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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
The Mobile, ClarksVile a. Evans
VILE Railroad In
cOrpOrated

On last Wednesday afternoon, at
4 O'Clock, the incorporators of the
Mobile, GAINESVILLE & Evansville
Railroad, consisting of Hons. Jas.
f. Bailey, d. N. Kennedy. Judge
G.. G. Smith, Messers A. Howell,
o. NJ. Blackman, Jones d. Neblett,
II. G.. Merritt, G. B, Wilson and
others, met at the GAINESVILLE Bank
for the purpose of organization un-
der the Tennessee charter of that
company and fixing the capital
stock of the company. Upon mo-
ton the meeting was called to order
and the Hon. ID. n. Kennedy was
elected President and Mr.. ii. G..
Merritt, Secretary and Treasurer.
Upon motion of Judge Smith, the
amount of the capital stock was
fixed at 81, 100000. The amount of
the shares was fixed at 800.
Before the meeting adjourned the
Secretary was instructed to adver-
tise time and place when the books
would be opened for subscriptions
of stock. SAG
The meeting then adjourned to
meet at the same place on Saturday,
March 18th. r.E
Judge w. B. Wood, of Alabama,
was present and gave the in
corporators an Interesting and en-
couraging account of the progress
of the road in Alabama, an account
of which we give elsewhere, taken
from the Florence, Ala News.
Judge Wood says, provided every
thing progresses as at present, the
Tennessee portion of the road will
be commenced the coming summer.
There will be a big meeting OF
the Kentucky management of the
road at Princeton, Ky, on Wednes-
day, March 18th.
1t is indeed cheering to see so
much interest and activity exhib-
tied in the organization of this
grand and useful enterprise.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
BLAINE OF MAINE.

Now that Guiteau has been safely
stored away in the seclusiOn of his
prison cell and the door barred
against the approach of the ubiqui-
tOus and sensation-seeking Associa-
ted Press reporter, that cheeky and
mendaciOus impersonality is truly
unhappy. He goes about with de-
jected look but sharpened pencil
vainly endeavoring to Fry out
some big sensation to wire to the
hungry country. He finds little
meat for his rapacious news-craw
in the dry, mOnOtonOus proceedings
of Congress. 1t is the Lenten sea-
son and he finds the social world
devoid of items. In this dearth of
news he jumps on Jim Blaine of
Maine, and burdens the telegraph
with all sorts of silly reports about
his being the plotter and leader of
a grand Independent movement for
the Presidency. The latest absurd
report is to the effect that there is to
he a coalition between the sO-called
Independent Republicans and Dem
Ocrats with Blaine at the head of
the ticket and Voorhees, in the
second place. 1t Was also stated
that Senators Voorhees, and Morgan
and Judge Jere Black were the
secret schemers in this mighty UNI
dertaking. These gentlemen were
interviewed upon these rumOrS the
other day and pronounced the
whole thing a fabrication from be-
ginning to end. Senator Morgan
said "the very idea was absurd,
that no such thought had ever en-
tered his head, nor, as he believed,
that of Mr.. Blaine; that he beIiev-
ell in a straight, unadulterated
Democracy and if he had his way
he would place the party on true
Democratic principles. That it
should be relieved of Tammany in
New York, Readjusterism in Nir-
ginia and repUcliatiOH everywhere,
and that tried and true Democrat,
such as Thurman of Ohio, should
be nominated by the Democracy"
1t may just as well be understood
now at the beginning, that all talk
of coalition of the Democrats with
an Independent Republican is the
sheereSt nonsense. They viii not
cOalesce with the Republicans in
favor of Blaine or any other Repub-
Iican. Nor do we believe that Mr..
Blaine has amy such ethiopian
dream. He is Il man of sense and
ability and is not likely to be kicked
or cajoled out of the party which
he has been identified with and
served so long and faithfully. We
regard Mr.. Blaine as the ablest
man in his party to-day, and he is
~ regarded by a vast majority of
the best elements of his party and
he is not likely to he led off to lead
an independent movement even if
he could get the support of the
Democratic party, which he could
not.
Notwithstanding the bitter oppo-
sition of the stalwart element of his
party, the signs of the times point
10 his nomination for President in
1884 by his own party. As we have
said before, if we must have anoth-
.er Republican President, Blaine of
Maine is our choice first, last and
all the time.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
Tne mighty FLOOD. of 1sss.

