Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-03
VAREETIES.

LIZ h0yii the L9neSVllle Juno
ghOul who was detected in robbins
graves in that city, has plead guilty t.
the indictment.
The New York Tribune is delaying
reconciliation by sending staff cor
respondent to South Carolina to write
up the Outrages OF the late election.
Mrs. Anna d. Thomson, whose hus
band was Postmaster at Memphis and
died during the yellow fever scourge
has been com nissiobed POstm istress al
that place.
Senator Anthony, Of Rhode Island,
sent to Senator Eaton, of Hartford, q
turkey weighing % pounds. Where
upon the former state TUse four inches
out of the sea- Graphic.
Eight young Cinnamon are attend
ing school in Phillips Academy, in
And0ver, Mass. In the same school
there are twenty-five SOUS of minis
tiers aud four sons OF missionaries.
Those who have studied the subject
believe that an honest canvass in 1880
VIII give he North the political pre-
| pOBdsTsuce in Congress it held be-
| fore the franchise was given To the
| cOIOTed man.
The talented editor OF the Courier
Journal NANTES IS more than ordinary
bad temper in applying abusive cpl
thets to the Northern people because
they manifest q disposition to confront
q Solid South with a SJlid North. He
seems not 10 understand the logic of
| political events.
Nephew Peltou, W no has been rus
ticaiing in Canada since the transla-
ton of The cipher di-pa:ches, has re-
| turned to GrameTcy Park to talk with
| his respected uncle over the "great
| fraud" which the American pc ople are
| invoked never to cOndone. The ITi-
| 6lne says he and his coparceners
have made the discovery reached by
the small boy in a thunder storm
something has to be done"
Persons interested in the personal
appearance of the Princess Louise or
Mrs. Lorne, as we Americans would
say, are perplexed at the comments of
| the New York press. The Tribune
! says she sis not handsome :" the Sun
says she is decidedly pretty" the
| Herald that she has a charming
face" and the World declares "she is
beautiful"
Ben, Butler has keen eye to bust
ness. The story now is that he dis
| covered a few days before the election
that he was going to be defeated, and
furnished $500, 900 to his New York
Agents to bet on the result, which
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sble part of the story is that DO one
believed he would be elected, and con-
sequently no one to take his bets
against himself.
A bare-fOoted darkey, while hoeing
cotton one day, saw his big toe under
a clod, aud thinking it a mole's head,
hit it aud hurt himself. After work.
ing with it for while he got tired, set
his foot on stump and said: "WeIl,
jes pain away now; doesn't care, you
hurts yeself wusin We do me."-In-
dianapOliS Journal.
what! - said young lady to a sis
ter companion, you are not going to
marry that tall, lean, Slender, con-
sumptive-stricken fellow, are you p"
Yes, she is" volunteered the young
lady's little brother, looking up from
his broken cart-wheel; "she's going
to marry him and use him for a carpet
stretCheT!" The boy aud the cart
wheel passed out through the same
door.
An East Litchfield, Conn.,, boy
named Goodman fell recently and
broke an arm and dislocated his
shoulder. Shortly after two Of his
brothers were badly injured by the
premature explosion of a blast. The
news was carried to their father by
some one incsutiously. He was on
the barn shiDgling, and was so affected
that he partially tainted aud fell to the
ground, breaking one leg and receiv-
ing severe injuries about the head, the
skull being fractured in one place.
AIgernon, under her window in the
cold, white moonlight, with q tender
expression, says:
otis the la>hsst rose o-hof summer,
Le-heft bloc booming alO-hone;
All its lo-luv-lee companions
All he fe-deh>hed and gO-hone-"
Voice of pa from next window.
strained and cracked like, as though
the old gentleman didn't have time to
young man, all right; just pin a news
paper over it to save iT from the frost,
and we'll take it in with the rest of
the plants in the morning.
Washington is full of Democratic
statesmen who are going about with
uplifted hands, deprecating the
Republican efforts to reopen the Sec
tional question. They are going to do |
their best to counteract these wicked
efforts by devoting themselves strictly |
to the necessary work of the coming |
session and by refusing to be drawn |
into partisan controversy" What |
a guiless person the Democratic states |
man Is, and how he shines as a "dep. |
recatorW 1t is almost brutal to assure |
so aniable person that he will not |
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