Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

An Indiana paper refused lately TO pub
lish eulogies gratis but added: I'VE will
publish the simple announcement of the
death of any of our friends with pleasure"
Musical Jones doctor last week forbade
him to eat pastry Musical Jones simply
responded to his medical man by sing
ing dolorously, Good by, sweet tart, good
by
The physicians appointed to analyze the
stomach Of Henry Wharton, supposed to have
been poisoned by his mother, have reported,
and exonerated the latter lady far as their
examination goes.
A New Orleans colored boy got jack
stone in his throat, and was relieved by a
doctor who took him by the heels and
shook it out of him. This is a new meth
cd of "healing,'
TIRE Louisville Lcdger claims the over
whelming Democratic victory in Ken
lucky as a triumph of the Old Liners and
rebuke to the new departure men. Let the
new departure journals say how this is.
"Well, Judge said a friend to the Pres
ident of Paris court, under the Empire,
"did you condemn many to death at your
8 'ssion to-day?n "Three-and | don't
hesitate to say that two of them deserved
it.n
A certaigI caravan orator at fair, aftera
long yarn descriptive of what is to be seen
inside, generally winds up by saying,
step ill., gentlemen, step in. Take my
w rd for &c, you will be highly delighted
~ zen goa get out"
The Grand Jury of Sonoma, California,
recommend in a recent report that, " for
the safety and comfort of bald-headed men,
the loose plastering be removed from the
celinC, or that the sheriff be instructed to
furnish parties having business in tho CO lrt
with pillows or suitable shields to CO 'er
their heads with
TIE PoLARIs.-A dispatch from st.
Johns, Newfoundland, reports the ar
rival of the Swedish gunboats Ingord
with dispatches from Captain Halls Arc
tic ship Polaris, which arrived at Holstein-
berg on July 81, and would await until
August the arrival of the United States
steamer Congress, with supplies.
REMEDY FOR FoUNDER.-Somef fourteen
years ago, in discussion by the New \ ork
Farmers Club, one of the members said
ne would not make five dollars difference
i'm buying a horse whether it was foun-
dePed or not, because one tablespoonful of
alum would cure it,. At all events, if the
first dose did not cure the second would,
IMMENSE PEACH CROP. Six hundred
thousand bushels and crates of Delaware
peaches sold in the New York market du-
ring the past week. The crop this year is
enormous, and the fruit was never better
in size and flavor. The crop on Long
Island is the most plentiful ever known f;
fruit is rOttng on the dealers hands.
CHuDREN's SCRAP BoOFs.--It is well
10 save childish pictures and " BOD cuts OF
various kinds, lmany of which give chill
paste them into an old ledger or copy book.
They help pass away many childish
hour, and are ut once innocent and instruC-
tive. With the help of questions from
their elders, they aid children to think.
In the " Life Of Barham, an amusing
a ReCdote is told of King, The actor who
n vet friend whose name he had forgotten,
Al vi took him home to dinner. After sew
eT, n attempt to find out his name, King
sal d My friend and / have had dispute
rs - how you spell your name; indeed,
we have laid "a bottle of wine about it 4"
ooh with two p7, was the answer.
Eo opmanschap, the famous importer Of
heath en- Chinee, has been to Tuscaloosa,
Ala. % look after the interests of about
three hundred and fifty Cinnamon who
were r. ken there to work on a railroad and
have re ceyed no pay. lie found them liv-
ing ON blackberries and CraWfiSh, and
probabl, deemed the diet healthy for the
Mongolia constitution, as he left them TO
continue he same regimen,
\ gentle man who had taken the horse
cars for the Worcester Del 20. III Boston in
numbered y nth manifold bags and parcels,
reached the hcll-rOpc with an effort when
he wished To get of, and gave a vigorous
null the re. iult was a sharp ring from
both bells. What are you ringing both
ends for p" 5as the di~cOurteOus and
surlv in0uiry @ fthe conductor. because
I wish the car 0 stop at both ends was
the Quiet reply. That left convulsed car
load and a di,con liitted conductor.
Hon. Francis p. Blair. ST., is enjoying
the rich co urorts Of magnificent estate
known a. .'SilverSl uing-," near Washing
ton CITY. Mrs. Blai r now eighty years Of
age, remarkably pres, 9rved, physically and
intellectually, compaL lGns her husband in
his declining years. lie Is also blessed
with great vigor oc min al and body. They
ride horseback daily, en- certain Hospitality,
and enjoy life almost wit;h the eXuberance
ofyouth. "Silver Spring - is their retreat
summer and winter
Ifone may cr,Ndit tho Richmond va. J
VIVA. there is nov IN that city curious
" shan Ell bamboo root. u 1lding it in
one position, you Sc clearly defined in
outline the recoguizaJle'sa gld"Ge, bulls
head aud three COWS Nesds' reversing
II, a Sleeps head appears t. Nliw%, exact
and faithful to nature ~ il 4" yea oy some
skillful hand. The heads Of 'Io AIrican
antelopes, a bears head, grey pouhu 5,
bull 90 IS, a squirrel sitting on stump,