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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
THE ROMANCE OF A DANE.
He Wins Prize i'm the Louisiana State Lot
terry and a Wife ut the Same Time.

He Wins Prize in the Louisiana State Lot
terry and Wife at the Same Time.
In the private Office of The Louisiana
State Lottery Conlpanyis fine building
on St. Charles street, Il representative
of the Picayune met, on Thursday, Mr..
Bldsrup, planter of Ascension parish,
Mr.. F. Spendrup and Mr.. B. w. Lash
ley, also from the same parish.
These visitors seemed to be in the
happiest of moods. On being accosted,
Mr.. Spendrup said he had come down
from Donaldsonville, accompanied by
his friends. to collect the amount Of
$4,000, which he had won in the
Louisiana Lottery Drawing of April
II, as holder of IA fifth part of ticket
No. 59075, which secured the first cap
ital prize of $4,000 Continuing, Mr.
Spendrup said:
"You see | have been an assistant
overseer on Mr.. Bidstrup's Gem plan
tation, in Ascension, where | have
been working since last August.
learned sugar-making in the West In
dies, and lived in that part of the
world until something over year ago,
when came to this country, thinking
there was a better chance OF making
money here. For nearly two years |
had been taking tickets in The Louis
lana Lottery, but somehow my luck
was bad, and won nothing. My friend
there, Mr.. LASTLY, about two weeks
before the last drawing got six tickets
from the company's agent i'll Donald
sonville. Mr.. b. Rybiski and bought
four from him. One was for me and
three for my brother and myself on
shares. These were all tifths. mailed
these To my brother, who lives in
Brooklyn, n. Y. After the drawing
came off was told | had won some
thing, but was not sure, so telegraph
ed for the tickets, which my brother
sent me. They arrived several days
ago. and then saw there could be no
more doubt about it."
Mr.. Spendrnp is a handsome, fair
haired. well made young Dane. with
the appearance of excellent health and
possessed of all the qualifications TO
enjoy life.
Are YOU a married man ," asked the
reporter.
mo, but expect to be very soon"
he replied, laughing. 81 am going to
Jstk6 Tic liISb NC~SCl NillCll SsilIS lOl biiC
West Indies. Some one is waiting for
me in Santa Cruz, the Danish Isle. We
have been engaged for two years.
have been locking for good luck TO
come, and now | am ready to get mar
ried For years I worked hard, but
put money in my pocket very slowly.
Now | have made my fortune in
day"
At this moment clerk of the Lot
terry Company appeared and handed
Mr.. Spendrup check on the New
Orleans National Bank for $l5,W0,
which he received with an air of com
plete satisfaction that indicated he was
perfectly happy.
The reporter wished the young Dane
BON uVydge to Santa Cruz and 81 joyous
union with his sweetheart, from whom
he had so long been separated.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Increase of Melancholy.
LChicago Tlmes.I


A medical journal of recognized ability
calls attention to the increase of melan
choly during the past few years. 1t re-
fers to it as the strange disease of mod
ern life, - declares that it is very prevail
ent IN every class of society, but is most
observable among the most wealthy
learned, and cultivated classes. 1t states
that it sometimes ass Imes the form of a
distinct malady, bit that it is more
often found associated with other dis
eases. 1t declares that physicians
have long thought that melan
choly was caused by these dis
eases, but that recently they are com
ing to the conclusion that the diseases
are the result of melancholy. 1t refers
to the increasing number of suicides,
and declares that they are caused in al
most every instance by the melancholy
condition of the persons who commit
the rash act. 1t traces dyspepsia, rest
leSSness, and inability to sleep to the
same cause. 1t advises physicians to
strive to make their patients jolly. Ii
also advises them to recommend ath-
letic sports, humorous literature, and a
variety of amusementS. 1t suggests
that they advise those who show dis
position to be melancholy TO avoid
poetry, music, dramas, serious novels,
and, above all, sentimental people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

wisely, well, aud, to do it successfully,
the public should be led to regard us
as such. So you see, while you profess
TO be really friend Of temperance,
your unjust criticisms Of our meth
DDS may be a great injury to the cause
from its tendency to withholdor With
draw from US the confidence and re-
spect of the community.
Ii the temperance cause were lang
uishing now, our friends might very
well cast about to find the cause
of it, II possible; but there was never
a time since itcommenced, sixty years
ago, when the country was so thor
oughly aroused to its importance and
to the necessity of devising some
effectual remedy for the tremendous
evils coming from intemperance to
nation, State and people.
PORTLAND, Me-.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09


