Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-16
TENNESSEE TALK.

Dyersburg feels the inspiration o
a bright future.
Covington has a new town hal
just completed.
Brownsville has nineteen grocer
les and eleven dry goods stores.
The State Prohibition convention
will meet in Nashville on the 23d
inst.
Several car loads of lambs and
hogs were shipped from Gallatir
last week.
The cotton receipts of Memphis
are now 17O,520 bales in excess o.
last year.
Mr.. Robert Purdy, Jr., has with
drawn from his connection with the
Chester Citizen.
The farmers of Stewart county
have the best stand OF corn they
have had for years.
There are over eight hundred
Sunday schools in East Tennessee,
says the Athens Post.
The prevailing newspaper articles
of the past two weeks have been
about commandments.
A little boy named Ralph An.
drews White was drowned in Duck
river at Columbia last week.
More mules and cattle have been
sold in Tennessee in the last IL
months than in any year since the
war.
A new Episcopal church is being
built in Fayetteville that will be a
very elegant structure when COM
pleted.
The big social event of McMinn-
vile last week was the marriage OF
DIR. d. Il. Carson and Miss Florence
MorfOrd, both Of that city.
Murfreesboro News: The wheat
prospect is considerably better than
some weeks since. The recent rains
have materially improved the out
look, and it is now expected that
an average half crop will be made.
A Rutherford county farmer found
a fully matured cookie burr last
week. This is said to be very early
for that well known pest. Most
farmers are satisfied with the old
fashioned burr and don't care about
cultivating these early varieties.
Murfreesboro News: The bucket
factory will be running in about a
week. A great deal of lumber is
now being seasoned III the dry
houses, and some new machinery
has been put in the factory. Sever
al important improvements have
been made.
Miss Mary E. Pope, of William
son county, took the Peabody medal
at the Nashville Normal school.
Her essay was on 1.-THE War Poe
try of the South" Gov. Bate,
State Superintendent Payne and
Chancellor Stearn were the judges.
Somerville Reporter: If the cat
tie trade in Fayette continues much
longer we don't think there will be
even milk cows left, and a beefsteak
or roast of beef will be an unheard
of article" If cattle are so much
in demand why don't the people of
that section give their attention
more to grasses and stock farming?
The Dyersburg Gazette says Dy-
ersburg has four steamboats, making
regular trips, all owned by parties
in that place and asks what Tennes-
see town can equal that. Clarks-
vile has as many boats making
regular trips, but the misfortune is
they are not all owned by Clarl1s-
vile or controlled in GAINESVILLE
interest.
Dyersburg Gazette: Our county
is covered with q variety of the
finest and largest timber that grows
in any part of the world, and our
town is just the place for furniture,
wagon, hub and spoke factories.
Here we have river of perpetual
that will have saluta-
~ effect upon the freight tariff of
the railroad. .
Gen. Rufus P. Nicely entertained
the survivors of his old company
who served in the Cherokee war of
1898, at his home in Bolivar on the
Eth inst. Out of the original 1O4
members of the company only 10
ire now living. Ten of the survi-
1ors were at Gen. Neely's banquet,
md resolved to hold annual re-
lnions.
The city lamp lighter in Gala
in, has a horse that knows all the
amp posts and when his owner
mounts him every evening he takes
he accustomed round without be-
ng guided. The Examiner says he |
axes as much interest in the matter
8 the gas man. That horse would !
re something like Othelo if he |
hould be brought TO GAINESVILLE.
Columbia Herald: We learn that
here is some talk among our citi-
ems of an effort to charter a compa-
" to build a road from Columbia
0 Cairo, connecting With Para
lore's system. The distance is only
Is miles, and it runs through the
est country in West Tennessee and
4 Western Kentucky, and through
ne rich iron region of Hickman
Ounty.