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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-12-22
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

The following from the New York
Tobacco Leaf, of April 18th, will be
read with interest by our tobacco
planters who have not sold their to-
bacco:
Western Leaf-Trade in this vari-
ETY. OF leaf has included assortments,
Africans among the rest, and perhaps
800 hogsheads for Spain. There has
been no activity observable, but what
with pending negotiations for foreign
account and the known wants for
home use, a very firm feeling can be
discerned in the market Spain, Italy
and France@re To be liberal buyers in
this country this year, and, as Il conse-
quence, expectation of renumerative
transactions is at the flood.
1t Is now generally understood that
toward the close of May, or about the
fst of June, France will call for about
10000 hogsheads Kentucky; 5000
hogsheads Maryland; $500 hogsheads
Ohio; 1000 hogsheads Virginia.
With this probable, though as we
write unofficial demand from France
supplementing the large requirements
of Italy and Spain, it is not to be won
dered at that this and other markets
are buoyant, though present sales are
less than they ought to be.
The sales for the week will foot up
from 500 to 600 hOgsheads, of which
$50 were for export
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
A NATTER OF MOoNSHINE.

Two hundred moonshiners have
recently been arrested in East Tennes
see. Marshal Bowman arrived in
Nashville Monday with forty OF the
culprits in charge.
1t il undoubtedly bad law thai
makes these men Il prey for rapaciOus
revenue officials, greedy for little
cost They may be innocent Of the
Offense with which they are charged
but they are dragged many miles from
home, and being poor and illiteraie
it will be difficult for them to produce
the proofs of their innocence.
Ii they are guilty, they have no
sense of having done wrong. Illicit
distilling is at most mTiUm prOhibi,
tunl, and these unlettered mountain
GERS can't understand why they should
not follow IL calling which their fathers
pursued undisturbed for years.
We believe that distilled spirits
should be taxed and made a source OF
revenue to the government, but some
less Objectionable mode of collecting
the tax should be devised.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

In regard to the European war, the
country weeklies have had the advant-
age of their city contemporaries. Last
week We announced that England and
Russia were about to fight, and the
dailies of the same date did the same
thing. But next morning the dailies
had to take it all back and swear that
everything was as peaceful as sum
mer day. Now, as we-go to press again,
the quarrel has been resumed. The
War is inevitable and both parties are
crying "let it come"
Gen. Komarof-s explanation of the
Penjdeh affair was denounced by the
English general, Sir Peter Lumsden,
as gross Misrepresentation In fact,
when the English showed Il disposition
to yield Penjdeh, Russia grew more
aggressive, with evident intentions to
march on Herat.
Russia is mobilizing Il large army
and fitting up war vessels. England
has called for a public loan of $34S,-
100000, and is raising troops in India
and at home.
In the meantime Russia has declined
any further discussion of the Penjdeh
affair. A public declaration of war
may be looked for at any time.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

THE following is clipped from the
Memphis Avalanche of Tuesday: "The
GAINESVILLE Hedge Fence Co. have
been operating in this county through
their agents, Messrs. Smith & Camp
bell, since last November, and have
succeeded in taking orders for near 25
miles of fence, and are now busy set
ting the same. They have taken two
committees from this vicinity to ex-
anime the fences in completion. One
committee was appointed by the conn-
ty court with view of putting it
around the pcorhouse property. Ref
erence to court proceedings will give
the results. Committees have been
taken from every section and without
a single exception all are loud in its
praise. Farmers and others needing
fences will do well to investigate it."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
LErrfs fRoM roDo COUNTY xY.

