Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-16
PEECILETTEs.


Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Cheap Dry Goods at Rush StroDg's.
The strawberry festival season is al
most upon US. ...
The oyster AMI ulster crops have
vanished from sight.
The fire alarm is getting to be an al
NEST daily occurrence.
Why is an egg like q horse? Be-
cause neither is fit for ure until bro
ken.
1t is said that there are produced
now in Florida about 100000 pounds
Of rice annually.
The little girl is not in the fashion
in Knoxville this spring unless she
wears a nobby little sailor hat.
Christmas is certainly coming. AT
least delivery clerk Will Bradley, at
the postoffice, holds two letters for par
ties by the name of Christmas.
Human nature is prone to backslid-
ing; in winter it's ice; in summer it's
banana peeling and the CLASSY agate
that the wicked little boy will roll in
its path.
The County Court of Cooke county
has levied, for the year 1879, county
tax of 80 cents on the 800, special tax
10 cents, school tax 10 and poll tax
of $3.50.
Mr.. Ben. G. Andes is making some
important improve ments and repairs
on his livery stable on Cumberland
street to meet the demands of his in
creasing business.
Henry Payne was locked up yester~
day evening, for raising disturbance
on the street, aud will have hearing
before Recorder White this morning,
when he gets suffl GENTLY sobered up.
Patriek-"And, Biddy, darlint,
they've been tellin' me there's too
many of us in the wurrld. Now, if
me and you git the praise TO make US
two wan, trOth won't there be wan the
Iese ?"-EE.
Mr.. John Scherf has had hands en-
ployed for some days making thor
ough spring cleaning up from garnet
to cellar of his popular hotel, the La
mar House, which will enhance the
comfortableness thereof very much.
Says an Exchange: "a Mr.. Ken
nedy was bitten by rattlesnake near
Wakulls, Fla, the other day. He APP
piled the white of an egg to the wound
aud drank abundantly of W Risky at
once. The next day he was as we'll as
ever" Now, don't go TO hunting q
rattlesnake on purpose to get bite.
Drummers taking out license to sell
goods in North Carolina will have to
pay 500 for each license unless 1t is to
sell liquor, when they must pay $500
each. The new law exempts them
from the payment of any county OIL
municipal tax. Manufacturers are
now required to take out licenses.-Ec.
The firm of Ristine & May, formerly
of our city, but whose extensive bed
stead and furniture mandatory is To-
Gated at Loudon, have es'
tablished headquarters at Atlanta, Ca,
where Mr.. May is located, and all the
business is to be. transacted through
that office, the mandatory remaining
st LoudOn.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has the
following to say of one of the prin-
cipaI members of the Mendelssohn
Quintette Club: Mr.. Bernhard
Listemann's solo for the violin, Paga.
minis Witches Dance, was undoubt'
edly the event of the evening. A.
every interlude when the solois'
paused and the Orchestra kept up the
theme of the piece, the applause would
come up from all over the house, and
finally, when the last note had been
played, the audience rose to their feet
and eheered and waved their handker-
chiefs, as they were wont to when the
divine Nilsson appeared on the same
stage last winter"