Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-14
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TUESDAY. JANUARY IA, 1879.
PSACIEETTES.

Chew Jackson's Best swseI Navy Tobacco
Winter disappeared with q rush.
Cleveland boasts of ore colored Al
derman in her newly elected Board.
Old John Robinson, the veteran
Snowman, is a property owner in At
lanta, Ga.
The Hightower Hotel, at Calhoun,
Ga, was burned last Thursday night,
with nearly all its contents. Cause,
defective flue.
There are 1872 postoflices in Tennes-
see, out of 1868 in forty-nine States
and territories. OF these, 7S are
money-order offices.
The Stanton House, at Chattanooga,
has been leased for five years by
former proprietor OF the Waverly Ho-
tel, Louisville, Ky.
The religious services of the past
week are being continued in the
Third Presbyterian Church during
this week. All are cordially invited.
Chattanooga, and Geven the whole of
Hamilton county, had no candidate
for any office in the gift of the State
Legislature, according 20 the CONNER
cial. An exceptional people, indeed.
If we could just have little of The
great quantities Of ice which has
been floating down the river and is
being kicked arosnd under foot, in mid
summer, We would know how to ape
precia.e il.
4 detachment Of five or six OF the
United States soldiers, stationed at
Chattanooga, are in the city attending
Federal Court as witnesses in a case of
stealing uniforms. They ara at the
Lamar House.
A quantity Of water standing in the
basement of the First NJ. Il. Church
Sunday prevented fire being started
in the furnace; consequently, there
was no service in that church, morn
ing or evening.
The contractors OF the Cincinnati
Southern Road began work at the
Chattanooga end Of the line yesterday,
- we l.arl. from the Times. The work
will he pushed rsPid'y to completion,
and they expect To commence laying
iron from that end 10y the first of Feb
ruary.
The attendance on the Federal
Court, so far, is very much sinner,
than usual, and the streets, boarding
houses, etc, are not so overTun with
the mountain boys" The weather,
freahet, etc, has detained many, no
doubt, and they will still continue TO
come in.
Gov. Ja7. =. Porter has been elected
second Vice President of the Ten
nsszee Historical Association. This
makes one presiding officer from each
grand division of the State, to-wit:
DR.. J. G. NJ Ramsey, for the East,
Judge Jno. NJ. Lea, for the Middle,
snd Gov. Porter, for the West.
The fiusI ,nsc.s Of the beating rain,
followed by The mtllowiDg beams of
yesterdays warm sunshine, are hav-
ing tendency TO loosen up the hard
and d-eply-fgozsn earth 10 such an ex-
tent as ID make i perfectly rotten. The
streets la places, and especially coun-
try roads vail be almost impassable.
Miss Adah Richmond having con-
tracisd cold in the delay in reaching
Atlanta for the company's first en-
gagemeut there laat Thursday night,
was prevented from appearing both
the other nights. Miss Winston per-
sOnatej her ia The operas with pleas
ing and satisfactory effect, however.
Troubles never come singly.
In sn stFray 1t Dalton, Ga, last |
Thursday night, w, a. Phillips, of
Spring Place, Ga, was struck on the |
head with a rock by negro brakeman
or the Selma, Rome and Dalton rail
road. The skull was fractured. The
negro was arrested, and, in attempting
TO escape, was shot by the guard.
Both we've in critical condition at
latest accounts.