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

Sweetwater has three large and fouf-
ishiDg schools. All in the bands Of
able and competent teachers.
The steamer City of Knoxville"
left the wharf yesterday evening for
points below, well laden with good
cargo of freight.
We regret TO learn that Mr.. #. ].
Moore, former depot agent at this
place, was considered to be dying on
Friday, at his residence in Sweetwater
When young man in Charleston,
S. c., saves the daughter OF n million
aire from drowning, he is presented
with a pair of kip boots having red
tops.
A Virginia bridegroom over seven
feet high is announced. The affair
created considerable sensation, but 1t is
believed she only married him to go
chestnutting with.
The woman who put the kerosene
can on the ve-hearth while she
went out to trade with peddler, is
now Keeping house in n barn, kindly
loaned for the occasion
This world would be n sandy desert
of lOnesomeness if women were not
privileged to attend auction sales and
pay more for an old bureau than new
chamber set would cost.
Oats may be good to soak the danp~
ness out of wet boots but how many
st. Louis men can afford to keep thirty
bushels of oats on hand for that pur<
pose. -Detr0t Free Press.
| Benz amin Franklin occasionally
stumbled upon the truth. He said:
THE eyes of other people are the eyes
that run us. If all but myself were
blind, | should neither want a fine
house nor fine furniture ~
A Missouri aspirant to matrimony
advertises that he will give three mules
to any maiden who will wed him:
which gives rise to the question, what
respectable married woman would
want such four-inhand?
a dentist in Wisconsin, who kissed
a young lady while filling her teeth,
was called on by her father with a
loaded shot gun, and the dentist paid
him five hundred dollars not to fire it
off in his Office, he being exceedingly
sensitive to noise.
During trial the Judge called
witness. No one answered, and an
elderly man arose and s9lemnly said
" he is gone" Where has he gomez
asked the judge, in no tender tone
the guarded answer.
The Fairs for next autumn have been
thus far fixed for the following times
Jonesboro', September 23rd, oath, 25th:
Greeneville, September 2Sth, 10Th and
30th; Wytheville, Va, October 9th,
18th and Sth Bristol Border Fair, Sep.
TENDER 2Sth, Goth and 30th.
The "blab" belongs TO the very
gla # fol at hoo oil
ways got his ears and eyes open to see
or hear little, then proceeds on his
errand to retail it to his fellows, who
magnify what may have been slight
inGisposition to henious crime.
a man went into "A butchers shop,
and, finding the owners wife in at
tendance, IN the absence of her hus-
band, thought he would have joke at
her expense, and said " Madame, can
you supply me with a yard of pork ?"
- Yes, sir" said she. And then, turn
ing to boy, she added: James, give
that gentleman three pigs feet"
! The Norwich, Comm advertiser
says; A young lady, very pretty,
; walked around the new road (seven
miles in one hour and forty-five min
utes. We remember escorting her
around the road once by moonlight.
Time-four hours and forty-five min
utes. But then she said she wasn't in
= hurry. The old folks had gone tc
camp-meeting."
Wheat has come down so near the
, price of corn, or corn has gone up so
near the price of wheat, that some of
! our livery stable men are having
: wheat ground the same as corn, and
are mixing it with cut hay or straw for
tlait , 10 ala I,
, richer food, and at the same time it
, takes GO lbs. Of wheat to make bushel
! while it only takes SO of corn.
l.. Blountville correspondent of the
t Bristol Courier: The vote on the
. school tax in the town district stood
/ 80 for school tax, and 50 against it. The
Y full returns are not in, but it is be-
+ lieved the school tax is voted down.
= The people are not going 10 vote 10 tax
/ themselves for any purpose. Mark
n that.--Decatur Burnett shot and
/ killed bald eagle, last week, Oh the
5 Trigg farm in this county, measuring
d more than seven feet from tip to tip. 3
. Chattanooga Commercial: Mr.. A.
G. Sharp, revenue collector of this
district, returned from across the
=, mountains yesterday, where he had
!, been with Mr.. j. G. Napier, revenue
a agent, to investigate the. killing of
:, young GoOdner, in DeKalb county.
y Mr.. Sharp says that from the infor-
. nation they obtained it was case Of
" the most cold blooded murder he ever
i heard of.
s A high city official on Thursday be-
+ came so excited over the flood that he
: did not recognize his own horse. He
n rode up to the depot and hitched his
V horse near another. Having transact
. ed his business in hurry, he came
out and deliberately mounted the
strangers horse and started off, when
% the owner wanted to know what he
q was going to do with his horse. " An,
v that's So a mistake aud the other
q horse was mounted.
p No news has been heard of Mr.. w
d w. Walker, whatever, Mr.. Robert
:, Walker returned Thursday from his
II search out on the Clinton road, and
a h, no al /, H.