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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
Tax Ridden Tennessee.
Dresden Democrat.


The Reputation organs in Tenn
essee are all with adamantine cheek
and stentOrian voice missing an ag-
oniZing wall over the heavy burden
imposed on our Leople by the 1908
settlement but like the animal
who stole the lions skin, their bray
betrayS them, and the people having
got familiar with their sOphistry and
deception, cease to pay attention to
their maudlin rawlings. 1t is a beau
tiful sight to witness the seventy 8
sheets, who do not own dollars
worth Of property, fretting and fun
ing over heavy taxes. This how
ever is very fair sample of the
average consistency of these chronic
soreheads. But, they say, "we pro-
test against the measure in the in
terest of the people," Oh, yes, it
is all for the dear people" because
they think the "dear people, will
be easily persuaded that every meas
ure which lightens their pockets,
even if it be to pay an honest debt,
is corrupt and Infamous" We
are glad to know that such papers
are wrong in their judgment of the
masses of our citizens. They may
reap temporary profit from their
systematic efforts to gull and mis-
lead those who from motives of sell
fishness, dishonesty or greed for
office, pretend to adopt and sanction
their views; but in the end they
will find that Tennessee is honest
and that she believes in paying her
honest debts regardless of the 'grie-
vOus taxes
Tennessee to-day pays smaller
tax than twO-thirds of the other
states. Her state tax levy is thirty
cents on each one hundred dollars
worth of taxable property. OF this
amount fifteen cents are required to
defray the expenses of the state
government, thus leaving the enOr-
mOuS(?l amount of fifteen cents to
be applied to the payment of the
interest on the state debt on the
1908 basis. In other words Ten
neSSeean who has $1,000 in cash
(Which is exempt from taXatiOn)
and a homestead worth like
amount, must pay, under the 1908
settlement, the gigantic sum Of one
0Ottt;:' and ftty cents per annum on
the state Indebtedness. What a
soul narrowing, blood curdling
thought! Who can blame a man
for repudiating debt on which he
is compelled to pay every year in
terest at the rate of $3.50 on two
thousand dollars? Verify his bur-
dens are too grievOus to be borne.
Poor cid tax ridden Tennessee, you
can't be sued, and if we were in your
place we would not pay a dollar of
our debts even if we did thought
lessly pledge our faith, honor and
credit to their payment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

: / have noticed that all men are
honest when well watched.
/ have noticed that purses will
hold pennies as we'll as pounds.
i have noticed that in order to be
reasonable creature, 1t is necessary
at times to be downright mad.
have noticed that some men are
so honest that necessity compels
them to be dishonest in the end.
i have noticed that silks, broad
cloths and jewels are often bought
with other peoples money.
| have noticed that whatever is,
is right with few exceptions-the
left eye, the left leg aud the left side
of a plum pudding.
l have noticed that the prayer of
the selfish man Is, "Forgive us our
debts" while he makes everybody
that owes him pay to the utmost
farthing.
| have noticed that he who thinks
every man Il rogue is very certain
to see one when ne shaves himself,
and he ought, in mercy to his
neighbor, TO surrender the rascal to
justice.
| have noticed that money is the
FOOLS wisdom, the knave's reputa.
ton, the poor mans desire, the COW
etOus mans ambition and the idol
of all.
| have noticed that all men speak
we'll of all PERSONS virtues when
they are dead, and the tombstones
are marked with the epitaphs of the
good and virtuOus. Is there any
particular cemetery where the bad
are buried p Exchange.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
A Delicate Matter.

In asking advice from others you
lay yourself open to the risk OF
hearing some unpalatable truths so
don't be in hurry to place your
self in such a position. There are
various matters in life upon which
advice should never be asked; but
if you do ask it, be prepared for the
consequences. Mediate long and
seriously before you ask advice OF
a friend in regard to the merits OF
anything you have written for pub
LEGATION. You may have concOcted
a good thing, or you may nOt-and
it may be hard for your adviser to
be candid and truthful. He does
not like to hurt your feelings, and
he may be equally unwilling to tell
an untruth. If you feel compelled
to seek an opinion in such a mat
ter as this, you ought to come under
bonds not 10 take offenSe, let your
friends judgement be as it may.
The advice of an experienced vet
eran, who knows what it is to deal
with publishers and editors, may be
very valuable; and, if followed, il
may save you from much mortitica-
ton afterward. But under no cir
cumstances ask advice from those
with whom you have no claims, es-
pecially in mattrse which may in
VoIve much trouble. Public men
are often annoyed in this way by
people who, because they have little
TO do themselves, have no adequate
idea of the value of busy mans
time,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

Inokson rrihnne and sun.

