Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-22
In TWO STATES.
Items of Interest in Tennessee
and Kentucky.
Something That viii Interest the People
of the Great Clarksville Tobacco
District.

idle and the. engineers having retired
to the seclusion of their cosy Offices
Building is likewise very seriously
retarded by the persistent rains. Mr..
Forbes will not be able to finish the
l.. & N. depot on time if the rain
continues, while work Is at a stand
still on the various buildings now
under construction in different por-
tions of the city.
Paducah is up in arms against the
City Council for a tyrannical display
of power, proposing to tax every ca
nine citizen So per annum. 1t is
claimed that the present tax Of one
dollar is an. outrage on the canine
family.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature fixing the
salaries of Railroad Commissioners
at $4,000 per annnm, instead Of
$1,000.
The Stewart school book bill has
passed the Kentucky Senate and
now goes to the House. AS it goes
to the House it provides that the
State Board of Equalization shall
make list OF school books and make
contracts with the publishers, the
prices agreed upon not to exceed the
lowest wholesale prices. From this
list the counties have right to Sc
leCt. There must be on the list at
least three books of each kind, print
ed by rival companies that are not
bound together in a compact or com
bine the list adopted last June by
the School Board is repudiated and
additional books must be added at
once. Ifany legal question is raised
as to the action of the State in repud
iating the list of last June, adopted
before the present administration
came into power, it must be settled
in the courts.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has been overcome by
Grief. Workmen were sent to plant
pole in front of Mr.. Grief5 resi-
dence in Cincinnati, and his young
daughter, Miss Mary Grief, as soon
as the hole was dug, placed a chair
over it and sat on the chair, holding
the fort until her father obtained an
injunction.
A couple of exchange fiends were
seated in the Wing sanctum going
through the mail. "Why do all
these papers send ont Judge Tur-
ney's speech printed on one side of a
sheet, leaving the other side blank"
inquired one. 80, the blank side is
intended to represent Gov. Buchan-
ans reply to the points made by
Judge Turney," replied the other, as
he took fresh chew of tobacco
Jackson Wing.
The following dispatch from Bris.
tol to the Banner overtops anything
in that line that has come to light
recently: "NeWS has reached here
Of terrible double tragedy which
occurred in the mountain region OF
Kentucky. Syl. Harveii was a very
WelktO-do farmer of that section. He
had been married about three years
and had lived comparatively happy
with his wife. A few days ago
however, he made the startling dis
covery that his wife was too intimate
with young man of the communi'
ty named Alex Brady, and vehe
mently and necessarily abused hel
for her infidelty. Monday night
Mrs. Harvell thoroughly saturated
with kerosene oil the bed on which
her husband and infant were sleep
ing, and threw a firebrand thereon
then darted out at the door. The
building was soon wrapped in flames
Among those attracted to the seen,
by the light was Brady. After look
ing on few moments he and Mrs
Harvell started away together
across a field, and were attacked by {
savage bull and gored to death. Mrs
Harvell lived few hours, and &C
knowledged the facts as related
above"
Four jail-birds escaped from tn
Jail at Knoxville yesterday by goin
down an elevator shaft. Three c
them have been recaptured.
Says the Nashville Herald: "AC
iutant General Norman for the Gov
ernor, has received an applicatio
from the friends and relatives of i
II. Patterson, of Stewart county, t
have him confined in the Centrt
asylum. The letter was referred
DR.. Calender, who replied that
was best to keep the patient at hon
or send him to the Bolivar asylul
until July /, about which time tt
asylum here will be ready for occl
pancy. Patterson las been in ii
asylum here before"
The dispatches from all over Il