Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11
What Our Exchanges Say.

duces the echo. And here We have
lived oil of these years thinking il was
tlle holler.--Binghamton Republican.
Conrier-Jomnal: 1t seems to be
CLEARLY proven that the last strike of the
packIpg-house employees OF Chcago was
ordered by District Master Workman
Butler, for the Selfish purpose OF advanc-
ing his candidacy for Sheriff of Cook
county. The poor fellows who were
thus lorced. 10 lose their wages, to aid
\ miserable seii-seeker, should take
Butler out Tor Il sail upon Lake Michi-
gan anddrop him overheard Il few times
where its waters are the chilliest.
Galhltin Tennessean The Chesa-
peilke and Nashville Railroad is pro
crossing. The grading, bridges and
trestles are now finished TO Scottsvlle,
and everything is now ready for track
laying II will take only few weeks
TO complete the road, and then every
body will be happy. Switches along
the route are now being built. We un-
derstand that the depot at ScottsyiIIe is
in the course OF construction.
Ei Albany Argus. Dem There is but
l9ne labor party, that IS made up of the
tollers and not OF the monopolsts.
When the time comes again for the
workingmen OF the country TO indicate
whom they regard ~ theiritrne friend.
the Democratic majority will b. found
larger than ever, The Democratic
party is the labor party.
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fTaKETHE cUDGEL TO EDITOR ARMIsTEAr.
Mrs. Lide Meriwether in Nashville
Issue: Being a resident OF the locality
designated, the caption heading a lead
ing editorial in last weeks Issue natur-
Eally arrested my attention. Iti perusal
appalled, me. When the writer penned
the following sentence, ~
Memphis needs another revengeful
providential.yellew fever scourge. The
lesson it got from God eight years ago is
forgotten"
was he really ''cl, thed and in his right
mind ?" Dos he honestly believe that
the fever pla ne loi '78 AM 70 was sent
upon Memphis in recompense for any
other sins save those Of dirt and bad
sewerage !? Does he honestly believe in
and deyoutly worship God whom he
believes capable of sending revenge
4 ful' scourge upon city OF 10000 peo-
pile, staying remorsely the innocent
with the guilty, the infidel with the
Christian, the spotless babe with the
hoary sinner? If SO, he must be a,
relic OF the middle ages, and not what
/ had supposed him 10 be-an intelli-
gent Christian Of the nineteenth CEN
tury. 3an aIU sM 6
The Tennessee Valley Iron Com
pany was recently organized at Mem
phis with capital ot Sl200,000. The
company has purchased 7l.7000 acres OF
land in Wayne county and will begin
the erection OF furnaces at once.
Obion Democrat: Gath" is the
Chief Ghoul. the Great Thersites the
Grand Calumniator General of the
American press. He says nothing
good OF the living, and, reversing the
old Latin plea or maxim, he says moth
ing but bad of the dead. When the
devil says, as he will some day say, come
hither, George Alfred Townsend, IN
very mean and a very able correspon-I
dent will lay down, the pen for the
palm-leaf. fN'F1 AN
Gen. Lew Wallace, author of that
charming story, @Ben Hur," says that
"a priest once said, 'as God found he
could not be everywhere at the same
moment be made lnothers.' Elk. tl
IL t.sts A1sa 4at4Fsr MsfF
Michael Davitt says @Mark my
words, the next election will set Ireland
free. Previous to the election Lord
Churchill intimated that the first move
of Tory government would be the in
PRODUCTION OF a measure TO suppress the
Irish organization. There has been no
such measure, and he has also weak
ened in other directions. Churchill
claims that the Irish landlord is reduc-
ing rents. That is true, but be had to
de it. Churchill proposed country
boards as relief but tell you the Irish
people will never accept 4 nor will
Ireland be satisfied with ANYTHING short
OF the restoration OF an Irish parlia-
ment,p ,paG ad bl0aas e sa
Charlotte (va.) Chronicle. The
Churches and the Heather. The split
among the Congregationalists of New
England seems to widen with every
fresh outgivlng from the churches.
The point in controversy succintly
stated is that many of the foreign mis-
sionaries OF that denomination have
found the irop-clad Calvinistic creed,
that all persons who have not known
and believed in the atonement are
doomed to eternal punishment, an al
most insuperable stumbling block to
the conversation of the heathen. With
most OF these people the idea in
culcated by the Congregational creed,
that their ancertors are suffering the
pains OF eternal .dampation, is so revolt
] ing that they refuse to accept any por-
ton OF the Christian belief, Some OF
the miss onarqes, rather than see their
labors come 10 naught have improvt
ished probationary state for the good.
heathen by which they are eventually
\ to he saved ft RafsAA' US -
r. 1alnaasa i,sai iiaHl ! nalil lsils
/ A. Fortunate Accident to 5as5ta Man.
; IuoiiaSSN M.la- --H3i ~ ol 1870 g
II Word reached here yesterday that
ticket No. 20, ~ had drawn first
capital prize $4,000 in the October