Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-08
TENNESSEE TALK.

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able style is being built in Union
City.
There will be Tennessee day"
at the Louisville Exposition about
the last of this month.
The fruit evaporator ut Dickson
station can dry from go to IS
pounds of apples every three hours
and is full of work.
The Tenncssean thinks Gallatin
would be an excellent place for
starch factory and a fruit and can
ming establishment.
OF the fifty delegates who attend
Ell the recent prohibition conven-
ton in Nashville eleven were from
Franklin county.
An effort will be made to COM
plete the Memphis & Selma rail-
road, work having been suspended
last spring on account of the failure
of Fred Wolf.
Nearly one hundred dwelling
houses have been built i'm Union
City this season, and still the sup
ply is not nearly equal to the de-
mand.
Knoxville has the population of a
little more than 81, 900 souls. One
year ago the population was 7,151.
In 1880, the census year, it was only
1900.
The ex-COnfederates barbecue in
Gibson county last week drew 5000
people together. Speeches were
made by Hon. J. M. Bright and
Gen Campbell of Jackson.
The Union City Our Country,
that is just now posing as temper
ance organ, softly alludes to a
neighbOr journalist as "The onery-
looking cuss who edits that "d-n
whisky sheet, the Dresden Era"
Memphis now claims to have
$1,000 inhabitants which is an in
crease of 10000 in three years.
Nashville still keeps the lead of
Tennessee cities in population and
probably is entitled to claim 10000
within its corporate limits.
A reunion of the Old 10th Tennes-
see Confederate Regiment will take
place on Friday, September 2lst
1888, in the grove at John Thomp-
sons, four miles from Nashville on
the Franklin and Nashville pike
and on the n. & d. Railroad.
The people of Lebanon and Harris
vile will endeavOr to have the Gin
cinnati and Green river railroad
pass through their towns. They
can secure that benefit only after
having WHIPPED out their lively
neighbOr Galletin.
Telephone lines will! be built from
Union City to Rivers, East Troy,
Troy, KentOn, JordOn Station, Full
ton, Ky, Woodland Mills, HEX
man, KY, Gardner, Martin, Dres-
den, and Idlewild Hotel on Reel
foot Lake.
The Franklin Review and Jour-
nal says that paper "al0ne is fight
ing the battle of the peOple"! upon
which we feel constrained to re-
mark on the wretched dilemma of
the people provided they have a
very serious fight on hand.
Miss Cordia Num-, daughter of
Secretary of State, ID. A. Nnnn, was
married in Brownsville last week to
Mr.. j. g. Poston OF Crockett county
1t was IL runaway match, the cere-
mony being performed on thestreet
by a justice, while the happy coup
lie were seated in Il buggy.
Jackson Tribune & Sun: There
will be an unusual amount of early
fall blowing in this and adjoining
counties. Indeed there has been
already very considerable amount
of blowing done throughout this
section. The acreage in wheat will
be large and the sowing early. The
land devoted to wheat is of the best,
and the seed will be put in with
extra care and after the most APP
proved methods.
Dickson Press: The Stave ma
chinery, ordered sometime since by
the Dickson lime and stave compa-
ny, arrived at Burns Station last
Monday, and will be placed in pc
sition as soon as possible. The
kiln recently erected, was put in OPP
Grafton last Wednesday morning.
AS soon as this enterprise can be
got under full Roadway, 1T will give
steady employment to at least twen-
ty men, and it is the intention of
the managers to get into active OPP
peratiOn at once.
Tullahoma Guardian : Our Tulla-
hOma manufacturing establishments
are all in full blast and prospecting
as they never did before. We learn
that larger and more frequent ship
ments of their products are now be-
ing made from our depot than at
any time since they have been in
operation. And what is more en-
cOuraging still is the fact of a steady
and increased demand as evidenced
by the constantly increased num-
Der and amount of orders from al
most every section of the country.
Tullahoma Guardian: Six new
brick houses are now going up on
Lincoln and Atlantic streets, which
will all be completed and ready for
occupancy probably by the first of
We learn that arrange
ments have been already made for
burning at least two more large