Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-07

The Mulberry Stakes races took
place at Gallatin Wednesday.

pecteQ 70 Visit hhOXVllte soon.
The A. Nj. E. conference was in
session in Pulaski during the past
week.
The Evening Times is the name
OF new daily paper that has made its
appearance at Knoxville.
The Bostick farm, of 1000 acres,
near Jackson, was sold Monday to Mr..
Hammond, of Illinois, for $1,000.
MIR. w. C. Myer. of Carthage, was
married Sunday to Miss Jennie Flip
pin, who lives near that place. 1t was
runaway match.
MIR. Achilles Dickinson, an old
and prominent citizen of Giles county,
has been stricken with paralysis and
is expected to die.
A three-year-old child of John IT.
McCorkle, of Mountain City, fell into
o kettle of boiling water Monday. and
was scalded to death.
Joseph P. Malloy, a Nashville dry
goods merchant, was found dead in a
New York boarding house recently.
He seems to have been on big spree.
Knoxville is overrun with thieves.
Several bold robberies have been per-
petrated during the past week, but it
seems that the police are unable to de-
tect any of the parties.
"A young negro named Milton
Springfield, is in Jail at Jackson for the
attempted murder OF his father in the
seventeenth district of Madison coun-
ty. He wanted the old mans money.
Alexander Jones, an old gentle
man from Whiteville, in Hardeman
county, who was thrown from his
horse at the Jackson fair grounds last
week, died Sunday afternoon from his
injuries.
A revival has been in progress in
the Baptist church in Springfield for
the past two weeks. The services have
been conducted by Rev. ]. ]. Potter, of
Gallatin, and Rev. R. J. Craig, the Meth
odist minister at Springfield.
The Chesapeake & Nashville rail-
road is to be rapidly built be-
tween Gallatin and Scottsboro. Con-
tracts have been let to St. Louis firms
for the construction of seven iron
bridges between those two points.
The following is the municipal
ticket elected in ShelbyvilIe Saturday:
John w. Ruth, mayor; First ward, ].
7. Allison; Second ward, w. A. Frost;
Third ward, S. ]. Mcdowell; Fourth
ward, Robert Burdett; Fifth ward, L.
HI. Russ; Sixth ward, T. T.. Thompson.
Six experienced workmen, under
foremanship of Mr.. John Downing, of
Dayton, Ohio, are at work renovating
McLemore Bros mill, at Columbia.
The capacity of the mill will be $500
bushels per day. These Improvements
were made to supply the demands of
their rapidly increa ing business.
A railroad from Rives, a small
town at the junction of the Mobile &
Ohio and Chesapeake, Ohio & South
western railroads, to Reelfoot Lake,
has been projected, and the work OF
con instruction will begin at an early
day. The road may probably be ex-
tended to Tiptonville, OH the Missis-
sippi river.
Monday night the contract was
awarded by s. NJ. Winchester for the
erection of 100000 four-story bust
ness block at the corner of Ninth and
Market streets, in Chattanooga. Two
other $4,000 blocks are now in course
OF erection in the same city. More
building is in progress there than ever
before in its history.
Nashville Union: The people of
Nashville will gratefully receive the
intelligence that Col. M. III. Howard
now of New York, has so very liberal
ly enlarged his already generous gifts
to various institutions in our city.
The Howard Library gets $4,000
more, making $4,000 in all; the
House Of Industry gets $4,000 more,
while very liberal appropriation,
probably $4,000, is made to found the
Robertson Home.
"A very novel public debate took
place in Chattanooga Saturday night
For ten days past newspaper contro-
versy had been in progress between
Elder Morgan, head of the Mormon
church in the South, and G. C. Conner,
a citizen of that place. 1t eliminated
Friday in Conner challenging Morgan
to public debate. The challenge was
accepted. Saturday night the debate
took place at James Hall in the pres
ence of a large crowd.
Robert Parks, who lives near
Cleveland, Tenn, while on his way
home Sunday night in an intoxicated |
condition, sat down on the track of
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia |
railroad to rest, and, it is supposed
went to sleep. He was run over by
south bound freight train and his body
completely severed. When found,
half of the CHASTITY corpse lay clear of
the rails, the other part on the track.
A coroner's jury rendered verdict in
accordance with the facts.
Memphis received last week 3d.
800 bales of cotton worth $1,716,450.
With a population OF $1,000, Memphis
has % grocery establishments having
a capital of over $4,000 and under.
OF such establishments, New York,
with population of i ,206, 299, has A;
Baltimore, population $4,000, has II;
Chicago, population 100000, has %;
Cincinnati, population 100000, has 10;
st. Louis, population 100000, has "a.
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