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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-21

sDaily. tDsily except sunday.
Train No. 1 makes i'm mediate connections at
Xenis for ashington G. H., Chllicothe, Gnoin-
natl and Columbus. No. is the Fast Eastern
Express, making immediate connections At Xenis
for Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, all Eastern and
New England points. Also through car service for
nections at Xenia for Cincinnati, Louis-
willie and points south; through trains for Rich.
mond, Indianapolis, 81. Louis and points West.
No. 10 the famous Limited Express and mskes
direct connections at Xenia for Columbus, Pitts.
burg, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington, Phila-
delpha, New York, Boston, all Eastern aEl New
England points, also immediate connection for
Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Albany and
Syracuse, n. Y. No. 7, Fast Line, Western and
Southern Express, making Inn mediate connection,
At Xenia for Cincinnati, Louisville, Chattanooga
for Kieh@ond,, :, Chicago. and point
Louis, Kansas City and poins In the West and
Southwest. All trains run on Central time,
which is Is minutes slower than city time. Tick:
cts sold ana baggage checked to all ponu In the
United States, and reliable inforna''oA can be
obtained At the office 4 u Com.
Psnys Agent, this city. Particular In.
formation ~ TO tine oil uA.n oounsos
tions, rates, etc., chserfully furnished.
Call on in. hEs, CITY Ticket AgeIt,
JAs. AoCREA, Manager.
4 A. FoaD, General Passenger AssAt.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-21

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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-21
sDaily. tDsily except sunday.

No. 10, Local Accommodates leaves xenis $50
an. Arrive Yellow Springs 6.i5 a. M; spring.
field 100 a. m.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-21

rSO 'l3 HCCOHIHIVIaIIOH UaTTy -
No !, Cincinnati Express, daily ..... 10 43 a. N.
No. D. ST. Louis Limited, daily....".... $500 p. IN.
Trains No. 4 and have seepers, but no change
o, cars in either case T. rough To New York
No. has sleepers through to St Louis.
All trains arrive and depart from |. b. Nv,
depot in this city.
Trains run on teBtra time,
For tickets to all points call on
J. ID. PHLEukR, Agent; office in ST. James Hotel,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-06-26
The Clown Has Had His Day.

ut is a sad fact" mournfully said
veteran circus manager. "but it is be-
yond dispute that the days of tho joke
cracking and song-singing clown are
over. He expired when the double
circus-ring came into vogue. In his
place the horse-play or pantomimic
Grimaldi arose."
"How did the double ring kill the
witty () clownp" asked reporter for
the Mail and Express.
"The vast audience could not hear
him. The miles of canvas, the amphi-
theatre, filled with 10000 people, made
tho great lung power necessary to be
heard an utter impossibility. The
large railroad travelling circuses have
nothing but pantomimic clowns. In
the small shows where actors are few
and something must be done to fill in
the time for the acrobats or whatever
they may be to rest, before they appear
in some other daring feats under other
dazzling names, the song-singing, pun
ming clown is used. But he is fast 60
ing out for other reasons. The news
papers and almanacs contain nearly
all the jokes and puns, and to repeat
them over and over again becomes
monotonous and tires even those who
do not read. Then to supplant this,
horse-play was invented"
what do you mean by horse-play"
BROAD humor. For instance, the
clown sticks a needle in chair, and
the ringmaster innocently sits down on
it. He gets up in hurry. This kind
of fun tickles the audience. They see
it and understand the point made, but
it is not so with pun or joke. I was
a clown before became proprietor and
l know all the inside tricks Of the pro-
flesh. When l travelled in the small
towns of 5000 and 10000 inhabitants I
always managed to pump some garru-
lous man in the town before the per-
Torrance, so as to get off local gag.
This always pleased the audience, and
occasionally caused little row If the
gag was at the expense Of some fell
low in the audience. Then l would
sing a song and hear all the little boys
in the streets singing it afterwards.
There was some glory in that. But
now the clown must be first-class
tumbler and q good pantomimist to
succeed. He sinks his individuality
with some ten or fifteen others, who
como out caparisoned in caps and bells.
The lines are drawn and the old order
giveth way to the new. Grimaldrs
mask has more fun in it than Dan
Rice's double entendre jokes. Sic
transit gloria mundi. IN Y. Mail
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-06-26
Anecdofcs or sohcnck.

