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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-08

Of Mayor and Alder
turday morning at 1880,
III. Smith presiding. Al
Hrr, Williams and Gilbert
mt.
inutes of the last meeting
Dead and approved.
- petition WI presented the Board
ON M. II. Clarke, asking that the
Ealuation in, regard to taxation, of the
Tobacco EXCHANGE be reduced from
gO 900 TO $4,000, and that taxes be
llnded accordingly.
rhis petition was granted.
Another petition in regard to low
hing tax on the Banner Warehouse
as granted.
he Board was then asked to pay
% spent irlhaving Joe Foreman
red which was granted. The
EN- Of interst was the proposed
in the working of the police
Capt. Smith made a short
opposition TO it. He was fol-
by DR.. Beach who was in favor
change. The ordinance was
~
He yearly report Of the different
|ers were then made. They are
ollows:
The Honorable Board Of IIayor and alder
GENTLEMEN :-In submitting this our
I'd annual report on the financial condi-
n of the city, we feel justified in saying
the result of the years work has not
fulfilled our predictions of the last
VI, but we find that our affairs are in q
er condition than we anticipated. In
management of the finances of the city
)dre pleased TO give testimony to the fact
we have at all times had the assistance
o Hon. Jas. II. Smith, the retiring may
hose clear judgment upon financial
Iers has very materially assisted us in
If work. We have carefully examined,
ewith submit reports of various o1li-
lb. citv and invite vo,r. coror,,1 non.
kason,a rho Traoeurar,s ronort
garious sources from which the
cen received and for what pur-
His vouchers show that all
into his hands mas been
The two bonds referred to
and supposed to be lost
been presented and paid
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-08

l.IG3 %
W. T.. BEACH, Treasurer.
CITY ATTORNEYS REPORT.
BOARD * NyyOr awI AldeYUyn Of the
GAINESVILLE:
kith submit my annual report for
Bending Jan. 81, 1850.
kpreme Court at its last session at
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
JANUARY 13, 1890.

blind people is piano tuning, but Philadel-
phia doesn't seem to realize it. Now in Bos-
ton all the public school pianos are tuned by
the blind, and there is large private busi-
ness carried on by them. It seems to me
that the Philadelphia public might very well
employ the blind to tune their musical in-
struments. It would certainly be helping q
good cause. We have in this institution as
accomplished piano tuners as there are any
whore. They can find their way all over
Philadelphia; they never forget the number
Of car tracks they must pass. They take
street cars at the proper points, too. When
two different lines run on the same street,
they ask Citizen who is standing near the
color of the car they hear approaching.
It is we'll enough for those who have car
ried around potatoes, horse-chestnuts, etc..
and have worn brass ringas to know that
there is cure for rheumatism. Sergeant
Cartwright Of the Atlanta police force tells
of man named Christian who was cured of
rheumatism by the burial treatment. Some-
body told the family that If they would dig
hole and bury young Christian in the
earth for forty-eight hours, first putting on
him mixture Of turpenitne and other home
ly medicines, 1t would cure him. They de-
cided to try the remedy as sort of last re-
sort, and they went to work to carry out the
heroic treatment prescribed. They dug the
hole and placed the poor fellow in it, all but
his head, which was not affected, and after
packing the dirt around him, they remained
to watch the effects of the cure. He endured
the confinement for the prescribed period,
although suffering intensely during the
whole time, and when they took him out he
hardly looked like the same man. But
from that day forward he began to improve.
The rheumatic affection disappeared, he be-
gan to fatten up, and finally became as
sound and hearty as any man in the commu7
hity. .a9izQa ssla,i't as
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
Monday, January 13, 1890.
DO NOT WISH TO MOVE

