Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-01
EAST TENNESSEE ITEMS.

Cleveland Banner : Green beans
and watermelons are so plentiful upon
our market that they can be bought
very cheap. We heard Of beans on
Saturday selling for l22 cents per BUSH
ell, aud watermelons at u cents each.
Athens Post The barn of II. J.
Cate, on Mouse Creek, four miles west
of Athens, was fired about 8 o'clock
Tuesday night aud burned, together
with ali its oats, hay, gears and num-
Der of farming implements. Mr.. Cate
is one of our best citiZens-a quiet, in
dustrious man, and it is hard to con-
ceive the motive which prompted the
incendiary. Loss, 81 200.
Chattanooga Times /: The police ar
rested yesterday John Martin and Levi
Cook, colored, charged with having
broken into the houses of K. p. Du-
rands, Charles Mann and A. j. Stops,
some five weeks ago. The trial will
take place to-day at 8 A. NJ, before
Recorder Mayer. Cook resisted his ar
rest, drew a razor and threatened to
cut Policeman Hunt, and, we under>
stand, would have done so but for Po-
liceman Templeton, who caught Cooks
arm and took away the razor.
Cleveland Banner: 1t is said to be
a common practice now in Florida
Courts, for lawyers to stop in the midst
of an argument and address the Judge:
IF your honor please, | would like to
have the jury shaken" Whereupon
the Judge calls out: "Mr. Sheriff,
shake the 1uIy.n This is rendered
necessary by the fact that negro jurors,
all of whom can go to sleep on a fence
roll lan,, L. Htr
course of legal argument. 1t some
times becomes necessary for all the
bailifls to leave the court house and get
straws to insert under the eye lids Of
sleepy jurors.
a correspondent of the Athens Post,
writing from Pikeville, says: 5. NJ.
MCReynonds, a son OF James Mercy
nolds, was drowned on the Goth in
slant, while in swimming with anoth-
er boy who made several Intellectual
efforts to save him. Young Mercy
nolds was about twelve years of age.
His mother died but few weeks pre-
vious. He was going to school at the
College. Corn is very good wheat
not much account, having been dam
aged by the rains. Good stock hogs
brisk at 7 cents gross.-Waters We're
son. Sequatchie rose eight feet in six
hours.-The health of the county
good.
GreeneYille LnteHigencer We are
Informed that the farmers of Carter
county are agitating the question of
getting up County Fair. We do not
see why they should not, for there is
no better county in the State than Car
Tn f.r Ii l,nN IL
The" johnson. Guard" with their
band, who will have their new silver
Helicon instruments, will attend the
Fair in full uniform. In all PROBABLE
| ity one of the Knoxville companies
will be the guests of the johnson
Guards during our Fair. Two milf
tary companies, with their bands, will
add quite an attraction to our Fair.
Give them a lift,
The horses that were stolen from
Rev. f. w. Dove, two weeks ago, were
returned to him last Thursday by II
Nj. Mitchell, A. A. Barry and Ephram
Philippi, of Johnson county. Ayoung
man partly raised by Mr.. Dove, whose
name is John Elliott, was captured
with the horses on New River, in Ashe
county, n. c., on the 10Th inst. He
had just passed the blacksmith shop of
Alfred A. Barry, where he had stopped
to get one of the horses shod, when the
Herald and Tribune containing the
notice of the horses being stolen was
received. Immediate pursuit. was made,
but did not oyertake the thief until he
got into Ashe county. Several gentle
men then took charge of him, and
promised to hold him securely until
he should be called for nv the anthOri-
ties, while the gentlemen above named
came on with the stock. We congrat-
ulate Mr.. Dove on securing his horses,
and hope the man who put him to sc
much trouble and expense will be
properly punished. -JOnesbOrO'H Herald
, and Tribune.