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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
TIE RUSSIAN DESIGN.

The dream OF the Gar for centuries
has been to expel the Turk from Eu-
rope and establish capital ON the
Bosphorus He would be ut home
there. for large number OF the inhab-
itants of Turkey in Europe are OF the
'ireek church in their religion and, to
great extent, homogeneous with the
Russians. They are the native popu-
htion who held the country before
Mohammed ii and his triumphant
Ottomans entered Constantinople in
the 10th century.
With the Russian capital in Con-
stantinople, the vast region under the
control of the Car would become
greater Empire of the East in po-
litical power and territorial extent
than Constantine ever dreamed OF.
Greece could not resist absorption
by such powerful neighbor, and Rus
STA would thus acquire e trained mari
time population and the control OF the
Mediterranean.
The empire thus formed would be
the most powerful the world ever
knew, and the center of civilization
would probably drift back to its an
cient Hellenic abode.
While Russia is making demon
stration in the direction of India, her
real design is fixed on Turkey. The
ultimate object of her Eastern move
ments for years passed, has been
in that direction Lord Salisbury
thought the Turkoman barrier would
last at least lifetime, but Russia has
broken it down in one or TWO vigorous
crmpaigns. This was not simply TO
add Turkestan to the Russian empire
1t WAS to make nearer approach to
Herat, the gate 10 India, with the in.
tention which we shall now point out.
Last January Gen. Sobeloff wrote in
the ST. Petersburg Journal what might
happen if Russian army should sud
denly appear on the plains of Hindoo-
stan "and proclaim the independence
of the native population" This native
population is 250,O00D00 strong and l.
held in subsection by scarcely more.
than 100000 Englishmen. There have
already been rumors of rebellion in
Punpb, RajpOOtana and other provin'
ces of Bengal. With India in insur
rection England would have her hands
full Russia would march to the Bos-
phorus and her long cherished dream
be fulfilled Austria would be the
only power to offer opposition and she
could be bought off with the gift OF
Servia and Montenegro.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE latest war news we have is Il
United Press dispatch in the CIncin-
natl Evening Post of Thursday. 1t
says: "The Gar presided at the grand
council of war. The council lasted
from 4 o'clock in the afternoon till 10
at night. 1t was decided that the Rus
sian army should advance to Her,t
and occupy it. After the occupation
Il Russian administration is to be inn
mediately established in the city"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE Cincinnati Times-Ssar's Wash
ington correspondent says: "There
are several State factions, that
have aspired to be even national fac
tons, which have distinguished them
selves of late by unsuccessful attempts
to dictate the policy of the admins
tration or to say what its appoint
ments should be in certain cases. One
of the most marked instances OF this
kind is in the Tennessee cases.
The last OF the Tennessee dictators has
gone home sad and hopeless, leaving
the President to manage his affairs us
he may see fit"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

TENNYsoN's elevation to the peerage
seems to have destroyed the divine
afflatus that once filled his being. He
has recently published poem on the
British fleet that would disgrace the
vernal versilier OF a country newspa-
per. 1t is the general opinion, on this
side of the Atlantic at least, that the
Laureate don't earn his $3.50 a year
salary and ought to be turned off.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

Col. COLYAR is decidedly too much
for the American in a dispute about
the tariff. He has completely circum-
vented that journal, and brought its
arguments to a painful recl,tcti0 ad ab-
surcium. The funny part of the thing
Is, that all this WIS done while the
American WAS posing in the lofty atti-
tude OF ignoring the Colonel and his
newspaper, The Union.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02


