. Louis, spent the week
in the city.
Miss Leila Gill, one of Aliens
ville's fairest young ladies, visited
friends on Greenwood avenue, this
city, last week.
Mr.. NJ. B. Coleman was around
town this week. We are glad to
see he has fully recovered from his
late severe spell of sickness.
Mr.. G. D. Sims, of the Dresden
Democrat, dropped into our
sanctum last Wednesday. We are
always glad to see our brother
knights of the pencil.
Messrs. Chas. Knight and Arthur
Wallace of Hopkinsville, Ky, were
in the metropolis last Sunday, al
lured hither, no doubt, by the fas-
cinations of some of our fair char
merS.
Miss Varina Wardlaw, a pleas
ant and popular young lady of
Shelbyville, Tenn, is visiting the
hospitable family of J. NJ. Ander-
son, Esq, in the third district Of
this county.
The New American" the
"White" and the "Royal st. John"
are three frst-class sewing machines
that have been tried here for sever
al years and have given universal
satisfaction. They have all the i'm
proUenlerats found in first-class ma
chimes. For sale by Owen & Moore.
Mr.. John w. Payne, a talented
lawyer of Hopkinsv1lle, was regis
tered at the Rudolph House this
week. Mr.. Payne has been occu-
plying the editorial tripod of the
New Era, in the absence of Mr..
Sam Gaines, and right wOrthily
AOoS ba All tho hill
Capt. w. 7. Randle, of Nashville,
a member of the exposition militia
ry committee, was in the city last
Saturday. He came especially to
see the G. C.. G.'s, and try to get
them to attend the opening of the
exposition last Wednesday, and
enter for the contests in May. We
regret that the boys could not re-
spOnd to his invitation.
Mr.. w. T. Turley, a brilliant
young lawyer of Franklin, Tenn,
is the orator of the Alumni Asso-
citation of the S. w. p: University,
this year. MI. Turley graduated
with high hOnOrs at this institution
some years ago and since that time
has won reputation in the legal pro-
fession. We understand a great
many of the alumni will be in at
tenance at the commencement this
year. They intend to wind UP the
alumni exercises with a banquet.
Campbell, of the GAINESVILLE
CHRONICLE, is threatened with a
fit of spring poetry. Battle your
young man, and take Il dose
Of Wizard Oil.-SOHtH Kentuckian.
EF TT, Brute! Well! well! well!
We have been charged with a great
many o~ffenses against God and
man, but this is the "mOst unkind-
est cut of ALL" The idea of charg-
ing a respectable editor with writ
ing spring poetry. You might have
us coward, knave, fool, any
thing-but this. Oh, Meacham !
Meacham!
Riley, the venerable bachelor ed
itOr of the GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf,
is jubilant because the legislature
to pass the bill requiring
women under eighteen years of
age, to get the consent of their pa
rents before they can be legally
married. Riley, evidently has one
eye fixed lovingly on some sweet,
coy maiden of sixteen, and the
other turned fearfully upon her
stern and unrelenting ''parient."-
MtatreeS6OrO NeUS.
No he hasn't; he's sitting back in
his sanctum, like some discOnsolate
anchOrite of old, grieving and writ
ing %sorrOwing editorials because the
'anti-treating law" is becoming
popular.
HymeneaI.
MIR r r Carter a VOUOO Opntle-