Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-10

The barn of JEFF Legate near Empire, KY,
| was consumed by fire last week. 1t con-
| tanned about $500 lbs. tobacco, his entire
crop.
Simpson county farmers violated the
| Sunday laws last Sunday, by cutting tobac-
co all day to save it from an expected frost
| at night
! During the week ending Friday, Sep
! TENDER 25th, there were 1851 pounds OF
manufactured tobacco exported from Pc
tersburg, Va.
A tobacco planting machine has been
| invented by Al Wisconsin, man, which IS
said to be great success that i'll less than
| five years hardly an acre will be set without
a machine.
The Harrodsburg (Ky.) Democrat says
| the regular annual tobacco fair VIII be held
at that place about the last OF November,
when premiums amounting to 500 viii be
| awarded.
| This vicinity has been visited with slight
frosts this week, but not enough to do any
material damage TO tobacco, and II is hardly
| probable that there will be a killing 1rost
| in the next ten DAYS.
| Mr.. w d. Pillow of Mud River Valley,
Logan county, had the misfortune to lose
| his fine new barn and a large crop of to-
bsceo last Thursday morning He enr was
| his absence the building caught fire.
N. Y. Graphic: "A man in Ohio, aged
| 92, stopped chewing tobacco one day and
died the next" There is nothing remarka-
| Die In this. III the man nau uleU one uay
and stopped chewing tobacco the next, it
might be worth mentioning.
A dispatch from Bowling Green dated
Tuesday says: 1.-The present cool spell has
necessitated our tobacco growers to turn
double force of hands the tobacco
patches. The area and quality of-the weed
in the county is regarded superior to any
crop for the past ten years"
A correspondent of the Western Tobac-
co Journal, writing from Williamson conn
n Cna1fl aarr n G OF
they have a good tobacco crop in that sec
ton, and ask that money enough TO buy it
be sent them. Can't ClarkSvflle accommo-
date them?
Louisville, report to the New York Tobacco
Leaf: 'rhe critical season having passed.
crop prospects have improved considerably
and we may now safely look to 81 safe in
gathering of crop nearly equal in bulk to
Its immediate predecessor, and fully equal
in quality"
-Miamisburg (O.) Bulletin, Sept. Is: The
Lancaster (Pa.l New Era raises the inquiry,
"What Is the cause of rust, and is there any
remedy ~ The Bulletin is gratified to en-
tighten the New Era. Rust is a pizen vot
comes out of de ground. The remedy is lots
of manure, early and low topping and cut
ting at the proper time.
Cholera failed to strike single one of
the 1900 women employed in the national |
he disease RACED Violently In that civ and
the Medical World recalls that tobacco |
workers were noticed to enjoy exemption |
from attack during an epidemic at Amster- |
dam also.
Owen (Ky) Democrat: Tobacco grow |
ers represent the condition of the growing |
staple OF Owen county to be phenomenal. |
Nothing like 1t has ever been seen for years. |
While the acreage is below that of last year,
the crop will fully equal or exceed IL in 1
quantity, while in quality, according to its /
present appearance, II will far surpass 1t
Alexandra (Va.) Gazette: Under a new |
rule just issued by the Commissioner of In
ternaI Revenue, the fee of tobacco inspec-
tors has been reduced from ten TO seven
cents on export tobacco. This reduction
does not diminish the receipts of the Gov
erenment one cent, but saves the tobacco |
manufacturers hundreds of thousands of |
dollars.