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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

There were, June 81, 1881, 5,S4O, 1888
miles of railroads; All increase over
the preceding year of 3, 44S per cent.
The amount of stock and debt was
$3.50, 7O9, 539. 35, an increase of So per
cent; the gross earnings were $45, ,S43,-
866.34, an increase of .. 553 per cent;
the operating expenses were 500 49,
3O3 80, leaving the net amount of earn
ings SIG, ,465 1903 .52, an increase of 4, ,5S3
per cent, amounting to 1924 per cent
on the stock and debt.
OF the gross receipts the passenger
earnings amounted to $40, 800, ,5l7.9S, an
increase of 1882 per cent; the freight
to S33, 4l5, $50. p. an increase
of 9.753 per cent the mail earnings
were 81 ,O47 ,693 SO, an increase of Sl3.-
9S6 per cent; and the express earnings
were $685., ,994.67, an increase OF 26.995
per cent. From other sources the
receipts were $S62, 7O4. %, an increase
of 8. 137 per cent, There was expended |
last year in the way of structures $l4,-
O59, ,OO5. 10, an increase of 2O.S25 per
cent over last year. Cost of transport
tation, $23. 76S, ,604.4 an increase of
1868 per c,nt. The employees, inclu-
ling officers, number 32,2O7, an in
,rease of 9.529 per cent. Mileage in
crease, 6S. ia per cent; stock and debt,
b. 1857 per cent; gross earnings, 5O.S75
,er cent; operating expenses, Al. .4O4
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
To Nervous SufYerers-The Great Europe
an Remedy-Dr. j. B. simpsons Specific

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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
PUBLIC WORKS.

d BY the report of the Bnarf6f Public
Works we learn that their gress re-
ceipts for the fiscal year amount to
$3.50, l06 81; expenditures, $2lS,7 7t6 81;
ne gain, $45, 400 40. Officers of the
Board are exonerated from completely
in Fred. Newburg's pecnlatioIis, but
all are sharply censured for allowing
his operations to 60 uninvestigated
and unchallenged. A legislative in-
vestigation of the whole matter is rec
mended. f. . s
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
The MISSING ling.

Prof. f. D. Cope, of Philadelphia,
has secured the skull of an extinct
monkey which he thinks fulfills in
a remarkable degree the condition
of the missing link between man
and the lower animals. 1t is not
larger than the skull of n small
ground squirrel, and belongs to a
species of Inarmoset. 1t was found
in the valley of the Big Horn river,
Wyoming Territory. The professor
says:
"This skull is remarkably similar
in miniature, of cOurse-to the
human skull. The brain space is
remarkably large, and is, in fact,
several times larger than the brain
space of any of the skeletons of an
finals of The same period of time.
The characteristics of the formation
of the human skull are clearly de-
tined-so clearly as to be remarka-
BILE. The teeth are almost the same
as human teeth, while the jaw has
many strong points of similarity.
] consider this skull as the earliest
indication of the existence of man.
II is e rev species of familiar class
and has hitherto been unknown to
SCIENTISTS
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07

4 clergyman in New York goes
SO far as to say that he never knew
an intellectual man who was a good
dancer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Ola-Tinae Iusfice.
Anstin Tex siftinas

Al a session Of the San Antonio
District Court some years ago a
Mexican was on trial on the charge
of stealing a pistol. He proved
conelusiveiy that the pistol produ-
eed in court as the one stolen was
his own that he had bought it,
and that it had been in his posses
sion long before the alleged theft
took place. The case went to the
jury at II O'clock the time for the
adjournment of the court, and the
jurymen, not wishing to be kept till
court opened again, at 8 O'Clock,
hurried to give in their verdict. The
foreman, turning to the rest with
out leaving the "box, "sald "Weil,
boys, what do you say? Let US
give him two years at Huntsville"
Another answered: "All right, put
him through or the Judge will adj
journ." Another said "Go ahead,
hurry up, or we will have to stay
here till 3 O'clock" Just at this
juncture a quiet old gentleman on
the jury suggested: "But is ne
guilty ?" The foreman responded !:
"Guilty? Well, d-n tile odds, we
want our dinner, and if he aint
guilty why clear him." So the
verdict was Immediately handed
in, mot guilty"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Hints TO Girl Graduates.

