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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07

bonds and $1,000 in cash, besides
paying for the right of way from
Paris to 5 miles beyond Hunting
don. Hollow Rock only guaran-
teed the rightof way. Itis report
ed here that crowd from the lat
ter place, anticipating the decision,
went to Huntingdon last night and
sowed oats all over the place. The
contest between the two places has
been warm. The decision meets
with universal appreciation in Par
is. Work will begin Immediately.
The completion of the road to Hol-
low Rock, where it will intercept
the Nashville and Chattanooga
road will open up a new route from
Nashville to ST. Louis, and will be
the nearest route between the two
cities by 40 miles.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
An Important Move.

A Washington special of the lst
instant says: A movement Of con-
siderable magnitude isnow on foot
to arrange for the deportation of
the negroes of the Southern States
to Liberia. Capt. John Murray
and Mr.. W. B. Lewis, representing
Elder, Dempster g. Co., of Liver
pool, Eng, owners Of an important
line of steamships, have been at
Chamberlain's for some days in
consultation with Benjamin Gas
ton, the authorized agent Of the
Liberian Emigration Company.
The negotiations between them
have been carried to a successful
point and an agreement has been
reached whereby a feet will be at
the disposal of the colored people.
Ships will sail at frequent intervals
from Southern points direct to the
African coast, and it is believed
that the first contingent will be
ready to start out inside of two
months. One of the company's
vessels is now at Baltimore. Cap.
tain Murray talks enthusiastically
the good to accrue to the negroes oi
by enkigration to Liberia.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
General G. P. Turner's Break.

A Knoxville special of August
l says: There is something of a
breeze in labor circles here to-
night, as well as among the Repub-
licans, over the report that General
Turner, of Memphis, who was sent
here to represent the miners had
made speech at Clinton to-day in
which he went into politics and
made a speech for John Houk.
Labor people say it will hurt
their cause to thus bring in poll
tics. The Republicans who favor
Woodruff for Congress vigorously
resent the course of General ,Tur-
ner by saying that they do not
care to have a Republican of the
Tenth district coming among them
TO say what they shall do.
Labor men who favor Woodruff
and Republicans generally in the
same boat, say that Turner has
destroyed his usefulness, and he
had better be called home.
In this connection it may be said
that the Republican primary cleo
tion, which comes off on the 9Th, is
getting very hot-so much so that
a disagreeable odor arises. Wood
ruff has made great headway this
week, and he undoubtedly has the
Houk men on the ran. A Houk
man comedies tonight that Wood.
ruff will carry Knox County by 500
The Woodruff men claim it by SOC
to 1000. They also claim Roane
Sewer, Blount, Loudon, and Camp
bell counties. Knox, Roane anC
Sewer are pretty sure to go fol
Woodruff, and his chances are bea-
in Blount. The race seems close
but Woodruff probably has the
best chance now. The Houk mer
are rather depressed.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
Hollow Rock Gets the Railroad.

A special dispatch from Paris,
dated Saturday, says: Tits officially
announced in this city to-day that
the syndicate of capitalists build
ing the Padueah, Tennessee, and
Alabama Railroad had decided up
on the Hollow Rock route. Hunt
ingdon and Hollow Rock we're both
eontesting for the road, the former
place offering to give S23,5OO in
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
DECISION IN A FAMOUS CASE.
The Conviction of King the Seventh
Day Adventist Decided Legal.

