Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-04
TENNESSEE TALK.

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Shelbyville is to have new town
hall.
Some fine pearls have been secur-
ed in the river at Murfreesboro.
There will be plenty of corn in
McMinn to fatten the hog crop.
New buildings will be erected i'm
mediately in the place of those
burned at Memphis last week.
The West Tennessee Fruit and
Vegetable Growers Association
meets in Milan Aug. 9th.
The farmers of Weakly county
are cheered by the prospect of a
good corn and cotton crop.
An eagle measuring six feet
from tip to tip, was killed near
Sweetwater, East Tennessee, last
week.
The Maury Democrat has "a
beautiful, gifted and accomplished
correspondent" in one of the rural
districts.
A project is on foot to build a
large hotel at Raleigh Springs, near
Memphis, with a narrow guage
railroad running into the city.
A company is being formed at
Bell Buckle in Bedford county
with a capital of $4,000 to manu-
facture plows.
Mr.. J. d. Floyd OF Flat Crerk has
succeeded SO well with german carp
that he advises every farmer to have
a pond stocked with that fish.
The fruit and berry fields (not
patches) in Madison and beyond
look thrifty, and there are many
evidences of diversified farming.
Local drouths are reported from
various places in the State, while
others have had an abundance Of
rain.
Gov. ALVIN Hawkins ard son,
Alonzo, have formed a partnership
at Huntingdon for the practice Of
law in Carroll, Benton, Henry and
Weakley counties.
The Spring City button factory
will be put in operation some time
this month, starting with nine turn
ing machines. The building is al
most finished.
Dresden Enterprise: An attOr-
ney in the Western part of the State
il preparing to test the constitution
atty of the act creating the refer
ence court.
The school questiOn-One of the
most important that can be consid-
cred by any peoples now exer-
cising the good citizens of Tullaho.
ma to a greater degree than usual.
One farmer at Sandersville in
Sumner county raised 375 bushels of
potatoes on ten acres this year. IT'S
car loads of potatoes have been
shipped from that point.
Col. Jno. NJ. Gray, the boss far
mer of Maury county, raised over
800 barrels of potatoes, averaging
235 bushels to the acre. He dug
and barreled i'm one day 2S2 barrels.
1t is not generally known that we
have in Tennessee, an organ manu-
located at Athens, where in
are made which compare
with those made at the
North or elsewhere.
A negro preacher was jailed in
Shelbyville last week for reaching
behind counter of store and APP
pair of ladies slippers,
which he secreted in his umbrella
as ne walked out.
Vacancies exist at West Point
for the Sth and 9th Congressional
districts of this State. Congress
men Rice and Taylor will RECON-
mend the applicants that stand the
best examinations.
The lumber and market ship
ments are reported greater than
ever before known in the history of
Knoxville, adding largely to the
business of the road since the open
ing Of the JellicO route.
The Sumner county corn crop was
never more promising. In every
section of the country the report is
very encouraging, and it IS blieve-
ed that the Yield, both in quality
and quantity, will compensate for
the wheat IdlluTe.
The indications are that there will
be a very large attendance on the
mass convention of West Tennes-
zoe farmers which assemblies in
Jackson Aug. IL. A number of
gentlemen will deliv-
or addresses.
A movement il on foot at Mem
Dhis to construct II public bath at a
,ost of about $4,000. The location
will be in the neighbOrhOod of
Adams and Main street. 1t is sta
ed that large part of the necessary
amount has already been raised.
The Fayetteville Observer says
hat q demand is coming up all
,ver the State for dog law. Man.
factories are convincing farmers
hat the money sent to Ohio, Indi-
lnna and other States for wool had
letter be kept in Tennessee.
The attention of PrOhibliOnists is
directed to the call Of the executive
for a State convention of
orOhibitiunIsts to be held in Nash
yille, August % and 23d, 1888. All
emperence organizations in SYM
)athy with the movement are in
yited to send two delegates.
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