Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-11
TENNESSEE TALK.

4dCLOIys
w. g. Morris. Esq. a lawyer Of
Springfield. died Monday.
Revenue officers made several
arrests at Dickson Station last
week.
The Dover Courier says a large
corn and hay crop over Stewart
county is an assured fact.
The corner stone of new and
handsome college building, was
laid at Viola in Warren county on
the 9th.
The Fayetteville Express is in
clined to the opinion that 1.-The girls
of that town are more account than
the boys.
MIR. Thomas G. White of Browns
vile was chrushed to death under
pile of falling lumber at Clinton,
KY, on Monday of last week.
Twenty States and seventeen de-
nominations were represented at
the Monteagle Sunday School AS
sembly.
The farmers of Bedford county
are saving their clover seed. The
high prices of last year induce
them to rely upon themselves.
The Revenue collections in the
Middle District of Tennessee by col
lector A. M. Hughes, for July, were
$72, 900, an increase of $11 200 over
the previous year.
A party of Indianians from
Whitesville, Ind, were to have left
there about Aug. 1, for jackson,
with the intention of purchasing
lands in Madison county.
What appears to be very fine
pearl, nearly as large as a small
pea, was found by Mr.. 10 Scott in n
musseI taken from Richland creek,
near Pulaski:
Mr.. r. S. Fletcher has sold his in
terest in the West Tennessee Wing,
published at Jackson, to his part
ner Mr.. Louis Brooks and retire5
from the paper.
a negro cook in Jackson stabbed
the twelve year old daughter of her
employer with a butcher knife, in
flicting a painful wound in the arm.
The little girl was teasing her.
Gallatin Tennessecan There has
been about two-thirds of the potato
crop put upon the market. The re-
manning third will be shipped and
part housed to await better prices.
On Mr.. Polk Browns farm, a few
miles above Spring City, this season
six acres OF Texas red rust proof
oats on upland ground. without ma
nure, yielded 500 bushels-sixty-
one bushels to the acre.
Athens Post: We have an idea
the rains will be frequent enough
from now on TO make fair corn
crop, Notwithstanding the unfavor-
able outlook of the past three or
four weeks.
The tax assessments for Nashville
shows IL total valuation of 81, 29l,-
600 real estate, and S3,9l7,UO0 per-
sonaIty total 6,317, 900. This is
an increase over the return of 1882,
of $651 200, and a decrease from that
of 1881, of 81 $780, 900.
Mr.. Sam. WescOtt, of the 7th dis
trict, was in town Saturday, accom-
panied by his son Eddie, who is u
years of age and is only 35 inches
high and weighs only 80 pounds.
He is probably the smallest man in
the State-Dresden Era.
The fact that two hundred and
fifty-fve carloads of livestock were
shipped from Pulaski during the
year ending Aug. l, will give some
idea of the magnitude OF the trade
that has been going on in that line
in Giles county.
An enthusiastic meeting was
held by the Tracy City Prohibition
Club last Friday night. The club
numbers no members. Seventy
signatures were obtained to re-
quest of the sheriff to hold an cleo
ton at Tracey to decide upon cor
poration or no corporation.
Some bold burglars entered the
Office of the clerk of the law court
at Union City on Wednesday night
of last week and robed his desk Of
sixty-nine indictments and present.
ments. The clerk offers a reward
of $3.50 for return OF the papers. A
number of the indictments were
against gamblers.
Brownsville Democrat: The
crops Throughout the country are
in excellent condition, and the far
mers are elatel with the prospect of
an abundant yield. Cotton especi-
ally, is very promising, and in some
sections of the country bale to the
acre will be produced, il the seasons
continue favorable.
Chattanooga Commercial: The
editor of the Jackson Tribune and
Sun has visited the editor of the
Herald at Lebanon. The associa-
ton of two kindred spirits resulted
in extended remarks by the It. Il S.
upon the curious multiplicity of
sidewalks in Lebanon. Were side
walks the only objects which SEEM
ed multiplied in his vision?
According TO the East Tennessee
News, Maryville is on a decided
wave of prosperity; its business
waking up and population increas-
ing so that it is now almost impos-
sible to either buy or rent houses.
The News urges the building of
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