The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-08-11
TENNESSEE NEWS NOTES.
state Happenings ouIIed From Our EH-
changes.

was bitten by copper-head snake some
time ago. and was as near death as he is
likely ever to get without dying, He is
out now, but don't want to repeat the ex-
pertinent.
Nashville is to have another outlet TO
Cincinnati. The Tennessee Midland will
be built to Nashville and then to Harri-
man where it will connect with the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad Jerre Baxter
is behind the project.
We understand that T. A. Phillips and
S. w. Muzzell will erect one or two brick
business houses at Hollow Rock. @. f.
Phillips & Sons, it is believed, will also
build. Hollow Rock is too good busi-
ness point not to Observation-Disclosures
Democrat.A
ALI. Brasfeld, q negro who lost part Of
bis brain by the explosion OF gun, still
goes with his head handaged, but is sure
ly getting we'll He claims that the loss
of part Of his brain does not affect his in
tellect, and says he has sense enough left
not to go hunting again on Sunday. Mar
tin Mail.
The grand jury of Shelby County has
indicted Sheriff McLendon, Deputy Sher-
if Perkins, Tailor Harold, and Police
Captains o. Haver and Hackett forisiling
to do their duty in permitting the negro,
Lee Walker, to be taken from the jail at
Memphis and lynched and burned about
three weeks,ago. Several of the members
of the mob were also indicted.
The Ro-Ellen correspondent in last
weeks Dyersburgh Gazette says there is
full crop of mast, but the hogs are all
dead with the cholera. If you will give
your hogs little arsenic once week, in
slop, you will neverlose hog. Puts tea
spoonful of arsenic in the mixture. It
will feed from tweNeto fifteen hogs at a
time, and will cure them if they are sick.
This is sure cure.-Trimble News.
Joe Muzzell, who attended church at
Shiloh, near Mansfield, in Henry County,
Sunday of last week, and who was appar-
emily in good health, fell dead without
moments warning while taking leave of
the family Of Willis Mabry, with whom
he had been spending the day. Heatt
disease was the-cause of his death. He
was nearly sixty years of age, and leaves
wife and gefamily of children.
The State made no exhibit at the Co
lumbar Exposition, therefore the people
of Nashville determined to supply the de-
| ficienCy as best they could. A large sum
of money was raised, a car was Rtted up
containing specimens of all the products
Of the State, which will give some idea Of
Tennessee's great resources, the ladies
OF Nashville took charge Of the decoration
of the car, and as a result splendid and
unique exhibit is now on the fair grounds
at Chicago. To each visitor will be given
a book containing an account of the re-
sources of the State, and each lady will
be given lace handkerchief as g Souve-
mir.
We heard gentleman say afew days
ago that he saw wheat growing on land
that made 80 bushels to the acre. He
: knew this land 80 years ago andth Yves
o then considered worn out. A good farm
Ter got into possession of it, and by raising
! clover and rotatingOrops it had now grown
: to be the best land in the community.
+ Any land that lies well can be restored
r this way. West Tennessee lande need
such farmers. It has grown cotton year
after year until it is about worn out; but
i by growing clover, pease and diversified
a crops the land can be restored and made
u as productive as anyin the South. Hunt
s ingdon Democrat.
/ Monday of last week tworunawayscoup
les were married on bridge near Gov
st ington. Their names were e. E. Knot
e and Miss A. L. Palmer and w. j. Whit
e worth and Miss M. A. Palmer, .he bride,
l. being sisters and the daughters of a citi
1t zen of Lauderdale Comfy. Tine youn,
n men claimed ODE from Missouri, and hac
d resided in that'county about two months
After the marriage ceremony the quartz
started ON foot to Missouri. Everythin
went well on the honeymoon march an
til the next day, when the brides wer
re cruelty deserted in Hatche River bottom
abouttwenty-fve miles from home. TIL
young girls reached home safe, and the
n brought with them much experience.
en- The commissioners appointed to seleC
site for new prison and coal mines I
y, be worked by the State, have arrived at
le decision, and all details for the purchas
are said to be about complete. The trat
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