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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
The Gordon Road.
Nashville World.

The organization of the company
for the building of this road has
been mentioned before in the
World, and as it has assumed SO
much prominence in railway cir
cles, all things relating to it must be
of interest.
Judge w. 3. Wood, of Florence,
Ala, a gentleman of strict integrity,
fine business qualities, and thor
oughly imbued with the progress
i've spirit of the age, is the Vice
President of the road. He was in
the city yesterday, and upon being
questioned by representative of
the World, the following facts con-
cerning it were ascertained.
The Indiana, Alabama q Texas
Railroad has for its objective termi-
nj Evansville, Ind and Mobile, Ala.
1t is the project of the Gordon Com.
pany-Major E. G. Gordon, Pres
ident, w. B. Wood, Vice President,
and w. S. Gordon, Secretary, and
Treasurer. The enterprise was set
on foot about six months ago by
Major Gordon, and that portion of
the line from the Tennessee river
Judge Wood. The plan of building
the road was to solicit donations of
land, money, labor or materials
from the people of the counties
along the line to aid in its cOnstruc-
ton. The company proposes to
build the road within three years
if the people will contribute enough
to build one mile in five. The
proposition has met with univer-
sal favor all along the route, and
liberal subscriptions are being
made in most of the counties which
it will pass through. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the required
donation will be secured in few
months and that the work of con-
structiOn will commence in the sum-
mer. The location of the road will
make it the most profitable road
in the South. 1t will form connec-
tiOns at Evansville with the roads
north and will be the most direct
and shortest route to all the eastern
cities by five or six hours. 1t will
be in connection with the grain
fields of Indiana, Illinois and Mich
igan. 1t will pass through the coal
measures of Kentucky forty miles,
and through the great tobacco coun-
ties of that State. 1t penetrates and
runs along the great Iron region of
Tennessee as well as the immense
forests of Lewis, Hickman, Wayne
and Dickson counties. In Alabama
it runs through a fine agricultural
region, and mountains filled with
both coal and iron. 1t will connect
in Central Alabama with the Geor-
gia Pacific railroad now being rap
idly constructed by the same COM
pany from Atlanta, Ga, to TeXar-
kama, Texas. The road will devel-
op more of the mineral resources of
the States through which it passes
than all the other roads in the State
combined. 1t will probably run
within twenty miles of Nashville,
and will in some way connect with
this city, but in what manner the
projectors have not yet determined.
Nashville must have a connection
with so important railroad as this
will be, and it is hoped that her
citizens will see to it that the con-
nectiOn is made.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
what TO Tencn our Daughters.

The following advice is worth
many readings:
Teach them self-reliance.
Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them how to cook a good
meal.
Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.
Bring them up in the way they
should go.
Teach them how to make their
own dresses.
Teach them that dollar is only
one hundred cents.
Teach them how to darn stock
ings and sew on buttons.
Teach them every day dry, hard,
practical sense.
Teach them to say "no" and mean
1T; or ''yes" and stick to it.
Teach them to wear calico dres-
ses, and do it like queens.
Give them good, substantial COM
mon school education.
Teach them that a good rosy
romp is worth fifty consumptives.
Teach them the mysteries of the
kitchen, dining room and the par
lor.
Teach them that the more one
lives within his income the more
he will save.
Teach them that the farther one
lives beyond his income, the nearer
he is 10 the poor house.
Rely upon it, that upon your
teaching depends, in a measure the
veal or woe of their after life.
Teach them the accomplishments
music, paining and drawings,-if
you have time and money to do it
with.
Teach them that God made them
in his own image, and that no
amount of tight lacing will improve
the model.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
Who Kissed awaw the Tear