DO NOT WISH TO MOVE.
As was thonght would be the case, the
negro does not take kindly to Senator Nor
gan's sheme for transporting him to Africa.
He is as well off where he is as he can be
anywhere, and he knows it. A prominent
colored attorney in Chicago has expressed
his mind upon the matter most emphatically.
He will undoubtedly be sustained by nine-
tenths of the colored men of intelligence in
the country when he says: do not con-
slider Africa my country any more than do
Iceland. am an American and all colored
men feel the same way. Of the 8, 600, 600
colored people to whom Senator Morgan al
luded there is small proportion of pure
negro blood. There is white blood in the
veins Of more than ninetenths Of them.
There may be no bank presidents among us,
but there are well l-to-do men. When the
war closed there were 5,000,0 900 negroes in
this country, and they did not have among
them all as many dollars as there were men
Now the negroes pay taxes on 500, ,00O, 900
worth of property.
But If the ne groes would generally consent
to remove to Africa at the expense of the
State would it be practical to carry theml
This question was discussed more than afty
years ago by the members of the American
Colonization society. 1t was again considered
by President Lincoln and his cabinet before
the emancipation proclamation was issued.
When the negroes in this country numbered
but two millions it was declared impractical
to remove them to Africa. The same dicision
was made when they had increased to four
millions. Has the matter of transporting
them been made easier by their increase ia
eight millions2
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
The Either.

Interview in st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It is some satisfaction to me to see that
the either is becoming more popular right
along, for it is only few years since that this
sweet toned instrument was entirely unknown
to any save Germans. But now it is quite
different, as large number of people have
taken up the either, and am convinced that
when it once gets foothold 1t will not be
given up again quickly,a it is an instrument
of decided merit, its only drawback being
that it is very difficult to learn to play. A
great advantage this instrument has over a
majority of its class is that melody and ac-
compartment are complete, making it far
superior to the banjo, mandolin and guitar,
and it would hardly be thought, judging
from the size of the either, that 1t has COM
pass of over five octaves. Musicians of note
are now composing and arranging music for
the either, some of it in the quartette form,
thus enabling either clubs to perform the
better class Of music, and a number of the
large sheet music publishing houses turn out
a great deal of either music. There are now
a large number of either clubs in this coun-
try, this city having one which is in the
eleventh year of its existence, and In q most
fourishing condition.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
THE NEW HOUSE RULES.

Anything that will expedite business in
congress is welcome. The new rules for the
House which are proposed seem calculated to
encourage progress. One Of the proposed
changes is to allow bills introduced by mem
bers to be received and referred to committees
under general rule without being formally
presented during the session of the house.
Some time would be saved by emitting the
ceremony of reading the titles of tho bills,
but the main purpose of the change is to
prevent these bills from being used as q
means of flibusterina. They were usually
read by title only, but single member might
demand that any bill should be read at length.
Thus time would be wasted and the introduc.
tion or progress of other business prevented.
Another proposed change is to restore the
earlier practice by which what is called "the
morning hour" time given to the introduce
ton of business from committees, shall not
be restricted to sixty minutes, but continued
until the matter In hand is disposed of. It
is proposed also to arrange bills on the cal-
endar in an order corresponding with the
progress already made on them, SO that bills
in condition for FINAL passage, such as house
bills with senate amendments, or senate bills
identical with house bills favorably reported,
may be taken up and acted upon at the de-
mand of any member instead Of taking their
pleces at the foot of the calendar, where they
can only be reached BY unanimous consent
or by two-thirds vote to suspend the rules.
The advantages of this change are apparent.
Other checks on filibustering are proposed by
making one hundred members quorum in
committee of the whole house and to remove
from the list Of privileged motions that pro-
viding that when the house adjourns it shall
adjourn to day fixed, and that for recess.
These arrangements ought to work well,
and they probably will.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13