The skeptics deny the efficacy of
prayer as a curative agent; the faith
curers assert it to be the only curative
agent. Both may be in error, yet both
have a certain consistency and logic.
The great body of religious people lie
between these extremes, and believe in
using the best remedies and praying for
their success; and they may be in the
right, yet it would not become them to
be the prosecutors of either of the ex-
tremes TO which they are tangent.
Medical science has never claimed to
have discovered a certain cure for any
disease whatever. No conscientious
physician will pretend that he knows a
sure remedy for anything. Nay, the
tendency of modern practice is toward
less and less reliance upon medicines.
Modern science works rather for pre-
venting disease than for curing it. The
more enlightened pathology becomes,
the more the impotence of doses of
physic is perceived. Indeed, the higher
science and the faith-cure ideas are
nearer together than may be supposed.
More lives are destroyed by the injudi-
cious taking of physic than by abjuring
physie altogether. Strong constitutions
that would have outlived the poison of
disease often die of the antidotes. The
doses of physic which were given in the
old, heroic practice were something like
trying to set your watch with crow
bar.
Thus, both on the spiritual and on the
physical side the position of the faith
cure people is defensible-at least,
against persecution. If enlightened
medical practice has fairly tried the ex-
pertinent of giving no physic whatever
and relying wholly on good nursing,
may not a religious sect do the same:
If Christians OF all sects deem it pious
to pray for their friends who are sick,
and deem their prayers eificacious, may
not a religious Bect rely exclusively on
the efficacy of prayerl
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

The tendency OF immigration from
the north toward Tennessee is attract
ing ii good deal of attention. The
Baltimore Sun of recent date, says
The registers of Tennessee hotels con
tinue to show the presence of a large
number of visitors from the north and
west. Iowa and Illinois making tht
largest showing Many OF these people
from the two mentioned states are
prospectors. seeking homes, or at leas
are looking at the resources and adj
vantages OF Tennessee. The extreme
cold weather, so long continued dur
ing the past winter in the northwest
has prompted many to seek more
congenial climate"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Worked Both Ways.

"Why are you like the moon Nick
up" said his friend Bates. Il give it
up y answered Nickup. swell, be-
cause your face is always bright and
beaning with good nature" said Bates,
and he looked toward the bar THAT
amt bad; I'll just tell that to my wife
when get home" said Nickup, and
then he winked at the bartender and
told him to set" EN- up again"
Mary" said he, as he tumbled into
bed that evening, why am like the
moon?" "What is it ?" she sharply
asked. He repeated the question
Because you are full every month in
the year" she answered and pushed
him.-ChicagO Tribune.
We have heard both Democrats and
Republicans say that there is nothing
better for cough than DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup; this old reliable remedy
never fails to cure cough or cold AT
once and may be obtained at any drug
store fog % cents bottle.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
A Voice From Vermont.

The Rutland (Vt.) Herald (Rep.
gives some of It's bloody-shirt contem-
poaries the following to put into their
pipes: sAs an earnest radical Repub-
lican, as an ex-Union soldier, the writer
is frank to say that the Southern men
who are to-day the most progressive
statesmen of their section, who are
disposed to educate the negro and to
frown on the race prejudice which
would rob him OF his civil rights, are
the Confederate Brigadiers. A brave
man is generally a manly and generous
fellow, and it is but Just to say that
Gems. Beauregard, Johnson. Heberd,
Imboden, Colquitt. Gordon. Wickham,
Ransom. Longstreet, McLaws, Nichols
and Gibson have always thrown the
weight OF their influence in favor oil
educating and protecting the negro
If President Cleveland must recog-
nize the Southern Democracy, he rec
ognizes its brains, its courage and its
advanced thought when he recognizes
the Confederate Brigadiers."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Whitehall Times: Lying is often Q
barricade for moral towards.

