Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-20
TENNESSEE TALK.


The hog crop will be f1ne this year in Glib
son county.
An alarm of fire in Memphis now creates
a commo ton.
The thermometer stood at s9o in theshade
at Milan, last Friday.
The Grand Lodge of Good TempIars met
in Nashville Tuesday.
Cabbages and Irish potatoes are passing
through Tennessee. going South.
There is talk of spoke and hub factory
being established at Huntington.
The First Tennessee Cavalry will have a
reunion at Columbia, october 3lst.
Tennessee is the second State In the Union
in the number of thoroughbred cattle she
possesses.
The pecan yield in Arkansas, whence the
Memphis supply is drawn, is said to- be I'M
usually large.
Charles ]. Shackleford, of Trenton, was
killed, last week, while attempting to pass
from the engine to the caboose of a running
train.
mingham and another to Texas, via Pine
Bluff, to make her rich and altogether
happy.
After October 18th railroad locomotives
viii not be allowed to blow their whistles
within the corporate limits of the Taxing
District of Memphis.
The Judge of the Chancery Court at Mem
10 a a.
by woman in weak mind, to her husband,
recently, is null and void.
E. ]. Gray, of Washington, D. c., is pub
fishing q book entitled, Tennessee in the
War Between the States giving an impair
tial history of Tennessee soldiers on both
sides.
The Union City Our Country now appears
as a handsome nine column folio, all home
print. We mean no idle compliment when
we say the Our Country is one of the best
papers in the State, and a credit to Union
City.
The West Tennessee Wing, published at
Jackson, has been enlarged to a seven col
umn quarto of the cut and pasted variety.
We are glad to see this evidence of prosper
ity in the Wing. 1t is a good paper and
deserves to do well.
The officers of the Memphis Jockey Club
have issued exquisite and novel invitations
to the ladies, the work of Mr.. Peter Tracy.
The design of the monogram is a "wish-bone
and bell, ;" embossed in various colors at the
head of the invitation.
One of the chain gang in Memphis, last
week, picked up piece of glass and had
opened the great vein of the arm with it
when the guard stopped him and staunched
the flow of blood, which was squirting out in
a stream over the ground.
The Southern Lumberman figures it out
on the basis of the vote cast at the recent
city election, that Nashville has a popula-
ton of 70,724. 1t says: 1--WE are perfectly
assured of the correctness of the above fig
ures, and do not hesitate to claim for Nash
vile the population shown by them as le-
ultimately belonging to her."
An Athens belle who moves in the best
circles and is beautiful beyond comparison,
has turned out to be kleptomaniac, and
steals all the female finery that comes with
in her reach. She is otherwise sound and
very charming. She was engaged to pro-
minent young lawyer, but the match was
broken off on account of this misfortune
being discovered.
The last spike eff the Kansas City, Spring
field Il Memphis railroad, connecting Kansas
City and Memphis, was driven at $50 O'Clock
on the evening of October 18th, at q point
thirty miles west of Memphis, and there is
now an unbroken line between the two
cities. President G. II. Mettleton left for
Kansas City ON the 18th inst ON special
train. Freight trains are now running and
passenger trains will be put ON by the ed
inst.
Knoxville Chronicle: We were yesterday
shown by Mr.. ]. w. Douglass, of Strawberry
Plains, a portion of the iawbone and some
teeth that were recently dug up from be-
meath the piers of the railroad bridge at that
place. The bones have the appearance of
being of a large and powerful race of people.
Some years ago, while digging at the same
place, the WOrkmen found large bones; they
were so large that one of the jawbones en-
tirely passed oyer the face of a large man
who was working there. This was perhaps
during the building of the railroad, and
about the year 1856. Mr.. q. c. McBee, who
was one of the oldest citizens of the sur
rounding country, and on whose land the
bones were found, said that certainly no
white people were ever buried there.
The Philadelphia Times describes the RI
Rev, Bishop Quintard as ga broad shoulder
ed man of middle stature, on the sunny side
of sixty, with a grizzled beard and bright
but kindly eyes that beamed through gold
trimmed spectacles, walking with head erect
up the aisle of st. Clements at the IL o'clock
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and Immediately attended by two little
acolytes. He wore above the usual Episco-
pal habit OF lawn and satin the scarlet hood
of a Cambridge LII. D., which made a bright
bit of color among the white-robed choris-
tiers as he paused before the richly embeI-
lished altar before going to his chair upon
the Gospel side of the sanctuary. He was
at one time leading physician of Memphis
before he entered holy orders and became
Confederat chaplain, and afterward Bishop
of Tennessee. When the time for the SER
mon came the cross bearer attended the
Bishop to the pulpit, where for three-quar-
tiers of an hour, he held the close attention
of a crowded congregation, speaking some
times from notes, but most of the time
without, in big, noisive voice that in its
ordinary tone filled the large church, and
length of Canterbury Cathedral. I'VE shall
reap in due time, if we faint not was the
text of his discourse
Tuesday night at IL o'clock terrible acct
dent occurred on the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia Il Georgia railroad. Two freight trains
while running at high speed, collided four
miles west of Cleveland, resulting in the
death of Engineer John Bailey, Fireman
VIM. CIampett, and Brakeman Lee Geb-
man. The injured are James Turner, engi-
neer, slightly init red by jumping from the
engine; the fireman, Eli Wilson, leg broken;
Frank DeArmond, leg broken; a
colored brakeman, jaw broken and several
injuries about the head and a tramp steal
ing a ride, arm broken. A telegraph order
bound train to await the arrival of the east
bound train at Cleveland, but the operator
neglected to deliver the order, though the |
conductor was in the office. The trains met |
In q sharp curve in deep gap, and the |
engines were within q few feet of each other |
before the terrible fact was known to either |
engineers. The engines were nearly demol- |
shed and several cars damaged. The dead |
and wounded were taken care of as best as |
possible. 1t was nearly daylight before the |
news of the accident was made known at |
Cleveland. The operator is one of the most |
on the line.
To our old and valued friend, Capt. Ben. |
F. Eagan, (Buz) we are indebted for the |
sketch of an old-time boatman
Before the Cumberland river was navigated