One of these decorations was bestowed upon
Swiss officer in the papal army for dar-
ing feat of arms performed at the battle Of
Castelfdardo. "This officer one day, q
number of years ago, pledged this cross
with me to obtain square meal. He had
been but short time in this city then, and
and he was decidedly down at the heels.
To-day he is quite able to redeem this thing.
But somehow he don't seem to care about
doing 80. And what is q curious feature of
it-just this class of pledges is very rarely
taken out of shock,' once they're put in.
It's singular enough. And for that reason
we never give more than their worth in gold
or silver"
GENERAL LIE Dues SWORD.
There is beautiful weapon-a sword of
honor-bestowed by the French republic
upon General Le Duo in 1S40-so the I'M
scription on the hiIt says-in South CLARK
street pawn shop. ST asked the man who
brought it here how he came by it" said the
owner, ssand became convinced that he was
all right. It seems that he is Frenchman,
a son of General LIE Due, and has been
through pretty lively time-taken prisoner
by the Germans at Sedan; escaped to France
and joined the army Of the defense under
Trochu; Joined in the communistic uprising
In March, 1871; taken prisoner and con-
demned to be shot by MacMahon's troops;
subsequently cent to Lambessa into exile;
escaped and came here to America; knocked
around here for years all over the country;
Joined by his wife and children; finally re-
turned to France under the general amnesty
a few years ago. When he came to me with
that sword the man was dead broke. All I
could give him on it was ten dollars-about
all the gold on it is worth. And yet I sup
pose that sword cost five hundred dollars to
make. Just look at the beautiful enameling,
the pretty tracery on tho blade, the fine
steell But, as said, as an object of barter
or sale, the thing is practically valueless.
suppose I'll have to smash it one OF these
days and melt down the gold on it to get my
money back, for nobody seems to be anxious
to buy It," ~ 81 asS
Another keepsake, richer and rarer than
the foregoing even, ia splendid gold medal,
presented to Sergeant John MacAfee, of the
Eighty-third Highlanders, by the British
government, for unusual personal bravery
shown before the enemy at the battle OF
Aboukir, in 1898. This is now in the hands
of another local three-ball man. "The mar
who pawned this with me, about ten years
ago, was a woman" eaid he. 81 mean by
that, he sent his wife. They must have
thought great deal of this medal, for they
disposed of everything else before this reli'
of old decency was thought of. But thel
never redeemed it. The grandson of thu
Aboukir MacAfee was sick and in the hos
pital, and died soon after got hold of thii
medal. And I've never seen his widow
since. Maybe she's dead too."
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
LATEST.


Since young Jones began visiting Miss
Brown the parlor lamp in the Brown domi.
Gle is the latest thing out.-Binghamton
Leader.
thought you were going to marry Miss
Goldthwaite." "Her family were all opposed
to it." "Well, but if the girl herself ST
said all the family. She was one of them."-
Puck.
Customer-"What's the price of your
coalr 'Dealer-'Six dollars ton"
"Weigh me out ton." 'Aheml Where
the coal is weighed in the presence of the
purchaser I always charge 81 extra. Texas
Siftings.
The great question now is s'Should clergy.
men use tobaocos" We think not. The clergy
is absolutely overworked testing and testi-
monializing patent medicines. We shouldn't
expect too much even of the clergy.-Boston
Transcript.
''The paper tells of gold nugget weigh
ing three pounds. thought that gold came
in quarts, William" said Mrs. Bunker. And
Mr.. Bunker laughed SO hard they had to
send for messenger boy to dry his tears
Munsey's Weekly.
Mr.. Lookahead-Does my daughter give
You any encouragement, sir3
your business is increasing SO that you can
soon support us in the style we both like
Mnnsey's Weekly.
From the note book of philosopher
"Women weep 30 readily and with such
evident satisfaction and are so easily con-
soled that it would seem to me the duty of
benevolent minded person to offer them
from time to time an excuse for shedding
tears.-Judge.
"Can you use these poems7" he asked, as
he laid q large roll timidly on the table.
oWhV aorfoin1v ~ an{A fba odifor ohooriIv
"Just the right length for pipe-lighters.
Most all the poems We get are on note paper;
and they're very inconvsnient. Call again. +"
brakes Magazine.
Miss Upton Ito newly married rural rela-
tive on Jersey City Ferry)-"Why, aunty.
what's the matter?" Rural aunty (wildly
pointing to big float full of freight cars)-
"Looki Lookl A piece of the railroad has
broken loose, and amt been off five min
utes."-New York Weekly.
New Clerk (anxious to show his sagacity)
The silver dollar you just took in is coun-
terfeit.
Proprietor (nervously)-I was waiting on
the minister's wife.
''But you don't take counterfeit money
from women jus because they happen to be
minister's wives, do yeus"
"No, of course not.'
"Didn't you see this was counterfsita"
"Consarn It'll Young man. if you must
know, that's the dollar dropped into the
contribution box last Sunday."-New York
Weekly.
:. teacher you'll find;
The engineer he minds the train, the teacher trains
And yes another Hear tho bell that's pealing
| from the steeple;
It differs from the alderman who's stealing from
Chicago Herald.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
AT THE PAWN SHOP.

