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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
An Incident of the War.

The following pathetic account is
from a Sermon by Rev. P. B, Cavid,
published in the Norfolk county Ga
zette:
1t was just after the battle of Will
liamsburg, where hundreds of our
brave fellows had fallen, and where
hundreds more were wounded, that
a soldier came to the tent of dele
gate of the Christian Commission
and said: -.
"Chaplain, one of our boys is bad
ly wounded, and wants to see you
right away"
Hurriedly following the soldier,
saws the delegate, was taken to
the hospital, and led to bed upon
which lay a noble young soldier.
He was pale and blood-stained
from a terrible wound above the
temple. saw at a glance that he
had but few hours to live upon
earth. Taking his hand, l said to
him:
do for you ?'
The poor dying soldier looked up
in my face, and, placing his finger
where his hair was stained with
blood, said:
"Chaplain, cut a big lock from
here for mother-for mother, mind
Chaplain ~
/ hesitated to do it. He said
"Don't be afraid, Chaplain, to
disfigure my hair. It's for mother,
and nobody will come to see me In
the dead house tomorrow"
did as he requested me.
"Now Chaplain" said the dying
man, 81 want you to kneel down
by me and return thanks to God"
"For what?'' / asked.
"For giving me such a mother.
O, Chaplain, she is a good mother
her tedching consoles and comforts
me now. And Chaplain, thank
God, that by his grace / am Chris
tian. O! what would L do now If
l wasn't a Christian l know
that my Redeemer liveth. l feel
that His finished work has saved
me. And, Chaplain, thank God,
for giving me dying grace; He has
made my dying bed feel soft as
downy pillows" Thank Him for
the promised home in glory. I'll
soon be there-there where there
is no war, no sorrow, no desolation:
nor death-whereI I'll see Jesus, and
be forever with the Lord"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
TryIngt to Warn a Creditor.
Saturday Night.

hootAAN"J ~'@o-S'
"Can't you pay this little account
to-day ?' asked a long suffering
creditor of an intellectual debtor.
Sir" said the debtor severely,
"do YOU know the evil effect that
your importantly must Of necessity
have upon the brain of a man OF
ideas?" =,
"I don't want to andoy you,"
stammered the confused trades
man.
"Away with such mauden senti-
mentality" interrupted the deptor.
"But l need the money!" contln-
ued the man with the bill.
money? Money Money Al
ways money" exclaimed the deb.
tor. "Do you think of nothing but
money? Thank heaven my ma
ture is not so sordid. l never think
of seven dollars l owe you unless
you bring the subject up"
"You see l have note to pay to-
day." put In the creditor meekly.
"Tf you could only pay a part of il
it would help me to pull through" )"
"Oh, man man! Do you know
that inordinate greed for gain has
filled our iails and penitentiaries
that men kill their fellows 1oI
lust of gold that our insane asy'
lums are peopled largely with vain
seekers for wealth? Do you know
this, sir I await your answer:
"If you could pay me dollar q
week it would be some help to me, y
responded the creditor.
"Leave me now. Think well on
what | have told you, and return
| to thank me for timely warming"
Gall right, I'll be in on the hrs
of the month";" said the now angry
creditor, sand if you don't pay fol
them breeches then, I'll sue yOu."
81 expect I'll have to pay fol
those pants after ALL" soliloquizet
the man of ideas.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
KITE TO. SANTA CLAUS.


Chicago Tribune.
Jolly old Kriss, what fellow you are,
Riding all over the world in the ali,
Sliding down chimneys through ashes ana
Fur covered Kriss, you're regular joke.
How do you manage to carry such loads :
How do you manage 70 ksep zee enod sse Ems snd
boys?
Why don't we wake with your clatter and
noise?
How can you guess what we all would like
How can Ssa you please all the birds in the
What are YOU doing the rest of the year,
Sleeping, / 'spose, with your little reindeer.
O. how I'd like to know true IL you look
Jolly and fat, like the one in the book.
I'd keep awake, but know that you stay,
When children are watching, quite out OF
the way.
Kriss, when tonight you come round with
DON'T forget Bessie, the washwoman's girl
Bringing Something pretty, for last year, you
That was a chimney where Kriss didn't go.
How does it happen you like the rich best,
Giving them much and forgetting the rest ?
Xriss, that's all wrong, and isn't the way;
All should be equal on Santa Claus day.
Kriss, good old Kriss, I'm afraid you'll be
mad.
was just joking. Don't put me down bad,
II Bessie's mas chimney is crooked and
small,
Never mind going to Bessie at all
Bring up her playJhings and put them with
mine,
Wrapped with a separate paper and tw1ne /;
Soon as it's day, poor Bessie III see,
And give her the package You leave mere
with me.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
WHOLE NO. 2,454.

