Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-01-12
NEWS In BRIEF.

Fires have been very numerous during
the cold weather.
The large and extensive furniture estab-
lishment of Burrell, Cormstock & Co., st.
Louis, was burned on the morning of the
5th.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, January RE
ports TO the Times-UnIon indicate serious
damage by frost to the young orange groves
and pine apples along the gulf coast.
Mary V. Young, the seventeenth wife of
the late Prophet Bingham Young, died at
Salt Lake of blood poisoning Saturday
morning, in her 10th year. Sixteen mourn
| ing widows still survive the Prophet; four
| teen live at Salt Lake.
! Judge Pardee, of the United States Cir
| cult Court, has decided that the New Or
| leans National Bank is entitled to its mails
The bank received orders for the Louisiana
Lottery, and the post-office department at
tempted to stop its letters on that account.
A white man named James Griffin was
found, Saturday morning, lying dead at the
escape valve of the gas cylinder at Alice
furnace, in Birmingham. Death from suf-
location was the verdict of the coroner's
jury. A flask of whiskey in his pocket, the
warm brick wall, and the cold suggest his
fatal imprudence.
Chattanooga Democrat: Passenger agents
report that there will be a heavy emigra-
ton of the colored population from Georgia
to Arkansas. 1t is thought that not less
than 900 will go from the vicinity of Rome.
Those who are already settled out West are
reported as doing well, and this has encour-
aged Others to try their fortunes in that land
of promise. Quite a number pass through
this city daily, and hundreds are getting
ready to follow.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Jan. ga young
man ives found by railroad men, this morn
ing on the Georgia Pacific track near Iron
dale, Ca, his breast pierced with a bullet
hole. He expired without a word. box
of cartridges and valise were found near
by, but no pistol. The papers on his person
showed the address -Alonzo Joseph Wood,
Victoria, Coffee county, Alabama. He was
a-respectable looking youth about eighteen
years old, and had $3.50 and a note for SS1,
and some love letters signed NJ. L. Shep-
herd, dated at Coffee county and Geneva
Springs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. six hundred and
thirty bills were introduced to-day, and the
one causing the most comment among the
members was by Willis of Kentucky, extern
ding the bonded period two years. The belief
prevails that the Ways and Means Comm it
tee will report it to the House, but that it
will be defeated. Dibrell of Tennessee, one
of the oldest members, said to-day that the
Democratic party could not afford to be
ed that nearly all the Republicans, as well as
many Democrats who supported Carlisle tor
the SpeakershIp. would vote against any
bill to extend the bond.
The expedition sent by the New Orleans
Times-Democrat to explore the Florida ev- |
erglades established the fact that the Ever
glades from Okeechobee to Cape Sable are |
for any purpose of cultivation
that they contain no large tracts of land
above water; that they cannot be success
fully drained, and that the establishment
and maintenance of telegraph lines along
the route traversed would be impossible.
The everglades, especially the northern
glades, is vast swamp, irreclaimable and
useless for any purpose. The only cultiva-
table portions of the southern peninsular
lie on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with
ibis vast morass between them.
One of the most terrible events ever re-
corded is the burning of the convent of the
Conception at Belleville, ILL.,,
IN the night of the 5th inst. Twenty-Five
pupils and five sisters, including the moth
or superior, persisted in the flames. There
we're about so pupils in the school, ranging
rom ten ears to full grown, all girls, and
everal teachers and other inmates of the
The fire had its origin in the
urnaer in the basement, and the: flames
pread upward, cutting off all means of
gress for those occupying the upper stories.
me teacher and several pupils jumped from {
hree story windows and were either killed ,
n badly injured.