To the Chronicle:
What privilege it is TO live in the
couRtry. What restful sensation
screeps over one, after the mornings
hard work, TO half recline on the bench
on the breezy piazza. fora short while
and watch the squirrels play hide and
seek over the spreading limbs of an
oak tree in the green lawn that slopes
so beautifully; while french mock
ing bird fills the air with his gibber-
ish song, perched in the honeysuckle'
a blue coat answeres jag, jay, a distant
dove cooes plaintively, two red birds
dash in their staccatto notes and
wren joins the chorus. A speckled
hen marches proudly with her brood
of little ones, suddenly she clucks
them to run get the grub she has
scratched up in the newly made flower
bed. Mrs. Turkey slips stealthily
along under the bushes by the fence
TO her hidden nest, while her Lord
Gobbler struts and struts on guard.
The bees hum and the restful feeling
creeps into dizziness, when merry
voices startle one back to conscious
ness. The boys are starting to their
blowing with their mules, and it is
high time to shake off this laziness
and,-but what's that dark object shoots
by so quick? look again! Oh, its only
the little six-year old girl taking ride
astraddle the mule behind her brother
How they all laugh such fun! Yes
it is privilege to rear a family in the
country; always plenty to do, and busy
hands have little time for mischief.
We know an old lady, who has led a
useful life, delights in saying @idleness
is the Devils workshop"
There are some fine fields of wheat
in this neighborhood, though all the
late sown crops have been plowed up,
We trust there will be full crop OF
corn made this year, which is apt to
be the case. We have observed that
each year developes its own peculiar
staple; ii one fails. another succeeds.
Bread being the staff of life, when
light rolls are scarce, corn mullins can
be endured.
The Todd County Creamery wagon
passed this way" the first time and
gathered at one dairy farm 9 cts worth
of cream, at another 10 cts, and 60
cts. worth at another We don't doubt
but it will do better next time. Our
people take to new things very slowly.
they wait for them to succeed, then they
SO in for 'em. This reminds me of
lady who wanted her boys to learn how
to swim before she would allow them
to go into the water. REMINGTON.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
A Word About American Wheat
Philadelphia Times.


While there is enough in the pros
poets OF Il European war to make
American wheatgrowers and exporters
hopeful of good demand for the coia-
ing year, it is hard to see what there is
in the situation to warrant the expec-
tation of extravagant prices. There is
little doubt that the crop of the pres.
ent year will fall from seyentv-tive to
one hundred million bushels short Of
that of last year, but with surplus to
carry over OF one hundred and twenty
millions of bushels the amount of grain
available for export during the coming
year will hardly fall short of two humid
red and twenty million bushels. AS
the exports for the current year will
not exceed one hundred and thirty
live million bushels, the prospect is
good that eighty or ninety million
bushels of American wheat will be
available to supply an increased de-
mand arising from any source.
As American wheat is almost GER
tain to be shut out of France and Ger
many by the high duties which have
been established by those countries,
and war between England and Russia,
if engaged in, will not be likely to in
crease the demand for American
wheat, except in England and in the
south of Europe. The extent o. the
increase in the English demand de-
ponds entirely on how greatly the war
interferes with the supply OF Indian
wheat. But granting that England
must buy her entire supply from the
United States, it would require less
than 400O0,O0O bushels to fill the
place of Indian wheat consumed in
Great Britain last year. This would
still leave a surplus of 100000 or
50,OOO,00O to go and come on.
In view of these facts it will be for
the interest of the American wheat
growers and dealers to maintain prices
at which their staple will be called for.
They should try to find foreign mar,
ket for every possible bushel of it, and
booming the prices up to fancy figures
certainly will not aid in securing this
desirable object. What is wanted is to
sell the wheat to our foreign neighbors
and get their money for it, not put the
price so high that nobody will want it
and thus leave it on our hands. The
old business maxim of the superiority
of the nimble sixpence to the slow
can well be put in practice in
dealing with the problem of marketing
our chief agricultural staples.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
PORTER AND WHITFHORNE.
A Matter Which Has Excited Much Interest
Gov. POrter't Message.