The North American Review for
January opens with a symposium
In which three of the most proni-
nent advocates In this country OF
the Revision Of Church Creeds," "
namely Rev. DIR. Newman Smyth,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott, set forth
the grounds upon which such
revision Is deemed necessary fls a
defense of revealed religion against
the encroachments of skepticism,
and as an adjustment of the rela-
tions between faith and science.
university Education for Wo-
men," a question that just now Is
being warmly agitated both here
and in England, is discussed by
Prof. W. LIE Conte Stevens, who,
though he zealously advocates the
measure, commands the attention
and respect of its opponents by the
eminent fairness with which he
states the adverse arguments. Prof..
Isaac l.. Rice gives a "Definition of
Liberty" deduced from a profound
ly philosophical study of the phra-
ses of political evolution, from the
earliest Anglo-SaXon times TO the
present day. "American English, ="
by Gilbert Nj. Tucker, is spirited
defense of our cis-Atlantic fashion
of English speech against the asper-
sions of sundry British critics. The
Rev. DIR. III. w, Thomas writes an
article that can hardly fall to strike
sympathetic chord in many q
mind, on "The Responsibilities OF
Progressive Thinkers" "Bigotry ia
the Medical Profession" by DIR.
David Hunt, is protest from the
pen of a respected member OF the
medical profession, against the
First Commandment Of medical
ethics, which forbids association
with any but regular practitioners.
Finally, Charles Il. Oongdon, under
the singularly apt title of "Adulter-
alton Of Intelligence" exposes some
of the grave evils to be apprehend-
ed from the monopolizatiOn OF tele:
graph lines, press associations and
Influential public journals. Pub
lished at 80 Lafayette Place, New
York.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
Death6ed Repentance.
New York Herald, 3.

How beautiful, how unaffected,
how altogether pure and lovely is
the penitence of a man who is so
near death that he has not the least
reason to cherish the sins that have
been his lifelong 'darlings! These
reflections are suggested by the sud
den interest exhibited by certain
Republican Representatives in Con-
gress in civil service reform. When
Mr.. KassoE yesterday offered
resolution directing the Civil Ser
vice Reform Committee to report a
bill at once Mr.. HiscOck declared
that the whole Honse was III favor
of civil service reform. 1fone had
risen from the dead there could not
have been greater surprise through
out the country, for among the de
sires of Mr.. Hiscock's heart civil
service reform has. never been i'm
agined to have even an unconSplc
uous place. Other Republican Con
gresham have been heard, in hotel
Iobbies and cloak rooms, to express
sentiments similar to that with
which Mr.. Hiscock paralyzed the
House. Probably they all would
say, as Mr.. Hiscock did, that the
only differences of opinion on the
subject of civil service reform were
as to method. AT any other time
this explanation would be received
with leers, for it is the usual excuse
of men who want to work all kinds
of sly mischief, yet appear we'll in
the eyes of their fellow men. Even
now it doesn't mean any thing, but
inconsidering the remarks of such
persons the public should recall the
case of the hardened old sinner vino,
straying into a Methodist church,
was first frightened to death and
then converted. He arose to ex-
plain that he was Il changed man,
but, his tongue was so unaccustom-
ed to decent language that he
discharged within two or three
minutes the dreadfulest assortment
slang and profanity that had ever
been heard inside ofsanctified walls.
Republican desire for civil service
reform seems at last to be genuine
if 1t is not it ought to be, for it is
one of the few indications of peni-
tence that are possible to the party
at this late hour.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
Sieepin1 With Serpenfs.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times.

