Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-01-26
TENNESSEE TALK.

The Pulaski Citizen rises to remark that
"Sycophants, 'cringers, hypocrits and demo-
gogues have Tennessee by the ears.
The County Court of Gibson county put
an additional dollar on marriage license,
for school purposes.
The Winchester News says there are more
students at Mary Sharp College now than
for several years.
The Madison County Court appropriated
two hundred and fifty dollars to make a
display at the New Orleans Exposition.
The tenderness with which the country
editor now woes the wary candidate to in
! sert his little announcement is touching to
behold.-Ndshvilte american.
| Blanche MoGhee's palace, one of the most
elegantly furnished houses of the kind in
the South, No. 80 Goyoso street, Memphis,
was burned on the night of the 18th.
1t is stated by Our Country that Union
City has a population of 1900, and does a
larger business than any other place in
West Tennessee, except Memphis.
The East Tennessee Valley Zinc Company
has made its first shipment of zinc to New
York, This company was organized at
Knoxville few months ago, with q capital
of $4,000.
Memphis Ledger: There is a strong COM
petition among the several lines for the
cotton carrying traffic. Rates from this point
to the Eastern seaboard were reduced cents
per hundredweight on yesterday.
Dickson Press: Frank Boatwright and
George Atchison, who left this place last
summer for Texas. have had enough of the
"Lone Star" and have returned to their res
pective homes.
y The West Tennessee Horticultural soci-
" will meet in Brownsville on the 7th of
bruary. The attendance of fruit and
etable growers win be large and the
nHrting most important one.
fuiasAss Citizen: The board of directors
of the Var last Saturday authorized the Sec
rotary Co contract with Mr.. r. b. Crow to
set out one hundred shade trees at the fair
grounds.
Tribune and sun: The failure of two
saloon men in this city within the past few
days would seem to indicate that the cause
of real genuine temperance was advancing.
The failures are Mr.. j. Samuels, and Mr.. G.
|
The question OF the removal of the coun-
ty seat of McNairy county is settled, and
Purdy is to be the Seat of justice. The Quar-
terly Court of that county has ordered the
erection of a court house, the cost of which
is not to exceed $25,OO0,
Union City Our Country: Forsome cause
the Bertha Welby Combination. which was
to have appeared at Wade's Opera-house to-
morrow Saturday evening, have uncere-
moniously cancelled all their engagements
in the Southern cities and have fed North
The item of fences alone costs the farmers
of Upton county large per cent. of their
earning, which could just as well be saved
by the enactment of such a law as is ac-
knowledge by all to be success in locaIf-
ties where it has been tried 0Uin0ton Cali.
Mrs. E. M. Yerger died recently at her
! home in Memphis. She is said to have
been the most beautiful woman in Tennes-
see when young. She was the widow of
the brilliant Ed Yerger, whose fine oratoric-
al powers gave him a wide and generous
reputation.
Jackson Wing: A frozen well is great
rarity in this or any other county, but
Jackson had one during the cold snap in
which the water was frozen half inch,
The well is the property of Mr.. r. E. Prev
EFT, in the western surburbs of the city, and
was twelve or fifteen feet deep.
Dixon Press: Mrs. Dizzy Austin, whose
death was published in last weeks Press,
was one of the cold mothers" of Dickson
county. She was born in North Carolina
on Sept. 23d, 1900, and came to this county
with her parents when twelve years of
age.
Pulaski Citizen: AS far as Giles is con-
cerned, we have incontestible evidences
that illiteracy is decreasing. Our efforts
last year to get the Citizen into families
that do not read and are raising children in
ignorance was largely successful, and it is
being continued this year.
A letter in the Cannon County Courier
says that along the river and In the edge of
White county so many hogs have died of
hydrophobia as to seriously affect the pork
supply. Some citizens have lost every hog
they had, and others part, and are afraid to
eat the rest for fear of the disease. Many
dogs have gone mad.
Brownsville Democrat: Mr.. T. w. Tyus
with a lot of fine shade trees for the orna-
mentation of the Synagogue yard. The |
Synagogue and grounds will soon be the |
greatest attra ction in the city unless more |
liberal expenditures are made for beautify- |
ing other church edifices and grounds.
Tribune and Sun: Perhaps the Oldest |
living couple in West Tennessee are the |
parents of our fellow citizen, D. F. McClin-
took. Mr.. James McClintock was born in |
1900, and Mrs. McClintock was born in 1902. |
Tney have lived lifetime together as man |
and wife, and are quietly spending the eve
ming of life in Gibson county, some five
miles North of Milan.
What is represented to be rich gold
mine has been discovered on the extreme
eastern border of this State, in Sewer coun-
ty, on the waters of the Little river, near
the North Carolina line. Recently there
was found in one gold pan full of sand from
seventy to eighty per cent of gold, some of
the grains being as large as wheat grains.
The mine is located on the land formerly
owned by Richard Evans, of Sewer county. i
Brownsville Democrat: Brownsville and
the surrounding country is one of the health
lest portions of the United States, as the
statistics of lakewood Cemetery show. Only
eight white persons were buried in the
,emetary last year, and it is the burying
,ronnd not only for the city, which has
population of nearly three thousands. but
or the country for miles around, which is
hickly inhabited. Northern immigrants,
therefore, need have no fear of being rush.
ID off to the undiscovered country" ahead
# time.
Somerville Reporter An appropriation of
$50 by the ConntyCourt was ordered to make
display of the agricultural, forest and |
mineral resources of Fayette county at the
World S Industrial National and Internal 6
0nal and Cotton Cetenial Exposition, to be I
ED at New Orleans, commencing Deem I
er A, 1884. The chairman was authorized r
} appoint committee of five to carry out =
ne objects and purposes of the appropria- l.
on. T. K. Riddick. Esq, was appointed
the balance of the committee to =
g appointed by Chairman Steger in vaca- .
on.
Waverly Times-Journal: The largest sale v
land ever made in this county was closed Ii
st week. The transaction was for cash q
nd the money paid. The land transferred VI
,gregated about $4,000 acres, and the con- n
deration a fraction under $4,000, A part ;,
this land, some 1000 and odd acres, lies ~
nth of Wayerly and the remainder in the =,
part of the county. A large =,