Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-04-26
TENNESSEE TALK.
1t is rumored that a furnace will
be erected at Centreville.


It is rumored that a furnace will |
be erected at Centreville.
There is to be great musical fes-
tival in Memphis, June 4th and
5th.
The Gibson county court appro.
priated $3.50 for the New Orleans
Exposition.
Hon. Benton Mcmillan has no OPP
position so far in his district In his
race for Congress.
The people Of Milan will vote on
twenty cent tax for school pur-
poses on the Both inst,
Prof. Eichhorn, of Louisville pro-
poses to bring an orchestra to Nash
vile and give musical festival in
May.
Maury Democrat: We challenge
the world to beat Maury county in
the quality and variety of stock in
our county.
The Pulaski Cotton Mill, has been
purchased by new stock company
which will enlarge the mill and
probably put in a cotton mill also.
1t is estimated that there has
been four million of strawberry
plants set in West Tennessee this
Spring.
The Chattanooga strawberry rails
ers have had a reduction of twenty
five per cent. made to them in
freight for the coming season.
Col. Jno.. w. Buford, of Jackson,
Tenn, has been made Clerk of the
Supreme Caurt, for the Western di-
vision of the State.
$3.50 have so far been appro-
priated by the various county courts
OF Tennessee for the exhibit at New
Orleans.
Memphis business men are ac-
lively working up the interest in a
new railroad from Memphis to Ok
ford and Columbus, Miss, and
thence to the sea coast in Georgia.
Dyersburg is enjoying glorious
religious revival and the State Ga
zette is publishing the names of all
the converts. The list was pretty
large last week and was growing at
last accounts.
Lebanon Register: A young
man in Lebanon buried his wife
about six weeks ago, went the fol-
lowing Sunday to see another girl,
formed an attachment and married
last Sunday. Quick work, that.
Ashland City Reporter: Cheat
ham county has two very old men
living within her borders. Mr..
John Hooper, ST., of Sans creek, is
81 years of age, and Doctor Good
rich, cOlored, who lives on Marrow
bone creek is 10 years old.
Ashland City Reporter: Mr..
Richard Bib, a saddle and harness
maker, formerly of Springfield, but
for some time past has been in the
employ of Charlie Orndorff, at this
place, was found dead at his place
of business last Friday morning.
There is to be erected at Knoxville,
this year, a library building, to cost
$50, 900; State insane asylum, to
cost $50, 900; Court-hous, to cost
$75, 900; two churches, to cost $50
600; and four warehouses, to cost
$1O6, 600.
The capital stock for a $4,000
cotton mill has been subscribed in
Trenton and the mill will go up at
once. Besides this, Mrs. Jas. III.
Freeman, a man of means and en-
terprise, is erecting large furniture
factory and a wooden mill.
Tribune and Sun: The merchants
of Medon, in this county, inform
us that they sold five times more
clover and other grass-seed this
Spring than ever before in the his
tory of their town. They say that
there is not farmer In that section
of county but what is sowing some
grass.
Dickson County Press: The gen.
tlemen composing the firm of Geo.
1. Briggs & Co., of RussellvilIe, KY.
are in this section prospecting for
site on which to build a stave fac
tory. We hope they will find a
suitable location near Dickson, so
that some of the timber by which
we are surrounded will be CONVEX
ted into money.
Fayetteville Express Jas. Nc
Kinney, negro boy who was con-
fined in the Jail at this place, on a
charge of larceny, ended his life
last Wednesday night by hanging.
Taking a belt and a string and ty-
ing one end to projecting rod, and
another around his neck, he bent
his knees and deliberately brought
on death by strangulation.
The great lawsuit of the bond
holders against the Tennessee rail-
roads, to enforce the payment of
accrued interest, which is now pend
ing in the Supreme Court of the
United States, has been continued
to the next term, beginning the
Second Monday in October, and
will be the first business on the
docket.
The colored element of Washing
ton county, East Tennessee, are
giving their white Republican allies
trouble. A colOred convention at
Jonesbooro, a few days since, made
numerous demands, such as the re-
pealing of the law prohibiting inter