Prof. Bell, the Smithsonian Insti-
tution's agent. shipped his last col
lection of snakes to the North two
weeks ago and already has his mil
scum full again. 1t is surprising
how rapidly they become domes-
ticated under his treatment. Dur
ing the recent cold snap some OF
them that he turns loose in his
room at night climbed up the bed
posts and coiIed themselves up IN
his blankets. He felt them nun
ting for COW spots about his legs,
and knew that he ought to get up
and provide them with some loose
straw, but sleepy man in a warm
bed of cold night is not over OBJ
liging, and the professor snored on,
musically as is his custom. The
reptiles crowded upon one another,
uuarreled, fought a little, hissed, but
the professor did not bulge; only
now and then he would wake
slightly and cry softly. "Whist
BOYS! be easy boys ~
At last big "coachwhip" snake
found an opening near the edge OF
the blankets and slowly glided in,
There was gentle waving up and
down of the bed clothes as the big
claybank serpent moved about, get
ting himself comfortable when sud
denly he slapped about two-thirds
of his frigid length against the
warm legs of the doing proprietor.
The proprietor made a violent
remark. He sat up in bed, gather
ed handful of snakes in each hand,
depositing them carefully on the
floor; then throwing back the bed
clothes, he administered a kick
that sent the coachwhip flying
through the dark to the further END
of the room, encountering the lamp
in it's aerial flight, and knocking
from its bracket on the wall the
fragile skull of an ancient FlOrlds
IN Ound builder.
"Freeze and be hanged" ex
claimed the irate Professor "pl
share my bed with you, but yot
shan't drive me out" He drew
the blankets over him. A few
moments later several pairs of lit
tie red eyes moved up the bed-posti
either side, and soon snake-herdel
and snakes, in .one couch, were los
IN peaceful sleep.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
Twelve Children Under SIk years.

Among the immigrants arriving
at Bonaventure depot, yesterday,
were George Kelsey, a native OF the
west of England, and forty-two
years of age, and his vile, from
the same part. The twain have
been married eighteen years.
Within six years they have had
twelve children, namely triplets no
less than twice, twice doublets, and
twice "singlets," As the parents
sat in the depot surrounded by
their offspring, the youngest an
infant In arms, the eldest looking
little more than an infant, they
were the subjects of the greatest in
terest, and many were the questions
asked the happy mother, especially
by the feminine portion OF those In
the depot awaiting the arrival OF the
train. The children were all
healthy and robust, and the father
and mother might be described as
the same. The mother stated that
her little ones had known no sick
ness more than the ordinary COM
plants incident TO childhood.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
Miscellaneous Recs,ps.

For burns, bind on moistened ba-
king soda. 1t will give prompt and
permanent relief.
Rub sprains, bruises, and lame
ness with the paste made from salt
and the white of an egg.
To make lemon cake, one cup OF
sugar, four eggs, three tablespoons
fuls of sweet milk, three tablespoon
iuls of baking powder, and one cup
of flour.
For Butterscotch, take one pound
of sugar, three-quarterS offs pint of
water, and set over slow fire ;when
done, add one and one-half table
spoonfuls of butter and lemon juice
to flavor.
For drop cakes, put six well bea-
ten eggs into pint of thick cream /;
add little salt, and make into a
thick batter with -four. Bake in
rings or small cups fifteen or twen-
ty minutes. The same may be
made with graham flour.
To make sauce for boiled rice,
beat the yolks of three eggs into
sugar enough to make it quite
sweet. Add teacup of cream and
the grated peel and juice of two
lemons. This is a good sauce for
other puddings, especially corn
starch pudding.
For steamed brown bread, four
cups of corn meal, two cups of hour,
two and one-half. or three cups ol
sweet milk or water (some meal
requires more wetting,) one tea
spoonful of soda, one and one-half
teaspoonfuls of salt; steam three
and half or four hours.
For snow balls, place some rice IN
milk to swell strain it off, and add
one teaspoonful of lemon and Gin
namon put the rice around apples,
pared and cored tie in cloth and
boil well. To be eaten with cream
favored with vanilla.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
She Wrote to the Commander

