Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-01-06

MDCCCLXXv.

Unfriended indeed is he who has no
friend bold enough TO point out his
faults.
Captain Aislinger arrived at the
wharf with two boat loads Of wheat
and corn on Friday.
A dog Weighing only four pounds,
IL he sets himself about 1t, can howl
loud enough TO wake up fourteen
families.
Eome men are Just mean enough 10
raise row because an absent-minded
wife uses whiting to raise her biscuit,
instead Of baking-powder.
A father at Dubuque makes his
children address him as follows, for
instance; Most respected and re.
vered father, I'll take another later"
A Rhode Island man carries $780,
600 life insurance, and II he even takes
cold In the head, the companies rush
down three or four doctors TO feel his
pulse.
We noticed comparatively but very
few persons under the influence of in
toxieating drink on our streets on New
YEARS. day. This Is just as 1t should
have been.
An exchange Gays Colorado started
"A college a few weeks ago, and up to
date its inmates consist of one woman,
three Indians, buffalo calf and a
Professor of Botany.
A stock company has been formed
in Gallatin, for the purpose OF estab-
fishing backing manufacturing COM
pany. About so, 600 Is the amount Of
the capital to be invested.
The colored Sabbath school at Lo.
CAMS Chapel, Marble Alley, gave an
interesting concert on Sabbath night,
AFTER which Elder Mitchell delivered
AN address 10 the children.
The Greeneville american says: Mr..
J. Il. Spencer's team ran away, Tues
day, and threw him and the driver,
Tom Scott, colored, from the wagon,
the latter being bruised considerably.
Capt. Campbell Munday, from the
French Broad, arrived at the wharf
Dec. 18th, with five hundred bushels
of corn in the ear, which was pur-
chased by Gaines Harrill, ut Go cents
per bushel.
The Chattanooga Commercial says:
The Tennessee School journal has
suspended publication, and our State
teachers and superintendent no lon
ger have an organ specially devoted to
their interests and the interest of
schools"
The L1oudon Times says: On Tues
DAY night, the depot at Philadelphia
was broken into. but the rogue failed
TO f1ud what he was looking for. On
the same night the -four mill of Co.
Fart & Adkins was opened aud half
sack of -four taken of.
A Milesian having returned to his
native land, was asked to give an H.
lustration Of American en- terprise.
Made answer the Irelsnder: If a
Yankee was shipwrecked on an I'M
inhabited island the following morn
iug he would be selling newspapers
70 all the inhabitants.r
The Chattanooga Times says: The
Chattanooga brewery will commence
the boiling Of their first suit Of beer to-
day. IL will be ready for consumption
in about three weeks. If good beer
can be made in Chattanooga IL will
keep q good deal of money here that
now goes 10 Cincinnati,
The New Market Meas says: Col. J.
b. Minnis, special Mail Agent of the
Postofflce Department, returned home
Monday from long trip through Ken
lucky, Alabama and Mississippi,
where he had been looking after the
interest of the Department. He re-
ports a sadly demoraliZed state of ar
fairs in some portions of Mississippi.
A young lady at home from board
ing-school for the holidays. was asked
If she would have. roast beef, when she
HaF,ltnA No \
nomical safety admonishes me that ]
deglutitiOn consistent with dietetic in
tegrity :" The young lady was never
asked If she would have anything ever
again.
We learn frnm the Chattanooga
Commercial, that James Gamble, one
of the veterans Of 1872, and one of
those whose courage and fidelity TO the
flag of the Union determined that the
United States should be numbered
among the nations of the earth, died
on Monday evening. His remains
will be inferred In the National Gene
terry to-day.
The editor Of the Morristown Gazette
complains that he had dull Christ
mas, and thinks that the want of So
CldDlcs vi sOtDtNnlnE VI ludl hlHu,
caused many to pass the day under the
influence of drink. That many young
men visited the drinking saloons
Monday for the want OF some other
more pleasant place in which 10 pass
their hours of leisure.
An exchange has the following
As my wife at the window one beau
tiful day, stood watching man with
a monkey, IA cart came along with
broth Of boy, who was driving a
stout little donkey. To my wife then
/ spoke, by way OF joke, There's
a relation of yours In that carriage"
TO which she replied, when the d0n~
key she spied, "Ah yes relation 10y
marriage"
The Chattanooga Commercial says
" According to our recollection, only
nine new business houses have been
erected in Chattanooga the past year.
Our city did somewhat better in the
way of residences, but the panic
brought stagnation upon building OPP
erations as well as upon almost every
thinU alla Tho araafion of ,tpita Al