Day Adventist Decided Legal.
A Memphis special of the 1st
says: Judge Hammond filed his
opinion to-day in the case Of r. M.
King, the Seventh Day Adventist,
who was convicted of committing a
common law nuisance by repeat
edly blowing in his fields on Sun
day. He had previously been con-
victed under the code section 2289,
and fined by the justice of the peace
the sum of SO, affixed by that sec
ton as a penalty for working on
Sunday. This small fine he paid
bat continued his work.
1t was shown that it was done in
his own fields and not near any
place Of worship or in such way
as to disturbthose at church. But
his neighbors. who believe in Sun
day observance, determined to stop
his practice and had him indicted
for committing a nuisance at the
common law, and independently of
the statute. He was convicted and
fined $75 and appealed to the su-
preme court, where, after great
struggle. the judgment of convic-
tion was affirmed and King was
imprisoned.
1t was made a test case by the
Seventh Day Adyentists Of the
United States and has become fa-
nous as such. They employed
Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, of De-
troit, to take the case to the Feder-
al courts and test the legality Of the
conviction under the constitution
Of the United States. He sued out
a writ of habeas corpus before
Judge Hammond and the decision
just rendered supports the State
courts and remands King to the jail
I Of Obion County for the execution
of the sentence. But he will i'm
mediately take an appeal to the
supreme court Of the United States,
which meets on the first Monday ir
October next, and meantime will
remain on bail.
The contest in the supreme court
will be made memorable, as all Of
the advocates Of the seventh day .oi
the week have made this case one
to test the law and to deprive the
Sunday advocates of their advant-
age on the ground of religious free.
dom.
King resides in Obion County
and is avery earnest believer in his
sect, and is backed up by the whole
church everywhere IN this struggle
for liberty of conscience as he an(
they believe.
@ Judge Hammond says that while
he is not authorized to say tina
Judge Jackson concurs in hi
opinion, which he has not seen, h,
does concur in the result and thu
ground of the decision, which i
precisely the same as that of tn,
Laron cases which the two judge
decided at Nashville on Friday
They held in both these cases tina
the State courts are the interpret
ers of the State laws and the Fed
eral courts will only interfere t,
protect the Federal rights of equal
ity, regularity and the other funda
mental principles Of governmen
which have been established as tn
law of the land by the fourteentl
amendment of the Constitution @
the United States.
~-------
Hollow Rock Gets the Railroad.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07

he dled IN great agony. lie was
addicted to drink and had just got
ton over a big spree and was de
spondent.
President Clapp, of the Mem
phis taxing district has issued an
order to close all saloons of Mem
phis at midnight. The order does
not close them, however. The sa-
loon men say if the police will rid
them Of the customers in their
houses at midnight they will close,
but they will not order out custom
ers that they may close.
Nathan and Woodville Tarver,
who are under sentence of death
by hanging at Dyersburgh to-day,
for killing Charles Goodale in Lake
County in May, 1890, have been re-
spited by Governor Buchanan until
October 8. The attorneys for the
Tarvers made application for writ
of habeas corpus, but failed. There
is possibility Of an appeal to the
United States supreme court.
At the Democratic primary cleo
ton held in Bedford County last
Friday to nominate a foterial as
semblyman for the counties of Bed
ford, Marshall, and Rutherford to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Hon. r. FL. Stem, DR.. T..
W. Woods was nominated. This
is equivalent to an election, as this
is Bedford's time to nominate the
candidate, and the district is over
whelmingly Democratic.
Thomas Yarbrough a Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railroad
engineer filled up on mean whisky
in Nashville Friday night and with
an open knife in his hand paraded
Church street, slashing every one
who went near him. He seriously
cut two men before he was finally
knocked senseless with brick by a
man he was trying to cut. Var
brough has a mania for cutting
people while drunk, and this is not
his first escapade.
Census Bulletin No. "a, issued
July l3, contains statistical tables
showing the wonderful increase il
{ the output Of coal in some Of the
Southern States, and they rank il
productiveness in the order named
West Virginia, yielding 100000
tons; Kentucky, 2,800,000; Ten
) nessee, 100000; Virginia, S00,
900; Georgia and North Carolina
/ 100000. The product in Tennes
) see during the year 1889 is valued
I. at $2.73S.309 at the mines.
The negro members of the Prim
7 itive Baptist Church in the South
ern outskirts of Nashville are great
= ly excited over a mysterious mur
t der which occurred at the door O
their place of worship Saturda,
: night. An unknown man sentworC
: through boy to Henry White,
quiet and inoffensive negro, tha
4 he was wanted outside, and he haC
: barely stepped out of the door be
J. fore the report of a gun was hearC
: and White fell dead. There is n,
/ clew to the assassin.
y Miss Myra Fancher, a beautiful
S girl, only sixteen years old, of Sci
wood, Fla, shot and instantly kill
t ed A. G. Jones, a railroad conduct
d OF, last Friday. She lay in wait fo
e him at a street corner, and when h
f appeared blew out his brains with
: revolver. For nearly a year pas
o Jones has been paying devoted at
d tentions to Miss Fancher. Abou
two months ago Jones discarde,
d her and married anothergirl. Mis-
e Fancher says that Jones becam
a criminally intimate with her unde
; the nromise of marriaoe. and sh
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
GENERAL NEWS GLEANINGS.
Things that are Daily Happening in
Tennessee and Elsewhere.


