Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-14
TENNESSEE TALK.
The lumber trade of Murfreesboro
amounts 400 600 a wear.

The lumber trade of Murfreesbort
amounts 100000 a year.
Mrs. John Overton of Nashville
has made $500 off of patch O
turip greens.
The bucket factory at Murfrees
boro will be running in about II
days.
Dresden has a new weekly pa.
per called the Era. IT is edited by
Mr.. w. G. Tatom.
An Intellectual attempt was made
to burn the Court House at Paris
last Sunday morning.
John Cain crawled under a car at
Chattanooga to get out of the rain,
was run over and received fatal in
juries.
Mr.. lessee l.. Bryant a prominent
citizen of Lynchburg was drowned
in Duck river while fishing on the
5th.
The Athens Post pins it faith to
Virgins and quotes extracts to
prove that he is a veritable prophet
in Isreal.
The people of Tullahoma and
surrounding country are talking
about building number OF turn
pike roads centering at that place.
Scarlet fever prevails among the
pupils of the Nashville College for
Young Ladies to such an extent that
the school has suspended.
The wheat crop in Sumner county
is very sorry and in many places
has been ploughed up to make
room for oats and other crops.
A negro was killed six miles East
of Memphis, Saturday morning, by
an incomeing train ON the Charles
ton road.
Two fifteen year old darkies got
into row about girl at Gallatin,
last week, and one carved the other
SO severely with razor that his life
is in danger.
Hon. Jefferson Davis writes from
BeauvOlr, Miss, that it will be inn
practical for him to address the
Southern Historical Society at Nash
Vile on the 21st prox.
An unknown female tramp was
burned to death in the woods near
Knoxville Wednesday night, the
5th inst. Her clothing caught from
a fire she had kindled.
The Banner says "killed by the
Legislature" was the conspicuous
signboard on the door of a Cherry
street gambling-house in Nashville,
Saturday morning.
M. G. Ford, w. J. Colburn DEM
ocrats and d. w. Wheeler, Repub-
lican, have been appointed police
commissioners of Chattanooga by
Governor Bate.
Mr.. B. Aspinwall of Liverpool,
fell through an elevator in Mem
phis Saturday and injured himself
so badly that at last accounts his
life was dispared of.
A strange looking bird of the
stork family was recently killed
near Fayetteville whose particular
genus puzzles the ornothologists of
those parts.
Nearly all the County Courts in
the State, last Monday week, made
each civil district in their respect
i've counties Il road district under
the new law.
A Fayette county thief stole nine
geese at one ''lift," whereupon the
SOmerville Reporter suggests the
novel punishment that he be hung
up by the legs and pecked by Cos
| lings.
A young man named Charles Dau-
phin of Springfield, ILL.,, had his foot
and ankle badly mashed while at
tempt ing to steal a ride on freight
train at Tullahoma, Saturday after
noon. EHe was removed to the resi-
dence of a citizen of that place where
he was well cared for, and his friends
were informed of the accident.
George w. Perry was tried in
the Circuit Court at Waverly last
week for killing man by striking
him over the head with a stick
while attempting to arrest him, in
discharge of official duty. The jury
found him guilty of voluntary man
slaughter, and sentenced him to
Jail for twelve hours.
Shelbyville had another fire on
the morning of the 9th, the most
destructive confagration that ever
visited that city. A large number
of houses were destroyed, inclu-
ding the telegraph Office and the
Masonic Hall. The loss is estima-
ted in the neighborhood of 100000
with an insurance of about half that
amount.
John Shipley of Morristown,
whom the Gazette describes as ga
poor but well-known and fatherless
boy" drew $1,000 at the last draw
ing of the Louisiana State Lottery.
His first investment was i'm a house
for his mother and a considerable
part of the remainder is being put
into new business houses in Norris
town.
Phe charter of incorporation of a
belt railroad commencing at Gala
tin and running through the counties
of Wilson, Rutherford, Williamson,
Marshal, Maury, Lewis, Hickman,
Dickson, Houston, Stewart, Mont
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