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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18
A Quaint Town in the Grecian Archi.
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The quay at SYRIA was gay with small
hucksters' shops. One man had pile
OF cikons, or sacred pictures, where
with to tempt the lious about to start
on voyage, pictures of st. Nicholas
being most numerous on his stall, for
he is the patron saint Of the seafarer;
another man had besoms; his neighDor
sod Russian teabowls and large wooden
spoons, while third offered for sale
brilliantly colored handkerchiefs, which,
though made in Birmingham, are par
ticularly Eastern in appearance. All
among these stalls the water cart was
threading its way to supply the huge
amphore which each householder pro-
duced as the cart went by with the daily
portion. Far along the quay was the
fish market with strange sights for un-
accustomed eyes. Advent was soon to
begin, that is the months fast before
Christmas,so there were any amount of
octopadia in the market ready to be
dried and stewed for this period. Sea
urchins, too. and bright red pima shells
afford a substantial part of Syriote's
meal. and this morning were plentiful,
besides red mullet and haddock which
looked more tempting. In front of this
market the boats of the Psariote and
Hydriote fishermen with their wicker
| instead of canvas bulwarks were lying.
These men are the best fishermen In the
Archipelago, and if you desire to travel
among these islands and their treacher-
| Gus winds. by all means choose one of
them.-Macmillan's Magazine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18

Recent vital statistics show that
under the age of fifteen there are more
boys than girls, but after the fifteenth
year there are more women than men,
and between the ages of ninety and
one hundred the proportion is three to
two in favor of women.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18
HUMOROUS.

A man of letters-A sign painter.
The shoemaker's is heeling art.
A sound reason-A fog-horn con-
clusion.
Flirts are likes fiddles.-no good
without the beauX.
The limbs of the law are suited With
breeches of promise.
In what suit does man never fee'
comfortable? In a lawsuit.
A grocer says he fully believes hon
est tea is to be the best policy.
Lucifer is the name of Kansas
paper. Who dares make light of it.
When a boy of IS runs away with
a gill of the same age the proceedings
may be called verdant slope.
"a train behind time" remarked
Jones, seeing an elderly maiden
tricked out in full, flowing robes.
A noiseless violin has been invented.
Now when some one discovers a noise
less opera-singer the weary soul of the
public will find rest.
"My bow is all unstrung," warbles
a fair poetess Wonder if her beau
had been out on racket.
Awkward idiot -" Your train Is
quite long, Miss Lucy" Miss Lucy
at will not be so long, if you take
two feet off it.
No waste of shot "What did you
kill?' inquired pedestrian OF
sportsman on horseback. " "Ilme'
was the sententious response.
Softly the evening star
Was shining in the west,
And Luna from her golden car
Shed gracious peace and rest.
A maiden, starry-eyed,
loOhtu up Will IftSi'o NSpb
Her lover whispered, "s;ewed or fred"'
She taItered "Stewed, you bet!"
A small boy, who slid down tree
pretty fast, and blistered the skin OF
his hands, said: 81 guess don't yearn
for hotter climb than this"
Teacher: "Why are you writing in
such big hand?" Tom: "Why you
zee, my grandmother is deaf, and I'm
writing to her.
There's something in this cigar that
makes me SICK" said a pale little boy
to his sister. II know what 1t IS,
responded the little girl, "it's tobac-
kerr
When coachman bitches up with
an heiress he takes her for wheel or
whoa, but soon gets tired of her
tongue and wants to kick over the
traces.
When Clara was asked what she
would do if a nice young gentleman
would ask her hand in marriage, she
naively replied: Il don't think La
no."
The true use OF porous plaster, ac-
cording to Milwauee druggist, Is TO
retain the back in its proper place and
let the pain crawl out through the
holes"
80 you prefer my medicines to
those of DR.. Pillsbury, Mrs. Mulligan?" !"
"Och, indadc, dochter dear, y're deal
better than tn other ould humbug."
After long day of heavy rain in
the country. party of ladies accept
masculine invitation to an evening
row--thC weather having cleared-on
the turbid and slightly swollen river.
The boat is a triAe overloaded. As the
oarsmen start, a young lady says to her
companion in the stern-Sheets, How
very near the boat is to the water"
"Yes." responds the other in sober
rarnest--and bright and intelligent
Eirl she is" l suppose it is on account
of the rain. The river is very high!"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18

There are over 100000 persons in
England who now use the bicycle and
tricycle..
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18
che lon0unoerrp Sitter,

AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER,
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
FROM
SITTER cfflce, So. Londonderry, Vt.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
jay GoUIds Views About the South.

