Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-24
FROM OvER THE LINE.

FROM OVER THE LINE.
Mr.. f. M. Page, of olmstead, is going to
move to Russellville.
Mrs. Lizzie Hamilton dropped dead at
Franklin on the 10th.
Mr.. NJ. d. Kelley has moved from Cadiz |
to Hopkinsville.
DR.. G. H. Hutchings died at his home near
oimstead on the 10th.
John ]. C. lEubank, prominent young
lawyer osGlasgow, died on the 18th.
Mr.. Geo. Langstaff, Jr., and Miss Ina Quig-
ley, were married at Paducah on the 18th.
Mrs. Lizzie Hampton died at her home
near WOODBURY. on Wednesday.of last week,
Mrs. Milton Robinson, OF the vicinity of
WOODBURY., died Sunday morning.
MIR. Thos. H. Gilbert, of the Pleasant View
neighbour God in Logan county, died on the
18th.
Mr.. Frank Gerard, of Bowling Green, was
married to Miss Alice Pruett, of Louisville,
on the 18th.
Poplar street, Bowling Green, was burned
Thursday.
Mr.. A. G. Dickerson, of the Berea neigh
borhood in Logan county, was badly hurt
by a fall from horse recently.
An election is TO be held in Hopkinsville
on December Sth to decide whether or not
that city is to have water works.
John Douglas lost three of his fingers in
Fayette county while attempting to close a
stove door with dynamite cartridge.
Governor Knott has offered the position of
Assistant Superintendent of the Lexington
Asylum to DIR. Turner, of Lebanon.
Mrs. Mamie Hall Vittitoe was probably
fatally burned at Samuels' Depot by her
clothes catching fire.
The track of the o. & N. Railroad is laid
half way from RusselIville to Adairsville, or
six miles out from RusselIville.
The c., o. & S. w. Railroad is taking up
the iron and putting down steel rails from
Louisville to Memphis.
Judge Grace decided last week that the
tax levied for school purposes at Cadiz was
Johnny Miller, the thirteen-year-olds son
of Mr.. John Miller, of the Red Oak neigh
borhood in Logan county, was thrown from
a mule and killed, Monday:
The New Era thinks if Hopkinsville had
SIX or eight large manufactures her popula-
ton and material wealth would be largely
augmented.
Mr.. Lyon Edwards and Miss Annie Soule,
and Mr.. Frank Guess and Miss Matte Ste
phens, were married in Princeton Wednes-
day night of last week.
Bowling Green Gazette: A posse of robbers
made the rounds of the city Tuesday night
and Wednesday morning some of our cfti-
zens found themselves minus several dollars
and few important notes.
Princeton Banner: The crop of tobacco
now in the barns in this county is selling
well. Our local buyers are now paying as
high as Sc to IS round for the best crops. We
hear of one farmer who has been offered
$50 round and refused to take it.
South Kentuckian j: The protracted meet
ing at the Methodist Church at Fafrview
still continues with increasing interest.
There have been a number of conversions
and the ministers have declared that they
would not close until forty souls have been
saved.
Herald-E Enterprise Saturday was "hog
day" in town. Over 500 were brought in to
be shipped to Louisville, but the shippers
were unable to get cars and the porkers
were penned and held over. The buyers
are Col. Ed. Coffman, o. A. Clark, NJ. l.. Flu
gate, of Adairville, and Hutcherson & Price,
of Auburn. The prices paid are as follows:
Hogs weighing go to $50, s. 70 to 8 80; hogs
weighing $50 to 275, So 80 to 90; good heavy,
275 to 325, 81 90 to 4 Is.
Hopkinsville New Era: Mr.. Wolf of the
vicinity of East st. Louis, attracted by the
reports of Mr.. F. l.. Braun in st. Louis
German paper with regard to this county,
arrived here last Friday afternoon on a
prospecting tour. He was delighted with
the country and will very probably effect
purchase of about 600 acres of excellent land,
near Church Hill, in this county.
Ashland Independent: Last week while
Reuben Bolt, colored, was drawing up
bucket of sand from the thirty-seven and a
half feet deep, dry well, sunk by c. F. Bar
tell and H. A. Nolte, on the line in the rear
of their premises, the round flew out and the
handle of the windlass struck him in the
face, cutting clear through into the gums,
and knocking him down, but he quickly
rose to his feet and, grabbing hold of the
windlass, succeeded in stopping it before
the loaded bucket reached John Murphy,
who was at work in the bottom of the well,
in place too narrow to admit of lodging
the descending bucket, and his life was
saved by the presence of mind, alertness
and grit of Reuben.