Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
PENOILETTES.


to the Penitentiary at the April
Term Of the Kingston Circuit Court.
At the spelling school In Indianapo-
lis all the lawyers, editors, clergymen
and teachers went down on "ipeca-
cuanha."
A recent advertisement states that
competent agents are wanted for the
sale OF new medicine which will be
very profitable To the undertaken"
Likely.
When Detr0iter WAS asked the
other day by traveller II he had ever
been In Brook yn, he hastend 30 reply:
DO L look like one of that sort Of
men, sir?p
Morristown Gazette Il is gratfy>
ing TO announce that the Buncombe
road is again in running order-the
passenger train resuming its daily trip
last Monday.
At meeting of the Bar at the April
Term of the Kingston Circuit Court,
plimentary resolutions in regard
to the death of w. s. Patton, the for
mer Circuit Court Clerk were passed.
A man named Egan, who is sup
posed by his friends to be insane, at
tackled woman named Hogen in her
garden and stabbed her in the shout.
der, inflicting serious. but not fatal
wound. So says the Times.
Oh, my! whose hat was that? Hal
ha And who drew that hoopskirt?
who drew that pig?" did you say
Dry upl No fun at the EDITORS ex-
peBse, young man.-GFeeneUiUe Amer
icdn. De Castro must have been
there.
The Trion cotton factory of Chat
tooga county, Ga, valued at $3.50, 900,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday, l7h
Insured for S35 900. The proprietors
have not yet determined to rebuild
aud 100 families are thrown out of EN-
ployment.
Greeneville american Our Mayor,
Robert M. Mckee, Esq, resigned his
position yesterday aud Mr.. James A.
Galbraith was chosen TO fill the vacau-
cy. A. n. PettibOue, Esq, WAS chosen
to fill Mr.. GalbraiGh's place as Alder
man from the - ward.
When they want to find out in the
country If agirl is counting or not, an
old lady steps In and remarks: II
cay, there amt no one sick in this
here house or nothin', is there? l
seen light burnin' nigh on to twelve
o'clock last night; but l don't smell
no campfire nor nothin' around"
The following are the officers of the
Board of Directors of the Roam Iron
Company, elected at a meeting in
Chattanooga on Wednesday: w. p.
Rathburn, President; H. s. Chamber
lain, Vice-President and Manager; S.
b. Strang, Assistant Manager; Will
lard Abbott, Secretary and Treasurer.
AL individual advertised for "a
wife," the other day, and requested
each applicant for the situation to ell
close her carte de Visite. One of his
fair correspondents closed her reply in
these terms: 81 do not enclose my
carte, for, though there is some auth
ority for putting a cart before horse,
know Of none for putting one before
an ass
The Chattanooga Times says We
learn that another Indian cemetery
was exposed by the flood on the land
of Mr.. Jas. Alexander on the west side
of Moccasin Point. A large number of
arrow heads, knives, hatchets, and
many fragments of pottery were found,
as well as number bones. We have
seen none of the bones, and hence
can not say wiietaer they are similar
tothosr found in Blount county.
vile Deaf aud Dumb Asylum, under
the head of plimeptary, says: We
met Il gentleman a few days since who
has been great traveller and in con-
versation he remarked: III have been
an extensive traveller, having been in
every part of the country and | must
confess that | have seen but a very few
cities in all my journeyings that sur
pass Knoxville in point of beauty. 1t
is by far, to me, the most attractive city
in the South"
On the North London railway, a
short time since, passenger remarked
in the hearing of one of the company's
servants how easy 1t was to don the
company, and said he often travelled
from Broad street to Dalston Junction
without ticket" Any one can do it
i did 1t yesterday" When he alight.
ed he was followed by an official, who
asked him how it was done. For a
consideration he agreed to tell him.
This being given, Now" said the in
quirer, "how did you go from Broad
st.aet to Dalston Junction, yesterday,
VIII put ticket?" Oh" was the
reply II walked
"Ah, If / were only half as good a
man as she is woman" said loving
husband to himself, tenderly regard
ing his wife through the crack of the
half-open door of the room, where she
was sitting with clasped hands and
closed eyes, as if in holy communion
with her Maker: What a picture
for an artist, just as she looks now
praying, no doubt, for the pastOr.n
Then he stole softly into the apart
ment, hoping not to arouse her, but
she sprang toward him, eagerly ex-
claiming: 80, Charley, I've been
thinking ever so much If hadn't bet
ter send that bonnet back to be re-
trimmed
New Market Ne1Us! On April 10th,
two-year old child of Ii. w. Holston,
near Dyer's Ferry, being unthought-
edly left alone in room where glass
jar of canned peaches had been broken
upon the floor, the mother, upon re-
entering the room, was Mortified to tind
it with its mouth full of the fruit and
small bits of glass. She sent OFF post