Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-17
FROM OVER THE LINE.

Mr.. Willis c. Glenn and Miss sallie Rorer
were married, near Fredonia, last week.
Hopkinsville is talking about having wa
ter works.
Rev. A. NJ. Hooke has been engaged as
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
in Bowling Green.
Edwin Sanders, aged eighty years, while
drunk fell into gully near Be- ing Green,
Saturday, and was drowned.
Mr.. John R. Bridges and Miss Mamie Bell
Meador were married, in Trigg county, on
the Sth inst.
DIR. Andrew Seargent was married at Hop
kinsville, Tuesday, to Miss Lizzie c. Gish,
youngest daughter of DIR. d. ]. Gish.
Mr.. Dell Falkner and Miss Ludie Ella
Nance, of Cerulian Springs, were married
on the Sth.
Capt. E. T. Mershon, an old and highly
respected citizen of Trigg county, died near
Cadiz on the 5th.
Vicksburg will banquet the 500 delegates
expected at the National Cotton Planters
Convention on the 2lst.
Lynchburg Va, celebrated Mahone's de-
feat Tuesday night by the greatest popular
demonstration ever witnessed there.
Mr.. Erasmus L. Motley, of Bowling Green,
is said to be the most probable successor
of Collector Crumbaugh, if any change is
made.
Mr.. John Anglen died at Lafayette on the
morning of the 18th, aged twenty-one years.
He was popular young man of fine pro-
mise
A live correspondent of the Cadiz Tele-
phone is in tears because George Washing
ton and Lafayette couldn't visit the Louis
Vile Exposition.
Mr.. Jas. R. Gollody and Miss Ida Thomas
were married, in Canton, on the 4th, and
went to Louisville and Cincinnati on
bridal tour.
Waller B. Hill, of Bowling Green, and
Miss Sallie L. Wooten, daughter of Mr.. Joe
Wooten, near Corinth, Logan county, were
married on the 18th.
Lem Winfield and Miss Willie Evans
eloped from Franklin last week. Winfield
is fifty years old and his bride but sweet six
teen.
Miss Lulu Mix, a daughter of Methodist
minister at Williamstown, eloped last week
with a married man named NJ. E. Frank
lin.
There is at least one nation in Europe not
at enmity with France. That nation and
Turkey have formed fresh guarantee of
peace,
Dr. ]. Marion Sims, the famous surgeon,
Al IA.
He was born in Lancaster district, s. C., on
January %, 1913.
Admiral j. b. Creighton, United States |
Navy, residing at Morristown, n. J., for the |
past two years, died Tuesday of heart trou- |
BILE. He leaves wife, two daughters and a |
son.
Sixty-eight persons were married in Chris
tIan county during the month of October. |
OF this number, forty-six were white and |
twenty-five colored. The matrimonial boom
still continues.
The Home Journal says another test for
seven days ofV. E. Fuller's Jersey COW, Mary
Ann, of st. Lambert, resulted in a yield of
257 pounds of milk and 26 pounds ounces
of unsalted butter.
Cadiz Telephone: While Mr.. E. P. Ma
lone, Jr., was going home in his wagon on
Wednesday, his foot in some way was
caught between the front axle and a stump
which broke his leg just above the ankle.
Mr. John Thurman and Miss Leila Wood
were married near Sinking Fork, in Chris
tian county, on Thursday of last week, and
Mr.. James Cox and Miss Lizzie Crooms, of
the same neighborhood, were married on
the 30th ult.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says Marquis
Tseng, Chinese ambassador, is prepared to
present an ultimatum to the French govern
ment, and demand his passports if the
French forces in Tonquin make an attack
upon Bacninh and Sontay.
Cadiz Telephone: Still the epidemic pre-
walls. Mr.. j. w. Tucker, a gentleman of
probably sixty years, and Mrs. Synthla NJ.
Johnson, both of the Caledonia neighbor-
hood, Launched their boat on the Matri-
monial Sea" one day this week.
New Era Mr.. A. Crentz, of Muskegon,
Mich, who recently came to this county
with view of buying land and settling
here, purchased at Commissioners sale last
Monday a farm near Bennettstown, owned
by the late Joseph Brame.
Herald Enterprise: ]. NJ. Conn, of Adair-
vile district, brought in for shipment last
Friday fine lot of hogs. Eight of them
averaged $40 pounds, 60 averaged SS5 pounds
and ia averaged Sl4 pounds. Pretty good I
shoats.
Rev. Hiram A. Hunter, of the Cumberland
Church, died at his residence, !
n Louisville, Nov. 4th, at the advanced age
If eighty-three years. He was born in Vir- ]
,inia, and when quite young his parents i
moved 10 RusseIlville, KY, where he was !
living when he entered the ministry of the {
Church, in 1920. He has been J
n the ministry sixty-three years, and all I
hat time actively engaged, until age and {
nfirmities disqualified him for service, /
which has been only IN the last two or three {
ears.