Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-01-24

work will be resumed. I'm the mean
time the hands are not idle, but are
busy quarrying and dressing stone to
be used in the further elevation OF the
piers.
Chas. Hodge shot and killed VIM.
r. Jenkins in Chattanooga Saturday
night for an alleged insult to the for
mers sister. The young lady was
passing the store where Jenkins work
ed when some one therein winked at
her and made insulting signs. Hodge
hearing of this supposed Jenkins was
the guilty party, and hence the shoot
ing. It turned out to be case OF
mistaken identity. The young man
who insulted the young lady was
stranger from Alabama.
NASHVILLE, January 16-ln the
case of the State of Tennessee VS.. the
Bank OF Tennessee's noteholders-,
Chancellor Merritt decreed to-day
that the holders of the fractional cur
rency issued should be excluded from
participating in the distribution Of
the banks assets, and that the State is
not liable to receive the same for taxes
or other dues, but he held that the
holders of post notes are entitled to
participation, and that the State must
receive them for taxes or other dues.
Both parties appealed. ia 81
Tribune and Sun: jamestown, the
county seat of Fentress county, is rs
years old, and has never had church
of any kind within its borders. 1t is
out of the world, among the hills, has
no railroads, and, if the foolish mud
die about Commission to prevent
the building of railroads is not set
down upon too heavily, it never will
have access to the outside world by
any other means than a dirt road. o
for a little common sense to dawn
upon the members of the present
Legislature. Build more roads
build them everywhere, and then, if
they don't behave Reconsideration
Savage is dead-@regulate" them until
they do. &
The corporation of Gallatin VS.. sa-
looms war continues with undated in
terest. Last January the privilege
tax was levied by the Board OF Alder
men, and fixed at 1925. The saloon
keepers refused the payment of the
same, the case was tried before Justice
Dismukes, who decided the case I'M
constitutional The corporation then
carried the case to the Circuit Court
and Judge Stark decided it was con-
stitutional. The saloon men appealed
to the Supreme Court and filed an in
junction restraining the corporation
from collecting the tax, which they
thought excessive. Chancellor Geo. E
Seay dissolved the injunction, yester-
day, and the decision, by consent, will
abide the decision of the Supreme
Court of the Circuit Court case. A
year has been consumed in carrying
the case from one court to another.
Tribune and Sun: A company OF a
dozen or more Northern gentlemen
arrived in this city Wednesday, and
began prospecting Jackson and sur
rounding country. All of them are
from Iowa, and they left home with
Jackson as their objective point They
are business men, and hearing SO
much of the possibilities Of this sec
ton as producer of diversified crops,
they have come to learn the truth.
Occasionally we have remarked that
the tide of immigration from the
North was gradually sweeping South
ward, and at no distant day the influx
of intelligent men of experience and
capital would make investments in
our midst The assertion is being
verified and the small companies now
prospecting are only the skirmish
lines Of the grand army of hom.e-seek-
ers that will ultimately encamp on
our lands to enrich, restore and beau
tify them with variegated products.
Tribune and Sun: Mr.. Calvin G..
Verser, who has been a resident in
Luling, Caldwell county, Texas, for
two years, returned to this county last
week with his family. After giving
that State fair trial he says that, ev-
erything considered, Tennessee is
much more preferable than Texas.
His advice to those who have homes
here and contemplate breaking up
and going to Texas, is to remain. He
stated that the drOuth in the West
was very severe last year, and that 1T
was 12O days between showers-from
May till September. He says those
who remain here and labor to pro-
duce sufficiency of lifes necessities,
reap more in the aggregate than those
who try their fortunes in Texas where
drouth and other disadvantages so
strongly prevail.
PARIS, Tenn, Jan, VA fire broke
out here last night in the second story
of the Howard block, on the west side
OF the square, in which Mr.. c. Frazier
was doing business, and, except his
stock, everything was lost. Mr.. Ace
Towards loss was something over
$4,000; insurance, $1,000. w. F.
Dawson's grocery was next consumed,
and in it three or more bodies were
lost. Young Boofman and negro
were killed while trying to save Daw-
sons stock. FIJI Myers, a negro por
ter for Cal. Humphreys, was buried
in the cellar thirty minutes with a
disloeated shoulder, crying for help,
and finally was saved, giving heart
history of his underground
prison of death. w. F. Dawson's loss
was $1,000 insurance, $500. His
stock was pretty we'll saved. Others |
narrowly escaped with their lives. |
The bodies are being searched for.