Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
EAST TENNESSEE NEWS.

The wheat crop promises to be fine
in Washington and Sullivan counties,
so says the Bristol Courier. The stand is
generally good and the wheat growing
Off finely.
WINS, of the Athens Post, says:
There is one good feature Ia the Civil
Bights Bill, II don't extend to the Mig
ger the right to get drunk in the bar
room of "A white cuss.
The Chattanooga Times says the ear
ly completion Of the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad is determined on. 1t is
expected that the line will be finished
through 10 Chattanooga within the
next twelve months.
Chattanooga Commercials The new
steamer al f. Line" is completed
and on inspection at the shop of j.
Friedel and will he launched to-mor-
row. f.. Line, master, w f.. Rock
wood, pilot, and Davie Hughs a5 mate.
The Chattanooga Times say: While
the steamer Wilder was on her last
tripup the river, a colored deck hand
fell overheard while carrying coal, and
two miles from the place where he fell
| he was found on willow sapling,
alive and waiting for the boat.
Cleveland Banner: The Quarterly
| Court on Monday fixed the county tax
at 10 cents on the hundred dollars, and
10 cents for school purposes. This
makes the state, county and school
tax aggregate 10 cents on the hundred
dOllars-the same that 1t was last
year.
We see it stated that the East Tenn.
and Western North Carolina Railroad,
leading out from Johnson City, has
changed hands, the Pennsylvania
Steel Company having purchased it.
The Road will probably be extended
to the Cranberry Iron Works in North
Carolina.
Greeneville htcAHgencer From
different parts of the county reports
are that wheat never looked better.
and a fine yield is expected
Quisenberry has purchased the Bacon
mills on Chucky river, five miles from
} Warrensburg. The mills brought So
$50. Mr.. Quisenberry will keep them
running regularly and furnish the
people in the vicinity with lumber
and flour.
The Chattanooga Nel0S says: The
Whittle and Bliss meetings that have
been attracting so much attention in
! Louisville, KY, and causing the con-
versions Of hundreds of people, will be
commenced in Nashville on or about
, the 20th inst. For this purpose the
Exposition building is being fitted up.
These meetings will continue for a
week or so, whan we understand they
will be commenced in this city.
|
The following from the Cleveland
Banner is as true as preaching: The
= spring has now come, and the next
thing on the programme is the
a croakers." No odds how wet or dry
1t may be, this crop never fails to come,
e and save the grasshoppers, of the west.
< it is about one of the most eXhausting
J., crops that a country ever produced, A
= good croaker" will grow better I'M
a der an awning, at the street corner
}, than anywhere else, and if you want
= him to" go dead +" very suddenly, just
i put him in the hot sunshine out in the
middle of fifty acre corn field.
u We learn that Mr.. Bridges, a promi
, nent merchant of Jasper, is afflicted
/ with peculiar and terrible disease o.
a the stomach, on account of which ht
- can neither eat nor drink anything
q Food of any kind, or water, when ia
I ken upon the stomach, is Immediately
# thrown up, accompanied by blood ant
= matter. A prominent physician o
Nashville has been called to wait upor
n him, under whose direction neither
food nor drink is taken into the
% stomach, aud life is sustained by tn,
n injection of food and stimulants. Lif,
l. under such circumstances would, /
= seems, be more terrible than DEATH
Chat. Commercial.