Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-10
TeNNEsTEE TALK.
Annie Pixley was in Columbia

last week.
Franklin is to have a new flour
ing mill without delay.
! All the talk of the people of Lin
coin county is about c',tton mills.
The Giles county Stock Breeders
Association will hold its annual sale
June 9th.
/ Marshall Jewel is said to have be-
gun life as telegraph operator at
WINCHESTER.
The Sylvan Cotton Mills, at
Shelbyville, will be in operation by
the LIST of May.
The residence of DR.. J. ID. Mason,
on South Royal street, Jackson, was
burned last week.
The colored high school, located
at Jackson, is said to be in a very
hopeful condition.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will deliver
his lecture on Charlottesville in
Memphis, on March 18th.
Mr.. James Stewart, of Haywood
county, had his leg broken while
loading a wagon with logs last
week.
Mr.. J. c. Jones was killed at In
man last week while moving a log.
The log fell back and struck him in
the side.
The Union City Anchor is
troubled because hypercritical ex-
change makes remarks about its
grammar.
A railroad called the Middle and
East Tennessee Railroad has been
chartered to run from Gallatin TO
Knoxville.
Mr.. Porter, of the Humbolt Ar
gus, has been made Vice-President
of the Mississippi Valley Horticult-
ural Society.
A bill has passed the Senate au-
thorizing County Court clerks to
issue license by the quarter as we'll
as by the year.
Robins are plentiful about Fay
etteville. Two men killed four
hundred and eighty-seven in one
night last week.
Parties from Ohio will send
agents to look at the timber around
Brownsville with Il view of locating
Il handle factory there.
A little boy five years old, the
son of Mr.. VIM. Green, was fatally
burned while playing around Il
brush fire, pear Milan last week.
The Fayette county grand jury
ignored the Indictment against w.
III. Tharp for killing Jas. w. Bur-
ton in SOmerVille last November.
A safe was blown open at At
wood, station on the l.. & n. r. R.,
six miles east of Milan, on the night
of the 1st and 81 900 in money taken
from it.
The directors of the Brownsville
cotton factory, that was destroyed
by fire recently, can't agree with
the insurance men about the amount
of their loss.
An Appeal reporter interviewed
a number of Memphis citizens in
regard to the kind of pavements
they preferred. A large majority
wanted stone.
The Milan Exchange has entered
on its tenth year, and if it sustains
its present sprightly and newsy
character, will last for an indefinite
number of decades.
The SOmerville Dramatic Com
pany gave an exhibition in the
Opera-hOuse in that place last week.
and will entertain the people of
Whiteville this week.
Davie Watkins, colored, killed
George Lawrence, colOred, near
Cotton town, in Sumner county,
last week. Neither of the parties
were twenty-one years old.
Mrs. John F. Morgan died at her
home i'm Columbia last Sunday
merning. She was an old resident
of that city and belonged to one
of the first families in Columbia.
A cooperative meeting has been
in progress at the Presbyterian
church in Shelbyville for three
weeks. Much religious furror has
been stirred up and several additions
made to the church.
Probably the first instance of an
execution being levied on a dog
was the levy made by Constable
Tom Shaw, in Fayette county, re-
Gently. The owner of the dog sat
isfied the judgment and raised the
levy.
The bill before the Legislature to
repeal the act making Wolf river
navigable does not refer to the
stream that furnishes Memphis
with the "conglomerate" of which
the Avalanche has so much COM
planned.
The TullahoIna Guardian thinks
if the bill to suppress the sale of
vicious and obscene literature
should pass some of the daily pa
pers will have to plead "vested
rights" in order to maintain their
existence.
The Paris Intelligencer says Mrs.
Tom. Snow presented her husband
with twin girls, and calls it a
"snow storm" We suggest
"snow squall. MILAN Exchange.
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