The Camden Chronicle from Camden, Tennessee • Page 1

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CAMDEN, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890. Na in CAM A c.U'ITal subjcvt for cartoon: The publicum loaders in the Senate with their hands behind their ears listening for the expected crack of Dictator Rood's whip, with, the legend: "To hear is to obey." New York "World. GENERAL NEWS. Quarterly Court. The following is an outline of A Kansas man wants to bet to $50 that he can walk from Leavenworth to Junction Gity, third of the length of the State, without taking his feet from mortgaged ground, except when he crosses county road or railroad.

Stevenson Archer got five years in the Maryland Penitentiary; Matthew Stanley Quay got six years in the United States Senate. Archer was thofcriilocratrc Treasurer of Democratic State and Quay was the Republican Treasurer of a Republican State. National Democrat. An official position under the present administration seems to be anything but a public trust. In fact the more uses it can be put to the better are its functions fulfilled, is the prevalent idea with the disreputable mob now feeding at the Government crib.

While AVana-maker uses the Post Office Department to advertise bis dry-goods Rnum furnishes his offi cial letter heads to his sou, a pen sion sharper, to assist the latter in his line of. enterprise. Concord Patriot. However good and gracious a woman Mrs. Harrison may be, the fact yet remains that she has a bus-band who permitted her to accept a twenty-room cottage at Cape Ma)i famished with every article of comfort and luxury from draw.

ing room, to oat-house. The acceptance was the work of President Harrison, and it disgraces the hat he wears and casts reproach upon the name of the grandfather who owned it. The acceptance was a vertf grave mistake, Nashville American. New York is to have an elect ri cal railway 10 miles long. tha proceedings ia the quarterly Beer is selling in Chicago for term ooi.it Tor 3vl wirh $3.50 a barrel, a result of brewery C.

Scruggs preling, to- competition. g'eiher with the magistrates of Ben- Fire near Atlanta, destroyed Ua County: Ihn Knntliorn flntinn Koel Oil The lands of Madison LockWt Mills. Loss, $100,000. were detached from the eighth iJ civil district and attached to the Georgia 40 miles wide by 50 miles nfthcivd district of Benton County, long, containing 100,000 popula tion, Forty cases of persons bitten by dogs have een reported, to the police of lVnideuce, sinco May 1. The St Louis Globe-Democrat says that the contract providence awarded to the Republicans to run this country for another cpiarter of a century has only just begun." It is true that the execution of the contract has begun, but it does not follow that it will continue twenty- five years or five years.

A higher and more potential providence has already awarded a more valid con tract to the Democrats to annul the first contract and to exterminate the contractors. And that the Dem ocrats will do without regard to providential or other contracts, They will do it of their own voli tion and by their own power. Memphis Avalanche. Eteky ray of light from the in side facts Gi the present rdiV.i.n? tration opens up to vkw some dew tardly imposition on the farmsrs. Recently tho chief officials ot th land office, gave permission to ctr-tain pet lawyers to the administration, to copy the records of land warrants, and now thou wine 3 of agents of thee lawyers are in the "West and Northwest getting up warrants for sellers pfc ft when it was the duty "of the land office to issue tho warrants to the settlers upon application.

But the administration saw a chance to fatten a few friends at the expense of the farmers and forthwith gave the opportunity. But fortunately tho Democrats in Congress discovered the fraud on the farmers, and will block the game. If this game had been carried out in full as intended, it would have cost the farmers of the West and Northwest about $1,000,000 It was ordered that road section No. 3, in the third civil district, AVyly's rts deuce and ending at tin Camden road, be extended to the Cot Landing, on Tennessee River. II.

C. Ad-m. AY. D. Flowers.

T. A disastrous cyclone swept a Johnson. John Oxford, and City, Mhm, Sunday night, and in Fitz rald were aoDoiuted to a few minutes nearly two hundred vlew oufc aud establish the public i i.fn i peopie were uieti. TOfid hrii. Ovid's A Spanish depxrtation is visiting gajQ nvd end with thi u-w Toad Washington City to propose lie- opened by John Oxford, and report gotiations for tire annexation of at the next term of court Cuba to tho United States.

AVatt Brothers were allowed deaths from cholera $28 for repairs on the i ve occurred among the members bridge. of a ttalion of Ghoorkhs sitioned It wrs orderal by the court (by tit in the Punjab. petition filed by Wihbn, Je-la The first bale of this year's crop N- Melton, P. Melton, A. J.

of Geonria cotton was sold at the aumtt, burmut, janies Cotton Exchange, New York, last Hawley, E. C. Tick, and H. Haw- week for 101 cents per pound. ley) tiiafc the civil district lino be tx.

i changed between the hfth awl the ui to ucsiio uuicu vtno j-uuiui in Eutaw with an ag- givgate ot' 09 children the first 21, tho s-oiid 23, and the third 25. Tho Russian newspapers indi- care a conviction that nothnig fdiutt of v.ar can f-ehia tae )noga- tenth civil disiric ls, beginning tt the nor oh liiie of J. J. Batemai's lane and run north to Mrs. Sara Hawley's, thence northeast to Har vey Hollhigswxjrth, and from there in a westerly direction to the fifth civil district line near the residence vim CjUesUoa tii- tt.Rus- Lf CfcapettCaplmger.

