Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-29
TENNESSEE TALK.

Union City has three large furni-
ture factories and one hub and spoke
factory.
The Chattanooga keg and barrel
factory has capacity of 1900 kegs
per day.
1t is claimed in Memphis that a
necessarily idle mechanic cannot be
found there.
The demand for business and
dwelling houses in North Knoxville
is reported never so great.
The Bolivar Bulletin urges it on
the farmers of Hardimen county, to
sow large acreage in wheat this
fall.
Racing at the coming Bristol fair
will be participated in by horses
from Knoxville, Baltimore, Lynch
burg and Richmond.
Scrofula and consumption are
causing more deaths among the col
ored race in Maury county than all
other diseases.
A blue heron, measuring six feet
from tip to tip, and five feet seven
inches in height, has been killed
near Somerville.
Dickson County Press: An effort
is soon to be made by portion of
our citizens to have our town created
a taxing district of the second class.
A ring of Jersey cows, eight in
number, was exhibited, Wednes-
day, at the Lebanon fair that could
not be bought for less than seven
thousand dollars.
II you will put tar on rat and
turn him loose in every separate rat
community, the four hundred mil
lions in Tennessee will emigrate to
Kentucky.-Americdn.
A 3x2t block OF polished East
Tennessee marble, i'm which the
colors form a remarkable landscape,
is one of the attractions at the Louis
vile exposition.
Knoxville has 1877 manufacturing
establishments, employing 3517
hands, with $685. 800 invested,
paying wages annually amounting
to 81 ,627 ,483.
A country boy appeared on the
streets of Paris, Tenn, last week,
who immagined he was in heaven.
The authorities straightway adjudg- |
ed him crazy and had him confined. |
Union City Our Country: Fifty |
comfortably furnished rooms would |
find ready tenants from among the
young men who work in the facto-
ries here.
.Mr. Joseph P. Hart, awell known
young business man OF Springfield
died in that place On the 9th. He
was a sOn-in-law of Judge J. E.
Garner.
A Northern man writing from a
Tennessee town to an Ohio paper,
says, "The people are more relig-
iously inclined here than In the
north, and honesty here extends
clear through and all over man."
The demand for dwelling houses
in Union City, is as great as it was
when the season opened. Fifty
more houses would find tenants
ready to occupy them as soon as
built.
There was committee appointed
at the late reunion to solicit means
to erect in Pulaski a suitable monu-
ment to commemorate the deeds
and valor of Giles county's dead
heroes.
There has been twenty-three car
loads of material for the iron bridge
across Duck river at Centerville,
and shipped from Dick
son county, over the N. q T. Rail-
road.
Southern Standard The farmers
of Warren, and perhaps many 9TH
err counties, have planted largely in p
stock peas this season, some for
fodder or hay, while Others have
planted to turn under as fertilizer.
Knoxville has fourishing boat
club. This club had regatta ON ,
the 18th inst. A rifle association
for long range shooting with Rem
Ington rifles has also been organ I
zed. s
Some of the farmers in the Hunt /
and vicinity in Franklin county I
ire turning their attention to the 8
of grapes. One of them, t
Mr.. Erwin, has made this year 8
.welye barrels of pure wine from i
mis- grapes that grew on land that t
will not produce more than twenty +
i've bushels of corn to the acre. !