Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A case of smallpox developed at
Murfreesboro, Tuesday.

vile Is expected at the May drill.
The condition of the wheat crop
is reported from some quarters as
much better than two weeks ago.
'Indignation" at Uniontown, Pa,
Is rather mild. Dukes is still there,
Notwithstanding his invitation to
emigrate.
Tilden believes that the democrats
can win the next presidential cleo
ton, but under no circumstances
will he be the nominee of the party.
The baseball season is fairly open
and various games between protes-
sional clubs are reported in the dali
ly papers.
President Arthur has shown his
good sense by declining to interfere
with the course of justice in the
Mason case.
James q. Parkinson, of Cincinnati,
was admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court Tuesday. He is deaf
dumb and is the first mute ever adj
mitted to practice at the bar.
The Steamer John S. Bransford
struck on reef Wednesday forty
miles above Memphis and sunk,
With 10000 feet OF walnut lumber
on board-no lives lost.
The Mcdonald boom is in the as
cendancy now. The popular Hoo
sier is more talked of for a presi-
dental nomination than any other
man in either party.
Chas. r. Miller is the name of
John Foord's successor as editor-in-
chief of the New York Times. He
was formerly on the staff of the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The city authorities of Chicago
have ordered all telegraph wires put
underground by May 1st. The
Western Union officials say it can't
be done in the required time.
George Schiller, who has been on
trial during the past two weeks, ac-
cused of burning the Newhall
House, at Milwaukee, last January,
was acquitted Tuesday.
Destructive cyclones have recently
swept over different sections of the
country. Virgins storm got all
broke up and the pieces are coming
out in detached fragments.
The managers of the Cincinnati
Dramatic Festival have already
applications for $500 press tickets
from all over the country. 1t will be
impossible to accommodate them
all.
A large amount of fencing recent
ly put up in Southern Texas is fore
ing the cattle raisers further North.
A contract was recently closed at
Fort Worth for the shipment of
1000 head, at cost of $40, 800.
Two children at Fort Worth,
Texas, got under large dry goods
box to play, set fire to some straw
in the box and were suffocated
by the smoke before they could ex-
tricate themselves.
O'DonOvan Rosa has been count
ing the cost of burning London. A.
good hemp rope to hang Rosa
wouldn't cost more than 80 cents
and the general public would think
the investment well made.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has reversed the judgment of the
court below in the Chalmers-My-
ers case and dismissed Chalmers
petition for a mandamus at his own
cost.
The story of the "boss meteor"
published in another column has
been ascertained to be a boss lie. A
later dispatch from a "reliable gen.
tleman" at Fort Worth, attributes |
it to the genius of Joe Mulhatton.
The habit that tribes and peoples |
had in early historic periods of en-
grating in a body, promises to be
repeated by the modern Irish in
he way that they are coming to
America.
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia,
aid to Chattanooga correspondent
If the Courier-Journal that the
of his name in connection
With Blaine's for the Presidency
vas absurd.
Edwin Booth has been very hand
Omely complimented in Vienna.
The Stadt Theater Company of that
ity presented him with a silver
aural wreath of thirty-two leaves,
ach leaf bearing the name of a
of the company.
Parnell advises the postponement
f the Land League Convention
which was to have been held in
on the &c, till autumn.
t will then be practicable for HIM
D attend.
Daniel Curley is the second man
of the murder of Caven-
ish and Burke at Dublin. The
Try brought in a verdict of guilty
Wednesday and he was sentenced to ,
e hung May 18th.
Albert Taylor, who was one of
ne parties engaged in the murder )
Sheriff Kate and Deputy Sheriff
onWay of Hamilton county, in this 6
tate, last winter, has been identi-
ed at Emporia, Kansas. He was
rrested and jailed there for assault. ,
A terrible accident is reported =
ON Chattanooga. Tuesday Mr.. Z
rase Griggs and young lady, said {
, be his affianced, were out buggy
ding on Lookout Mountain, when !
ne horse became frightened and T