Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

0ON. huOtl HIS teSlSiilttu OCts
18th as the day on which Ellis Craft,
the murderer of the Gibbons chill
dren, shall be hung.
Mississippi editors have been jun
keting in Louisville and Cincinnati
recently. They were received on
Change in tle latter city Monday.
Hon. j. Hanson Good, of Wheel
ing, w. Va, who nominated Judge
Thurman for the presidency in the
Cincinnati convention is dead.
The statue OF ex-PresidentZ acha-
ry Taylor will be unveiled at Louis
vile on the goth inst, with unusual
ectat.
If France should happen to raise
the cry, "The Comte de Paris must
60" the same would have 4 practi-
cal significance.
A painter named John L. Will
liams was killed in Nashville Mon
day by falling from the tower of
the Watkins Institute to the roof
below. EE-s 3
A fire at Lexington, Ky, Mon
day night destroyed the stables of
the Street. Railway Company, con-
tanning forty-tiye mules and fifteen
street ears.
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks is max
ing speeches in Iowa for the Demo-
cratic ticket. At Council Bluffs,
Monday, he said' Mr.. Tilden was
not a candidate Tor the presidency,
and he didn't think he would be.
There were heavy frOsts all over
the North Western States Saturday
night, doing much damage to crops,
The frost extended into some pOr-
tons of Kentucky, damaging the
growing tobacco.
The aggregate of the cotton crop
OF the season of 1882 SO reported by
the New York Chronicle is 1892, 234
bales, differing materially from that
reported BY the National Cotton Ex-
chano0
The September cotton returns of
the Department of Agriculture are
less favorable than those of August.
The principal cause of injury is tho
drOuth, which has reduced the pros
pect in every State except Florida
and Tennessee.
King Alfonso of Spain is visiting
the Emperor of Austria. Hearrived
in Vienna on the evening of the 9th
inst. and was met ut the depot by
the Emperor, Crown Prince and two
Arch Dukes. He will remain in
Viena till the 10Th.
The Philadelphia Press of the 10th
inst. published a seven column arti-
Gle purpOrting to be Judge Blacks
posthumOus reply to Hon. Jeffer.
son Davis. 1t comes in with an
interview with the great jurist by
Frank A. Burr, of the Press staff.
The September returns to the De-
partment of Agriculture shows that
the average condition Of the corn
crop has been further reduced by
drouth, frost and other causes. Later
reports from the recent frost shows
the damage to be quite severe.
Two fools of the variety who
point pistols at people for fun
turned up in Pennsylvania Sunday.
VIM. Reimp killed his wife in that
way at Cherryvllle and Andrew
Williams put an end to his sister
at Scranton by the same imbeoile
means.
The Germans of Iowa are starting
a movement to oppose the woman's
suffrage agitation. They say that
if women obtained the right to vote
they would be under the influence
of the clergy, and would take an
extreme position in relation to beer
and wine drinking and the observ-
ance of Sunday
John McLain, irritated by the |
action of the disaffected Democrats
in Cincinnati, has been denOuncing
PendletOn through the col
umns of the Enquirer. The News
Journal has replied TO the attack.
The News Journal nominally sup
ports the Highland House ticket,
which it is said Mclean fixed up to
suit himself, but speaks very kindly
of the other ticket.
The Philadelphia Evening News
has revived the story of the kidnap-
ping of little Charlie Ross by pub
fishing some letters found among
the papers of detective who died
in that city recently. The letters
were written by the abductors to
Mr.. Ross and bear date of Nov. 20,
and %, of the year Of the abduc-
ton. They offer to restore the
boy on the receipt Of $4,000. The
News says Mr.. Ross never saw the
letters, that they were kept from
him on account of his illness. Mr..
Ross thinks there must he some
about it.
Hon. Branch X. Bruce has am
,wered a pamphlet of the Rev. Mr..
Tuck, of Vicksburg, which is very
severe on the negro race. Bruce, in
his letter of reply, says
No intelligent, self-respecting col
)red man can for moment cOncede
he correctness OF the pOrtraiture of
he colored race, or the truthfulness
II their history rs set forth by DR..
Tuck. We have no exceptional vir-
ues nor any exceptional vices. We Z