Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-23
EAST TENNESSEE NOTES.
R0ane County.


For several days past parties, including
men, women, and children, have been fill
ing through town, struggling under the
weight of baskets, buckets, pots, and pans,
filled with blackberries. 1t is estimated
that some four or five hundred bushels
have been picked and sold in this market.
Messrs. w. j. BettertOn q Co.. have pur-
chased between two and three hundred
bushels, and some three or four hands are
constantly employed in measuring and
emptying for the industrious pickers.-
TennesscedR.
Washington County.
a man named Carter, who has been in
our Jail for some time on q charge of coun-
terfeiting, was taken to Knoxville. on
Monday last, by Lieut.. February and Mr..
HowTen to be tried before the United
States District Court,-JOnesboro Flag,
18Th.
The same paper also mentions 90 The
East Tennessee Echo" the title of a new
paper, which we learn is to be started in
Jonesboro' about the first of August. 1t
is to be Independent in all things-neutral
in nothing. From our neighbor Of the
Herald and Tribune, we learn that two
other newspapers are soon to be launched
in our town. As Josh Billings says, i've
are a newsy people, we areu We know
nothing about the Others, but the gentle
men who propose starting the Echo mean
business, and have already ordered print
ing material. From what we know of
them, their paper will be both lively and
spicy, and we wish them much success.
Mr.. Miller, of Limestone Depot, rode to
this place one day last week, in So min
utes, distance of eleven miles. His
great haste was to get DR.. Sewer to visit
his brother, who had the cholera.
Blackberries are abundant and the cit
| liens in the country are actively engaged
in drying them for market. We think
the signs are favorable for this fruit bring
ing good price.-Herald and Tribune.
bradley County.
Mr.. Erby Boyd, of Polk county, garn-
cred something over seven hundred bush
els of wheat from 20 acres of ground sown.
! This is what we call first rate farming for
this season.
a lot of two hundred bushels of new
wheat was delivered at Knoxville, on
Monday last, at $l.35 per bushel. No de-
liveries have been made in this market.
81 .35 for white, and Sl.25 for red is the
highest price offered by buyers
a young man, named Polk Hickman,
| was killed in the western portion of this
county, on Monday evening last, under
the following circumstances He was
| driving thrasher and coming to a hill
where it was necessary to lock the wag-
on, he got down for that purpose; after
| locking, and while attempting to get on
the wagon, the horses started down the
hill-the wagon run into a gully-this
threw young Hickman forward upon the
horses, which caused them to run away.
! He fell upon the ground so one of the fore
! wheels passed over him, while the locked
! hind wheel caught his body and dragged
| it some distance. He only survived few
moments after assistance reached him.
| Cleveland Banner.
Monroe County.
| The Madisonville correspondent of the
! Sweetwater Enterprise says:
! I'VE have been having very pleasant
weather for the last week, the nights and
mornings having been unusually cool for
July. The thermometer has not been
over ninety, andN)nly reached that degree
on two or three occasions during the week
| We have had no rain worth speaking of
since la@ Saturday.
| The same correspondent writes b" From
the report of the Commissioner of the
| Poor to our last Quarterly Court, it seems
that our county is getting in rather pau
| perized condition. Instead of getting bet
ter, we are informed from official authori-
| ty, that it is increasing and from present
indications we will shortly have an over
| stock of poor white trask, - for we are
assured that there is not solitary negro,
either man, woman, boy, or girl receiving
| q dollar of appropriation from our county.
| This is speaking badly for the whites, but
the truth must, nevertheless be told"
| The Fork Creek Farmers Club met at
Rockville on Saturday, the 18th inst,
! President Walker in the chair. &. b.
! Woodward and Col. H. b. Yearwood were
made honorary members, as well as all
ministers of the Gospel within the bounds
| of the club. Messrs Woodward and Year
wood being present made remarks appro-
pirate to the occasion, and laudatory of the
action of the farmers of Fork Creek and
! vicinity in their efforts to inaugurate q
new era in the farming interests of this
part of the country.-StocctaGdte Enter
prise.