Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-19
TENNESSEE TALK.

II. sONulDeTt VIII erect large
four story hotel in Knoxville.
Ashland City wants barber shop
and saddle and harness shop.
Mr.. III. G. I.aFils was elected
Mayor of Paris last week.
Work will soon be commenced on
the new building for the Memphis,
Cotton Exchange.
Dyer County appropriated $3.50
to be represented at the New Or
leans Exposition.
Five of the six prisoners confin-
ed in the Springfield Jail escaped
Friday night. 1t is thought assis-
tence was rendered them from the
outside.
Joe Carleton, a constable, was
shot and mortaly wounded by one
Bond, at Greenfield in Weekly
county on the 10th inst. Carleton
levied on Bonds property for taxes
Waverly Times-Journal: From
rosy morn till evening late the sound
of the carpenters saw and hatchet
can be heard in town evidencing
the fact that number of new build-
ings are being put up.
Two men, father and son, named
Thompson, have been arrested at
Somerville for poisiniug a family,
three children of which died, four
teen years ago. Young Thompson
thought he was dying and confessed
the crime in detail. He didn't die,
and with his father, is now in Jail.
Gallatin Examiner: The far
mers were busy last week and part
ofthis, turning up the glebe. max
ing ready for planting. A large
amount of corn was put in the
ground. The wise old farmers say
that the heavy winter and spring
rains betoken a summer drought,
and that early planting is in order.
Maybe they are right.
Tribune and Sun A negro set
Element near Savannah in this State
has been infested with smallpox
for a month or more. To date there
has been sixty odd cases and six
teen deaths. The plague, however,
is now we'll in hand and has not
spread beyond the original limits of
the infection. There is none of it in
Savannah proper, nor any proba-
bility of any.
Milan Exchange: We learn that
Mr.. w. G. Turner will have q cot
ton seed oil mill erected at his mill
here and ready for fall business. He
has worked the matter very quietly
and this announcement will surprise
some of our readers but it is true.
The mill will not be as large as
some, but will do large business,
and will add to manufacturing en-
terprise and we hope he will make
money rapidly.
A dispatch from Huntingdon to
the Nashville World, dated April
10th says: Near Beuna Vista, a
little village nine miles East of this
place, a difficulty occurred late yes
terday evening, between Tom But
tier, and a man named Kirk, both
of whom are farmers and near
neighbors, in which Butler, shot
Kirk twice, one ball entering his
chin, and passing upward through
his mouth. cutting the tongue near
ly in two, and lodging in the back
of his head, the other ball e4kering
the body about the hip.
Tribune and Sun: AT this writ
ing, April. 10th, the fruit prospect
in middle and southern West Ten
nessee, is very promising. Straw
berries will be in the market by the
Goth of this, and not later than the
1st of next month. This is late, but
the young berries are healthy and
the vines full of blooms, and bloom
ing anew every day. The peach
crop also promises well. The hard
winter did not do the damage at one
time believed, and without an ex-
traordinary spell late in this month,
there will be good peach crop. All
other fruits are in splendid condi-
ton and promise, and the proba-
bility is that the yield will be above
the average. Without accident,
hardly now probable, our strawberry
crop will be immense.
Tribune and Sun: On Monday
last Mr.. VIM. Sprague, a mail agent
while off duty, fell asleep and in
his sleep walked out of the car on
the 1. G. r. R., New Orleans divis-
ion while the train was running at
a high rate of speed. He opened
the door and stepped out, landing
on his head, but strange to say re-
ceived no mortal injury. His
wounds are only scalp wounds on
the head and the dislocation of the
right shoulder, from which he is
speedily recovering. He says that
he has no recollection whatever of
the walking out, the fall, or the af-
ter results. When picked up by
citizen he was simply unconscious.
No one in the car missed him until
several stations had been passed.
But he was taken to a kind home
and kindly treated.
McMinnville New Era: In Can
non county last fall, a gentleman,
whose name we failed to learn, was
awakened at night by disturbance
of his chicken roost, he went out to
discover the cause, and found it was
a very large red fox, which had
caught a chicken and was quietly