The year 1882 will be famous in the
annals of the country for its mighty
floods. Only few weeks ago the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and
their tributaries were ON grand old
"high,' far surprising the celebrated
high water mark of 1847, and carrying
ruin and destruction in their onward
flow. Reports now come to us that
the Ohio is on a big boom, overlooking
its banks and flooding the low lands
and the wharves and lower streets of
cities. All the lower part of Cincin-
matt was flooded last Monday morning
and much damage was done to the
merchants along the river. 1t is also
stated that the mighty Mississippi is
overlooking its banks between Mem
phis and Vicksburg, causing the plan
tiers of the Mississippi valley to suffer
inestimable loss. Reports from there
the early part of the week say that for
three weeks the rain had been con-
stantly falling and they had been bat
Ting, not only with the elements, but
inch by inch with the overflow, which
had encroached upon them until now
only a dreary waste of water covers
the once beautiful valleys, sweeping
irresistably ON and carrying ruin and
disaster in its destroying march. The
damage to dwellings, stock and land
cannot now be properly estimated The
numerous breaks in the levees cast a
gloom over future hope. Barns have
been swept away and their contents
destroyed. Cattle and hogs have been
drowned by the hundreds, mules and
horses are suffering and dying, and
serious fears are entertained of the
success of the coming crop. Starva-
ton is threatened many of the people
whose homes are upon the banks of
the streams which have overlooked
In some instances negroes, cattle, hogs
and mules are gathered under one
shelter, surrounded by water The
reports which come from there are
truly appalling, and unless the heavy
rains cease and the waters speedily
subside, untold devastation and suffer
ing will ehsue. Certainly Jupiter
Pluvius, the god of water, is wreaking
his vengeance for the drouth of last
summer. -tt
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

CONKLING has been heard from.
Soon after his grand vault from the
United States Senate, he discovered
that his eXchequer was somewhat
depleted and he Immediately set
himself to work to make some mon
ey, and from accounts he is making
it. a fifty thousand dollar retainer
fee is a small sum for him. His
friends say he will run for no office
and accept no appointment. When
he gets rich again he will jump into
the political arena.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

ONE of the number has figured it
out and discovered that there are just
G0,C0O idiots in the United States. Now
nj some one of that other num-
erous class will compute how many
fools there are, and cut crop and a
slit i'll the right ear of each of them, he
will fill a long felt want and confer a
lasting obligation on the rest of hui
mainly
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE foreign dispatches give ru-
mors of great war which is said to
be brewing between Russia, Ger
many and Austria. The cause of
the trouble seems not to be well de-
fined. 1t is to be hoped the war
cloud will blow over, and prove to
be only a rumor. -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

CONGRESSMAN Dunn, of Arkansas
introduced a bill in Congress last
Wednesday ordering the Secretary OF
War to issue rations to the people of
Arkansas and Louisiana who have
been made destitute by the recent
heavy floods in those States. 1t is
contemplated that the suffering there
will be much more severe and wide
spread than at first supposed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

A MAN in Grand Rapids, Mich, was
accidently vaccinated on the tongue.
1t took splendidly, and he had to wear
his tongue on the outside of his mouth.
We give this item for the benefit of
married men whose wives have not
vet been vaccinated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

A KENTUCKY editor wants the Leg
islature of that State to pass law to
have all idiots marked by cutting a
large slice from the right ear. This
may be good measure, but the stran-
gest part of it is, that a fellow should
advocate the passage of law which
would be sure to disfgure his own
assanine auriculars.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

The State debt of Tennessee is now
very near S2S,OO0000, and the interest
is accommodating at the rate of $4,000 a
day, the bonds now bearing six per
cent. interest. These figures are truly
appalling and ought to awaken every
Tennesseean to the momentous inn
portance of coming to some speedy
settlement That man who denies that
he is a repudiator, but fights against
every attempt at settlement of this
vexed and ruinous question, is falsifier
and demagogue
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE little town of Arkansas City,
below Memphis, is completely sub
merged, with not single house in
the city free from the presence of
the muddy food, the waters there
being eight inches higher than the
food of 1876. Houses were built so
as to be above the high food level
that year, but in them there is
ION seven to eight inches of wa
ter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
From SangO, Tenn.

