Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-04

The Irish Roman Catholic bishops, at q
meeting in Dublin, reaffirmed their former
declaration that Mr.. Parnell was unfit to
be the leader of the Irish people.
Two little girls at Coalton, O., were
playing under car when the car was
started, one of the two being cut in twain
and the other losing part of d foot.
Hon, A. Louden Snowden, of Philadel-
phia, has been appointed United States
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary to Greece Romania and Servia
Henry Willard arrived in, New York
Wednesday from abroad. He is said to
have secured the support of German finan-
ciers to rehabilitate the North American
company.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Parnell will leave England
about the middle of August for America,
so as to be in time for the Baltimore con
vention, which is expected to proclaim Par
nell leader.
Twenty thousand of the $50, 900 necessary
for the proposed monument to jefferson
Davis has been subscribed. A general
agent is to be appointed to attend to secur-
ing the balance.
Joseph Crider, at Beaver Dam, O., went
cunning for DIR. WeatheraH for undue
intimacy with Mrs. Crider. The doctor
few, and coat of tar and feathers is
awaiting his return.
The cornerstone of S25 900 church was
laid Thursday, at Danville, KY, on the
spot where one hundred years ago was
erected one of the first Methodist churches
west of the Allegheny mountains.
Rebecca and Elizabeth Miller, young
daughters of George Miller, negro living
on the river bank near Kansas City, went
hunting drift-wood on a raft. The raft
upset and the children were drowned.
J. Oscar Mecca, residing six miles from
Port Gibson, Miss, was shot and killed by
Mr.. Robert Thetford. Thetford mistook
him for an escaped convict and hailed him
Mecca failed to halt, whereupon Thetford
fired, with the above result.
Allison Dodd, 1S, and Mary QuinIan,
Is, of Charlottesville, Ind, went to Dan
vile to get married. A license was re
fused, but they returned and said that
they had been welded They were peached
upon, and now there is a scandal,
Arbuckle, the New York coffee mer
chant, in attempting to drive out competi-
ton in Tennessee, has lowered the price
of one of his brands to such a point that
dealers from other states are taking ad-
vantage of the cut to lay in stocks.
Several of the Chattanooga banks com
bined, selected G, G. Montague, president
of the First National bank, of that city, as
trustee, and bid par and 8 per cent inter
est from April Is last on the $3.50, 600 street
improvement bonds The bid was ac-
cepted.
Prince Dolgoroukoff, recently governor
of Moscow, died in Paris Prince Dolgo-
roukoff was until recently the czar's con
fidential friend. His leniency to the Jews
of Moscow, to whom he was largely in
debt, led to his removal from Office upon
its discovery by the czar.
Cable dispatches received at the New
York Produce exchange, said that Alex
ander & Company, Of London, had sus-
pended payment. They were supposed to
he embarrassed by liberal purchases of
wheat at higher prices than now ruling
and TO have been short Of corn.
Mrs. Perry Knott, of Mount CARMEL,
Pa, has disappeared from home. She was
a corset agent. An order belonging 10 her
has been found on the road to Ashland,
and the ground In the vicinity where IL
was picked up bears evidence of a struggle.
II is believed that she was assaulted and
murdered by tramps, and heF body thrown
down one Of the deep mine breaches.