Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-24

pended publication. The editor
will start a newspaper in Green CO.,
Ark.
The Cisco-Hawkins Book, Paper
and Printing Company will start a
book binding and job printing es-
tablishment in Jackson soon.
The little daughter of Rev. G. II.
Sheldrake, of Troy, was badly
scalded last week by falling back
ward into a tub of hot water.
Chattanooga has factory from
which ready made pants are turned
out. 1t employs thirty-two hands,
principally poor women.
The Brownsville Democat, which
is one of the best edited papers in
the State, has discarded it's patent
inside.
A brakeman fell between the
cars at Gallatin last Thursday and
had his head badly hurt. He mar
rowly escaped death.
The Maury Democrat claims that
the Opera House in Columbia is one
of the fines south of the Ohio river.
1t has capacity of 900.
Mr.. John Murrell, proprietor~of
the Gait House in Brownsville has
removed to Birmingham, Ala, to
take charge of hotel there.
The annual meeting of the East
Tennessee Farmers Convention
will be held at Knoxville on the I'D
of May.
Bills have been introduced during
the present session of the General
Assembly to change the lines of
every county in the State except
one.
Union City has three large furni-
ture factories, one wagon factory.
one Touring mill, one iron foundry
and machine shop and a chair fac
tory.
About one hundred new residen-
ces and business houses have been
erected in Tullahoma within the
past year and the building boom
has by no means subsidized.
w. H. Burnell & Co., from Como,
Miss, are improving a house in
Jackson, Tenn, in which they are
going to have carriage, buggy and
harness mandatory.
Some of the citizens OF Chattanoo-
ga have gotten up petition to have
that city made a taxing district. 1t
is Democratic move, the pres
ent city government being Repub-
lican.
The people of Brownsville are
taking steps to have that place in
corporated-the charter having
been abolished several years ago.
The plan of being out in the woods
didn't work satisfactorily.
Jackson was troubled with bur-
glars last week, several houses be-
ing plundered of watches etc., while
the occupants were asleep. The
burglars are supposed to have been
the same who were shortly after
wards in Milan and Humbolt.
A festive newspaper reporter on
a Chattanooga daily has got a
breach of promise suit on hand. If
his financial condition is like that
of the craft generally, we don't
know what the injured fair one ex-
poets to realize.
In Lincoln county, on the east
prong of Norris creek, a serious diff
ficulty took place between Jacob
Buntley and Hag Little, Friday.
The latter struck the former with
rock, just above the ear, inficting
an almost mortal wound.
The cotton compress in Jackson
was burned Friday. The platform
to the compress with considerable
quantity of cotton was burned the
Tuesday before. There was 3d.
500 insurance on the compress and
the cotton, which lacks $4,000 of
covering the estimated loss.
McMinnville Southern Standard
"Col J. H. French has just had
placed in the new Cemetery, to the
memory of his wife, Mrs. l.. Vir-
ginia French, Il large and beautiful
monument. 1t is made of finest
American marble, Is feet and 3
inches high, and in design and
workmanship, is beautiful.
A passenger engine ran into a
freight train engine which was
standing on the track at Knoxville
Friday. VIM. Whitlock, the engi-
neer of the passenger engine is
thought to be fatally injured. The
collision was caused by the man
who was sent to flag the passenger
train falling asleep.
Tom Edwards is the name of a
man who has lived in Lincoln
county for fifty years and never sat
on jury, paid poll tax, attended
church or school. He was never in
Fayetteville until summoned there
last week to testify in criminal
case. He lives by himselfand has no
companions but some dogs and pet
deer that he keeps in an enclosure.