Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting ltcmB on
Variods Subjects.

A Condensation of Interesting ltcms on
various Subjects.
Beer Is selling in Chicago for So. so 4 bar
rel, "A result of brewery coir petition.
Republicans of the Third Iowa district
renominated Congressman Henderson
Democrats Of the Eighth Illinois dis
trict nominated Lewis Steward for con
gress.
Fire near Atlanta, Ga, DESTROYED the
Southern cotton seed oil mills Loss
$l00,000
Professor w H. Harper, of Yale col.
lege, will be president of the new Univer.
sity of Chicago,
There is voting precinct in Georgia
forty miles wide by fifty long, containing
100000 of population.
Lead ore yielding s per cent. just has
been found in Rock Bluff, FIVE miles up
Bad river from Pierre S. Oak.
The indictment against Philip Sauter.
accused of numbering Dairyman Ginnin,
at Columbus, o., was nollied, and Sauter
goes free
Col. Briant, prominent farmer and
manufactures, is talked of as a Repub-
lican candidate for congress in the Elev-
enth Indiana district.
The Franklin Life Insurance COMPANY
of Springfield, ILL.,, is refused permission
to do business in Ohio, as the COMMANDS
bylaws and the laws of the state conflict.
Publishers throughout the United
States of cheap non-copywrighted books
have united in great company, with a
capital of 50, 100000. John w. Lowell will
run it.
The United States are to have in Great
Brltam three government inspectors of
imported beef cattle They will be sta.
toned at London, Liverpool and Glasgow
respectively.
Said that the Alabama Terminal and
Improvement company will build the
Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Memphis
railway, to connect with the Illinois Cen
trial and the Mobile and Ohio.
A dozen negroes and three white men
were wounded seriously in riot on an ex-
cursion train on the Blue Stone branch of
the Norfolk and Western railway in Vir-
ginia. Six negroes were jailed
DR.. Il. +. Joseph, graduate of the Gin
cinnati Medical college, shot Charles
Ladd at Napoleon Ind, the ball striking
the right nipple and, CHANGING off rib,
entered the right forearm. Woman in the
case.
male child was born to Mrs Harde-
gan, of Nicetown, Pa, Sunday, weighing
not less than twenty-five pounds. The
mother Is over six feet tall, while the
father is of ordinary size This is their
twelfth child
Banker Harper, of Cleveland, asked his
pretty stenographer for her hand, and
then tried to crawl out of it by saving
that he only referred to her short hand
She sends in bill for $4,000 worth of
damaged cardiac.
Mrs. Bert Cleveland, Mrs James Shay
Mrs Avery Whitmarsh Mrs. Thomas
Behan and Mrs. Harvey Van Duzer, were
killed by their carriage being struck by
train near Owego, n. Y, while attempt
ing to cross the railroad track.
The original Globe Tobacco Warehouse
company the old portion of the Brooks
Waterfield company, Cincinnati, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night, together
with about 1000 hogsheads of leaf tobacco.
The total loss is put at $4,000
A party of cowboys near Sidney, Ne5..
took the insulators and wires of the West,
ern Union Telegraph company for targets
and cut every wire in the vicinity with
their bullets. 1t took large force
whole day to repair the damage,
Miss Riddle, of Cleveland who com.
PEELED Attorney Mcmillan to give her up
at the altar year ago, is Riddle no
longer, as Charlie Pennington found the
right answer before the same minister
who failed to get it at that time.
Married life agrees with Mrs Mary An |
derson Navarro, as she writes that her
health is much improved and that she and |
her husband intend to return to London |
soon. Later they contemplate trip |
through Switzerland where they expect |
to remain until autumn.
The Clothing Manufacturers associa-
ton of New York, has notified their cut
tiers that they will be locked out Satur-
day This Is in retaliation for the boycott
on Benjamin q Company, member Of
the association. Thirty thousand persons
will be thrown out of work
At Irondale, Ala, Rev Samuel 3 Mar.
tin, Il methodist preacher, whose atten
lions to IA young lady had been by her re.
jected in favor of another, slipped up be.
hind the lovers as they were out walking
and split his rivals head open with AN
Ak, the blood splattering over the dress Of
.he young girl. Martin fled.
"The sparrow" wrote Luther, sis called
Ia the Hebrew tschirp. and should be
killed wherever found" Three centuries
and half have left it an undecided point
whether or no we should agree with the
'eformer. The sparrow himself, it has
been pointed out, agrees with him so far as
he diet of worms, bnt the question left
over, says The Mail aud Express, is, What
ioes the sparrow eat besides what the
armer wishesi" Mr.. Phil Robinson seems
o think that the caterpillar and the mag
got are the deadliest enemies after ali, and
We have no more competent observer A
mean may he golden here as elsewhere,
md 1t may be wise 10 prevent sparrows be-
oming very numerous; equally wise not
o extirpate them altogether