Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-27
TENNESSEE TALK.

"A fdikO dClCdSO III W1tdt - U0lUS
sown in Henry County.
Horse thieves are at work around
Dickson Station.
The Jackson fair has been in
progress this week.
A telephone line from Union City
to Troy has just been completed.
A valuable Slate deposit has
been discovered about mile from
Ashland City.
Nearly every paper in the State
reports Northern visitors prospect
ing for Southern location.
A large party of emigrants that
left East Tennessee for Missouri.
three years ago, have returned.
1t Is thought the floating popula-
ton of Memphis has doubled with
in the past four years.
All the Knoxville hotels are full,
and accommodation is being sought
in private families.
There is scarcely desirable
dwelling for rent in Chattanooga,
and there is said to be a demand
for hundreds.
Rates of freight from Covington
and Dyersburg to st. Louis have
been reduced one-half, owing to
river competition.
Such head lines as Married."
"Orange Blossoms" Hymeniel" &c
are very common in Tennessee pa
pers now. Winter comes on apace.
A new railroad company has
been organized, which proposes to
run a narrow gauge road from Den
yer, Col, to Memphis.
A correspondent of the Gallatin
Tennesseean thinks buck-wheat
could be profitably raised in Ten
nessee.
Paris IntelIigencer: Mr.. Albert
Wilson of Utica, Wis, was in Paris
Monday for the purpose of trying to
induce our people to establish
creamery.
The Franklin Review and JOurn-
al says the tide of immigration to
that section is Increasing and the
number of persons prospecting there
is larger than ever before.
The train of 80 cars, divided into
several sections and laden with
meats, grain. flour, ETC., from Kan
sas City, reached Memphis Satur-
day evening.
Thomas Hughes, while on visit
to Rugby, several weeks, ago, con-
ceived the plan of establishing a
college at that point. Steps have
been taken to put the idea in shape.
Mr.. w. A. Thoma and Mr.. |
George c. Hunt have retired from
the Nashville World and the paper |
has been changed from a six col |
umn quartO to a nine column folio.
P. G. Tate killed w. Scott War;
with a shot gun at Rossville in
Fayette county on Wednesday of
last week. War; was a desperate
character and had threatened Tate's |
life.
The Goodlett block on Main
street. Memphis, recently burned,
is to be rebuilt. 1t will be COM
pleted about the first of February
and will again be occupied by
Messrs. B. LoWenstein & Bros.
1t is estimated that the new
buildings to be erected in Knox
vile, Tenn, in the coming twelve
month will cost 81, 100000. North
ern capitalists are to build $780,
600 hotel there.
Pulaski Citizen: One of our
Giles comfy young men who got
back from Texas few days since,
after living there nearly year,
says he would rather be hung to
telegraph post in Giles than to be
caught dead in bed out in that
State.
Gallatin Tennesseean A cheese
and butter factory promises better
results than any industry we can
think of. To establish one will re-
quire small cash capital and
would benefit larger number of
people than any industry within
our knowledge,
Union City Our Country: The {
Messrs. BOokwalter, of Ohio who
were here during the early part of
this week looking for a situation to s
locate buggy wood work factory,
examined DIR. J. d. Mason's hick- {
DRY timber and pronounced it equal
to the Ohio timber.
1HC frequency vi HCSLO PlCoouAC ,
gatherings at Gallatin is noted;
scarcely IA week passes that some
secret order does not have pub
lie demonstration. Saturday the ,,
streets were crowded so that passing
was at times hardly possible. AT
night, as usual a "festable was
given"
Trenton has built a cotton-seed {
mill at an expense of 1000, and
work in this mill begun Monday.
The Trenton Globe feels called to
say that if the price of cotton seed
continues to increase and the price
of cotton continues to decrease, peo-
pie will raise cotton to make money
out of the seed and sell the lint for
pocket change.
The Jackson Wing regrets that I
the Protestant Episcopal COnven- }
ton has reported against the cree l
ton of the Diocese of West Tennes- a
see. We regret this action, it says, f
because it was almost the unani- (
Al L.