Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
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~ last week, aged lO4 years.
There has been more wheat sown |
in Carroll county than for many years. |
Charleston, Tenn, is going to have
brass band. Cheering news for in
valids.
Counterfeit fifty cent notes are rath-
er current at this time. Look out for
them.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln passed |
through Chattanooga on Friday on her
way to Florida.
As far as heard from there are only
ten candidates for Congress i'm the
Fourth District.
We understand that the hog cholera
is prevailing in the southern portion
of Carroll county.
Mr.. Joseph II. Brown, of Greene
county, raised 800 bushels Of corn on 8
acres of land, at a cost of $50.
The Greeneville IatCHgeUccr says
Mr.. IL. Borden started south with a
fine lot of hogs on last Monday.
Mr.. +. Smith Mathes has started a
bone mill at Jonesboro', for the pur-
pose of making bone dust for farmers.
The corn crop of Greene county,
though a little short, is turning out
lAihNll b'AANi lAlAAl AAAt it1l lilNA0 u lNNb~
ed.
Another hole in them pants" said
"A fond mother to her young hopeful
What dretlul onkneesy fellow you
are!n
Anderson Hyden, of Bradley county,
raised a crop of cabbage, many of the
heads weighing from 10 to ~ pounds
each.
Mr. Roax, of Blount county, brought
in some very fine cattle yesterday.
They were purchased by Messrs.
FAM & Jones.
On the 10th inst Mr.. Thomas
Shelow, late Superintendent of the
Oakdale Iron Works, died suddenly at
his residence in Newport, Ky.
A Loudon little darkey refused to go
to whitefolks' church, "kase he didn't
want to be looking there like great
big blackberry in pan of milk"
We learn that the surveying party
under Gen. Stuart, that left here to
survey the Macon road. took the route
ria Tellico Plains and Ducktown.
Mr.. VIM. Clapp from Flat Creek,
in this county, brought in some fine
hogs yesterday. They were bought by
Messrs. Allison aud Sneider, for butch
ering purposes.
Circuit Court was in session this
week in Campbell county, and four
prisoners were sentenced To the peni-
tentiary-one cOlored and three black
all for stealing.
4 man was going down Gay street
Wednesday looking for Mr. Circum-
stances, as he had learned that circum-
stances altered cases, and hc had
book case to alter.
McBath Bros, Market Square, are
calling attention to their business in
our" Business Directory on our first
page. Give them Il call and examine
their goods and prices.
A man who will go to the cemetery
with his wife on Sunday and weep
over her first husbands grave and
walk home without a cross word shall
have our vote every time he comes up
for office.
Supreme Court met last Wednesday
morning and after hearing the min
utes read, adjourned to Court in course.
The members of the Court as well as
the Attorney General left on the IL
o'clock train.
A party Of young men were out
serenading a few nights since. They
sat on the pavement, which had been
recently paved with a tar solution.
Next morning the rear of six pair of
pants dotted he walk, and music is
heard no more around that cottage.
ID. J. Hatcher writes from Horse
Shoe Bend, Scott county, that he has
Just closed a three months school with
interesting exercises, such as march
by the young folks and speaking 10y
himsefand Mr.. Thomas Bruster, on
the subject of Education and Money
and Farming" a large crowd atten-
ded the exercises.
Messrs. Hodge IL Brakebill Of the
Knoxville Pork House, purchased
Yesterday one hundred and twenty
six fine hogs from Mr.. Robert Dpssett,
of Campbell county. Mr.. Dossett was
about shipping them South, but found
that he could do equally rs well by
leaving them i'm this country. Par
ties having hogs will do well to call on
Messrs. Hodge & Brakebill before
shipping elsewhere,
The Chattanooga Times has the fol-
lowing: "On Saturday, the l4th, at
Coles Springs, Dade county, Georgia,
young man named Hale was fOOling
with pistol when it fell from his hand
uIlOu VIC ElOuhNl anu GA lllbtfis ilF
ball passed through one of Hale's legs
below the knee, and hit an old man
named Joseph Killian, killing him in
stantly. Both parties to this distressing
tragedy lived but a short distance from
Morganville Station, on the A, and c..
railroad. Killian leaves a large and
helpless family"
Deputy Sheriff Burleston has just re-
turned from trip to Hancocke coun.
ty. While travelling through that
county he met with an advertising
agent of "Jayne'sn medicines, who
was engaged in putting up poster at
the forks of a road Three men were
standing and watching him, and
when he had finished and left, they
addressed themselves to Burleston,
and wanted to know what that paper
meant, as they could not read. "Oh ~
says Burleston, He Is a revenue col
lecto,, and that is a notice to all you
men making whisky to report at
Knoxville for license" The men