Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-02
TENNESSEE TALK.

Knoxville will have its mail de
livered by carriers after May 10th.
Two new churches and a syna.
gogue are in process of erection in
Memphis.
The Baptist church at Milan has
been repaired and touched up in.
side.
Memphis has a new bank with
5000, 900 capital and is talking about
a new theater.
The Lebanon Law School will
turn out twenty eight graduates in
June.
Bill Potter, of ROane county, a
notorious desperate who killed Bob
Watt year ago, was arrested in
Chattanooga Saturday.
The recent incorporation of the
school at Dover has put the four
mile law in operation there and
whisky is banished.
Texas blue grass is coming into
favor with West Tennessee farmers
and is said to be finely suited to that
section.
Mr.. J. III. Post of Knoxville died
suddenly at hotel in Fayetteville
last week. He was in that city
temporarily on business.
A party of Indiana gentlemen
will shortly commence the cree
ton of wooden ware factory in
Chattanooga at a cost of $4,000.
The Paris Intelligencer man has
at last had an opportunity to return
thanks for strawberries sent him.
He did the job up brown and is
happy.
The Pulaski Citizen refers its
readers to the census report of the
town for the list of people from that
place who visited the Nashville
drill.
The Memphis Appeal says that
the movement in real estate in that
city has been greater in the last six
weeks than for anything like the
same length of time in years.
Mr.. j. E. Randle, proprietor and
four employees of the Chickasaw
foundry in Memphis were wounded
by the fall of scaffolding on the
18th ult.
An Arkansas paper has been APP
propriatlng the editorials of the
Union City Anchor, whereupon
the editor of the Anchor calculates
himself able to edit two papers at
one time.
Somerville Reporter: A couple
were married in this county few
days ago and on the license return
ed to the Clerks Office the age of
the bridegroom was put down at SO
and the bride 25.
Mr.. j. n. Jackson, "A jeweler re-
Gently removed from Missouri to
was badly hurt by a pass
ing train at that place last week.
He made narrow escape from
death with the loss of one ear and q
severe blow on the head.
The farmers have planted less cot
ton and more grain than in tOI nanr
years. Information comes from
every part of the country of the
gradual abandonment of the "all
cotton" plan, and the prospect of
better times is brightenins.-
Brownsville Democrat.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange
and the Memphis Merchants EX-
change will unite IN the building of
an exchange for both bodies. The
site, which is ON the corner of Madi-
son and Second streets, is in the
heart of the city, and the building,
when completed, will be one of the
finest in the South.
Pulaski Citizen: Mr.. Il. III. Car
ter of Kirkby, Ohio, has been pros
pecting in Giles county this week
with a view to buying farm and
moving here to live. He has a
good stock of merchandise which
he proposes to trade for land. Mr..
Carter says there are quite a num-
Der of his northern neighbors who
think of locating In Tennessee.
Philadelphia Press: The repub-
lican party in Tennessee appears to
be suffering from too much Haw-
kins. The ex-governor of that name
is now in Washington attempting
to persuade the president to remove
General r. f. Patterson, who has
DSSll ulSlIICI lIllGI 1dl iCNChuO SOl-
lectOr for thirteen years, and to APP
point a Hawkins to his place.
Tennesseean Opie Read was in
Gallatin this week to see his broth
er G. d. Read. He is the editor of
the Arkansaw Traveller, published
at Little Rock, through which me-
dunn he has won worldwide fame,
a humorous writer of the highest
type. 1t has been only Il few years
ago when he was poor printer boy
here, since then he has established
paper whose reputation girts the
world.
Neal's Gazette: The farmers of
Dyer county will make their own
hog and hOminy this year and have
some to ship to other markets. The
cotton crop is anything but promis-
ing at this writing. The unprece-
denied cool weather has greatly re-
tarded the growth of the plant and
it looks poor and stunted, but a few
warm days may, however, bring
1t out and fair crop will be raised.
MIR. John Robert, Hogan a heroic