Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-24
TENNESSEE TALK.

Col. Vim. Gallagher'S new dwelling mouse
near Shelbyville burned Saturday.
Knoxville is shipping larger quantities of
poultry than ever before.
Mr. Edward Kuhn died of cancer of the
stomach in Columbia recently.
Fishing excursions to Reelfoot Lake are
very common just now.
Tullahoma is very anxious to have turn
pike to Lynchburg.
Rev. j. F. Hardwick is the new Station
preacher at the Baptist Church in Paris.
Several saloon keepers have lately been
fined in large amounts for selling liquor to
minors, at shelbyville.
Mr.. Reumekrof, of Nashville, was married
to Miss Mahala Grail, in Shelbyville, on the
18th.
Mr. Charles L. Davis and Miss Mary Hollis
were married at Smyrna, i'll Rutherford
county, ON the 18th.
Judge Greer, of the Memphis Criminal
Court, has declared the pooling privilege act
unconstitutional.
married to Miss Nora G. Pointer, of Spring
Hill, last week.
The ex-Confederate soldiers of Giles coun-
ty will erect monument to the memory OF
their comrades who fell in battle.
Gallatin Tennesseean: Walton & Buch-
anan shipped a $500 pair of horses to Ala
bama this week.
The farmers of Cannon county are paying
more attention now to the cultivation OF
fruit than formerly.
There are two men in Lebanon, who are
each others uncles, nephews, cousins and
brothers-in-law.
The cold snap last week made the country
editor call loudly ON the wood subscriber to
come to time.
Nashville has decided to have perma-
nent Exposition, with a capitol stock of
100000.
One hundred laborers set in for active
work on the site of the new fertilizing fac
tory, south of Memphis, on Monday.
Mr.. Atkins Foster, of Milan, and Miss
Annie G. Tharp, of Gibson, were married at
the latter place on the 18th.
The Humboldt Reporter says: We have
three large nurseries here, all of which are
very busy shipping thousands of orders.
Rev. DIR. BENZ. Larabee, formerly President
of jackson College, died in Boston, Mass,
recently.
Mr.. Jack Jarrett and Miss Lena Wilson
were married in the Methodist Church, in
Brownsville, ON Wednesday of last week.
Mai. NJ. ]. Wicks, at one time president of
the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, died in
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 4th inst.
An iron dealer in Chattanooga received
an order recently for twenty thousand kegs
of nails.
A society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals will be organized in Chattanooga
this week.
The Union City Our Country has purchas-
ed a new engine for its steam printing house
and offers the old one for sale.
Town Marshall j. b. Love, of Somerville
accidentally shot his right foot very badly
while hunting birds last week.
The corner stone OF the Church of the Holy
Innocents (EpiscopaD was laid in Trenton
last week. 1t will be a handsome little brick
building.
EIwood Strange committed suicide last
week in Huntington by taking morphine.
He was financially embarrassed, and had
been drinking quite freely.
The recent municipal election in Muir
freesbOrO resulted in the choice of j. NJ.
overall for Mayor, j. H. Butler, Recorder,
and ALI. Miller, City Marshall.
Mr.. Horace Blanton, Jr, of Paris, acciden-
tally shot himself in the right hand last
week. The hand will probably have to be
amputated.
Messrs. Webb Bros. have taken charge of
the Bolivar Bulletin. They are practical
newspaper men and promise TO make the
Bulletin good county paper.
Mr.. X. d. Johnson was married to Miss
Lille Forrest Cowan, in Tullahoma, on the
night of the Goth, and Mr.. Julius D. Raht
and Miss Alma Hickerson united their des-
TIMES in the same place recently.
The remains of Col. Calvin ]. Ciack, of the
Third Tennessee Regiment, were brought
from the battle field where he was killed
and reinforced at Pulaski, last week, with
honors.
Ashland City Reporter: We learn that
tobacco is going off at a lively rate this week
in the vicinity of Pleasant View, there being
several buyers in the field. The best crops
brought from eight to ten cents.
Covington will very soon have the benefit
of telephone connection with Memphis.
The Cumberland Telephone Co. began Wed
nesday putting up poles for the line, which
will be run to Ripley and perhaps further.
The East Tennessee, Virginia 4 Georgia
Railroad Co. have bought one hundred acres
ofland in the suburbs of Knoxville on which
shops for the entire system of the road will
be erected.
Nashville Il Chattanooga officers have ar
ranged with the Mobile and Ohio to run
through passenger cars from Nashville to
Cairo via Union City, which makes a short
and desirable route to Nashville and Chat
tanooga.
Gallatin Tennesseean One day this week
sold their two Enquirers-both by Enquirer,
one out of Waltz and the other out of Fannie
a Mr.. cooling, of Cincinnati, for
81, 600.
Dover Courier: Col. N. Brandon has rented
)r leased his place near Dover for a term of
i've years. We learn that the Colonel has
to build new house ON the OPP
oosite side of the river from Dover, and will
convert 600 acre tract of timber lands into
stock farm.
Judge John w. Burton, a prominent law
yer of Murfreesboro, died at his home in that
,ity last week. Judge Burton was Chan
,ellor for number of years. he served on
he Arbitration Court and was voted for as
! Democratic nominee for Supreme Judge
N the last convention which met in Nash
Vile for that purpose.
Brownsville Democrat: The streets were
literally damned with cotton wagons yes
erday, and all the merchants seemed to be
Dusy. Brownsville is unquestionably the |
.est inland commercial town in West Ten |
lessee, notwithstanding the numerous dis |
pirited croakers that frequent her streets.
Gallatin Tennesseean The fall crop of |
IRISH potatoes is being dug a large quantity |
las already been dug and shipped. The |
held is fair, and the quality good. The |
lops that have been put upon the market |
ound ready sale, most of which realized |
bout $50 per barrel.
Somerville Reporter: at Whiteville, ON /
he 9th inst, George Richards was shot by q /
aloon keeper named Boyd Winnie, the ball |