The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-12-06
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PERSONAL. vic.
Ne. Walter s Ayfrs and wife were in \
thc city yesterday euf0ule Oh Jacksonville |
Fla. via lhe Atlanta exposition Mf |
Ayrrs is Tennessee boy. who. boz a few |
wears, bias made quite ia reputation. enjoy |
lng tbe distinction of being one of ihe most
successful specIsl pension examiners be-
the Pension Bureau de- WAS in chgrf
of ihe commission that recently iuyrsn.
gated the w. Bowen Moore cases ul Buf.
ialu. y Y,abuutC 00Oin number There
have since been 66conylctuns for pension
frauds, while nearly 100 indictments are
sill pending SIR Ayrps b. au ol Van.
derbllt boy and native Of Camden. where
Doe bias brru on a visit. lie has been as
signed t1 duty 10 Florida for the winter
months aud stopped over here YESTERDAY
90 louk mp old friends Nr AMI N
| Ayrrs took dinner with Comptroller llar-
ris mt his homo on West Broad street last
evening American December 4
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We take the following extract from o
letter written hy Prof. j. w. Blair to the
Huntingdon Republican, which waspub-
ished in that paper last week:
"Ihe reason have not been back to see
YOU is that a cOutented mind has no row.
! ing disposition, and that has certainly
been the state Of my mind since came
here. This is one OF the most pleasant
places to live | have ever seen-tlunting
don not excepted. The people are as kind
and good here as they can be anywhere
| know Camden has many hard names
and probably some Of them we're deserv
ing-bul must say that no town of which
/, know is more deserving of a good name
than Camden.
lam more than pleased with my schoo
prospects and the people Of the town seen
to be the same, ! think 10y this time mex
wear it will take the Southern Norma
University to cope with us-Which will b.
excellent in my estimation, Tor prize n,
school more highly than l do the South
, ern Normal University.
IF you hear any one speaking evil q
Camden give them my experience for
believe any one who will come and sta
, even so long as | have will be Statistic,
that it deserves all the credit have give
it. | had heard so much abOu. il befor
came that did not know bat what
would see the streams running up hill an
y the green flies staying all winter. bur aft
er staying awhile | found that / was de
ceived as badly as others would be by tn
same experiment. Now in conclusion
must say that Camden has been lrien
. to me indeed, and l certainly will be t
> it,"
1t is claimed by knowing ones that III
: friends oil Senator James JeiTrrys, in thi
y Congressional district, wilipush his nam
= for the nomination for Congress next veal
: they claim tor him the best record that
! first term member ever made in 'Ienne'
? see senate. 70 corrobOrate this stdtpmel
: they point to many measures OF impOr
!. ance introduced by him, and particular
: to his defeating the redistricling bills
$ which had passed the house Had tbes
: bills passed the senate, 1t is claimed abe
y would have changed several senator's
:, districts, making them Democratic, an
u would have made the Eighth Congre
: siOnal District hopelessly Democratic, {
. the bill provided for taking Hardemal
= a hopelessly Democratic county. from Il
Tenth and adding it to the Eighth iii
trict and taking Hardin, largely R
publican county, from the Fghthan ad,
ing it to the Seventh district THIS a
alone they claim, should entite him
& more consideration that that of any parr
a aspirant. His friends also claim he hi
e thoroughly demonstrated that he is Il
best organizer the district has ever ha
and that more is due 10 him for his pa
TVS success than all others So it a
pears, there is a strong determination
the part of his friends to have him NAL
TX the race. THE CHRONICLE is not in a .
sition to say as to the senator's populari
le throughout the district. but as betwe,