Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-08
KINGSTON MEANs BUSINESS.

Charcoal Iron Furnace 10 be Built
A stock Company Formed with
eI5O,O0O CapitaI-seventy- five 'cres
Land Above and Near the DistnIery
sold TO the Company.
KINGSTON, July 2, 1874.
Prof A. K. Cotton, of New York,
has just returned from that city where
he has been perfecting arrangements
for the manufacture of iron at King.
ston. A company has been organized
with capital stock of $l5O,OO0. Seven
~ five acres OF ground was surveyed
| yesterday near Col. Betterton's distil
lery, which is to 90 into the hands of
the company.
A charcoal blast furnace is to be
built at once, which is to go into opera
ton by the last of December next.
Perhaps no town In East Tennessee
furnishes better natural facilities for
manufactures than does Kingston,
and certainly few towns can claim
priority-in point of age. For more
than century has she been sitting on
the banks of the quiet waters of the
Clinch. As long, perhaps longer than
the city of Knoxville, has she Witness
ed the ever ceaseless flow of what is
now known as the Tennessee. As far
back as the year 1909, she was "a con-
siderable town. John Melvin, faith
er of the late Maj. William Melvin,
who was one of our most enterpris-
ing and industrious citizens.
Samuel Martin, father of our worthy
fellow townsman, Hugh Martin, Gid
con Morgan, John Nichols, Thomas
[ 'hilHFpCG fafhar If Hon
dress, John Lloyd, grand father of the
Wester family, and many Others we
might name of like popularity, were
doing business here at that time and
several of those named at an earlier
date.
Kingston has been sleeping long.
but she has walked up, and will vel
shine with no less brillancy than
several of her sister towns in East
tennessee of far greater pretensions.
The steamer " r. NJ. Bishop,n lately
furnished with new hull and COM
pleted with the cabin and machinery
OF the Last Chance" was sold by
Mr.. Hugh Martin to Messrs. Jesse,
Robert, Rufus and Uriah Allison, for
$4,000, and will be ready for the COM
merclal trade in about thirty days.
On yesterday, the first day of July, |
quite a large excursion party from |
Loudon, Philadelphia, Kingston, and |
other points, accompanied by the |
Loudon Silver Cornet Band, with well |
hlled baskets, took passage on the |
steamer Hugh Martin to lockwood |
via Kingston, accepting the generous
of the Messrs. Lowery. who |
made their first trip under the new |
contract to carry Uncle Sans mail. 1t |
was a jolly affair, and your correspond
ent would not be surprised, from ocu-
lar demonstrations, if something more
than friendly ties were formed or
May not the poet, in the following
graphic delineation of character, have
rs by inspiration drawn the portrait of
one or more of that happy party?
Il Betwixt mine eye end heart league is
And each doth good turns now unto the
other,
When that mine eye is famished for a
look,
Dr. heart in love, with signs himself doth
smother;
With my loves picture then my eye doth
feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart
! mother time mine eye is my hearts guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a
part;
SO, either by thy picture or my love
myself away art present still with me,
for thou not farther than my thoughts
can move,
And am still with them and they with
thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight,
wakes my heart to hearts and eyes de-
light"