The Territorial Democratic con-
vention of Oklahoma has declared
against Statehood.
The Nashville American will is
sue a mammoth edition of its six
teenth anniversary September l.
According to the latest reports
the present year will be one of the
most prosperous ever known to the
farmer of Kansas.
President Harrison declined an
invitation to be present at the an
nual 'encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, at Detroit,
Mich.
Memphis claims to have a man
who smokes cigarettes in his sleep.
His name is Jimmie Cox, and he
consumes a box of cigarettes every
night as he sleeps.
Rev. Ebenezer Junkin, of Hous-
ton, Tex, a brother-in-law Of Stone
wall Jackson, died suddenly on a
passenger train near johnson City,
this State, Saturday.
The annual panic on account of
the appearance of worms in cotton
has begun among the planters of
Mississippi and other States in
cluded in the cotton belt.
Turf events at Brighton, Long
Branch, and Saratoga, attracted a
good Zeal of attention during the
week. Tennessee horses are win
ming fame all over the country.
Governor Francis, Of Missouri,
has just pardoned woman sent to
the penitentiary for larceny, be-
cause she had a baby that was too
young to be separated from its
mother.
Eleven illicit distilleries were
destroyed in Monroe County last
week. The officers knew that all
the owners of the stills were away
attending court and they had but
little trouble.
The receipts Of the State treas
ury during the month of July
amounted to $110,191.70. The dis
bursements were $182,7S210. OF
the disbursements $56,925.99 was
4 direct tax refunded. Two-thirdso OF
the direct tax money has now been
paid out.
According to the weekly crop re-
port issued by the weather bureau
at Washington, the generous rains
of the week have improved cotton
tobacco and corn in Tennessee;
large second crop of potatoes has
been planted. The outlook is CON
sidered splendid.
1t is estimated at the Treasury
Department that there has been al
increase of "a, 100000 in the Treas
ury cash available for the paymen
E of the public debt since July l
Under the old form Of debt state
ment this would be stated as a re
, duction of the debt.
Ina difficulty Thursday between
Bolivar Buckley, formerly tax as
SCISSOR of Obion County, and E. B
5 Potter, veterinary surgeon, Pot
t ter struck Buckley on the heaC
: with an axe, killing him. The.
5 were neighbors and lived in 3 mile
3 east of Rives. Potter escaped.
In Wayne County, w. Va, las
: week, man named Brumfeld ant
/ his wife and five children wer
} brutally murdered by a number 0
> Italian laborers. After their fend
: ish deed of murder they set fire t.
1 the house. 1t is though Brumfiel,
I had enemies who melted them.
= Arout Hall, a fourteen year ol,
boy was accidentally hit on tn
head by crank used to turn
0Avinor iannvn - at an Allianca nic
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07

Reports from the cotton produc-
ing States indicate that the cotton
crop will be enormous
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
MAN GETTING SMALLER.
n Frcnchm1n's Theory That Doesn't APP
ply to Some Women.


ply to Some Women.
There is theory evolved by n
French scientist to the effect that the
human race is diminishing in size and
will finally become microscopic and
vanish into thin air. He says that sta
tistics from the days OF the giants to the
present time prove that man is getting
smaller and shorter and more diminu-
tive in every way. BY an ingenious
calculation he discovers the rate of re-
duction and tells just how many thou
sand ycarsit will take to make people
so small they will be out OF sight.
This theory may be true, but there
are still some robust specimens of hui
mainly, says the Kansas City Star.
Last night half dozen fair ladies. all
old cnough.to vote. from one of the most
fashionable boarding houses in the city
went across the street to grocer's and
got weighed. The lightcst one weighed
one hundred AID thirty-onc pounds and
the heaviest one hundred and eighty
eight, and the six made an average of
one hundred and iifty-scven pounds
each, which docs not seem at all micro.
scopic and would Indicate that thin
air" would have something to carry
when they vanish"
young dude accompanying the Ia
dies weighed one hundred and twenty
seven pounds, and he had more of sub
stance to him than the average dandy.
But his light weight was more than
compensated for by an old gentleman
sitting in the store who tipped the
beam Mt two hundred and fifteen, MAX
ng the average for the male portion of
the crowd over one hundred and seven
ty pounds
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
FOUGHT A SEA MONSTER.
A Grccnport Captain Tolls n Strange
Story of o Kcceme Exnerlcnce.