Is anything stranger than the hui
man heart? Nature sends a frail,
green vine creeping across the earth
to reach grim wall and cover its
ugliness-tO reach a dead branch
and cover it with life. We bless
nature as we see these things, and
| yet we do not realize that human
hearts are ever doing the same.
One day, months ago, a rose faced
child looking from a window saw a
quoor old naon So HnAPing poet n
tapped on the pane and the old
man looked up. The sight of that
sweet face opened his old heart,
and he went on his way feeling
richer than for many months past.
He was the grim wall-the child
was the green vine. He passed
again, and again the child was at
the window, and for days and
weeks they never missed seeing
each other. AT each meeting the
vine crept nearer to the wali-the
wall appeared less grim and-forbid
ing. One day the 'walP laid aside
his old hat for better one. An
other day he had new coat. Again
he was clean shaved, and the vine
scarcely recognized him. No one
knew the old man, but all knew
that he was feeling the influence of
the vine.
A week ago rs the old man passed
he missed the face at the window.
Was he too early or too late? He
fingered and looked and seemed
lost. 1t was the same next day,
but kind heart pitied him and
sent out word that the child was
sick. The green vine had reached
the wall only to be blighted. Two
days more and there was Grape on
the door. The child was dead. 1t
had fallen asleep in death without
struggle, knowing nothing of the
grand hereafter, but having no fear.
On its pale cheek was tear-a sim
gle tear which glistened like dia-
mOnd. No hand dared wipe that
tear away. Itseemed a tie between
the present and the past-the living
and the dead.
"Please can see the child ?' 1t
was the old mantle grim wall
who knocked timidly at the door
and spoke thus. They knew him
by sight, and they led him into the
room where the vine lay dead. He
stood over the coffin for moment,
lips quivering and eyes full of tears,
and then he bent over and kissed
the face which would watch for
him no more. When he had gone
they looked for the tear. He had
kissed it away! Old and poor and
unknown, he had reaped treasure
such as all the millions of the world
could not buy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
WHOLE NO. 2,4l7.
River improvement.

The New York Times which has
heretofore been bitter in lis opposi-
tion to any appropriations for the
improvements of the Mississippi,
now says in the light OF the recent
disaster, the people of that section
have right to demand of the gen.
eral government some protection
against like calamity in the future.
1t says:
"This much at least may be said,
that the prevention of disasters like
that which has now visited the
dWellers on the Mississippi banks,
and the creation of permanent
navigable channel in stream
which, with its tributaries, reaches
nineteen States and three territories,
and may become the cheapest high
way of transportation for the pro-
ducts of tWO-thirds of the total area
of the United States, are objects far
more worthy of encouragement
from the Federal Government than
any ocean steamer lines or projected
canals or ship railways which have
been or can be suggested. If this
great work can be done by State or
corporate means, so much the bet
ter; but it is not yet clear that it is
thus achievable. The whole gues-
ton is proper subject for the i'm
mediate and careful consideration
of Congress, in order that, if the
nation declines the task, some other
means for its accomplishment may
be found.n
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
EDITORIAL Neglige ence.

There is a young editor wandering
on the face of the earth who former
ly published a paper at Storm Lake,
Iowa. He left there the day after
the issue of the last paper, and is
supposed to be crossing the State on
foot to get away from an infuriated
female population. 1t seems there
was concert given by young ladies
of the city, and the gallant young
editor wrote it up In splendid style.
The same day he had visited herd
of short-horn cattle owned by far
mer in the vicinity, and he wrote
up the cattle also. The cross-eyed
foreman of the Office got the two ar
tiles mixed up as follows: 1.-THE
concert given last evening by six
teen of Storm Lakes most beautiful
and interesting young ladies, was
highly appreciated. They were ele-
gantly dressed, and sang in most
charming manner, winning the
plaudits of the entire audience, who
pronounced them the finest short
horns in the county. A few of them
are OF a rich brown color, but the
majority are spotted brown and
white. Several of the heifers were
fine-bodied, tight-limbed animals,
and promise to prove good property.
Their limbs were shapely, and their
movements graceful, and the far
mer who secures them may well
smack his lips!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

JONES was sitting on the front
steps the other night, waiting for
his sweetheart to come out. She
knew what time to come, and Jones
didn't wish to ring the bell for fear
of alarming the old folks. Pres
emily he herd the door open and the
old man muttered something about
somebody's being "too fresh"
"Do you address yourself to me?"
said Jones, springing up with q
flashing.
"No," said the old gentleman,
mildly, "I was speaking of the
paint on the steps. 1t was put there
this afternoon"
Jones clapped his hand to the
spot, and, realizing the force of the
old gentlemon's remarks, reached
his room in five minutes. - CdrsoD
city Appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
what NE Saw while Dead

