Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-17
The NEWS IN BRnEF.

1t is rumored that Senator Brown
or Georgia will resign.
There were 208 failures in the
United States last week.
There are sixty thousand men
out of employment IN Paris.
Memphis papers are urging Casey
Young for Speaker of the House.
The news comes from France
that President Grevy is to resign.
The official text of the tariff bill
will be made public in few days.
Prince Gortstakoff, ex-Chancellor
of the Russian Empire died on the
18th.
Socialist meetings in Paris, Sunday
had to be dispursed by the mounted
police.
Copies of the recent tariff act
have been sent to att the collectors
of custom.
The House passed the Senate bill
to extend the lease of the peniten-
tiary Monday.
The emperor of Germany has
made generous contribution to the
Ohio river flood sufferers.
Pneumonia prevails to an alarm
ing extent in the towns of Southern
Indiana recently overlooked.
The iron trade of Chattanooga
aggregates more than 1000, 900 per
annum. So says the Times.
Gen Philip Cook and A. o. Bacon
are new additions to the list of can
didates for Governorin Georgia.
Judah p. Benjamin, says the
London Observer, will accept a
Judgeship if his health permits.
1t is estimated that the losses by
the flood along the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi will amount to $40, 00O,0Oo.
According to the Nashville BAN
ner Gov. Cornell is still signing bills
passed by the New York Legisla-
ture.
Georgia has eight more daily
newspapers than Tennessee and
only lacks two of having twice as
many.
Kentucky papers are full of an
nouncements of candidates for
State offices at the coming August
elections.
The Courier Journal advises the
Tennessee Legislature not to be
hasty in passing the railroad COM
mission bill.
Eleven men were burned to death
in lodging shell at Brownsville
Wood Camps near Deadwood, Da-
kOta on the 18th.
Bogardus defeated Carver in the
st. Louis shooting match, but the
latter was again victorious at Gin
cinnati, Saturday.
The United States Treasurer has
paid out $69, 900, the expenses of the
tariff commission, and all the bills
have not yet been presented.
A report that Jay Gould was
dangerously ill at Jacksonville,
Florida, caused great excitement
Monday. The report was hoax.
The exports from New Orleans
for the past two months are greater
than those from any two ports in the
country, New York alone excepted.
The United States district court
decided Monday that the Chicago
Board of Trade could refuse their
market reports to the ''bucket
Shops"
DIR. Talmage preached an inter-
esting sermon on the Alexander H.
Stephens Sunday. His text was :
"a little one became thousand"
Isaiah IX-20.
President Arthur is troubled with
insomnia and it is feared that he
will not live through the year. In
the event of his death Senator Ed
monds will be President.
A resolution passed the lower
House of the Tennessee Legislat ure,
Saturday to employ additional coun-
sci to prosecute the civil and Grim
inal suits against ex-Treasurer Polk.
Mr.. Swafford offered an amend
ment to house bill on its third
reading in the Senate Monday, pro-
viding that the dog tax be refunded |
to every one who can show a receipt |
for same. ...
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee arrived in
Memphis Monday by the steamer
Rene Macready. He was met at |
the wharf by large delegation of
citizens and escorted TO the Pea
body hotel. r..
Biddleford, Maine, elected a
Democratic Mayor Monday by a
majority of 200. This is stable
straw in the political wind, as it is
the first time the town has gone
Democratic since 1878.
Judge Lilly is going to sue ex-
Senator Dorsey of star route fame
for damages. Dorsey kicked Lilly
put of his house recently and the
latter wants pay for his bruised
flesh and lacerated feelings.
Richard Howard, a hotel clerk in
Chattanooga, assaulted Geo. w.
Ochs, local editor of the Times,
with a cane Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Ochs drew a pistol and shot
in the stomach inflicting a
erious though not dangerous
wound.
A house twelve miles south of
Helena in which were six adults
md four children was upset by the
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