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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

The round full moon is but piece of tissue
paper with a candle behind it. Thunder is
initiated by rafting behind the wings huge
piece OF sheet iron. In large theatres, how
ever, the property room is located above the
stage, and truck loaded with round shot il
wheeled along, from which the balls are
tilted, producing a hollow, rsverberating
sound as they roll along the floor.
Lightning is initiated in various ways A
long tin tube filled with powder gives out
vivid flashes as it is passed over a spirit lamp.
Sometimes Eigzag strips are cut out of the
scenery. and replaced with vanished muslin.
When lamp is flashed behind the muslin it
produces the effect Of forked lightning. A
roller revolved against rough cloth initiates
wind; peas rolled in long tube initiates
rain; snow is produced by slow downward
sitting of small bits of white paper; the
breaking in Of door, or q fall down stairs, is
initiated by polcemans rattle, or by empty
ing broken glass from basin. Philadelphia
Times.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
TENNESSEE HORSES.
Montgomery County Coming to the
Front in Raising Fine Saddle and
Harness Horses.

1t is gratifying to notice the rapid
progress Montgomery county is max
ing in breeding excellent horses.
Fine colts and young horses of sup
perior quality and style are showing
up in every part of the county.
Golddust has proved his great value
as breeder, as have various other
horses, and the late importations,
such as are at BuenaVentura and
Montgomery stock farms and others,
both horses and mares, give great
promise to the breeding interest of
this county. In fact, the breeding OF
fine horses is coming to be the lead
ing thought and enterprise of our
prominent farmers; they are all
catching the spirit, and in few
years Montgomery will take the
lead in producing the finest saddle
and harness horses to be found any
where. We expect our people to
reap a rich reward for the invest
ment they have made in laying the
foundation. There is more profit in
the business than in raising cheap
tobacco and wheat, though the farmer
need not neglect either in giving his
attention to horses. Our farmers
should keep good mares instead of
mules to do the farm work by keep
ing two or three extra ones and haV-
ing colts to break every year the
farmers work may be facilitated
without injury to the animals, and
each mare raise colt every year
worth from 800 to $50.
Campbell Brown, in well written
article to the Lexington Stock Jour
nal, puts Tennessee in the lead for
fine saddle and harness horses. He
speaks of several of the PAGERS with
the best time on record, as the finest
saddle horses that he ever backed.
The origin of the Tennessee trotters
and PAGERS was from a cross of the
Virginia saddle horse with the best
racing blood in Kentucky and Ten
nessee. From this cress has sprung the
qualities of power, endurance and
speed, combined with free style and
pleasant movements when well train
ed. Our breeders have cause to feel en-
couraged at the outlook. The
market has never been over-stocked
with good horses and never will be.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
A Rampant Tree.

4 woodsman fel.ed a tree on the top of the
mountain above the Fall Brook company's
railroad track, opposite the mouth of Four
Mile run, on Pine creek in Pennsylvania. The
tree did not fall as the man intended, but
went topping over the cliff, and slid down
the mountain, gaining in speed at every rod,
and trimming itself of branches as it went.
A freight train was coming up through the
gorge and the tree crashed endways through
a box car loaded with shelled corn, and went
on into the creek. There was hole tho size
of the log in the roof and side Of the car, and
the corn was strewn along the track for soma
distance. When the log struck the car the
shock to the train was so violent that brake
man in the rear car thought 1t was collision
and Jumped off; the car. however, remained
ON the track.-New Orleans Pioayune.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
0ueer Dancing.