A man in Hagerstown, Md, who
was supposed TO have died, but
subsequently came to life, said in
stating his experience:
When / died / first felt a sinking
going sensation. / knew every
thing going on in the room, but /
could not move my lips. The next
thing remember was being i'm a
dense darkness, seemingly i'm n tun-
mel, through which i was being
pushed. There seemed to be two
forms, one on each side, pushing
me along through this tunnel, and
/ appear to move as il / was float
ing touching nothing above or be-
low. AT last it appeared to get light
er, as though we were nearing the
end of the passage. 1t grew bright
er every moment, and then j SEEM
ed to observe two shining beautiful
forms on each side of me. / had a
feeling of perfect peace and well be-
ing, and heard, as though it were a
part of the space l floated in, the
most soothing and delightful music.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

To men belong the rough things
of life, the strong virtues, and nat
urally, therefore, the most selfish
natures to women are confided all
the sweet and modest, the devoted
and unselfish qualities which make
them so lovely in themselves, while
they leave men great and render
them both strong aud blessed. On
men are showered the hard knocks,
the cuts and bruises, which women
have to heal and the division is
just, and for the most part works
we'll ard kindly. But, of all the
working qualities by which life
runs easily, patience is the most
valuable.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

SOME thirty years ago Mr.. Green,
an amiable Englishman, seeing a
rather shabby old man looking for
seat in church, opened his pew
door, beckoned to him, and placed
him, in "a comfortable corner, with
prayer and hymn books. The old
gentleman, who carefully noted the
name in these latter. expressed his
thanks warmly at the close of the SER
vices. Time had efiaced theincident
from Mr.. Green's recollection, when
he one day received an intimation
that by the death, gentleman name
Wilkinson he had become entitled
to $685. year. Mr.. Wilkinson
was asolitary old man, without reia-
tives. Green's act prepossessed him
in his favor; he inquired about him,
and found that he bore the highest
character. There was a marvellous
ly courteous hospitality in the mat
ter of pews for sometime after that
bequest, but nobody else has yet
got $35, 900 year for a seat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
Profit $1,000.

"To sum it up, six long years of
bed-ridden sickness, costing 5000
per year, total 81 ,260-all of this ex-
pense was stopped by three bottles
of Hop Bitters, taken by my wife.
She has done her own houseWork
for year since, without the loss of
a day, and l want everybody to
know it, for their benefit.-N. Il.
Farmer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
Senator sherman on the Admin.
iStraliOn.

The Senate Finace Committee has
virtually decided to make an adj
verse report on the nomination of
Lewis Buckner to be Collector of
Internal Revenue of the 5th Ken
lucky district, to succeed VIM. S.
Wilson, the editor of the Louisville
Commercial. Senator Sherman
made the committee believe that
Wilson wrs turned out because he
was a friend of his during the last
Presidential canvass, and Buckner
appointed because he was a Grant
delegate to Chicago. Mr.. Sher-
man declared at the committee
meeting that if this policy was to
be confined he would make open
war on the President, and force the
Administrator to look to Demo-
cratic votes to confirm future nomi-
nations, as ne ana MS IrIenus wOuIu
not be a party to turning out officers
whose records are good and who
have not been in the government
service but year two.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
while Tnere.s Life There. Hope.

