Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-25
PENCILETTES.

jefferson county assesses dogs to the
amount of S2,043; polls, 50, GAG.
Why is side saddle like a four.
quart jug? Because it holds a gall
on.
In reporting a hanging match, a
Nevada paper always heads 1t, The
Latest Moose"
"S5 caninesu is what the Jonesboro'
Herald and Tribune calls the dogs Of
the female persuasion.
The 18th District of Greene county
contains l6S landholders, 200 voters
and 226 dogs. How's this for high ?
american
Greeneville Fair comes off Septem-
Der 18th, 10th and 18th Jonesboro' 4,
September 23d, oath and 18th Bristol
Border, September 18th, 10Th AID 3Oth.
The Journal says that Prof. Pres
nell, Of Washington county, proposes
to organize Normal School, for the
training of teachers for the public
schools.
The Loudon Times, last week, said
that DIR. M. NJ. Thompson, a promi-
nent and successful physician of the
county, has been taken to the asylum
for the insane.
A certain Western editor, who was
presented with box of collars IN pay
for an advertisement, is waiting in
= daily expectation that some one will
present him with a shirt.
The Bristol NeaUS reports the tobac-
co business in "a flourishing condition
at that place. 1t also reports the
Baryta business as having weathered
its infancy and as now prosperous.
Rev. n. c. Carroll, resident minister
of the NJ. Il. Church at Asheville, had
sudden attack of hemorrhage of the
lungs, and afterwards was taken dow II
with fever. He will have to give up
the ministry for the present
a Greeneville boy, at present absent
from the place, wrote To his brother
this week that he had seen man who
claimed to have eaten break fast with
Houeycutt (the man hung at Tazewell
last Friday on the morning after he
was hung. n pretty steep tale, that
AmcricdH.
A wife, who had been lecturing her
husband for coming home intoxicated,
became incensed at his indifference,
and exclaimed: ION, that l could
wiring tears of anguish from your
eyes ~ To which the hardened wretch
hiccoughed: "Tai'taint no use, old
woman, to bo-bore for water here.n
The Alabama and Chattanooga Rail.
road is the first to care for the interest
of Chattanooga. Major Grant, Gen
eral Freight Agent, informs Us that
yesterday he reduced the rate on grain
10 Montgomery from so cents (where il
has stood for II long time tn 20 cents
per 100 pounds. Rates to other points
reduced in roportion.-C Chattanooga
Times.
If the Davenport Gazette can be be-
lieved, the girls in Burlington, Iowa
do not get very far ahead of the young
men in strategy. 1t says: "A sharl
Burlington girl has so arranged lhe
sofa that when her fellow cOna~ gee
her the family can watch ttrrusu lne
&eyhole. He takes particular paths
now 10 hang his hat on that door
knob"
\ Union correspondent of the 'Bris'
tol NelUS says: 1 am informed that
work will shortly be resumed on the
Railroad from johnson City 10 Nauls.
bury, North Carolina. This road will
int,rsect the North Carolina Central
Railroad, at the latter point, and thus
open up direct communications with
the cotton country of North and South
Carolina. A General Sterling, of New
York, is the leader, understand, of this
new enterprise, and he means to COM
plete the road.
IF you do not close that window,
waiter, shall certainly die from the
draft, said lady in the dining room
of hotel. And if you do close it,
shall certainly die from the heat this
not weather" said another lady OF
much stouier frame. A smile went
around the table, and the poor waiter
seemed greatly perpleXed at the situa-
ton he was placed in, when gentle
man called him to another part of the
table, and said: " My good fellow,
your duty is very clear. Close the win
dow and kill one of them; then open
it again and kill the other.n
Owing to mistake on the part OF
the Managers of the Cincinnati South
ern Railway, in neglecting to state in
the advertisement for proposals to build
the Tennessee river bridge at what
tune the bridge is to be completed
the contract could not be awarded
The managers wanted TO insert in the
contract, to be completed by the Isl
of September, 1876" while Mr.. Con-
don was willing to complete the work
by the 25th of Dec mber. AS the par
ties could not agree, it is open for new
proposals.