Exchange.

AA-N~AsAiiSusl
Mr.. John Sherwood, writing from
Rome, says I'VE were taken through
the Vatican library by a chamberlain OF
the pope, who was able to obtain eH
trance for Us To the rooms and aces
TO the raroly-Secn manuscripts. Ii is
wonderful series of rooms, magnii
Gently frescoed, and containing the gift
Of sOYerei-nS
'But~it is for the number rarity an {
Importance of its manuscripts that the
y ,.tican is famous Here is the largest
and most precious of collections of i'm
portant palimpseSts. Wesaw one famous
manuscript, deCiphered by Cardinal
Angelo Mai, which contains the de
Eepubica' of Cicero, the discourse
of st Augustine, upon the
psalms, and fragments of Terence of the
fourth century, and is believed to be
the most ancient manuscript IN eNis-
teuce. In the same room we were per-
mitted to see an autograph letter OF
poor Anne Boleyn TO Henry VII, the
book of Henry VIII, against Luther,
the manuscript autographs by Petrarch
and Torluata Tasso, with miniatures
by PeruginO, and so on-the richness is
interminable The pope throws open
the vast treasures of the lihrary under
certain restrictionsl to scholars OF
repute who bring him accredited proofs
of their sincere desire to use these prl-
vileges for the purposes of history.
Il stopped before an extremely rlcn
case of illuminated manuscripts, where
fennd the vignettes of one now attrib-
uted TO Raphael, anu arse sss---- Sc
eribed to Dante, written on and COM
mented upon by Boccaccio; also the
breviary of Matthias Corvinus, the last
king of Hungary, the famous Bible OF
the fourth century, the sermons Of the
monk Jacques, with miniatures, and
songs and prayers in the Japanese char
acters. Around me stood the ages Of
this vast and noble compartment the
grand gallery of the Vatican library"
Japan has !, 800 professional wEest-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Destroy that Sign

One may feel that he's getting old
but he naturally disllkes that anything
about his appearance should advise
others of the fact. Yet nothing does
this SO effectually as thin and falling
hair. No woman wants 10 marry q
man, and business firms hesitate &c
employ man, who shows this fatal
sign. Parker's Hair Balsam is worth
to you, in this regard, more than It's
weight in diamonds. Use it, and have
plentiful and glossy hair. Many have
had every trace of grayness removed
and bald spots covered by using sin
gle bottle.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Poetry or Nothing.
~ Nv1-nr u,fnnnc

"See," said a citizen OF st. Louis to
the proprietor OF bookstore. you'll
have to take the book back. l asked
YOU to give me volume OF poetry &c
put ON the parlor table, but every
burned ~osS. AZ : .t,::s. book Is straight
prose" @Why, man alive, that was
written by Shakespeare" Il don't
care who writit, it's prose; I've looked
it all through. For instance, heres a
specimen:
How silver sweet sound lovers tongues by
night.
Like sort music TO attending ears.
Do you call that poetry, rhymin' ears
with night! You can take it back. |
don't want IT,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
The Expressage of a Newspaper.

81 would be obliged to you," said q
closeiisted old fellow to Il country edi-
tor, "if you will express my thanks
through your excellent paper, to the
many citizens whose timely aid last
night saved my house from being de-
stroyed by fire."
"Certainly," replied the editor, q
will express your thanks, but it will be
necessary for you to advance about a
dollar and half to prepay the ex.
pressage."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

As they were all coming out of this
theatre together young Sypher acci-
dentally trod on the dress OF the pref
ty girl just ahead.
"Oh, SHOOT" Involuntary exclaimed
the young girl as she suddenly brought
up.
Young Sypher thought he saw a
chance for a mash.
"You needn't shoe me-" he simpered
smartly; "Tm no cow"
mo-" the pretty girl returned, with
a glance that pinned him to the side
of the lobby perhaps not now, but you
will be when you grow up"
Then she swept on, while young
Sypher was so astounded that he ac-
tually forgot to light his oaktm-stuf-
fed cigarette when he got outside
Boston Journal
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
London.s shop-GirIs.
Chicago Herald.l

iNIIINsL-sl IINFtlTII
The London shop girls suffered in
such an undue proportion to their num-
Der during a recent smallpox epidemic
that there is great indignation about il
and a corresponding sympathy for the
girls. Many better-class women pro
pose TO boycott shops where girls are
not provided with seats.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

