Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-21
PENCILETTES.


SCISSOR for Rhea county.
The corporation scales of Jonesboro'
have been levied on and sold for debt.
The new railroad from Johnson city
is to be put through to North Carolina
at an early day.
They build large residences out West. !
An Iowa paper says: IT'S only
twenty-one years since the first house
was erected in Burlington, and now it
contains 20, 100 inhabitants"
"Where's the molasses, Bill?" said a
red-headed woman to son, who had
returned with an empty jug. None
in the city, mother. Every grocery
has large board outside, with letters
chalked on it, n, O. Molasses.' "
We learn from one of the railroad
officials thatthe new iron bridge over
Hiwassee at Calhoun. Charleston, will
be completed towards the end of this
week. Two spans of the bridge have
been completed for some time and
third and last is being worked upon.
1t will be q fine bridge when compile
ted.
Chattanooga Commercial: Mr.. Thos
Hall, of Sequachee county, brought
over forty-two head of very fine cattle
and forty-four hogs, yesterday.-
Wisdom 81 Owen shipped fifty hogs
and two car loads of cattle yesterday.
These cattle sold at sc. gross, which is
the highest price reached this year
Hogs were selling at 63c.
We have a child in this office who is
five years old, weighing thirty-one
pounds, and who can set column of
type a day. This is the youngest COM
positor on record. Those who doubt
this assertion can be satisfied by Civ
ing this office a call, and we will make
Ned" put up the type in good style.
-COUingtOn (Go.) Enterprise.
A rural gent dropped paper on the
sidewalk yesterday, containing two
new soup dishes which of course
broke. Those witnessing the affair,
though sorry for the man, could not
help laughing at the ridiculous picture
presented by him, as he stood gazing
at the fragments of the soup dishes, for
q few moments and making for the
China Store again.
The Chattanooga Times of Sunday
says: Night before last ice formed in
this city at least an eighth of an inch
in thickness. Fortunately, the wind
blew all night, aud the ground and
the fruit blooms were dry, so that so
far as we can learn, no damage was
done to the fruit. If nothing happens
to prevent, we shall have one of the
largest crops of fruit this fall, that we
have bad for several years.
The Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune
says Last Monday evening a little
boy some five or siXyears old, son OF
Geo. .uclIin, OF color, was drowned in
Taylor's Mill pond near this place. He
with some smaller children were fish
ing, and accideutly fell into the water.
The other little fellows gave the alarm
as soon as possible, but before assis-
lance could be had he drowned.
The Bristol Courier says The
mountains, south of Bristol, were
covered with snow Tuesday evening.
The protracted meeting at the
Baptist Church is still in progress,
Several conversions have taken place,
and a number Of penitents still at the
altar.-Profs. Tadlock and Winston
of King College, have rendered theil
designations to the Board of Curators
of the College,
A Detroit doctor informs the Free
Press that smoking is injurious simply
because " it interferes with the molecu-
lar change coincident with the devel-
opment of the tissues, and makes the
blood corpuscles, oval and irregular at
the edGe.n This is precisely what we
have told smokers a thousand times
or more but, strange as it may seem
it has reduced the importation o.
cigars scarcely twenty per cent.
The Athens Post in speaking o.
Circuit Court at that place, says
TUESDAY, the case Of the State VS.
p, d. X. Bloom, charged with thC
murder of Lon Bates, was taken up
and consumed two days. Thursday
morning, the jury returned verdict
proved somewhat in the last eight days
at Athens, the merchants generally
reporting a satisfactory trade. Receipts
of produce not heavy, though corn
sells readily at S0aS2 cents, and whea
is in demand at Sl.lO. Bacon is adj
vancing, and we quote liz hog round
These are cash quotations, OF course
The McMinnville NetU Era says tina
4" the squad of United States troops
which passed through our town Mon
day evening made raid on VIM. Pas
sens distillery on the Caney Fork
some fifteen miles above Rock Island
and captured the two stills, seventy
five gallons of whisky, forty odd tub
of beer, a large lot of sour mash, forty
two head of hogs and seven head o
cattle, lney also succeeueu III cdPIuI
ing Mr.. Passens, so report says. Tn
captured property will be brought u
this place to-day"
That's the way the boys from tn
Chattanooga barracks take law break
ers in out of the woods. They're bad
Commercial.
We learn from Mr.. Chas. Morrow
the County Register, that there are
number of deeds in his office, which
have never been registered because tn
fees have not been paid, and many o
them date back many years. Person
having deeds laying around loose il
this style without being Registered
will do well to look after them, as the.
may have trouble in regard to thei
property, for should the deeds be los
they might have trouble in establish
ing their title. In many instances tn
property above referred to has change