An Ohio paper says young lady
who graduated in calico dress a
few years ago is now married to a
railroad superintendent who has an
income of a half a million a year.
This may be taken as the basis for
the regulation graduation dresses
hereafter. Had she worn alpaca
she might have done even better
and caught the general manager of
the road. On the other hand, had
she blOssOmed forth in white Swiss,
she might have captured the presi,
dent of the concern, with untold
millions had she worn silk with
point lace and diamonds, she might
have scooped in the conductor of a
passenger train, and had onyx stair
cases and alabaster walls to her
house, and cut the wives of officers
on the road as society altogether too
thin for her style. This ought to be
a lesson to girl graduates and a
warning to them to- patroniZe their
tailOrs literally.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07

The chief of police Of New York
city says that three-fourths of the
abandoned girls in that city were
ruined by dancing. Young ladies
allow gentlemen privileges in dane
ing for which, if taken under any
other circumstances, these gentle
men would be reported as improp-
er persons. 1t requires neither
brains, good morals, nor religion to
be good dancer. 1t will not mix
with religion any more than oil will
mix with water. AS the love of
one increases, the love for the other
decreases. How many distinguish
ed Christians are eminent dancers?
AS certainly as the atmosphere
around the thermometer at zero
will freeze things, as the wind will
drive the boat, so certainly will
dancing freeze the religious senti-
ment out of the soul. 1t will drive
its devOtee away from the church it
is wind that blows in that direc-
ton. In ancient times the sexes
danced separately. Alcohol is the
esprit" of beverages. So sex is the
spirit of the dance; take ii away,
and let the sexes dance separately,
and dancing would go out of fash
ion very soon. ParlOr dancing is
dangerous. Tipping leads to drunk
enness, and parlor dancing leads to
ungodly balls. Tipping and par
Tor dancing sow to the wind, and
both reap the whirlwind. Put
dancing in the "rucible, and apply
the acids, and weigh it, and the YER
dict of reason, morality and relig-
ion is, "Weighed in the balance
and found wanting"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
ACTIVE AGENTS MAKING MILLIONS,
AT WORK FOR
The Leisure Hour Monthly,
TERMS $500 PER YEAR.
u6 PAGES PER MONTH.

FROM 5000 TO $4,000 PER YEAR EASILY AND
HONORABLY MADE AND NO
CAPITAL NEEDED.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
highly Astonishing.
ST. Paul Pioneer

A certain lady in this county set
hen upon thirteen eggs. A few
days afterwards, looking into the
nest, she was surprised to find the
hen missing and the eggs gone and
in their stead a huge rattiesnake
comfortably coiied up. Noticing
the swelled condition of his snake
ship she procured spade and pinn-
ed his head to the ground. Then,
with a rake, the tail was drawn out
and fastened down to prevent wrig-
Cling. A pen-knife soon split the
reptile from head to tail and the
eggs taken out. Being carefully
washed they were placed under the
same hen and eventually every one
Matched out and the chickens grew
and thrived. We regret that a
strict regard for truth cOmpels us to
say that the hen was not swallowed
nor were the chicks marked with Il
snake.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
DrOUsIness During SermO ns

The Christian Advocate says that
ministers are often troubled by see
ing persons asleep in their congre-
cations. Often they are themselves
to blame. Their oratory is sopOri-
fic. But often the stupidity Of the
nearer is the same. Eutychus slept
while Paul preached. Joseph Brad
ford fell asleep while Wesley preach
ed. Bishop james told class of
young men that if theirhearerSs slept
it was their fault. AT that moment
Bishop Baker, just in from long
journey, was asleep in the pulpit.
Bishop James on being told of it was
much amused, and said: Il was
an awful example to them" Moth
ing will keep some persons awake.
In a murder case in Hudson county,
n. j., Judge Knapp, not many days
ago, was delivering his charge, and
saw a juror asleep. "What is the
use," he asked sharply, "ot my adj
dressing this jury, if its members
cannot stay awake long enough to
listen to me-"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
IN a railroad car the seats were al

