Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-07

mile from Humboldt cleared $4,000
on Strawberries and other small
fruit In 1882.
q. S. Marshal TilIman has ap-
pointed Mr.. SENS LATHE, of Column
bia, his deputy, for the Middle
Tennessee district.
James B. Price, who figured con-
spicuously as witness in the star
route trials recently, VISA formerly a
citizen of Lebanon.
Mr.. F. Y. Glenn was knocked
from a scaffold by falling plank
in Columbia last week and had his
arm and thigh broken.
w. ID. Cannon has been elected
sheriff of Shelby county, Tenn, to
fill the place left vacant by the
death of Phil. r. Athy.
Since the 1st day of March, r. B.
Pierce has collected in Wilson coun-
ty and shipped 35,7S1 dozen eggs,
and 572 pounds of butter.
Mr.. Clarence w. McLemore, of
Lexington, KY, is going to build a
large grain elevator and warehouse
near the depot at Columbia, Tenn.
Marcas d. Cops died from an
overdose of laudenum in Knox
willie last week. IT'S not fully de-
termined to have been a case of su-
icide.
Prof. Lockett, of the University
of Tennessee, entertained a large
audience in Athens, Wednesday
night with a lecture ON "Life
among the Egyptians by a Chris
tan family"
The Paris Post says sit is rumor-
ed that there is a project on foot for
the building of narrow gauge rail-
road from Dresden to hurry and
perhaps to the Tennessee river north
and to Milan SOUTH"
A passenger train on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad struck a
broken rail near WilliamstoWn and
was thrown from the track, Friday.
Fifty-three persons were badly in
jured but no one killed.
Under the new charter of Chatta-
nooga the Governor appoints a po-
lice commission who appoint the
chief of police and all policemen.
The new order of things goes into
effect in ten days from the passage
of the law.
The mutilated body of Edward
Hughes, negro preacher from
Lexington, KY, was found on the
Cincinnati Southern near Oakdale,
in East Tennessee, last week. He
had evidently fallen from a train
and been run over.
Lots in the "burnt-out district"
in Ripley are selling better than
they did before the fire. The con-
flagration is said to have been an
advantage to the tOwn-new brick
buildings are supplying the place of
the former frame shanties.
A man named Gates shot and
killed man named Watkins near
Alamo, recently, Watkins was too
intimate with Gates wife. Gates
wrote him note warning him not
to come on his premises again, and
when he disregarded the warning
Gates shot him.
"GOne dry again." is the condi-
ton of Lebanon as depicted by the
Herald. The bill introduced by
Senator Thompson to bring taxing
districts of less than $500 popula-
ton under the four mile law passed
and the Lebanon saloon man has
migrated again.
Adam Rowe who died in Henry
county last week, was the first
white man ever married West of
the Tennessee river. He was
eighty-five years old. All of that
section belonged to Stewart county
when he was married, and he had
to 60 to Dover for his license.
A rough joke was played on
couple of revenue officers in Van
buren, county last week. They
stopped to stay all night at the
house of Uriah Drake and during
the night the horses they had hired
from a stable at McMinnville were
stolen. The horses were found
several days afterwards with their
mains and tails cut close.
Mr.. B. S. Harmon, constable in
district No. 7, of Upton county,
has sued Mr.. Thomas Aston, a
citizen of that district, for $4,000
damages for slandering him. The
constable levied on Mr.. AIston's
property which so enraged that
gentleman that he cursed and
abused the officer, and among other
things accused him of burning the
town of Atoka.
Mr.. w. S. Francis, the General
Land and migration Agent of the
l.. &c N. r. R., visited Brownsville
last week and inspected some farms
in that vicinity with the view of
locating a colony there from the
North. He says there will be no
trouble ininducing well-to-do farm
ers from Pennsylvania, Ohio and
other Northern States, to purchase
the lands if the owners viii sell
] them cheap enough.