Gen. Robert G.. Schenck is one of the
last of the whie gentlemen who adorn-
ed the national metropolis. His mill
tary career in the war was not remark
ably brilliant, but his wound secured a
pension for him, and his diplomatic
services ut London were very crcdita-
BILE, although an attempt was made to
connect him with the famous emma
Mine" Dom Piatt always insisted
that rs humorist Schenck should be
ranked next to Corwin, and, as a proof
of the generals wit. told story about
him at dinner of divines. One OF the
theologians had just returned from q
tour through Arabia, Persia, and the
Holy Land. He was full Of travelled
talk of dreamy, prosy sort, and at
last turned on tho cavernous character
of the country. "Full Of holesP' cried
Schenck, that Is the reason, sup
pose, that it is called the Holy Land. !"
'.Ah! no, my dear SIR" responded sol
EMMY the old clergyman; sit is so des-
ignated because our Savior was born
and suffered there" Schenck said
"Ahw and looked as solemn as gate
post.
On another occasion. shortly after
his return from his diplomatic mission
to South America, he was with some
friends at country house in Montgom-
cry county, Maryland. The host, a
good old, but somewhat ignorant, man,
asked one of the guests who Robert 9.
Schenck was. "Why," responded the
questioned individual, che is our min.
lister, Just home from South America. "
"Is hep" said the old gentleman. When
they were seated at the dinner-table,
to the amazement of all, the good old
gentleman said solemnly: 'Brothel
Schenck, will you ask blessingP"
Schenck responded with more force
than politeness that he would not.
And all laughed when they learned
that the host COMPOUNDED o minister
plenipotentiary with minister OF the
gospel.
Gen. Schcnck has for some years
past resided at Washington. where ht
owns handsome house facing on
Thomas circle. at the West end. III
was for some years confirmed inva
lid, and was afflicted with Brights dis
ease of the kidneys. when his physician
prescribed q skimmed-milk diet, which
Completely cured him, and no has since
enjoyed excellent health. Ben: Perte!
Poore, in Boston Budget
Some years ago travellers in Dalmati'
noticed largo tracts of land covered b!
a wild flower near which not q sign O
insect life was visib Q. The bloom wa
the pyrcthrum, whose odor deals dealt
to the lower forms Of life. and who's
powdered leaves form the basis OF ''in
sect powders" The seed OF this fowe'
was distributed In the United States
and q palmatian has been growing
with great success In Stockton. Cal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-06-26

A safety paper manufactured BY .
Massachusetts mill will make 1t diff
cult for any one to tamper with bank
notes or checks printed upon 1t. The
coloring matter Of the paper Is so pre-
pared that the application Of any chem
ical to remove tho ink will permanent
ly change the color of the paper, and
an ingenious device Is added which be-
trays Mt once any attempt to make an
erasure. Between the two the enter
prising forger will be sure to come TO
grief.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-06-26

Massachusetts has more than one
hundred women serving on her schools
boards this years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
THE IAPLACABLES.

A gentleman suggested to the editor
Of the CHRONICLE the other day that
the attitude of John Sherman and
Foraker recalls joke Joe Brown once
told at the expense of Bob Toombs.
The Georgia Senator said that an
old gentleman and his wife once at
tempted to cross stream in a ram
shackled buggy, to which mule was
attached. The ideas of the mule, as is
frequently the case, were not in full
accord with those of the driver, and
when he got to the middle OF the
stream he refused to go further, but
proceeded to exercise himself with
some vigorous kicking, greatly to the
damage OF the buggy and the discom-
fort OF its occupants. The old lady
crawled out, waded ashore and went
to the nearest house for help. The
help went to the old mans rescue,
while the old lady staid in the house
to dry. After some hours thus spent,
the help returned with the mule and
some drift-wood and old iron that had
once constituted the buggy.
where is my husband ?" shouted
the anxious old lady. "Oh, he is still a
settin on the bank cussin'," replied
the man who had fetched the mule"
Sherman and Foraker still sit Gus
sim ON the banks of the bloody chasm
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