The French Countess Maria d'Annoy, who
died in Paris in 1906 and left behind her
memoirs Of journey in Spain, says that lat
Bayonne we stopped and a grand ball was
given in honor of the princess The fashions
of the dancers were so strange that the count
ess could not deny herself giving a detailed
description. Each one Of the lady dancers
present carried under her left arm little
young pig, with gay ribbons around its neck.
When il came a lady's turn TO dance she put
her animal down on the floor and danced her
part through. while her four footed com
panion grunted IN ali manner Of tones. The
gentlemen carried in sheir hands long stalls.
which they threw up IN the au and caught
again while dancing. Prom the German.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
Old Roman Theatres,

The Roman theatres were modelled on those
of Greece, but the orchestra was much
smaller as the chorus did not occupy such an
important part. The outer walls rarely ex-
ceeded a semicircle, and the orchestra, in
stead of being devoted to the chorus, was oc-
cupied by the seats of the spectators of the
highest rank in the state.
The stage was more capacious than in the
Greek theatre, being twice the diameter of
the orchestra in length and one-fourth in
depth, so as to afford space for the chorus on
the stage New York Journal
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
A House Drawn by a LosemotIv..

A stable two story building was being
moved along Commercial street, when il
slowed across the railroad track, obstructing
the way for the morning Grand Trunk pas
senger train. Ths conductor and engineer
were equal to the occasion, and the locomo-
tive was attached to the rope by which the
building was drawn Steam was put On Gsd
something had TO come. In few moments
the structure was pulled clear from the track,
and the train passed on 30 its western connee-
tion. A locomotive drawing hsuse was GER
tainly a unique sght.-Portland Argus.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

The proposed tax on compound
lard-cotton seed Oils for the bene-
fit of the rich Northern pork packing
concerns. The Republican party
proposes to satisfy the negro with
radical election laws to please his
fancy for political rights, while they
tax his cotton seed to pay rich con-
Germs who contribute literally to the
campaign fund. This is a great out
rage on the negro laborers of the
South, and they should hold mass
meetings in every county protesting
loud and strong againts the iniquity.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

The Kansas Farmers Alliance
wants Congress TO "let fallen heroes
wait" and pay some attention to the
mortgage ridden corn burners, but
the election heroes cry all the
louder for the pie, while the poor,
down trodden, poverty stricken,
furnishing infant industries of the
East have Chairman Mckinley by
the ear.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT.
Third Round Quarterly Meetings.

l MIRA hounu e1uarterly meetings.
State Line, at Meadow Brook, Mar.
Is, l6.
Saline, at Duck Spring, Mar. %, %.
Indian Mound, at Stamper's, Mar.
%, 80.
Montgomery, at Wiley's, April 3, 6.
Ashland City, at WaltOn's, April IL,
Is.
Palmyra, at Palmyra, April 10, 20.
GAINESVILLE, April p.
Pleasant View and Mallory's, at
Pleasant View, May 3, 1.
Red River, at Wartrace May 10, IL.
Springfield, May IL, Is.
Cedar Hill, at Turnersville, May "a,
p.
Sadlersvilie and Adams, at Salem,
May 81, June |.
Asbury, at Grants, June :, S.
New Providence and Bethel, at
Bethel, June II, Is.
Antioch, at Chapel Hill, June 81, %.
w. II. PEBBLES.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

1t isn't often that man complains of his
tailor. Though the tailor may not have given
the customer the fit which the customer de-
sired, the customer will sulk in mis- suit and
say nothing A man will lose button from
his wastcoat or trousers and wait for his
wife to sew it on before he will so to his
tailor When his suit begins to wear he will
take it to clothes cleaner instead Of the
tailor who made it don't know why, for
any tailor would sooner renovsts q suit he
had made Men are generally impatient
when they stand for measure. They want to
get away as quickly as possible, and then
they don't come back unless it is TO get the
suit, and they prefer to have their CLOTHES
sent Interview in Chicago Times.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
Work VIII Help You.

Work gives you an appetite for ysur meals,
it lends solidity to your slumbers, 1t gives
you perfect ana graceful appreciation of a
holiday. There are young men who do not
work, but the world is not proud Of them. 1t
does not know their names even; it simply
speaks Of them as ''old SoandsO's boys" The
great busy world doesn't know that they are
there. So find out what you want TO be and
do, and take of your coat and make dust
in the world. The buster you are, the less
harm you are apt to get into, the sweeter will
be your sleep, the brighter and happier your
holidays, and better satisfied will be the
world with your, J. Burdette.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
Farming I'm snnIn.