A Matter Which Has Excited Much Interest
Gov. POrter't Message.
The American of Tuesday published
the following letter.
| To the American.
| thank the American for the-to
me-kind editorial article which APP
peared in its issue of the 18th inst, and
in which issue was published letter
| from james ID. Porter to NJ. II. Doak,
Esq.
In reference to this letter, allow me
to say, that it is an accepted maxim,
that "the traducer and maligner has
not the manlInesS when put to the
test, to meet the responsibilities attach
ing to his words" and in that connec-
ton to say to my friends in Tennessee
that promptly upon seeing the ava
lanche" containing the letter OF Jas. ID.
Porter applied this test to him, and
demonstrated in his person-the truth
of the maxim. Respectfully,
w. C. WHITTHoRNE.
In response to brief inquiry made
Tuesday, the Banner received the
following message from Gov. Porter:
WASHINGTON, April 21.-Gen. Cor
don handed me note from Whit
thorne. | returned it, saying: al can
have no correspondence with him."
JAS. ID. PORTER.
Special to the Memphis Avalanche.
WASHINGTON, April 21.-Your cor
respondent being advised by telegraph
that the Nashville American O. this
morning had a card from w. c. Whit
thorne, stating that he had illustrated
the maxim that "traducerS dare not
face their victims" started an investi-
cation OF what seems to have all the APP
pearance of an incipient duel. Mr.
Whitthorne was called upon at the
residence of Senator Harris, but he
declined to make statement in ref
erence to the matter, asserting that it
was personal affair.
Gov. Porter was seen at the Riggs
tonight, and he made this statement
Gen. Gordon of Memphis, called on
me about week ago and presented
me note. ] read it, and said to the
general, DO YOU know the contents of
this note? He said, i do | do not
consider it to mean a challenge.
(Gen. Gordon) said to Mr.. Whitthorne
that / would not bear a challenge for
him to Porter | said then to Gen.
Gordon, If it is no affront to YOU, re-
turn this paper TO Mr.. WhitthOrne.'
He said, Certainly not and received
the paper, l adding, i can have no
correspondence with Mr.. Whitthorne."
Correspondent-May | ask the gov
erDor what were the contents of the
note?
Mr.. PorteF-It was simply an invi-
tation to go outside the United States |
to explain my note to the Avalanche. |
] said to Gen. Gordon: Il can have |
20 correspondence with Mr.. Whit |
thOrne. | can see no necessity of go-
ing outside OF the United States. | 1
make my explanation here, where /
am temporarily sojourping."
CorFespondept-Haye you heard
from him sipceS
Mr.. PoFteF-L have not Indeed, II
had ceased to think of him until your
inquiry was made. In nay estimation
he is man of no consequence, but at
the same time / feel very sorry for him !
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
AMUSEMENT AND DISSIPATION.

Brother Talmage asks the question
if society does not occupy too much OF
its time with dancing. Probably it
does, but If it found some other form
OF amusement it would be just as Sc
verely censured by the pulpit as it is
for tripping the light fantastic. a
slight diversion in the way Of progress
i've euchre, for instance, has lately
brought ON storm of reproof, and
theatre-going has always been repre-
hended.
The skating rink, mot strictly a so
ciety amusement,) has brought down
such an avalanche of denunciation al
has no. been heard before since Puri-
tan preachers used TO cry out against
the wearing OF jewelry and fine clothes
The mistake is in denounciug spe-
cific forms of amusement and prohib-
iting any indulgence in them. People
are going to be amused; tits necessary
Tor a healthy private and public condi-
ton that they should be.
Teachers of morality should draw
the line between dissipation and
amusement, and denounce the one
and encourage the other Dancing
can be made Il wrong, great wrong.
So can "puss in the corner" or hide
and seek, if immOderately and lasciv-
iously INDUCED in. Amusement OF
any kind is eminently proper, and
dissipation in any form ought never to
be tolerated.
Preachers can make their sermons
more effective and their personal in
fiuence stronger by exercising grain
of common sense in these matters.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

THE following is the report of the
committee appointed by Judge Seay
to examine the financial report of p.
G. Johnson, clerk and master of the
Chancery court:
To the Hon. Geo. e. Seay, Chancellor:
Your committee appointed to ex-
anime the financial report of the c. &
NJ. and the bonds given by him, re-
spectfully report that they find his
financial report correct. The amount
to his credit in bank in each case as
stated by him in said report
The bonds are for sixty-tive thous-
and dollars, and are abundantly good
and solvent. The suerties being, J. E.
Bailey, c. G. Smith, A. Howell, H. H.
Lurton, John f. Couts and-T. d. John
son. We make the G. & Ms. report
and his certificates of deposit, part
hereof as shown.
Respectfully submitted,
r. H. BURNEY,
A. HI. MUNFORD,
w. NJ. DANIEL.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
TRY ALBERT.

