Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-08
FROM OVER THE LINE.

Large numbers of turkeys have been ship
ped from Bowling Green.
Elkton Register: Wheat has been growing
! finely for week and has regained the loss
| caused by the late cold weather.
Mr.. Edmund NJ. Wood, of Caldwell county,
fell down flight of steps and broke his leg
| last week.
A protracted meeting at the First Presby-
terrain Church, Hopkinsville, has been i'll
progress this week.
| The citizens of HopkinsvilIe will deter
mine at the ballot box, to-day, whether or
not they want water works.
There were thirty marriages in Christian
county during November, fifteen white and
| fifteen colored.
Mr.. Clarence Lindsay won silver cup as
the best skater, at contej st in Hopkins
vile, last week. There We're eight contest
ants.
VIII Bronaugh has sold his farm near
Caskey to Mr.. Watts, of Pembroke, and will
move to and reside in Hopkinsville in the
future.
CadiZ Telephone: A protracted meeting
is in progress at Cerulean Springs, conducted
by Rev. j. II. Spurlin. We hear he is hav-
ing good success.
The engineering corps of the l. \. & T.
Railroad are in camp near Cerulean Springs,
Trigg county. They have been at work there
for several days.
Mr.. Ottowa Hicks, former citizen of Ca
dir, died at his home in Dover, Tenn, re-
Gently. He leaves wife and three child
rem.
Cadiz Telephone: Hogs and corn are pIen-
tiful this year and the price of pork will be
low. Some of our farmers have been trying
to sell their hogs az cents net.
A skating carnival will take place in
Princeton during the holidays. Every per-
son attending will go in costume and repre-
sent some character.
Princeton Banner: A great deal of corn is
yet in the field. The ground is wet deep,
much corn on the ground, and the loss must
necessarily be heavy. 1t will result in put
ting the price up some.
Princeton Banner: The corps of surveyors
putting up the pegs for the new railroad
are between Cerulean Springs aud this place.
They will be here in a few days. We sup
pose it is settled that the road will run by
Cerulean Springs.
Princeton Banner Mr.. r. L. Batliff de-
livered last Friday TO Mr.. John p. Reed, 40
young steers in fine condition that averaged
1918 pounds. One of them, a Shorthorn
grade, Two years old last May, weighed 1865
pounds.
Prof Chas. II. Dietrich, Superintendent of
the Hopkinsville Public Schools, was mar
ried, on Wednesday of last week, to Miss
Minnie R. Lander, at the residence of Mrs.
Pauline Lander, the brides mother, IN that
city.
Bowling Green Democrat DR.. J. f. Nc |
Elroy, Chairman of the County Board of |
Health, went up to the Red Pond neighbor- |
hood to investigate the truthtulness of the |
reports of smallpox in that vicinity. He |
found that the alarm was false.
Bowling Green Democrat: The Herald
Enterprise says there is an able-bodied man
in RusselIvilIe, who lives on seven cents
per day. There are more than dozen such
men in Bowling Green, who live on moth
ing, as far as the public can judge.
Bowling Green Democrat: DR.. Gill, the
eminent Cumberland Presbyterian preacher
of Elkton, KY, who has recently been con-
Quoting a series of meetings at the c. p.
Church, in this city, has established a fine
reputation here, for zeal and ability. His
sermon, last Sunday, on 1.-THE Ark" was
specially praised by all who heard it.
Princeton Banner: The mortgage to secure
those who take the bonds of the GAINESVILLE
and Princeton division of the Indiana, Ala
bama and Texas Railway was recorded in
the County Clerks office at this place last
week. This puts quietus on the croakers,
The work is progressing reasonably well on
the line.
South Kentuckian Mr.. ]. f. Meacham,
who lives three miles northeast of this city,
had n fine mare, valued at $500, stolen from
his stable Friday night. He had refused
$3.50 for her only a few days before. The
thief tore down the fence of the lot furthest
from his house, and was tracked some dis
lance out on the Nashville road. The mare
was large bay animal and was highly
priced by Mr.. Meacham. He offers reward
of S25 for her recovery.
Princeton Banner: Last Sunday night
Mr.. Chas. Ratliff7s window Ito his room at
his residence) was raised, the shutters hav-
ing been first opened, and his coat, which
was hanging on chair near the window,
was lifted out and left on the porch. There I
was no money in the coat. The thief took
out of the pocket and left | /
ANAL plug of tobacco. He and wife were in !
the room and knew nothing of it until J
Messrs. Marble and Sphinx were '
at Mr.. Ratliff7s that night after church, and
left their umbrellas on the porch, and they &
have never been seen since. The inference $
Is the thief or thieves were there while they '
were in the parlor. Did you ever hear of Z
such bod and daring thieyery? S