Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-18
TENNESSEE TALK.
There is "A demand for small dwell
limo houses in Paris.


The crop prospect continues good
in Hardeman county.
Free postal delivery will be in,
augurated in Chattanooga Sept. Isl
with five carriers.
The Waverly Journal is no more
The office material has been moved
to Tracy City.
A fire in JonesborO Sunday night
destroyed nine buildings causing a
total loss of $50, 900.
The Bolivar Bulletin is offered for
sale. 1t has 900 subscribers, good
newspaper outfit and job office.
Mules, and especially mule colts,
are selling higher in Maury county
than they have sold for many years
The BellevilIe Progress has sus-
pended publication and will be con-
solidated with the Humboldt Argus.
A crop of onions i'm Sumner coun-
ty yielded 200 bushels per acre, and
sold at seventy-five cents per BUSH
ell.
The West Tennessee Horticultu-
ri Society had a large and enthusi-
astic meeting at Milan on Thurs
day of last week.
The ex-Confederates OF Gibson
county invite all old soldiers Of
whatever army toattend their bar
becue on the 3Oth.
Union City has shipped over l49
car loads of wheat during the past
three weeks. The corn crop in that
section is called bonanza.
A stock company has been organ
lied and the money subscribed to
build large hotel at Sewanee, this
/ fall, that will cost about $4,000.
Three young boys were killed by
the explosion of a saw mill boiler
between SprIngville and Big Sandy
on the l.. 4 N. railroad last Satur-
day.
Forty thousand acres Of iron land
in Union county, has been purchas-
ed by Scotch syndicate, and min
ing operations will be commenced a
few months hence.
TiptOnville Star. 1t is reported
that the grasshGpers are doing great
damage to corn in several localities,
stripping the blades and leaving the
stem and stalk only.
Mr.. Joseph Forsythe, of Upton
county is going to contest for the
prize offered by the Louisville Ex-
position for the best bale of cotton
and thinks he will win.
The best exhibit of any Tennessee
county at the Louisville Exposition
is said to be that of Haywood and the
Brownsville papers are disposed to
brag little in consequence.
COvingtOn Call: 1t is said that
the c0lored citizens of the county
are forming organizations over the
country for the purpose of demand
ing lower rents, higher wages, etc.
William Purdy of New Madrid,
Mo, killed himself with rifle at
Trezevant last week. He had re-
ceived letter stating that his bust
ness house had been closed by cred
itOrs.
One shipment by Morgan d Ho =
kins from the Union Stock Yard
last week amounted to twelve hun
dred head of sheep. The principal
stock trade at this season is In
sheep.-PuLaSki Citizen.
Memphis Avalanche: Among
the orders filed by Lumber Com
pany for Menken's new building,
was one for thirty mahogany
planks valued at 300. The expen-
sive timber will be used for the
counters.
The Dickson Lime Company Will
have their new draw-kiln in opera
ton by the last of next week. This
kiln will have capacity of $40
bushels per day, which it is expec-
ted VIII be sufficient to supply the
trade Tor the present.
DIR. a. A. Davidson, of Milan,
cleared 1920 on one acre of straw
berries this year, and lost about $40
worth by delay of fruit trains. Such
result will encourage people in
West Tennessee to go largely into
the small fruit business next year.
The faculty and friends of the
of the South say that
the institution is in good condi-
ton, and has better prospects than
ever before. A large chapel is
among the improvements cOntem-
plated. A stone laboratory is now
A lump of ore has been recently
aiken out of Wright bank, near
West Point, Lawrence county, that
weighed nearly 72O pounds. Ores
rom this county have been sent to
he Louisville Exposition and the
New England Manufacturers Insti- ,
ute, Boston.
MurfreesbOrO News: A very es-
Unable old lady, about eighty years
If age, living few miles from town
IN the Halls Hill pike, was visit
ng relatives in the city last week.
,he has never used spectacles, is in '
.Ood health and never saw a rail- {
way engine. t
The citizens of SOmerville held
Meeting last week the object of -.
which was to petition the Illinois
CENTRAL railroad to build a branch
rom Jackson to Memphis through
Thay think thp &