Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

to effect Monday.
Judge Hoadly spoke in Cleveland
Monday night.
Last Tuesday was the Jewish new
year.
The new rice crop of South Caro-
lima will soon be on the market.
Three inches of snow fell in Yer
mont Saturday night.
The next House of Representa-
tives will stand-Democrats 1874,
Republicans 131.
The reduction of the public dept
for September was about $4,000
OO0.
Three hundred women voted at
the school election in Binghamton,
New York, Friday.
The crowd in Paris hooted King
Alfonso of Spain last Friday crying
"Down with the Uhlan King"
Monday was childrens day at the
Louisville Exposition. The school
children were admitted for 10 cts,
each.
The Texas cotton crop will be
short. There has been total fail
ure in many counties of the top
crop.
w. Arthur Allen. son of Col. r.
d. Allen, of the Kentucky Military
Institute, died near Frankfort Sat
urday of maIarial fever.
The straightout Republicans of
Virginia do not take cordially to
Mr.. Arthur's intriguing with Ma
hone.
The Nashville American says the
coal business and lumber business
are becoming of immense import
ance in Tennessee.
Chattanooga is entitled to be call
ed the Southern Chicago on account
of the readiness with which divorce
cases are disposed of in that city.
DR.. J. N. Mccormack of Bow
ling Green has been elected secre-
tary of the kentucky board of
health.
Gen. IgnacIo, the Mexican Conn
missioner to settle the Rio Grandc
boundary line with commissioners
from our government, is in New
Orleans.
A Brahman woman has entered
at the Philadelphia WOman's Med
zeal College, and is to be followed
by others of her sex if her reports
are favorable.
Gov. Butler expressed with re-
greet his inability to accept the in
vitation of the Exposition to meet
Gov. Bate, October 4-Tennessee
day.
The Corean Embassy left New
York for Washington Saturday
morning, where they arrived last
night, and expect to remain several
weeks.
A considerable rain and wind
storm swept over Memphis and the
Southern portion of Shelby and
Fayette counties Wednesday, dam
aging crops and fences.
Judge Dixon, Republican candi-
date for Governor of New Jersey, is
a Judge of the Supreme Court of
that State, but he declines to re-
sign until he sees how the election
will pan out.
The association of the Army of
Tennessee are having erected in
Metaire cemetery, New Orlea ms,
costly and beautiful tomb over the
remains of Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston.
Billiard tables in Mississippi are
taxed 81 900 apiece under the impress
sion that they are a device for the
encouragement of drinking. That
State and Georgia are said to be the
strictest temperance States in the
union.
Typhoid fever previls to such an
extent in New York City that the
Board of Health has been moved to
issue an address advising the de-
struction or publication of all cloth
ing that has been in contact with
the disease.
\ white man named st. Clair and
a negro named Will Fields were
killed by an accident to construc-
ton train on the Louisville, New
Orleans and Texas, r. R., a few
miles below Memphis Monday
night.
Gov. Ireland of Texas was royal
Iy entertained recently by Gov.
Medro of the State of Coahuila,
Mexico. Ten thousand of the pop
ulace met the American governor
at the depot in Saltilo and shouted
sylvia Texas" and Gov. Medro
with civil and military dignatories
escorted him to the executive man
sion.
The Hon. John Bigelow, one of
Mr.. Tilden's intimate political
friends, stated few days ago that
that gentleman told him not six
weeks ago that "lf every man, wom-
an and child in the United States
would sigh a petition asking him to
run for President he would refuse"
That ought to settle it.
Col. VIM. MurreII, euItOr of the
Baltimore VindicatOr, has accepted
the challange of Col. VIM. A. Piled
ger, of the Atlanta Vindicator, to a
joint discussion at various cities i'm
Ohio of the question whether the
welfare of the cOlOred people of the