Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-01-20

The Loudon Times says: Taylor,
Lowry & Co. have shipped during the
past week, several hundred head of
splendid beeves to Atlanta aud Savan-
nah from this point"
The Athens NeCS says: "Our
friend ThOs. J. Cate, Secretary
of McMinn County Patrons of Hus-
bandry, reports a hog that netted SIS
pounds. Pretty large swine, wasn't
he?"
The Greenville american says: The
house of Mr.. Geo. NJ. Smith, three
miles east of town, was burned to the
ground on Friday night last. The
furniture in the lower part of the house
was all that was saved.
The National Union says The
meanest man in the world is in Greene
county. He was so mean that he
charged his fathers estate $500 for
hauling him (his father to the grave
yard, This is actually true.
An'Illnois stock-raser has discov-
cred that hog-skin bag will hold ten
times as much corn as a canvas one,
and costs one tenth less to get to mar
ket. The corn is put into the hog
skin while the hog still has it on.
An exchange says; Mary Brady's
experiment proved a dead" failure.
In getting up rather late the other
morning, she utilized the coal oIl-can
to expedite break fast, but she was in
stantly cremated and exited out of life.
Poor thing! but then she had a nice
funeral.
The Chattanooga Commercial says
1t has been announced that the call
for meeting at City Hall tonight, TO
consider the question of Library AS
ISOLATION, will be the last call. And If
nothing is done tonight, the people of
Chattanooga will again have perform
ed the highly intellectual feat of trying
to extract nurture and consolation
from their thumbs, while an important
enterprise has failed.
From private letter from promi-
nent citizen of Kingston, we learn
that a party of capitalists, mostly from
Cincinnati, bought the Oakdale Iron
property at the recent Trustees sale
for $4,000. The sale is yet to be con-
firmed by the Chancery Court, so as
secure good tile. Our cerrespon-
dent thinks the property sold well,
but that it can be protitably worked.
A Mr.. Thoms, of Cincinnati, has been
investigating the title.
A Greene county preacher, while
preaching in an old fashioned house
with q window in the rear of the pull
pit, was disturbed by some one talk
ing in the yard just under the window.
Looking around he saw several men
lounging outside, and talking loudly (;
he gently raised the window and said,
Gentlemen, please don'ttalk so loud
you may wake up some of my cOngre-
gation.n 1t is needless to add that
FI,Droa flor gilanaa rainnaH
Mr.. Dawson RAIDER, a teacher in
Greene county, rather got the best of
his scholars, Christmas. They locked
him out one day before Christmas, but
let him in the following morning, in
tending to give him ducking when
he dismissed them. Just before the
exact time for turning out arrived,
Mr.. RAIDER took his watch in his hand
and went to the door as if to compare
it with the sun; when, on the TIRES
hold, he quickly drew the door to,
locked it and then struck out for home,
leaving the would be duckers hOrS dc
combat
Mary was the proprietress of g dimis
nutive, incipient sheep, whose outer
covering was as devoid of color as con-
gealed Vapor, and to all localities TO
which Mary perambulated, her young
SOthdown was morally certain to fol-
low. 1t tagged her TO the dispensatOry
of learning, one diurnal section OF
time, which was contrary to all prece-
dent, and excited the cachination OF
the seminary attendants, when the
children perceived the presence of a
young quadruped at the establishment
of instruction. Consequently, the pre-
cepter expelled him from the interior,
but he continued to remain in the inn
mediate vicinity, and tarried in the
immediate neighborhoOd without fret.
fulness until Mary once more became
visible.