Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation Of Interesting Items %
various Subjects,

The annual parade OF the CoaenlnG
club will take place Aug. 80 at Newport,
Rhode Island
Four pearls found in the river near Ga
lena, Ill, last week, were sold to Chi.
cago jeweler for $4e0.
IL is said that Miss Harriet Blaine's
ambition Is to become her fathers private
secretary and couEst A
DIR. Christian HelW F. Peters, the as
tronomer, was found dead in bed Satur-
day morning. at Clinton, N. Y.
Miss Alice Smith, of Jacksonville, Ind,
discovered in the theft of $135, attempted
to commit suicide by drowning in a els
tern
A box containing the chopped up pieces
of woman's body, was found in the bag
gage rooms of the Union depot at st.
Louis.
Joaquin Miller is credited with writing
the worst hand in the United States,
which serves to veil certain eccentrieities
of spelling
Seattle, the Indian chief after whom the
Washington city was named, is to have a
monument erected to him by the whites.
He died in 1888.
Two Montana men make the astonish-
ing complaint that they have spent $3.50 in
a York state matrimonial agency and
have secured no wives.
By the explosion of steam boiler at
Bodie, Cal, on Tuesday, Dr. Goodson was
killed and A. 5. Montrose was fatally in
jured, both legs being blown off.
Rev. Elisha Holland, of Goldsboro, N.
c., is IS years of age and heavy coat OF
black hair is beginning to grow on his
bald head. At 80 he cut tooth.
Another big incorporation which New
Jerseys liberal statutes have attracted
is the Chicago Junction Railways and
Union Stock Yards company, $4,000, 00O
capital.
1t has been practically decided that the
vignette of William Henry Harrison, the
presidents grandfather, will be placed on
the new SEQ certificates authorized by the
new silver bill.
A swarm OF butterflies halted near
Placerville, Cal, the other day, and for a
time they were SO thick about the springs
and moist places that Transfers couldn' I
see their leaders.
A package containing 5000, consigned
to the care of tine United States Express
company, mysteriously disappeared in
transit over the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
and Western railroad.
George ]. and Thomas F. Rice, broth
ers, the former teamster and the latter {.
stove molder, of st. Louis, had a rough
and tumble fight, and Thomas was so
badly hurt that he died
Mrs. Ira L. Likes, of Hayes City, Neb.,
has the reputation of being one of the
smartest lawyers in the state. She is only
~ years old, but she has been an enthusi-
astic law student ever since she was II
years of age.
Abraham Emerson, of Canada, N. H.,
is the son of soldier who fought at Ben
nington, and is ~ years old. In spite of
that great age he is in excellent health and
is uncommonly sprightly. He may any
day be seen at work on his farm.
Electricity is the power of the future.
Henry Willard expresses his positive opin-
ion that in five years there will not be a
steam locomotive ON any railway in the
United States, and every kind of machin-
cry will be driven by that element.
Miss ELAINE Goodale, the poetess, is
government supervisor of education among
the Sioux. She lives in camp or reserva-
ton in the most primative way, travelling
from one Indian village to another on
horseback or in a prairie schooner"
In the course of his successful care err
Capt McMicken, at present the COM
mander of the Cundarder Umbria, has
made 47S passages across the Atlantic,
carrying It's, $40 passengers, and sailing on
all voyages over a distance OF q l2g 500
miles
The town clock of Sarnia Ont, stopped
recently, and its custodian, in seeking the
cause, und that the hands had been Sc
curely tied down by strands of Irvine and
grass by pair OF English sparrows that
had selected the angle formed by the
hands as II site for u nest.
Two gold spikes were driven on Satur-
day i'll the last two rails OF the Lehigh
Valley railroad connection between the
Lehisn and Schuylklll valleys at Rem
mont, West Penn township, Schuylkill
county, Pa. This line will bring Potts
vile within four hours journey of New
York.
Miss Adele Grant, who was one of the
bellies of the Newport season of 1877, and
who subsequently came near marrying the
late Earl Cairns, then known as Lord
Gum oyle, will visit Secretary and Mrs.
Whitney this summer. Miss Grant is
now the guest OF Senator Cameron III
Washington.
Vanderbilt's check for 100000, for
some time the largest ever drawn, has
been overshawdowed by check of kl,-
2J0,OOO, drawn by the Indian and Peninsu-
lar Railroad company ON the London and
County bank, of London. The big check
has just passed through the clearing
house, where it was an object of curious
interest.
The general term Of the supreme court
of New York has reversed the conviction
of Liverpool Jack, or John Fitzpatrick,
who was found guilty of kidnapping David
Kennedy and sending him into practical
slavery iii Yucatan. The court holds that
the evidence was not sufficiently law,
hough there is no moral doubt of Fitz-
patrick's infamy
Eugene Schuyler, United States consul
general to Egypt at Cairo, is dead lie
Was the best trained of all our diplomatic
corps and had held important places at
the court of st. Petersburg and elsewhere.
Nominated year ago last March for as
sistant secretary of state, his nomination
was rejected by the senate because of
some things he had published about GER
tain senators in book,
The French Must Go,
ST. JOHNS, N. f, July 21.-Premier
Whiteways proposal in London to ask