Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-04
PENCILETTES.


opened at Morristown.
A colored military company has
been organized in Chattanooga
The East Tennesseedn wants the Va
grant Law enforced in that village.
Cleveland wants military COM
pany. Go in, it is fine fun in time of
peace.
The time of holding the Greenevlle
Fair has been changed to 10Th and 10th
Of September.
Jonesboro' Jail birds were trying to
svw out again the other day, but the
jailer stopped them.
"Gently the dues are DER me steal
ing,u as the man said when he had
thirteen bills presented to him in one
day.
Precocious boy, munching the fruit
of the date tree: Mamma, if / eat
dates enough, shall l grow up to be an
almanac?"
The State Agricultural Society Of
Georgia has offered a prize for target
shooting, and rifles are in demand in
that State now.
Mr.. L. l.. Waterman, of Spring
Creek Lodge, has been a Mason for
fifty-two years. He is now perhaps
an octogenarian, and is in fair health.
One of the guards of party of con-
victs bound for the works on the Gin
cinnati Southern, fell overheard near
Cooper's Landing on Monday and was
drowned.
Rosenheim, of Chattanooga, has
been bound over in the sum of $4,000
to appear before the Federal Court in
this city on the charge of violating the
revenue law.
Frank Kelly, small Cleveland boy,
set fire to small bottle full of powder.
The doctor had TO dress the wounds of
his face and eyes, and thinks he will
be well again in few days.
We notice Mr.. Bliss passing and re-
passing with his wheat thresher. The
wheat, we learn, is turning out pretty
well, and is little if any damaged, Us
was ed.-KingstOn East Ten
HeSSeQn.
The hugest joke of the season is that
perpetrated on the storm king by the
present tight dress fashion. The ladies
perambulate the streets now with inn
punity, and they can't disarrange their
dresses worth cent.
Inspired by the success of the Amer
lean team at Dollymount, the Balti-
more Shuetzen Corps have sent over
three German-American delegates to
Stuttgart, to shoot in the grand Inter-
national Schuetzenfest.
Mark Twain, apropos of new ports
able mosquito net, writes that the day
is coming "when we shall sit under
our nets in church and slum Der peace.
fully, while the discounted flies club
together and take it out of the minis
teri
Items from Unionn in the Bristol
Ne1US says: The tobacco factory of
Prather Bros. is in full blast. The cot
ton factory will be in operation short
ly. The Messrs. Prather have pur-
chased twelve looms, which are up
and ready for making all qualities of
domestic.
Here's the hard sense of it: II
should think you would be ashamed
to pitch into that little boy" said a
pedestrian yesterday, as he caught a
big bootback cutting small newsboy
"Ye would, hey?" sneered the lad, as
he gave his nose a wipe, "D'ye think
I'd go for big boy, and git all pound
ed upW
Jake Taft, a sprightly young gentle
man of Greasy Cove, made some re-
marks about a young lady in the
neighborhood of Jonesboro' which she
did not relish, and called on him for
an apology. He refused to apologize,
when in the presence of two of her sis
tiers, she gave him genteel whipping.
He will be more careful in the future.
Revs. N. Bachmau, of Knoxville,
and S. V. McCorkle, of this place, left
on short trip to the mountain ON Sat
urday last. They contemplate an alb
sence of two or three weeks, and will
combine business with pleasure-their
purpose being to visit the several
towns and neighborhoods and hold re-
ligious services. East Ten
HeSSeedn.
"What are we dancing around fur?"
inquired a boot-black yesterday of a
boy acquaintance whose face was COW
cred with smiles, and who was execut'
one day!n replied the lad, jumping
sill big her, "cow got into the garden
this morning and tramped every bee
fiat as yer hat and 1 won't have to pull
another weed this summerW
A priest who was examining con-
firmation class in the south of Ire
land asked the question, "What il
the sacrament of matrimony? A lit
tie girl at the head of the class
answered, Its state of torment into
which sowls enter to prepare them
selves for another and better world.
Being" said the priest, the answer
for purgatory." "Put her down.
said the curate, "put her down to thu
fut of the class" "Lave her alone, ,
said the priest, "for anything you o.
l know to the contrary she may b.
perfectly right"
The Chattanooga Times says; " Pas
sengers on the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia Railroad complain
that as soon as the trains arrive il
Knoxville they are invaded by
swarm of the thirsty citizens of tina
village who empty the water tanks il
few minutes, leaving the passenger
to suffer from thirst" Such a thin
as that will never occur in Chatta
nooga, as the inhabitants of that littl
burg never use water except for wash
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