Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-04

The State election in Kentucky
comes off next Monday.
A match factory is being built at
GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Hon. Montgomery Blair died re-
Gently at his home near Washing
ton. He was prominent in Nation
al politics for many years.
Chinese immigration into the
United States being prohibited, the
Celestials are eolonizing British
Columbia.
Senator Bayard of Delaware, was
among the distinguished guests at
the opening of the Louisville Ex-
position.
TO read the Ohio papers one would
think the race for governor was be-
tween Hoadly and Foster. Fora
ker is mere figure-head.
The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
Company offered to compromise
with its striking operators. The
operators referred the company to
the brotherhood.
Among the many enterprises of
the New South, the happiness of
the dear girls will not be neglected.
The latest is chewing gum factory
to be built in Memphis.
The Inconvenience caused by the
telegraph strike. has brought about
much discussion favoring postal
telegraph system, controlled by the
government.
A steamship from Vera Cruz ar
rived in Baltimore harbor Satur-
day with four cases. of yellow fever
on board, having lost one ON the
voyage.
The recent earthquake on the is
land of Ischia is a calamity with
scarcely parelell in memory.
None of the cyclones, flood or 9TH
er disasters of late years have APP
preached it in destruction of life.
A well defined rulnor is circula-
ting in Memphis that the Mississip-
pi and Tennessee railroad from
Memphis to Grenada, is about to be
gobbled up by the Illinois Central
Mt. Vesuvious is in state Of
eruption and causing considerable
alarm TO the inhabitonts of the adj
jacent country. This probably has
some connection with the recent
earthquake in that vicinity.
Cary, the Irish infOrmer i'm the
Phoenix Park murder case, was
shot and killed on the Goth, by a
man named O'DonnelI, while leav-
ing "a ship at Port Elizabeth, South
Africa.
Emory A. Stoss, the well kno wn
Chicago lawyer, thinks the tide is
setting in favor of Arthur and Fos-
ter for the Republican nomination.
He favors Saratoga as the place for
holding the convention.
n posse pursued the Daniels
brothers (Outlaws) into the Noun
tains of Perry county, Ark. The
desperadoes drew them into am
bush and killed two of their num-
Der and wounded another.
Chas. w. COPELAND & Co. shoe
manufacturers of Boston, Mass,
have suspended. This failure caus-
ed that of Steadman ~ Co. of New
York and f. Shaw IL Bro. of BOs-
ton, the largest tanery in the
world. The combined liabilities
exceed s., 100000.
Francisco Barca Spanish Envoy
and Minister Plenepotentiary to
the United States, blew his brains
out with Il revolver at the Alder
marie hotel in New York Sunday.
Financial embarrassment is sup
posed to have been the cause of the
suicide.
The indications are that MahOn-
ism has about played out in Vir-
ginia. Dezendoff has disaffet ced the
Republicans from the fusion that
formerly existed between them and
the MahOneites and the best ele-
ments of the Readjuster party have
returned to the ranks OF the regular
Democracy.
Mr.. Robert G. Roberts, the bus
mess manager of the Nashville
American, died Sunday evening.
He was gentleman of great ener-
gy and superior business qualities,
and it will be hard to find another
who will fill his responsible sta
ton so we'll as he did.
Nineteen lives were lost by COL
lision on the Rome, Watertown q
Ogdenburg Railroad Saturday. A
freight car had been blown from a
switch on to the main track, and
was run into by a double-header
excursion train with tourists for
Thousand Island, mostly from
Michigan.
Capt. Webb, the famous English
swimmer, was drowned in the at
tempt to swim the Niagara whirl-
pool last week. He had made
some of the longest and most diff
cult sWims on record. The attempt
TO stem the whirlpool was extreme
ly hazardous and foOl-hardy, and
his death can be considered little
less than suicide.
A colossal European syndicate
has been organized in London for
the purpose of forcing the pay
ment of Confederate bonds at a
compromise figure. They propose
to get the money out of the South
ern States and the prevailing ODin.