If the Lebanon Herald wants t.
name the next governor, We advise il
to figure on Albert McNeal of Bolivar
Politics are chaotic. The next Demo
cratic candidate will not be a narrow
minded machine man. He will not
be bourbon anti-machine man who
dwells in the past He will be known
To be above both the indicated lower
planes. Who he will be cannot be
predicted. Any man now named may
destroy his own chances by a wrong
position twixt now and then. But we
suggest to the Herald to watch Albert
McNeal. Lightning somewhat plays
over in that quarter as If 1t might
strike.-AUalGnche.
No better man could be selected.
Capt McNeal is eminentIy conserva-
tive, sound and sensible. He don't
linger i'll the moonlight OF the past; he
belongs to no rings and has no spite to
crafty. His nomination would unite
the Democracy and lead to one OF
those old fashioned victories of the
10000 majority kind.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
United States Courts.

The United States circuit and dis
trict courts met in Nashville Monday
and transacted the following business:
The final order dismissing all the
suits brought against John III. Savage,
G. w. Gordon and j. A. Thurley, rail-
road commissioners, by the Louisville
& Nashville, the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia & Georgia, and the Knoxville &
Ohio, the Memphis & Charleston rail-
roads, were dismissed, the following
order being entered in each case:
This cause came on to be heard,
when il appeared to the court that the
term of Office of the defendants had
expired and that they we're no longer
railroad commissioners; and it further
appearing that the act of the general
assembly of the State of Tennessee
under which they held that office had
been repealed. 1t is therefore ordered,
adjudged and decFeed that complain
ants bill be dismissed and that each
party pay his own costs, for which let
execution come"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
MUMBo-JuMBo BoB,s CREED.


Bob Ingersoll has been tram ping
about the country shaking at the an
stable foundations of lettering faith in
specialized young women, and feeble
minded. eye glassed young men
those who wear plain glasses, without
focus, for show, we mean. He has NJ
last promulgated creed which trans
cends the rigidest Puritan and hardest
Calvinistic in rigorous assertions OF to-
tai depravity. a..f
Charges of illiberality, .bigotry and
hardness of creed brought against the
clergy are often too true. 1t is also
true that so-called liberal and free
thinking Bob, the doubter of all
things, has surpassed them all in the
iron severity of his creed. The follow
ing is his latest utterance, ex-cathedra,
as il were:
"For every crime yea commit You
must answer to yourself :uld to the one
you injure. And ii you have ever
clothed another with woe YOU will
never be quite happy rs though YOU
had not done that thing. No forgive
ness 10y the gods Eternal, memorable,
everlasting justice so far as nature is
concerned. That is what believe in"
Ancient fatalism never reached be-
yond that doctrine. Hard, cold ne
cessity, the law of nature, the iron
bondage Of the universe, unrelieyed
by touch of hand imbued with gentle
pity or forgiveness, is the latest de
veloped Ingersolism creed.-Mensphis
Aedlanche.
If Bob Ingersoll ever promulgated"
anything we have yet to hear of it; he
is absolutely the most unoriginal
speaker or writer that ever attained to
the celebrity he enjoys.
The idea brought out in the above
quotation was expressed and elabora-
ted several years ago in a novel emit
tied @Kith and Kim" by Jessie Fother-
gill; rather an obscure source for so
great nun as Pagan Bob to draw from,
but the more obscure the source the
better the chance for passing the bor-
rowed thought for something original
Bob draws very largely on the Wis
count Amberly, the infidel son of
Lord John Russell. His speeches are
generally frothy and unfair. When
he makes an assertion that calls for
reflection it may be safely set down
that some one has said the same thing
before. The secret of Bob's success
lies in his audacity and eloquence.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25


