Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-09
Clippings.

A rope of sand is supposed to be lnsull-
cient to keep the ocean tide.
People "run" into debt, but sometimes
they "crawl out Of it,
The Paris Government has decided to
accept the armistice.
A resident of Edgefeld has raised two crops
of apples and cherries this year from the same
trees.
The late James II. Brady once remarked
that his experience convinced him that a
mans wife was his best lawyer.
1t begins to look ominous when the WOO
man of the period wants her club; she
used to be satisfied with her broomstick.
at is a poor rule that won't work both
WAYS. - as the boy said when he threw the
ferule at the schoolmasters head.
Stars are clearly the best astronomers,
because they have studded the heavens
since the creation.
The first annual banquet of the Yale Alum
nj Association of Tennessee took place at the
Maxwell House, Nashville, on last thursday
the 9th of October
An American editor cautions his tall
readers against kissing short women, as
the habit has rendered him exceedingly
round-shouldered
A fellow about to be sentenced to death
stopped the roundabout legal formula of
the court with "never mind the obituary,
Judge let's go on with the funeral"
The Blood Horse Association at Nashville,
have received upwards Of 81, 5OO stock sub
scription for the purchase Of new race course
the lease of the one they now control expiring
on the LIST of next January.
A priest asked a tipsy fellow, leaning
against the fence, where he expected to go
when he died "If can't get along any
better than now,n said he, " | shan't 90
anywhere"
A postmaster in Virginia sends in his re-
turns thus | hereby certify that the
fourgoin' A account is as near rite as ! no
how to make it. If there is emmy mistake
it is not dun on Purpose.
There have been several attempts made by
the various freight agents to adopt some uni
form tariff on freight passing over railroads
south of the Ohio river, but without success
convention is to be held in Nashville to-lnor-
row. the 2nd inst, for that purpose.
The Chattanooga Fruit Preserving Company
took the first premium for fruit over forty com
petitors, and the prize, beautiful solid silver
pitcher valued at 500 is now on exhibition at
Tschopks, where are also all the varieties OF
preserved fruit which gained the premium
Chattanooga Times 3Oth.
Mrs Hughes, the first wife of the Edgeiield
bigamist, who was supposed TO have been per-
suaded away and murdered by her husband,
returned to that place last Sunday morning. Ii
now turns out that, having taken her on under
false pretences he threatened to kill, and then
deserted her for the second time.-NdshCWe
Banner.
The Boston capitalists, who have invested
largely in the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road, arrived in this city yesterday, en- rOute to
Little Rock, to be present at the opening of the
road to Clarksvile distance of forty miles,
during the present week. They arrived by the
train on the Memphis and Louisville road, Mr..
Pullman having placed at their disposal one Of
his splendid hotel saloon sleeping cars IN which
they have iourneyed from the East The entire
party, in which there were several ladies, took
up their quarters at the Overton Hotel. The
following are the names of the leading capital
lists: Messrs. John 9. Pratt II. \ Pratt, l.. 5.
Richardson, G. II. Richardson, Warren Fisher,
Ed Richardson w. G. Dicknsn, DR.. Gray, G.
". Huntingdon, Albert Bronker and +. y;
Harrington, of Boston; ID. w c. Brown @
W. c. Brown, of Ogdensburg, New York.