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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
Out West
Nashville World.

We are permitted to take the
following extracts from a letter
from the last representative from
this district now in service in Mon.
tana:
CAMP BRECK, Nov. 16.-I am
still out in the field, living in a
tent and don't know when we GO
into post. 1t has been very cold
for the past few days but is a little
warmer now. Went cut on scout
last week after Indians. 1t was
bitterly cold and snow was three
and four feet deep. l got so cold
that l didn't look for the Indians.
It is no fun to be out in the noun
tains this kind of weather without
a tent or stove.
NV box has not arrived though ]
received information that it had
been shipped by wagon from Dill
lion, the terminus of the q. n. road.
NV captain has Just told me that we
would probably stay out until
Christmas, as a large amount OF
grain is on the way for our horses.
/ don't feel very happy over the
idea of spending a winter In tents
it Is too cold.
Day before yesterday was pay
day for the soldiers and about one
half of them have been drunk ever
since. / have got one of them SHOW
cling snow from in front OF my tent
now for amusement.
/ do hope that you will come out
next year, for / think that you
will like the country for a while.
/ do not yet know where / will be
stationed next summer but L hope
and expect that it will be the ma
tional park. II so you will have a
fine opportunity to see this wonder
full place. A company of capital
lists are now putting up some 1ne
hotels down there.
The railroad will be completed
by next summer, and it is thought
that the park will be filled with
visitors. However, we will know
more about it next year. Your
dullest season, from September to
November, will be the best time to
come out. L hope that
will come out, too, and we can take
a hunt. The country is being set
tied so fast that the game is getting
very wild.
There was a nice funeral at the
railroad town here, the other day.
A woman died and was placed in
a goods box. A barkeeper read a
chapter in the Bible, made short
speech and then invited the pail
bearers to have drink. They
then carried the box about two hun
dred yards and put it in a hole.
/ am suffering horribly for some
thing to read, so, please send me
some old papers or something else.
F. G. /.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
4 PrePosterO0s Scheme.

The present tariff is scheme of
the most preposterous taxation. 1t
is wholly indefensible. It is scan
dalous in its abuses and In its out
RACES. 1t is a legal monstrosity,
imposing taxes without a single re-
deeming pretext-taXing people
upon their daily earnings, not for
the purpose of collecting revenue,
but for the avowed purpose of grant
ing subsidies and bOunties to ia
vored Class. Protection is so piled
upon one victim after another that
it becomes self consuming. The
man who is granted one subsidy is
(before he can reduce it to possess
ion) compelled to divide it with so
many other subsidized persons that
he is forced to protest that he is
robbed. The country, Democratic
and Republican, demands that this
scheme of taxation be revised, that
its abuses be repealed and its exact
ions largely reduced. The Repub-
lican Congress at the last session re-
fused or neglected to do this. 1t
postponed reform until after the
election, with the intent to evade it
altogether The elections, however,
have shown that the people have
provided that if the tariff be not re-
Yised by one party it shall be by the
other.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
The Weather Indicator.

The weather predicted for your
place one month in advance. The
character of the seasons announced
beforehand. Crop outlook foretold.
The phenomena of the weather ex-
planned. A paper everybody is in
terested in. Its editor is the most
noted meteorologist in the world
and long experience has made him
an expert in Weather Science. He
furnishes the Weather tables, Re-
marks and notes for the Western
Farmers Almanac. His theory
has never been assailed and the
most critical are silenced by his
wonderful forecasts.
The Indicator is an eight-page
monthly containing the weather for
IA districts in the United States.
Price so cents per annum single
copy 10 cents. Published by VIM.
III. Gather, Ashville, st. Clair Co.,
Alabama.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
Ihe Penbadr Fund.


