Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
STATE NEWS.


The hog crop of East Tennessee will be
larger this season than it has been since the
war.
Nashville will soon have full mete-
illogical reports from different parts of the
country.
A large number of the convicts now in
the Penitentiaey are to be employed in
coal mines.
The Nashville and CHATTANOOGA Rail-
road has issued most stringent regulations
in regard TO free passage.
Gen S. b. Bucllner, wife and daughter.
are at Tallahassee Florida, and expect to
spend the winter in that vicinity.
Farmers in McNIinn county say they
will bacon" rather than sell their hogs
at the offering figure-siX cents gross.
The Tennessee Coal Company are send
ing in considerable coal now over the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
An old lady in McMinnville whose sole
occupation was housewifery, scrubbed her
sitting room until she fell through into
the cellar
The new Penitcntiary wall is nearly
completed, and it is expected that ii will
be finished this week, if the fine weather
continues.
\ party of capitalists have Just con-
cuded large purchase of land north OF
the North Nashville Real Estate Compa-
ny's grounds.
Two hundred and nineteen thousand
dollars of the old issue of the Bank of Ten
nessee, We're burned in the State Bank on
Wednesday.
Colbert, the Choctaw Indian, who killed
Mr.. ParrOw at Lebanon last week, broke
Jail on Thursday night, and is still at
large.
Memphis is ahead of Nashville i'm crime.
The Recorder had docket of unusual
weight and brilliancy on Wednesday. The
cases numbered nfty-nine.
Fifty ear loads of hogs were shipped
from MurfcesbOrO over the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, Monday. The hogs
We're going South from Chattanooga.
There has been, and still is, havy i'm.
migration from this State to Texas this
season, large numbers having gone from
Smith and Henry counties alpne.
The total valuation of property in David
son county is S25, S5l, $50. The estimate
being made upon the two-thirds cash basis
makes the true valuation S34, Az, S63.
The trial of Amos Curtin for the alleged
murder Of VIM. l.. Porter, at the old fair
grounds, was commenced in the Criminal
Court yesterday, before Judge j. Il. Flip
pin and q iury.-Ncmphis SIM.
A Federal soldier named Case, who i'm
pressed horse under orders during the
war, was pardOned out of the pcnitentiaIy
last week. lie had served four years his
sentence being for fifteen years
Deputy Sheriff Reed, of Clarks ville, has
received $500, the amount of reward Of
fered by the Governor of Kentucky for
the arrest of Charles Warrington, charged
with the murder Of Thomas Floyd.
There are six hundred and twenty-one
convicts now confined at the Penitentiary,
only about two hundred of the number be-
ing white. Twenty-Five of those incarcer-
ated are females, only one of whom is
white.
A petrified rat has been discovered at
Lebanon at the bottom of box of bacon
in a smollehouse, where it became fast
encd in 50 rs to prevent its escape. 1t Is
thought that the salt of the bacon had
some agency i'm the petriication.
The Springfield Record says " on
Monday last a negro woman in the SUI
burb7 OF our town, gave birth to Il living
child mt full time, the child being we'll
formed and perfect except an entire alb
sense of the Uranium and brain. 1t lived
only n few mOmentS.h
The sheriff OF Hamilton county arrived
I'm Nashville last Tuesday from Chat
tauooga, having in charge four recruits for
the Pcniteutiary-thre negroes and one
white man. The latter we understand,
was convicted i'm Blount county, and was
originally from England. One of the ne
eroes was formerly connected with Robin
sons circus.
The Shelbyville Imcric0H Rescue of the
Sd inst. SAYS: awe received letter from
DR.. James NJ. Patterson, our Senator elect
from this and Marshall county, ON last
Friday, which states that he attended q
Mrs. George Studard on the 9th of Novem-
Der last, who gave birth to a double-headed
child, having two noses, two eyes, two
ears, and rather n double mouth. The doe
tor states that thOre lisa large tumor ON the
right side of the head and an abnormal
condition OF the right foot. The doctor
does not state whether this child is male
or female, or whether the heads are sepa-
rate or Joined together, but we infer from
his letter that the heads are not separate,
but Joined together.