Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-11
PENCILETTES.

Cleveland wants company OF llgnt
guards.
The Indebtedness of Newton county.
Texas, is nearly 100000.
He is a coward who would say 1
despair" II is no disgrace TO fall, but
it is a disgrace to refuse to pick ones
self up.
\ little wart:backed hop-toad will
break up a croquet party quicker than
the darkest thunder cloud that ever
gathered.
A Dubuque father keeps a stomach
pump i'm the house, and when he tells
his children not to eat cucumbers they
let 'em alone.
a lively urchin accosted drug store
man the other day: mister, please
gimme a stick of lcorice, your clerk
goes with my sister"
How woman can keep on talking
while she twists up her back hair and
has her mouth full of hairpains, is
mystery not yet explained.
Asa mark of respect to the memory of
ex-President Johnson, Mr.. John KGd-
Ter raised flag at half~mast on his
tailor shop Observation-Disclosures
Commercial.
Cap. Kelley, of Sewer county, lost a
boat loaded with bacon, meal and flour
on Wednesday. The boat sprung a
leak and sunk in ten feet water near
Bryant's ferry.
The body of Bowman, the convict
guard, who was drowned in the Emo
ry river near Cooper's landing, has
been found, and after an inquest was
decently buried.
People who saw him jump up and
down and heard him swear, thought
him crazy but he wasn't. He had
merely delivered several cords of wood
at the wrong house.
The first thing we thought of when
we saw him was that he is one of those
New Orleans banditti, but on closer
inspection it turned out to be the
horny-handed " local of the Aqe
and Grange outlook under a stack of
straw.
DIR. Johnson once dined with a Scot
fish lady who had hotch-potch for
dinner. After the doctor had tasted it
she asked him if it was good. at is
good for hogs, ma'am," said the doctor.
Then pray said the lady, let me
help you to some mOre.'
Last week a man named Charles
Burton emptied his revolver of five
loads at Tom Collins, near Cleveland,
two of the balls taking effect, but the
wounds are not thought to be fatal.
Burton is in Jail. Report says Collins
was too intimate with Burton's wife.
We learn that there is a negro wo-
man living at Sugar Valley, once the
property of Mrs. Malone, with whom
she resides and is cared for, who is one
hundred and fifty years old. She re-
lates many incidents connected with
the Revolutionary war.-DaltOn En-
terpriSe.
We have never seen such good pros
poets for corn in our lives as now. We
see fields of fine corn this year that
have not been under cultivation in ten
years to our knowledge. In fact, we
have seen no bad corn. This j. one
year Of peace and plenty.-LincolntOH
(N. CO. Progress.
We learn from a brakeman on the
train that on Wednesday negro at
tempted to commit rape on a very
worthy lady of McMinn county, Mrs.
Howard, who lives about mile from
Athens. The negro has been arrested
and it is feared that Judge Linch will
decide his case,as great excitement pre-
walls.
Judge Pickett says that from one of
the Districts of Hamilton county, the
etfects-real, personal, and mixed of a
certain individual were returned as fol-
lows: Property all told, sixty dollars
nine children and eleven dogs. This
is no joke, but an actual fact. Ofcourse
the dog law is prodigiously unpop-
Mar in that lOcalitV-A Hnntn Times