Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03

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An Ohio editor insists that month
~ school reports must be handed i'm on
Wednesday Of each week to insure
their publication.
There were two arrivals at the wharf
yesterday. Captains Roberts and I'm
derwOod from French Broad brought
down two boat loads of corn for ship
ment.
The Morristown Gazette says: Hog
cholera, or some other disease, is caus.
ing the death of the street hogs i'm our
town. If they would go outside of the
corporation to die, their death would
be public blessing; but the stencil in
one or two places is not very pleasant.
Jonesboro' Herald and Tribune says (:
A larger number of mules are being
sent to market this winter than usual.
A man by the name of Mongold,
is confined in Jail for cruelty whips
ping his own child. How sad to know
a parent would so treat an innocent
child
An honest farmer, being asked why
ne did not subscribe for a newspaper,
explained: " Because my father, when
he died, left me good many newspa-
pers,end | have not read them through
yet" He is doubtless keeping up with
the news, but poor soul. won't he feel
grieved when he hears about Abraham
Lincoln's death
If twenty-seven inches of snow give
three inches of water, how much milk
will a COW give fed upon turnips I?
Multiply the flakes by the hair on the
cows tail, then divide the product by
a tnrnir, odd ,,nnnI Of al i
tiply the whole by the pump, and the
total will be the answer.
Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said The pret1iest girl in Grass
Valley doesn't carry herself straight
enough when prOmenading.n For a
week after all the Grass Valley girls
stalked about like so many bean poles:
and every girl said, That horrid pa
per! Ma, don't walk straight ?"
The Kingston INDEPENDENT saws :;
On Saturday night last, a colored man
by the name of Geo. Washington visi-
ted Mr.. 1. n. Talley's, climbed in at
the window and raised about So of cur
rency deposited in Mr.. Talley's panta-
looms pocket and left at the back door.
Search was made the rascal on Sun
day, but without success.
they run in marrying railroad brake.
men. An enthusiastic member of
that fraternity, on being awakened
the other night from dreatn of an
impending crash by train, found
himself sitting up il bed, holding his
wife by the ears having nearly twist
ed her head off in his frantic efforts to
down brakes.n
An exchange h&s the following
"' What are these CUPS for ?n asked
well dressed man OF q jeweller, point
ing to some elegant silver cups on the
showcase" These are race-cups, to be
given as prizes to the best racer" " ri
that's so, suppose you and L race for
one" and the stranger, with cup in
hand, started, the ieweller after him.
The stranger won the cup.
The Chattanooga Times says: We
notice several droves of cattle coming
in almost daily from Sequatchie Valley.
They do not compare well with the
OeeVes that have come from that re-
sion in past years. We have also seen
several lots of hogs from the Valley in
he past two weeks. They are usually
light weights and not very fat. The
corn crop over there waslight.
The chattanooga Commercial says:
some boys got up Johnson bonfire,
last night, at the crossing of Sixth and
Market streets.-The receipts yester-
lay, by river, were between five and
Fix thousand bushels. Eighty>two
cents was paid for corn on the wharf,
n the morning, but later in the day
sales were effected at eighty cents.
There is no change in the price of
wheat. 1t may be quoted at 81. lOal.l5.
Oats are worth from seventy to seven
tyeight cents, according to quality.
The JOnesboro' Journal urges the or
galization of Temperance Societies in
that town. 1t says there are but few
yang men here who drink liquor,
but now that the evil is absent we
shOuld organize and prepare to resist
itstirst approach. After men become
drlnkards it is too late to prepare. All,
or at least, the best of our efforts,
should be spent in trying to keep the
voting in paths of soberness and via
tue and if we succeed in this we will
have no drunkards to REFORM That
is sound doctrine.
A JNnesbo'O' Justice adjourns court
fora dog fight, and this is the way the
Journal says it was done: A few days
age Nero, engaged in a fight with
strnge dog. Quite a crowd assem- bled
to mjOy the scene. At the time of the
occurrence. Esq. Meek was engaged
in he trial of cause at his office, and
at the earnest request of the attorneys
engaged in the case, he adjourned the
court until after the fight, after which
sale attorneys discussed the merit of
thetwo dogs quite at:length, and then
preceded with the trial.
Cur exchanges generally speak in
rapurous terms of the promising con-
,diton of the wheat crop, but of course
thGe are some exceptions, and the
Kingston East IenneSSeeGR gives the
folbwing: 1.-THE farmers South of the
river complain that with one or two
exceptions, the wheat crop does not
looH very promising. Considerable
grolnd is worked up for corn planting
-sme of the Riley Creek farmers be-
ingquite through with blowing"
Tie New Market News says: Fifty
fivecents per bushel for oats, the price
non pffaraI for than, 10 foE In hot