Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-10
NEWS In jBRIEF.

A meeting of citizens in Richmond on the
4th inst passed resolutions charging the
Danville race war ON the Coalition party.
"Conner," alias Faulkner, the leader of the
Indiana counterfeiters, and his wife have
been captured at Frenchtown, Ind.
The extensive railroad shops ofthe Toledo,
Cincinnati & st. Louis Railroad, at Dayton,
Ohio, were burned Saturday night.
1t is almost certain that the wheat surplus
of Oregon and Washington Territory will
be 100000 tons less than estimated.
The Marquis of Landsdowne, Governor
General of Canada, has received several let
tiers threatening his life.
Second Comptroller of the Treasury Upton
suggests statute of Limitation on war
claims.
Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, has Joined
the Methodist church. but is still an unre-
generate rebel.
The cotton picking season has been un-
precedentedly favorable in the Memphis
district, and all the crop will be saved.
kellogg, Sawyer & Co., extensive lumber
manufacturers of Kalamazoo, Mich, have
assigned for $4,000.
The students at st. Andrews University,
England, have proposed the name of U. S.
Minister Lowell for the Rectorship.
The difficulties between France and Spain
growing out of the recent insult to King
Alfonso in Paris, have been amicably set
tied.
Fred. Franks, returning from collecting
tour five miles west of Ottawa, Ohio, was
beaten by two highway robbers, dragged
into the woods, and robbed of $4,000.
A fiendish crime is reported from Chat
tanooga, where Geo. G. Buckrill, Superin-
tendent of the Daisy Coal Mines, outraged
the person of his eight-year-old niece.
During fire IN factory at Roubaix, in
France, ten persons were killed and forty
injured. The explosion of quantity of
benzine added to the horrors.
Frank Steele was placed in the Kentucky
penitentiary, Tuesday, to serve out life
sentence for the murder of his brother-in-
law, DR.. Clip WEIGH, of Shelby county.
Madame Patti and Signor Nicolini arrived
at New York, Tuesday. The diva is under
contract to Mapleson to sing two nights
week forty nights.
Chas. E. Dix, cashier of the Council Bluffs
Savings Bank, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head. His accounts
are correct.
Jacob Hipp, q wealthy resident of Mil
waukee, was murdered near Laredo, Mexico,
and robbed of SS,OOo. The highwaymen out
ragged his wife.
David r. Brown, freight conductor on the
L. & N. Railroad, died at Nashville, Tues
day, from injuries received by falling from
his train.
A young man named Ewing was killed at
Birdseye Station, Dubois county, Ind, on
Monday, by a farmer whose daughter he
had seduced.
Four men went through a car on the Wa
bash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad near Dan
vile Junction, and with drawn pistols rob-
bed the passengers OF about $500.
A tornado passed over Springfield Mo.
Monday, in which property was damaged
to the amount of S25O,OOO, seven persons kill
ed and many injured.
1t has come to light that the real secret of
Mary Churchill's strange freak was that she
was stage struck, and ran away from home
to get an opportunity to prepare herself for
dramatic work.
A marriage is eported between the Prin-
cess Alice, daughter of the Comte De Paris,
and the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. This
would pledge Russia to the restoration of
the Orleans dynasty in France.
There was an explosion in colliery at
Mansfield, England, Wednesday. One hun
bred and ten men were in the mines at the
time. At last reports only twenty have
been rescued, and some of them were badly
hurt.
Lee White stole package of money at
Oakfield, Wis.,, six months ago. He confess
ed the crime and returned the money. His
conscience pricked him so that ON Tuesday
he committed suicide.
L. 1. Whitman and a widow named Ellen
Long killed Longs eleven years old son at
Milwaukee and threw the body into the
river. Whitman was criminally intimate
with the widow and the boy was killed to
conceal the scandal.
Mary Churchill, the missing St. Louis girl,
was found working in laundry at Indian
apolis and has returned home with her
father. There was no man in the case, and
she refuses to tell why she run away.
T. NJ. Edwards shot and killed Sam. E.
Roberts at KervilIe, a station on the c. o. q
S. w. Railroad, near Memphis, Saturday.
Edwards was a well to do farmer and an
elder in the Presbyterian church. The muir
der grew out of a scandal. Edwards seduced
q Miss Lyon, a Step-sister of Roberts. The
proof of his guilt seems to have been con-
vincing, so much so that he was expelled
from the church, but in order to shield him
This brought. on a quarrel which ended in
Edwards sneaking up behind Roberts and
him with n double-barrelled shot
gun. The murder, if reported correctly in
the dispatches, was cold blOoded and cow
ardly. Edwards is conSumate william and
richly deserves the gallows.
Colonel P P. Packard, Comptroller of the
State, has just received all the reports from
the various County Court Clerks, from which
he makes the following tax aggregate for
the entire State:
EAST TENNESSEE.
NUMBER OF ,9es53
value OF the same oS,Ui0oZ5
Number OF town lots.....-..... 1855
value OF 1U,UoJyI 100
Value of other property ....-.... 5,5I4,2O7
state tax at 30 Cents on the $iOO i6S7pi.7