Mr.. Jay Gould is undoubtedly
well able to judge of the South's in
dustrial future, and hence his views
upon that subject must carry con-
siderable weight. In late inter-
view he said that the Southe IN
States have made such progress
since the war as was never made by
New England, even in her palmiest
days. While the politicians have
been berating that section her peO-
pie continued at work, until now
the business world is awaking to
the fact that the progress of the
South is enchanting the attention of
capitalists everywhere. The noun
tain section south of the Blue Ridge
from North Carolina across to the
Mississippi, is bound to become the
greatest manufacturing country in
the world, and Atlanta and Bir-
mlngham will be cities with popu-
lation OF half a million each. The
outlook for cotton manufacture.
freighted, as it is, with wealth will
be eclipsed by the iron interests.
which are truly marvellous. The
two brightest public men in the
South, who appreciate the full posi-
bilities of the future, are Senator
Brown, of Georgia, and Senator
Jones, of Florida. Southern lands,
both for agricultural and timber
purposes, he considers one OF the
safest investments possible. Within
five years Florida will supply the
fruit market with tropical products.
Pensacola he says will obtain rank
as a seaport next after New Orleans.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
THE TELL-TALE BULLET MoULDs.
A Notable Murder of the OIden Time In Ten
HeSSee.
Sparta, Tenn, Expositor.

sparta, 1enn.J EXposltor.
Some weeks since an excellent
lady by the name of Mrs. Carrie
Hunter, living in Greene county,
East Tennessee, was shot through
the window by some unknown per-
son, at night, while she was sitting
in her house surrounded by her
husband and children. No clue has
been obtained of the assassin.
This brings to mind a similar
murder that occurred in White
county on the 18th of May, 1915, A
Mrs. Hunter, who lived at the
house where Dick Hill now lives,
six miles above Sparta, was q widow
lady, having one child-a married
daughter-who was 10 inherit her
property at her death. On the
night mentioned, she was sitting in
her house, when she was shot
through the window by some I'M
know person. Suspicion pointed to
her sOn-in-laW, man named Wal
lace, as having something to do
with putting the old lady out of the
way in order to get her property,
but no evidence could be obtained
against him. A man named Kirby
was arrested, charged with the
murder. The evidence against him
mostly circumstantial. The ball
cut from the murdered woman was
found to have small "teat" on it.
which fact becoming known,
blacksmith of Sparta said that he
had chirred out Kirby's bullet
mOuld's a few days before the
murder, and he remembered that
there was small hole in the mould
The bullet and moulds being COM
pared, the evidence was considered
very strong, and Kirby was tried,
convicted and hanged at Nashville,
where he appealed his case to the
Supreme Court. But he denied DO
ing the shooting, himself, said that
he fed the dogs while another one
did the shooting.
Many of our old citizens remem-
Der this murder and trial which
created such excitements through
out the whole country. Col. Bill
Cullom, the noted orator and law
yer, who now lives in East Ten
nessee, was then young man, tall,
handsome, perfect Chesterfield in
appearance, and was then attorney
general for this circuit and prose-
cuted Kirby in so able and effective
a manner as to win for himself the
compliments Of all.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05

JOAQUIN MILLER.

