Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-14
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.

A scheme to plumber the New
York city treasury has been detect
ed.
G. G. Conner will soon begin the
publication of new weekly news
paperin Chattanooga.
A hurricane passed over Eastern
Arkansas Tuesday doing great dam
age to life and property.
The Southern Baptist Convention
Was in session at Waco, Tex, this
week.
A sugar refinery is to be estab-
lished at Galveston, Tex, by Bos-
ton capitalists.
There are numerous applicants for
the place Judge Gresham left va
cant.
The oath OF Office was admins
tered to the new Post Master Gener-
al Tuesday.
Secretary Folger will appoint a
commission to examine into the
charges against Supervising Archi-
tect Hill.
A prominent Indiana politician
speaks of Judge Gresham, the new
Postmaster General, as a probable
Presidential candidate.
The Mississippi river has been
higher at New Orleans lately than
for many years, and the city has
been threatened with inundation.
B. F. Bedford, of Bourbon county,
was elected president of the Ken
lucky ShorthOrn Association which
met in Lexington Monday.
Secretary FoIger is at his desk
again and the politicians who were
waiting to step in his shoes are not
happy.
Taimage said in his serman Sum-
day, "The South has gone out of
politics into business and is being
filed with the dash of water wheels
and the rattle of spindles."
The State Medical Society has
been i'm session in Nashville this
week, DIR. A. B. Tadlock was elected
President and DIR. G. G. Fite was re-
elected secretary.
The races begin in Memphis April
10Th, which is the occasion of the
Spring meeting of the Jockey Club.
The races will last five days and
will be largely attended.
Young Allen Arthur entertained
club of his college chums at the
White House Wednesday night.
Allen is having jolly good time
while the old mans off fishing.
Major J. J. Busby, of Memphis,
says that work will be resumed on
the Memphis, Holly Springs & Sell
ma railroad at at early date and
the enterprise pushed to completion.
The Vienna critics were disap-
pointed with Booth in Hamlet, but
they are so enthused over his rendi.
ton of King Lear that his engage
ment has been renewed.
The Cincinnati News pertinently
remarks that Secretary Chandler
ought to feel perfectly at home in
Florida, as it has been only few
years since he took leading part in
stealing the State"
Peter Cooper's estate is valued at
$2,0O0,000. 1t all goes to his two
children, Edward Cooper and Mrs.
Abram S. Hewitt, except $4,000
to the Cooper Institute and 5000, 900
in special bequeSt.
The first detention of nominal
ton to the Ohio gOvernorship comes
from John Sherman, he says he
don't want it this year. The out
look for the Republican candidate
is not healthy and John knows it.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
states that the coronation of the
Gar will probably be postponed.
The police believe that unless liberal
reforms are granted the NihiIists
have determines to prevent the
ceremony.
The Supreme Lodge of the X. of
P, of the world, will meet in Balti-
more, April, 1894. The occasion
will be made lively by carnival,
competitive drills, elegant enter
tainments and an excursion to Flor
ida and Mexico.
One hundred disguised men took
VIM. M. Crockett from Jail at
Lynchburg, Va, Thursday and
hung him. He was awaiting trial
for deliberate murder. Does this
event give Lynchburg any better
title to its name?
Michael Davett has published a
letter in London in which he de-
nounces the dynamite policy as in
sane, idiotic and criminal. Michael
is correct, and it is great pity that
there are not more level headed
Irishmen of his stamp.
An investigation OF the Tewks-
bury Almshouse in Massachusetts,,
has made horrible revelations of
cruelty to inmates by the officials of
the asylum. Gov. Butler has been
giving personal attention to the in
vestigation and has brought to light
some startling facts by his shrewd
ross questioning.
A Washington sharper put up a
same on the Hon. Lionel Sackville
West, the British Minister, by
which he robbed him of $500. ZeIl
Hoover was the name OF the conf =.
lence man; he induced the Minis
er to believe that his house was
bout to be blown up by Irish dyna-