Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-05-19
TENNESSEE TALK.

Davidson county has ten thousand
acres i'm Irish potatoes.
The prospect for large yield OF
the potato crop in Sumner county is
good.
The capital stock for the Bedford
Wooden Mills to be located at Shell
byville is $4,000.
Fruit drummers, soliciting con-
signments to Northern houses are
numerous about Milan.
The Tullahoma Guardian was
published on hall sheet last week
in consequence of the recent fire at
TullahOma.
Nearly every paper in the State
reports a strawberry and ice cream
festival in their respective towns
last week.
A fire at Centerville Monday
night destroyed the hotel and all
the houses on the west side of the
square.
The National Board of Health
has established a quarantine station
at the post of Memphis, at the foot
of President Island.
The Operetta of Rel Riding Hood
was presented to a Murfreesboro
audience last week by Nashville
Amateurs.
The report of the wheat crop from
Maury county is fiattering, but
some fear is expressed of damage
from the Hessian fly in some Sec
tiOnS.
The Somerville Falcon states that
the cool weather of late has caused
large quantity of cotton seed to
rot in the ground and the farmers
will be forced to replant.
The barrel factory of Williams &
Covington at Lebanon was destroy
ed by fire Monday night. Two
thirds of the loss was covered by
insurance.
The indications are that the burnt
out district in Tullahoma will soon
be filled with better houses than
those that formerly occupied the
ground.
Mr.. G. w. Armstead, who has
conducted the Bolivar Bulletin for
IA number of years, has leased his
paper to Mr.. J. NJ. Hubbard and
will remove to Nashville.
The General assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
met in Nashville last Thursday.
The assembly will be held in the
hall ofthe House of Representatives.
Gen. Peter Tracy, of Memphis,
will manage the grand display of
fire works In Nashville on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday even
ings of next week.
Mr.. w. T. Mann has witten a
communication in which he produ-
ces some strong geological evidence
that Giles county was "once the
bottom OF an ancient lake"
The trustees of the Brownsville
Female College have determined to
raise an endowment fund to place
that Institution on an equality with
any female college in the South.
There is a great demand for bar
rels at Milan to ship fruit and vege-
tables in, and the Exchange thinks
that barrel factory would be
good institution for that place.
A movement is on foot to estab-
lish a hub and spoke factory in
Bolivar. The timbers in Hatchie
river bottom make Bolivar a fine
place for such an enterprise.
Newburn, II small town in Dyer
county, is improving immensely.
Six first-class brick business houses,
with iron fronts will be put up there
this season and 4 chair and wagon
factory is contemplated.
The Fayetteville Observer knows
of two marble quarries in Lincoln
county which no one has made any
effort to develop that will prove
big bonanza to the enterprising man
who first tackles them.
Guardian: Real estate In the
vicinity of Tullahoma is fast appre-
ciating in value. Farms are being
sold readily now at prices good
deal in advance of those of a year
ago.
Jack Sullivan, a fireman of a
switch engine in the Louisville &
Nashville railroad yard, was shot
and killed by William Powell, a
truck driver, In Nashville Saturday
night.
Over $4,000 pounds of strawber-
ries were shipped from Chattanooga |
to Cincinnati and New York Mon |
day. 1t is thought there will be
700, 900 pounds shipped during the
next two weeks.
Judge John Tinnum, OF Pulaski,
has been appointed on the commits
sion of referees, The commission
met in Nashville Tuesday and |
elected John E. Tur-
ney as marshal of the court.
The Nashville American has
moved into its new building on the
corner of Church and Cherry. The
first issue from the new quarters
vas made Sunday morning and the
paper of that date cOntainsa picture
If the elegant structure.
The Trenton Globe claims that no
county in the State has more public ,
schools or larger per cent. of the
chOIaStic DODuIatiOn attending