Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1877-12-08
PENCILETTES.

Regular mlu-summeA Nedtllei yes
terday.
Sheriffs, as auctioneers, are :becoq-
ming very fashionable these days.
A large number of American citizens
are now feasting on q diet of worms
in chestnuts.
DR.. s. B. Boyd, City Physician, has
a "notice" elsewhere which is of i'm
portance sanitarily.
A force of street scrapers are doing
some good work on Gay street clean
ing Off the coating of mud.
It's time to begin to whet up for
another onslaught on Turkey"
Christmas is only few days off.
The market is chuck full of bones
from the pork house, and they are SELL
ing extremely low cents per pound.
Mrs. Margaret Gray died in Ca
barrus county, N. c., last week, at the
age of 1l6 years. She was born in that
county in 1851.
The Nashville Gas Light Company
which has heretofore charged So 90 per
thousand feet Of gas, have decided on
a reduction of 333 per cent.
Next to strong drink, nothing will
bring a man down in the world
quicker than an orange peel judi
c.Ously arranged on the pavement.
3 new pavement was laid yesterday
in front of LuttrelI's hardware store.
There are some other spots on Gay
street on which new pavements would
not be amiss.
AS the "nOg" season advances the
demand for eggs increases and the
price goes up. Although they are
abundant, they are retailing at twenty
cents per dozen.
A negro named Mitchell, crazed
with mean whisky, was locked up in
the 'boOse yesterday evening, and
kept things lively most all night with
his boisteTOus chin music.
With two dancing schools in opera
ton and one skating rink the Knox
vile youngsters need have no trouble
cultivating graceful movements.
The coming woman will have to be
born with longer arms than those now
in use before she can wear any more
buttons on her kid gloves than the
present fashion permits.
Young gentlemen nova. days are so
full of jealousy and fire arms that q
young lady can only safely see her
sweetheart in the presence of the
police, in some parts of the country.
VIM. CIOtworthy and Jesse G.
Frazer were this week appointed by
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
at Washington as storekeepers and
gaugers for the Fifth District Of Ten
nessee.
Col Hin nE.-ti.. s-TTPpeu ~ "a press
on the midnight train twenty barrels
Cabout /, 1000 pounds) of bones to Allan
ia and other Georgia markets. An
extra car was required to make the
shipment.
The Bristol Courier says: a stable
belonging to Mr.. Cate, at BlountvilIe,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday. a
horse in it belonging to Parson Ingram
had the good, hard horse sense to break
his halter and get out.
The arrangement occasioned by the
recent break in the Virginia railroads
has been put to rights, and we are
now having through travel, freight
and mails from the Eastern cities
regularly and on time.
No hogs slaughtered at the pork
house yesterday, but a good days
work was put in cutting up the killing
of the day befOre-near 200. Some
three or four hundred will be killed
again to-day if the weather is good.
Santa Claus was kept busy yesterday
ct the East Tennessee China House,
taking orders for Christmas presents
for the little folks. There was no
trouble to make selections on the part
of parents, as their stock is immense.
The Federal Court, which was to
have net in Memphis last Monday
has been adjourned over to next Mon
day or Tuesday in accordance with a
telegram from Judge Trigg at Bristol,
which announces that be will be there
in that time.
If some one would take up that
flock of geese which infest5 Market
Square day and night and fatten them
for q Christmas dinner it would be a
relief TO the denizens of the Square
who arc continually annoy ed bv their
everlasting chattering aud squalling.
During the Circuit Court at Blount-
Vile, CLARK, the desperate who figured
around Bristol so conspicuously few
weeks since, burning barns, stealing
mules, ETC., as was related in the
CHRONICLE at the time, submitted his
case and was sentenced to eight years
in the penitentiary.
Don't fail to give Ogden Brothers a
call if you want a handsome as well as
useful Christmas present, for they
have a handsome stock of books and
other articles for the Holiday trade.
Merchants wanting anything in their
line will 90 well to give them a call,
as they can be supplied at reasonable
prices.
Doll. Newcomb was brought in by