Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-03-07
MATTERS AND THINGS.
CoSGREss completed and passed all
appropriation measures before adj

LANDS, of the Banner, has proved
himself very David in his conflict
with the Penitentiary ring Goliah.
CLEVELAND is all right on the
tariff. His position is that which the
CHRONICLE has always adhered to.
THE cabinet appointments were not
Immediately confirmed by the senate
on account of Rid,.leberger's Directing
to Bayard rs @un-American"
Senators Lamb and Simerly were
excused from the investigating COM
mittee and Senators Rogers and New
appointed in their places.
AT the eleventh hour bill passed
Congress which will have the effect of
placing Gen. Grant on the retired list
of army officers with the pay of gen.
eral.
There is no law for whipping con-
victs. If it is necessary for proper
discipline, as the the lessees urge, they
should have it legalized before they
practice it.
One convict, named George Banks,
was killed in the mines while working
on Sunday. How the news Of that
death must have shocked Bro. Cherry's
christian piety!
Gen. Grant is affected with cancer
of the tongue, and his physicians say
he hasn't got long to live. His gener-
al health is very much affected but he
is still at work on his war papers for
the Century Magazine.
One witness before the investigating
committee testified that he was pres
ent mt the whipping of female convict
"just for fun Such occasions seem
to be kind of circus at Tracy City
and Coal Creek.
One witness for the defense in the
libel suit testified that the famished
convicts caught the rats that played
about the stockade in which they are
confined and ate them with ravenous
appetite.
The report of the investigating COM
mittee will be of little significance.
The people OF Tennessee are the COM
mittee and jury in this Penitentiary
matter. They have heard the evidence
and made up their verdict.
1t is now generally believed that the
Banner was too hard on the Tewks-
bury Aims House when it compared
that notorious institution to the Ten
nessee branch prisons. 1t is the man.
ayers of the Tewksbury concern who
ought to have brought the libel suit.
There is reaper, and his name is
| Landis He went into the Penitentia-
ry field and gathered in the over-ripe
! statesmen who flourished there. Brer
Colyar and Brer Cherry were cut down
together, and tied up in the same bun
die.
IT is said that the works OF Long
fellow and Emerson are read in the
! French schools The Americans re-
eiprocate by reading the works of
Zola and Ouida in their [female board
ing) schools.-UarbsviLle Democrat.
The Democrat is probably the only
paper in the civalized world that
would have made the mistake of sup
posing Ouida a French writer.
An essay from Col. Colyar on re-
formatory receptacles for criminals as
opposed to retributiye punishment
would read we'll just now. The former
idea was supposed 10 have been adopt
ed to some extent when the Eepiten-
tiary was substituted for the whipping
post, branding and other modes of
corporal punishment.
Convict coffee seems to be beyer-
age very much on the order of picnic
lemonade. A witness introduced by
the prosecution in the Lands libel
suit testified that A pounds were
dealt out for $50 men at meal, just
.G3 Of q pound to the man. They are
supplied with this stimqlant(7) once
a day.
1t is rather curious co incidence
that the Secretary of the Interior of the
last Democratic Cabinet, that of Buch-
anan, should come from the same State
and the same town in that State Gs tl,a
gentleman who fills the place in Mr..
Clevelands Cabinet Jacob Thompson
and Lucius Lamar, both lived in Ok
foFd, Miss, though the former is now
resident OF Memphis,
The President elect arrived in
Washington by special train at 7
o'clock on the morning of the 81. His
party consisted OF his brother, Rev. L.
Cleveland, wife and child, his sisters,
Mrs. Hoyt AID Miss Cleveland; his
niece, Miss Mary Hastings; Dir. and
Mrs. Daniel Manning, and Col Lamont,
wife and two children. They went
directly to the Arlington Hotel.
Mr.. Munio.d fgs introduced bill
to amend the commission lay, It's
provisions are us follows: Section
repeats sections l, 4, 5. Is, II and 90 OF
the act. Section amends section 2
so as to provide that the party injured
may recover not over tep times th8
amount OF damages 10y over charge or
unjust disGFiMination and a reasonable
fee for prosecuting counsel. Section
3 amends section 3 so as to make it
the duty OF the Commissioners to in
vestigate and determine whether there
have been any violations OF tits act,
and when they have good reason to
suppose there has been they are au-
thorized 10 examine witnesses or com
pei the railroad corporation to produce |
books, papers, ETC., and refusal on the |
part OF an employe OF such corporation
is made misdemeanOr. The written |
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