Some Curious Things Seen as the Sign
OF the Three Dalls-The Fate OF
Many Elegant and Costly Keep
sakes.
From the Chicago Herald
"What is this worthl" he asked, pulling
ont of his breast pocket a beautiful velvet
case and opening it. In the gaslights the
contents of the case Dashed and shone like
thousand stars. The jsweler took the
glittering object out of its repository and
carefully examined 1t. he took up the case
and critically examined that also. Then he
said: 'If you mean what the value of 1t is
in strictly business sense, I'd say $3.50.
That is what the gold and the stones will
sell for. If you mean the artistic value, to-
gether with that of associations, it depsnds
entirely upon the whim of the purchaser.
To me, as jewelsr, the sum named is all
1t is worth"
"That is very little. Can't you do better
than that! / happen to know that this
cost the Shah 1000 when he had it made
for me-"
s'Tell mellow did you get iti'
every simply" said the owner. ''It was
in 1878, at the time Of the Vienna worlds
fair, when the Shah of Persia visited there.
was then young member of the Hotburg
Theatre troupe-the best in Europe-and
one night when the Persian monarch was
present at q performance nv acting pleased
him and week later he sent me this"
THE HENoENnss OF IT.
The speaker was a leading member OF the
German stage in this city. Something had
happened to him from which not even the
greatest actor is exempt. Hence the yawn-
Ing void in his pocketbook. Hence the visit
to the ieweler. Hence the offering for
sale of bis trophy. There was logical 30.
The object he had rendered for sale was
cigarette case-only that. But it was of
solid gold and studded with diamonds
There were about 100 of these precious
stones grouped together in such way
on the surface of the case as to form curi-
ous monogram. The letters were Arabic,
and they were thesfaithful fac-simile in dia-
mopds-of the signature of Persia's ruler
Nasr-ed Deem, Shah, which means in plain
Anglo Saxon just this: Light Of the World.
King. In his estimation there is but one
king, and that Is he.
81 haven't any doubt that this cost the
Shah Thousand dollars or So" said the
jeweler, s'but the market value Of the stones
and Of the gold is only what I said. I'll
keep 1t, though, for you. Some wealthy
board Of trade man may get stuck on It
and pay you something nearer its true val-
III"
That seems to be about the fate of nearly
all such costly keepsakes, ,gift of honor, royal
or imperial presents, INSIGNIA and jewel in
crusted decorations Very few of them re-
main In the hands Of their original owners
and their descendants. Although Chicago
il not q very old town, and its citizens are
not the subjects Of any potentate or Asiatic
despot, yet IL ID true that there are here in
of our jewelers. and pawnbrokers, an aggre.
CATION, Of such curious baubles large enough
to stock museum.
One West Madison street ssuncle, - for in
stance, has whole trayfuI Of foreign deco
ratiOns, all OF considerable intrinsic value
Nearly Ill Of them were once worn by for
mer army officers German. British, French,
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.
What is SO rare as June day in january

w Aas 40 no Aoio 90 . y uuo 0oy al OdAuoxyt
Gentlemen" }" said an eminent Australian
lawyer recently, "the case for the Grown ia q
mere skeleton-a mere skeleton, gentlemen;
for, as I shall presently show, 1t has neither
flesh, blood nor bones In it." On another
occasion he solemnly declared that ''verbal
sgreement is not worth the paperit is writ
ten on"
It is asserted that in Ave years the NUM-
Der of deer in the Adirondacks has doubled.
This result has been brouaht about by the
vigilance of :he State game protectors and
the efforts Of sportsmen's clubs in that re.
gion. The strict enforcement of the game
laws will soon make the Adirondacks para
disc for the hunter.
The managers of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad company win have to be
pretty thick skinned not to feel some of the
remarks that are made about them and to
them. But II they have used their places as
some other railroad managers have they will
know that they will be able to escape the
poorhouse even If they are thrown ont Of
their nicely feathered nest into the cold
world.
The excitement in Florida over the vast
phosphate discoveries in Marion and Her
nando counties is big one. Agents of
commercial fertilizer companies in Edin-
burgh, Now York, Boston and elsewhere are
on the ground, and the astonished farmers,
who few weeks ago could not sell their
land for two dollars an acre, see 1t rise Ave
per cent. in price with many takers. One
company with capital Of 1,2o0, 200 owns
10000 acres Of the phosphate belt in and
about Dunnellan.
Il the kangaroo going the way of the buff
faloa The rapid decrease in the number Of
kangaroos is beginning to attract the atten-
tion of scientific societies in Australia From
the collective reports Of the various stock i'm
spectors II was estimated that ia 1887 there
were 1, ,SS1, $40 kangaroos. In 1888 the num-
Der fell to ]. ITO, $50, decrease Of I'll, ,130.
The chief obstacle to the adoption Of meas
ures for the effeotual protection Of the kan
garoo is his vigorous appetite. One full
grown kangaroo eats as much grass as six
sheep.
William Chapiu, principal of the Pennsyl-
vania institution for the instruction Of the
blind, recently aid: The great profession for
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
WINTER VACATIONS.


