The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-08-18
TENNESSEE NEWS BRIEFS.
State Happenings Culled From Our Ex-
changes,

lChy' COuululuH VI DuSLllGSS al ON6l- tuc
country has not affected Humboldt
There is more business being done and
more money here than for years"
Pension Agent Rule, of the Knoxville
agency, has been notified by the depart
ment that the names of over a hundred
of the pensioners paid from that Office
have been dropped from the rolls,
There are fewer mortgages registered in
Gibson County this year than at any time
since the war, The production Of fruits
and small truck farming has added mate
rally to the prosperity of the people of
that county.
Henry Pate was bitten by large black
spider while getting out stave-timber in
Forked Deer River bottom recently. The
poison penetrated his internal system
and he suffered such agony that his life
was several times despaired Of, though he
finally recovered.
A baby girl was born in Mountain City
last week with only three fingers and
thumb to each hand. The hands are said
to be smooth andshapely and the absence
of the fingers is scarcely noticeable, unless
attention is called to it.
The farmers Of the fourteenth civil dis
trict of Gibson County threashed, this
year, $4,000 bushels of wheat and raised
an average of 20 bushels to the acre.
Only 5000 bushels are needed for home
use, leaving 81 900 to be shipped.
At recent mass-meeting at Paris of
the Confederate soldiers, representing the
various companies enlisting from Henry
County, arrangements were made for a
reunion of the survivors Of the " Lost
Cause" The reunion will be held at
Heads Grove, Thursday, September Z,
The negro fireman at Ing's roller-mill,
at Humboldt, built a big fire under the
boiler, turned on the water, and then he
went outside to cool off one morning last
week. In about ten minutes the boiler
burst, and scattered negro and mill over
the south end Of Gibson County. Loss
about $4,000; insurance, $3.50. There
was about 500 bushels of wheat in the
mill.
J., All is quiet at Coal Greek since the
lynching OF miner named DrummonC
by soldiers last week. But the State Of
ficers are taking every precaution to pre-
vent a repetition of last years expert
ence, and Major Stacker, of Clarksville
received telegram from Adjutant-G Gen
eral Fite Monday inquiring how man!
men would 60 as volunteers to Goa
/ Greek.
The first week of the State normal in
stitute for West Tennessee, which closet
: Saturday at Jackson, was a great success
Over a hundred teachers from nearly ev
cry county in this division of the Stat
, have been in attendance, and it is cyl
, dent from the work of the institute that il
D effects will be shown by better teachin
D from those who have been present. TIL
: institute continues this week, and is t
f be a permanent thing every summer.
g 1t is estimated that there are now bC
tween 5000 and 1000 mechanics, laboI
!. ers, operators, and clerks out of employ
y ment at Nashville. A serious state
I distress exists, and the call is beginnin
2 to come up from them for assistance.
&c is impossible to collect rents, and moue
! to buy food is becoming scarcer day b
), day, and there is general and appa
\ emily we'll founded belief that the list
/ unemployed will be increased during IL
week.
,. As Mrs. Albert Wambald, aged %, r
: siding near the city reservoir at Nashvill
!, was on her way home from a grocery la
:. Saturday night in company with her 81
:, ter, anegro, who had been following ther
- ran up and Selling Mrs. Wambald tire
= her to the ground. The ladies screamt
= and Mr.. Wambald came out with pistC
- but the negro, who became frightene
n ran and made his escape. Blood-houn
~ were sent for, and great excitement pr
% walls in that neighborhood.
Il The Farmers and Laborers's Union
III Tennessee met at Nashville Wednesda
er A strong effort is being made TO revi
IS the dropping spirits Of the orgaDizatio
as and to do this it is probable that a Sta
ny organ will be established at Nashvil
hYIL K. Taylor, ex-editor Of the Teller, b