The paper on Jane Welsh Carlyle.
published on the first page Of this is.
sue, will be found very readable and
well considered. II has been on hand
some time awaiting convenient sea-
son for publication.
Since MFR. Froude considered il his
duty, as literary executor, to dig up
the minute details OF Carlyle's home
life, he world OF letters has taken
much delight in discussing the reve-
lations thus made. Literary ladies
have especially found it a fruitful
source of controversy, whether or not
the great philosopher end historian
was just to his wife. Gail Hamilton
had some entertaining articles on the
subject in the North American Re-
view, to which the paper ON the first
page refers.
We have always considered this a
strained point, and have been content
to know Carlyle as he appears in his
Frederick the Great" French Revo-
luton" 'Sartor Resartus," and other
books. He was not man of action;
his heart, soul and life we're devoted to
his literary labors, and from his books
is to be gathered the only true esti-
mate of his character. 1t is matter
of small moment that in irritable and
unguarded moments he has been
known to speak with unwonted and
unjustifiable severity. The fact that
he was sometimes peevish with his
wife and cross with his cook, is not
worthy of mention, much less the inn
pOrtance that has been gwen it.
The article on the first page was
contributed by lady who formerly
resided in New Providence, and is we'll
known here.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

If England and Russia ever deter
mine To- hight, the war may not be alto
grther in \ighauIStIn rs - now eX-
pected. While England opposes the
Russian advance there with an army
of Indian troops, ,he will doubtless
curry her fleets INTO the Elack Sea and
besicge Odessa. 1t is not Improbable
that the battle ground will again be IN
tho ErIDpp
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE Union summed up the logical
conclusions t. be drawn from the
Americans statements concerning the
tariff. Henry WatterSon saw it late
in the evening" and installing it for
COlyar's own reasoning. poured out on
the head of the supposed offender u
torrent Of invective. 1t was a queer
blunder and the Union enjoys the joke.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

TIE question of war between Eng
land and Russia still remains a matter
OF uncertainty. Both parties have
been making extensive preparations
for fight, and the tone of each grows
gradually more beligerent. 1t seems
that war is inevitable, and if . peace
is patched up, it is likely to be only
Temporary
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE Nashville Art Exhibition closed
last week, after very successful sea-
son. Numbers of people throughout
Middle Tennessee who awaited them
selves of this opportunity of seeing a
fine collection of pictures, we might
say collection of fine pictures, hope
that the exhibit will be made again in
the future.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

Mrs, JENKINS" who writes very live
ly and entertaining fashion letters in
the Nashville Union, is not excusable
for attributing to Puck a witticism
which Douglas Jerrold got off in its
London prototype, Punch, before Puck
came into existence.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

IT is shrewdly suspected that France
will take II hand in the coming fight,
and will, this time, he the ally of Rus
STA. The row with Egypt concerning
the suppression of the BoSphore Egyp-
ten newspaper has led to this suspi-
cion, and it is strengthened by the
French back-down in China. If this
be true Germany will also be drawn
into the fight and there will be gen
eral European war,sswith an entirely
new construction of maps us the re-
at,If
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

WHERE did Minister De Giers and
ambassador De Staal get their French
names? We are so used to hearing
itch" or off appended to the Russian
cognomen that nothing else seems
natural coming from that country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

IT is said that neither pestilence or
famine will keep off the voracious of
tice-seeker. The consul at Callas, Pc
ru, died last week from yellow fever,
and already there have been 100 appli-
catious for the vacant place.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

To the yOungster who has sprain
as we'll as the old gentleman who suit
ers from Rheumatism, Lame Back. or
Neuralgia, Ceussens Lightning Lini-
ment, affords a relief which such suf-
erers can appreciate. Owners of val
liable horses also rejoice 10 know there
is.such remedy as this liniment for
SPAWN. Ringbone, Scratches, Calls etc,
For sale by Owen & Moore and w. s.
Rarbee e Co
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

President Cleveland saws The Uni
ted States hgie' md not The United
St,t'~ h, ~" This is an m- tnre whore
a mans politics effects his gramm r
From Democratic standpoint the
President is emphatically correct.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

The Rome IN. W Sentinel reports
that two men who served on jury at
a trial in Utica the other day, after
they retired, voted ON verdict i'll di-
rect opposition to their real sentiments
because they did not know the differ
ehce between the terms plaintiff aud
"delendant'' in the case. = 91HuI --.a
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