Col. H. 8. Thompson, State Su-
perintendent of Education i'm South
Carolina, has received a letter from
DIR. Curry, agent of the Peabody
Education Fund, stating ''that the
income Of the Peabody education
fund will not be this year as large
as it has been," and adding: 1.-The
pecuniary help to be furnished
must be so used as to duplicate re-
suits and to bear most effectively
on the end contemplated, the es-
Enlistment of permanent and we'll
sustained school systems, adequate
to the needs of the educable popula-
ton. Very little of the
fund can be given in aid of schools.
The help, when given, must not be
furnished where communities have
had three years aid, and where
there is the assurance of permanence
in the schools. 1t Is very desirable
TO stimulate soundcr sentiment in
favor of good schools and local tax
alton. Teacher-training is
now the prime object of the Pea
body trustees, and whatsoever of
income is available must be largely
applied in that direction. This
Misunderstanding can best be done
by normal schools for both sexes
and both races. These schools are
likely to be permanent when under
State control and support. Normal
schools are an essential part of an
efficient public school system. If
State Legislatures will organize and
support such schools, the Peabody
education fund will be cheerfully
used in aid of them and for their
enlargement. Normal schools,
while of indispensable importance
and to be steadily labored for, will
not supersede teachers institutes.
These necessary agencies, if author
lied and sustained by State appro-
priations and conducted by attain
ed experts, will hereafter, as hereto
fore, be regarded with favor by the
Peabody trustees"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
W Oman-HOpe for Suffering WOm-
aR Something now Undor
the Smni

By reason of her peculiar relations
and her peculiar ailments, woman has
been compelled to suffer, not only her
own ills, but those arising from the
want of knowledge, or of consideration
on the part of those with whom she
stands connected in the social organi-
cation. The frequent and distressing
irregularities peculiar to her sex have
thus been aggravated to a degree
which no language can express. In
the mansions of the rich and the howell
of the poor alike, women has been the
patient victim OF ills unknown to man
and which none but she could endure
and without a remedy. But now
the hour of her redemption has come.
She need not suffer longer, when she
can find relief in DR.. ]. Bradfeld's
Female Regulator, @Woman's Best
Friend" Prepared, by DR.. J. Brad
field, Atlanta, Ga. Price: trial Size,
75c; large size, Sl.50 For sale by all
druggists.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
He was 5dphsed.

A farmer lay sick at his home in
the eastern part of Davidson county.
He had prayed long and earnestly
for peace of mind and at last he
had been rewarded. The Holy
Ghost came and sat upon him.
Looking out at his bedroom cham
Der across the fields he saw the men
Strengthening hogs. He watched
the process with interest. When
the porker was killed the men
threw it into a trough of hot water.
An idea struck the farmer. He
wanted to be baptised. He was
not able to 60 to the creek, besides
the water was cold enough to freeze
him. AT thescene Ofslaughter there
was an abundance of hot water.
Why hesitate any longer? To-mor-
row it might be too late. He would
do it. When the last poker had
been scalded, the men were instruc-
ted to fill up the trough with hot
water and bring it to the house.
A minister was sent for. When all
was ready, the sick man was lifted
tenderly from his bed, and at the
final word 'tamen," was dropped to
the bottom of the trough. The
moment his body touched the wa
ter, he felt that he was passing
through a confagration, and by the
time he struck bottom he was sure
he had landed in hades. The
friends had forgotten to cool the
water and it was as near red hot
as water ever gets to be. The min
lister could not hold his subject.
He arose like a tornado, snorting
like a battle horse, and blowing
the water from his mouth and nose,
out, "Hell and damnatiOn
WhOop! Lemme out o. here Fire
Whoopw And as they
laid him on the bed he softly MUIR
"In hell at last just as
~
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
What Farm, Products Bought and Buy.

A contemporary says: "In 1860
one bushel of corn would buy one
pound of nails. In 1882 one bushel
of corn would buy fifteen pounds of
nails. In 1916 it took twenty-eight
dozen of eggs to buy one bushel of
salt. In 1882 one dozen of eggs
would do the same thing. In 1916
it required sixty-four bushels of bar
ley to buy. one yard of broadcloth.
In 1882 five bushels of barley would
do the business. In 1916 it required
one bushel of wheat to purchase
one yard of calico. In 1882 one
bushel of wheat would buy thirty
five yards of better article. In 1916
a pair of wollen blankets cost as
much as a COW. In 1882 the value
of a cow would buy twenty pairs of
blankets, superior in every way"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
Deer With LnterEocked Horns.

