Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-08
TENNESSEE" TALK.

Chicken and egg buyers are reported very
numerous about Tobaccoport.
The Jewish citizens of Columbia will erect
a synagogue.
The Memphis city compromise bonds are
quoted at premium.
| Mr.. r. T. Bell and Miss Mollie Davis were
Joined in holy wedlock at Smyrna on Tues
day of last week.
Harry Myers and Fred Ward were drown
ed by the upsetting of skiff, in the Missis-
sippi river, at Memphis, on the 18th ult.
Mr.. Webb Hendrix and Miss Potea Harris,
both of Mckenzie, were married in that
place ON Thanksgiving.
The building of a railroad from Union
City, through Obion and Lake counties, to
the Mississippi river, is contemplated.
/ Col. Geogre H. Hazlehurst, prominent
citizen of Chattanooga, died at his home in
that city Sunday afternoon.
Small pox prevails in academic form in
the town of Gadsden, ON the L. & N. rail-
road, between Milan and Mckenzie.
The new regime in Dover beat the printer
out of a fee by having their newly enacted
ordinances copied and posted after the fash
ion OF written handbllls.
The grain and live stock dealers of Union
City say they are doing good trade with
Southern cities, and could do much more if
cars were promptly furnished.
negro named Columbus Clark was ar
rested at Union City, Saturday, charged
with the murder of old man King and wife
near Hickman, KY.
Young Horace T. Blanton, of Paris, who
shot himself in the hand while bird hunting
recently, died last week from the effects of
the wound.
Oak Hill College, Lincoln county, was
burned Sunday night, and two stores and
a dwelling house were set on fire at Belfast,
Marshall county, on Wednesday night.
Miss Sallie E. Grizzard an excellent young
lady of Huntington, died suddenly of heart
disease at Mckenzie, Saturday last. She
was en- route for Milan, and waiting for
train when death occurred.
Mr.. Horton C. Lamb and Miss Jimmie
Mcclure, two popular young people of Fay
ettev1lle, had the nuptial knot tied on the
18th ult. 1t is presumed that they passed a
happy thanksgiving.
| A fire at Somerville, Friday night, de-
stroyed Henrich's tailor shop, Hamblett's
restaurant, Williams livery stable, and a
row of brick tenements occupied by ne
groes.
TulIahoma Guardian: Applications for
business and dwelling houses are coming in
from all directions. We are very sorry we
can't give house room to all that come.
However, let them be patient awhile-the
houses will be built.
Gallatin Examiner: Judge Lee Head, with
an army of small boys, of Caucasian and
African descent, and all the dogs in town.
glorified Thanksgiving Day with monu-
mental hunt to the terror of the rabbits
The Judge commanded on a mule.
Athens Post: We have seen a sample of
pure grey marble from the farm of DR.. s. G.
Hoge, in the 1st district of this county. The
marble is susceptible of the highest degree
of polish, and the deposit is within sight OF
| the railroad.
Dixon Press: The demand for laboreIs is
so great that we feel warranted in stating
that as many more men could find imme
diate employment in Dickson and Hick-
man counties, as there are men now en-
ployed.
A gang of negro thieves in Chattanooga
have practice of robbing the country dar-
kies who visit that city. Last Saturday
they drugged a respectable coIOred man
named Joe Tolins and stole his pocket book
containing $50.
Maury Democrat: Maury county is pros
porous and out of debt; and Columbia is
evidently on a big boom, and what she
mostly needs is the removal of the old court
house from the Public Square and the cree
ton of new court house in some other
place.
The brick work of the new building for
the Tullahoma Wooden Mills has been COM
pleted and the timers are now engaged
putting on the roof. Several car loads O.
the new machinery are already at the Tulla-
homa depot and will soon be moved into
the building.
William Merritt, yardmaster for the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Rail.0ad Company at
Tracy City, fell between two cars while
passing over the train, was run over and
instantly killed, nearSavannah, on the Goth
ult. His remains were taken to Bellbuckle
for interment.
They have got new wrinkle on marriage
notices down in Fayette county. An item
of this kind in the SomervilIe Reporter last
week, stated that the preachers fee was
$40. As the news was communicated by the
parson in question, we suppose it is a little
dodge of his for keeping up prices.
a corps of engineers are now engaged in
locating railroad from Glen Mary, on the
Cincinnati Southern, to Sparta, to connect
with the extension of the Mem. & NJ. branch
at the latter place. 1t will pass through
one of the best coal and timber regions in
Tennessee.
The Chattanooga Times says: Tullahoma
grOws-why? Not because it is better locat-
ed than are any of a dozen dead towns
within a few miles of it. This town grows
because it has blood, and Drawn, and brain
in it, and oft, and behind ii. Instead of one
such smart, go-a-head town in that region, |
there ought to be score, each trying to beat
all the Others in generous rivalry.
At the election held in Gallatin Saturday |
for Mayor and Aldermen, the following |
were elected: Mayor, G. N. Guthrie, the
present incumbent; Aldermen, w. r. Tomp- |
hluS' EodIIuSI OLlSs D. l. WdlJOLy OdIEOl
Cooke, /. Harris, ]. B. Foster, H. H. Dewitt, |
colored. They hold office for two years and |
will favor the establishment of city high |
schools.
A destructive fire occurred at Lexington |
on Thursday night, burning nearly all the |
business houses on the west side OF the court |
house. The fire originated from a defective |
flue in the Advance-News office, burning |
it, together with Stephen Rhodes tin shop,
Joe Gatzs shoe shop, John NJ. Taylor'S law |
office and l.. S. Woods law Office.
The people in Chattanooga who can ap-
preciate fine music are not like the leaves
in Valambrosa. The Commercial says
Probably the most fashionable audience
that ever gathered in James Hall greeted
the Thomas Concert Company, last Friday
night. For financial success the audience
was too select-there was not enough of
them-and the guarantors will have to pay
the small sum of S22I7 each to make up q
deficiency of $3.50 in the guarantee fund.
Morristown Gazette: Our female barber''
is just now the best advertised person in
Morristown. She has been Photographed by
the press almost from Maine to California.
But all this does not in the least change
Katie's price for a single shave, a shampoo
or a hairdye. She still adheres to former
rates, and continues to use clean towels,
sharp razors, etc, and guarantees satisfac-