JOAQUIN MILLER.
/ see her now-the fairesf thing
That ever Knocked mans pictuHng.
picture her as one who drew
Aside life's curtain and looked through
The mists of all LIES mystery,
AS from a wood to open sea-
The soft, wide eyes of wonderment
That, trusting, looked you thorough
The sweet. arched mouth, a bow new bent,
Thatsent loves arrow swift and true.
Thatswee arched mouth The Orient
Hath not such pearls in all her stores
Not all her stored, spice.set shores
Have fragrance such as 1t have spent.
picture her as one who knew
How rare is truth 70 be untrue
AS one who knew the awful sign
OF death, oflife, of the divine,
Sweet pity of all loves, all hates,
Beneath the iron-fOoted fates.
picture her as seeking peace,
And Oiive-leaves and vine-set land:
While strife stood by on either hand
And wrung her tears like rosaries.
picture her in passing rhyme
As of, yet not a part of, these
A woman born above her time;
A woman waiting in her place,
With patient pity on her lace.
Her face, her earnest, baby face:
Her young face, so uncommon wise
The tender love-lighti in her eyes
Two stars of heaven out of place.
Two stars that sang as stars of old
Their silent eloqnence ofsong,
From skies of glory and of gold,
Where God In purple passed along
That patient, baby-face CT hers
That won a thousand worshipers!
That silent, pleading face; among
Ten thousand faces Just the one
] still shall love when all is done,
And life lies by harp unstrung.
That face, like shining sheaves among;
That face, half hid mid sheaves of gold /;
That face that never can grow old;
And yet has never been quite young.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05

AMANDA TRlCE, Dist. MOI.
Lot of ground, bounded north by Allen
east by Trice, south by Boyd, and west by
-, to satisfy judgment for $l9.3S, with
Interest from October 9th, 1888. and costs.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
Death OF the Ffrst-BorH.

This beautiful extract from DR..
Hollands arthur Bonnlcastle"
will be read with deep and tender
interest by many whose experience
it truthiully portrays:
81 stand in darkened room be-
fore a little casket that holds the
silent form of my first born. Ny
arm is around the wife and mother
who weeps over the lost treasure,
and cannot, till tears have their
way, be cGnnforted. / had not
thought that mylchild could die. /
knew that other children had died,
but felt safe. Welay the little one
close by his grandfather at last; we
strew his grave with flowers, and
then return to our saddened home
with hearts united in sorrow as they
had never been united in joy, called
to kindred grief. wonder where
he is to-day, in what mature angel
hood he stands, how he will look
when / meet him, how he will
make himself known to me, who
has been his teacher! He was like
me. Will his grandfather know
OF him as cared for and led by the
same hand to which my own youth
full fingers chung, and hearing from
the fond lips of my own father the
story of his fathers eventful life.
/ feel how wonderful has been the
ministry of my children-hOw
much more have learned from
them than they have ever learned
from mellow by holding my life
in sweet subOrdination of their
helpleSsness, they have taught me
patience, self-sacritice, self-cOntrol,
truthfulness, faith, simplicity and
purity.
"Ah! this taking to ones arms a
little group of souls, fresh from the
hands of God, and living with
them in loving companionship
through all their stainless years, is,
or ought to be, like living in heav-
en-, for OF such is heavenly kingdom.
To no one of these am / more in
debted than to the boy who went
away from me before the world
had touched him with stain. The
key that shut him in the tomb was
the only key that could unlock my
heart and let in among its sympa-
thies the world of sorrowing men
and women who mourn because
their little ones are not.
"The little graves, alas how
many they are! The mourners
above them, how vast the multitude!
Brother, sister, / am one with you'll
1 press your hands, / weep with
you, 1 trust with you, 1 belong to
you. Those waxen, folded hands,
that still heart, so often pressed
warm to our own those sleep |
bound eyes which have been so full |
of love and life, that sweet, I'M
alabaster face-ah! We |
have all looked upon them, and
they made us one and made US bet
ter. There is no fountain which
the healing angel troubles with his
restless and life-giving wings so
as the fountain of tears,
and only those too lame and bruis-
ed to battle miss the blessed infiu-
ence."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05

Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles incl.
dent to bilious state of the system, such as Dig
illness. Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after eating,
Pain in the Side, &c. While their most remark
able success has been shown in curing
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
The Spread of Protection Ideas.

