Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-16
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Senator Harris has returned to
Washington.
The last spike in the Nashville and
Florence railroad was driven Tuesday
Peter staub; Of Knoxville, Tenn, has
been appointed U. s. Consul to St. Gall
Switzerland.
/ Sixty-three Democratic members oil
the Indiana Legislature are applicants
for Federal positions.
Prof. Joseph L. Armstrong has re-
signed the presidency OF Martin Col
lege, Pulaski, Tenn.
The Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit
Association has been holding meet
ing in Chicago this week.
The May drill is in progress at New
Orleans. The Chickasaw Guards re-
covered sufficiently from their mis-
fortune at Mobile to take part.
1t is believed that Gov. Bate will call
an extra session for some time this
month, embracing the registration and
pleuro-pneumonia bills in the call.
Ex-Congressman Shelly, of Alabama,
has been made fourth auditor of the
Treasury, the place for which Hon.
W. G. Whitthorne was an applicant
The 23d annual conclave OF the Ten
nessee Commandery of knights Tenn
pIar has been in session in Chattanooga
this week.
Elias III. Porter, one of the editors of
the Bowling Green, KY, Times, has
been appointed postmaster at that
place.
\ dispatch from Gallatin to the
Nashville Union says large crop OF
tobacco is being planted in the upper
counties.
Mr.. james Flemming, who was book
keeper in the State Treasurer's Office
under Treasurer Polk, died re-
Gently of heart disease in Florida.
The Murphy temperance movement
has been revived IN Pittsburgand over
400 people in that city have donned
the blue ribon.
The Tennessee Press Association
will meet on the I'D of this month
instead of the Goth, as formerly an
nounced.
Rev. Sam Jones, the renowned Geor-
gia revivalist, has been preaching in
the gospel tent in Nashville this week
and attracting large crowds OF listen
ers.
Hon. s. s. Cox has concluded to ac-
cept the Turkish mission ON the
ground that the President will allow
him to remain in America long enough
TO finish a book he is writing.
Angus Cannon, a prominent Nor
mon official, convicted for violating the
Edmunds law, has been sentenced to
pay fine OF $500 and to be imprisoned
for six months.
The Courier-Journals correspond
ents report frost at many points in
Kentucky Monday. Some damage
was done to fruit and vegetables. A
general white frost prevailed in Geor-
gia and South Carolina.
The vote OF censure against the Ad-
which was proposed In
the House of Commons by Lord Geo.
Hamilton, was rejected Monday by
of thirty.
The New York World has raised
nearly $4,000 for the Bartholdi statue
pedestal fund, one half of the amount
desired. The contributions average
less than one dollar each to the con-
tributers.
The Houston Guards, of Houston,
Texas, won the first prize at the Mobile
drill, the Montgomery Grays, of Mont
gomery, Ala, the second and the No
bile Rifles the third. The famous
Guards, of Memphis, would |
have had walk over but for mis-
fortune that befell them. Capt Carnes !
and several of his men tainted from |
he excessive heat, and the company |
was forced to retire from the contest. |
Corporal Talbert, OF that company,
however, secured the prize offered for
he best drilled militiaman in the Uni
ed States.