We are not prepared to believe
that thoughtful Tenneseeans ofany
party or faction, win desire the re-
opening of the State debt question,
IL the supreme court decide the
1903 settlement constitutional and
binding. 1t is true that the 1908
bill is not the adjustment OF the is.
sue that very many Tennesseeans
desire. 1t is certainly not what
we wanted, and for years we fought
with the best powers God has given
US TO prevent that condition of
things which the canvass of 1880
established. We urged settlement
at COG five years ago. We fought
hard for some settlement by the
called session of the legislature I'M
der Governor p, ter. We made Il
very earnest fight for the SOL. But
men bent on personal aggrandize-
mem only defeated all settlements
proposed, misled and deceived the
people and by their reckless dema-
gogy produced the deplorable con-
dition of affairs which made the
1908 inevitable.
1t il a sad history all the way
through. The people have been out
rageously taught and imposed upon.
Small men with fiattery have
sprung into leadership, and the
people have been called away from
the safe harbor of duty by the mer-
maids of mistaken self-interest into
a raging sea, amid whose frothing
waves every true and lasting inter
est is imperiied.
No thoughtful man viii now
doubt but what settlement at 60-6
five years ago, or any of the reason
able propositions submitted to the
called session of the legislature I'M
der Governor Porter, or the 50-4 in
lS79-either of them at the time
no thoughtful man can now doubt
but what it would have been wise to
have settled on each or either basis.
But it did not suit the personal am
bition of the self-styled leaders of
the people to make any settlement
whatever, and under their baneful
leadership the question drifted on
and on into worse and worse cOndi-
tions, until at last the Democratic
party was stranded and condition
of things precipitated which made
the 1908 inevitable.
Now, we cannot believe that
thoughtful men in Tennessee, with
the history of this question before
them can desire its re-opening,
should the supreme court decide it
constitutional and obligatory. Ger
tainly it has produced nothing but
decentralization from the first. Ger
tainly it has sown seeds which have
brought forth bitter fruit only. Ger
tainly it has disorganized the State,
politically and morally, and made
honorable men bubble upon plain
questions oflaw and duty. Certain
ly it has led to gross attempts TO
bribe, poison and kidnap the repre-
sentatives of the people in the legis-
lature assembled.
We feel persuaded that the calm
Thought Of the people in view of the
miserable history of the question
and its mammoth power for cOrrup-
ton through all the streams OF pub
lie life, will be to let it remain set
tied shot / the suprerne.cOurt so de-
ciue.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

THERE are several bills before
Congress for the admission OF new
States. Every one of them ought
TO fail. The admission OF Nevada
and the admission of Colorado were
mistakes by which we ought to
learn enough not to repeat them.
A Territory should not be admitted
to the rank of Statehood until it has
not only the requisite population,
but is also settled, compact and
homogeneous community, with
well-defined local interests and a
weIl-defined social organization pre-
ceeding it's political organization.
Nothing is to be gained for the peo-
pie of the Territories by holding
Statehood too cheap. The Terrific
ries are quite as well governed as if
they were States, and much more
cheaply governed, ard no public
reason exists why the change should
be unadvisedly or lightly made.
There are, no doubt, active and in
triguing politicians in all the Terri
tories who would like to be Senators
and other high functionaries, and
whose ambitions cannot be appeased
until they live in States. But there
is no reason why their ambitions
should induce either congress or the
people of the Territories who are
not politicians to consent to the pre-
mature formation of new States.
The main argument that will, help
on the project in congress is that
some of these States may be counted
on for Republican votes at the next
general election. 1t is worth while
for the Democrats in congress to set
off against that argument the right
of Texas under the treaty of annex
alton to divide its territory into four
States. There would thus be a
Democratic gain of six electoral
votes, which is more than the Re-
publicans can hope to gain by the
creation of new States before 1884.
1t would, in our judgment, be inn
polite for Texas to insist upon her
rights, but it is well to remind the
Jealous Republicans who are trying
to carve new States out of the Terri
tories OF the Northwest that theirs
is a game that two can play at, and
that they have really nothing to
gain by helittling the dignity Of
States.-Netc York World.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

The coolest inhabitant" had bet
ter crawl into his hole and pull the
hole in after him. He can no long
er rear back in the crushing pride
of his boosted antiquity and tell OF
what he saw in the days of "Auld
Lang Syne."
The winter of 1901 was the
longest, and coolest the summer
of 1881 was the most protracted, the
dryest and the :hOtest, and the rise
of 1882 the highest ever known in
the history of the country. Let ev-
cry young man make note of this
in his diary, and if the old oracle
dares to dispute it, shoot him on the
spot.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
CIarksViIIe Wholesale Market,
CORRECTED BY ]. ]. CRUsMAN.

