Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-05-26
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.
The Brooklyn bridge was opened

Chattanooga is going to have a
big celebration of "rhe glorious
fourth"
A suit has been instituted at
Richmond which brings the Vir-
ginia debt again before the courst.
Col. A. III Nickerson of the Uni
ted States Army will be court mar
shalled for obtaining fraudulent
divorce.
Hon. Horace Heffren, a well
known Indiana politician, died
Saturday.
Snow fell Sunday throughout
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio.
The Courier-Journal's report of
the Kentucky tobacco crop indi-
Gates that it is in good condition.
The State Baptist Association of
Kentucky met at Mt. Sterling,
Tuesday.
w. H. West, of Thatcher, Prim-
rose & Vests Minstrels, was mar
ried in Nashville Sunday night to
Fay Templeton, the actress.
Rev. DIR. Randolph, of Emanuel
church, Baltimore, has been chosen
for Assistant Bishop of the diocese
of Virginia.
Samuel w. Ferguson of Mississip-
pi, has been appointed to the vacant
place on the Mississippi River Com
mission.
The cotton crop of Georgia, Ark
ansas, West Tennessee and North
Mississippi has been damaged by
the cold weather.
A London dispatch states that
the Marquis of LansdOwn will sue
coed the Marquis of Lorne as Gov
ernor General of Canada.
The present active demand for
southern cattle at good prices fur
nishes hint for southern farmers
that there is big money in the stock
business.
The fifty-fifth annual council of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Kentucky was held in Louisville |
this week, commencing on Wednes-
day.
Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, has
been invited by the ex-Federal
soldiers of Memphis to deliver an
address in that city on decoration
day.
Don Cameron is said to be very
much depressed over his ill health
and holds on to his senatOrshIp only |
to prevent Il democrat from being
appointed to the place.
The democratic members of the |
Illinois Legislature, in caucus as.
sembled, have endorsed the candi-
dacy of William NJ. Springer for
Speaker of the National House of
Representatives.
The third wife of a Mormon at
North Jordan, Utah, suicided Sun
day, thereby showing the utter
misery of the females who are sub
jected to this infamous system of
polygamy.
Bishop Peck, of the Methodist
Episcopal church is dead. He pre-
sided at the EcumenicaI Council in
London in 1881. He was seventy
two years old and was licensed to
preach when he was only seventeen.
Wednesday was the great Eng
lish Derby day when Epson Downs
is the center of the universe. The
race was won by st. BIaise; High
land Chief, second Salbard third.
Parliament adjourned to attend the
Derby.
Kate Kane, the female lawyer of
Milwaukee who threw water in the
face of IA judge, was released from
Jail last Sunday after confinement
of thirty days. She was presented
with purse of money by female
friends.
Walter S. Evans, of kentucky,
has been appointed Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, in the place
of Green B. Raum, resigned. The
position is very important one
and almost equal in dignity to q
place in the cabinet.
a correspondent to the Courier
Journal from jackson, Tenn, says
the 'strawberry king" resides in
that vicinity. He is Mr.. J. M.
Samuels, gentleman originally
from Kentucky, but who had for
several years lived in st. Louis and
Chicago. He has 40 acres in Straw
berries and $50 acres in other fruits.
An accident occurred in Atlanta
last Friday which resulted in very
sad death Monday. Mrs. Robert r..
Ridley, youngest daughter of the
late Senator Ben Hill, jumped from
her runaway carriage and received
injuries that caused her death on
the day mentioned.
The Courier j ournal of Monday
last published in full the sermon
preached by Rev. Chas. H. Spur
geOn in London the day before.
The same issue contained the SER
mons of Beecher and Talmage on
the same day. The sermons of this |
"nOted triUmvirate" will in the fu-
ture form a distinctive feature of
Mondays CD.
Gen. Longstreet said to a World !
reporter in New York recently:
"The colored people in Georgia are
of very intelligent class, and are
both wise and cunning. They |
maintain an outward semblance of |
adherence to the republican organ