Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-07-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Texarkana suffered from destruc-
tive fire Monday.

The Cholera epidemic in Egypt
continues to increase in violence.
Oxford, Ala, had very destruct-
i've fire Tuesday morning.
Pennsylvania has a surplus of
81, O00, 200 In her State treasury.
The population of Little Rock,
according to its new directory is
23,763.
Very favorable reports come from
the tobacco-raising districts of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
President Arthur will be present |
at the opening OF the Louisville ex-
position, August lst.
The army worm is devastating |
tobacco fields near Lancaster, Penn
sylvania.
There is talk of building a narrow |
gauge railroad from Carthage, Tenn,
to GalIatin.
France and Spain favor project |
to tunnel the straits of Gibralter but |
England objects.
The colored teachers of Kentucky
held convention at Frankfor last |
week.
Heavy wind and rain storms pre-
vailed in all sections of the country
Monday. Much property was dam
aged but no lives lost.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
Incorporation of the municipality
of Chicago " i'll be celebrated August
10th.
The agreement of the English
Government with DeLesseps for a
second Suez canal is not popular
with the English people.
The coDstitutionality of the Con-
necticut law which provides for the
failing of transient tramps is to be
tested.
John J. LittletOn, Jr., a well
known journalist of Atlanta and
Chattanooga will soon begin the |
publication of an afternoon paper |
in the latter city.
A cry for "the old ticket" is heard !
in various sections and it is not i'm
probable that Tilden and Hendricks
may again be the Democratic lead
ers.
A terrible boiler explosion occurr-
ed at Reading, Penn, Tuesday.
Eight boilers went off at one time,
killing one man and injuring many
more.
Chinese immigrants are being
smuggled INTO the United States
through British Columbia notwith-
standing the law against such i'm
migration.
McGeoch, Everingham & Co., the
Chicago lard dealers who recently
failed for St, 900, have compro-
missed with their creditors for 80
cents ON the dollar.
The people OF Kentucky are going
to decide by ballot whether or not
they want new constitution. The
Paducah Journal seems to think
they want it and want it bad.
A reunion of the Confederate
soldiers who served under Gen.
John III. Morgan will take place at
Lexington, KY, on the 24th, 18th
and 26th of this month.
Paducah Journal: Watterson
has returned from New York. His
trip was for business purposes, but
not for business only. Incidental
ly he Disseminated in favor of
pleasure. /
Judge Niblack, of Indiana, says
he will not be Il candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomination
in opposition to either Hendricks
or Mcdonald. Who is Judge Nib
lack ?
Bids for building the new Navy
Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, are .
coming in. There is an ap- ,
preparation OF 500, 900 for this pur-
pose. Work is to begin by the goth ,
of August.
King Cetewayo, the Zulu chief
who was thought to be tanned if not /;
civilized by his detention in Lon"
don, is on the war-path again and
his followers are killing defenseless {
Europeans in South Africa. 4
People who supposed that the
greenback party was as dead rs
Beasley's injunction will be sur !.
prised to learn that the G. p. is still :
making a feeble kick up in Iowa p,
where Gen. J. B. Weaver has been .
for Governor.
The New York World has en- (
dorsed the ticket which the CIIRON- q
ICLE first proposed except that the a
positions are reversed. The World 8
proposes Cleveland and Mcdonald, i
and we think the Western man l.
should have the first place. 8
Poor Dennis Kearney, that old !.
sinner OF the sand lots, is complete !.
Dutcast. The recent Anti-monopOly Is
at Chicago wouldn't =
him as delegate and now :,
he New York central labor union
mas excluded him from their hall. =
The New Hampshire legislature d
has been forced to repeal the law II
n that State which gave 10 cents n
or every crow killed, because the d
,nterprising New Hampshire yam il
lees were making a profitable indus |,
ry of raising crows for the benefit
If the bounty. Il
The cholera has made its appear al
nee in East London and the ply "