Tennessee Talk.

Tennessee Talk.

A report on 1884 Tennessee State Convention of Colored Men held in Nashville, TN published in the Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (February 9, 1884)

From the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88061082/1884-02-09/ed-1/seq-3/

The Clarksville Weekly Chronicle

1884-02-09

Newspaper article

TENNESSEE TALK. Rumored—A A new street-car line in Chattanooga. A new paper ("The Falcon,") will be issued at Lynchburg Feb 15th. Some Cincinnati people talk of starting a sash and blind factory at Chattanooga. Mr. J. P. Street and others, of Culumbia, Tenn., are vigorously pushing the cotton factory project. The whole number of convicts in the penitentiary at present is 1,342, of which 924 are colored and 418 white. The Monda Silver Mining Co., near Andersonville, Tenn., will enlarge operations as soon as the weather permits. A call has been made for a State convention of the colored people of Tennessee, to meet in Nashville, Thursday, February 28, 1884.

Nashville

TN

USA

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