Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
pENCItTTEs.


is county, audi truly good man,
led Wednesday, light, after brief
lness.
Kingston East 7ennesseedn We
earn the present River Mail Conirac-
brs, the Lowe Bros.-have sold
ut their coutraU together with the
Jacket boat, To u Allison Brothers
Jriah and Robe, who will in the
uture carry the pail.
On Thursday BE Pensios Agent of
4, his city made pyment to Mrs. Sarah
Henderson, of Cleveland, Bradley
bounty, amounthg to 81 ,723 80, being
pension for heHlf and five children
rom Septembef2lst, 1868, the date of
he death of hahusband, up to March
th, 1876.
A Knoxvilleooy, evidently of the
pinion that e was born to be
heriff some dg, has been practicing
n trying the hangman's Knot, and
~ ried it on the at. He had to do with
ut candy thaiday, as he was com
pelled to invQ his nickle in sticking
laster.
"Go away Leave me with my
= cad Let un fling myself on his cot-
n and die thre ~ That was in Ne
braska six mnths ago, aud now the
widow has wn another trusting soul,
Ind numberDne's portrait is in the
attic face to the wall.-Detroit Free
..foreSS.
~ 1t is simpF absurd to talk about a
woman belly qualified to fill every
~ position in lie that man fills. For
instance, What woman could lounge
around the ltove in country grocery
and lie abor the number Of fishes she
caught last summer -lIitCdukee Sen
tiReL.
"Do you want 10 Kill the child ?n
asked "a gentleman, who saw Fifth
Ward boy pip over the buggy and spill
the baby on the pavement. 80, no,
not quitep replied the youth, but,
If | can get the brat to bawl, ma will
take it, AID then l can go and spin
4 tOps.n
The Morristown Gazette says: The
fruit trees as yet show no signs of
blooming. We think this a good in
dlcation of large fruit crop.-Mor-
fflSsown can boast three as fine cooper
shYPs as ever graced a town, or turned
oul a neat, substantial barrel. They
aIlare doing well.
4 boarding house lady complained
tpat she haBd broken knife in trying
i y cue tpe butter and attributed 1t to
the exy efne cold weather. One OF the
boardq}s modesJly sugpested that it
on account of the strength of
the btf.er itself. The strength of the
tema8 had tCedkeniH9 effect Oh lhe
INSTRUMENTATION.
y tI1elwas from the country and had
zoo rbnch benzine aboard, but it mat
kred not, he found his bed (?) and
zipfsly hanging his coat and hat on
fence, took a nap in the gutter.
sStli probably settle for his lodg-
: <&Hllh phe Recorder if any of the
seH WIN stars va .their onnta -rrSs,i-
acrts him during the night.
N inebriate stranger precipitated
hintelf down stairs, and on striking
theslanding, reproachfully apOstro-
phi I'D himself with: " If you'd been
a-wtntiD' TO come down stairs, why in
theIthunder didn't you say so, you
wodl Zen headed old fool, an I'd a-come
viii you an showed you the way?"
II WAS only looking around the
CRED banks with view of ascertain
ing HE exact amount Of damage done
by De late freshet, and nothing more,
anil { was all owing TO a treacheTous
stoIf, that he had 10 keep stirring
AAOHih III VIC Sun bNlOlO llN NNhb AAOiiiS
dItold his dear mama all about the
lessons he had learned in school that
day!
Tie report on Wednesday morning
thata corn field was coming down the
rivet with man working in 1t, proved
false, as did the report that Sewer
county was coming down en- nlasSe.
The latter, however, aroused the Sc
yier county delegation in East Ten
nessee University, who fastened to
the river bank, determined TO rescue
the land of their BIRTH University
Monthly.
The merchant who had small bas>
ket full of business cards, with "A notice
attached to Take. Onen placed in
close proximity to box of oranges,
was somewhat surprised to see q rural
gent helping himself to an orange and
starting TO walk out. The rural gent
was also somewhat surprised, when in
formed that the invitation to flake
One" applied TO the cards and not to
the oranges.
Greeneville American : We learn
that Mrs. Andrew johnson, wife of
the eX President, is dangerously i'll at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Patter-
son, al Home-Mr. John w. Ball,
who lives on Lick Greek, while en-
gagged in making preparations to move
20 Kansas, laid his pistol on box.
His little child, a girl of about five
years Of age, took it Off the box and
while working with it, il went Off the
ball penetrating the brain and causing
instant death. The child was grand
child of Rev. Mr.. Murphy.
New Market NeiOs On account Of
the high tide in the Holston, no mail
arrived from Ratledge yesterday, and
none expected to-day.-There were
Z ,23 new converts baptized IN .Holston
river last Sunday, by Rev. Mr.. Garter,
the result of great revival of religion,
which had been going on at Mill
Springs Baptist Church, for two weeks
past.-The rain which fell in such
torrents Sunday noon, was attended
with considerable wind, which played
sad havoc with fencing, etc, in our
neighborhood. A telegraph pole, near
the crossing leading to Mill Springs,
Waa hloUn down and ona IF tha w rag