Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-02-16
TENNESSEE TALK.

Tuilahoma Is to have another
newspaper to be called 1.-THE Enter
PRISE"
B. r. Avery & Sons, pillow manu-
faeturers, Louisville, will establish
branch at Chattanooga.
A sorghum sugar refining stock
company is to be organized at Hills
boro, Tenn.
The Anchor Spoke and Felloe
Co., of Covington, KY, contem-
plate removing their factory to
Kingston, Tenn.
A drove of fine cattle, purchased
on Yellow Creek, by stock buyers
from Davidson county, passed
through Dickson Monday.
Smith, Clifford q Co., of Nash
vile, have organized a sorghum
sugar refinery, with capitol of $780,
600, at Franklin, Tenn.
The new Union City Manufacture
ing Co. Of Union City, Tenn, havea
cash capital of $4,000 to start their
furniture factory.
Dickson Press: Six dwelling
houses have been built this year al
the works of the Dickson Stave &
Lime Co., to be occupied by their
employees.
We understand ii is the intention
of ex-Gov. Alvin Hawkins to re-
move from Huntingdon, his present
place of residence, to Nashville to
engage i'm the practice of law.
Jackson Tribune and Sun: Sun.
day evening millions of robins pass
ed over the city going Southeast,
probably to the heavy cane on the
Forked Deer above this city.
Jackson Tribune and Sun: The
Jackson wooden mills will erect
splendid brick buildings for their
mills. When completed they will
show up handsomely, with the lar.
gest buildings in the city.
Union City Our Country: The
late wheat in this county has been
seriously damaged by the recent
severe weather; that which was
sown early is damaged but little, il
any.
The Democrat says; "a sorghum
factory in Brownsville would pay.
The surrounding country is highly
productive of the cane, and il could
be obtained in large quantities at
small cost"
Chartered-a railroad, to run from
Scott county, Va, to Johnson City,
Tenn, and then to Yancey county,
N. G. Incorporators are: II. A.
Fan, Thomas E. Watson, 8. II.
Yocum, A. B. Bowman, J. c. Har-
din, Ell. III. Carr and ]. E. Reeves.
Messrs. w. w. Jones & Co., re-
Gently Of Millbury, Ohio, are now
busily engaged in erecting their
buildings and machinery, at Dyers-
burg, for the manufacture of polish
cd wooden bowls. The firm is COM
posed Impractical, enterprising men.
Dickson Press: The wire is lying
at the depot in this place, for the
extension of the telegraph line from
MOore's Station to Centreville. 1t
will be put up in few days,and Gen.
treville will have Geographic con-
nection with the rest of the world.
Mr.. Robert Gates, of Jackson,
was invited TO address the Ameri-
can Agricultural Association which
met in annual convention in New
York City on the 9th and 7th of
this month. Other engagements
prevented Mr.. Gates accepting
the invitation.
Dickson Press 1t is an old say
ing among the farmers OF this Sec
ton, "that good oat crop always
follows hard winter" If this is
true, sow all the oats you can, as
they will make 100 bushels to the
acre on poor land, if the weather we
experienced last month has any in
f1uence on the yield.
Tullahoma Guardian: An item
we get from the County Court may
be valuable to the tax payers of the
county as an illustration of the
benign blessings thai flow from our
present system. A few years ago it
cost from S. to 81 to assess the prop
erty i'm a district-now it costs from
$25 to $50.
Od1idt1u 4OHuCSoCdH 1HCIO 10
still some excitement among the
colored population on account of
the nightly visits of some kind of
that fearlessly chaws up
dogs. For several nights this week
men and boys. in crowds of four or
five could be seen on the surburs and
back streets, all armed to the teeth,
for the "panter."
Ground was broken last week at
for new University,
under the auspices of the Execu-
i've Committee of the Educational
of the Methodist Epis-
opal church of the United States.
Bishop /. w. Wiley and another
distinguished minister of the church
compose the committee.
Brownsville Democrat; Cotton
eceipts to February 1, 1884, $685. |
,ales. For the month of January, |
'O7 bales. A good showing for
Brownsville. considering the fact
hat so many farmers throughout
he country have abandoned the
Eall cotton" plan and gone into new