Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-17
KENTUCKY ITEMS


Mrs. Ada Powell died this week
at Guthrie after a lingering illness.
The creamery at Trenton is turn
ing out 600 pounds of butter daily.
1t will be unlawful to shoot birds
in Christian county before Nov. /.
The President has appointed A.
FL. Dudley postmaster at Princeton.
The Democratic county conven-
is called to meet at Elkton on the oath.
There was dance at Howe's Hall
in Hopkinsville Monday evening in
honor OF visiting young ladies'.
Mr.. M. Fillmore Crenshaw and
Miss Leila Ware were married in the
Baptist church in Hopkinsville on the
9Th.
Alexander Crofton died at Days
vile Monday, in his 6lst year. He
was raised in Tennessee, and had not
been living long in Kentucky.
Hon. D. B. Smith, of the Hadens-
vile vicinity, sold last week-to w. E.
Russell, of Lebanon, KY, five two-year-
old Holstein heifers for 81 500 cash.
-Messrs. John F., James and Green
bury Johnson, and Mr.. b. F. Price, all
citizens of Logan county. have pur-
chased land in Texas and will move
there inDecember.
Quarterly meeting will be held in
the Methodist church at Fairview, on
Saturday and Sunday, Oct 31st and
Nov. LIST. The presiding elder, Rev.
R. F. Hayes, will be present.
New Era: Farm work of all
kinds has been going on with great
activity during the highly favorable
weather of the past two weeks. To
bacco has been largely cut and a great
deal of wheat land seeded.
While the stewards of the Meth
odist church of Bowling Green were
in session Friday evening, some mis-
creant threw a brick in at the window,
striking Rev. Dennis Spurrier on the
head and inflicting painful wound.
The Elkton Progress of the 14th
says: Mr.. Charles Mauzy was married
in GAINESVILLE yesterday to Miss Min
ME Smith. He has rented the house
which has been purchased by A. R.
Mart, and they go to keeping house
Immediately.
The team shooting match at Kut-
tawa an Saturday, Oct II, will be I'M
der the auspices of the Kuttawa Fair
Company. The first prize is a fine
breeeh-loading shot gun, $50, the Sec
ond silver tea service, and the third
sweepstakes, SIS in cash.
Joseph Smith, mail-carrier be-
tween Paducah and Benton, was found
hanging few days ago. He had cut
his throat without fatal effect, and then
climbed a tree, tied a grapevine around
his neck and swung into eternity.
Temporary insanity caused by busl-
ness trouble is supposed to have been
the cause.
Deputy Sheriff Cliburn, of Chris
tan county, accidentally shot and NOR
tally wounded Silvia johnson, eight
miles from Hopkinsville Sunday.
Sheriff Boyd and Cliburn went to Sill
Was house in search of Chas. Stewart
who murdered George Moore short
time ago. The door opened suddenly
and Silvia ran out, and, it is said, ran
against Cliburn's pistol, causing it to
discharge, with the effect described.
The marriages of Mr.. ]. F. Clardy
and Miss Carrie Dade, and Mr.. Andrew
]. Gregory and Miss Jodie Rives, are
announced for next Thursday, the 18th,
in the Newstead and Church Hill
neighborhoods, respectively. A recep-
ton to the former couple at DR.. ]. d.
Clardy's and one to the latter at Mrs
J. M. Gregorys, will both be given on
Thursday evening.-Hopkinsu;lIe Ken
istokiGn, Oct. u
A Bowling Green Special of the
18th says: Reuben Rogers, young
man about 20 years old, in company
with several other boys Mt the stave
and heading factory, about a mile west
OF town, on the river, was turning
summersaults from a shed into some
saw-dust, when he miscalculated and
fell on his head. For two hours he
lay senseless and unable to move, dur
ing which time it was thought his
neck Was broken. ILowbeit, physi
clan, by the application of liniments,
soon restored him, but indications
point to a disturbance of the brain
which is likely to cause death.
"A special from Bowling Green,
dated the 10th, says: This morning
about 10 o'clock, as Virgil Chandler.
a young man IS years old, was hand
ling 32-calibre revolver on his fathers
Grew. J. S. Chandler) farm, two and a
half miles west of town, it accidentally
discharged, the ball entering the abdo-
men of Arthur Brashamp, negro boy
eight years old, MORALLY wounding
him. d. He told Chandler he felt a
singing sensation and was satisfied he
was shot, but Chandler convinced him
he was not, and they loitered about
the premises some time before going
to the house. For several minutes
after being in the house the boy began
to weaken from internal bleeding,
when he was undressed and found
that the ball bad entered his bowels.
The attending physician pronounced
the wound necessarily fatal, and says
that he cannot survive through the
night.
AIR. PRESTON JOHNSON OF this county
bought splendid Jersey bull, Tenel-
las lewis 1877 ut NJ NJ GardDar'S