IN railroad car the seats were all
full except one, which was occupied
by aspleasantilooking Irishman, and
at one Of the stations a couple of ev-
identity we'll bred and intelligent
yong ladies came in to procure seats.
Seeing none vacant, they were about
to go out into the next car, when
Patrick arose hastily and offered his
seat, with evident pleasure.
"But you will have no seat for
yourself" responded one of the
young ladies, with a smile hesitat-
ingly with. true politeness, to &C
cept it.
"Never mind that, said the gall
liant Hibernian; I'D ride upon a
cow-catcher to New York any time
for smile from such gintlemanly
ladies ~
And he retired hastily into the
next car amid the cheers of his fell
low passengers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07


WILL CARLETON. "a
II will interest readers to know that this
touching poem is founded upon an actual
occurrence, which has obtained some pub
licity through the newspapers:
Lin me bit in my bed, father;
Press your warm lips to my cheek;
Put your arm under my head, father
l am so tired and so weak
/ cannot stay long awake now
Many night shall sleep,
Promise one thing for my sake, now
Don't let them bury me deep
Cover my bed with sweet blowers, father
Those so well loved to see,
So, in the long lonely hours, father,
They'll be companions for me,
If | should wake in the night, then,
Their lips my sad face would sweep.
Make my grave cheerful and bright, then /,
Don't let.them bury me deep.
When to the church y-ou all go, father
AT the sweet sabbath bells tone,
/ shall be dreary, you know, father,
Lying out there all alone.
Hang my bird near in tree, then
Watch over me he will keep;
He will sing sweet hymns TO me, then
Don't let them bury me deep;
Gail ON me WIENER you pass, father,
Where by your side oft ran;
Put your face down ON the grass, father,
Near TO my own as you can,
If could look up aud hear you,
Into yours arms would creep;
Let me sometimes nestle near you
Don't let them bury me deep!
Look who has come for me now. father
Standing so near to my bed?
some one Is kissing my brow, father
Mamma, thought YOU We're dead!
see! she Is smiling so bright to you,
Beckens for you not to weep;
lis not good-by, but goodnight, to you
They cannot bury me deepI
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
To Prevent the Spread of small
POx.

The Secretary of the Board of
Health has issued the following
circular:
To the Superintendents of the lines of trans
portation of Tennessee:
Sirs: Smallpox in Virulent
form is hanging like q cloud on
these borders. TOprevent its spread
in Tennessee, the State Board of
Health orders:
1 That no person suspected of
having this disease in any of its
forms shall be allowed to travel on
any of the rail or water ways with
in the borders of this State.
, That no corpse having died of
smallpox or other infectious dis
ease shall be conveyed by common
carrier to or from any place within
the territory of Tennessee.
3. That no goods, chattels or
merchandise or wearing apparel be-
longing or pertaining 10 any person
affected with smallpox, or which
may have been exposed to such in
fiction, shall be received on board
of any train, car, boat or other pub
lie conveyance for transportation to
any point within the State or else
where.
4. All officers or employees should
be at once vaccinated and we urge
that this order be mandatory, upon
the penalty of summary dismissal.
.. No persons or goods of any de-
scription shall be received on any
line of transportation from any
point which may now or hereafter
be infected without a certificate
from an inspector. Notice of the
existence of any such point shall be
furnished should they occur.
w. NJ. CLARK.
Secretary and Ex-Officio State Board
of Health, Tenn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
CIarksViIIe Wholesale Market,
CORRECTED BY J. J. CRUsMAN.


