Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
TENNESSEE TALK.

A stock company will be formed In Chat
tanooga, January LIST, with 100000 capital
to manufacture paint roofing.
Douglass & Jones, druggists, OF Jackson
have failed. Liabilities, 200 assets. abon
the same.
! The State Teachers Association held al
interesting meeting I'm Gallatin on Thursda,
and Friday of last week.
The smallpox epidemic at Gadsden
thought to be over, as there are no new
cases, and those who had the disease hav'
recovered.
Ned Horton, porter on the Alabama Grea
Southern road, was killed, auChattanooga
Saturday, while attempting 10 pass from tn
engine to the baggage car.
The people in and around Culleoka have
sent a petition to the railroad signed b,
four hundred persons, asking for depot a
Culleoka.
The Iron, Coal & Manufacturers Associa
ton, of Chattanooga, have started move
ment to establish a public library in the
city.
The editor of the Ashland City Reporter
is not as averse to eating coon as is the
young man in the play of '49. He piously
returns thanks for a fat specimen of thai
kind of "varnaint" recently sent him.
Fulton Mayberry, of Williamson county
has nelghborly neighbors. His barn burned
down, and he lost all his corn-6OO barrels
They hauled in corn of their own and sci
him going again.
Dickson Press Seven car loads of hogs
have arrived here from Hickman county
this week, by the N. & T. Ry., and were re-
shipped on the N, C. & st. L. Ry to Nash
vile.
The City Council of Chattanooga, Wednes.
day, increased the privilege tax of retail
liquor dealers to $3.50 per year, 1t being Sl0C
before. The saloon keepers protested and
the Mayor vetoed the ordinance, but it was
passed over his veto.
DR.. J. II. Menees, prominent young ply
stefan, died at his home in Springfield on
the 18th. The deceased was considered very
bright and promising, and was esteemed
very highly, both as Il physician and man.
He leaves young wife and one child.
Chattanooga Times: DIR. R. S. Rust, OF
Cincinnati, states that work will certainly
be commenced on the Methodist University
in this city in very short time. The plans
are now about complete and dirt will be
broken by January 10th.
Dickson Press The Dickson Stave & Lime
Company's factory at Burns, this county, has
been shut down until after the holidays,
and the intervening time will be occupied
in erecting one or two more large sheds, for
drying slaves, and other necessary build
ings.
Trenton Globe: As Bob Barksdale was
going out the Brownsville road, he was met
by five men who drew their pistols and
ordered him to halt. After they had search
ed his pockets and found he had no money
they told him he could pass on. 1t is the
general opinion that they were waiting for
g. w. Baily, farmer, who had sold Is bales
Of cotton that day.
Tribune and Sun The improvement OF
cattle is one of the most marked evidences
OF progress in Tennessee. 1t pays to have
the best strains, Jersey and Holstein for
dairy uses and the best beef makers, short
horns and Durhams, for the slaughter pens.
Judicious crosses on these produces high
grades from our common stock and enhances
the profits of cattle raising.
Dickson Press: Mrs. Carver, residing at
Cumberland furnace, is DESTROYS of learning
the post-office address of w. w. Mortt, who
married Miss Rainwater in Pri nceton, KY,
in April, 1881. When last heard from he
was living in a fishing boat on the Cumber-
land River. Our exchanges by copying this
notice, will confer a favor on a woman in
distress.
An old citizen of Lebanon, revisiting that
place after nearly twenty years absence,
says: years ago 1 knew little freckled-
faced boy whose ambition was to write
stories and sketches for the Sunday-school
papers, and am not certain that he did not
write catechism." You would'n hardly
suppose that good little boy grew up to be
Bob White of the Herald, but he did.
The stationery engine now being put in
place at the Tullahoma wooden mills is, per-
haps, the largest of the kind in the State. 1t
Is expected that all the machinery for the
new mills will be in place and in running
order early in January next, and that one
hundred looms will be going by that time.
This large addition to the capacity of the
mills will furnish employment to about fifty
or sixty additional hands.
Fayetteville Observer: A grand scheme
has been revolving in the minds of citizens
of this section for some time. 1t is no less a
one than to abolish the line between Coffee
and Moore counties, make the two one
county and TLllahoma the county seat. The
people of Moore favor the project-in fact
the idea-and also the parts of
Coffee tributary to Tullahoma. Action will
be taken in the matter when the Legislature
meets.
At the election to determine whether or
not the voters of Gallatin should vote tax
Of twenty cents on the 500 for the purpose
of establishing graded free school system
for ten months instead of three or four as
heretofore, the vote stood 223 for the tax and
81 for no school tax. A vote was also taken
for the issuance of 5000 worth of bonds to
fund the floating debt. The vote for this
stood, for bonds, 257 no bonds, 81. GalIatin
is happy over it all, and intends soon to be
a city.
Avalanche: Just now there is both dis
tinction and a difference between a Boston
banker and a Memphis banker. The bank
reserves have grown to such proportions in
Boston that banker in that city goes out
on the street to hunt borrowers and offers to
lend money on six and twelve months time
at and AZ per cent. per annum. In Mem
phis there is a constantly growing demand
for money and the borrower hunts the ban
ker and is happy in the chance of paying
per cent.
The hay crop In Henry county this year
Is very large. Hundreds of tons have been
shipped to distant markets and hundreds of
more await shipment as the market de-
mands. Paying prices have been realized
and will no doubt continue to be, and the
crop promises TO be the leading money crop
Of the county for this season. A large amount
OF grass seed, clover, timothy, herds grass
and mtllet, has also been saved for market,
there being several hulIers in use in the
county.
Darby Pate, son of S. s. Pate, and brother
OF E. 4. Pate, Sheriff of Carroll county, was
killed at Mckenzie, Monday night by the
Marshal's deputy. They were attempting
to arrest Henry Pate, nephew of the de-
ceased, when found Ly the Marshal. Three
OF them were together, and the proof is that
the deceased fired the first shot when one of
the Marshals fired, and fifteen buck-shot
took effect in his chest, Immediately in the
region of the heart, producing immediate
death. The people of Carroll county are
very much shocked over the affair, as the
young man bore good reputation and babe
fair To make q good citizen.