Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Coles circus is travelling in Tex
as.

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livery postal service.
Ellis Craft was hung at Graysor,
Ky. Friday the 18th.
Tom Ochilfree is on his way
home. The sea serpent will soon
be heard from.
Governor Bate visited New York
and other Eastern cities with his
wife last week.
The Gresham boom is the latest
thing in the presidential line with
the Republicans.
The purchaser of lot in Annis-
ton, Ala, a month ago at $400 has
sold his lot for $4,000.
The General Convention of the
Episcopal church declined to divide
the Diocese of Tennessee.
The Woodstock Iron Company
own sixty-tive thousand acres OF
land adjacent to Admission.
Brick Pomeroy has sued a Den
yer paper for $3.50, 900 for calling his
mining scheme a fraud.
Senator Tabor thinks Chester A.
Arthur is the most prominent
statesman i'm the United States.
An Arkansas judge has decided
that branded peaches cannot be
sold without liquor license.
More than $5,OOO,OOO of North
ern capital has gone into Birming-
ham, Ala, in the last five years.
The big fire in Dallas revealed
the fact that an illicit distillery ex-
listed in the heart of the city.
In Michigan 257 prominent Re-
publicans, out of 476 interviewed,
declared for Blaine for the nomina-
ton for the presidency.
Rev. A. Lyle and A. w. Mann.
two deaf mutes, were consecrated
priests OF the Protestant Episcopal
church in Philadelphia Sunday.
The headquarters of the Democ-
racy of the State of New York have
been removed to Albany. Gov.
Cleveland will thus have the con-
duct of the canvass under his own
eye.
According to the Montgomery
Advertiser the increase in the trade
Of that city's business during the
past year exceeds 100000, while in
Selma forty-six leading business
houses did a business of $l1,S14,-
$50
Secretary of War Lincoln is to
take the stump in Massachusetts,
against Butler. Senators Frye and
Hale, Of Maine, and Hawley, of
Connecticut, are also announced to
take part in the Massachusetts can
Vass.
The October cotton crop report
of the National Agricultural de-
partment reduces the general av-
erage condition from IA to IS per
cent, Indicating total crop more
than 100000 bales less than last
year.
The pacing horse, Johnson, who
made the great record of 2:10 over
the Chicago track last Tuesday, has
been sold to Commodore Kittson
of st. Paul for $4,000. His traineris
confident that the horse can beat
his own unprecedented time.
The Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette Sunday morning published
figures from every county in Ohio
except Stark county, showing that
the prohibition amendment re-
ceived 800, 410 votes, while the total
vote in the State was 7O9, 1886, by
which showing the amendment has
been defeated.
Ambrose Wilson, Town Marshal
of Sadieville, Scott county, KY,
was shot and killed Saturday even
ing by James Creighton, drunken
young man whom he was persuad-
ing 20 go home. Wilson was to
have been married next Thursday.
Creighton was arrested, and is in
Jail at Georgetown.
Gov. Proctor Knott, of kentucky
refused to call out the militia on the
occasion of the hanging of Ellis
Craft, at Grayson, on Friday. He
does not believe in using military
force, an extraordinary resource, as
an everyday reliance. He thinks
that the civil authorities are entire
ly competent to preserve the peace.
Xenia, (O.) Democrat: At the
election Tuesday throughout the
state, nothing was more noticeable
than the independent voting of the
colored man, which we had former
ly predicted. Not only did many
cOlored NJ en- scratch Judge Foraker,
but vast number voted and work
ed openly at the polls for the whole
democratic ticket.
Richmond Dispatch: The South
ern COnfederacy isn't quite played
out yet. Some of its vital forces
remain A letter was received by
gentleman in this Office yesterday
which came through the United
States mails with no other stamp
upon it than a two cent postage
stamp of the Confederate States
The writer perhaps
picked it up out of his drawer and
affixed it to the letter without think
ing that it was an issue of a de-
funct "rebel" Government.
Estimates of the wheat crop of
the eighteen countries of Europe,
by the Vienna congress,
make the aggregate 949,734,o9'
bushels, while the average for the
same countries for a number of