When a woman in the far West
wants partner of her joys and sor-
rows, she generally wants him bad.
An officer of the seventh Calvary
regiment at Fort Lincoln, D. t., re-
ceived letter from a woman who
owned a ranch near Mandan, which
in substance read as follows: "Dear
Sir: My man, perhaps you know,
is dead. / buried him Thursday.
1t is coming on spring now, and
/ am alone woman with a big ranch
and the Indians about. / don't
mind the Indians, the red devils,
but I have too much work for any
woman to do. If you have any SER
geant about to be mustered out, or
private, if he is a good man: l
would like to have you inform me
about him. If he is steady man,
likes work, and wants a good home
1 will marry him, if we think we
can get along together. It's a good
chance for any man. Please an
swer."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23

THE "Nation" of New York,
has its hands full in replying to nu-
merous Southern protests against
its misrepresentation on the sub
ject of homicide. 1t continues to
insist that we are generally impreg-
mated with Al homicidal mania. In
its replies it il sarcastic, tenacious,
censoriOus and indispOsed to move
an inch but, as to logic, it does not
seem to aspire to that branch of
! arning. We give it credit for
sincerity, but connot accuse it Of
charity. 1t brings Injurious charges
against millions of innocent peO-
pie with facility we have never
seen equalled, and when proof Is
called for, demands proof of the in
nocene of the parties, We always
thought that responsibility rested
on the accuser.-C Charlottesville, pd.)
Chronicle.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23

The plank in the national demo-
cratic platform of 1876, in regard to
the tariff, reads as follows;
We denounce the present tariff
levied upon nearly 1900 articles as
masterpiece ofinjustice. 1t yields
dwindling, not a yearly rising
revenue. 1t has impoverished
many industries to subsidize few.
1t prohibits imports that might pur-
chase the products of American la
Dor. 1t has degraded American
commerce from the first to an infe-
rior rank on the high seas. 1t has
cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home and abroad,
aud depleted the returns OF Ameri-
can agriculture-an industry follow
ed by half our people. 1t costs the
! people five times more than 1t pro-
duces to the treasury, obstructs the
process of production, and wastes
! the fruits of labor. 1t promotes
fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches
dishonest officials, and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand
that all custom-house taxation shall
be only for revenue.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
An Honest Man.
Norfolk Virginian.

Col. Willoughby Williams, of
Tennessee died last week in Louis
Vile, KY, at the venerable age OF
So years. He was noted man in
his day. He was the intimate
friend OF President Jackson, and
had much to do in making Jackson
President. He was an honest man,
and proved his honesty in a con-
spicuous manner. At the close of
the war, though about seventy
wears old, he found himself in debt,
mostly as surety for his friends,
about 5000, 900. Instead of going
into bankruptcy, as nearly all in
like situation did, he repudiated
that mode of paying debts, aud al
though the heavy weight of years
bent his shoulders, he went to work
with a determination to redeem his
indebtedness and succeeded, paying
off every cent aud aceumulating
afterwards considerable property.
This is an example to be initiated.
Is it any wonder that he was be-
loved and respected by the people
of Nashville, in which city he had
resided for more than sixty years ?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
w WOman-Hope for Suffering WOm-
AM Something new Under
the sun

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-
zation. The frequent and distressing
IFregularlties pecallapd 70 ner sex doaree Tee
which no language can express. In
the mansions of the rich and the hoyel
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.: J. Bradfeld's
Female Regulator, ,@W0mans Bes'
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
DTS.

True love never talks much in
fact it never has much timeto talk
"Many flower is born to bloom
and blush unseen" says the poet.
We want it distinctly understood
that we're one of those posies.
We are going to bring suit against
a certain woman in this city foI
damages, she stopped our train OF
thought. She passed our paragraph
ic window with her hustle on the
wrong side.
The man who has wife who on
ly talks all day and all evening
ought to be contented. We know
a little woman who talks all that
time and the most Of the time she
sleeps, but we would't tell who it IS
for two barrels of cabbage, as much
as we want crout.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
WOman-PrOcIama Freedom
for Women.

