Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-19
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Hopkinsville, KY.
Retired Rear Admiral Baldwin died in
New York Saturday
Edison's thoughts are absorbed on the
problem Of air navigation.
Sara Bernhardt is growing very intemper-
ate, and uses brandy literally.
Nina Van Zandt, the proxy widow Of An
srchist Spies, has rut off mourning. s
Miss Ella Transom has challenged Mrs
Shaw to a whistling match for $500 side.
Wapakoneta, o., pines for a board Of
trade, and is selecting timber to make one.
James e.. Blaine twill not be interviewed
by any newspaper man on any subject what
ever.n
The Woman's Relief corps of Cincinnati
and Hamilton, o., called on Gen. Harrison
on Friday
At Louisville the digger jury stood eleven
for hanging and one for acquitbal. The case
will be retired.
The Bellevue, o., bank gave an S.per cent
dividend on its 100000 loss and turned up
its toes forever.
President-slect Harrison was highly de-
lighted by a reception by his OLD regiment,
the Seventieth Ohio.
A stranger named Gray was run over and
killed by freight near South Carrollton,
KY, Thursday night.
Claud N. Douglass, of Indiana, has been
appointed to 81, 800 position in the general
land office at Washington.
Sam Steinberg, of Proctor, KY, has been
appointed u storekeeper and gauger by the
commissioner Of internal revenue.
Jacob Wells, of Fayette county, Alab' ma,
has discovered, after being married four
years, that his wife is half sister.
Thieves broke into the house of D. Z.
Weaver, a Westwood grocer, Friday, and
carried OFF his gold watch and $50.
John Hoey, president OF the Adams Ex-
press company, has sailed for Europe, where
he will organize an express system.
Pickpockets transformed loud harrahs to
silent weeping by going through tho Repu5.
lican jubilee crowd at Massillon, o.
John L. Markham, a large wholesale rner-
chant at Durham, N. c., failed for $4,000,
owing to the assignment of the Bank of Dur.
ham.
Mrs Henry Jones died suddenly at Bridge
port, Conn, aged ninety She was the
the daughter of Noah Webster of dictionary
fame.
Two young sons OF John Marvin, a
wealthy farmer living near St Cloud,
Mimi. were drowned while skating over
thin ice
Robert Manlisf, young farmer near Law.
renceburg Ind, kissed his wife ON her re-
turn from town, and, stepping back, cut his
throat with razor. No cause is known.
w. H. Lucas, prominent lumber dealer
of Charlottesville, Ind, was bound over in
the sum of 81, 900 at Newton, H., Friday for
the alleged larceny Of six car loads of lum.
Der.
Robert Short, Of Cincinnati, is short his
building in Louisville, which was occupied
by the Hopkins Robinson Manufacturing
company. 1t was destroyed by flames Loss,
$4,000.
Superintendent Woodland, of Lafayette,
Ind. has talked over the striking brakemen
on the ground OF mutual concessions, and
the Monon route continues to do business at
the old stand.
Gen. Joseph e. Johnston, the ex confeder-
ate leader, is living quietly at the Palace ho-
tel, San Francisco. He is the last Of the
officers OF the confederacy to bear the full
rank of general
Pauline Lucca is TO sing fifty nights in
concert in the leading cities of this country.
1t is said she is to receive 1900 night and
all the expenses Of herself, her husband her
maid and her poodle.
Z. E Georgia, former resident of Troy,
O., was arrested at Van Vert on a charge of
executing Il mortgage on property to which
he had no title. He was arraigned and
waived examination.
Robert Manlief, a young farmer in Man.
chester township, Dearbon county, Indiana,
who had been married recently, cut his
throat with a. razor in his wife's presence on
Thursday, and died Immediately.
Flossie Moss, an American girl, aged thr.
teen, Is the heroine Of the summer in the
Alps. She made the ascent of the highest
peak Of Mount Blanc--the youngest person
of either sex who ever put foot there
Miss Florence Nightingale is now a con.
firmed invalid and is a patient at St Thomas
hospital, London Her services during the
Crmean war injured her spine, and she has
never recovered from the effects thereof
Collector w. P. Copp, of Lynn, Mass has
not yet been heard from. The auditors,
after hasJy examination of the books, re.
port an apparent shortage Of about s23 900
This sum may be enlarged, and it may grow
smaller
Mr. Jackson, the husband of the late la.
ineated authoreSs, Helen Hunt jackson, was
married recently, and is now residing at Col.
orado Springs, Col He married niece Of
his first wife, and there is still, therefore, a
Helen Hunt Jackson
At Brooklyn, N. ", fourteen of che six.
teen NJ. +. bishops were given a reception,
at which Warner Miller was present. Dr.
Peck, in his remarks, said that Miller should
be a cabinet officer under Harrison, which
elected great applause.
The empress of Japan is rapidly becoming
one of the best informed women uf her time.
She is hard student of German, Russian,
French and Italiah, and it is said that her
ma jesty has certain days of the week upon
which Japanese is a forbidden language. 4
Charles Bigler, OF yellow Springs, o.,
stands up To denouncs his own thouyhtleSs.
ness in Putting fireworks and matches in the
same pocket, The pyrotechnic display was
beautiful, but from his point of observation
decidedly unpleasant.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland president OF the
Eastern association OF Wells college, has
agreed to receive subscriptions TO erect new
buildings for the college in place OF those re-
Gently destroyed by fire, and to acknowledge
with her own hand the receipt of all remit