Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-30

pipe on CuIlslLuds eve
Messrs. Campbell & Dow show they
mean business by having cards printed
and circulated. Some local advertise
ments for this firm appear elsewhere.
Ifyou want neat job work, don't for
get that you can get it done at the
CHRONICLE STEAM JOB OFFICE
short notice, and at prices TO suit the
times.
This brief chronicle was written by
the editor of the Philadelphia Ledgcr;
Lowell--Saturday Two little boys
and pistol. Now, only one little boy
and pistol"
Nothing appeals more to the SYM
pathies Of a kind-hearted person than
The spectacle of starved dog, sitting
on the ragged edge of anxiety waiting
for bone.
New Years presentare nextin order,
and merchants having anything TO sell
suitable for New Years presents Will
do well to let the readers of the CHRoNs
ICLE know it.
The Bristol NciOs says: Riley Jones,
Deputy Sheriff of Hancock county,
Tenn, has been arrested and confined
in the Jonesville (Va.) Jail, on the
charge of stealing hogs.
Mr.. Horatio Huxley, a highly es-
teemed citizen of Heiskel's Station,
and late of Essex county, New York,
died at the residence of his son Adolf
phus Hinkley on the 10Th.
The American Grocer well says: IA
dead man can drift down stream, but
il takes live man To pull up against
it. Then is the time that tries mans
soul-when the tide is against him."
lisa poor policy To tell the world
that your business is falling off by talk
ing your advertisement out of the pa
per. People like TO swim with the
tide and like TO buy of the merchants
hat sell the most.
The Greeneville Union says: Mr.. o.
VI. Brabson is a candidate for Superin-
tendent of Education for this county.
II is but Justice to Mr.. Brabson 10 say
that he has done much for the cause OF
education in this county.
McGrady, the Washington county
hog thief, had "A trlal before the circuit
court at Jones boro', and Monday the
Jury sentenced him to nine years In
the penitentiary. This will be likely
10 break up hog stealing in that coun
ty.
The Chattanooga Commercial says
Corn continues in fair demand at yes
.erday's quotations, 70 cents per bushel
Receipts increase, demand Keeping
pace with them. Wheat unchanged
Sl.15; some movement, but market
rather inactive.
Twenty-six of the citizens of this
county concluded during the past week
hat doing business by themselves
wouldn't pay in the long. run, and The
thaNy fnFnnAH than
selves into thirteen tirms-the names
(Which can be found elsewhere,
Joseph Ayres, charged with being
accessory TO the murder of Mr.. Rey'
nolds, 10 this county, was taken Il
Court will be in session next week
when he will have a trial there, h.
having been granted change o
venue.
The dwelling house and contents o
Mr.. John Phalon, residing about on
and a fourth miles north of Heiskell'
Station, was entirely consumed by fir
on the 18th inst. The family wer
absent from home at the time. MI
Phalon is an industrious farmer ant
mas the sympathies Of the people of til
community.
The Kingston East TenneSseedn says
George Cook, the man who had hi
skull mashed in by Jack Isham (refer
red to last weekly, is convalescent, ant
il is now thought he will recover
Phillip Wilson, an accomplish OF lsh
AIMS, or in some way connected witt
the attack upon Cook, was arreste'
and held in 81, 600 bail for his appear
ance at thesnext term of the 'urt.
The Cleveland Herald says 4" Rev
J. A. Hyden, Pastor of the M. 4
4 Church at this place, in religious lee
ture delivered in his church or Sun
day evening last, said, that "a mem
Der of the church who would drinl
+ whisky ought to do like the man VIII
4 was carrying his whisky home in
green gourd, when the neck broke, hi
~ gourd fell to the ground and burste
n and he got down and Tapped up tb
stuff like a dog. A Methodist, wheI
he drinks, should not look towar
n heaven, but get down and lap 1t a.
III ike dog"
M A youth the other evening attempt
"A ing to steal steel trap which had bee
F. placed out in front of Mr.. Luttrell'
hardware store, got himself into trcu
BILE. The trap was "set, and In reach
ing up with one hand to loosen tn
chain, he got tue otner against III
spring, and was next dancing aroun
bowling with pain and fright. They lei
him in that position for short tim'
and then turned him loose, and it
& the candid opinion of those who vii
messed him getting away from thert
that he is thoroughly dsgusted wit
~ the trapping business.
r. Some time since we published a
< item which went the rounds OF tn
press to the effect that Virginian ha
zX purchased farm near Limestone fC
so, 600. 1t turns out that the whol
11 matter is hoax. a letter appears i
the Jonesboro' Herald and Tribu,l
with the signature of Henry G. WY
s sor, from Dublin, Virginia, stain
that his brother George w. Wyso
who made the purchase, is not respor
sible, financial or mentally, but Is
monomaniac. The correspondent flu
nishing the letter adds; 1t is the Opir
ion here that the letter was written b
Mr. George w. Wysor, Jr., himsel
aud that he Is crazy for the want I