Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-10
THE Re MS IA RRIEF.
Parnell il coming to America.
United States Treasurer Gilfillan

Gov. Cleveland, of New York
vetoed the five cent fare bill.
The 47th Congress expired on the
4th by constitutional Limitation.
The repeal of the two cent stamps
on bank check goes into effect on
July lst.
Twenty thousand people viewed
the remains OF Governor Stephens
in Atlanta.
The issue of standard silver dol
lars for the week ending March Sd,
was $l43, 495.
The residence of Mr.. Isaac White
was burned i'm MurfreesborO Mon
day morning.
Bogardus was again defeated by
Carver in Chicago Saturday by a
score of 80 to 70.
Arab Bey, now in exile in Cey-
lon, is learning English and having
his children educated in that lam
guage.
A fire at Salem, in Rutherford
county, Monday, destroyed the
stores of Powers Bros, and Charles
North.
A legitimist meeting at Lille,
France, ON the 9Th, made considera-
BILE demonstrations against the re-
public.
Senator Edmunds was elected
President of the Senate to fill the
vacancy made by the resignation of
David Davis.
Pneumonia has been very preva-
lent in New York recently. Ninety
nine persons died there from that
cause last week.
Henry Ellis, a youth sixteen years
old, was accidentally shot and kill
ed while duck hunting near Mem
phis on the 4th.
The river and harbor apprOpria-
ton bill was tabled in the Senate
Saturday and consequently lies over
till next session.
Eight members of the House re-
fused to return thanks to Speaker
Kiefer. This is the first instance of
negative votes on such a question.
The United States Supreme Court
decided Monday that Louisiana
could not be sued by New York on
claims transferred the latter State
by her citizens.
Lawrence Barrett presented Hon.
George Bakers new play, "Fran-
cesca eli Rimmini" at the National
Theatre in Washington recently
withe great success.
The Hanover Oil Works, located
on the river front at Memphis, set
tied to the depth of two feet Mon
day afternoon, causing a suspension
of labor and damaging the machin-
cry.
The steamer Yazoo struck on a
snag at Gypsy Point, twenty-five
miles above New Orleans, on the
4th inst, and went down in 100
feet of water. Abont fifteen or
twenty lives were lost.
While Ike Creme, keeper of the
Cedartown furnace, fifty miles be-
low Chattanooga, was opening the
cinder notch last Monday, it be-
came loose and the red hot iron
poured on him, burning his body to
a coal.
Miss Mary Slaughter, handsome
and cultivated young lady, suicided
by taking strychnine at the resi-
dence of her father Mr.. Dennis
Slaughter, in Upton county, last
week. No cause is assigned for the
rash act.
Mr.. Van VOohis, of New York,
made a narrow escape from expul-
sion from the House on the lst inst.
He descended to blackguardism in
speaking of Mr.. Mclean, of Califor-
mia, and was saved his seat in the
House by a parliamentary apology.
Hon. j. s. Boynton, who was
president of the Georgia senate be-
came ca oficiO Governor of the State,
on the death of Governor Stephens.
He was inaugurated Monday and
Immediately issued a proclamation
an election on the 25th of
April, to fill the vacancy in the CUB
office.
A dispatch'from New York says
that Mrs. Langtry is so enamOred
of America and Americans that she
has decided to become resident of
this country and is negotiating for
a house on Fifth Avenue, New
York. Will she import Mr.. Lang
try? or is this an advertising dodge |
O la Sara Bernhard?
Judge Allen, of the Nashville
Criminal Court fixed M. L. Folks |
bond at $4,000. The bond was
given and Polk has been released |
from custody. The Legislative |
committee in making their final re-
port in this matter say that moneys |
since the last report re-
duce the actual deficiency to $780,
366.9l.
Gen. PerferiO DIaz, ex-president |
Of Mexico, was dined by James b.
Eads, and breakfasted by the Times
in New Orleans on the
tth. He made speech at the din
ing, favoring Eads' ship railway
scheme and expressed desire for a
of the friendly relations
between the United States and
Mexico.
Eli Perkins may step down and
put and Tom Ockeltree has lost his
aurels. The prize for being the
champion liar in the United States
now goes to a Upton county dar-
Key. The newly discovered genius
> named VIM. Bernard, and lives