Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-31
THE NE Tvs I'M BRIEF.
Prince Bismark is in bad health.

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Gambetta's seat will be occupied
by M. Sigismund Lacroix-Radical.
The Asiatic cholera is raging in
China with dreadful fatality.
The Wisconsin Legislature will
adjourn ON the I'd prox.
DIR. Dix's lent sermons that crea-
ted such a sensation, have appeared
in book form.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, tes-
titled in the suit of Hite vs. Courier
Journal, Monday.
Heavy rains in California have
improved the prospect of the wheat
crop in that section.
Pere Hyacinthe is going to lecture
in the United States. He will be
here some time during the summer.
The House has passed a bill to
prevent clerks of courts from specu-
lating in witness fees.
A band of twenty-seven Indians
killed two men near Winchester,
Arizona, Sunday and attacked the
town but were driven away.
Mrs. Adeline Battle, widow of
Gen. Joel A. Battle. died at her res
idence ON Cedar street, Nashville,
Sunday morning.
There are numerous prominent
politicians of both parties who will
accept nomination for Governor of
Ohio.
The centennial anniversary of
Washington Irving's birth will be
celebrated at Tarrytown, N. j., on
the Sd of April.
The Pennsylvania Legislature
has made it a fine of $500, with inn
prisonment for three months for
selling adulterated milk.
$4,000 head of cattle were sold in
one sale at Fl. Worth, Tex, Satur-
day. The prices paid aggregated
$2,000,000.
One hundred employees of the
treasury department at Washing
ton have married during the past
six weeks.
The fund raised by the Little
Rock Gazette for the benefit of the
family of Conductor John Cain,
amounts to over 81 900.
Charles o. LamOtte, one of the
editors of the Savannah, (Ga. News,
was drowned near that city Mon
day, by the swapping of boat.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Sanitary Council of the Mississippi
valley will be held at Jackson,
Miss, commencing April Sd.
Since the attempt to blow up the
government offices in London all
the public buildings in that city
are kept closely guarded by troops.
Candidates for Post Master Gen
eral are numerous among Republic
cans of stalwart antecedents. No
others need apply.
The Salvation army is preparing
to lay siege to Chicago, and the
people of that city are asking what
they can do to be saved-from the
army.
The Rhode Island State elections
occur next Wednesday. The chief
issue is equal suffrage, property
qualification for voters having been
long required in that State.
Elk President Diaz and party were
in Washington, Monday, Owing
to the death of Postmaster General
Howe the State dinners and recep-
tions in their honor were omitted.
Mr.. Young E. Allison, managing
editor of the Louisville Commercial,
was married Tuesday to Miss Mag
gle T. Allison, daughter of Mr..
George S. Allison, cashier of the I'd
National Bank of Louisville.
Ben Butler says his accounts are
all square as President of the Sol
dier's Home, and intimates that if
there is any unjust claim against
him in that connection ii would
Just tickle him all over to be sued. |
1t is no longer a crime to go fish
ing on Sunday in New York-the
penal code having been so amended,
out the citizens of New York should
recollect that such an act is very,
very wicked.
The remains of Post Master Gen
eral Howe were inferred at Green
Bay, Wis, Tuesday. The national
lag on every public building in the
United States was draped In mourn
ng during the day.
Mrs. w. H. Vanderbilt gave a
ancy dress ball in her new house
IN the Goth, which is said to have
1een the most brilliant and pictur-
,sque entertainment ever given in
New York.
Sprague says the only issue in
Rhode Island is the people against
he bosses, and he is the champion
If the people. The nomination from
10Th the Independents and Demo-
rats came to him unsought.
John J. O'Connor was found dead
n his bed at Mrs. Pitts boarding
rouse in Nashville Monday morn
ng. He died, it is supposed, Of
trangulation caused by the rupture
# an abscess in his throat.
Winchester Cemetery, an ancient
eature of Memphis which suffered
Ieglect for a number of years, has
zen much improved of late under
he directions of the Old Folks at
Home Society.
A committee of citizens waited
n n. l.. Dukes, the murderer of
APT. Mutt, at Uniontown, Pa,
presented him with the
recently adopted by the :