Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-03
sNNRssEE TALK.

The West Tennessee Sunday
School Association will hold its
next meeting in Jackson.
The waverly Journal has dis
carded the patent outside and ap-
peared last week all home print,
Jackson is the place designated
for holding the next Grand Lodge
of the Tennessee Knights of Pythias.
The Rutherford county stock rais-
ers met in Murfreesboro last week
to organize Breeders Association.
The Memphis Avalanche signifi-
cantly remarks that the Louisiana
Democrats are staunch free traders
on every subject except sugar.
A brakesman named Alexander
IIadd fell from the top Of a box car,
was run over by the train and
killed at Waverly last week. His
home was at McEwen.
The bills before the legislature for
the repeal of the road law are at
tracing the attention of the State
press. The opinions expressed on
the subject are very divergent.
The Tennessee Dental Association
which met in Nashville last week,
was entertained at the Hermitage
restaurant Thursday night with a
sumptuous banquet by the home
dentists.
Since the Supreme court has de-
cided that the Lebanon taxing dis
trict is q corporated town within
the perview of the four-mile law,
several saloons have been opened
In that city.
A project is on foot among the
citizens of Fayetteville to build
cotton mill in that place. Several
meetings have been held looking to
that end and temporary board OF
directors appointed.
ID. d. Tibbs, a farmer living on
the Whites Creek turnpike, about
: FIVE miles from Nashville, was shot
and severely wounded in the arm
r last week by a man named Merritt,
, whom he had recently discharged
: from his employ.
A weekly paper, Republican in
: politics, will be started in Browns
: willie soon. Secretary of State, ID.
8 A. Num-, Is one of the incorporators
e and l.. X. Torbet, formerly OF the
# Lebanon, (Ohio) Gazette, is TO be
q the principal editor.
u Sheriff Phil. r. Athy, Of Shelby
I county, died at his home in Men,
. phis on Wednesday night OF last
c week. He for long time filed
: the Office of Chief OF Police in Mem
y phis, and was very much beloved
c and respected in that city.
= Springfield was connected with
- Nashville by telephone last week.
. The company allowed a free use Of
- the wires the first day, and the
= Springheldites delighted themselves
with the novelty OF being at home
= and talking to people in Nashville
v. Obey Hoge, young man of Ath'
n ems, Tenn, was shot and killed ir
a the suburbs of that place Wednes
day afternoon at the house of Clin
ro Sivils. The weapon used was
no shot gun, and is said to have beer
so fred by Sivils' wife, who has beer
ho arrested and Is now ia custody.
ne Col. II. ID. Capers, agent for tn
Il. Southern Historical Society, ad
IN dressed the citizens of Memphis a
Of the Cotton Exchange on the nigh
f. of the 23d ult. He proceeds Gen
r. Fitzhugh Lee, who will deliver nj
lecture on "ChancellOrsville'" II
IN Memphis, some time in the nea
no future.
80 A man in Paris drew 500 in tn
,is Louisiana lottery recently. Tha
10 sum is about one-fifth the amour
~ that Messrs. Dauphins d Co. will
"a receive from Paris at their mex
II drawing. All the boys in ths
tn town will try their luck now an'
ok the boys won't be the only ones I
on invest.
"A The editor OF the Tullahom
lin Guardian has a friend among tn
he very bioated bondholders Of thi
,ce Commonwealth who wants the GO
nd itor to tell him whether or not h
he shall refund his bonds under tn
to 5O-3 act. The Tullahoma journals
1el confesses that he Is not equal to tn
to emergency. Next.
in Major Campbell Brown, the we
nd known Maury county stock mar
Lde narrowly escaped being killed b
Jersey bull last week. The inf
in rated bovine had the Major dow
ne, and, but for the timely assistant
re- of those who were present and h
po- own brave battling for his life, ]
the would have been speedily dl
Tile patched.
hty A young negro man, name
his Alex Hill, murdered an old negr
leir named Daniel Townsend and b
wife, Minerva Townsend, on En-
les, ley plantation, nine miles belo
hes Memphis, on the 2lst uh. III
w. bloody deed was committed with
eds shot gun, at four O'Clock in Il
lin. morning while the old people we
all asleep in bed.
gin Some representative men fro
MIA, Brownsville and Memphis W
heir meet in Jackson soon TO confer wi
lict. citizens of the latter place In rega
to the construction Of the Jacks
Il Brownsville railroad that "
chartered some time since. A 70
from SomervIlle to Jackson !
also been chartered, but it Is
probable that both roads will
city built.
hin Sutherland Bowers was arrested
rlsn Polk's Landing on the MississiI
~. Ivr river last week for stealing a mt