EDITOR CHRONICLE: with the
exception of tobacco selling, be-
lieve our neighborhood is pretty
quiet. The best farmers in this
community have been agreeably
deceived in the range of sales of
loose tobacco. l believe it was
generally estimated by those who
claim to be posted, that tobacco
would range from SIS so to Sc so
loose, and perhaps now and Their
fine crop would bring 81. But
to the establishment of most farm
ers, tobacco has gone far beyond
these figures and its no strange
thing to hear of crop selling at So
per hundred. One of McAdoo's
best farmers sold hogshead of Tugs
at the GAINESVILLE board for IS a
few days ago. This ought to be
sufficient evidence that ''Clarks-
vile" is the place to get the best
prices for tobacco grown in the
"Clarksville Tobacco District"
But little has been done towards
farming, owing to the continued
wet weather farmers have been I'M
able to burn and sow plant beds.
However as the latest plan is to
canvass them, L guess there is
plenty of time yet for this business.
No oats have been sown yet in
this vicinity, though l judge from
the vast amount l see going out
from the market that there will be
pretty large crop sown.
Some few cases of. pneumonia in
the practice of Drs. B. f. Moody
and son, but none have proved
fatal yet. Mrs. Sallie Morrison, of
the Woodford nelghborhOod, is
quite low with pneumonia, and at
this writing but little hopes are en-
tertained for her recovery.
My regards to your estimable
correspondent at "Overall's."
HUsER HAUSE.
Feb. %, 1872.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

FATHER JOHN FRANCIS WALSH, a
Catholic priest of Memphis, died at
Jackson, Tenn, on last Sunday night
of smallpox, contracted in the first
named city. 1t is the first case of
smallpox developed in jackson so far,
and there is no fear of a spread of the
disease.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

ANOTHER GUITEAU.--Last Monday
evening about five o'clock, a son of
Ham made his way into the office of a
young attorney ON Strawberry alley
and asked to see Mr.. -. am the
gentleman, answered the young sprig
OF the law from behind the table; what
will you have? "My name is Robert;
! wish you to do some writing for me"
Very well, answered the young attor-
ney, what kind of writing will you
have me do? Robert started out to
explain what he desired by saying:
my name is Robert; | am Gods in
spired man, and / am ordered by him
to be the leader and head of the colored
race in this country. l have sacrificed
two years labor and earning and de-
voted the whole time to the study of
the Bible. Ihave sufficiently mastered
my studies now to start out in the
field assigned me by my Maker. | do
not feel it in justice to my sacred call
to remain longer from my labors. !
wish at once to be placed at the head
of the colored race in this country, and
| wish you to write for me a letter to
the President of the United States and
state these facts as | have related, and
ask him to write to the Governor of
Kansas, and have the head of my church
established in that State, where / can
at once start out In the grand and
sacred cause of consecrating souls to
the cause of my Master" Thus COM
pleting as it seemed what he had to
say, the young man of the row prom
Used to do as he requested, and informed
his colOred friend that he could now
take his leave and call no more, board
the first train for Kansas, and when he
arrived there he would find that the
President of the United States and the
Governor of Kansas would have every
thing prepared for his reception, and
he could go to work at once for the
cause of his Master
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

4 DISPATCH from Washington the
first of the week stated that Senator
Lamar had left for his home in Mis-
sissippi. The injuries he recently
received by being run against by a
runaway team in Washington have
turned out to be more painful than at
first believed The whole country
would hear with the deepest regret of
any serious injury resulting therefrom
to this noble representative of the
South
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

CONGRESS passed the congressional
apportionment bill last Wednesday,
and now We suppose Gov. Hawkins
will soon call the Legislature of the
State together to take action on re-
districting the Congressional dis
tricts Of the State. 1t is generally
believed the districts will be left
the same as now. We believe no
party favors a change. .
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

