Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-17
TENNESSEE TALK.

They are talking about a rope factory in |
Milan.
The Tribune and Sun says jackson needs
another bank with 100000 capital.
shelbyville has a new fire engine and a
hook and ladder company.
All stock brought to the jackson Fair
for sale, W as sold before taken from the fair
grounds
Solnerville shipped over one hundred
bales Of cotton per day during the first week
of November.
Sells Bros circus is billed tor various
points in West Tennessee the latter part of
this month.
The Democrat says there seems to be a
disposition on the part of the business men
of Brownsville to incorporate the town.
trade and activity than any three East Ten
nessee towns its size put together.
Negotiations are pending for the erection
of large grain and produce house in Tulla-
homa.
Candidates for county offices at next years
themselves.
The stave mill owned by the Dickson
Stave and Lime Company, began manufac-
turing slaves last week.
More new buildings are in process of erec-
ton in Tullahoma than ever before in the
history of the town.
Gallatin Examiner: Wheat sowing is still
brisk in Sumner. A greater breadth OF land
will be sown this year over last.
Another excursion of Northern emiyrants
will arrive in Jackson, over the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad, on the 2Sth.
Two flatboats passed Memphis, Thursday,
from Rising Sun, Ind, each loaded with
| 5000 barrels of potatoes for the New Orleans
| market.
The residence of Mr.. ]. w. Hancock, one
mile south OF Springfield, was burned Tues
day afternoon. The family were absent at
the time.
The State Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
at Knoxville, has 102 inmates, the largest
number ever before enrolled at this season
of the year.
An over Jealous deputy constable at Cam
den arrested the bogus drunken countryman
of Barretts circus, and wouldn't release him
until he explained how it was.
Laurance Lamb, prominent young attor-
ney, has been appointed back tax collector
of the extinct municipality of Memphis, by
Gov. Bate.
Alderman C. G. Snyder, of Chattanooga,
took umbrage at a paragraph in the Daily
Times, and attacked the editor, Col. ]. E.
MCGOWAN, on the streets Noweapons were
used.
The business of Huntsville, Ala, lovers
clipping and marrying in Fayetteville is
increasing, and proves very advantageous
and profitable to the ministers of the latter
place.
The Shelbyville Gazette had unique
heading for the marriage notices recently
published in that paper. "Orange Blossoms
on Frosty Night" is the way the wise edi-
tor put it.
At the last monthly examination of cadets
at the Naval Academy, Benjamin Wright of
Tennessee distanced all competitors. Cadet
Wright was an appointee ofex-Congressman
VIM. r. Moore, of the Memphis District.
The work of raising funds for the building
or buying of district parsonage to be locat-
ed at Jackson, and to be the property of the
Methodist Church, South, is progressing
finely.
We are glad to notice that the Ashland
City Reporter has good run of advertise
ments and seems to be prospecting. 1t is
good local paper, and the people of Cheat
ha To oil
The proprietor of the Gallatin wooden
mills has bought more machinery and will
enlarge his building, for the reason that he
cannot now fill all orders that come to him
for goods.
1t is proposed by certain ex-Confederate
and ex-Federal soldiers to hold at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, a National reunion of the forces
of the Federal and Confederate armies who
participated in the great battle OF Stone river
December 81, 1862.
The Fayetteville Observer was established
in 1850, and during the thirty-three years of
its existence every issue has been under the
personal supervision of the present proprie-
tor, n. o. Wallace, and during the time has
never changed buildings.
Burglars entered the house of John New
man, in Jackson, and chlOroformed him.
His wife was awakened by their noise, but
a pistol placed at her head had a Quietng
effect. The thieves failed to find either
money or valuables.
Tullahoma Guardian The future of Tulla-
homa, In SO far as her successful building
up is concerned, is now assured beyond all
question. The lapse of scarcely twelve
his Apa NJ fHaoy,
$500 inhabitants.
Tullahoma Guardian: TuIlahoma College
has recently received $500, left to it by the
will of Mr.. Steele, warm friend Of the
cause of education. The money will be ex-
pended in improving the buildings and the
grounds.
The Franklin Review and Journal says
that the acreage of wheat in that county is
larger than was ever known before, and that
the crop looks very promising. 1t adds that
Williamson leads all the counties in Ten
nessee in the production of this cereal.
The Commercial boasts that though Shell |
byville has suffered from destructive fires
in the last two years, no town in Middle |
Tennessee shows better or finer display of |
handsome and well ordered business houses |
than the public square and principal street |
of that city will soon exhibit.
Lexington, Tennessee, has prodigy in |
youngster named Claude Barnes, who has |
never been to school two months in his life, |
and can speak Latin, German, French and |
English distinctly, and can recte from
many poems and literary pieces
with as much emphasis and pathos as any
well trained orator.
Dyersburg Gazette: Our county is covered |
with a variety of the finest and largest tim
Der that grows in any part of the world, and
our town is just the place for furniture,
wagon, hub and spoke factories. Here we
will have a salutary effect upon the freight
tariff OF the railroad.
p. p. Carver, an experienced fish culturist
OF Wilson county, strongly recommends the
mirror carp, which he has succeeded in
raising in the same pond with bass and
perch. This, he says, cannot be done with
the "scale" carp. Besides, the latter are not
so desirable as a table fish, nor do they grow
so rapidly.
Capt. ]. w. Walton, near Gallatin, raised
two crops of Irish potatoes upon twenty
acres that Melted him, after allowing for rent
Of land and all other expenses, the first crop
81, 7I9, and for the second crop he is offered
and refuses sl.50 per barrel. If sold at that,
with the first crop, the two will net him
- 1850.