Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-09-26


Tennessee journalist, lately of the
Nashville Union, has gone to Cinein-
natl to take place on the Enquirer.
Ii Sam Jones can get through with
his ST. Joseph, Mo-, meeting in time,
he will attend the Tennessee Confer
ence at Columbia Oct 9TH.
DR.. w. NJ. Baskerville of Wander
built University, has composed die
tionary containing all words used in
Anglo Saxon poetry.
Jack Wayne, Pen Griffen, Bill Pey-
ton and Sam Philips, moonshiners,
were captured in the tenth district of
Hardin county and carried to Jack
son to Jail.
A reunion of the Thirteenth Ten
nessee regiment, Confederate, which
was under the command of Col. J. J.
Turner, was held near Huntsville, Sat
urday.
The real estate agency at McKen-
zie, has by persistent advertising,
sending samples of soils and the prod
uct thereof, to various points North,
excited an interest in that section un-
equaled in its history.
Joe Page shot VIM. Hamlet in
Nashville Sunday. Hamlet remarked
that Il man who would lie around
home Sunday drunk, would do any
thing disreputable. Page said this was
lie. HAMLET struck him and Page
then drew his pistol and fired.
A negro named jim Baxter has
been arrested at Lebanon, charged
with assaulting Mrs. Lane of that place
last week Mrs. Lane says it was he
Who assaulted her, but her mind was
somewhat injured by the blow she re-
ceived and it is thought there may be
some mistake.
McMinnvile New Era: Noryel
Boldin, Is years old, was kicked to
death by mule Wednesday evening
on Collins River. Young Boldin was
hauling fodder, and slipped from the
load down on the double-tree, when
the mules began to kick, and before
he could extricate himself was kicked
to death, his skull being broken into
pieces.
A Jackson special says: so Dan
Miller, mulatto boy about IA years
of age, who was caught stealing letters
from the postoffice Sunday, waived
preliminary trial yesterday, and, in de-
fault of bond, was committed to Jail to
await the October term of the federal
court. Letters had been missing from
the postofice at different periods, and
10 Dan was suspected of being the
thief. A trap was set for him Sunday,
into which he walked, and was imme-
diately arrested.
An excursion, headed by Col. Rob-
ert Gates, will arrive in Jackson from
the north the latter part of October,
and it has been suggested to our peo-
pie to give the visitors royal and hos
pitable welcome. 1t is expected that
quite a number of real home-seekers
will compose the party, and it stands
our people in hand to show them ev-
cry proper courtesy. West Tennessee
needs northern energy and capital to
place her on that plane of prosperity
which justly belongs to her.-JGckson
Special.
A dispatch from Chattanooga says
This afternoon at lockwood a dull
explosion was heard in the direction
of the leading coal mine of the Roam
iron works, and report spread like
wild fire that fire damp explosion had
occurred and ten miners were en-
tombed in the seething furnace. The
town became frantic and the mouth |
of the mine became the scene of the |
widest excitement The miners were
within the mine for two
hours, but at length were rescued COM
paratively uninjured. The extent of
the damage cannot yet be ascertained."
CHATTASOOGA TENN SAINT OIL
V. Ross, aged 73, at lockwood, yester-
day, attempted to outrage his grand
Maude Daniels, little girl
of II. Ross had arranged a swing IN
an upper room of his house and Undue
ed his granddaughter and another girl |
to go up there. In the midst of their
play Ross siezed his granddaughter
when the other girl fed Maude re-