SUGAR-Cut Loaf, Crushed, Powdered and
Granulated, l09ll54c; Clarified, 99l0cts
MOLASSES-New Orleans, 40 to Csc.
SYRUP-40c TO zoe.
COFFEE-We quote Rio, Il to lie; Java
q to 32c.
sALT--Kanawha, 7 bushel bbls., 81 %; by
the car load, 81 10.
FLOUR-Superfine, s. 90; Extra, So 80 to
90; Choice or Fancy. 81 80; Patent Pro-
cess, IS . to 90.
STAR CANDLES-I5 to Ice.
WHISKY-CommOn country, 81 OOdl 90
best brands Robertson county, 81 % to 90.
CHEESE-Prime factory, iI1@@I61ac.
RICE-Carolina, to Sc.
SOAP-Bar, 4(d7c.
OILS-Coal oil, Ice; lard oil, 6Oc; lin
seed oil, raw, zoe; boiled, 73c,
TURPENTINE-Spiri 36c.
R,4AARNISH-Copal, 81 90; Japan, 9Oc.
GLASS SxIO, s. 25 per box; lOx
PoWDER1Rife,s So so per keg; lead &c pei
pound.
sARDINEs-s rs per doz.
MACKEREL-No.$ per Dbl, So 50 TO IS So
kits, Nos. l, and 3, Toe to 81 25
BLACKING-25@6O per dozen.
NAILS-S3 80 to IS.
IR HS, 214c; Tennessee, &c.
TRACES 90 to IL 90 per dozen.
COLLARS-S5 so to u 90 per dozen.
HAMES-S5 50 to 10 90 per dozen.
AXES-Sl0 90 to u 90 per dozen.
BLUE GRASS-SI 25.
ORCHARD GRASS-Sl 10.
TIMOTHY SEEDS 25.
CLOVER SEEDS 80.
RED TOP-S5c.
SHOT-Sl 30 a 90.
CAPS-40@5Oc per 1000.
OYSTERS and 2 Id. cans, 81 35@2 90.
The following are the prices paid here al
this date for country produce:
PORK-6 50 to 7 90.
BACON-HOg round, IL cts
LARD-l3.
TALLOW-
PEANUTS-ta75 90 per bushel.
GINSENG-60c to 75c.
BEESWAX-l5 to lSc.
FEATHERS-new.3 So to 40c.
ANS-White, None.
PEAS-75c to 81 90.
ECiGo-25c per dozen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
Not 70 be sneexed Az.

That pure, sweet, safe and effect
I've American distillation of witch
hazel, American pine, Canada fir,
marigold and clover blossom, called
Sanford's Radical Cure for Catarrh.
A few doses instantly relieve the
most violent sneezing or head cold,
stop all watery discharges from the
nose and eyes, cure headache and
nervousness, and Danish all danger
OF fever. Complete treatment for
one dollar.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

Regulate first the stomach, second
the liver; especially the first, so as
to perform their functions perfectly
and you will remove at least nine
teen-twentieths of all the ills that
mankind is heir to, in this or any
other climate. Hop Bitters is the
only thing that will give perfectly
healthy action to these two organs.
-MdiRe Farmer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

THE american thinks it worthy
Ofnote that thirty men, soas to make
an additional connection to supply
South Nashville with gas during the
recent overflow, laid 1000 feet OF
gas pipe in one day. That pipe lay
ing may be considered big feat for
a little village like Nashville, but,
though we are not given to casing,
we can beat that exploit and not
half try. Col. Alfred Hopper, the
efficient and active Superintendent
of our Gas Co., with four men under
his command, laid $50 feet of pipe
during the overflow last week, in
three hotTS-and it wasn't a good
day for laying pipe either.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
The Illustrated Leisure Hour
Monthly.

We cali the attention of our rea-
ders to the advertisement of this
excellent publication in another col
umn. We have made arrange
ments to club the Illustrated Leis-
IRE Hour Monthly with the Chror :
icIe, and viii send the two publica-
tons at So 50 per year. The De-
cember Number will be sent free to
all who subscribe this month.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

THE falling off in men of first
class ability on the Republican side
of the house and corresponding
gain on the Democratic side is an
indication of the approaching down
fall of the Republican party. The
Democratic party has not been SO
well equipped with men of ability
in the house for a quarter of a cen
fury The election of Keifer to the
speakership is significant of the re-
publican weakness. The dry rot,
the star route rot, or some other rot
has set in on the party OF great NOR
al ideas and the end draws near
AUdldnche.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

