Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-26
STATE NEWS.

The Greeneville Union says: A much
larger crop of wheat has been sown this
fall than usual. If the season should
prove favorable, there will be large guam
titles for sale next fall. ....
Only five car loads of wheat have been
shipped from this point yet this season. 1t
has all taken the panic.
The Unaka Furnace has been stopped
for a few days OH account of ore. 1t will
be put in blast soon. ...
The Pottsdale Furnace Company has on
hands over three hundred tons of pig iron
and are still pushing ahead. They made
about one hundred and ninety tons, max
ing an average of six and one-thrd tons
each day. Pretty good business for a cold
blast furnace.
Bradley Comfy.
The Cleveland Banner says The Bap-
lists of this State are going to establish a
University, and the membership of Middle
and West Tennessee have conceded the
location to Lower East Worcestershire
20 Cleveland or Chattanooga. Let our
people go to work and have 1t built here.
We have all the advantages over Chatta-
uooga in point of location. Our town has
ever been free from epidemics-it is one of
the most healthy places in the State
morals and society good. Cleveland is the
very place for the Baptist University.
What say'you, fellow citizens?
Some of our enterprising citizens have
formed joint stock company for the pur-
pose of establishing wooden mandatory
mt this place. All the stock required has
been taken, and the money is in hand to
put it in operation, and the enterprise will
be put through in the shortest possible
time. This is the best step that has been
taken for the prosperity of our town for
long time, and we hope it will be followed
10y others of like character.
McMinn County.
The Athens Post says: Riceville has two
large tanneries two shoe shops, two cab
met shops, two blacksmith shops, two
wagon shops and eight stores.
The same paper adopts this sensible bust
ness rule: We only wish it understood that
ghe paper must have larger and better
paying custom in future, or it will cease to
exist at no distant day.
Hereafter no name will be entered upon
cur books unless the subscription is paid in
advance. We lay this down as an intlexi-
Ole rule, and will adhere to it without ex-
ception. 1g.Nn. -"-
The same paper says: J. H. Mitchell,
of this vicinity, who has been down to
Griffin, Georgia, returned last Monday,
and reports trade at that place and other
points visited as extremely dull. There is
hardly any demand at all for mules, horses
and cattle, while the figure offered for
hogs is very little, if any, above the asking
lies who have gone down with horses and
mules, in some instances, are feeding them
in the country, being unable to effect sales
except Mt ruinous sacrifice. Al. 4
Washington County.
The Jonesboro' Echo of the 2lst inst
says: eve had quite storm on Tuesday
night in this region. Thunder, high
winds, rain and snow were the order of the
might. Since then the ground has been
covered with snow and the weather has
been very cold.
The Washington County Teachers In
stitute will meet in this place on the 22d
of December, and continue in session three
days. The design of the Institute is
good one.
Owing to the favorable weather this fall,
wheat is looking we'll in upper East Ten
nessee. There has been large crop sOwn
and our farmers have taken great pains in
preparing the ground, and in the selection
of the wheat to be used. From the amount
of fertiliZing material brought to this place
and purchased by the farmers, and the
manner in which the crop has been put in,
we have every reason to expect a remuner-
alive yield of wheat in the summer.
Already several prominent gentlemen
who were officers of volunteers during the
late "unpleasantness,n and Others have adj
dressed the President and expressed de-
sire to be commissioned officers in an eX-
petition against the Spanish authorities
should war ensue, One of these tenders is
said to have come from an eX-otficer of the
Confederate army.