The Lynchburg Virginian says
"But the question for the practical
men of the South to consider is
Will we, now that we are for the
first time in our history launching
out into manufactures, and perceive
our great advantage, abandon the
policy that has enriched our North
ern neighbors, and cry out for free
trade? Or, rather, will they not
say: Let US, who have so long, as
an agricultural people, paid you of
the North a tribute upon the man
ufactured articles we bought from
you, derive some benefit from pro-
lection, until all of our plants shall
be firmly established, and our man
.ufacturing systems thoroughly or
ganiZed and perfected under au eX-
perience of years, such as you have
enjoyed. Having had protection
so long, for the almost exclusive
benefit of one section, let us adhere
to it a little longer, for the benefit
of the other, sin the infancy of her
manufactures" as you of the North
used to say.
There can be no question that a
largely increased number of the
Southern people begin to view the
subject in this light, and under the
promptings of self-interest, and
with view to building up and de-
veloping their section, have aban-
doned or greatly modified their
views touching the question of free
trade. And their representatives
in Congress should take note of this
if they would keep abreast of the
times, and not be left behind in
the advancing march of the South
towards manufacturing and COM
mercial greatness"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05

A FRENCH meteorologist has, in
the exposed court of his house, two
bars of iron planted in the earth, to
each of which is fixed a conductor
of coated wire, discriminating In a
receiver. His practice
is to consult the apparatus twice or
thrice every day, and it never fails,
through its indications of earth cur
rents, to give notice of a storm II or
Is hours ahead.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
FACIOLLE'S FORTUNE.
The Frenchm i'm Florida who
WOOed Wealth and Won

The news somehow got to Jack
sonville, Fla, that Frank Faciolle
held a part OF the ticket which
drew the capital prize of $4,000 in
the February drawing of The Louis
lana State Lottery Company. A
search was set up tor him by re-
porter, but he could not be found.
Finally some of his friends were
discovered who suspected, although
they did not know of his good for
tune.
Faciolle was a carpenter and cab
inet-maker, at No. % Pine street.
He is AZ years of age, came from
Paris, of which he is native, to
America nine years ago, and settled
in Jacksonville about year ago.
He learned his trade in France.
He dropped in on one of his
friends the night before his depart
ure from Jacksonville, and said he
was going away.
"Why are you going?" asked his
friend.
"Oh, business is dull in my line,
and l can get nothing to do"
The mystery of his whereabouts
was solved on Friday, when he
turned up in the office of The
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
at the corner of st. Charles and
Union streets. Faciolle had III his
possession one-fifth of the ticket
No. II ,342. which drew the capital
prize of $75, 900 at the drawing on
Feb. II, 1884. He presented the
precious slip of paper, and it was
Immediately exchanged for check
ON the New Orleans National Bank.
1t was noteworthy transformation
to the office a poor
cabinet-maker, and leaving it COM
paratively man of means.
Faciolle is a single man, and
came to America to better his for
tune. He labored diligently for
years, but did not meet with much
success until some lucky impulse
forced him to invest a dollar in
lottery ticket, which he ordered by
correspondence from NJ. A. Dauphin
New Orleans. He became aware
of being entitled to share in the
SIS, 900 prize soon after the drawing.
and came here to collect his moneY'
Faciolle says he will continue at
his trade for another year, and will
then return to his sunny home in
"La Belle France" to meet his kim
dred and friends, who will doubt
less be Overjoyed at his good for
Orleans (LG.) Picaylne,
March, 2.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
The cotton Centennial at New Orleans.