Spain adheres to the customs Of primitive
age. Grain is cut with small reaping hook,
and threshed as in the time Of the CsesarH--
that is, by tramping about with asses hitshed
TO q stone. The plow is a crooked stick,
pointed with iron. In the towns are TO be
seen heavy wooden carts drawn By oxen.
Most Of the carrying transferring. etc. 10
done by donAeys Sand, brick, lumber, in
fact, almost everything that has 10 be moved,
is carried on their baekA-Honlreal Star.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

The Courier-Journal is making
war on the ten-thousand-dollar green
back bills in circulation, demanding
that they be abolished as nuisance,
because there are so few grocers who
can change a ten-thousand-dollar
note when n citizen buys bill of
groceries. That is just our experience;
1t is rare that we can get one
changed and often have 10 do with
ont the groceries.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

An extensive society in Vienna, devoted to
Pan-Germanism, is engaged in ditrusing the
German language among the opposing ma
tionalties of the Austrian empire, Its efforts
are at present being concentrated against the
Slavs of Bohemia, Moravia aud Styria, as it
was found necessary to abandon the attempt
to eradicate the Italian language in those of
the empires provinces where its vitality has
always been strong and is now increasing
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
CONGRESS.
Seyenty-Eighth Day.

In the senate-Bills were introduced and
referred, including one to give the widow of
Gen. Crook s., 900 year. A bill was passed
providing for the employment of a special
agent for Alaska, under the treasury depart
ment to gather full information concerning
the fur seal interests The antitrust bill
was considered until 6:l0 p m, when the
senate adjourned.
In the house-The worlds fair bill was
considered and passed-yeas 2G2, nays AZ.
An effort TO take up the Wyoming bill
failed, and at 5:45 p. IN. adjourned
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

f. M. Nolen writes to the Ameri
can, representing the farming senti-
ment of this county, protesting
against holding the Democratic State
Convention earlier than the first of
August. The Toiler is also urging
August /. That will do, August is
soon enough and will suit the people
generally.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

Paris public schools are oyercrowded, and
the authorities propose to help to remedy the
difficulty by forbidding the attendance at
them Of children of foreigners. There are
5000 foreign children IN the city, and at
least 100 of them are getting a French edu-
cati On free at the public schools
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

Parties wishing nice, comfortable
offices or bedrooms can find them by
applying to August Michel at his bak.
cry on Second street, near Arlington
Hotel. mchl9d,tf
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

1t Is understood that the House
committee has agreed to report favor
ably on the Window silver bill,
which. instead ofremonetizing silver,
will ultimately drive silver coin out
of circulation. The bill will hardly
.Daaa
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28
Rarrnins IN Envelopes.

The LEAF Job Office has some extra
good circular envelopes, numbers 6 and
10. at cut prices, in lots of 1000 to lG,-
600 either printed or plain. There
are 5000 of these envelopes and bar
gain in every one.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-28

Unless Cousin Jere sends us Shet-
land pony or spotted racer with
tipped horns, and well broke to har-
ness at a 2:4O gait, we can't afford to
canvass this county for him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
Censorship of the Press.

Under the lottery law framed by congress
and the instructions given by the Post
master General to his subordinates through
out the country there IS serious danger of
encroachments on the liberty of the press
that should be rebuked and opposed by the
newspapers OF the country without regard
to party lines.
These postmasters are instructed to act as
censors and inspect all second class matter,
and whenever the postmaster finds what he
considers unlawful matter, or even suspects
that articles are of that character, he is au-
thorized to suppress the publication aud
refuse 1t passage through the mails
This dangerous innovation is claimed un-
der the specious pretezt Of suppressing lot
terry advertisement, and, so far, the public
seems to acquiesce without protest against
this new assumption of power. II this step
meets with popular favor, then the next
move will be to examine first-class matter,
breaking the seals of letters in search of
contraband publications and writings. Ii
that be accomplished, then we will rapidly
forget the Louisiana State Lottery in the
multitude of grounds upon which tn ESQ
postmasters can act as censors of press and
people. Lexington, (Ky) Press. Nov. 5.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
LOCAL PERSONAL.