"A Grccnport Captain Tolls n Strange
Story of Il Recent Expcricnce.
Capt. Edward Reeve has the contract
to light the beacon on the breallwater
every night, says Grccnport corrc
spondent of the New York World. He
is an Industrious and reliable man, not
looked upon us one likely to sec visions
or deal in blood-curdling sea yarns.
Every day rs the sun is sinking he
rows in II little sl,iff to the brealzwater
and, after lighting the beacon, pulls
back up the bay. In the morning he
rows down the bay, puts out the light,
and cleans and fills in preparation for
the night.
The other morning, the captain
says, while pulling lcisurely toward the
brcallwatcr, he was attracted by Il COM
motion in the water near him. He
rested on his oars and looked to see
what it was. He saw what looked like
the hard shell back of monster sea
turtle. y moment later he saw the
head and eyes of the strange object.
AS the head protruded above the sur.
face the water was churned into foam
by the Tapping Of what appeared to be
long flippcrs. The head of the marine
animal, the captain says, was covered
with protruding horns.
The monster came toward the boat
and apparently mcditatcd an attack,
when the captain hit it with an oar. 1t
paid no attention to this assault, but
ran it's head against the boat with IL
force that caused the slliff to keel over
The captain weighs over two hundred
pounds, and managed to keep the boat
right side up. Then the fight became
fierce. The tide was carrying the con-
testants toward the brcallwater One
after the other the oars were broken by
the captain by striking on the hard
back of the monster. Finally, without
anything to defend himself, the captain
managed to throw q moose over Il pro-
jecting rock on the brcal1water, and SO
pulled himself ashore.
The monster continued its attacks on
the poat and remained in the vicinity
for some time after the boat had been
drawn up out of the way. When last
seen the ferocious marine monster was
churning the water into foam as it sped
off toward Gardeners island. The cap
tain puts the monster down as q sea
turtle, but of enormous size
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
A Canine Hero.

"Old IIuclllebcrry" has n dog. Skip
per by name, that knows thing or
two, says n writer in the New York Tel
egram. was at the captains place Mt
the foot of West One Hundred and Eff
ty-fifth street the other evening. watch
ing crowd of pretty young women
from the Casino company disporting
themselves in the water in gay bathing
dresses, when g maltese kitten of an in
curing turn of mind walked deliberate
~ out on to the float where the bathcrs
coHSrcgatc and sat down near the edge
of the float. Skipper, with the sagacity
of st. Bernard, saw his little feline
companions danger and running down
to the float caught pussy by the back
of the neck and started back to the
bathing houses. He dropped the res
cucd cat down ~ t.lc feet of his master,
wagginG his bushy t;:il and looking; up
at the captain, rs much as to say: II
have saved the cat. I'm 81 hero"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14

OF the greatest tree wonders of the for
est is monster which has been severed
six feet from the ground, and on the
stump of which n pavilion has been
built in which dramatic performances
are held.
Much speculation has been INDUCED
in as to the age of these giant trees. At
tempts have been made to solve the
question by reference to the immense
number of rings that can be counted on
the PROSTATE trunks. One writer tells
of tree on which he counted 1000
rings. Another writer tells of n tree in
Mariposa Grove with G, 900 rings. If each
OF these rings represents years
growth, then the tree certainly has at
tanned an enormous age. a writer in
an English magazine, speaking on this
subject, undertakes to give some trust
worthy data, as follows: "a tree fclled
in 1873 had no appearance of age. It
was 60 feet in girth inside the bark, and
the number of annual rings counted by
three persons varied between o,lo5 and
2.139. Another was 107 feet in girth in
side the bark Mt four feet from the
ground. This wood was very compact,
and showed through considerable part
of the trunk thirty annual rings to the
inch. This, if the rings were of uniform
diameter in the rest of the trunk, would
give the incredible age of G,4OO years
But as the interior rings of such trees
arc much broader than the outer, half
that number to the inch is more con-
ceivable estimate and would give an
age of $500 years" 4.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
4 Neat Compliment.

