Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

badly.
Robert Collier, the distinguished Unita-
rian divine, is dead.
Many wheat fields in Indiana do not
pay for the TIRES ing.
Mrs. Elizabeth Larned died Saturday
evening in Central Falls, r. l.. in her l0lst
year.
Governor Ross, of Texas, pronounces the
Gordon boycott utterly impracticable and
unwise
At Hamilton, o., John Haacke, IS,
stabbed Peter Theobald fatally in a quar-
rel at a dance
Sixteen members of the Kentucky state
guard have gone to Perry county, to help
Judge Lily hold court.
Dakota crops have been blistered by ex-
cessive heat, the people are without money
and suffering is predicted.
1t is said that the city of Richmond.
Va, with 100000 inhabitants, has no city
hospital or public dispensary.
A man named Jennings, supposed to be
one of the Burrows train robbers, has
been arrested at Birmingham, Ala.
Annie Rooney is located She has APP
piled for pension from Wilmington,
L..
At Grafton, W. Va, William Golden,
his wife and three children, were run
down by passenger train and killed
The Georgia supreme court has refused
new trial for Tom Voolfolk who
murdered nine persons in Bib county.
The last act of Thomas Leonards law
less life was trying, in the Eddyville, KY,
pententiary to kill a guard who carried a
revolver
Thomas A. Edison recently purchased
1000 acres of land in Moore county, S. c..
where an attempt will be made to open
gold mines.
Miss Lillian Blanche Fearing, the only
lady in this years graduating class of
Union college of law in Chicago, is en-
tirely blind.
Rev. r. H. Calwell has gotten himself
into hot water by becoming independent
Democratic candidate for judge of Boyle
county, Ky.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York, who
went to Europe in poor health, mas been
steadily improving and re2aining health
and strength
The body of an unknown man, with
the initials -. w. b." on his spectacle
case, was found in hedge one mile west
of Lebanon, o.
Nellie BASKERVILLE, aged 25 years, of No.
54 Eleventh avenue, New York, was so
severely burned about her legs and body
that she died shortly afterward
EX-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin,
who lives at Bangor, Ne, is believed to do
more fishing and catch fewer fish than
any other man i'll New England
Henry Cover Salem, O., hardware mer-
chant, met kindly stranger at Youngs
town who made hardware on his finances
to the extent of euchreing him out of $3.50
of tin.
Commodore William p. McCann has
been appointed as acting rear admiral,
and has been ordered to hoist his flag on
board the United States ship Pensacola
on Aug 4.
After study of the Congressional
Directory" The Charleston News and
Courier announces that there are six
farmers in the senate and thirty i've in
the house.
At Indianapolis, John Solomon has
probably uncoupled himself from his old
wife with the coupling-pn with which he
hit her over the head in domestic quar-
rel as She may live,
A poor washerwoman at Fayetteville,
Ark, who few days ago was notified that
she mad been granted Il pension and would
receive 5000 back pay was so overcome
with JOY that she died
At York, Pa, girl who was walking
through an orchard was bitten on the toe
by snake The girl experienced no
HARM but the snake was found dead near
the spot soon afterward,
James Coy, son of Sim, of indianapolis. |
shot Edward McPeak seriously in quar- |
rel Wednesday. 1t looks as if the Michi- |
gan City penitentiary stands chance of
becoming the Coy family residence.
Writing from Pablo Beach, Fla, Gen. |
i. +. Spinner, eX-United States treasurer |
says that the cancer from which he is suf- !
fering is constantly growing worse He
is alGlost blind and writes with pain and |
suffering
Capt Tillman, the leader of the farm. |
ers' movement in South Carolina, is AZ |
years old, blind of one eye, pays taxes Oh
| 800 acres of land, runs twenty plows and |
has dairy supplied by forty thorough
bred Jersey cows.
A mass of pure, compact rock salt, said |
to contain 90.00000O tons of the mineral,
is located ON an island 1855 feet high, which
rises from a sea marsh on the route from
to New Iberia, up the river
Tech, in Louisiana
Miss Sallie Hollie, a Virginia girl, has
the education of the eolored
girls of her state. She proposes to esttlb-
lish small schools throughout Virginia,
where the colored girl can learn enough
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world
The village of Pennington, n. j. is ex-
cited over the disappearance of Miss Lizzie
Lewis Il school teacher, who left her
house seventeen days ago to visit
a fried in village four miles away. She
was last seen ON Il train going towards
New York.
During gale early ON Saturday morn
ing an unkno schooner ran down and
sunk the British steamer Charles Moran
off the Delaware break-water. The sur
yivors were rescued by the steamship d.
H. Miller, from Baltimore, which took
them to Boston.
Lima jennings Chicago young lady,
was drowned in the Desplaines river at
Willow Springs by the capsi2ing of
BOAT. Two young men with her ut the
lime narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of mob, as it is said had either
made an attempt she could have been
,aved.
Again there is great excitement III
Albany, Wis, over the pearl fishing in
Sugar river The inhabitants of that
whole section of the country are up to
heir necks in the mud and water search
ny for the gems. Reliable estimates
places the vnlue of the pearls found dur