SENATOR BEN HILL has lately
had another operation performed on
his tongue. At last reports he was
convaleseing. The country would
be glad to bear of his speedy ana
rsermaRent recovery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE grand jury of the District of
Columbia has returned indictments
against eX-Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Thos. J. Brady; ex-senator Stephen
A. Dorsey; John w. Dorsey, brother
OF the Senator; w. II. Turner, formerly
clerk in the Post-Oftice Department;
John r. Miner and Henry NJ. Vale, of
the firm OF Miner, Vale & Co., and
]. L. Sanderson and J. NJ. Peck, OF the
Dorsey firm, for Star-route frauds.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THERE is a movement on foot in
Nashville to build an elegant and en-
during monument to the Confederate
dead of Tennessee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
Whence Comes the Unbounded Pop
ularity of
Allcock's Porous PlaSters?

Because they have proved them
selves the Best External Remedy
ever invented. They will cure
Asthma, Colds, Coughs, Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia, and any local
pains.
Applied to the small of the
back, they are infallible in Back
Ache, Nervous Debility, and all
Kidney troubles; to the pit Of
the stomach they are a sure cure
for Dyspepsia and Liver Com
plant.
ALLCoCK's Porous PLAsTERs
are painless, fragrant, and quick
to cure. Beware of limitations
that blister and burn. Get ALL
COCKS, the only Genuine Porous
Plaster.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE Pittsburg Commercial says:
"There is no disputing the fact that
there is a great revival of business
all over the South, and the rapid
extension of railroads is having
much to do with it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
Saturday, March II, 1882,

the following descrined real estate:
One tract of land lying In Civil District
No. OF Montgomery county, Tenn, con-
taining 26719 acres, and described as follows:
Beginning at a black jack corner of the old
solomon Nevil tract, and runs thence north
10 east 400 poles to a stake in Marshallhs line
with three post oak pointers; thence with
the north boundary of the Solomon Nevil
tract north $50 west lO7 poles TO a stake
thence north 10 west 400 poles to O stone in
Randle's line thence south S9o west l07 poles
to the beginning; deed (Which IL recorded
in Book No. IL, pages 423 and 424, of the Reg
listers Office OF this county.
This lane will be divided into three or
more tracts and first sold, each tract being
sold separate, and then sold as a whole; the
sale realizing the most money will be
adopted. j.
plat of the land as divided can be seen
at this office.
TERMS.-One-third cash, the balance on
a credit of one and two years, equal pay
ments, in notes with good personal security,
bearing interest from date, and lien retain
~. = II. ID. MOsELEY, Clerk.
BY c. II. Bailey, d. c.
February Is, lSS2-4t
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
For Sale or Rent.

A good DWELLING HOUSE, nearly new.
Splendid Out Houses and Cistern on the
premises. For terms apply to T. S. Howell,
az kincannon, Son d Co.'S, or TO Mrs. Lou
Howell, on the premises, ON College street
opposite SamI Rexinger's.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THEholders of Virginia bonds in
tend TO contest the validity of theact
recently passed by the Legislature
in the settlement of that States
debt.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE trade dollar is to be RETIRED
However, the editorial fraternity
wont miss them much,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

VENNoR predicts that there will be
heavy snow falls the first and last week
in April.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE editor of the Nashville World
used to write some gentle and loving
paragraphs about Marks in the days
not "lang syne." We should like to
hear him again on the Ex-Governor in
case that dignitary should enter the
gubernatorial race in the coming cam
Vass.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

LOUISE MONTAGUE the famous S10,-
900 beauty who travelled last summer
with FOrepaugh's circus, and who was
injured in a railroad accident at Bow
ling Green and sued the l.. & n. Rail-
road Company for $4,000 damages,
has compromised her suit for $500.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

THE river is falling at this point
with about 33 feet on the shoals.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
Home-Md e Goods |!
Wholesale Prices.