Commissioner McWhirter has adj
dressed communications to all the
County Courts of the State, urging
them to make county appropria-
tions for the proper representation
of the resources of their respective
counties at the Cotton Centennial
and Worlds Industrial Exposition
at New Orleans this year. Several
County Courts have already made
appropriations-one of them as
much as $500, several others of $3.50
and none OF them less than the
amount suggested. The following
is the.form of the Commissioners
circular letter:
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE, STA
TIsTICs AND MINES, NASHVILLE,
Tenn, March 27, 1S84.-Dear Sir:
Some months since, and again last
week, had the honor of address
ing the honorable Chairman of your
County Court, upon the importance
of county appropriation for the pur-
pose of exhibiting the resources,
products, arts and manufactures of
your county at the Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Centennial Expo
sitiop, at New Orleans, La, Dec. 1,
1884. AS Commissioners of Tennes-
see, and possessing desire that my
native State maintain her present
position as foremost in progress
among her Southern sisters, l in
woke your aid in her behalf with
your County Court, first Monday in
April next, to the end of obtaining
an appropriation of only $3.50, to
be invested in your county, under
the supervision of your county
agent in cooperation with the Com
missioner, in specimens of your re-
sources and products of forest, field
quarry, mine, ETC., for the above
purpose. This is our only resource,
as this Bureau is without funds for
that purpose, and our Legislature
will not convene until January,
1885.
In no better or economical way
could the enormous advantages of
your country be presented to the
millions of visitors of the new and
old worlds than by this exhibit
properly managed at New Orleans.
It would encourage immigration,
and attract capital for the develop
ment of our vast treasures of latent
mineral wealth. 1t would awaken
a demand for our 10000, 900 acres of
surplus lands, and the surplus pro-
duct of our mills. A consequent
result of all of which would be
heaithful increase of frugal, indus
trious and cultured population
throughout the length and breadth
OF our sparsely inhabited but grand
old State. Circular letters descrip-
tive of kinds of specimens requir-
ed, methods of preparing, preserv-
ing, packing, marking, shipping,
etc. etc., will, at the proper time,
be sent by the commissioner to
each of the county agents. There
fore, the amount appropriated by
each county, the name and P. o.
of the county agent, should |
be furnished the Commissioner at |
the earliest practicable moment.
With great respect, your friend
truly,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05

NOTICE: In another column will
be found an article in which all
(whether they will or no) are inter
ested. Neglecting to read it may
prove very serious as well as an
expensive affair. We refer to the
of Prickly Ash Bit
tiers. A knowledge of its merits and
the benefit you or your family may
derive from using it will save not
only health but many dollars other
wise expended in Doctors bills"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05


1t Is not only for the power OF OBJ
tanning our just dues through legis-
latsve councils, nor for the public
independence otherwise given us,
that we desire organized union,
but we also desire it for the general
intelligence and enlightenment to
be gained by it, as regards all mat
tiers connected with our interest as
farmers.
The intelligence to be gained by
discussion in cOnventions, including
the various experiences of each that
may thus be impaired to all, will
enable US 20 obtain much valuable
and useful information yet unknown
to great majority of the farming
classes In truth, ii may be said
that union and cooperation, with
proper conventional discussions, is
the main and principal basis of
power, wealth, and intelligence of
the great agricultural classes of the
Union.
1t will not only give them power
to obtain their just and Iong-deferr-
ed rights through legislative enact
ments, but it will also add wealth,
intelligence, and comforts to their
homes.
Ii will enrich their lands, increase
the Yield of all crops, give luxuri-
ance and beauty to their fields of
waving grain, clOthe with nutrit-
iOuS grasses their waste and worn
out lands, and make more valuable
by ten-fiold the stock that feeds
thereon.
And last but by no means least, it
will make the fruits of our orchards
more delicious and better favored,
the flowers of our gardens more
fragrant and beautiful, our homes
more attractive and cheerful, and
bring intelligence, peace, and hap
piness to all who dwell therein.
Whilst union ard cooperation
among farmers will do all of this,
and even more, as is we'll known
by all intelligent persons, why
should it be further necessary to
urge upon them the necessity of
county organizations, and the i'm
portance of concentrating the wis
dom, experience, and power ofthese
organizations in convention at
Nashville on the coming June 4,
1884.
Arrangements will be made for
reduced rates of fare with railroads
and steamboats,, and all counties
within the State are earnestly re-
quested to send full delegations of as
many as may desire to attend the
convention.
All farmers within this and other
States of the Union are respectfully
invited to be present and take part
in discussions. Ladies are also es-
pecially invited.
All newspapers within the State
friendly to the interest of farming
are requested to publish the fore
going.
G. H. SLAUGHTER,
w. r. SHAVER,
PLEAS SMITH,
fol- Middle Tennessee;
j. II. MCDOWELL,
for West Tennessee;
]. A. TURNKEY,
for East Tennessee;
b. F. COCKRILL,
President and ex-officio Chairman of Exec
utive Committee Of the State Farmers
Association.
Nashville, March 20, 1884.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-05
1. NJ. HARRY, Dist. No. 20.

1876 acres of land, bounded north by Pow
ers, east by Wilson, south by Kahn, and
west by Eldridge, to satisfy judgment for
and costs