Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-02-07
STATE NEWS.

shipped from Murfressboro to Missis-
sippi and Georgia last week.
Mr.. r. c. Parker. prominent citi-
zen OF Bethpage, Sumner county died
The Farmens' National Bank and
the National Bank of Franklin, both
located at Franklin, have consolidated.
The Postofiee at Darwin Station, and
the two leading stores there were bur-
CARRIED Friday night and nearly $500
stolen.
Col. Thomas b. Bond and Capt.
Robert +. McCaul, both prominent
citizens OF Williamson county, died
last week.
Dixon Press The yield of peanuts
was extra large the past season. JAS.
s. Murreli, ot Humphreys county, in
forms us that he made 800 bushels
from four acres of ground; an aver
age of rs bushels per acre.
Tribune & Sun: Col. d. II. Bomar,
OF Henry county, has succeeded in
selling farms to two immigrants from
Michigan. They are well pleased and
are very actively at work putting their
farms in condition for the next crop.
Tribune & Sun: There is nothing
the matter with West Tennessee.
Her people are nearer out of debt
and have more cash than they have
had at any time since the war. Spring
business will be correspondingly good.
Tribune & Sun: Ben Johnson who
lives near ChristmasviIle in Carroll
county, started to Trezeyant Wednes-
day 21st inst riding a mule. The
ground was covered with ice, and the
mules fore feet slipped out in oppo-
site directions square to the right and
left splitting its chest open and killing
it instantly.
The prospectus of the Daily Journal
a new Republican paper to be issued
in Knoxville by Messrs. Rule & Mar.
filed has been published, in which it is
said that the Journal shall be too broad
in its management to be used in the
interest of fiction or for personal or
selfish ends, and will condemn wrong
| wherever il may appear.
Lebanon Herald: We notice with
regret that so-called dramatic com
pany, proposing to present play called
@Peck's bad boy and his pa" has inva.
ded this commonwealth. The book
made up of the "bad boy" sketches
was vile enough, but to present its
combination of idiocy and irreverence
ON the stage is simply atrocious. II
should be aOated rs a public nuisance.
On the place of w. B. Cloyes near
Jordon, Ob;on county, there is a small
bored well which will boil and roar
twelve or eighteen hours before a rain
Anyone can hear the boiling, roaring
noise at least twenty yards. The well
seems to get no more nor no less wa
ter in it. 1t is nearly ninety feet
deep, and the water is pure and clear
1t roars only when the atmosphere is
heavy.
GALLArIN, TENN, Feb. 2 The mule
trade still remains brisk and to-day
the streets have been well filled with
buyers at prices ranging from 1925 to
$3.50. Several car loads were shipped
to-day TO the South. Among the most
prominent shippers is Pierce C Bur
ford. This firm has bought $4,000,
(45O head) having shipped $50 of them
to Alabama They have stables at Gal
latin and Nashville.
The Legislative committee engaged
in examining the Vertrees and MiIliken
code is composed of Senators Bryan,
Stovall and Blackmore, and Represen-
tatives Carmac, Crunk, Ruhm, Mum
ford and Vernon. Senator Nj. r.
Bryan is chairman, and Representative
Carmac secretary. The committee is
now in session, and will report prog
ress to both houses from time to time
until the complete theft work, when
they will review the code thoroughly.
A white man named Pen Smith was
murdered by some one unknown on
the road between Covington and RAN
dolph last week. He had been in Cow
ington during the day and was return
ing home. The murder is a deep
mystery as he was not known to have
an enemy and he was not robbed of the
money he had on his person or the
goods he had purchased in town. The
killing was done by blows ON the back
of the head.
Tennessee still leads her sister States
in fine stock. At the Worlds Fair,
New Orleans, Messrs. Robert Douglass
& Son, stock breeders, Saundersville
Tenn, carried off the first and second
premiums on their three-year old
jacks. The first premium was $3.50.
Joe ID. Martin, Gallatin, was awarded
fourth blue ribbon on his two year old
jack. These premiums we're taken
over fine ring of representative stock
from every State in the Union.
PARIS, TENN, Jan. 31.-Mr. Eli AL
len, the young man who received a
stab in the right breast Thursday even
ing, at the hands of marion Brock
WELL" drunken and notorious bad
character, died to-day about / o'clock
p. m. Mr.. Allen was quite a nice
young man but addicted to drink and
was in town on a "spree" when the
difficulty arose between him and
BrockwelL Brockwell was lodged
i'll Jail and is now retained under the
charge of murder.
Waverly News: Friday morning
last, Mr.. Ben Larkins was going from
his home up town, he slipped on the
sleet, and falling face downward, fell