Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
TENNESSEE TALK.
Fox hunting is popular in Maury


There is not vacant residence in
Pork will be cheap this fall in
West Tennessee.
Wheat sowing is going on now in
good earnest over the State.
The Chattanooga Democrat has
been revived as an afternoon daily.
Knox county has II, 299 school
children; Hamilton county has
1910.
Fifty small new cottages would
find renters on completion in Col
umbia.
The Memphis Ledger looks Won
derfully young and fresh in its new
dress.
1t is stih uncertain when Chatta-
nooga and Knoxville will declare
war.
Uncle Sam has $4,000 postmasters
and pays them ten million dollars a
year.
The County Court, ofSTlelby coun-
ty will build an asylum for the in
sane.
A railroad from Memphis to Bir-
mingham is the next great need of
the Bluff city. a
The Memphis Hospital College
was opened Monday morning with
appropriate ceremonies.
A Haywood county farmer real
lied this year profit of S., 900, from
eighty acres of Strawberries.
The cornerstone of the new bull
ding for the Tullahoma Wooden
Mills was laid on Thursday.
The Mozart Club, of Knoxville,
are to have a weekly newspaper
to be called the Symphony.
The reservoir at Knoxville has
sprung another leak, through which
60, 900 barrels of water have gone
out ofsight.
Capitalist of Memphis have a
million and a half of dollars inves-
ted in the Pratt coal mines, near
Birmingham, Ala.
The Mozart Society of Memphis
is doing practical service in attrac.
ting good operetic companies there
during the coming season.
David Burkett, of Big Creek Gap,
who is said to be nineteen years
old, weighs only thirty pounds and
is only eighteen inches high.
Gov. Bate managed to mention
the "Halls of Montezuma" in
his speech at the Louisville Expo
sition on Tennessee day. a
The Tribune and Sun will issue
daily during the continuance of the
fair in Jackson which it promises
shan't be disgrace to that city.
Thos. r. Cooke Esq, promi-
nent citizen of Somerville and for
many years chairman of the Fay
cite County court, died on the 30th
ult.
The Shelbyville Commercial is
trying to kill off its Handsome and
talented pOetical correspondent"
by addressing original verses to
that genius.
The stock of the wagon factory at
McMinnville has been increased to
81, 200 and all been taken. Work
will be commenced on the build
ings soon. PEI"
There is talk in Memphis of pur-
chasing one of those enormous
sweeping machines, such as are
used in Washington, and drawn by
four or six horses.
Messrs. f. G. Sampson Capt. AL
bert G.. Pierce and j. w. Brown,
all three well known citizens of
Dyersburg and vicinity died last
week. ... ..
Mrs. julia Gardner Tyler, widow
of eX-Presldent Tyler, and Mrs. Sa-
rah Childress Polk, draw their PEN
siOns of 5000, each at the agency
in Knoxville.
There will be more peas gather
ed in Fayette county this year than
any previous year. Colts and
hogs will also be more numerous
than any year of the country's his
tory.
Warren Prince, COL, who had
been sentenced to five years in the
penetentiary in the Memphis Grim
inal court, made his escape from
the court room while his lawyers
were arguing for a new trial.
a new drop curtain in Leubrie's
Theatre, at Memphis, is said to be a
fine piece of work, representing
1.-The Palace of Cetara," overlook
ing the bay ofSelenO, Italy.
A State exchange remarks: Both
the Memphis and Nashville papers
are calling for Union depOts. They
are exactly right. DepOts could not
easily be more inconveniently stu
ated in both those cities than they
are"
Memphis can store away 100000
bales of cotton under sheds where
neither rain nor mud can reach
them. Her cotton men also claim
superior facilities for COMPRISING,
handling and shipping.
Nashville American Tennessee
bids fair soon to become one of the
foremost stOck-breeding States of
the Union. In natural advantages