Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-30
TENNESSEE TALK.
A Upton county farmer has a
oar5a hon that kills snakes

A Upton county farmer has
game hen that kills snakes.
Brownsville is Boosting OF the
good condition of her streets.
Work on the Lebanon court house
begun this week, probably.
Neal's Gazette claims that Dyer
county has the finest timber in the
world for making barrels.
Mr.. S. ID. Hays takes the place OF
John H. Freeman, lately deceased,
as clerk of the Supreme Court at
Jackson.
In Haywood county the fruit crop
is good and farmers are very busy
trying to keep the grass out Of the
cotton and corn.
A twelve year cid son of Mr..
Hezekiah Hodges was killed in the
machinery of mill in Weakley
county last week.
Dickson Press Several car loads
of wheat have been shipped from
here TO Nashville during the last
few days. The prices range from 81
TO 81 20 per bushel.
A fruit packing establishment of
Eastern Maryland will move to
West Tennessee if the proprietors
can find locality that will promise
them plenty of fruit.
Mr. j. F. Merry, of the Illinois
Central railroad who is going to
run immigration excursions into
Tennessee next Fall, writes to Com
missioner McWhirter, "The boom
has already begun and will surprise
everybody by its magnitude"
Dyersburg Gazette: Wheat har-
vest is in full blast in Dyer county
and the golden grain is being cut at
lively rate. We are told by
knowing ones that the straw is not
very thick on the ground but
that the heads are large and extra
heavy.
AT a meeting of the citizens OF
Columbia, held last week, it was
determined to offer a premium of
$50 for the best and most accurate
paper setting forth the industrial
advantages of Columbia and COM
mittee appointed to look after that
matter.
Less than 100 out of 5000 silk
worm eggs failed to hatch in prac-
teal experiment made by Prof. S.
II. Lockett, of the University of
Tennessee. Silk culture in Tennes-
see is easy, pleasant and profitable.
Ladies who have to make their own
support should engage in it.
A Daniel, yea, very Daniel come
to judgment, has been found in the
person of a Fayette county magis-
trate at LaGrange, Tenn. He re-
Gently fined a moiher-in-law for
assaulting the husband of her
daughter, and thereby established a
precedent for which the much-abus-
ed sons-in-law of all countries and
of the ages to come must forever
thank him.
Dickson Press One hundred and
fourteen car loads of freight were
handled at this place from June
1st to 18th. More freight is handled
at Dickson than at any other sta
ton along the line of the N, c. &
st. l.. r. R., from Nashville to
Hickman, Ky. 1t would be well
for Maj. Gordon, president of the
proposed l., A. & L. r. B., to make
a note of this fact.
McMinnville Standard: The
farmers of this county are cutting
their wheat, most of which is more
or less injured by the rust. From
the best information we can get, we
are of opinion the crop of this coun-
ty will not be more than half as
good as last year. Some farmers
have pretty good crops, but many
have little over half a crop, while
others have wheat not worth cut
ting.
Dickson Press: A brakeman
named Lynch fell from the top of a
moving freight train, a few miles
east of this place, last Friday, and
the wheels passed over one of his
hands, cutting off two fingers and a
thumb, and he also received several
severe bruises by the fall. He was
taken to his home at White Bluff
and his wounds were dressed by
DIR. DObson. At last accounts he
was doing as well as could be ex-
pected.
Dresden Enterprise: After in
quiry among the farmers we learn
that the wheat crop of this year will
not be as good as that of last year
either in quantity or quality. The
recent rains have caused it to rust
to such an extent as to perceptibly
decrease the yield besides making
what has been produced not as good
as it would otherwise have been.
Many farmers reaped last week,
and by this time the crop has been
about gathered.
Athens Post: Wheat harvest is
about over, and the reports are con-
tFadictory-in some cases different
parties from the same neighborhood
arguing different results. Upon the
clover lands we think the yield gen.
orally will be pretty fair-stalk
land, to some extent, a failure. But
1t is hardly worth while to speculate