Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-10
TENNESSEE TALK.


county, is working on ship in which he
proposes to navigate in the air.
Emigrants from Ohio and Pennsylvania
have bought farms and settled IN the vicin-
ity OF Dixon recently.
Mr.. Con Fraser, of Paris, shot target gun
at the bottom, Of a bar glass, and the ball
rebounded and barred itself in his neck.
Several families have recently moved
from Ohio 10 Medina, ten miles south of
Milan.
The faculty of Vanderbilt University has
removed the ban against secret fraternities
and the students are delighted.
Saturday night, at Cronanville, Tenn,
James Casey killed Thomas Ezen over a
game of cards.
A workman who was mailing slate tiles
ON the roof of the new court house at Leb-
anon, fell forty feet to the ground and never
broke bone.
1t is estimated that the new buildings to
be erected in Knoxville, In the next twelve
months, will cost sl,OOO,OOO. A new 100000
hotel is to be erected.
A corporation law of Newbern, Tenn, i'm
poses a fine of not less than S25 nor more
than $50 on any person that goes into saloon
on Sunday.
A reunion OF Forests and Morgan's men
is to take place In Gallatin some time in
1884. The Examiner says it viii be the big
gest day in Galatians history.
The colored M. E. Church, North, met in
conference in Paris, last Wednesday, with
over 100 delegates present. Bishop Campbell
OF Philadelphia, presided.
Tennessee has paid S26, 600 to the Fed
eral Government during the time the in
ternaI revenue system has been in opera
ton.
The new five story wooden mill, 1OOx7O, at
TulahOma, was almost totally destroyed by
the storm last week. The court house at
the same place was unroofed.
The communications and original poetry
that some of our exchanges print leads us
to wonder if those papers possess such an
institution as a waste basket.
The Dickson Press having closed its second
volume with a liberal and increasing pat
ronage, Mr.. Will J. Conant, the editor and
proprietor, will enlarge it.
Capt. Rogers, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
in Houston county several days, recently,
prospecting for the purchase of ia large tract
OF land.
The Colored American, weekly paper
devoted to the work of education among
the colored people, has been started at Chat
tanooga.
The Bristol Courier says few days spent
on any of the public roads leading into
Bristol from the west will create the belief
that the ex ports of East Tennessee are almost
inexhaus:able.
Brownsville Democrat: There has been
an unprecedented decline in the whiskey
traffic during the last two weeks, and the
town is as dry as the dust in the catacombs
of Egypt.
Mr.. w. w. Jones, of Ohio, will start his
factory for the manufacture of polished
wood bowls, at Dyersburg, by the first of
January. He has bought a site on the bank
of the river and has gone to Ohio for his
machinery.
Reports from different portions of the
State lead to the belief that a larger acreage
of wheat is being sown in Tennessee the
present than In any previous year, and it
is said the farmers are putting the seed in
well.
In 1913 the population of Knoxville was
SIS and that of Nashville 345. At that time
Knoxville was the capital of the State. At
present Knoxville has 10000 inhabitants
and Nashville is claiming all the way from
5000 to 5000.
Athens Post If one-half the people re-
ported coming to East Tennessee ''tO settle"
ever get here, the whole territory, from the
high hills of Carter to the waters of Chat
tanooga creek, will be as densely populated
as the densest areas of Japan or China.
The contract to build a pedestal for the
Jackson statue on Capitol hill, Nashville,
has been awarded Mr.. P. Swami, of that
city. 1t is to be of East Tennessee marble,
of a beautiful pink color, and fourteen feet
in height.
Henderson Citizen: In this State there is
no law regulating or restricting in any way
the practice of medicine. Indians, negroes,
natural doctors, boys who have read every
Man His Own Doctor" and druggists, when
tors.
At the Lawrenceburg barbecue last week
two sturdy farmers were inspecting the loco
motive for the first time. They found two
old horseshoes suspended on each side of
the headlight "for luck" and after conjec-
turing a while both concluded they were
hung there to balance the engine on the
track.
Memphis Avalanche: If each landholder
in West Tennessee who owns two hundred
acres or more land would give One-half in
forty acre tracts to actual settlers, his re-
manning half would be worth double the
present value of the whole. 1t is easy enough
to people our waste places If you go to work
the right way to do it.
Pulaski Citizen 1t is reported that George
J. Gould, son of his father, is to marry Miss
Carrie Aston, daughter of her father. This
not only unites the colossal fortunes of the
two millionaires, but it puts to flight the
report that he was to marry a Pulaski lady.
There may be another young man, how
ever.
American The editor of the Dresden Era
has lively sense of his obligations as a
news SdbnereT. III our SuDScrlOeFS Will not
send us the items of news from their respec-
tive neighborhOods they cannot expect us
to go out and hunt them up" He was mar
ried only the other day, however, and this
may account for his being confined" as he
explains 1t.
NurfreeSboro News: A seedy looking
stranger stepped into one of the palatial
restaurants ON Mink Slide the other day
and called for q banquet. The proprietor
supposing the man to be a penniless tramp
asked for the pay in advance, when the
stranger good humoredly pulled out well
lar bill. Appearances are often deceiving.
Murfreesboro News: The Spiritualistic
seances in Chattanooga are well attended,
and the citizens of that burg evince the
liveliest interest in the proceedings. 1t is
not to be inferred, however, that the Chat
tanoogans are all turning Spiritnalists.
They are only anxious to have the spirits
materalized in the hope that they may be
induced to settle permanently and invest in
city property.
Brownsville Democrat: The prospect of
getting the town incorporated is brighten
ing. The settlement of the debt, and the
extirpatIon of the fraudulent whiSkey busi
ness are essential conditions OF the material
progress of the town. If whiskey must be
used, let it be sold in broad daylight. Local
prohibition has been clearly demonstrated
to be a ridiculous farce. Instead of suppress
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