Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-14
PENCILETTES.

nay MOOu S'uH'J pays t"A vi "iOVN
dogs.
Greeneville also has a military COM
pany.
Calhoun is to have a postoflice, with
DR.. w. n. Hoge as postmaster.
Miss Todd was killed by lightning
near Raleigh, n. c., last week.
Blount County Quarterly Court con-
yerted the jail into work house.
Bristol has passed hog law. They
will be penned after the 10Th inst.
Mr.. Spencer Munson advertises a
Trustees sale in another column.
The new Methodist church at
Hreeneville is nearing completion.
Three young man were killed by
lightning in Milton county, Ga, last
week.
There were from ! 500 to 1000 peo-
Die at the Ducktown celebration of the
Fourth.
w. A. Denton, 4 miles above
Charleston, reports 1876 bushels OF
wheat from ITO acres.
A Louisiana saloon keeper has had
to pay a woman 81 200 for selling
liquor to her husband.
A Washington county woman kick
ed little boy in the abdomen, and 1t
Is thought he will not live.
The people of a portion of Washing
ton andlCarter counties are moving for
a new county TO be called Unicoi coun-
ty.
T. A. Line, a Greene county man,
has twin cows, and he says they are
the finest mixers in Upper East Ten
nessee.
A Sullivan county farmer complains
that there is TOO much stock In the
county. He says one thousand horses
could be sold.
The Chattanooga Times says the
murrain is an epidempic in that coun-
ty. Ten or twelve cows died during
the past week.
We learn that colored man in Me-
Glohon's works, on the CINCINNATI
Southern, was blown up last week
and instantly killed.
A. E. Blunt, of Bradley county,
raised l02 bushels of wheat, by meas
urement, or 10 by weight, on 2 acres
of ground. How IL that for high?
Our County Assessor, W no has trav-
eled most all over the county, thinks
the wheat crop of this year will beat
that of last.-GreeneUine LnteitigeRccr.
Smith and Hays, charged with arson
at Chattanooga, have both been bound
over in the sum of 81, 900 each, and in
default of bail they stopped at the
county boarding house.
The Banner man: 1.-THE freeze in
the spring, the fly and the rust, injur-
ed the wheat crop so badly that some
of our farmers only raised 90 bushels TO
the acre. Pretty good for Bradley.
One of the best farmers in the Tenth
District says that from the present in
dications he expects to reap crop and
a half of corn. He says that he has
never seen corn look so well in his life.
We learn that on last Wednesday an
Italian named Grassy, q foreman in
Flynn. Fitzgerald & Mallory's, on C.S,
r. r. works, and two of his hands
were blown up by powder, and were
seriously hurt.
We were shown yesterday at Hope
& Miller's some beautiful specimens Of
white and red coral, as il came out OF
the Pacific Ocean. 1t was sent to Mr.
Herman Schenk by Mr.. Theodore
Herman, who several years ago was 8
citizen of this place. They are worth
seeing.
A number of gentlemen formed g
centennial Society.yesterday atJustice
Ochs' Office. Each member Whojoins
the society is expected to pay 81 9
week into the general fund for him.
self and the same amount for each
member of his family that he expects
to take. AS soon as there are fifty dol
lars on hand the money will be put
out at 10 per cent. interest, and thi:
process will be continued until the
time for starting, when the whole
amount will be called in to pay the
expenses of the party while visiting
the Philadelphia Centennial.