A Suggestion OF a Plan to BeneAt the
Stay-at- Homes.
From the Homiletic Review.
A clergyman after preaching for a friend
on vacation Sunday, remarked to a young
lady: "You have large summer congrega-
tion here" "Oh, yes; but these are the
stay at-homes. Our nice people are ali out
of town."
One of the most successful city workers
remarked: "The work of city missions il
confined practically to about eight months,
Of which only six are really of much ao-
count" The reason given was two fold:
strain that they absolutely must have rest
and absence from their work. 2. The peo~
pie themselves are not as easily reached
or influenced in the summer as in the win
ter.
The fact still! remains that the stay-at-
homes during the summer constitute the
immense majority of the population. The
average vacation of the clerk is two
weeks. He is at home the rest of the
time, and open to influence just as much as
ever.
But that side has been described suffi-
GENTLY. The question is, what can be done.
We would suggest-divide the vacation. Let
the pastor take a couple of weeks right ont
of the press of work in January. He will
not be 80 tired and exhausted when July
comes, and couple of weeks then will be of
more value than four, if he commences them
under the strain of eleven months of unre-
mitting pressure. But be cannot leave with
out seriously damaging the routine work of
the church. Try it and see. There are mul-
titudes of the ''stay at homes who would be
only too glad to forego little in the winter
if they could feel sure of pastoral counsel in
learn the beauty of self-derial such as they
do not often exercise. It will do no harm to
try it, and perhaps some of the ministerial
wisdom 80 manifest IN the winters work will
be able to work out the problem of how to
reach men in the summer time.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
Sseadly TobaccO Fumes.

GFrom the Newport Express and Standardl
Cases of poisoning due 10 meat which
seemed thoroughly wholesome have some-
times occurred and have remained unex-
planned. In the Revue d. Hygiene of this
month NJ. Bourrisr, inspector of msat for
the City of Paris, makes suggestion. He
described his experiments with meat i'm
pIegnated with tobacco smoke Some thin
slices of beef We're exposed for q considera.
Bile time TO the fumes of tobacco, and sfter-
wards offered to dog which been deprived
of food for twelve hours The dog after
smelling the meat refused to eat it. Some
of the meat WAS then cut into small pieces
and concealed Within bread. This the dog
ate with avidity, but in twenty minutes
commenced to display the most distressing
symptoms, and coon died in great agony.
All soIts of meat, both raw and cooked,
some grilled, roasted and boiled, were. ex-
posed in tobacco smoke and then given to
animals. and in all cases produced symp-
toms of acute poisoning. Even the process
of bailing could not extract from the meat
the nicotine poison. Grease and similar
substances have facilities of absorption in
proportion with their fineness and fuidity.
Fresh killed meat is more readily ircpregnat-
ed, and stands in order of susceptibility as
follows-pork, veal, rabbit, poultry, beef,
mutton, horse.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-13
new U.e for Phosphoric Acid.


Some interesting details have been given
in "The Medical Record" London, of the
treatment of ulcers BY phosphoric acids.
under the practice of Grossieh. In this
treatment there is 10 per cent. solution Of
pure phosphorio acid in distilled water, the
ulcer being covered with a bit of lint dipped
in this solution, and dressing renewed three
or four times day. The result of this is
that the patient for the first few minutes feels
a slight burning sensation, but this soon
passes, aud within some "a or SO hours the
ulcer cleans and appears better, Inflammation
or eczema of the surrounding parts disap.
pears, and all pruritus ceases-the ulcer cica-
trizing rapidly, and the cicatrix being firm
aud healthy. It is also stated that the treat
ment by the solution of bosphoric acid was
further employed in a case Of tuberculous abb
scess Of some eight months duration, and
also case of eczema imagination which had
lasted more than year, good results follow
inQ in both of these