A neatly tarncd compliment was that
bestowed by Charles Bcrtram, the Eng
lish prcstidigitator, upon Dr.. Walsh,
the much-bclovcd archbishop of Dublin.
lSertram, It . private scancc, had taken
up Il pack of cards and asked DR.. Walsh
to select one. The card you have
drawn" said the jugglcr, 'is the king
of hearts" NO" replied the arch
bishop. sit is the five of clubs" WELL"
said Bertranl. il q tone of assumed us
tonishlnent, lit is the first time have
ever failed in that trick. Would You
look ct that card agaia?" DR.. Walsh
asscnted, and III the place of the five OF
clubs he behcld an excellent portrait of
himself. II wasn't SO much wrong
after all" remarked Bertram, "for your
grace is the king of hearts in Ireland"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14


attainment and achievement attainablc
Mt that institution. He selected the
law as his profession and when he had
passed the examinations satisfactorily
David II. Hill, now governor of New
York, made the motion in court upon
which he was permitted to practice. At
that time Gov. Hill, who was nine years
olden than Fassctt, was n successful
lawyer. In 1870 Mr.. Fassctt was ap-
pointed by Gov. Robinson. u democrat,
to fill the vacancy in the prosecuting at
torney's office of Chemung county, made
vacant by the resignation of Archibald
Robinson, and as prosecuting attorney
the young republican attracted consid-
cradle attention by his good work.
Soon after his term closed he went to
Germany and there extended the studies
ut Heidelberg which he had left off ut
Rochester. The year after Hill was
elected lieutenant governor of New
York, Fassctt was sent to the state SEN
ate from Chemung, Steubcn and Allie
gany counties. He has served eight
years in the senate and has good
record.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14

placed upon the car, and procession is
formed, band of musicians preceding
the corpse. Sometimes dancers ac-
company the procession, and perform
in curious fantastic way to the meas
ure of the dirge of the singers. Occa-
Sionally there is q tug-of-war with the
car, one side eNclaining: 1--WE must
bury our dead" the other: You shall
not take away my friend" the struggle
usually creating great mcrriment in
the crowd. 4 priest now seats himself
in convenient spot, and intones the
five secular Commandments and the ten
Good Works, besides . long string OF
Pail doXologics. the friends and neigh
bors of the deceased squatting near
him in devotional attitude, murInuring
the responses. All this time cheroots,
sweet drinks. bctel. le'pet and biscuits
are being distributed among the Wis
itors: the nearest relatives carry out
the final rites. the coffin is lowered and
raised three times over the open grave
labs fill in the grave, and the spectators
dispcrse.
y casual observer on witnessing a
burmese burial might perhaps be in
clined to ascribc to the proceedings Il
levity and carclcssncss inconsistent with
the solcmnity of burial. But the strug-
gle for the car, the quaint gyrations of
the dancers, and the noise and laughter
of the crowd, arc but customs, and as
little to be cast up against Burmese
natural affection as the unlovablc do
ingS of the mutcS at en- English funeral.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
To RebuIld i'm salem.

1t has been pointed out to THE TIMES
reporter that some of the Roanoke
papers are claiming that the mineral
fibre plant, which was recently burned
here, will be rebuilt in Roanoke. This
is q mistake. Mr.. Morrison, the gentle
man who is most interested in the
building of the plant at Roanoke, was
only stockholder in the Salem plant
at the time of the fire, and not propri-
etor, for company owned it. Captain
Simmons has recently organized an
other company which will shortly
rebuild on larger and better scale i.
mineral fibre plant viii III will be man
aged by an expert from New Jersey.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
Tho Nails for tho crucin.lon.

In Spain, France, Ireland and some
parts of England, n tinker is held in
such adherence by the common pco-
pic as to make it almost impossible for
him to get Il meal or find lodgings for
the night. The reason alleged is that
when the blacksmith was ordered to
make nails for Christ's crucifxion he
refused, but the tinker made
them and Christ condemned him and
all of his race to be wanderers, and
never have n roof of their own to cover
their heads until the worlds end.