In a list Of Az Chinese medicines
given in one of the standard medical
works translated by DR.. Hobson, of the
London Medical mission, / find such
curious items as dried red spotted
lizard, silkwOrm moth, parasite of null
berry trees, asses glue, tops of harts-
horn and birds nests, black and white
lead, stalactite, asbestos, tortoise shell,
human milk, glue from stays horns and
bones, ferns all recommended as
tonics; burned straw, oyster shell, gold
and silver leaf, iron filings, and the
bones and tusks of dragons are stated
TO be astringent. The so-called dragons
bones, by the way, are the fossil remains
of the megatherium and other extinct
animals which are found in various
places, and which our own Anglo-Saxon
ancestors esteemed so highly for medic
inal purposes.
Indeed, any one acquainted with the
leechdoms of our own forefathers might
suppose, in CHANGING over these Chinese
prescriptions, that he was reading the
medical lore of Britain until the eight
zenith century! There is the identical
use of ingredients, selected, apparently,
solely on account of their loathsomeness.
Nor are these the worst. There are GER
tain diseases which the physicians de-
clare to be incurable save by decoction
of which the principal ingredient is
warm human flesh cut from the arm or
thigh Of living son or daughter of the
patient, To supply this piece of flesh is
naturally esteemed one of the noblest
acts of filial devotion, and there are
numerous instances on record in quito
recent years in which this generous OF
fer has been made to save the life of a
parent, and even of a mother-in-law
A case which was held up for special
commentator in The Official Gazette of
Pekin in 1870 was that of a young girl
who had actually tried herself to cut the
flesh from her thigh to save the life of
her mother, but, finding her courage
fail, she had cut off two joints of her
finger and dropped the flesh into the
medicine, which happily proved equally
efficacious, ''for, says The Official Ga
zette, this act of tilial piety of course
had its reward in the immediate recov-
cry of the mother" This case called
forth ''boundIess laudationsn from the
governor general of the province of
Kiang-si, who begged that the emperor
would bestow ''some exemplary reward
on the child, such as the erection of a
great triumphal arch of carved stone,
TO commemorate the act.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

Neither mental nor physical labor
can be accomplished satisfactorily I'M
you feel tired, languid, wearied with
out exertion, the mind slow to act,
and requiring great mental effort, you
can rest assured that your Liver is not
acting properly, and that nature re-
quires assistance to help throw off i'm
purities> There is no remedy that
will accomplish this so mildly and yet
etiectusIly as PRICKLY ASH BITTERs-
A trial will satisfy you of its merits.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Renan,s ApDearapee.

Ernest Renan is bulky, short, fat,
rosy, with large features, long gray
hair, a large nose, small eyes, well
shaped mouth, and his manner as q
lecturer Is ''gay,very gay, and his gayety
Is rather comicaL
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
LIST OF PRIZES.

1867 Prizes. amounting $50
Application for rates TO climbs should be
made only to the Office of the Company In
New Orleans. A@ 80
For further information write clearly CIV
ing full address. POSTAL NOTES, Elk
press Money Orders, or New York Xxx
change ia ordinary letter. Currency by Ex-
press (all sums of S. and upwards az our
expensel addressed $500
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
COZ Seventh st., Washington. d.
Make p. o. Money Orders payable and adj
dress Registered Letters TO
n e " ORLEANS NATaON L. BANK
New Orleans, La
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
Why Contagious Diseases Attack But once

50 q Medical World.
Prof Tyndall thus endeavors to ex-
plain the immunity obtained against a
second attack of contagious disease
Zone of the most extraordinary and
understandable experiences in medi-
cine was the immunity secured by a
single attack of a communicable dis
ease against future attacks of the same
malady. Smallpox, typhoid, or scarla-
tina, for example, was found as gen.
eral rule to occur only once in life
time of the individual, the successful
passage through the disorder appar-
emily rendering the body invulnerable.
Reasoning from analogy, have ven
tured to express the. opinion sks.s she
rarity of second attacks q - aynuni.
cable disease was due to III safsi ovs2
from the system, by the first parasite
crop, OF some ingredient necessary rs
the growth and propagation al she
parasite"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