SUGAR-Cut Loaf Crushed, Powdered and
Granulated, I09ll$4c: Clarified, 99I0cts !;
MOLASSES- Orleans, 40 TO 65o.
SYRUP-i0c to 75c.
CoFFEE-We quote Rio, u to lie; Java,
81 to BE.
SALT--Kanawha, bushel bbls., 81 D. by
the car load, 81 TO-
FL0UR-Superfine, S. 90: Extra, s. 80 to
6 90; Choice or Fancy. 81 30 to 60; Patent
Process, SIS so TO s 20.
STAR CANDLES-l5 to Ice.
WHISKY-COmmon country, 81 GOAL 20;
best brands Robertson county, 81 25 to 2 90.
CHEESE-Prime factory, niZ@l61zc.
RICE-CarOlina, 6 to SC.
SOAP-Bar, 4d7c.
seed oil, raw, zoe; boiled, &c,
TURPENTIN E-Spirits, BIC.
NARNISH-Copal, 81 90; Japan, soc.
GLAss-Window, SxlO, s. p per box; IOx
POWDER2Rife, Sc 80 per keg lead, &c per
sARDINES- 10 per doz.
MACKEREL.-No.3 per Dbl, Sc 30 to IS 30;
kits, Nos. l, and ), zoe to 81 p.
BLACKING-25d63c per dozen.
NAILS-S3 p to 3 30.
IRoN-Kentucky, PIC; Tennessee, &c.
TRACE,SES50 90 to 70 90 per dozen.
COLLARS-S5 50 to u 90 per dozen.
HAMES-S5 30 to 10 90 per dozen.
AXES-Sl0 90 to u 90 per dozen.
BLUE GRASS-Sl p.
ORCHARD GRASS-Sl ~.
TIMOTHY SEEDS p.
CLOVER SEED-S6 %.
RED TOP-S5c.
SHOT-Sl 90 q 90.
CAPS-40@50c per 1000.
OYSTERS-I and III. cans, 81 35@2 90.
The following are the prices paid here at
this date for country produce:
PORK-6 80 to : 90.
BACON-Hog round, IL cts
LARD-l3.
TALLOW-
PEANUTS-@75 l 90 per bushel.
CiINSENG-6Oc to Toe.
BEES WAKE to lSc.
FEATH ERS-new. 81 to 40c.
NS-White, None.
PEAS-75c to 81 90.
EGG, -25c per dozen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Won IA Husband with Her Hat.
Rochester EXprt

A Rochester girl of poor but hon
est parents went to the theatre Sat
urday night, and walked down the
main aisle of the Corinthian Acad-
envy of Music, wearing upon her
head very small and exceedingly
pretty hat. She sat down in the
seat directly in front of the one Oc-
cupied by one of the millionaires of
the city. His establishment was
profound. He could scarcely COM
prehend it. He leaned over and
asked if she owned a cart-wheel
hat. She replied that she did, but
never wore it to the theatre. Still
more astonished, the millionaire
leaned back in his seat almost over
come. After the performance he
offered her his hand, was accepted,
and has agreed to settle $3.50, coo in
United States bonds upon her on
the morning of their wedding day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07

fyou will stop spending so much
on fine clothes, rich food and style,
buy good healthy food, cheaper and
better clothing, get more real and
substantial things of life every way,
and espti:ially stop the foolish hab-
it of employing expensive, quack
doctors or using so much of the
vile humbug medicine that does
you only harm, and put your trust
in that simple, pure remedy, Hop
Bitters that cures always at trif-
ling cost, you will see good times
and have good health Chronicle
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Iii County Court at ClarksVille-Stafe
of Tennessee.

CLERKS OFFICE, Dee 10, 1881.
q. ~ Davie, Complainant, VS.. j. f. and
Lucinda \. Hough, Defendants.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the defendants, J. l.. Hough and
Lucinda =. HOugh are nOn-reSidents of the
state of Tennessee.
Its therefore ordered that they enter their
appearance, herein, before or within the
first three days Ofthe next term ofthe County
Court, to be held in GAINESVILLE, on the list
Monday in Feb'y next, 1882, and plead, an
swer or demur To compliments bill, or the
same will be taken for confessed as TO them,
and set for hearing eX parte; and that a
copy of this order be published for four con-
SecutiNe weeks in the ClaTkSVille Chronicle.
r. ID. MOSELEY, Clerk.
c. H. Bailey. ID. I.
Smith & LURToN, Sol'rs for Comp'lt.
Dec. LIT
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
A sweet COmpuIsion.

"Mary, my dear" observed a
wel-known and amiable metropol.
itan politician to his helpmeet, as
he awakened lee one morning dur
ing the recent campaign after a
NIGHT snent in conscientious canvas
of the LIQUOR interest in his district,
"Mary, my dear, get me a large 2s
tumbier, and put into 1t ABOUT nan
a quarter of pint of whiskey ana
a little Iemon-juice and about Inree
drops of bitters, and I'll see II l can
take il, and if I can't-make me -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Haye. and the Garfield Monument

Ex-President Hayes, according to
a Cleveland dispatch, has declined
to contribute towards the erection
of a monument to the late President
Garfield, at Cleveland, poverty be-
ing the excuse offered for the refu-
sal. He claims to have met with
ill success in his farming operations
in the Red river country, and he
declared to the gentleman who So
licited the contribution that his saw
ings out of the salary drawn by him
IT'S President of the United States
had been greatly exaggerated, that
his bank dividends had not come
up to expectations, and that, under
all the circumstances, he found HIM
self unable to contribute anything
to the fund for monument to
Garfield.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Consumption Cured.