The Business Mans Best Friend.
Mr.. c. L. Oudesluys, a leading
importer OF Baltimore, has stated
that nothing has done his dyspep-
STA, indigestion, &C., so much good
as that NEST wonderful OF all tonics
Browns Iron BitterS. Just think
of it; at supper the other night,
although u chronic dyspeptic, he
says he ate, at Y o'clock, fried oys
tiers, chicken salad and ice cream,
after which taking a dose of Iron
Bitters, he never spent more
pleasant night, with no dyspeptic
symptoms in the morning.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

Death to rats, mice, reaches and
ants; PARSONS EXTERMINAToR.
Barns, granaries and households
cleared in a single night. No fear
of bad smells. Best and cheapest
vermin killer in the world. Sold
everywhere.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
STAT EMENT
UNDER OATH.

II HAVE been afflicted for twenty years
Il with an obstinate skin disease, called by
some NJ. DIS SSoriasis, and others LeprOSy,
commencing on my scalp, and, in spite of
all could do, with the help of the most
sktllful doctors, it slowly but surely extend
ed until a year ago this winter 1T covered
nay entire person in form of dry scales. For
the last three years have been unable to
do any labor, and suffering intensely all
the time. Every morning there could be
nearly a duStpanfuI of scales taken from the
sheet on my bed, some of them half as large
as the envelope containing this letter. In
the latter part of the winter my skin COM
almost, that could be thought of, without
any relief The 18th of June / started West,
in hopes could reach the Hot Springs. 1
reached Detroit. and was so low 1 thought
should have to go to the hospital, but finally
got as far as Lansing, Mich, VIII ere 1 had
sister living. One Dr. treated me about
two weeks, but did no good. All thought l
had but short time to live. | earnestly
prayed to die. Cracked through the skin
all over my back, across my ribs, arms,
hands, limbs, feet badly swoolen, toe mills
came OFF, finger nails dead and hard as
bone, hair dead, dry and lifeleSS as old straw.
Oh, my God how did suffer!
My sister, Mrs. E. H. Davis, had small
part of box of Cuticura in the house. She
wouldn't give up; we will try Cutieura.'
Some was applied to one hand and arm.
Eureka! there was relief; stopped the ter
rible burning sensation from the word go.
They Immediately got the CQticura Resell
vent blood purifier, Cuticura and Cuticura
Soap tthe great skin curesl. i commenced
by taking one tablespoonful of Resolvent
three times day, after meals: and a bath
once day, water about blood heat; used
Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura
morning and evening. Result, returned to
my home in just six weeks from the time
left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet
of paper. -
HIRAM +. CARPENTER,
Henderson, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
Sworn to before me this 10Th day of jan
uary 1880. A. NJ. LEFFINGWELL,
Justice of the Peace.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

Don't take any of the quack ros-
trums, as they are regimental to
the human system but put your
trust in Hop Bitters, which will
cure general dilapidatiOn, costive
habits and all comic diseases. They
saved Isaac from a severe extract of
tripod fever. They are the ne Plus
atylua,a of medicines. Boston Globe.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
Tommy was little rogue, whom

Tommy was a little rogue, whom
his mother had hard work to man.
age. Their house in the country
stood raised a few feet from the
ground, and Tommy, to escape Il
well-deserved whipping, ran from
his mOthOr and crept under the
house. Presently the father came
home, and hearing where the boy
had taken refuge, crept under to
bring him out. AS he approached
on his hands and knees, Tommy
asked sis she after you, too?'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
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PrOprietOrs Chronicle

Terrible itching and scaly humors,
ulcers, sores and scrofulous swell
ings cured by the Cuticura and Gu
ticura Soap (the great skin cures)
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(blood puritier) internally. Ask
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

IT is stated that the "Greenback
party" of Tennessee will hold con-
vention in Nashville on the 22d OF
March next to nominate a candi-
date for Governor. Shades of the
defunct "Rag-baby" prevent this
screaming farce!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

The only secret about Ayers
Cherry Pectoral is in the selection
of the best materials for the cure of
coughs and colds and skillfully c"m-
bining them by chemical processes.
This all medical men are aware of,
as they are furnished with the for
mula of its preparation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
There Is Nothing Like IL.

The failing powers of digestion,
assimilation, secretion and excre-
ton, are restored to permanent
health, strength and activity, by
using Browns Iron Bitters-a true
tonic! Il perfect strengthened! a
sure revivef.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04

THERE are a few old "cranks"
going about and still maintaining
that the present rise in the Cumber-
land did not come up to "dear old
AZ"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-04
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