Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Tennessee Conference of the c. NJ. E.
Church was held at Murfreesboro last week.
HostiIities have practically begun between
France and China, and it seems that they
are really going to fight at last.
Lewis Houston, colored, was lynched in
Birmingham, Ala, last week, for attempted
rape upon the person of a respectable white
woman.
A mob of prohibition fanatics broke into
the drug store of G. G. Sutton at Romney,
Ind, recently, and destroyed his entire stock
of goods. Sutton kept liquor tor sale.
oDonnell, the slayer of Carey, the Phoenix
Park informer, is an American citizen, his
naturalization papers having been issued at
Youngstown, Ohio, April 7, 1879, by Judge
Thoman, of the Civil Service Commission.
The National American Kennel Club will
hold their annual trials at Grand Junction,
Tenn, Dec. Sd, to be followed by the Louis
lana trials, to be run at Canton, Miss, Dec.
10th.
y riot occurred at Marysville, Pa, Monday,
among the employees of the oil wells there.
A large number of persons have been ar
rested, and considerable excitement pre-
walls.
The New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation has called National Convention
to meet at Washington City on Wednesday,
January is, to secure the enactment of a
uniform and equitable National bankrupt
law.
The last of the earthly possessions OF the
late Gen. Pat. Cleburne, some 5000 acres of
land in Chicot county, Ark, is soon to be
disposed of to satisfy private claim. So
far as the friends of the deceased in Helena
know, says recent special, there are no
heirs of the gallant soldier living in this
country.
In speaking of Gen. Beauregard's forth
coming History Of the War, the Charleston
News and Courier says: Since it was first
known that Gen. Beauregard had deter
mined upon the publication of such work,
it has been. expected with general interest
by the public, both north and south. Able
and distinguished critics who have seen the
manuscript characterize it as a fascinating
book, and the most interesting and import
ant contribution yet made by any Southern
writer in the history of the late war, and
many events hitherto tmperfectly under
stood or wholly misunderstood
A statement from the Bulletin of the Iron
and Steel Association on the condition of
blast furnaces and of stocks of pig iron,
shows that on Nov. lst there were only 33l
furnaces in blast out of the 6S7 in the United
States, which is a decrease of So, as we COM
menced the present year with All furnaces
in blast. The stocks of pig iron on hand
and unsold ON Nov. LIST, amounted to 49,, 1854
tons. The statement shows that the visible
supply of pig iron was not in the hands of
REGULATORS, and that there is little or none
of the foreign product in any of our ports,
the entire stock being held either by the
furnaces or by consumers.
AT Laconia, N. H, on the night of the 18th
ult., man named Thomas Salmon killed
James Ruddy and his infant child and
attempted TO kill Mrs. Rudy. In Salmon's
trunk was also found the body of Mrs. Ford,
neighbor of the Ruddys', whose limbs had
been chopped off to accommodate her re-
mains to the dimensions of the trunk. The
fiend placed q feather bed saturated with
kerosene over the bodies of his victims and
set it on fire. Mrs Ruddy, who was only
felgnlng death to escape the further VEN
geance of the murderer, gave the alarm in
time to save the house from burning and to
tell who was the perpetrator of the awful
deed. 1t is supposed that Salmon having
murdered Mrs. Ford, attempted the annihi-
lation of the Ruddys to prevent the detection
of that crime.
Waverly, Tenn, suffered from a destruct-
i've fire Tuesday. The chief sufferers are
Harris, Rogers & Co., general merchandise,
loss about 1000; CARMEL Bros. & Co., general
merchandise, $1,000; D. Cowan & Son, hard
ware and groceries, $4,000; A. P. White &
Co., general merchandise, $1,000; Slayden &
druggists, $500; D. G. Rudolph,
druggist; B. F. McCallum, general merchan-
disc, $1,000; ]. c. Nelson, family groceries,
81, 200; A. d. Sears, timer, Sl,70O; James
shoemaker, SIS DR.. E. Y. Napier,
S25; Moon & Mcneil, 500; James Plant,
barber, So, and James Carroll, saddlery, $50,
making total loss of nearly S65,000. There
was no insurance except on &c. Nelson's
stock, and none on any one of the houses
burned.