My work will all be handmade, and no
Eastern ahoddy, but the buyer will get value
received for every dollar.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25
COUNTY COURT SALE.

q. c. Atkinson and wife VS.. j. G. McKoin
and others.
Pursuant TO an order made in this cause
by the honorable County Court OF Mont
gomery county. Tenn, at Its February term,
1882, L will sell at public auction, at the
Court House door In the City OF Clarks-
Vile, on So
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

Hamburger, Ark, February IA, 1882.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-25

Feb. %, '82.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-12

pity that art in any shape should be
used as n political weapon. Least Of
all is it desirable that music should
suffer
The anniversary of King Victor
Emmanuel's death was celebrated al
Rome on Monday with great nlanifes-
tstions Of public fet ling. AS for the
removal Of the Pope from Rome, his
Holiness has no doubt by this time
thought better Of it. Better be second
in Rome than first In ii alta. True,
he cannot command what was orce so
dear to the papal mind, Temporal as
we'll as Spiritual power. But there is
after all an influence to be excl ted from
Rome, which would never have the
same effect elsewhere. His Holiness is
said to be engaged in a history Of the
present condition Of the papacy. This
is to be published at Easter.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-12

B0ucicault has this to say of Oscar
Wilde's American experience: "The
use to which those who are maragir z
his tour are putting him is simply dis
graceful. They are mixing him a
show. He is too simple and gentle in
his nature to realize or even perceive
his position. These spectators paratip
him rs a kind ola literary 'Dundreary'
endea voring to pursuade him tn 1T no
torety is reputation. Many are thus
persuaded to believe that he is PLAYING
the FOOLS part, and is an accnmplicp in
the showman'S scheme. l wish to say
emphaticaIly this is cruelty false i'm
preston. There is no guile in him;
he is the easy victim of those who ex-
p,se him to rdicule and to the cenSure
of the thoughtful" Wide himself is
very hitter toward the newspapers,
whom he accuses of unfai-ly refusing
to consider him or his cause seriously.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-12
Charcoal and its Uses.

Charcoal laid fiat, while cold, on a
burn, causes the pain to ahate immedi-
ately; by leaving it on for an hour the
burn seems almost heated when the
burn is superficial. And charcoal is
valuable for many other purposes.
Tainted meat, surrounded with it, is
sweetened; strewn over heaps Of decom-
posed pelts, or over dead animals, it
prevents any unpleasant Oaor. Foul
water is purified by it. It is a great
disinfectant, and sweetens offensive air
if placed in shallow trays around apart
lnents. 1t is so very porous in its
.Hninute INTERIOR" it ahsorbs and con-
inch of fresh charcoal will absorb near
Iy one hundred inches of gaseous am
monia. Charcoal forms an unrivaled
poultice for malignant wounds and
sores, often corroding away dead
flesh, reducing it to one-quarter in six
hours. In cases of what we call proud
flesh it is invaluable. 1t gives no dis
agreeable odor, corrodes no metals,
hurts no texture, Injuries no,,color, it IL a
simple and safe sweetener ard disinfec-
tant. teaspoonful OF charcoal in a
h ilf 81 1883 of water, often relieves a
sick headache; it absorbs the gases and
relieves the distended stomach pressing
against the nerves, which extend from
the stomach to the head It often re-
lievcs constipation, pain Of heartburn.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-12
A Good Girl.

MR.. Charles Vincent of Port Chester,
N. Y, wasleft at home one night lately
while her husband was out There
should have been nobody in the house
but herself and the servant girl but on
goi ,g into the hall she saw three men
coming down stairs with big bundles.
She snatched the bundle from the first
man, flung it into a corner, throttled
the robber and threw him heavily on
the flnor. She then pushed the second
man over the first. He fell, and she
tr ,mped on him, got his bundle and
threw into the parlcr. The third burg
lar knocked her down; but she rallied
and got his bundle away from him.
Then all three of the men got Frightened
and ran, and she kicked the last one
getting out of the door, and the terri
fled servant stood back in the hall and
looked on in rapt admiration. In the
bundles were two sealskIn saques, and
a seal dOman, camel's hair shaU
several dresses and things worth in al!
$1,2(o.