Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1876-11-17
PENCIIlETTES.
City Council tonight

See notice of eopartnership elsewhere .
in the firm of J. w. Gaut & Son. -
The night rogues and sneak thieves
are infesting Nashville and Edgefield
and " doing" them in good style.
That unusually severe winter which
has been predicted by some weather
prophet seems to be along time getting
started.
Dick Cooper, a colored thief, while
stealing corn from a crib in the coun-
try near Nashville was fatally shot,
few days since.
The front of the "Whig Building"
occupied by Ogden Eros, the Reading
Room, &C., is receiving new coat OF
paint on its front.
Cleveland corporation scrip is worth
ninety-five cents on the dollar In
cash, and goes at par for goods in the
store. So says the Herald.
John Malloy, yardmaster OF the
Southeastern railway at Henderson,
Ky, was run over by train Tuesday
last from the effects of which he died
soon after.
Snriggins says that he once prevent
ed a severe case of hydrophobia by
simply getting on a high fence and
waiting there till the dog had gone
away.
When YOU find man whose voice is
vida omen
Won may know that he was in jail ana
couldn'G shout over the election re-
turns.
A gentleman met a very quiet news
boy selling papers. sis there any
news?n inquired the gentleman.
"Lots o. news" replied the boy, "out
nothin to holler."
The repairs on the steamer Emory
CITY, which has been lying at the
Kingston wharf for some time have
been completed and she has resumed
her trips.
There comes an hour when even the
man who has pair of boots bet on the
election must break down for want OF
sleep and drag himself homeward to
meet his loving wife.
The old McKendree Methodist
church at Nashville is to be torn away
at an early day and a new and hand
some edifice in the Gothic style of ar
chitecture is to be erected in its stead
The celebrated Haverly Minstrels
are filling an engagement at the Grano
Opera House at Nashville this week
Harry Robinson's Minstrels also ap
near there at Masonic Temple Satur'
day night.
The large cistern constructed by
NTessrs. Ashe & Condor on Reservoir
street has been completed and the
street is being regarded and macadam'
lied and very much improved from
Cav street to the top of the hill.
Kingston East Tennesseean The
river still continues low, and it is with
difficulty the packet boat between
Loudon and this place make the trip
She is behind time frequently, anc
failed altogether on Saturday last.
DR.. r. n. Barr, of Chattanooga
while passing through the corroder t.
visit q sick person on the second hoo
of an old building, fell over Goa
bod carelessly placed in the way an
fractured his arm badly.
Cleveland Herald: A reader Of tn
Knoxville Tribune in this plac
abuses that paper for causing him
lose q hat on Cullom. He has no.
come to the conclusion that the Tri
bune brigade are tremendous liars.
Twelve more persons were commit
ted to the penitentiary at Nashvill
Tuesday, the longest sentence bein
fifteen years, for arson. This make
thirty committals during the two fir
DAYS of the week. At this rate sE
viii soon be filled up.
Nashville American: While pla.
ing about one of the stairways of tt
Maxwell House last evening, Gen. ]
Y. Hoods little son accidentally fe
from the third to the second floor. Z
remained insensible for few minute
but it is thought he is not badly hui
This weeks issue of the Athens Pc
closes its ninth volume since its resu
raction in 1867. Uncle Sam. wi
Yields racy pen, and makes the Pc
one of the newsiest weeklies in &
State. Although differing political
with it, we wish the Post much ST
cess.
The brick-masons are preparing
commence work on the new Method
church building at Athens. We ;
glad to learn that this little city
making such rapid strides toward i
provement. McKeIdin & Co. ha
just completed and moved into ma
nificent block on the east side of t
Square, and the brick work of t
Boyd building, another handsol
block on the west side, is about
ished.
Buckwheat Flour at Strongs'.
Two thousand Fashion, Wood Co
CsAo,-o, l,ova baoy1 cold In E7oOt TaDr