JOHN J-LITTLEToN went out to the
Murfreesbtro fair, and while nosing
around among the negroes discovered
that the blacks of Rutherford county
are not allowed to vote as they would
like. From ibis he draws the corolIa-
ry that Tennessee would go Republi-
can if the negroes were all allowed to
vote as they please. He admits that
there is no violence or bull-dozing in
Rutherford, but says an old darkey
told him that he voted the Democratic
ticket because the white folks "skofed' :
when he voted fora Republican. John
probably intended this for contribu-
ton to Republican campaign htera-
ture in Ohio, but it strikes us that the
Democrats of that State could use it
to effect.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE American says railroad regula-
ton has never been made a party
question in Congress, but has in Ten
nessee. Nothing better illustrates the
Americans idea of politics. With that
organ everything is arbitrary. The
bosses are first to decide what the par
tvs principles shall be, and when they
have succeeded in having their dictum
made the pronunciamento of con-
veHtion, the voters must fall in
line or ges on the other side to be
shot at. According to the American,
railroad regulation could be made a
Republican measure in Illinois and
the one strong essential of pure De-
mocracy in Tennessee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
WHITE ON SMALL.

The unregenerate son of Balial, who
sits Oh the tripod of the Lebanon Her
aid, hardening his heart and stifFening
his neck against the call torepentance,
has the following to say of Georgia's
new evangelist:
DeSpalring of success In his effort to drink
all the whisky In Georgia, Sam Small of
Atlanta has given up the job and turned
evangelist. Our acquaintance,with Samuel
rather induces the belief that he has finally
found the vocation to which nature and cir
cumstances combine TO adapt him. His eX-
perience as a newspaper man has familiar
lied him with the desperate wickedness OF
the human heart, and his confidence in his
own ability will enable him to undertake
with easy assurance the conversion of the
entire human race. He has fluent deliV-
cry, and his inauguration is of that varie-
gated and effioreScent sort which would
never permit such a trivality as fact to mar
the pict1resqueness of an otherwise effect
i've statement. We venture the assertion
that, before he has been on the road a
month, Sam Will be asserting, with a SOL
emnity which will induce half his hearers
man who swears will steal, or that every
body who dances Is on a high road to hell
OF course he does not believe this-nobody
outside of lunatic asylum doeS-but 1T will
take wonderfully with that large class
which accepts as gospel everything which
emanates from the pulpit, and the evangel-
ist who would be successful must be "tak-
Ing" at all hazards. AS a fisher of men,
Sam will doubtless be a success.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

The Mugwumps have gone back to
the Republican party, and by so doing
have put themselves in rather incon-
sistent attitude. They pretend to sup
port the Administration at Washing
ton, yet advocate the election of Ira
Davenport Aside from his being the
Democratic nominee, Hill is emphati-
cally the Administrations candidate
for Governor, and the Mugwumps can't
be in full accord with the administra-
ton and at the same time oppose Hill.
These Mugwumps are, on the whole,
a rather queer lot, but we don't think
the Democrats have any right to abuse
them. They helped us elect a Presi-
dent, and for that much we should be
thankful il we can't secure their per-
petual support for the party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03


WE publish elsewhere an article
from Capt. Frank P. Gracey, ia regard
to On alleged SCOOP Of the Ryman
line Of steamers BY the H. & ~ rail
road. Capt Gacey has always been
one OF CiarksviIIes most public spirit
Cd citizens, and has probably done as
much A. any other man for the mate
rial advancement OF the city. He is
large owner of real estate here, and it
would be unnatural that he should
not have the good OF GAINESVILLE at
heart The arrangement he has re-
Gently made with Capt. Ryman is as
yet untried. It would atleast be char
liable to await the development of
some hostile movement toward Clarks-
vile before condemning it
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

scribed. Col. Crawford, the prime
mover in the enterprise, promises to
build road, provided he can get the
cooperation of the people along its
line II il claimed that sufficient coal
could be gotten out OF Fentress coun-
ty alone to make it paying invest
ment, and doubtless its construction
is thing in the near future. In many
counties the rosni has been exempted
from taxation for fifteen years. aud all
rights Of way granted"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

