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

page to horticulture. Fruit and
vegetables seem to be monopolizing
the attention of farmers in that sec
ton, and is assuming immense pro-
portions.
The Female College at Somer-
vile, which is one of the oldest and
best known schools in that section,
will be without a principal after the
close of this session. The position
is open for applicants.
Chas. B. Davis, captain of No. 1
engine company, was killed at a
fire in Memphis Sunday, and Pete
McManus was badly injured, by
the falling walls of the burning
building.
A correspondent from Shelbyville
to the Banner says: 1.-The hub and
spoke factory is going up rapidly.
The interest in the wooden mill has
not died and tits friends think it
assured"
The Nashville correspondent of
the Manufacturers Record says
"One OF the most hopeful signs of
industrial progress in Tennessee is
the rapidly increasing factories in
the small towns of the State"
The Observer claims that there is
not town in the State can show a
steadier and more substantial inn
provement than Fayetteville. Its
population has increased 100 per
cent. in the last decade.
A fast train on the Montgomery
division of the Louisville & Nash
vile road went from Pulaski to
Nashville Monday morning at the
rate OF l minute and 80 seconds per
mile, stopping nine times on the
route.
DR.. t. A. Hoyt, pastor of the first
Presbyterian church, Nashville,
petitioned the Presbytery recently
in session at HendersonviIle, to dis
solve the relation between him and
his congregation. The chief ground
of his resignation is i'll health.
A company has been formed for
the manufacture of hosiery and net
goods in Columbia which will en-
ploy about 80 young girls. The ma
chinery has been purchased and the |
factory will soon be in operation.
Hon. Asa Faulkner, of McMinn-
vile, has gone to Boston to interest |
Boston capitalists in cotton manu-
facture in Tennessee. He thinks |
the falls of the Caney Fork furnish
better water power than the falls of
Merrimac at Manchester.
Briant Brothers, of the Eureka |
Cote Mills at Athens, have recent
ly purchased, direct from England,
a complete outfit of new machinery
and have greatly increased their
facilities for the manufacture of cot
ton yarns.
Mr.. VIM. Clark, q revenue officer,
was waylaid and shot at by MOON
sinners in "Old Lincoln" last week.
The Workmanship of the incomes
by pale Diana's liquid light, is not
as good as the whiskey they make
and Mr.. Clark escaped with few
holes in his coat.
One LathrOp was arrested at
Chattanooga Saturday for embez-
zling $4,000 from a New York
firm in 1876. He escaped to Mexico
and recently came to Big creek and
engaged in business under the as
sumed name of James Williamson.
Three weeks ago the report of the
wheat crop from Sumner county
was very dIscouraging. The last
issue of the Examiner says: 1--WE
are greatly pleased with the intelli-
gence from all parts OF the county
that the wheat has improved Won
1erfully."
The Nashville Banner, speaking
Of the new railroads in this State,
says: "RailroadS are not built
in dead States. Tennessee is COM
ing to the front, her manufac
lures are making money and her
farmers are prosperous and can find
sale for all their pro-
luctS."'
The trial of a number OF parties
n MurfreesbOro for releasing pris-
)ners from Jail attracted much at !
entiOn in Rutherford county re
GENTLY. One hundred and fifty
witnesses were examined. John II. y,
Savage and Jordan Stokes were :
among the attorneys for the defense.
The Lebanon Herald says: &c. 9
=. DrifOOs, one year ago, put in his /
ish pond, eighteen carp, the whole
lumber weighing about sixteen t
ounces. Last week in draining his a
,ond in order to get rid of the small t
ish, much to his surprise, he found d
he carp weighing from four to ten
pounds each.
Judge Greer charged the grand \
ury in Memphis, last week, that Ii
hough pool selling was legal that h
ames of hazard or chance carried a
n at the race grounds were indict- il
Bile offenses. He charged further Il
hat if the Encouragement did not 81
repare indictments against such \
it was the duty of the grand
Try to do so. le
The Southern Press Association, =,
of the prOprietOrs of pa =.
ers using Associated Press Dis ..
atches, was held at Chattanooga -
n Wednesday and Thursday of =,
lst week. Representatives of pa -
ars published at Galveston, Tex,
.ome, Macon, Atlanta and Angus
/, Ga, Knoxville, Chattanooga