There is no condition so low as to
be hopeless. nor any plane so high
as to be without fear. Many use
Browns Iron Bitters in health as
well us in sickness. 1t Is natures
best assistant in keeping health and
in restoring health. Its use will
make you and your family healthy,
robust and strong, and save much
loss of time and heavy doctors bills.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

THE Columbia Herald says: Maj.
James T. Moore is for 500. Why
not for SOD? Because" says the
Major in his plain, illustrative and
forcible style, ''if 1 owe a man a
thousand dollars, and he is good
enough toknock off halfthe debt, by
reason of my misfortuneS and bad
luck, Pm not going to be hog enough
to ask him to knock off any of the
interest.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08
Man is like a musical instrur

Man is like musical instrument
he is worthless unless in tune.
At times the system needs the
strengthening effects of a tonic; the
blood needs reinforcement, and the
vital energies n stimulant. Iron in
various forms has been in use for
many years, and no better combi-
nation of 1t with other vitalizers
than DIR. Harter's Iron Tonic, Is
known in this country. 1t is a safe
and reliable remedy in Dyspepsia,
General Debility. Want of Vitality,
and the usual disorders attendant
upon a prostratcd system.-Bilr-
HngtoR, (Iolcd), Gazette.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

Mr.. John d. Brothers, of Ports
mouth, O., writes: "Two years ago
l suffered from a severe attack of
malarial fever; l was brought very
low to deaths door; had never
fully recovered, and often was dis
tressed with billiousness, headache,
sinking chills, night sWeats, indi-
gestion' and painful urination.
About three months ago / noticed
an advertisement of Browns Iron
Bitters in a Cincinnati paper. From
the first, it seemed TO be just the
medicine L had long needed. / am
now just as strong and hearty as a
buck, and weigh nearly one hal.
again as much as / did three months
ago"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

THE total indebtedness of the
State of Alabama, as shown by the
Auditor, is S9,11l 500. The value
of the various railroads, as assessed
for taxation, is SIC, ,553 ,905.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

boat to the land was unable to stand
the strain, and the Golden City
began gradually to be drawn into
the current. Down the river she
| fioated, furnishing to those on the
shore picture of unrivalled and
fearful beauty. The waters gleam-
ed in crimson, and the Arkansas
| shore was distinctly drawn in red.
| Everyone who witnessed the sight
must have drawn a mental picture
of what was going on in the burn
! ing boat. Women and men rudely
awakened from. the peace of sleep,
finding themselves hemmed in by
the flames conscious for moment
of their peril, with a sudden flash of
conviction that all was hopeless
succeeding, and then blistered to
| death. The contemplation of the
thing filled all the spectors with
horror.
THE TRIP TO DOOM.
The steamer did not make long
trip to her doom. A trail of fire
followed her close to the shore,
then short distance into the cur
rent. All the time the boat was
burning furiously and the fire was
eating its way to the water. The
boat drifted off beyond Presidents
Island, some three or four hundred
yards, and when within hundred
yards from the Tennessee shore the
vessel, with its poor dead bodies,
its cargo and everything, was inn
priSoned in the waves and the fierce
elements soothed in the twinkling
of an eye. 1t is the general impress
sion that those who died were Suf-
fOcated to death rather than burned.
Afterward, those who passed the
place saw only part of the debris
and a few chains upon it. That
was the only evidence of the wreck.
1t was a wonder to most people that
there was not an explosion, and the
only way this can be accounted for
is that the steam pipe burst and al
lowed the steam to escape.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
No one gives a clear statement as
to the origin of the fire, but from all
that can be gathered, it resulted
from the careleSsnesS of Wash
Smith, the captain of the watch on
duty at that hour, who was in the
after part oi the deck-room, with a
lantern, calling up his relief, prepar-
atory to making the Memphis land
ing. Some say that one of his
squad was missing-hid away to
avoid being called that the watch
man took the bottom out of the
lantern and stuck it down between
two bales of jute to see if the miss
ing man was not hid away there,
and the lamp ignited the infiamna-
bic stuff, and the watchman ran
away to save himself. Another
story is told by negro decker, that
the watchman's light was burning
dimly and he turned it bottom up
to cause the oil to run down on the
wick more freely, and when he
turned it back the bottom dropped
out and set the jute afire. Another
is, that while calling the relief he
took the lamp out and began trim
ming the wick, dropping the Gin
ders among the jute. Not one of
these stories is reliable. The fire
originated from carelessness on the
part of the colored watchman.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

