Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-31
TENNESSEE TALK.

The Court house at Dresden Isl
being repaired.
Lime is shipped from Erin to II
different States.
The opera house in Somerville
has been supplied with new seats.
Giles county is expecting a con-
siderable migration from the north.
There are 1898 convicts in the
penitentiary and at the branch pris-
ons.
The switch engine used at Union
City has in its time killed nineteen
men.
Farmers in Haywood comfy are
preparing to plant large crop of
potatoes.
Hartsvilleand DixonSprings have
been connected with the Telephone
exchange.
A movement is on foot to connect
all the larger towns of West Ten
nessee by telephone.
Mr.. James Donaldson, of Gibson
county, had his arm badly torn by
cotton gin last week.
Candidates for Judge of the In
termediate Court have begun to APP
pear. Rather previous.
Forty-nine companies, from
Maine to Texas, have been entered
for the May drill in Nashville.
Col. VIM. M. Watkins, a promi-
nent citizen of Dyersburg, died at
his home in that place recently.
Some six or eight thousand dozen
eggs were shipped from Memphis
to New Orleans and Chicago last
week.
The residence of j. F. Leach, one
of the finest houses in Huntingdon,
was burned Sunday night. Loss,
about $5,000-no insurance.
Several citizens of Robertson
county testified in the Courier-J Jour
nal-Hite case in Louisville last
week.
A woman named May Even,
killed herself in Fayetteville last
week by taking an overdose of NOR
phine.
Two citizens of Upton county
ship ed 700 dozen eggs to Memphis
last week. They must have prolific
poultry in those parts.
Mr.. Hughey McAdams died at
the residence of his grand son in
Union City, on the 18th, aged 1O1
years, III months and days.
John Pendergast, an employee of
the Chesapeake. Ohio & Southwest
ern railroad, was run over and kill
ed In Memphis last Friday.
Eugene Cary, who has been re-
Gently nominated for Mayor of
Chicago, was formerly Judge of the
Circuit Court in Davidson county
and is well known in Nashville.
A negro man named Jesse Nedry
whipped colored boy to death at
Kenton, Gibson county, last week.
He was committed for trial without
bail.
Cole & Frye's drug store in Paris
was burglarized one night last week.
Some pocket books, a few cigars
and ten dollars were the only things
taken.
The Union City Manufacturing
Company has received an order
from Texas for $4,000 worth of
spokes, hubs, felloes, and wagon
gearing.
Mrs. Pritchard, of Weakly coun-
ty, committed suicide by drowning
on the 18th. She had lost her mind
on account of the recent death of an
only child.
Mr.. J. G. McCombs, of McNairy
county, lost his barn, corn, cotton
seed, hay, fodder, farming imple-
ments and several head of stock by
a fire last week.
The scheme of establishing Re-
publican newspaper in Brownsville
has been abandoned. Mr.. Torbett,
of Ohio, who was quite active in
the matter has returned home.
Z young man named Joe Qush)
Davis, son of Mr.. Wood Davis, of
Columbia, was killed near that city
on the 18th inst, by the accidental
discharge of a gun, while hunting.
The Call and Record, two papers
published at Covington, have de-
clared war and are entertaining
their readers with abuse of one
The cdSns 6eui is a few
sherifFs sales.
Shelbyville is to have hub,
spoke and rim factory which will
employ % operatives. Extensive
shops will soon be built, and the
town is rejoiced over the enterprise.
A charter for the proposed Wooden
Mills will be applied for immedi-
ately.
Incendiaries have been at work
about New Castle recently. The
residence of Mr.. Shivers of that To-
cality was destroyed by fire some
time ago, and shortly afterwards
the barn and stable of Mr.. J. K.
together with a quantity
Of provender and three mules, in
the same neighborhood, were also
burned.
Mr.. w. r. Hughes, of Columbia,
a practical geologist, has been pros
pecting in Stewart county and
thinks that the country between the
rivers from Dover to the State line
IS abundantly supplied with good
ron ore. These developments will
lead to the building of
furnace on the Iron mountain lands T.
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