Petersburg (ya.l Index-Appeal, Nov. 2S.
The particulars of a remarkable
occurrence near Brander's Bridge,
in Chesterfield county, were receiv-
ed here yesterday. 1t seems that a
son of Mr.. Charles Harrison and
another gentleman named Raird
were but opossum hunting some
nights ago in the vicinity of the
bridge, when they heard their dogs
baying in reedy swamp close by.
The gentlemen concluded TO go
home and procure a gun, and on
their return found that the dogs
were after two large bucks, one
with eight points and the other
with ten points. The buck with
the eight prongs had killed the one
with ten points with one of its
prongs. The prong entered near
the eye and came out near the ear.
By some means the prongs of the
bucks became interlOcked, and had
evidently been so for several days,
as the dead animal had been drag
ged a considerable distance, and
had been killed long enough to be-
come offensive. The live buck,
which had undoubtedly suffered
for food, was in a very poor and
emacIated condition, and was shot
and killed before the marksman
could recognize what it was in the
dark,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

THE Montgomery Advertiser and
Mail announces the introduction in
the Senate of Alabama, of bill to
incorporate the Gesner Mining and
Smelling Company. This, of Itself,
might not be considered a matter
of much Importance, but when we
state that the company is being in
corpOrated to work tin mine near
Ashland, in clay county, and fur
ther, that there has never been tin
mine worked in the United States,
or, perhaps, on the American con-
tinent, the significance of the dis
cOvery will be apparent. Mr.. Ges-
ner, who is at the head oil the en-
terprise, is not only a theoretical
geolOgist and mineralogist, but
miner of many years practical ex-
perlence. An Englishman by birth
and education, but an American
from choice. He discovered the
mines in Clay county two years ago
while prospecting, and has eXpend-
ed more than $40, 900 experimenting
and on machinery. He already
has extensive works in progress, and
is satisfied that he can secure all
the capital needed for profitable
working the mine when the COM
pany has been incorporated. 1t is
hard to estimate the Importance of
this discovery. The import of tin
and tin plate from Europe has now
reached the handsome sum of $l5,-
600, 900 Or$l6, 200, 900 per annum, and
if Alabama is able to supply por-
ton Ofthat demand, it will be an
other and important addition to her
already prominent position as a
mineral region.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
INSTRUMENTATION Freedom
for Women.

What is the right of the ballot to
women compared with her privilege
of enjoying health and happiness in
the charmed circle of her social and
domestic relations? Among the many
discoveries tending to promote the
happiness and advancement of the
human race, nothing is so intimately
connected with the health and happi-
ness of women-the centre and source
of our highest earthly enjoyments-as
the discovery of a remedy which
meets her peculiar wants, and fits her
for the enjoyment of life, and for min
istering to the happiness of those with
whom she is associated in the tender
relations of sister, wife and mother.
This remedy is found i'll DIR. J. Brad
fields Female Regulator, "Women's
Best Friend" By it woman is eman-
cipated from the ills peculiar to her
sex. Before its magic power all
irregularities of the womb vanish. 1t
cures whites suppression of the mem
SEES, and removes uterine Instructions.
1t cures constipation and strengthens
the system. braces the nerves and pu-
rifles the blood, and thus doing, it does
more for her, and through her, Tor
the whole human family than any
discovery of modern times. 1t never
fails, as thousands of women will testl-
fy. Prepared by DR.. J. Bradtield,
Atlanta, Ga. Price: trial size, 75c;
large size, $1.50. For sale By alldrug-
gists, tges 3 avvrffr@
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
A COLOSSAL cARARD.
The Boss LIE of Season IN the Snake Line.
Chattanooga Times.