Ihe House Committee on Mill- for extra care of the T)ftnT)Prg. tary Aiiairs ns uirectea a ravora- collrt ttrd.erofl th-t Jml ni 1 i 1 I Die report on a uui to revive me RG be emijowered ani rau ui uuuwsunui-Buiwnu 01 iu instructed to have tlio county at-flrmy tornev. Josenh E. Jones, hi nrnsp- I Hi-- i lhe against Philip Cate suit against W. M.

Kinc, for baitr, aocus-tlof mu.tring i6- huer trostee for rei'onue due bv ryman Ginnin, at Col ambus, Ohio, him i0 the cunitv of n. a.n was nolle prosquied, and Sauter file any bill that may be neetssaiv goes free. The court released J. S. Bagget Publishers throughout the Uri- from the piyment of poll tax and ted States of cho ap non-copy- from work on the public roads, and wrighted books have united in a that the judge issue to him a war great company, with a capital of rant for poll tax paid by him for the year 1889.

Several fields of late-planted E- C. Lashlee was allowed $2.50 corn in Mndisou Parish, haw Por month for tho benefit of James been destroyed by myriatiS of small Surratt, an imbecile, for the next black bugs, which completely de- quarter. vour the plant. E- WRS allowed $2.50 per Miss Flortee Russell, of Ottawa, montJ for the next oparter for the Kans, was robbed on the streets J1011 of Molhe Clfton' an im" of that place in broad daylight last Saturday of 810,000 in cash, which she carried in a hand-satchel. It is said that the Aaowtra Ter minal and Improvement Com par J.

H. vras allows! ia fo.Jl ol his ojiiji to tlttie "or keo-ixg tne paupers of the The court allowed A. C. McRae, county clerk, the following bill: i -i exotncio lost quarter, H5; revenue loosn, and Memphis lwulwnv, to settlement $1: 9 pauper claims, connect with the IumOT Central Q( ri, 4i07R. rand orders, 5612.75; 6 or- and the Moboe and Ohio.

dors of review, 7o cents; accounts, During a difficul ty over a trivial etc 75 conts Totul ,1 ITT' 'I matur pttiie imams mm near a Ban0 was aiiowed $305 Sherman, a rcuig kku by jr two umi a llfllf jaya aud the name of Bob Jamison ws cJreor $2.25 for one day as brieo pi-obobly fnoa'iy siabbedby A.i'itd YUL. ms wiio.aitcr tue cutcuig, j. p. Williams was allv WUO mace lus escppe. cea for over paiJ sca for the A of cov.bovsrtar Sidney, y.var 1890.

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jj iorrej-s was ai.ov, a 1 of the Western Union Telepraphlas jailor to date, Company for targets and cut every wire in the iciuity with their bullets. It took a lart-e force a whole day to repair tho damage. Estimates for river improvements: Improvement of the Mississippi River between the Ohio and Illinois rivers, for year, and to complete, 000. Gasconade River, Missouri, for Missouri, $10,000. year, Osagu Rier, b.

W. Cautrell was n'lo ed taxes for 1 o9. 2. K. 1.

Agvu and AVLite, levy for the thirtetv.h district, fiied their report, and they were discharged without further action. J. AY. Arnold was allowed 3.50 for repairs on jail furniture. AV.

H. Rushing, sheritf, was al hr-ved $13 as exvtfEcio Lr Gideon French was relon sod in definitely fror.1 paying poll tax. The coGrt appointed J. M. Bish op, J.

C. ippett, and V. D. Bird, a committee to view out a road that AVilllam A. Fry has made near bis place and on his land, aud report to the next term of court.

The above committee reported at once that the road had been viewed Viut, and they recommended that the same be granted. The following is a list of the judges appointed for the August election: First district M. M. Fry, It. HasseD, and Charley Outwald, jr.

Second district AY. Ar. McCord, C. T. Spence, and Bass Holland.

Third district Thomas Moore, John Nunnery, and J. F. McGlohn. Fourth district P. A.

Bridges, J. C. Moore-, and D. J. Allen.

Fifth district James II. Kee, G. Pafford, and AY. P. Maideiu Sixth district Gecrgo AY, Gal- breath, S.

C. AArright, and A. C. Unfiling. Sevpih district A vey Melton, J.

Holland, and A. L. Phifer. Eighth district AV. AVarniack, J.

B. owles, and J. B. Lindsey. Ninth district J.

Akcrs, J. H. Gilbert, and AY. B. Stockdala Tenth district AY.

