Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-01
PENCILETTES.

The weather yesterday was decidedly
winterish.
Travel will be good now for a while
over the roads, with the returning yell
low fever refugees.
1t is indeed a hightoned(?) specimen
of journalism which is being con-
Quoted between the two Cleveland pa
pers.
Both the Memphis morning papers,
the Avalanche and appeal, now come
TO US in whole sheet, having resumed
last Sunday.
Messrs. Deatheridge & Farrell
shipped nine car loads of cattle to Vir-
glnIa from the Sweetwater depot last
Tuesday, say the Democrat.
The Supreme Court heard argu~
ment in several cases on the Knox
county docket yesterday, but no de-
crees or rulings were entered Of record.
1t begins to be not so pleasant So
journing at the mountainous watering
places, and the pleasure seekers are
making their way to more comfortable
quarters.
We are requested by Rev. J. r.
Payne to state that the Ho,StOR Meth
Odist of this week is delayed one day
in order to get in the entire Confer
ence proceedings.
Our clever neighbor OF the quill,
Rev. Jas. A. Lyons, although he has
been assigned to work at the Athens
station, will continue in editorial con-
nection with the Holston Methodist.
A man named Hatfield had his left
leg broken below the knee and the
ankle joint dislocated last Thursday
while cutting rail timber on the Lenoir
place, near Sweetwater, says the DEM
Ocrdt.
The Tennessee Valley Fair opened
at Rhea Springs Tuesday last, and, as
we learn from the Meas, started out
with excellent prospects. The display
of stock is said to have been the best
ever on the grounds.
The report of the taxable property
of the Stale for the year 1878 is COM
pIete except from Cooke, James, JEFF
ferson, Rhea, Clay, Lincoln, Marshall,
Fayette, Gibson, Henderson a1d
Obion counties, says the Nashville
American
Parties who came down the road
yesterday say it was splitting snow all
night and yesterday morning between
this and Bristol, and the mountains in
sight were covered with snow. This
accounts for the airishness of our
weather.
Jas. Parkinson, Esq, of Riceville,
as we see from the Athens Post, with
draws from the race for Representa-
tive of McMinn county, which, no
doubt, insures the election of Mr.. F.
T. McWhirter, the regular Republican
nominee.
Several OF our Memphis refugees
took their departure on yesterdays
train en- route for home. Among them
were Messrs Bowling aud Richardson
with their families. Others who are
among us contemplate leaving about
the first OF next week.
One you'd be led to believe after
reading Uncle Sam WINS Athens
Post that there Is to be some kind of
an election some where next Tues
day." from the fact that he winds up
almost every paragraph in his paper
with a gentle reminder to that effect.
A somewhat singular specimen of
the fowl kingdom was exhibited and
attracted much attention at Matt.
Hills livery stable yesterday. 1t was
a grown hen, without a sign of wing,
and also with ten toes, five on each
foot. 1t was brought in by a Blount
county WAGNER.
John Sliger, of White county, Ten
nessee, a noted desperado, one of the
gang who tried to rescue the Braswell
brothers of Smith county, before they
were hung, was tried for counterfeit |
ing in the United States Circuit Court |
at Nashville Tuesday, and sentenced |
to six years hard labor in the peniten- |
tiary.
Nashville american Gov. Porter
has appointed the following named
delegates to the convention for the
promotion of American commerce, to
be held at New Orleans on the Sd of
December next: x-Gov. Neil s.
Brown, Hon. Alvin Hawkins, Hon.
z. A. James, G. M. McGhee. Esq, J.
B. Lamb, Esq, Col. John P. Mcclure,
John F. Wheles, Esq, Col. NJ. 9. Gal
lovay, Capt. C.. B. Church, w. b.
GalbTeath, Esq.
HeRdq uRrGers for oysters.
BY the Can or Gallon, at HudiburR's.