MIR. JOHN j. LITTLEToN eulogizes
Mr.. John j. Vertrees and fully con-
ours in the latter's opinion of him
self, viz: that he is a grand monopoly
of all that is truly Democratic in Ten
nessee, and that all protested Demo
Gratis not agreeing with Mr.. Vertrees
are Independents" and in Mr. Little
toms own choice language "a set Of
hypnnritao -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

Mr.. Roswell P. FLOWER insists on
estimating himself, and not having
his worth sized up by New York
convention. He thought he was good
timber for President, and then that he
would do for Governor of New York,
but the convention nominated him for
the ornamental position of Lieutenant
Governor. Roswell wouldn't have it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

An effort is still being made to have
Gen. Grants remains inferred in Wash
ington. The difficulty about deciding
on a final resting place for the old hero
recalls the joke perpetrated by Punch
when George Peabody's remains suf-
fered IL similar experience. Punch
said, "The Americans run everything
in the ground except Peabody"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE Lebanon Herald which is a
little impatient of unnecessary delay,
makes the following request of the
Nashville Boss
Now that the American has decided that
there shall be but one convention, next
year, and so disposed of that question, will
IL not kindly satisfy the not unnatural cur
riosity of the public by announcing the
names OF the gentlemen whom it has decid-
ed shall be nominated?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

A JURY in Memphis last week gave
a colored man verdict against the
Memphis L Charleston railroad for
$1,000, the damage sustained having
been the loss of a thumb. Yet some
people say that citizens have no chance
of justice when they litigante with rail-
roads! Maybe the railroads think so
foo
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
GIaTksviIIe Tobacco Market
OFFICE OF THE CHRONICLE

IT 4 III . 4 II r IIfI fttTI4ILIl
ELARKBvIbLE. Tenn Oct 2 1855 (
The market continues full of life and AMI
nation. with la &c sales, the offerings this
week being rather over $50 hhds. Prices
Were good for all sorts and rejections were
few Ia number The new crop is pressing
forward to the front, and holders are seek
ing to close out old seeks, for which the
present market favors them. We have had
at last gentle warm rains which will largely
increase the yield of the crop still in the
field. Our receipts in septe mber we're l,I9e
hhds; sales, 3,Ou hhds. Stocks Oct. LIST,
2,7sS hhds; Receipts to date are 2e,46s hhds;
Sales 26,50S hhds. The largest business ever
done by this market, but the next season
will no doubt largely exceed these figures.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE Americans attempt to make n
Republican measure out of the Blair
Educational Bill was a miserable fail
ure. The measure not only had the
support of a majority of Democrats in
its passage through the Senate, but
was opposed by John Sherman and
several other rabid Republicans.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

New York is getting to be the home
of statesmen bachelors. Tilden and
Cleveland are prominent in that line
and Hill and Davenport, the Demo-
cratic and Republican nominees for
the Governorship, are both in the same
category.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE Chester Citizen thinks ait will
be awful lonesome riding on Clarks-
vile street car" The editor OF the
Citizen hasn't been in GAINESVILLE re-
Gently aud doesn't know what metro
pohtan proportions this city is assum-
mo
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Bailey Warehonse.

SHELBY IL RUDOLPH, OF the Bailey Ware
house, sold for week ending Oct l, 1885,.
q hhds as follows:
hhds. common to good Tugs, s. 20, 90
) 20, 80, 6 10, 80, s 90.
4hhds. low leaf, 81 so, 80, 95, 90.
hhds. medium leaf, So 50, 60, s 20, so
s 50, 90, 8 60, 80, s 30.
2hhds. fine leaf, Sl2 70, Ii 70,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

WOULD the Louisville & Nashville
railroad be likely 10 do anything so
much against its own interest as to
work TO decrease the tobacco ship
ments from ClarksviIleY
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE admirers of the American can
see how much it is given to stating
facts by a reference to an article from
the Manchester Times, printed else
where.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

Gen. Edward F. Jones, of Binghamp-
ton. has been selected to fill the vacan-
cy on the Democratic State ticket of
New York, caused by the resignation
of Roswell P. Flower as the nominee
for Lieutenant-Govern
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

EDITOR ENLoE has failed in his at
tempt to patch up a truce with the
American. He will continue to fail
so long as he refuses to subscribe to
the mandate, ~Obey Boss Vertrees."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Peoples warehouse.