What is the right of the ballot to
women compared with her privilege
of enioying health and happiness in
the charmed circle of her social and
domestic relations? Among the many
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happiness and advancement of the
human race, nothing is so intimately
connected with the health and happi-
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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 Tor MN
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whom She is associated in the tender
relations of sister, wife and mother
This remedy is found in DIR. J. Brad
fields Female Regulator, "Women
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
PAY THE PRINTER.

When the cold storms howl around the
door,
And you by the light of taper,
Sit closely by the evening fire,
Enjoying the last paper,
Just think of him whose work thus helps
To wear away the Winter,
And put this query to yourself
Have 1 paid the printer?
From East and West, from North and
South,
From lands beyond the water,
He weekly brings you lots of news
From every nook and quarter;
No slave on earth tolls more than he,
Through Summers heat and Winter;
How can you for a moment, then,
Neglect to pay the printer"
Your other bills you promptly pay,
Whenever you do go, sir;
The butcher for his meat is paid,
For sundries is the grocer;
The tailor and the shoemaker,
The halter and the winter,
All get their pay-then why neglect
TO settle with the printer?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23

The January number Is oil re-
markable excellence, and Is in all
respects, what a magazine ought
to be; the articles are exceedingly
interesting and instructive; the
stories, sketches, ETC., highly enter
tanning the poems possess much
merit, and the miscellany Is most
comprehensive. "The War Cloud
in Europe" (fifteen illustrations)
"Rachelh (eight) "Life In. Old Flor
ence" (siX); IA Polynesian King
dom" (twenty-one) and "a Bar of
Iron" with its nine illustrations)
are by popular writers, and replete
with Interest and information. The
fine serial "a Whited Sepulchre"
is continued, and there are short
stories, sketches, adventures, etc.,
by M. Il. Caldor, A. NJ. Douglass,
NJ. +. Aymar. Mrs. A. Denison, etc.
"William Penn and the Philadel-
phia Bi-Centennial" and "The Dev-
iPs Looking-Glass claim particu-
lar attention. Each number OF
this popular periodical contains Us
quarto pages and over 100 illustra'
tions, together with a beautiful coll
ored plate frontispiece. "Be Good
Again." the title of the present one,
is q gem. The price of a single copy
is 25 cents; yearly subscription, VI,
postpaid. Address Mrs Frank Les
lie, Publisher. 50, 55 and 81 Park
Place, New York. "
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23

THE cheerful pictures painted for
ignorant and easily led candidates
for Mormonism by the eInissarieS
of the Utah Saints, appear on close
inspection to be far from true To
nature. The Salt Lake Tribune
saws: "SeveraI of the last cargo Ot
MormOns were around the city yes
terday in search Of employment.
Instead of plenty Of grub and gold
denIpaved streets, they find winter
and starvation staring them In the
face. These poor men have been
terribly deceived by the Mormon
trampS sent out by the church to
fabricate colossal lies"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23
THE NEW BABY
GEORGE W. CABLE.


There came to port last Sunday night,
The Queerest little craft.
Without an inch of rigging on;
looked, and looked, and laughed.
1t seemed so curious that she
Should cross the unknown water
And moor herself right in my room,
NV daughter, o my daughter
She has no manifest but this,
No flag floats DER the water.
She's too new for the British LloydS-
My daughter, o my daughter!
Ring out, wild bells, and tame ones, too
Ring out the lovers moon!
Ring In the little worsted socks
Ring in the bib and spoon
Ring out the muse ring in The nurse!
Ring in the milk and water
Away with paper, pen and INK
My daughter, o my daughter!
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-23

AN old bachelor, who wanted to
in-gratiate himself with rich wild
ow, presented her with lap-dog,
saying: 81 have trained him so
perfectly that he will eat off YOUR
hand" ''Eat off my hand !" ex-
claimed the widow. 81 don't want
my hand eaten off and you needn't
think of getting il in that way"