BALTIMORE, MD, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1881.
Upon the recommendation of a
friend, I tried Browns Iron Ditters
as a tonic and restorative for my
daughter, whom 1 was thoroughly
convinced was fast wasting away
in consumption. Having lost three
daughters by The the terrible dis
ease, under the care of eminent ply
sicians, | was 10th to believe that
anything could arrest the progress
OF the disease; but 10 my surprise,
before my daughter had taken one
bottle Of Browns Iron Dittcrs, she
began to mend, ana is now quite
restored TO her former health. A
fifth daughter began to show signs
of ption, and when the ply
stefan was consulted, he quickly
said, "Tonics were required!' And
when informed that the elder sister
was taking Browns Iron Bitters,
responded, "That is a good tonic,
take it,"
ADORAM PHELPS,
of ASkeV & PhejnS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Advertising.

Half of the business men visited
by newspaper agents and asked for
advertisements consider the news
paper men as a kind of inflictiOn of
Providence, which, like the itch,
must take a certain course before
being cured. We wish TO convince
all such erroneous thinkers that
thew are wrong. The newspaper,
instead of being sort OF visitation
from the lower world, is a public
necessity, and for the public good.
They instead of 'dead beating their
way in the world, live from money
hard earned, and for which they
frequently pay in one way and an
other two hundred cents for a dol
lar. Business men have made for
tunes, have risen from poverty to
opulence, simply from the benefits
of the paper across the way. The
money that newspapers make is
handled by the men who patr0nize
with their business advertisements.
We have frequently had men to tell
us: ave never advertise. It's too
much like throwing away money"
On observing their business we in
variably see their molasses barrel
leaking, their dry goods covered
with dust, their sugar filled with
flies, their scales rusty, their hands
dirty, their hnger-naIls unclean,
their pants patched, their CUSTOM
ers few, and their success a failure.
They hobble along in the world
slowly, and are not the men who
rise from poverty and obscurity 10
riches and eininence. Show rs a
man who advertises extensively
and we will show you a man who
has the qualities essential TO bust
ness success. The advertisements
placed in papers is like the kind
heartedness of youth, bearing fruit
at first and reaching into the years
when age comes on apace. Then
never tell It's advertising does not
pay. DroneS and igEOramuses only
advocate such views.-E.ech0age.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
In Circuit Court at GAINESVILLE
State of Tennessee.
CLERKS OFFICE, Dec. l, 1881

CLERKS OFFICE, Dec. l, 1881.
Mary Jordan, complainant, W. Cyrus Jor-
dan, defendant.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the Defendant, Cyrus Jordan,
Is a nonresident of the State of Tennessee.
1t is therefore ordered that he enter his
appearance, herein, before or within the first
Court, 10 be held ut GAINESVILLE on the first
Monday in January next, 1882. and plead,
answer, or demur to Compliments Bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed as To
him and set for hearing ex parte; and that q
copy of this order be published for four con-
secutive weeks in the GAINESVILLE Chronicle.
c. ID. BAILEY, Clerk.
Dec.3, lSSl-4w
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Sea-sOnable.
NOrristOWn Herald

Ocean me not, " the lover cried, e
II am your Surf-to you I'm tied;
Don't breaker heart fair one, but wave
"a Objections thine-this sand crave
ooh billow BIZ" she blushed ~ sea
You would beach-osen shore by me,
But I'm mermaid not yet in seine,
And shell for years that way remain
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
Administrators Notice.

Having qualified as Administrator of the
estate of f.. Marion Barker, deceased, /
hereby notify all persons indebted to the
said estate to come forward and settle, and
any persons having claims against said
estate will present them, properly anthem
ticated, within the time prescribed by law,
or they will be barred.
decl0-it c. NJ. BARKER, Admir-.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-01-07
iDORAM PHELPS,
of Askey & Phelps.

4 pure, whole ,me distillation of
witch hazel, American pine, Canada
fir, marigold, clover blossoms, ETC.,
fragrant with the healing essences
of balsam and of pine. Such is San
ford's Radical Cure for Catarrh.
Complete treatment for 81.