Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-11-03
PENCILETTES.


on Monday, November Sth.
The Cleveland Herald IL improving
in its local department of late.
w. II. Curry, of Bradley county had
child burned a few weeks ago. II has
since died.
The Cleveland Fat menu believe in
big suppers. They had another sup
per since the Fair.
The Morristown Gazette has a
Hawkins County Department in it's
columns now,with l.. l.. Poats, editor.
A farmer near lockwood raised
from two seeds fortysone pumkins, in
sire from water-bucket to a wash
tub.
Col. Betterton's goods and building,
lately destroyed by fire, were insured
in the sum OF SS 900, reducing his loss
to 5000.
Rev. Mr.. II. w. Burket, of Brady
county, has been very i'll, and at one
time was not expected To live. He Is
some better now.
Mr.. Lewis williams, formerly of this
city, aud Chss. Smith, of Memphis,
have opened q marble-yard In Cleve-
land, Tennessee.
How a woman can keep on talking
while she Is twisting up her back hair
and has her mouth full of hair pins, is
a mystery not yet explained.
He was from The country and at
tended the circus at New Market last
Friday, and left with his pockets
picked Of $3.50. Dear show to him.
@Boston swells wear u style OF vest
called the "Longfellow," OF " hich the
Globe says that with one OF them, =
reasonably high pair OF shoes, and a
hat, a man il IN full dress.
The boston editor said he wrote as
plain a. could be, THE sacred heavens
around him shine" when the blarsted
printer vert aud made it, The sacred
byenas around him sbine!"
An old edition of Mor-cs geography
says: "Albapy haS four hundred
dwelling houses and tweuty-four hun
dEed inhabitants, all standing with
their gable ends to the street"
1t was a prominent ronntS official
who said yesterday that he was ." top
heavy" and attribpted il ia something
he had eaten. We, however, differed
with him, and charged 1t to something
he had been drinking.
"Ilived with him nineteen years.
says an Indiana applicant for divorce,
land all the clothes he ever bought
me Was a bunch of hair pins aud q
tooth brush" You can seq by this
what time she had to keep well
dressed.
The Cleveland Banner man CONF
plans that all he could collect in
Chattanooga was an S. so saddle, 60
cents curry-comb, three so cents aud
two 8 cents fractional currency. He
cOnsi iers this rather poor work, con-
BideriDg the metallic tone of the two
dailies published there.
Ifa lady wears three-story hat to
the theaI-r, Is 1t etiquette for the gems
tleman who sits behind her to climb
up aud roost on the back of his seat?
Or must he bob his head from side to
side TO catch furtive glimpses at the
stage around her head? Will some
modern Chesterfield answer?
Two brothers named Hewiand of
the 10Th district, Roane county, got
into an alteration last week when one
threw a stone at the other, but missing
hin the missed struck a younger brother
Ia the head putting out an eye and
frscturing the skull. 1t was thought
he would not recover.
A precocious boy was asked which
was the greater evil of the two, hurt
ing another's feelings or his finger?
He said the former. Fright, my dear
child" said the grstified questioner.
And why is it worse to hurt the feel
ingsf" Because you can't tie rag
around them" explained the dear
child.
AS we are going TO press we learn
from reliable authority that our talent
ed young friend, q. b. King, Esq, Of
Noisy Creek, closed trade last Satur-
day, with company of Englishmen
with large capital, for sale OF the val
liable body of mineral lands belonging
to himself and the estate of the late
Hon. Jacob Peek. The consideration
is $40, 600 -MorTistown Gazette.
The Morristown Gazette has the fol-
lowing from Whitesburg: Last night,
October %, the /. D. OF q. T.. received
and initiated five prominent, infiuen-
tial gentlemen, some of whom were
good and frequent customers at the
bar-rOom-ss many of our noble NOR
tails are. This morning the bar-room
Is draped in mOurning-deeply MOURN
ing over the lost. They are, indeed,
lost, trust, to that interest, but saved
TO the interest Of temperance.
OBSERVER.
A boy of five years old was "play-
Ing railroad with his sister Of two
and half. Drawing her upon foot
stool, he imagined himself both the
engine aud the conductor. After imi-
tating the putting noise of the steam,
he stopped and called out New
York, and, in a moment after, Pat
erson," and then Philadelphia. "
His knowledge of towns was now ex.
hasted, and the next place he cried
4" Heaven" His little sister said eag-
erly; Top, 1 des I'll Diet out here.n
Allison and Griffin, who killed Col.
House at Franklin, have both resigned
their offices. colOred people are
negotiating for the Howe property, on
the eminence north Of Forest Hill
Academy, IN which TO establish first
class chool.----Spurious five dollar
bills on the Traders National Bank of
Chicago are getting into circulation
again. Several have been presented
here recently by parties, and, as some
OF these counterfeits are exceedingly
we'll executed peoDle will dO wall n