Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-16
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STATE NEWS.

l.. II. Wilson will soon start a
barrel factory in Brownsville.
Steps are being taken to organ
ize Musical Association in Jack
son.
Some Good citizens from Nap
panee, Ind, have immigrated to
TullahOma.
The West Tennessee Land and
improvement company has recently
been chartered at Memphis.
Martin College at Pulaski gave
diplomas to twenty-one young la
dies last Thursday.
The Tennessee Bar Association
will hold its annual meeting at Bon
Aqua July 18th and 18th.
a cotton seed oil factory is new
project that is now interesting the
people of COvington.
a premium of 81 900 is offered to
architects for the best plan of the
new exchange building to be put
up in Memphis.
The Tullahoma Guardian and a
Nashville whiskey drummer"
are preparing for war.
Strawberry pickers on Mr.. J. NJ.
Samuels place near jackson have
made 81 % per day this season.
Gadsden calculates that the citi-
Zens of that vicinity will make
$4,000 on Strawberries alone this
season.
Mr.. w. II. Rhea, one of the chief,
growers at HumbOlt says that his
profits from fruit and vegetables
were from 800 to 5000 per acre, last
year.
Mr.. :. G.. Sparks of the SOmer-
willie Reporter has purchased the
subscription books and good will of
the SOmerville Falcon and will con-
solidate the papers.
The aggregate value of the prop
erty of cOlOred people through Ten
neSsee is set down at St, AIS, 9jl, be-
Ing an increse of $67l, 176 over the
proceeding year.
Hon. Sam. McElwee, the colored
representative from Haywood
county, received the degree of A.
b. at the recent commencement at
Fisk University, Nashville.
Brownsville States and Bee ::
Japanese young ladies gild their
lips. In this country young girls
glue their lips.
How did you acquire your knOwl-
edge of that last mentioned fact
Bro. Taylor?
Bolivar Bulletin: Next Monday
the old veterans of Gen. Neely's
company, that left this country in
May, 1898, to assist in the removal
of the Cherokees, will hold "A reun-
ion in Bolivar,
n Pennsylvania farmer, 5. J.
Kash from Carlisle Penn, has been
travelling over Tennessee. In let
tiers TO his home paper he expresses
himself as highly pleased with the
country and the people he met.
J. Matt. Rackley and his mother
"Sooky" Rackley are confined in
the Pulaski Jail on the charge of
numbering MATHS. insane and bed
ridden wife. 1t seems that they
took the unfortunate lunatiC to a
secluded place in the woods and
left her there to starVe.
Dixon Press \ sample of the
oil taken from one of the old wells
was sent this week to prominent
Northern oil man, and the pros
poets now are that Il company of re-
liable oil men will lease and put
down test wells at different points
on Jones Creek.
Dixon Press: 1t is rumOred that
the Drouillard Iron COMPANY,
which not long since purchased the
old Etna Furnace ore beds in
Hickman county, contemplate cree
ting a large coke furnace at this
place to operate these beds. we do
not know how much truth there is
in the rumOr, but give il for what
il is worth.
Four car loads of Strawberries
-22UO grates-were shipped from
Gadsden, Tenn, last Monday week.
Over $1,000 was paid to pickers for
that one days work, and it is said
that the shippers realized an aver
age of more than 81 a crate, bring
ing into Gadsden in one day nearly
$1,000.
Mr.. G.. NJ. Merwin, of Medina in !
Madison county. commenced fruit 4
..oo.OV,l,Io srrnuyiaN.r -, orc -, -.
old worn out hill of twenty-three |
acres. He was in debt and made |
slow progress to begin with, but by |
perSistancy he has /.
succeeded beyond his hopes. lie |
now has 90 acres in fruit and vege- !
tables worth more than any 500 /
acre cotton farm in West Tennessee.
last year he cleared $1,000 on his |
crop and this year will net on his
alOnes $lZ,OO9. We
fnsnnn tho .lAREzn1