Wills the Presbytery was in session
last Saturday afternoon the tlelegates
were surprised by the present OF a
handsome tray and basket of flowers
from Evergreen Lodge. The basket,
which was truly q thing OF beauty and
arranged with exquisite taste. was in
tended for the moderator, Mr.. Tren-
holm. The flowers ON the tray were
small boutoneirs made up Of Msrechel
Mel buds, pansies, violets, &c. These
were distributed among the numerous
ministers, and the CHRONICLES re-
porter, who was present, Came in for a
share of the pretties. This favor. was
shown him on account of the evangel-
ical nature of his calling.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

The May number of Harper's Maya
zine promises to be very strong in its
stories. Miss Woolson's story of East
Angels grows in the strength. OF its
study of characters as well as in inter-
est as it proceeds; and "At the Red
Glove," the anonymous story, illustra-
ted from sketches made at Berne, the
scene of the story, by Mr.. Reinhart,
draws to its close. The short stories
include constance Royal" a strongly
dramatic story, told in three pages, by
jeanne Spring Poet; a. humorous love-
story set forth in Passages from the
Diary of a Hong Kong Merchant" by
F. J. Stimson ca, s. OF DAle"); and a
charming story 10y Lucy c. Lille,
with Il fulI-lmse illustration by c. d.
Weldon.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

Greenville New Era: A little daueh-
ter of MIR. Cal. Phillips, of the Eighth
District Of Hawkins County, Tenn,
came to violent death few days ago.
She had been missing for several hours,
and upon search being made, she was
found near the house under pile Of
rails with her neck broken. The rails
We're piled ON some rotten timber, and
It is supposed she crawled under them
for the purpose of running out rab-
bit, which the dogs had been pursuing
about the time she disappeared.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

At the regular annual stockholders
meeting at Sheffield, Ala, on the 18th
inst, the following officers we're chosen
for the ensuing year: w. s Gordon,
President; A. ]. Moses, Vice President
and Manager; ]. F. Burke, Secretary;
]. L. Chambers, Treasurer. The fol-
lowing were chosen Directors: Sam
uel Thomas, w. L. Chambers, Enoch
Eusley, III. III. Thompkins, r. G. Her
vey, G. A. Collier, NJ. L. Moses, David
Clopton, A. III. Moses, w. S. Gordon,
d. NJ. Balm, J. F. Burke, o. o. Nelson.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
PORTER AND wHIrrHoRxE.

The Porter Whitthorne difficulty is
Il very unfortunate affair. 1t brings
these gentlemen into strained re-
lation that could have been easily
avoided.
Gen. Whitthorne certainly did HIM
self no credit in the interview pub
lished in the Washington Post. 1t
was not correct in its statements; it
showed Il disposition To inquire Gov.
Porter's standing with the administra-
ton, which disposition Was doubtless
prompted by pique aud jealousy, and
it WAS the more reprehensible be-
cause Of its secrecy. 4 stab in the
dark is more Ia be feared than blow
fairly dealt.
Gov. Porter is man OF fiery tenn
permanent, quite sensitive and quick to
resent IA supposed injury or insult
He wls probably too severe in his card
published in the Avalanche and said
things not called for. He should have
thrown no aspersions on Whitthorne's
standing in Washington or in Tennes-
see, but simply have stated who was
the author Of the Objectionable inter
view and pointed out its inaccuracies.
No one in Tennessee believes either
Porter or Whitthorne a coward. A
duel between these distinguished men,
) over so trivial matter, would be hu-
initiating to the people of the State
and an injury to the South.
A readiness to fight will not relieve
Gen. Whitthorne from the blame that
attaches to him from the anonymous
interview in the Washington Post
The days have passed when display
of brute courage can make knave a
hero and destroy the remembrance of
his knavery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

a Washington special to the Ameri-
can says that Judge John l.. I. Sneed,
of Memphis, is an applicant for the va
cant Judgeship on the Supreme Court
bench OF the District of Columbia.
There is no man whom we would
rather see slowed away in good place
of that kind than Judge Sneed. He
is one of the best men in the world
and no one who knows him will gain
say the assertion. His long experience
as a practieing lawyer and mis- service
of eight years as a member OF the Ten
nessee Supreme Court well qualify
him for the position.