--Someone picked up a lady's bishop on the streets of Clarksville the other day and carried it to the Enterprise office for dissection.  After examining it critically, the editor describes it minutely in the columns of his paper and innocently asks, "What is it?"  Bah! Just as though he hadn't been there.  --Contributed by Frances Cooley
--W. W. Willis, aged twenty-eight and an idiot, was shot and killed by F. F. Williams on the night of the 26th inst, near Clarksville.  Willis had escaped from the custody of his friends during the day, and on the night he was shot was prowling around the premises of Mr. Williams in a very suspicious manner.  It being dark he was not recognized, and when accosted as to what his intentions were, and not replying, at the same time endeavoring to escape, the fatal shot was fired.  The coroner's jury acquitted Mr. Williams.  --Contributed by Frances Cooley.
--A blacksmith at Clarksville had his hand nearly bitten off the other day by a mule.  
--John McBroom of Clarksville desires information of the whereabouts of his mother, Mrs. Eliza J. Newton, who resided in Phillips County in 1861.  
--Source:  LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, Sept. 2, 1873, contributed by Frances Cooley.