As purifier of the blood, Ayers
Sarsaparilla has no equal. 1t Won
derfully-improves the complexion,
and brings to old and young the
bloom of health.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

Additional fuel was furnished the
flames by several tiers of oakum,
which were consumed like finder.
Those ON board hardly knew how
they were awakened, and did not
care much how they were dressed.
The main point was to escape.
The flames had the completest pos
session of the boat in five minutes,
and fearful cyclones Of fame shot
into the air, and immense clouds of
smoke. The one rope holding the
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-08

on and men were no better off.
Many of them had sustained pecu-
mary loss. One gentleman sat
alone by himself in his night
clothes shivering and crying. Ills
wife and children were. lost. He
seemed to be totally unconscious of
his plight. For some time so great
was the excitement that no atten-
tion was paid to him, but kind
hearted lady living on Shelby St.,
sent him her husbands dressing
gown.
As the boat was carried away by
the current it was noticed that sew
eral women and children, in their
night clothing, stood in the stern,
with the alternative of rushing into
the flames or overheard. AS no
one saw them fall over it is sup
posed that they were literally burn
ed to death.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-14
FOR ExTRAvAGANCE COMMEND 1T.
lNeW York SIM. ]

The day of adjournment is near at hand,
and the result of the session may be sum
med up in extravaganza beyond all exper-
fence in time of peace, in wild legislation,
in waste of time, and in the failure to give
any relief to the burdened tax payers. The
shans proposed for alleged reductions in
the internal revenue apply exclusively to
the interests that can best afford to pay
taxes. There is nothing left of the Repub-
hcan party but combination of corrupt
managers to hold power by force and by
fraud. and to use the treasury and the pub
lie patronage as means of rewarding
their followers. They have no creed, no
principles, no convictions and no aspira-
lions. They treat the country as a great
rotten borough, where votes are to be
bought with the peoples money, and sue
cessful jobbery is estimated public vir-
tue
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-14
Domestic Recipes.

Tip Top Pudding. One pint of bread
crumbs, quart of milk, one cupful of SUI
gar, the grated peel of lemon. yolks
of four eggs. piece of butter the size
of an egg. Bake. When done spread
fresh Strawberries over the top Cor if
not in season for straw berries use cup
full of preserved raspberries); put over
that meringue made with the whites
of the eggs, cupful of sugar, and the
Juice of the lemon. Return it to the
oven to color. Let it partly cool, and
serve it with rich cream.
Tip Top Cake.-One pound of sugar,
one cupful of butter, four eggs, one cup
full of milk, one pound of chopped rails
ms, half a pound of chopped figs, half a
grated nutmeg, one small teaspoonful
of soda, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, flour to make it of proper con-
sistency.
Mrs. Cooks Cake.-Two cups sugar,
one cup butter. five eggs, lacking two
whites; one cup milk, one teaspoonful
saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar,
three and one-haH cups flour.
Frosting. whites of eggs, one
and one-hah cups powdered sugar. If
you wish to make chocolate frosting add
six tablespoonful grated chocolate.
Potato Salad.TOne quart of hot boil
ed potatoes cut into slices, a small onion
and an apple finely chopped, pepper
and salt to taste. one tablespoonful of
vinegar. three. tablespoonful of olive
oil. some chopped parsley. Mix these
ingredients well together, and when
perfectly cold serve upon bed of fresh
crisp lettuce with French dressing. ~
Saddle OF Lamb. "A saddle of lamb
is dainty joint for a small dinner
party. Sprinkle a little salt over it and
set it in the dripping-pan. with few
small pieces of butter on the meat; haste
it occasionally with tried-out, lamb fat;
dredge little -four over it few min
utes before taking from the oven. Serve
with the best of currant jelly, and send
to table with few choice early vegeta-
bles.
Mint Sauce.-Wash the sprigs of
mint, let them dry on towel, strip off
the leaves, and chop them very fine; put
in sauce-boat with cupful of vinegar
and four Jumps of sugar; let it stand an
hour, and before serving stir all togeth-
er. ia Mint sauce. If bottled. win keep for
some time and be just as good, if not
better, than it was the first day.