A. Mccoy OF Oconee is at the Marshall.
T. NJ. Ray Of ValdOsta is a gust at the
Pulaski
J. C. Kepler of Fitchburg. Mass, is at the
Pulaski.
Louis Harper of Baltimore is at the
H. Z. Snyder OF Philadelphia is at the
De Soto.
H H. Clark or st. Louis is guest of the
De Soto.
Henry Dreyfus of Atlanta is at the
Screven.
G. Brownold, Jr., of New York is at the
Screven.
J. D. Stetson of Hawkinsville Is at the
Screven.
C. K. Ray of High Spring, Fla. is at the
Marshall.
George Il. Coleman of Cincinnati is at
the De Soto.
j. F. Boynton of Louisville is stopping at
the De Soto.
W; B. Sheppard Of Apalachee, Fla, is at
the Marshall.
e. C. Redfearn Of Patten is stopping at
the Marshall.
Is at the De Soto.
VII ~ OH w oDGE dilI Wis VI NOW 1OTk
are at the Marshall.
A. G. Geiger of Columbia, S. c., is stop
ping at the Marshall.
w. J. Turner of Hurtsbro, Ala, is regis
tered at the Screven.
A. j. Richardson of New York is regis
tered at the Marshall.
R. L. Gambler of Winston, N. c., is a
guest of the Pulaski.
The Olympic Club will give a hop at
Yonge's hall Tonight.
A. M. Mcbride, Wilmington, N. c., is
stopping at the Pulaski.
MIR. and Mrs. j. J. Mcdonald of Jersey
City are at the De Soto.
John H. Smith of Nashville, Tenn, is
registered at the Pulaski.
Y. o. and J. G. johnson of Statewide
are guests of Che Screven.
Mr.. James S. Silva, who has been con-
fined TO his home for the past week, is still
quite i'll.
Mrs J. W. Daniel left last night to attend
the Woman's National Christian Temper
ance Union convention In Atlanta
Miss Lille Williams of Atlanta is a guest
of Capt. Flannery. She Is visiting Miss
Flannery, and will be in the city about q
week.
At a meeting of the COMMITTEES on the
drummers' ball at the Travellers Exchange
last night, it was decided to postpone the
ball indefinitely. The ball was to have
taken place at the De Soto, Nov. "a.
| The first annual ball of the National
Association Of Machinists will be given al
| Odd Fellows hall this evening. The follow
ing gentlemen comprise the committee hav
ing charge of the entertainment: Messrs. H
s. Remington. j. H. Dixon, J. H. Bouchard
/ IN c
Butler, James Paul, w. f. Whalen, H.
Middleton and J. MCCARTHY.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
THREE HOUSES BURNED.
A $4,000 Blaze on Fifth Street. Near
West Broad.

A 81, 1000 Blaze on Fifth Street, Near
West Broad.
A fire at 1875 o'clock yesterday de-
stroyed three dwelling houses on Fifth
street, between West Broad and Montgom-
cry streets. Policeman Morgan turned in
an alarm from box 65. at Duffy and Mont
gomery streets, and the department re-
sponded promptly. The men had a long
run through heavy sand, and when they
arrived at the fire it had gained considera-
BILE Roadway. On account of the remote
ness of the burnt houses from water facili-
ties only one engine could be used, and it
did excellent service in preventing spread
of the flames.
The fire originated in a house owned and
occupied by lena Walkers colored woman
She came into town in the morning, and
left two children alone in the place, and it
is supposed that they started the fire while
playing with matches. The Walker woman
lost everything. She carried no insurance.
The second house was owned and occu-
pied by colored man named Anderson.
Most of the household effects were saved.
1t is not known whether he was insured OF
not.
The third house was occupied by q white
carpenter named Blockton, who saved al
his furniture.
All the houses were one-story wooder
structures, and the total loss will har dly
exceed $1,000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
CUPID SPOILS A TRAGEDY.
Candles and Oranges Instead of Bullet!
for the Guilty Wife.