AN article from the Louisville
Times, which we publish elsewhere in
this issue, gives what would be a very
Interesting "reminiscences of the late
war, if it were true. The story is
spoilt by the fact that Southern SOL
diers didn't wear white shirts.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE Greensboro Messenger proposes
that 1.-THE Car and the Queen employ
a couple of our Kentucky diplomats"
to arrange their difficulties. Kentucky
politicians have ample leisure to serve
foreign countries just now. The Uni
ted States don't seem to have any use
for them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

If the British navy has degenerated
as much as the British poet who re-
Gently attempted some verses concern
ing it, the ceptre has departed from
Judah; England is no longer monarch
of the seas.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
J, ssviI } Wholesale Market
CORRECTED by cKusMAN 4 HOWARD

CORRECTED BY CiiCSMAN Il HOWARD
SUGAR-Cut Loaf. Crushed, Powdered and
Gr;,.,ItIs.ted. 61SG9c: Clarified, G97 cts
MOL AsSsES- New Orleans, 25 10 B5c Sor.
gIuIn. none in market.
SYIsUf-2 &c 10 TIC.
COFFEE-we quote Rio, 10 to Is Java,
22iz TO BIC.
SALI-kanawha, bushel bbls., 81 u; by
FL9trRIsuperiine, 50 10 TO co: Extra,
e. . To 10; Choice or Fancy. "a 10 to D .:
Patent Process, ID 10 to %.
STAR CANDLES-I5 to lGc.
co eSTnEry Il 8 SSd 20
RICE-Carolina, to &c.
StlAP-BaT 4%G7c.
OILS-Coal oil, l3c; lard oil, 80S90c; lin
rURPENTINE-Spirit SEC.
NARNISA-Copal, 81 %; Japan, sOe.
CLASS Window, sxlO. 81 rs per box; lOn
PoWDEs-Rifie. "a 00@s4 so per keg
cad, g psr p ound. a.,o a, 90 80. ,ox.,
MACkEREI-No.s per bbI., $40 90 to IL o
kits, NosI. and 8. 75c TO 81 %.
BIACKINGI-25@50c per dozen.
+ MAI iS-S2 %. Steel - 10.
iRoN-K Kentucky. 214c; Tennessee, &c.
RUPE-ll@l5c ~as
TRACESSS5O 20 to II 90 per dozen.
= GOI.L4ARS-S55 30 to Il 90 per dozen. -s
HAMESES5 so to 10 90 per dozen.
oRcHA fIs Sk e s. PEI 3 G 10 e
BLUE GRASS-Sl 25 to 81 20.
TIMOTHY SEED-$l 90 to 81 IS.
CLOVER SEEDS 25 10 S. 80.
RED TOPS to 60c.
SHOT-SI 55 q 70.
sCAPS-40@5Oc per 1000.
OYSTERS and 2 lb. cans. 81 l001 90.
CHEESE-Prime factory, S@l5.
The following are the prices paid here at
this date for country produce:
PORK-none.A Il
BACON-S to SIC.
LARD-7@8.
TALLOW-5 cts.
PEANUTS-50 @ zoe per bushel.
GINSENG-SI 25 TO 40.
BEESWAX-i5 to l6c.
FEATHERS-new. 30 TO Acc.
PEANS-Nayy 70c@l 20 per bu.
.'EAS-50c TO 81 so.
EGGS-Retailing IL to 15c per dog. From
wagon III q l2c per. dozen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

AGAIN, we are ready with good
stock of Clothing, Shirts, and Under
wear for the season; also, full ;,Ssort-
ment of fine samples, from which to
have garments or SUITS made to order.
Those who want Clothing can do well
to call on us. tia -E t-
fe es PITMAN 4 LEWIS.
ApriI 1SS5
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

