Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-30
In TWO STATES.
Items of Interest in Tennessee
and Kentucky.
Something That Win Interest the Read ers
of the Great Clarksville To
bacco District.

Vh'e INC mdSUuiC HAL at tldt pIdCs
was destroyed by fire Friday night
The lower floor of the building was
used as school by the Union Female
Seminary. The upper story was 6
lodge room in which the Masons
knights of Pythias and other secret
societies met. Nearly all the regalis
and records of the Masons and
Knights Of Pythias were burned
The building was valued at 1900
insured for $500.
Says the Memphis Appeal-Ava'
lanche:
"There will be no more pool-sell.
ing in disregard of law in Shelby
county.
"The order went out from the
Criminal court Saturday the pool.
rooms then running were closed
promptly and their proprietors laid
under indictment for misdemeanor,
and the officers were instructed to see
that no more places of that sort were
operated in this county"
An interesting case was decided at
Columbia Saturday. About q year
ago Mrs. N. s. Lithgow married G.
r. Joyce. Six months later she
died, and a will was offered for pro-
bate, leaving her entire fortune OF
500, 900 to Mr.Joyce and his daughter.
Mrs. JOyce's relatives contested the
will alleging it to be a forgery. The
will was in the same hand as a letter
found in daybook, and Oh a page OF
which the will was written. The
will had no witnesses, but Miss
Joyce swore that she had seen her
step-mother write the letter. BY
means of expert testimony and COM
parisOn of the will with hundreds of
checks signed by Mrs. Joyce, the
will was proven to be a forgery and
the jury Saturday morning brought
in verdict to that effect.
Frank Goodman, Nashville, work.
ed up the case and enlarged two gen.
uine signatur's and the signature to
the will. The two genuine sigma
lures were found to be similar in
every particular and radically differ
ent from that to the will. The Gar
field-Morey letter and the Cadet
Whitaker letter were proven forger-
les in the same manner
Hopkinsville is catching some en-
terprise and may yet be city. Says
the New Era: "The street recently
donated by the property owners be-
tween Virginia street and the Clarks-
vile pike, is being graded and rapid
ly prepared for the use and convent
ence of the public. 1t is continua-
tion OF the Clarksville pike from the
bend beyond the railroad crossing,
and the danger from this point is
averted by its opening. The street is
sixty feet in width and fully a quar-
ter of a mile in length, and will be a
very desirable location for suburban
homes. 1t is the intention of the
council to make it beautiful ave-
nue.. The metal will be put on next
week."
There are some Clarksville musi-
clans who seem to be sending their
sweetness away from larksville by
wire. The New Era has the follow
ing "Bacherig's orchestra, OF Clarks-
vile, assembled at the Telephone
Exchange In that city several nights
since, and rendered several selections
from popular operas. Hopkinsville,
Nashville and other neighbor:ng
cities were in connection with the
Clarksville exchange. The gentle
men who heard it in this city were
delighted with the music and the
novel manner OF transmission"
The new depot at Hopkinsville
has been completed.
sour Bob" is loved away from
home as we'll as at home. Here is
the way the Hopkinsville New Era
talks about him: ave notice that
Governor Robt. l.. Taylor has
been selected by the Democracy Of
the volunteer State as one of the elec.
tors for the approaching campaign,
All of which goes to prove that the
eloquent and gifted gentleman is moi
without honor in his own land and
among his own people. There Is nc
man in Tennessee more capable oi
carrying the great principles and
precepts OF Democracy to the hearts
of the people than is "Our Bob," as
they affeotionately call him over
there. He is a Democrat and he
knows the reason why, and another
thing, he knows how to tell his rea
sons why in words so plain, so sim
pie, 80 earnest and so eloquent tha
those who listen to him are mighty
apt to see things as he does before HI
is DONE"
BY the way, Tennessee is full o
such Democrats.
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