Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-14
PENCILETTEs.

Less than half of Sullivan county
has 900 dogs.
Hamblen county reports dog tax
of $S77, and half the county to hear
from yet
Greene county has had one case Of
meningitis lately according to the
american.
Sweetwater will have an election on
the 18th inst, to ascertain the wishes
Of the people in regard to the corpora
ton of the town.
The Centennial Commissioners of
Monroe county are actively engaged
in arousing an interest among the peo-
pie of that county.
A Chattanooga lady, seeing the new
steam fire engine out practicing, was
heard TO exclam: 20, see the street.
car squirting water !"
lockwood has stopped the scrip mill
aud returned to greenback payment.
A wise movement, which should be
Initiated by Knoxville.
A good joke is told of a Chattanooga
young lady who, by mistake. sweet
ened a plate of whortleberlies with
table-salt. Imagine her disgust.
If" necessity is the mother of inven-
TONS" as is often said, Invention
is certainly not suffering for the wan.
Of maternal relatives in Knoxville.
On last Friday a man named Gentry
WAS killed by Marsh n. Galloway, at
Independence, Grayson county, Va.
Cause-whisky. The murderer is still
at large.
A man named Pierce killed a man
named Sullivan and stabbed another
man at Ore Knob, Ash county, n. G.
Cause-whisky. The murderer made
good his escape.
A postoffice is said to have been es.
tablished at Calhoun, Tenn, but the
railroad authorities have not agreed
yetstop there for the delivery and re-
ception of mails.
viii you have small piece of the
light meat or small piece of the
dark ?" asked Bob's uncle, as he carved
the turkey at dinner. i will take a
large piece of both" answered Bob.
The Chattanooga hotels played
smash reducing rates for the celebra-
ton as was announced they would.
They got us there this time, but will
we go any mOre?-C2eUeLdnd Herald.
II is the sagacious remark of keen
observer that you eau generally ten
newly married couple at the dinner
table, by the indignation of the groom
when fly alighis on the brides
butter.
Roane county Centennial Commits
sioners have addressed the citizens of
their county through the East Ten
aeSSeean, and the Finance Committee
has been appointed. Roane will not
Oe behind.
A farmer complains that z hook aud
ladder company has been organized in
mis- neighborhood. lie states that the
ladder is used after dark for climbing
into the hen-house, after which the
hooking is done.
In. his recent report, Professor Riley,
State Entomologist, estimates the
damages to the State of Missouri, from
the ravages of the chinch bug in 1874,
IN the staple crops Of corn, wheat ann
oats, at S19, 00O,00
A man was blown up Monday sst
on Fitzgerald, Mallory u FIynp's work
on G. 5. r. r. Did not learn the ex-
tent of his injuries. DR.. McNutt went
up TO render the necessary medical at
tentiOn.-EdSt IeRneSSeean.
A man in Alabama paid policeman
'hTee dollars a day To watch his low
ing wife aud at the end of the first
week, found that he had pitched upon
the same one that his loving wife was
paying four dollars to watch him.
That was rather touching allusion
10 deceased spouse, made recently by
farmer, who came to a store to pur-
chase things. Cant / show you
anything else to-day ?" politely asked
the clerk. No, / reckon mott re-
piled the sad looking customer, e" !
lost two horses and my wife last fall
and l feel putty poor. Good span OF
horses, too"
We gather the following particular.
from the Rome Commercial. A few
months ago the Selma, Rome & Dalton
railroad company commenced digging
we'll to supply their eating house al
Plainville with watar. After digging
about thirty feet they came to a rock
and after going through about eighteen
feet Of rock, they struck water, which
proves to be the finest kind of minera
water. a number of gentlemen have
drank of the water, and been benefit
ed by il, and some are now making ar,
rangements to take their families
there to board,
A man who had tarried long at the
wine cup ana one thing and another
went to the postoffice in a state o
drunkosity, and received a postal card
from an old friend. He tore of th,
end and tried to open it, then he tor,
off the other end, and made vain at
tempt to reach in with his thumb anC
finger and pull out the letter then h,
tried to pry under where the seal ough
TO be with his lead pencil, and finally
rolled himselfup to the delivery win
dow and indignantly told the aston
ished clerk that " s. s-somebOdy's beer
t-t-him-tamrerln' 18th this letter u
The heavy rains which fell in Grain
ger county last week, did great damag,
to the farms and growing ops.-Nea
Market NelOs.
The Chattanooga Commercial says
" The genius who presides over tn
Knoxville Chronicle Pencilettes is
wonderful fellow. He can do NOR
stealing to the square inch of surfac
than any fellow we have heard of.
Now that is cool for paper that ha
abandoned the square inch bushes