HANCOCK, FRASER d RAGsDALE, of the
Peoples Warehouse, sold for the week end
ing Oct. l. 1885, so hhds. as follows:
SO hhds. common and good leaf 81 10 to
IL %.
26 hhds. common and good Tugs, "a 90 to
so
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Gracey House.

SMITH & ANDERSON of the Gracey Ware
house, sold for the week ending Oct. l,
1885, 243 hhds. as follows:
1872 hhds leaf, Sl4 90 to 90.
Ill hhds. Tugs, 81 80 TO 80.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Central Warehouse.

KENDRICK, PErrUs q Co., of the Central
Warehouse sold for the week ending Oct.
l, 1885, 10 hhds as follows:
9S hhds. leaf, from IS 90 to IL so.
hhds. leaf, from 81 %, to 90.
56hhds. Tugs, from s. so, to 40.
hhds. Tugs. from 81 10, to 40.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE colored peoples stock show
comes Off Friday and Saturday. 1t is
a laudable undertaking and should be
encouraged.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Sales Reported Since Our Last Issue.
Warehouse.

Herndon, Young & Co sold for the week
ending Oct l. 1885, 339 hhds., as follows:
267 hhds. leaf, 81 rs to IA rs.
" hhds. Tugs, 80 ~ to 3 10.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Blk. Gold, Leaf Tobacco Broker. repor
as follows:

as follows:
Our market for the past month was gem
orally very active and strong for all grades,
until near the close, when In consequence
OF the Improvement in the outstanding por-
zion of the crop, caused by frequent showers
In September, and warm growing weather,
having a depressing influence, resulting in
a slight decline for nearly all grades, more
especially for good and fine tobaccos- About
45 to so per cent of the crop Is now In the
field, and If the farmers will only let it stand
until maturity. we may yet expect fair
proportion of good, heavy, substantial to-
baccO6
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

THE Nashville American is doing some
good work in one direction anyhow. 1t Is
publishing some very valuable agricultural
articles, which all our farmers would do
well to read.-Mildn Exchange.
II Vertrees would turn himself off
and make Col. Killebrew editor-in-
chief of the American, it would be a
first-class paper in every particular.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

Court adjourned till p. m, when the Jury
received the instructions wllich were brief.
They retired 10 their jury -roonl for consul
tatiOn. Every one expected hung jury or
an acquittal on account of the great influ-
ence, wealth and high characters involved
in the famous trial. But no Ss.oIer had the
twelve men retired Iiaan % verdict was
agreed upon-eyen Willie. sittistg la the fury
The prisoner Was brought np fIfs mother
and other relatives remained absent. AS
the roll OF the5nry was called d.afls~Iike
Stiffness iss-fVasIFd tie st4Itai Tn. tl~ual
f1r,iisiitiss wer'. s"as Trough with. when
the yefdisi WIS b:.;isi Il 10 the clerk, Who
read as follows:
Ne Of The jury hnd the defendant entity
and tx his punishment by confinement In
the STATE pehiisntiary Tor life"
THIS CLOSES Tie most remarkable trial in
our history. 1t was probably due fo the
b, Garnet that ssscnred q conviction.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03
Radford Found Guilty.

Now is the time to pay city taxes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

The following account Of the clos
ing of the trial of Luther Radford for
the murder of Jacob Torian at Hop
kinsville last Saturday, is taken from
a dispatch to the Nashville Union:
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

Evansville Special Sept. %, says: In
terviews with large leaf tobacco buyers
show that fears of injury of frost are un-
founded. so far there is no serious damage
to it in any way in this section of the coun-
try.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-03

Nashville American: To preserve the
color of the leaf which it takes when first
cured, fires should be kindled in the barns
every morning and during every damp spell
and the tobacco thoroughly dried out.
When the stalks and stems are fully cured
it should be taken down and put in bulk.