Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09
THE NEWS.

1ork saturday on the steamer Werrs.
Vincennes, Ind, was visited by fire
Monday that destroyed nearly the en-
tire city.
Mrs Vanderbilt widow of the old
Commodore, died at her home in New
York, Monday.
Military companies from all parts of
the South and West participated i'll
the Mobile drill.
Crops in southeast Arkansas have
been badly damaged and, in some in
stances. totally destroyed by floods
1t is thought that either the King of
Belgium or the King of Denmark will
he selected as arbiter between England
and Russia
A negro named Conley johnson
was shot and killed by party of
masked men at his house in Hum
phreys county, Saturday night.
Mgr. Capel and the protestant min
listers OF Nashville are having contro-
yersy through the columns of the
Nashville Union.
The President, Vice President and
several members of the cabinet attend
ed the meeting OF veterans at Gettys-
burg, Tuesday.
The conservative party in England
and most of the London newspapers
denounce the Government in bitter
terms for what they term its back
down iii the Russian embroglio.
A terrible fire occurred in tene-
ment house on First avenue in New
York Saturday night in which eight
persons were killed and eleven in
jured.
The explosion of boiler at the Ire
mont Hotel in Galveston, Sunday, kill
ed several persons, wounded several
more and did great damage to the
hotel property.
Nubar Psha, the Egyptian Prime
Minister, has formally apologized to
NJ. Tallandier, the French Charge
d'Afaires. and the Bosphore-E gyptien
incident is considered ut an end.
DIR. S. ID. Burchard, OF Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion notoriety, preached
his farewell sermon as pastor of MUIR
ray Hill Presbyterian church in New
York, Sunday.
There was destructive hail storm
in Sewer county, Tenn, Saturday.
The stones are described rs being the
size of hen eggs, and they covered the
ground in many places to the depth of
twelve inches.
The State troops called ont to pre-
serve order at Lamont, ILL.,. we're as
saulted by the striking quarrymen |
Monday. In self-defense, the troops |
fired Two strikers were killed and |
several wounded
G. H. Mason, claiming to be from |
New York, was caught in the act of /
robbery at the Maxwell House, Nash
vile, Tuesday morning. He was ar
rested, indicted, tried, committed and |
in the penitentiary for five years be-
fore dinner.
Minister Phelps sailed for England
Tuesday. Before leaving New York |
he took dinner with Mr.. Cyrus w.
Field. The retiring minister, Mr..
Lowell, was very popular in England
and has been shown high honors by
the English government and people.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the young
conservative leader, made severe at
tack ON the Gladstone Government
Monday. "The government" said his
lordship, shave made Il base and cow
ardly surrender of every point at issue
to Russia. greatly fear that as re-
suit we have lost India"
Brooklyn was the scene of another
terrible catastrophe Tuesday, which
may even rival in number of casual
ties the orphan asylum holocaust of
some months ago. A block of build
ingS, irregularly set up one against the
other, without regard to architectural
laws, collapsed, afterward catching fire.
in the buildings on the
various floors were nearly five hundred
persons, and it is feared many of them
lost their lives in their frantic endeav-
ors to escape. There is no means OF
telling the number of deaths accurate
ly, but it is feared at least thirty of
the people employed in the buildings
are under the ruins
Mr.. w. l.. Grigsby, Clerk and Mas
ter of the Chancery Court at Charlotte,
informed Nashville Union reporter
that a syndicate of gentlemen in Dick
son county have offered the Nashville,
& St. Louis Railroad {
Company bonus of $4,000 to build a {
narrow guage railroad from Dickson !
Station to Cumberland Furnace. This
point is only twenty miles south of
GAINESVILLE. Il the road should be
built and the gap filled between Cum
oerland Furnace and this city, there
would be a continuous line of road
rom GAINESVILLE to thirteen miles ,
,outh of Centerville,a distance of about
IS miles.
When the Presidents train was near
Mount Hope Station, Md, returning +
rom Gettysburg about o'clock Mon I
lay evening, three pistol shots were t
heard in rapid succession as from a d
'evolver, and the flash of the weapon i
vas seen within two or three feet of 7
he moving train. 1t is probable that {
ONE enthusiast devised this method Il
II celebrating the passage of the Pres n
dent, and that the demonstration was s
My intended as salute. 1t created
ONE amusement and gave rise to 7
ONE ocular comments among the G
but since the return of the
rain the rumor has spread through