Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-23
PENCILETTES.

ter in Monroe county than was ex-
pected
A half Indian named Thoms, hung
himself in Bradley county last week.
Family difficulties
The 18th district of RoaBe county Is
troubled with spring-hOUse thieves.
Double-blrreled shot gus aight help.
A steamboat 100 feet long and is
feet wide is being built for the trade
between Charleston aud Chattanooga,
on the Hiwassee.
We notice on the fourth page of the
IT. e. T. that on the 5th day OF July
Washington county wiia be sold In
tracts to suit purchasers
John II. Bish, the mule thief, had
his trial yesterday mOTaing and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years. GreeneUitIe american.
A Cleveland man made his hogs
drunk on boiled cider and the Herald
complains that the Recorder did not
arrest the hogs according to law.
The East TCnpesseean says that the
gun stolen from County Court Clerk,
James Sturges, at Kingston, has been
heard from. The thief sold 1t to Mr..
Akers, of Knoxville.
Mr.. Frank Earnest, of Jonesboro',
has received the appointment to the
u, S. Naval College at Annapolis, Md,
to fill the vacancy occasioued 10y the
death of Will. II. Cox.
A crusty old bachelor made will ,
leaving his entire furniture to be divi-
ded among the girls who had refused
him: " For to them,n he added, feel
ingly, lowe all my early happiness"
4 contemporary asks the question (:
" Is mumps singular, or are they plu-
rally Both. When you get mumps
on both sides of your face at once, they
are plural, but they make a person look
singular.
An exchange says: a bridal veil
Just invented by Russian gives the
bride the appearance of an angel,
wings aud all.n We shouldn't like to
marry one thus arranged, for fear she
might fly all to pieces some day.
4 stranger wanted to give man %
cents yesterday evening for an hours
drive in his buggy and wanted to bor~
row the mans watch to time himself.
But strange to say the owner of the
buggy and watch didn't seem at all
anxious to accept such an advantageous
proposition, and the stranger didn't
get his ride.
The hands at the Scofeld rolling
mill at Atlanta struck for wages due
on the 18th lust. Tue sum due them
is 81 ZOO. Mr.. Scofield, in all inter
view with Herald reporter, says the
company owes $500, 600; that the pros
pect of the mill starting up again is
very gloomy; and that to shut down
will inevitably ruin the company
financially.
The report of farmers in the county
in regard to the prospects of the wheat
and oat crop being 50 conflicting, we
would fain withhold any further COM
ment until these crops are harvested
and are able to speak for themselves -:
but while at Col. d. G. Thorn buy :
farm, few days ago, he exhibited
such fine specimens that 1t almost per-
suades us to retract what We said last
week about the oat crop. He says the
prospects on his farm, for both wheat
and oats, are as good as he ever had
NetO Market NeUs.
New Market NeWS Our physicians
report a great deal of sickness ia the
country. Several cases of RemittenJ
fever IN town, but all are now cOnva-
descent. A new kind of measles Is
raging in Friends Station. 1t has no
particular respect for those who have
once had the "red measles but at
tacks all alike. Some call it the yell
low measles. I'VE are informed
that donation of handsome set OF
school desks, for Holston Seminary,
has been secured through the instru-
mentality of Rev. r. Pierce, who is
now in Washington.
The Sweetwater Eaterpr'iSe in giving
report of the closing exercises of the
Sweetwater High School has the' fol-
lowing: On Friday night large and
appreciative audience were highly en-.
tertained with an excellent Literary
Address from Samuel Mckinney
Esq, of Knoxville, who selected foI
his theme Young America, its Duties
and Opportunities.n He treated the
subject in a comprehensive way and
gave excellent advice to the young
men of this generation, exhorting
them to forget the past and its direfuI
issues, and live for the active present
and thus secure happy politicel and
domestic future.
A Miss Seaman, young lady about
sixteen years old, who resides with
her mother, widow lady, on Garter
street, opposite the n. q q, freight de
pot, was terribly burned yesterday by
her clothes being set on fire by light
ed match being thrown on the floor
Nearly all the young lady's clothes W
to her waist were burned off, blisterinl
her skin and scorching her flesh in 1
horrible manner. DR.. VanDeman wa'
called in and dressed the wounds. HI
thinks the injuries of Miss Scanlar
are not necessarily fatal. Mrs. Scan
Ian had her hands badly burned in he
efforts to extinguish her daughter
clothing Chattanooga Commercial.