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

Shole's directory for 1884 gives Memphis a
population of 55,o99-34, 472 whites and O,626
colored. That is an increase of over 10000
since the census year.
Paris Post: Bette Curtis, colored, aged
nineteen years, and living in the 9th dist
riot, gave birth one day last week to two
boys and one girl. AL are doing well.
Murfreesboro News: Capitalists declare
that money wants to come South. Let it
come. We will receive it with open pock-
cts.
Mrs. Elizabeth o. Temple, wife of Mr.. w.
d. Temple, died at the residence of her
father, Geo. w. Howse, in Murfreesboro, ON
the 18th.
The Trenton Globe says that hub and
spoke factory will be built Immediately in
Trenton, and that timber is now being con-
tracted for.
The Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
Railroad Co. has recently purchased a lot
of land near the depot in Dixon on which
it expects to erect an engine-house, repair
shop, car yard and water works.
Brownsville is now in direct telephone
communication with Memphis, jackson,
Lexington, Mason, Collierville and Holly
Springs. Direct communication with other
points will be established in a few days.
Tribune and Sun: A goodly number of
those who came on the october excursion
from the north will be down again on the
18th with their wives. If their wives are
pleased these parties will purchase and set
tie at once, they having already bargained
for homes on condition that their wives are
pleased.
An exchange says that as the efforts of the
Illinois Central Railroad to purchase the
Mississippi d Tennessee road did not sue
coed, it is now stat ed that the Illinois Cen
trail will build line from Memphis to Jack
son, Tenn, at an early day, as such a road is
something which the Illinois Central system
has long needed.
Ashland City Reporter: Mr.. w. L. Nance,
of Nashville, accompanied by two gentle
men from Michigan, was in town last Mon
day. Mr.. Nance owns a body of about four
Thousand acres of timbered land lying near
this place, and the two gentlemen above
spoken of came down to look at the land
with a view of purchasing it.
Andy Taylor, the East Tennessee murder
er and desperate, and the last of the three
notorious brothers of that name, was hanged
at Loudon last Friday. When asked if he
wished to say anything on the scaffold, he
replied, mot a Cd id word" and the
last thing he said was, Hurry up with your
racket" This was uttered in a muffied voice
after the cap had been adjusted.
Ashland City Reporter: Ed. Long, who
lives on Blue creek, on the south side of the
river and who has been working for a Mr..
Upchurch, getting out timber on the Crockett
farm, late yesterday evening was cutting off
a log that lay across hollow, and as the
log began to give down he fell, and, the log
catching him under 1t, mashed him in a
shocking manner.
Nashville World A young man arrested
in Memphis recently, and, being brought
back by Detective Porter, requested the Off
Ger to take off the handouts when he reach
ed Nashville, giving as a reason that num-
Der of young ladies in the city were
desperately in love with him, and it would
mortify him for them to see him in that
plight.
Fayetteville Observer: In this section the
sceptre:has passed from cotton, and it is no
longer heralded as king. By reason of its
being the principal crop and the keystone
of the agricultural arch on which rest the
hopes of the farmer and the success and
of the county generally, wheat
has supplanted "King Cotton" and assembled
to the throne. We have before stated that
the breadth of land sown this fall in Lincoln
county is greatly in excess of that of any
previous year.
Athens Post: We to day commence new
of the Post. The paper was started
In September, 1913; suspended publication
September, 1858, under Federal pressure
July IL, 1864, one day before the
was released from Camp Chase, of
pleasant memories; and revived December
1867. The present circulation is I,l2S-no
more, no less. We thank all our friends
who have stood by the Post through the
of the years, and hope they viii
continue the relationship as long as they
deem it worthy of public countenance and
support.
Covington Call: Mr.. John G. Hall has
produced quite a sensation in the commun-
lty by the introduction of a flour-corn. This
product is hybrid, and was
imported from Brazil, in which country it
supplies the place of wheat. 1t has been
grown successfully in Carroll county, this
State, for two years. 1t will produce five |
times as much per acre as wheat, and will |
urn out more and whittier flour to the BUSH |
Fl. Is is impossible to distinguish it from
Hour made from wheat. In cooking, it rises |
we'll, and makes all kinds of bread, cakes, |
oils, biscuit, etc.
The new board of Mayor and Aldermen |
If Dover put a tax of 500 per annum on |
liquor dealers, and passed a strict Sunday |
aw. They also put tax on drummers of
S per annum or 81 each trip. In this we |
hink they transcribed their authority. |
They can tax drummers who sell to con-
umers, and thereby come in competition
With the local merchants, but they cannot |
% beyond the State and county in taxing
hose that sell to dealers. 1t would be well
or municipal boards to remember that they |
ant tax anything that the Legislature has
lot taxed.
Murfreesboro News Last Monday morn
ng as VIM. Gordon, an industrious and
colored farmer, was passing along
road near his farm in the 18th district of
his county, he discovered a little negro
-irl, about fifteen months old, lying nearly
rozen in a fence corner. Gordon took the
hid to his house and provided 1t with
lothing and food. The child had on only
thin garment called a slip, and would have
,erished had she remained much longer
exposed. She could talk little when she
,ot warmed, but could only say that imam
n.y. left her. She was evidently abandoned
" her heartless and inhuman mother.
Editor Neal, of the State Gazette, keeps
he following standing at the head of the
rst column of his paper, in lieu of written
nswers to numerous letters of inquiry from
he North Dyersburg, located at the head
f steamboat navigation on the Forked
beer river, contains about twelve hundred
population, is easy of access by good roads
rom all parts of the county; is situated on
he Chesapeake, Ohio & s. w. Railroad, has
hree substantial church edifices, an Odd
elbows and Masonic Hall, excellent schools,
To splendidly equipped steam saw mills, a
he first-claSs planning mill, one newspaper,
ne of the finest steam Touring mills in the
tate, three hotels, one bank, a tobacco
wagon factory, spoke fac
Dry, and about fifty other business firms.
yersburg is more eligibly and fortunately
'car.sd for a manufacturing town than any {
Their place in West Tennessee. Here would {
e a big paying place for a cotton factory {
nd a cotton seed oil works. We have land t
l Dyer county that will bring over a bale I
cotton to the acre, while all of the land is t
cry fertile, being well adapted to the pro- a
uction of tobacco, fruit, grain and vegeta- a
les. Labor can be had as cheap here as S
sewhere, and, raising an abundance of S
Verything that we consume, living will | v
'st but little. Our town is seventy-flve h
tiles from Memphis, between the Memphis Il
Louisville and the Mobile & Ohio railroads I
nd the Mississippi river. [