Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-23
What Our Exchanges Say.

--Cadiz Telephone: Rev. J. B. Cot
trell and family arrived last Friday
from their home at Cloverport, and are
now located at the parsonage.
Pleasant View Herald: Mr.. j. b.
Williams and wife OF Montgomery coun.
tv visited G. S. Barnett and family in
this place last Saturday and Sunday.
Lebanon Register Hon Benton
McMillin and his competitor, Col. J. J..
Turner, will speak here Thursday, Goth
inst. Let everybody come out and hear
them, eaA.
Columbia Herald: Mr.. House
helped to clear the political almost.
phere in this county by his speech Mon
day. He put all who heard him to
thinking.
Tribune and Sun: Hon. Benton
McMillin's opponent for congress il
making the race on the Blair bill. AZ
ter the November election he can dis
cover no evidence that he was ever
candidate.
-Athen Post: II the Democrats do
their duty from now until the day of
election the Republican majority in
McMinn can be largely reduced.
Apathy and indifference invariably re-
suit in disaster.
Dickson County Press: On account
of failure to get Alf Taylor to agree to
speak at this place, the appointment
for Bob, was withdrawn. Without q
joint discussion there would have been
but little interest.
Tribune and Sun; The Anti Blair
bill Democrats are disparagingly called
"chestnuts" by those who favor that
peculiar measure. The End of Novem-
ber will demonstrate that this is pro-
life year for that "fruit."
-Murfreesboro News: Interest ir the
Blair bill is dying out very fast in Ten.
nessee. Its days seem to be numbered
1t still has some very strong friends
but they are almost without hope. II
is strange that men cling to forlorn
hope so long.
Athens Post: The great army oil
tramps and dead-beats that have infest
ed the country for some time, and
which radical papers refer TO with much
JUNCTION, is the legitimate outgrowtf
and product OF twenty years of Repub
lican misrule.
-Obion Democrat; Asher Carutl
defeats Albert S. Willis for Congress
in the Louisville district. Willis was
kind of political eunuch who ough
never to have been elected to Congress
at all. He posed as the leader of tn
Blair bill in the House.
The Galatin Tennessean, says
would like to support Mr.. j. j. Turne
for Congress against Hon Benton Nc
Millin, butafter careful study of Nj
Turner's speech on the Blair bill, cal
not consistently do so. Mr.. Turne
is in favor of the bin or a similar one.
| Carthage Mirror: The Tennessee
an able Democratic newspaper, put
lished at Gallatin, the home of Col. ]. ,
Turner, declines to support him as
candidate for congress. 1t says: "Th
best welfare OF the people and the cau'
Of Democracy will be subserved in h
defeat"
Knoxville Journal: AS soon as Il
weather turns cooler fat hogs will
in demand IN this market. There ha
been some engagements made At gros
for this months delivery. From Il
present outlook in Western market
we think 4 cents gross will be a go'
4 price for packing.
Carthage Mirror: w. M. Har
mock was nominated by the Democr
ic f1otorial convention that met at Har
vile on last Monday as candidate /
representative from the counties
Sumner, Trousdale and Smith. 4
Hammock was the choice OF Trol
dale county, as expressed in prims
election early in August last.
Columbia Herald: Hon. Albert
/, Willis was defeated in his race for
nomination to Congress, from the Lor
vill3, Ky., district, by Asher G. Caru
afar most severe campaign, 4
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