The Democrat is on cold trail If it
experts IT, make us take sides in the
Porter-Whitthorne quarrel We think
both gentlemen were in the wrong
and condemn the whole business.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
April 4, 1885. ar

The West Tennessee Horticultural
Society will hold it, third annual fruit
and vegetable fair and floral exhibition
atTrenton, May ~ and %, 1885 Liber-
al premiums offered in all depart
ments.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

If the Russians allow themselves to
be chawed up and spit out by the AT
ghans, how do they expect to stand be-
fore an army of British soldiers?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02

THE Avalanche says: THE last lay of
the last laureate was Il degree below
the elegant poems of the gifted Mother
Goose"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
AsLoRQ EeIt Want

Supplied, Bowling & Wilson are sell
ing Childrens' shirt waist, from - cts
to 81 20, Something nice. ,...
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
BLOCH BROS.
TO AGENTS.


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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-02
n-Resident Notice.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09
MINISTERS OF WOE!
WORKING DISTRESS AND DEsTRUc,
TON IN VARIOUS PARTS.
anime Lifting Its Horrid Head in West
Nirginia---Fire in Lunatic AsyIum;
One Fatality--Heavy Han
Storms Rage.

PARKERsBURG, Va, June 9.-The destitu-
ton among the people of jackson county
has reached point which threatens the
most serious results unless prompt relief is
afforded by the outside world. From time
to time the lack of food and CONSEQUENT suf.
ferlng have been described by people out
side the county who have become ac-
quainted with the facts, but these state
ments of fact have been persistently de-
MED by those who should have been fore
most in extending aid. Now the truth is re-
luctantly admitted by all, and the county
press this week eiitorially appeals for aid
while the columns of the papers are filed
with touching incidents of tie famine. 1t
Is asserted that unless help comes 800 fam
lies in Washington district will starve.
Last week meetings were held at White
Pine and New Kentuck, at which scores of
citizens, representing their respective
neighborhoods, testified as to the extent of
the famine, many pitiful stories being told.
Hiram Cobb, the owner of a mill, said the
people would come at the rate of dozen a
day, after walking great distances, begging
| for pint or quart of meal, and some
times bringing half peck OF grain or q
few ears OF corn to be ground.
He knew men who had gone for five days
without food, and he himself would soon be
q sufferer. j. H. Garrett said his neighbors
were actually starving, while John Smith
county assessor, said that to his certain
knowledge thirty-five families were in dan
ger of starving at New Kentuck. An ap
peal for aid was signed by representative:
Of 100 families. These are but specimen
stories. One family is said to have subsisteC
for five days on lettuce, and when found
| were nearly dead
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09

SAN Francisco, June 9-Grasshopper
tavages in California are much less serious
than at first supposed. The damages to
grain by them are mostly confined to the
southern portion of the San Joaquin valley.
The latest reports from there show that the
first statements were greatly exaggerated.
No correct estimate can yet be made of the
damage. Ayoung vineyard in the neigh.
borhood of Sacramento has been partially
damaged, but bearing vines have escaped
The pests will not remain long in this state
The trade winds which prevail at this season
Of the year don't seem to agree with them
D. W. Coquelette, of the agricultural de
partment at Washington, is here invesuigat
ing the matter
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09
Connecting New England with the Coal
EiaIds

New YORK, June 9-Engineers are to be
placed in the field this week to resurvey a
line of Connecticut, crossing the Hudson
river at Storm King, and uniting the south
western system Of roads and the coal roads
with those of the New England states,
to be known as the New England
& Southwestern Railroad company.
The projected road will greatly
lessen the distance between points in New
England and the coal fields of Pennsylvania
and cotton fields of the south. Numerous
petitions to the legislature of Massachu-
setts have been presented by business men
asking for state aid for the road, which
they claim will. when completed save riill-
ions of dollars to consumers and manu-
facturers in tolls for hauling and expenses
consequent on the rehandling of supplies
as now necessitated by the present lines OF
roads connecting New England with the
south and west.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09
INSANE WOMAN CREMATED.
Destruction of Virginia Lunatic