Incorporated in 1858 for % years by the
Legislature for Educational aud Charitable
purposes-with a capital Of $1,000, O00-to
which a reserve fund of over S550,000 has
since been added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made q part of the present
State Constitution adopted December I'd A.
D., 1873.
ssThe only lottery ever voted on and en-
dorsed by the people of any State.
n ,seyer scales or postposes.
Hts Grand Single Number Draw
tmgs take place Monthly.
A sPLENDaw OPPORTUNITE To
WIN A FORTUNE. FIFTH
GRAND DRAWING, CLASS Is, IN THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS,
TUESDAY,, May lS. IssS-1sOth
Monthly Drawing. eA
sSCAPITAL PRIZE, s75,OOO-Sa
1O0y 900 Tickets ut Five Dollars Each.
Fractions. In Fifths In Proportion.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

sGCAPETAE PRIZE, eT5, C00-W1 :
Tickets only IS. shares In Proper
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-04-01
THE MANITOBAN WAR.
sArTLEFoRD TAKEN sY INDIANS.
Active Preparations bY the Govern
ment al Ottawa Troops Being
Ordered 10 the Front

OrIAwA, 8iaroh Sl.-lhe news thal the
Indians have taken Bauleford caused in1enze
excitement IN thls cly to-day aud TIE
0OysrnInent l. making active PREPARATIONS
for hurryias forward troops aud munitions
Of var From the elaborate preparations OF
the officials y Is evident that protIacled
Indian war ls believed 10 be oa hand. The
Government is endeayoring - secare the
good Offices of Arch Bishop fache. Who has
a great influence with the halibTeods n
quieting those people and pre-, Ealing
on them To seek peac,ful
solution of their grievances. he
first detachment uf troops are expected
10 reach " Winnipeg on Thursday. Tie Premier
l. IN receipt OF number OF dispatches Dear-
ing on the lnsurfecglOn- but refuses 10 make
their contents known uu he lags them be
fore the Cabinet The government uppre-
hended trouble between their supporters and
those of the Farmers Union, which met al
Winnipeg to-day. The ninth battalion al
Quebec has been ordered 10 tie front. and
viii leave 10 morrow. Two more batiolions,
one from Halifax and one from 81 Johns,
will also be- despatched ia few days. A
BattlefOrd dispatch states that the situation
there u critical. The Indians are enc&mpea
around the agency, and citizens have taken
shelter IN barracks which IL II believed can
hold them until reinforcements arrive.
lieut.-Goy. Dewduey. who Is at Regina. ls
holding parley by wire with the Indians IN
hope of arriving al "A peaceful settlement.
Ielegraphlc communication with EumOn-
ton II interrusled and il II feared there has
been an attack made Oh that place
dispatch from Winnipeg say that "a half
breed from Clark r Crossing, who Was made
a prisoner by Riel's follower. for refusing -
join them, has arrived there, having sue
ceedod IN escaping. lie reports hiei ha-
from 900 10 l,5J0 men under him all we'll
armed and full Of fight. Gen. Ferry. IA
command of United States troops IA the
Northwest, reports that 40 Indians are
crossing the States.
Dispatches received this evening from
Battle ford state that The Indians and Half
breeds were noticed from the fort 10 he
plunderng the Hudson Bay Company -tNes
and Mckay, who Is IN charge there, went out
from the fort with Others TO remOnstrate
with the insurgents. They noticed that the
Indians and Half breeds were trying 70 cut
off their retreat 10 the fort, and al once has
tened back On their way back 20 the
barracks three shots were fired AZ them. All
the stores in town are being plundered.
Women and children have taken refuge III
the fort Dispatches from COlgarrs report
the Indians there quiet and well disposed
Another dispatch from Battleford says Two
Indian instructors have been killed on re-
serve near by redskins.