Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-07-14
TENNESSEE TALK.

A lie OneSteI COUNTY 11OTtlcuituEdi
Association has been organized.
The brick Academy building at
Bells Depot is to be enlarged.
Large quantities of whortleberries
are being shipped from Tullahoma.
There is not a vacant dwelling
house in Columbia.
A national bank has been organ
lied i'm Tullahoma.
Several houses were burglariZed
in Dyersburg last week.
The county court of Dyer county
has appropriated $500 to repair
and remodel the Jail in that place.
The Knoxville Tribune favors
dog law plank in the next State
platform.
Tennessee new wheat has been
on the St. Louis market for two
weeks.
A reunion of Gen. Forests
escort Will take place at ShelbyvIlle
on the 18th of September.
Mr.. Alfred Houze, of Giles cOun-
ty, made 100 bushels of wheat on
acres of clover land.
The new directory of Chattanooga
shows a population in that city of
2l,0O0.
1t is claimed that gold mine
has been discovered in. Perry coun-
ty.
There has not been a drunken
man on the streets of Manchester
since the charter was abolished.
The Giles county court has provi-
ded for the erection of an insane
asylum in connection with the
county poor house.
The Lewisburg News has suspend
ed. The editor in his valedictory
saysit was too good and pure for this
vain world.
The Fayetteville Observer wants
the railroad from AnistOn, Ala,
to GOodwater extended to Fayette-
vile.
Several enterprising gentlemen of
Brownsville are taking active steps
to establish Il first class male college
in that city.
Mr.. j. M. Patterson retires from
the Trenton Globe. having sold his
interest in that paper to his associ-
ates.
A quarry of fine stone OF pur-
plish brown color, susceptible of
high polish, has been found on the
farm of Capt. Lester, in Giles coun-
ty.
A convention of West Tennessee
farmers was held in Jackson on the
4th inst. Another convention OF
the same kind will be held in that
city on the 10th of August
The Banner thinks two rival boat
clubs ought to be organized in Nash
vile and says the Cumberland is the
prettiest river in the world for such
sport.
Martin, in Weakley county, is a
happy town; there is not drunk
ard, a lOater or a dude to be found
there. So says correspondent of
the Dresden Era.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange
has been unanimously elected a
member of the National Exchange,
and delegates will be sent to repre-
sent the Memphis Exchange at the
present meeting of that body.
The old Gayoso hotel in Memphis
is being renOdeled and will be made
one of the finest hotels in the South.
The old GayOsO enjoyed that repu-
tatiOn in Cate beLlIm days when it
was one of the most attractive feat
ures of the Bluff city.
The Wilson County News, in pa
triotic vein, prints its Fourth OF
July issue in red and blue ink
which, with the white paper, makes
the national cOlOrs. This in honor
of the coincidence of the publication
of the News for the first time on
his day.
Dickson Press: Mr.. Cam. Whit
thorne, of. Columbia, in company |
with several Chicago capitalists, is
among the ore beds in
this vicinity to-day. A furnace at
Dickson in the near future is among
the possibilities.
A Paris lady went to feed her
and found n large snake
,ole occupant of the cage. The rep
lie had entered the house during
he night, and being fond of birds,
made a breakfast of the cana
lies.
Funding of the new State bonds
Monday. They are of
IN orange tint, bearing on the face
| picture of the Capitol, a mining
Gene, a cotton field and the State
.oat of arms, and on the back the
and per cent. of in
crest.
The State penitentiary was leased
asst Friday to the Tennessee coal,
ron q railroad company for six
years, commencing OH the 1st day
If January next at $1O1 900 per an
lum. The lessees pay the cost of
of convicts from Jail
md all expenses of board, etc.
Bristol News: All reports agree
hat this section of country has not
or years had a wheat crop that in
Iuality surpasses the present one.
'he straw may be said to be light,
'ut the heads are very finely filled,