Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1875-04-28
PENCILETTES.

The steamer r. NJ. Bishop left yes
terday evening about o'clock with a
good cargo of freight.
There were two arrivals at the wharf
yesterday. A number of boats are an
chored near the wharf, and consid-
able grain is changing hands. 81
We learned that boat loaded with
corn sanksin the river not far from
this city yesterday. The cargo was
valued at 500. The sinking was
caused by a knot hole in the bottom
of the boat.
A Pennsylvania printer is the limo
cent father of twenty-six children,
ranging all the way from antique
daughters and full-face bourgeois boys,
to nonpareil babies, in small caps. He
talks of starting family paper.
Mrs. Jos. Richards family left yes
terday for Portland, Me. ID. w. Lewis,
James Smith, Jos. Davis, employees
of Knoxville Iron Company left for
st. Louis, and expect soon to send for
their families. Others are intending
to leave shortly.
The Chattanooga Commercial says {:
Cattle sold in this market yesterday
from q to Al hogs from 5 to 81 sheep,
one hundred and fifty on the market
and no demand, but offering from 4
to cents. Thirty head of cattle arri-
we'd for this market yesterday. a.
A country youth, who desired to
know how to become rich, sent quar-
ter in answer to an advertisement,
and received the following valuable
recipe: Increase your receipts and
decrease your expenditures. Work
eighteen hours a day, and live on hash
and oatmeal Cruel"
The Chattanooga Commercial says :
Mr.. ]. f. Bowyer purchased on last
Saturday, an old lounge at auction,
and taking it to his shop, tore it up for
repairs. He found $3.50 gold piece,
copper cent, two pairs of sissors and
a case knife" What an argument for
patronizing auction sales of old furni-
ture.
Yesterday our city was visited with
quite a hail storm, which, however,
lasted but few moments, and we
Judge no damage was sustained. 1t
rained nearly the entire day, and very
hard q portion of the time. The
creeks were pretty high again, but not
high enough to do any damage, and no
high water is anticipated. -.-.. ..
The Knoxville Library and Read
ing Room Association have procured
the new work of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, 1--WE and Our NeighbOrs."
They have also her work entitled,
My Wife and l." They have made
large additions to their library, and
have added a number of daily papers
to the reading room department.
We are informed that two youne
men accompanying some young ladies
ATnChnn 81 oh
last night unfortunately met up with
a slightly intoxicated person, and were
persuaded to leave the ladies By them
selves, making their way to the city in
double quick, one of them leaving his
hat in the hands of the enemy, or on
the road side. He afterwards got il
again, a friend bringing it on.
AS will be seen by our market re-
ports, there is quite rise in the wheat
market, and prime white has advanc-
ed to SIPS. Messrs. Williams. Tim
norman and Wilson purchased quite
a quantity at that price yesterday.
This will prove good news to farmers,
who have been holding their wheat,
and from what we can learn, every
bushel of surplus wheat now in East
Tennessee can be shipped at that price.
The postmaster of Monticello, Geor-
gia, recently performed the feat of
reading letter without hearing its
contents. An old woman who had
never been to school got g letter one
day, and asked the postmaster to read
it for her. She did not want him to
hear it, so she took a wad of cotton
out of her pocket and stuffed his ears
with it. She then had him read the
letter in a low voice, and was perfectly
satisfied that the reader could not hear
word of it. This is reported as late
actual occurrence.
"Spurg," of Sullivan county, is
here with his fiat boats loaded to the
guards with wheat, corn and flour. He
says he is going to report to the mer-
chant on Gay street who sometime
since received request from young
lady to send her a husband by express
marked G. o. ID. He thinks he can
fill the bill, if they will only handle
him careful" and send him "right side
up with care" Mr.. Spurgin reports
that the growing wheat crop in the
upper end of the State has been badly
injured by the late cold weather, and
that but little corn has yet been
planted in Sullivan county.
That portion of our population re-
siding in the neighborhood of the
spring near McClanahan's mill on
Main street, complain very bitterly
and not without cause, at the neglect
of the spring by the city authorities.
They claim that their rights have been
ignored in this matter until forbear-
ance has ceased to be virtue. About
two months have elapsed since the
bridge washed away, and not even q
temporary foot bridge has been erected.
The spring and bridge are in the wrong
portion of the city TO command atten-
ton.