Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-03-17
TENNESSEE TALK.

r Tramps are as "thick as locusts'
about Milan.
Ahub and spoke factory is new
enterprise at Shelbyville.
An increased acreage in oats will
be planted in Tennessee this year.
Dewitt Talmage is booked for
a lecture in Murfreesbolo, March
22d.
j Smallpox is disappearing from
the towns along the Tennessee
river.
Large quantitiesof East Tennessee
marble are being shipped to Bos-
ton.
The Fayetteville Express is to
have new cylinder printing press
soon.
/ The people at Green Bar, a point
on the Tennessee river, want post
office.
4 Columbia has purchased a tract of
land on which to erect pest house
and hospital.
The Railroad Commission bill
has received general attention from
the State press.
A little daughter of Mr.. Lark
Rains in Henry county was very
severely burned recently.
/ Ripley had disastrous fire Mon
day that destroyed half of the east
side of the public square.
Mr.. G. L. Rice. prominent citi-
zen, of Athens, was found dead
in his barn one day last week.
Judge G. B. Wheeler, a promi-
nent citizen of Gallatin, died in that
place on the morning of the 9th.
The Appeal says the railroad be-
tween Memphis and Holly Springs.
will certainly be finished by June
LIST.
Sixty-three bales of cotton were
destroyed in Jackson last week by
the burning of the compress in that
city.
The Franklin Favorite says that
place is going to have one of the
handsomest court-houses in the
State.
Mr.. William Word, a prominent
citizen, of Bedford county, died
at his home near ShelbyviIle re-
Gently.
The Hessian fly has been so bad
on wheat in Sumner county that
much of that valuable crop will be
plowed up.
The fifth conference of the Young
Mems Christian Association of
East Tennessee convened in Athens
last week.
The Annual Middle Tennessee
district convention, Y. M. G. A,
will meet in Murfreesboro, March
"a and %.
The citizens of Fayette county
have been agitating the "no fence"
law through the columns of the
local press.
Alex. May, COL, shot Henry
Hampton, COL, in Franklin, Fri
day, infiicting very severe and
probably fatal wound.
The State papers generally urge
it on the Legislature to build new
insane asylum. 1t is the most |
pressing need of the times.
James Mckinney, of Humboldt,
fell from a train on the Mobile and |
Ohio railroad, near McNary Station,
and had his arm crushed.
Two stores, at Flintville, were
broken open on Friday night of
last week, and two hundred dollars |
worth of goods stolen therefrom.
A country couple blew out the |
gas at the Florentene hotel in Chat
tanooga Thursday night and were
nearly suffocated when discovered. |
Union City is to be the headquar-
tiers of line of telephone wires
running from that place to various
points in Kentucky and West Ten
neSsee. ZI so
A Young man named Ed. We'd
die, son of B. Weddle, of Bells de-
pot, had his left arm crushed by a
passing train at the Brownsville
depot Sunday.
Mr.. J. E. Solomon, of the Irving
College neighborhood, in Warren
county, has gone West and left
new wife and large number of
unpaid debts behind him. .e
Work has been commenced on
an extention of the Tennessee Wool
en- Mills at McMinnville. Their
present capacity which is 600 yards
per day will be doubled.
A fight occurred in Franklin
between A. B. Dining
and J. A. Williams, both of Sumner
county. Williams shot Dining
twice. infiicting slight flesh wounds.
The citizens of Jackson are
wrangling over the location of the
Federal courthouse and postoffice
in that city, for which $4,000 of
Government money was apprOpri-
ated.
The committee on location, of the
Methodist Central University went
to Athens recently to see what adj
vantages that town could offer to
induce the building of the college
there.
The head line artist of the Jack
son Tribune and Sun expresses the
devout hope that the 47th Congress
sis buried never to be resurrected."
The young man must believe in