Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-03

pond near Dresden that will cover one acre
of ground, and is to be stocked with carp.
Tennessee papers continue to report the
arrival of Northern emigrants. They all
buy land, and, in some Instances, bring fine
stock with them.
Meals State Gazette After one or two
sharp frosts, which may be expected now,
fishing at Reelfoot will be at its best. In that
wonderful body of water.
vania has leased the old wells on Jones'
Creek, Dickson county, and viii put down a
test well to the third sand.
The Wason car works foundry, OF Chat
tanooga, is casting forty-four iron columns
for the gates at Muscle Shoals. The castings
weigh about 5000 pounds each.
Editor Tom Neal begun the publication of
the Gazette at Dyersburg In '65, and claims
"the longest unbroken connection between
man and paper in the State"
Lawrenceburg celebrated the advent of
the first locomotive into that town October
oath, when the Nashville & Florence Rail-
ROAD was completed to that point.
in Jackson, the band that met them at the
depot first played Hail Columbia, then Yam
kee Doodle, and wound up with Dixie.
Nashville is apprehensive of the return of
small pox with the coming of cold weather,
and the Secretary of the Board of Health
suggests thorough vaccination as very i'm
pOrtant.
OF the dozen Republicans who voted
against the infamous civil rights bill in the
FortyThird Congress, three were from Ten
Representatives Butler, Harrison
and Thornburgh.
The Brownsville papers are enjoying such
q boom in the way of advertisements that
they have to publish supplements. The
States and Bee came to us this week with
twelve pages of seven columns each.
Girls have gone up in Upton county. The
Call says marriage license now costs S5.3712
in that county, of which $3.50 goes toward
the pawn ent of the railroad debt, S2.3711 to
the school fund, and so cents to the clerk.
Balloon ascensions We're made at McMinn-
Vile last week, in one of which the balloon
disappeared among the clouds and was lost
to sight for some time. The balloonist says
he got in the realm of sunshine above the
clouds.
Intelligencer: Paris wants-An artesian
well, a fire department, a canning factory,
more street lamps, a military company, a
frst-class restaurant, an iron fence around
the court house, a creamery, and few other
things.
A daring thief entered the smoke-house
of the editor of the Jonesboro Journal, and
carried off everything in it, which consisted
of one-half pound of beefliver. The editors
family are undergoing the trying ordeal of
a famine.
Tribune and Sun: The fine display at the
fair is a wonder and a joy to our Northern
visitors, and they are surprised that West
Tennes see grows such magnificent fruit
We tell them and the world, that West
Tennessee is the finest fruit region on the
American continent.
A German colony now being organized in
Cincinnati have sent an agent to Chatta-
nooga, to look for 5000 acres of land in that
section suitable for raising fruit and vegeta-
bles. The projectors of another colony, in
Ohio, are negotiating for tract in the upper
part of Hamilton county.
While large gum log was being sawed at
the Kings Point mill, a few days since, the
saw struck large bomb shell in the centre
of the log and the saw was shattered in an
instant. The log was cut near the Cincin-
natl Southern bridge, where Gen. Wilder's
Infantry shelled the Confederates in Sep
TENDER, 1858.
Tribune and Sun : The Louisville & Nash
Vile, the Mobile & Ohio, and the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railroads all made
cheap rates to the excursionist from the
Northwest to all points along their lines.
These roads manifest ed wise and liberal |
spirit, and deserves the thanks of the people |
of Tennessee.
Pulaski Citizen: Major Stacey has sold his |
Veto farm to an Ohio man for $1,000. There |
were a half dozen Stalwart farmers from the |
Buckeye State here this week. They went |
out to the Albert Buford farm and brought |
in some monster corn to show their people. !
One stalk measured nearly ten feet from the |
ground to the first ear.
Tribune and Sun: Our West Tennessee |
fair is growing every year in public favor as |
evidenced by the increased attendance, and |
the growing interest in the exhibits. Every |
year it takes on more of the character of |
general exposition of the productions of the |
soil of West Tennessee, and general exhibit /
of the fine stock raised in this section of the |
State.
Dresden Enterprise We notice some pa
pers are beginning to speak fayorably of
Col. A. s, Colyar as the next Democratic |
candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Judg-
ing from his past public services, Colonel |
Colyar would make the best Governor Ten
nessee could select. He is able, bold, and
and that is the kind of a man
a Governor ought to be.
Friday morning, at Miller's Station, on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, the beau
tiful daughter of Benz. Scheduled, while
delirious from fever, left her bed unseen,
and going to the railroad track, threw her
self in front of the south-bound passenger
train. She was thrown from the track by
the cow-catcher, and picked up dangerously
If not fatally injured.
Dresden Era: There is little woman in
this office who in an evil hour gave us the
right to call her wife, who has worked at
the case less than three months, but who
can set two galleys of bourgeois type in
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her household duties besides. She not only
corrects manuscript, but when
sets type without any copy at
all.
Dickson Press When the bridge across
Duck river is completed, we learn that the
Nashville & Tuscaloosa Railroad Company
will proceed at once to lay the track for a
of thirteen miles beyond Centre
Vile. This will make the terminus of the
road in Lewis county, a distance of nearly
fifty miles from Dickson. The road bed is
ready for the iron and track laying will
as soon as the trains can cross
he river.
Nashville World 1t will be remembered
hat the last Legislature OF Tennessee passed
resolution authorizing Col. ]. j. Vertrees
md Judge w. A. Milliken 1to revise, digest
md codify all the general laws OF the State ]
which shall be in force forty days after the i
Inal adjournment of this session of the {
Forty Third General Assembly" These {
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