Candies and Oranges Instead of Bullets
for the Guilty Wife.
A ST. Louis dispatch to the New York
World tells this story: s. A. Miller of
Savannah, Ca, has been in pursuit of his
wife, who eloped Nov. with Joseph Spoon
man, a dashing young bartender of st.
Joseph. Mo.
Miller at last located the pair in private
boarding house in East st. Louis. When the
officers and husband entered the house the
barkeeper fled and was not captured.
Miller had sworn that he would kill the pair
at sight, but he was SO overjoyed at finding
his loved, though erring, wife again that he
forgot his threats took her in his arms and
nearly smothered her with kisses. He asked
her to return home with him. and after
much persuasion she consented, and they
walked to the depot together, be talking to
her and she crying.
The pair remained in the relay depot
waiting-room about an hour. The forgiv-
ing husband filed his wife's lap with can
dies and oranges. She did not touch them,
however, but sat and sobbed on her hus-
bands shoulder.
Inquiry here fails to show who s. A.
Miller is, or that there is any person by that
name in Savannah. The story reads well,
and it's pity the romance is not founded
on better known facts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
MULLIGAN IN HARD LUCK.
His Lawyer Explains His Contract
With the City.

With the City.
D. A. O'Byrne. Esq, attorney for Con-
tractor James Mulligan, whose failure to
carry out his agreement with the city in
regard to boring tho artesian wells will
cause his bondsnlen considerable annoyance
and expense, explains that while
Mulligan did not carry out the exact
terms of his contract with the city, the
wells in question are equally as good, and
giving as great supply of water as the
others in operation at the water works.
Well No. "a, he says, had been bored to q
total depth of 400 feet, 354 feet of which are
10 inches in diameter, and the balance
inches. Well No. IS has been sunk 800 feet.
all of which Is 10 inches in diameter. Judge
O'Byrne said that when an artesian well
has been sunk through the water-bearing
stratum and solid rock foundation reached,
and bored into for 80 or 40 feet without any
visible increase in supply he considers 1t
useless to go any deeper.
In veridcation of his statement he called
attention to the big well on the Springfield
plantation, where the city had the contract
ors bore 200 feet beyond a quarter of
a mile, trying to find sec md water bear
| ing rock stratum without success.
Mr.. Mulligan has expended every cent of
| m oney received by him from the city in
trying to fulfill his contract, said his law
| yer, and is now heavily in debt. Three of
the sureties were wiling to advance money
| to Mulligan to secure heavier tools to carry
| out his contract, but the fourth refused to
| agree to the arrangement, and the matter
| will 60 by default,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
DEcOYED TO A FOREIGN LAND.
TWO Pretty English Girls Deserted by
Their Italian Employer
rom The Philadelphi- Pre-

from the Phttddelphic Press.
NEW York, Nov. 1.-Two pretty blue
eyed English girls appeared at the barge
Office to-day and artlsssly spun strange
yarn to Superintendent of Immigration
Weber. Secretary Weaver PUT the yarn,
with legal embell ishments, on paper. aud
the girls solemnly signed their names TO it..
one Is Jessie Mason, aged l6, the other
Katie Murphy, aged H. An Italian
named Joseph Stephan became acquainted
with the mothers of the girls at Ports
mouth, England, and engaged them, with
their mothers consent, to sing in concert
balls In America. They were to receive 10
shlllings week, and Stephan was to nav
their passage to New York. They travelled
storage and got here Oct. IL,
On Oct Is Stephani took them to Brook
lyn, where they sang in the streets, one of
the girls passing around her hat. They
went with Stephan to Bridgeport, and
sang in the streets there. Then they visited
New Haven, Springfield, Norwich ana
New London. Stephan found fault with
them because they did not turn in enough
money. Finally, he abandoned them in
New London, taking all their clothing ex-
cept that they were wearing. Penniless and
friendless, they went to the city hall at Now
London, where some official put them on a
steamboat and sent them here. Col.
Weber says he believes they are honest
girls, and he will to get the White Star
Line to take them back to England.