Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-15
PENCILETTES.

Several new Oranges have been
organized in Sullivan county lately.
At a revival of religion in the 1st
District of Polk county, thirty odd
Professions are reported.
A post office has been established at
Calhoun, McMiun county, and DR.. w.
n. Hoge appointed postmaster.
A Sullivan county man killed seven
~ snakes in one day last week, and 1t
wasn't much of IA day for snake kill
ing either.
An unusually interesting meeting is
in progress at Chestua Baptist Church,
Monroe county. A number of CONVEX
sions are reported.
The dwelling house of Kit Roberts,
on the north side of McMinn ridge,
in McAlinn county, took fire Sunday
night and burned down.
No man under the influence of
liquor is to be allowed in the Jonesboro'
Fair Grounds. We would like to see
all fairs conducted in that way.
Mr.. James Coz, of the 18th District
of McMiun county, now in his Goth
year, fell and broke his leg, while
walking in his yard, Il few days ago.
Ma said small boy, approach
ing his mother and exhibiting unmis-
taxable symptoms of a severe pain in
the bowels, " do green apples grow in
heaven ?h
The Chattanooga Light Guards have
been invited and will attend the obse-
quies of eX-President Johnson, which
are to take place at Nashville on the ID
of October next.
The barn of VIM. Mckinney, in Nc
MINI county, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night Iast-supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary. The
loss was considerable, the barn being
filled with grain and hay.
A Cincinnati man has invented an
umbrella which shoots the man who
attempts to steal II. We want a half
dozen of them at once. We know
where to place them TO do great deal
of good in this community.
A prolonged and well-attended reviv-
al has been i'll progress at Pleasant
Hill for over two weeks. Over fifteen
professions have been made, ANU me
altar is nightly crowded with mouth
rs.-GreeneUitLe InteLHgencer.
The newspapers state that well
known banker of Paris has absconded,
leaving deficit behind. Mrs. Parting
ton thinks that it was very good of the
poor man to leave it, when he might
nave got off clear with everything.
y boy in the suburbs tried to ascer-
tain the souDdness OF the prOverb:
Birds of feather flock together
He picked the old rooster down To a
single tail feather, and it didn't flock
at all, but went and hid under the
barn, This Is another old saw smashed.
The Southern Methodists have been
holding protracted meeting at Free
Will meeting house in this county,
which closed on Sunday night last.
Sixteen conversions, with several ad-
ditions to the church, were made du-
ring the ten days of the melting
Cleveland Banner.
A man, named Gray, who has been
herding cattle on Indian Creek, in the
mountains, has killed 90 rattlesnakes
during the summer. They would have
averaged over three feet in length,
making at least 200 feet of snake with
eight or nine hundred rattles and but-
tons.-JOneSbOrO' Herald and IFi-
6line.
MARY, Why did you kiss your
nand to the gentleman opposite?u
asked careful mother of her bloom
ing daughter. "Why the gentleman
had the impudence to throw a kiss
clear across the street to me, and, of
course, L threw it back Indignantly!
You wouldn't have me encourage him
by keeping it, would you? ?"
Greeneville National Union. The
information has come to us that the
necessary capital, $4,000, has been
guaranteed for the purpose of COM
mencing operations at the Patrons
Manufacturing establishment, for the
purpose of manufacturing agricultural
implements, near Telford's Depot.
They are bound to be successful.
Mr.. J. NJ. Denning, President of the
Kingston Foundry and Machine
Works, offers special premium of ten
dollars for the best side hill plow. We
trust that others will follow his exam
pie, and that liberal list of special
premiums will be made up. Our citi-
Zens should go to work in earnest.
Remember that the time of holding
the fair is near.
Not longsince we were talking to some
farmers on the subject of fencing,
when one of them advanced the idea
that If man wants a fence to last, he
must build it in the light of the moon.
He said that if fence was built in the
dark of the moon, the bottom rail
would sink in the ground and rot.
Several other farmers present admitted
this to be fact, US they had tested it.
1t was news to us.
A deputy sheriff was making up a
jury the other day, we learn, and this
is the way one man got out of serving {:
When the officer summoned him, he
looked surprised, and then remarked I:
Me no shpeak English me schpreche
Deutch; me no verstch." The officer
looked surprised, as the countryman
did at first, and passed on, while the
other enjoyed good laugh at the way
he had sold the deputy sheriff.