The Boss LIE of the Season IN the Snake Line.
Chattanooga Times.
A few days ago a young man,
whose life had been devoted mainly
to wickedness and dissipation, died
at his home near Blue Springs,
James county, and his last DAYS
were attended with such singular
circumstances, that we deem them
worthy of notice. Lying PROSTATE
on his bed of sickness, he realized
that his days were fast drawing to
a close, and death would soon claim
its own, so he summoned his father
and mother TO his bedside, and in
bitter vindictives told them that he
would die-that he would be etern-
ally damned, and that on their
shoulders rested the awful sin.
On the day of his death, few
hours before the ominous shadows
gathered about his brow, the young
man became raving maniac and
was uncomfortable. He wildly
battled with imaginary foes, telling
those in the room that devils were
after him, and in heart-rending
tones prayed that they be driven
off. In this horrible condition he
died. Preparations were made for
his funeral, and on the following
day a Baptist minister was sent for
TO conduct the service. A sad little
party of mourning friends followed
the remains to their last resting
place, and when they arrived at the
neW-made grave, which was in a
cluster of pines near the house, they
witnessed a very strange proceeding
which sent terror thrilling through
their hearts. A large heap of logs
lay near the grave, and when the
coffin was opened for last view,
out Of this heap of logs there en-
erged large black snake about six
feet in length, followed by numer-
Gus small ones, all of them uttering
a kissing, mournful sound. They
came to the coffin, stood erect on
their tails, and viewed the remains
as cOmplaceutly as would human
beings. The spectators were so
amazed by this turn of affairs that
they stood amazed with fear, but
after while regaining their pres
ence of mind, they drove thesnakes
back into the log heap. The coffin
was lowered into the grave, and
then the snakes re-appeared and
plunged into the grave, taking ref
uge under and around the coffin.
No effort was made to extrieate
them, so they were covered up and
buried with the remains of the
young man.
This story was told us by a per-
fectly reliable gentleman, whose
veracity can not be doubted, and
we can attest he was perfectly sober
and serious when the incident was
related.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
S0ckcioth And Ashes,


Mrs. Percy Yerger is good wo-
man, but she is not well posted
about church festivals, and she is
not as refined as she might be. The
Episcopal clergyman happening to
remark in her presence that it
would soon be Advent, she replied /:
"Then we will all have to mOrtify
ourselves again. but / don't mind it
a bit. Last Advent / saved enough
out of butchers meat for the ser
wants table to get me a $75 cloak
10 go to church in"
"That was Lent, madame"
"No, it wasn't lent. Three or four
of the neighbours wives wanted me
to lend them that cloak, but L told
them it wasn't mine, and lied out
of it"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
only a Little BIT OF Mothers Dress.

A little fellow from one of our
charitable institutions was being
taken to New Jersey farm by an
agent, the owners of the farm hav-
ing had the boy "bnund" to them
for a term of years, when the agent
noticed that the boy kept placing
his hand inside of his jacket on the
left side, and occasionally would
peep within with a tender look.
AT last he said: "What have you
got in there, my little friend ?"
"Oh, nothing, sir,' he replied !;
"only bit of my mothers dress,
which I've sewed on my coat. It
was the dress she had on when she
died, and now it kind of comforts
me to touch it, +"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
She Th0Uoht She Could.

"Do you think, Mary, you could
leave father and mother, this pleas,
ant home, with all its ease and COM
forts, and go to the far west with a
young lawyer, who has but little
besides his profession to depend
upon and with him search out a
new home, which it should be your
joint duty to beautify and make de-
lightful and happy like this ?'
Dropping her head softly on his
shoulders she whispered, 1 think
could, Archy." swell, them"
said he, "ther's Tom Jones, who's
going west, and wants to get a
wife, I'll mention it to him."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

To the editor Of the New York world.

