Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-15
TENNESSEE TALK.

i'm. Allen, Esq, was elected Corporation
Magistrate in DoYer, recently.
The N. & t. Railroad has been completed
from Dickson Station to Centreville.
The entire stock for the national bank at
TulIahoma has been taken, and business
will be commenced early in January.
The female college at McMinnviIle has
such large attendance of pupils that addi-
tional buildings are needed.
Mr.. F. Rufin and Miss Addie Feather
ston were married at Cedar Hill, in Robert
son county, last week.
The Columbia Herald is trying to work up
a cotton factory boom in that city, and is
pleased with the prospect of succeeding.
Dickson Press: Cumberland Furnace is in
full blast, and is reported to be making
more iron per day than at any previous
time.
The Pioneer Cotton Mills of Memphis en-
| ploy one hundred and forty persons, and
consume about forty bales of cotton per
week.
! Dover Courier: Itseems that the slaughter
| of pork hogs has fairly begun, judging from
| the quantity of pork brought to town the
past week.
Up. Chambers, OF Bartlett, has been made
the agent of the l.. & N. Railroad at Paris, in
the place of Mr.. Campbell, who killed Will
liams, and left for parts unknown.
| Mai. Minor Meriwether, for many years
an active citizen of Memphis, has moved to
| st. Louis, and will make his home in that
| city in future.
The Farmers Congress recently assembled
in Louisville, adjourned to meet in Nash
Vile on Wednesday after the third Monday
in November, 1854.
Memphis has two new enterprises of i'm
portance in progress-a -four mill with a
capacity of $50 barrels per day, and grain
elevator with storage capacity Of 5000
bushels.
On last Monday G. H. Largent received
his commission, and was qualified as a JUS
tice of the Peace for District No. IL, in Stew
art county. Mr.. Largent will make good
Magistrate.
& Cedar Hill correspondent of the Spring
field Record says: Rev. Mr.. Rodifer, an
Episcopal minister, will shortly move to
this place. His work will embrace Spring
field, Cedar Hill and New Providence. He
expresses himself highly pleased with this
moral little village.
American: Walt Brownlow, as they cali
him in his native East Tennessee, ex-door
keeper of the House, at Washington, is said
to have an eye on Petitioners seat. But SO
have Roderick Random and ALI Taylor. 1t
will be a pretty fight in the First District
next year.
William Green, of Anderson county, eigh-
teen years of age, was bitten by a rabid dog
in June of this year, but showed no symp-
toms of ny drophobia until last Friday, when
he had several commissions. His physicians
reported that he could not live longer than
day or two.
The municipal election held in Milan on
Saturday, passed of quietly. Hale was re-
elected Mayor with SO majority over Heath
cock. Bryant was reelected Marshal by SO
majority over Blankinship. D. A. Taylor,
R. F. Haun and ]. F. Rhodes were elected
Aldermen.
Tullahoma Guardian !: Last Saturday eigh-
teen men and women arrived at our depot
from Texas, happy to breathe again the pure
air of old Tennessee, and reprobating Texas
right heartily. Friends, you will never find
a country of better promise than the old
Volunteer State.
Manchester Times The fine water power
just below the paper mill, said to be the best
in the county, is being talked of as fine
site for a wooden mill, and in a short time
the mill will doubtless be built. The parties
have ample means to erect a large mill, and
expect to commence work early in the
Spring.
Chattanooga Times: All the brick work
ON the Citico Furnace is now finished. Two
and a half million brick have been used.
All that now remains to complete the plant
is roofing the out-houses and other trifiing
work. This is being done leisurely. The
furnace will probably not blow in before
February.
Dover Courier On last Monday, Gus Tom
linson, infant son of Mr.. J. w. Tomlinson,
living on Leatherwood, was killed by tree
falling on him. The tree was being cut for
firewood, and as it fell the little fellow ran
in the way and was struck on the head by a
limb which fractured the skull, causing in
slant death.
The Athens Post started the sentiment
to notice that it is still moving: every
dollar expended IN home manufactures is
SO much added to the value of the State, not
only saving money to consumers, but en-
HANGING the value of the farm property and
farm products"
James Gillespie, a workman at the Look
out rolling mill, Chattanooga, met with a
horrible accident Saturday. While boiling
fire brick clay in a huge vat, he missed his
footing and fell into the seething liquid up
to his shoulders. His body was stewed and
the skin hung in huge flakes, and on parts |
of his body the flesh peeled from the bones.
Memphis Ledger: The telephone enter |
prise here has $50 subscribers, at an average
of $50 each per annum. 1t makes up the |
handsome sum of S27, 500. The wires cover
about 200 miles, and hang on 5000 poles. |
Lines now run from here to Brownsville,
Jackson, Germantown and Holly Springs,
while that to Grenada will soon be in opera |
ton.
Cannon County Courier Nearly all the |
hogs in this county that were for sale have |
been shipped, and the outlook for good |
prices for the few that remain is not at all /
favorable. In consequence of the warm /
weather the packers are not in the market, |
and the result is that prices have fallen in /
the last very few days from $3.50 to $3.50
per hundred, and the bottom is not yet |
reached unless the weather becomes colder
soon.
Knoxville Tribune: We were informed |
that there was a New York gentleman in
the city yesterday, representing company
which proposes to put one and a half mil
lion dollars into a cotton factory in Knox
vile If $4,000 more could be raised in this
city. A number of the wealthiest men in
Knoxville were called upon, but we were
Informed that the enterprise met with no |
This is shame to Knox
vile.
Tullahoma Guardian: We learn from Mr..
w T. Wilson that q double wedding is to |