Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-12
TENNESSEE TALK.


The Mozart Musical Society of
Memphis has 15O active members.
Rev. DR.. A. ID. Mayo. of Boston
will visit this State in May and viii
lecture where invited.
A large party of New England
journalists will visit Nashville on
the 14th df May. LITTLE
Dickson Press: 1t is safe to pre-
dict. from the present outlook that
there will be a building boom in
Dickson the coming summer.
Cold wave signals are to be sta
toned at Chattanooga and Knox
vile, as well as at Nashville and
Memphis.
The Tullahoma Guardian has
discarded its patent inside. The
Guardian is one of the best papers
in the State.
Athens Post: Unless Judge Mat.
Allen has an Unsuitable NAV for
notoriety he is likely to be over
whelmed.
Athens Post: The Republican
finger-boards generally point to the
nomination of Judge Frank Reed,
of Nashville, for Governor.
The Ripley News suggests that, If
what all the three dailIes at Nash
vile say of each other be true, they
are pretty bad lot.
A criminal named Wiley Jackson
has made three successful attempts
to break out of the Lebanon Jail. 1t
seems to be kind of way he has of
amusing himself
A Union Passenger Depot is to be
built at Nashville at the joint ex-
pense of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and ST. Louis Railroad and the
NASHVILLE TOAD.
The aggregate amount realized
for butter sold by three ladies near
Dixon station during the past year
was S451.47. OF this sum Mrs. A.
s. Pitzer sold $209.47.
Dickson Press: We have tele-
phonie communication with Nash
vile and other places, at last. The
wires were put up Tuesday, and an
Office established at j. A. Thomas
store.
There are fourteen hundred and
two convicts now at work in the
penitentiary and at the mines, be-
ing the largest number of convicts
ever in prison at one time in this
State.
Athens Post: An effort is max
ing in portions of Tennessee to re-
vive the State debt question and
make it an issue in the approaching
canvass. For reasons which ought
to be potent to every one, we hope
the effort will fail.
Ashland City Reporter: We hear
it stated that Mr.. Barnes found,
last week, near Robertson's Island,
a barrel containing the mutilated
bodies of two negroes supposed to
be from the dissecting room of the
Medical College at Nashville.
Squire VIM. Craig was notified and
will investigate the matter.
Murfreesboro News The law
class of Vanderbilt University pro-
pose, in their moot court, to try the
case of Vertrees VS.. Colyar. If Mr..
Colyar should be selected as the
Judge to try the case, he wouldn't
be so much of hung jury as he was
in the recent debate on the tariff by
the pupils, of DIR. Prices school.
Dresden Era: Mr.. Cherry, the
Champion and Head of Tennessee
democracy, so-called, after conquer
ing one World is now attacking
American interests. Before Merri-
ly proceeding with his work he
should invoke the blessings of the
gods and offer up Bullock as sac
rifice. This is rather Hayesy pun,
but is the best we can do under
the circumstances.
They have Shakesperian club in
Lebanon that has weekly meetings.
The manner of proceeding is to take
a certain play and assign one char
acter to each member. For instance
at the last meeting Othello was the
subject to be anatomical. One
member ventilated the character of
the crafty "Iago," another told
what he thought of "Casio" and a
lady gave her conception of "Eme-
lia."
jackson Tribune and Sun: Mr..
S. B. Rushing, who lives 4 miles
Northwest of this city, dug some
poke root for his hogs few days
since and one of his little sons got a
small piece of it and put it in the
tub where the stock were watered.
When the mules were brought up
to drink the first one drank nearly
all the water out of the tub and
died from the poison. The next
one only got very small quantity
and it came near dying.
Pulaski Citizen: While the fat
and funny end-men were singing
silver slipper melody from DIR.
Lighthall's chariot on the square
Saturday, a colored woman of easy