A. Lashlee, L. P. Browning, and AAH. March- banks, jr.

Eleventh district James Shur- loy, H. AV. Crabbe, and E. Hatloy. Twelfth district-H.

B. Bridges, Henry Elmore, aud AAT. H. Pros-son. Thirteenth district J.

L. Coble, H. P. Spence and Ed Walker, Fourteenth district S. H.

Har ris, K. R. Bridges, and J. Cooper. The court Appointed tho follow ing jurors to serve' at the Augost term of the circuit court: First district D.

J. Murray and J. Johnson, Second district C. Hatley and AAllliam Kelley, Third district Ting Barker and Howe, Fourth district J. L.

Kirk mid T. F. Kee. Fifth district B. Barker and J.

M. Madden. Sixth district AY. AY. Deaton.

Seventh district B. F. Peeler. Eighth district Robert Cherry Isinth district George AV, Bar ker and M. L.

Beaton. Tenth district H. Bell and L. Holland. I Eleventh district John Hicks and Aaron Hatley.

Twelfth district J. E. Elmore and C. M. AA'iseman.

Thirteenth district George AA AAToods and N. P. Spence. Fourtet nth district Jonathan Smith and J. M.

Patrick. P. P. AVheatloy was appended by the ooftvt to wait on the grand jury. J.

S. Hall, B. Greer, and G. B. Bnno, bridge committee, filed their report and were discharged.

Tlw court detached M. V. Utley and J. Y. Jordan from the tenth to the fifth civil district, only for voting.

J. R. Johnson, commissioner of the poor, was allowed $70.45 for keeping 'tho paupers of the county for the last quarter ending July 7, 1890 A. Pettygrew was allowed $22.50 for caring for AA AAr. Summersett during his last illness.

D. D. Bird was allowed 1.10 and J. X. Briggance 50 cents for serving papers on T.

L. Johnson. The court released the Murphy B.othe- sof assessment for the year 1SS9, tho amount being $1.93. Tlie ivvcuuc committee iv)ortvd as follows: wAVe have -critically examhu'd all sottloftunts of A. C.

McRae, county court clerk, and find them correct. Also AY. Benton, circuit 'court clork, and find, tall books, settlements, 'I' for kst quarter convct AATe found tho books, etc, of T. Ryo, clerk and 'master, 'correct." The court allowed AV. J.

Barnes trustee, $1.50, tiix penalty 10 cents total $1.00, on the Curtis kind in. the eleventh civil district, for 1888. Tine court allowed AV. J. Bnws trustee, tax penalty logouts, total ixdl tax of Bud Now-stead, of the eleventh civil disti K-t, for 1888.

Carr. Hubbs was rehmseil froiA piiying poll tax Jrrd working -tW public roads. The court adopted ttd followi' resolution in reference to the fating of new school districts: Resolved, by the county court v.f tho county of Benton, in session July term, 1890, that it is the sense of this court that there shall bew new sub-school districts formed this county for tho present schoeJ year, the taxes having been levied for the present year with re-fereiKfe to the schools already estabb'slKv. Our Two IMvv Star. Niislnllle, ut ixii l'l'riiu it luc Stares atiaohfdh'S sigoatureiodft bid admitting AVycmiag into the bisterhocd of American States, he added another disgrace andtaiiilxvl with another insult the natioifl Only 00 9 we ek before Idaho wio admitted a el a simi.ar criift nf a i jtea oonrniue'j.

are is duty in aiything else than admit ting jualified territories iiv'o hood, but there is nothing short of a crime in bringing in half grown boroughs when they arc not eligible in any of the particulars which have heretofore guided our lawmakers in making such admissions. Both Idaho and AA'yoming hav togevne not taOxe th.n'i Kafticiii population to elect a s'ngle Oi-gressman, and ye-, in order to strengthen the ReU'cnn' party, they have been dragged intollrfi Union in order to add onx Suia-to 's anol two members of Congnss a. ixl six vot's to ii3 Re u'icaJi side of the electoral college. In evidence of this fact, the 4sarae Re publican Congress refused ahx-lutely to consider the claims of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, when all three have larger populations respectively than Idaho and Wyoming, and when ad three are knocking loudly for admission, The admissions of sik-Ii torn-t J'is are bot ljv of the long list ot' crimes whiih the pf.vty jwwot h.xs Commuted and for which the American people propose to hohl it responsible. An innocent rural organ asksi "AA'hy will honest Congressional elections necessarily disturb the industrial tranquility of Che South?" Honest elections would not But Congressional elections under the direction of those notorious corruptionists, Matthew Ojaay and AVilliam AV.

Dudley, would not be honest Can't you get that into your heads? New York AYorhl The South is not ready toberwled by bayonets in tho hands of Republican soldiers, and it never will lx Chattanooga Argus. In this kind of wmthcr the JVU lmt is felt hot Puck..