Destruction of Virginia Lunatic
Asylum.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, June AT II
o'clock Sunday night fire broke out in the
right wing of the center building of the
Eastern lunatic asylum, and before it could
be got under cantrol everything was de-
stroyed The buildings burned COM
prise the original ones OF the institution,
and were erected over 100 years ago. There
were 2J0 female patients in the burned
buildings, but all of them were rescued ex
sept one, Miss Smith, Of Spottsylvania
county, who was burned to death Another
patient Mrs Jeffries, after being brought
out of the building, wandered away and
was found Monday morning drowned in q
creek near by. All the female patients were
taken to William and Mary college, where
they were temporarily cared for. The
other wards contained nearly 300 male pa
5ients.
When it was found that the fire was get
ting beyond control, aid was telegraphed
for from Richmond, and steamer reached
mere from that city at about o'clock Mon
lay morning, but the fire had then done its
worst
None of the male wards were burned, they
being located in buildings partly discon-
lected from those destroyed and strong
| wind blowing from them. The total loss is
| estimated at from $40, 900 to $4,000; in
surance, about $40, 900.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-09
FAITHFUL FOR THIRTY YEARS.
A New England Girl Whose Ship Cam
Home at Last.


Home at Last.
HARTFORD Conn, June 9-The simple
announcement in local paper: Married
In Hartford, June 2, W. w. Converse, of
New Haven, and Miss Belle Spencer, OF
Hartford" gives little clew to one Of the
most romantic affairs that have ever oc-
CURED in local history. Such romances
are not unfamiliar in novels, but
in real life are rare The bride
groom is the president of the Win
chester Arms company, great New Haven
corporation of world wide fame, employing
1000 hands, and the bride is mem
Der of an old Connecticut family. Before
the war Mr.. Converse, then young man
of %, came from Massachusetts and
located in Hartford. He met Miss Spencer
who was Of the same age, and an engage
ment followed. About this time Miss Spen-
GERS father, a hotel-keeper, died, leaving
the family in somewhat straitened circum.
stances-so much SO, in fact, that the widow
opened boarding house as a means of sup
porting herself and three children. Miss
Belle, the eldest, was besought to remain
with her mother during her lifetime, and
promised to do So Her mother was
then nearly 50 and needed other as
sistance and counsel The young
girl therefore refused to marry Con-
verse, and lovers quarrel ensued, result
ing in his removed to New Haven. He pros
pered there, and some time later, by mar.
riage with a New Haven woman, was
brought into close relations with the Win
chesters Eventually he engaged in bust
moss with them, and in the course of a veal
rose to the presidency of the company with
a salary of $4,000 per annum. He heard
but infrequently from his early love, and
finally report reached him that she wa,
| dead.
| His wife died three years ago, and last
| fall he heard that Miss Spencer was ye
alive and unmarried, aud that for thirty
| long years she had held her promise to re
main with her mother until death relieved
her from her duty. In November last hel
mother died at the age of Is, and within
| few weeks Mr. Converse called upon th'
sweetheart Of his early manhood. He eallet
once, and again and again, and during th'
winter the engagement of thirty years be
fore was renewed He gave her elegan
presents, and wedding trouseau of tn
finest description was prepared.
The ceremony was performed last Tuesda,
week, and was quiet affair, with the wed
ding party limitel to a few friends. The,
were handsome couple-he a well pre-
served gentleman of 50; she retaining muc
of her youthful beauty, although her dar
hair wa literally sprinkled with gray. Tn
wedding trip, like their marriage, was
quiet AFFAIR." carriage journey throug
the beautiful Berkshire hills of wester
Massachusetts. never mora delightful tina
in New England June After all thes
years Of devotion to what Miss Spencer hel
to be her duty, she is deserving of the cor
gratulations her friends have showered upo
her for the happy termination.