To the editor OF the new 1ork N"Au-
STR. wish 70 rescue this fine
hattie lyric from some of the corrup-
tions and degredations which ii has
suffered during the last dozen or
more wears. 1 can not be sure that
i have expunged all the errors from
its text, for my corrections are made
from memory, and / have not seen
an accurate version of il, think,
since il was first printed during the
war time (nor, indeed, any till this
one in a good many years., and L
should like to invite assistance from
any and all competent sources In
restoring the text to its original
form. Besides the plumbers OF lgno-
rance, carelessness of printers, trans
scribers, and so on, with which IL IS
commonly disfigured, it has suffered
in the third stanza, a deliberate
reconstruction or Improvement
which wholly vacates the stern old
warriors prayer of Biblical SIM
plicity and soIemnity, substituting
therefor a preposterous little shred
of pedantry, bag-pipe squeak
amidst the trumpet notes, exciting
in all right thinking minds indig-
nation first, then derision, and final
ly pity and wonder.
Is the author of the poem known =?
/ have heard that it was found in
manuscript upon the dead body OF
a soldier who fell in one of Stone
wallis battles, but have no sufficient
testimony TO the fact, nor knOwl-
edge of its origin or of the channel
through which il first reached the
public.
sToNEwALL JACKsoN's WAY.
Come lads, stack arms pile on the rails,
Stir UP the camp-fires bright;
What matter If the canteen fails,
Well make a roaring night.
Here Shenandoah craWls along,
There busly Blue Ridge echoes strong
To swell the brigades rousing song
OF Stonewan Jackson's way.
We see him now his old SLOUGH hat
Cooked over his eye askew;
His shrewd, dry smile, his speech so pat,
So calm, so bold, so true,
The Blue-Light Elder knows 'em well;
God save his soul Well give him-wellW
That's StOnewan JacksOns way.
Silence ground arms kneel all hats or
Old StonewaIl's going to pray.
Strange the fool that dares to scof;
Attention, it's his way.
"Hear us, We pray, Almighty God;
Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod;
Amen" That's Stonewall's way.
He's IN the saddle now. Fall in!
Steady, the whole brigade.
Hills at the ford cut OF; he'll win
His way out-ball or blade.
What matter IL our shoes be worn?
What matter If our feet be torn?
Quick step Wen with him be fore morn,
In 6tonewall Jackson's way.
The bright sun scatters back the mists
OF morning, and, by Georgei
There's LOngstreet struggling in the lists
Hemmed by an angry gorge.
Pope and his Yankees whipped before,
"Bayonets and grape" hear Stonewall roar,
'Charge, Ashby, pay off Stuart's score
In StonewalI Jackson's way"
All, women, wait and watch and yearn
For news Of Stonewsll's band;
All, widow, read with eyes that burn
That ring upon thy hand.
All, maiden, weep on, hope on, pray on,
Thy lot is not 50 all fOrlorn,
The foe had better ne'er been born
Than get in Stonewall's way.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

WHEN an editor makes a mistake
in his paper, all the world sees it
and calls him liar. When a pri-
vate citizen makes a mistake no.
body knows it except a few friends
and they come and ask the editor
TO keep it out of the paper. When
a private citizen dies the editor is
asked to write of all his good quail
tiles and leave out the bad. When
the editor dies, the private citizen
says, Snow the old liar will get his
deserts
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
THE Nashville American saws ::

THE Nashville American says ::
"Middle Tennessee farmers have
made a great deal of money off of
their Irish potato crop this year.
Messrs. William and Ewing Cal
lender, two young farmers, living
in Sumner county, near Henderson
vile, have already made a clear
profit of SC, 900 on the first and Sec
ond crops. The second crop is just
gathered, but though fine it will
not bring as good prices as the for
mer. Mr.. Haynes, living in the
same neighbOrhood, made over
$4,000.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

A FROG fell into a pail of milk In
Connecticut town one night re-
Gently, and in the morning was
found sitting upon a roll of fresh
butter. A local paper says "that
the sole explanation is that, in try
ing to extricate himself, he had by
dilligent and continuous strokes of
his long legs churned the milk into
butter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

A youth was heard to remark to
a jolly and fat Teutonian as the cir
Gus pageant passed the City Hall,
recently: Haven't L seen you be-
fore? Your face looks familiar ="
Is dot so ?" said Hans. "When
you got so old as me your face will
look familiar, too" and strolled up
Delaware avenue, humming
"Embdy is de baby, his CRADLES
gone."-.N Y Herald.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

AVERY old lady on her death bed
in penitential moods, said: II
have been a great sinner more than
eighty years, and didn't know it,"
An old colored woman, who had
lived with her a long time exclaim-
ed, claws, l knoWed it all the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

THOSE who write for sample cop
les OF the Transcript will please in
close a postage stamp, not for pub.
LEGATION butaS an evidence that they
don't take us for a bald-headed phil
anthrophis with a gold mounted
cane and income of 100000 a year,
who is printing paper for amuse-
ment and paying the postage on it
for fun.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16

TAKES after Papa: A visitor re-
marked, as he caressed little Mollie,
"She takes after her papa and has
got his hair" "No," said the lit
tie cherub, "it's not me that takes
after papa and gets his hair. It's
mamma who does that when he
comes home tight"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-16
A Chinaman TINS Describes h

A Chinaman thus describes his
experience at draw poker: 81
dlaw thlee carde, get flo acee, bet
five dolla, nobody clom in. Next
timee / dlaw two cardse, get flo
kingee, bet ten dolIa, nobody clom
in. Next timee / dlaw one cardee,
get flo f1ushee, bet fifteen dolla,
everybody clom in Chinaman bus
ted.