Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-28
TENNESSEE TALK.

The fruit crop all over the State il
reported good.
Ex-Comptroller Nolan will make
his home at Waverly.
The debt of the city of Memphis
is being refunded.
The Paris Intelligencer says that
wheat is improving since the warm
weather begun.
The Union City Anchor says
wheat and clover i'm that section are
looking fine.
The Dover Courier reports the
squirrel crop" Whereabouts ''sirnply
immense"
Our exchanges are beginning tC
announce strawberry and ice cream
festivals.
The General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
meets in Nashville, May 18th.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Tul-
lahOma have ordered ladders and
buckets, to be used in case of fire.
A little boy named Eddie Nor
man was drowned in Bayou Gayoso
in Memphis Sunday.
Shelbyville and Fayetteville are
still talking of cotton and wooden
mills.
David Bell, we'll known Nc
Kenzie merchant, died at his home
In that place Monday night.
The Nashville May drill will fur
nish the finest display of militia
soldiery the Union has ever seen.
The Nashville races begin ON the
3Oth. Noted horses from every
where will be put on the track.
The Spring meeting of the Jockey
Club at Memphis was a great sue
cess.
Sir Titus Salt, of England, has
come to Tennessee for the purpose
of investing in lands.
Immigrant rates over the trunk
line from New York to Nashville
has been reduced to $3.50.
The saloon keepers of ChattanOO-
ga have raised a purse of 81, 900 to
test the efficacy of the Sunday law
i'll that city.
There Is an old house in Lebanon
which is relic of the first settle
ments. The boards are fastened on
with wooden pegs instead of nails.
Telephone lines are being put up
from Lebanon to Rome and Alex
andria. The places mentioned are
all In Tennessee.
Hon. John T. Williams has re-
sumed his connection with the
Maury Democrat, published at Co.
lumbia.
The New Era says in the noun
taIns adjacent to McMinnville is an
of the finest cOking coal
to be found in the State.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
will have its Southwestern extern
sion across Tennessee fenced in with
barbed wire.
The McClung Manufacturing Co.,
is a new enterprise in Knoxville to
do a general business in the line of
sheet metal manufacture.
Hon. James M. Head, a we'll
known member of the Legislature,
has moved from Gallatin to Nash
vile.
Jackson experienced a great pois-
Oning of dogs one night last week.
Twelve dead CANNES were found
almost in pile next morning.
Mrs. Storer, a sister of ex-Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson, died at
Union Depot, Carter county, Sum-
day.
There are now 1850 convicts in
the Tennessee penitentiary, the
largest number on record. A great |
of these are negroes.
Strangers are pouring into Union
City and real estate in that place
has increased % per cent. i'll value
within two months.
Some twenty-five or thirty peO-
pie were made sick in Jackson last
week from eating ice cream made
n a brass kettle.
There are seventy-f five saw mills
n ObiOn county with a combined
of 100000 feet of lumber
laily, and the consumption of tim
Der has scarcely begun.
Mr.. Greer WOodlee, one of the
argest fruit growers in Warren
:ounty, thinks he will make 900
bushels of apples this year if no
befalls him.
1t is said that Col. V. X. Stephens,
native Tennessean, who has
.rOwn rich by stock speculations in
Iew York, will build several iron
furnaces in this state.
A new Presbyterian church is
eing built in Covington, which,
1hen completed, will be hand
ONE BRICK structure in Gothic
lyle.
Hon. Jefferson Davis will appear
t the meeting of the Southern His
Drical Society at Nashville, May
3D., only as member. He will
OF deliver the regular Grafton.
Fifty-fiveinfantry companies, five
arteries of artillery and several
oted military bands have entered
,r the competitive drill at Nash {
ia