Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-25

they are always murmuriug.
500 pounds of Veusion Hams re-
ceived yesterday by Dawes & Jackson.
Get your Mince Meat, Dried Beef,
Oranges, Lemons, CocCanuts, Gran
berries, Canned Corn, Cheese, &c, at
Anderson & McNulty's.
Don't know the name, but it's
girl, and Will H. Fain is in fine hui
NOR" writes the BlOuntville cor
respondent of the Bristol Courier.
Judge JONES Garland, who presides
over the city court of Lynchburg, Va,
is said to be the oldest American
Judge in active service. He is 81 next
June.
w. s. Upton, editor of the Cleve-
land Herald. is still travelling through
Texas, and furnishes his readers,
weekly, with accounts of his adven
lures.
One of the newly elected Aldermen
who is to be sworn in to-day, has only
received one hundred and ninety-odd
different applications for his vote for
policeman.
Cleveland Herald: There is quite a
large numker of local option petitions
being presented to the present Legis-
lature. Surely Tennessee will go Re-
publican by 1880.
Venison Hams, Buekwheat Flour,
Butter, Eggs and Poultry, at Dawes &
Jackson's.
A Nashville boy, while cUastiDg
during the recent icy spell, wss Iun
over by cart and had his leg broken.
His mother has since brought suit
againet the owner of the cart for S.. 900
damages.
The old Board will gather at the
City Hall at 8 o'clock this morning to
disband, and will turn over to the new
Board, which will be organized imme-
diately, and proceed TO the election of
its officers.
cambridge Waterman: Mr.. r. p.
Spence and lady left Monday for
Athens. Mr.. r. P. Spence has sold
out his drug store at this place to his
brother, w. E. Spence, and has bought |
one at Athens.
The BlOuntville correspondent
of the Bristol Courier says
Mrs. Lynn, wife of s. J. Lynn,
of Knoxville, residing temporarily at
Joseph Lynn's on Eden's Ridge, is
dangerously i'll.
Hon. John Baxter is still confined |
to his room with sickness, and has |
been unable to preside over his court |
for three days. He was improving, |
however, yesterday, and will be out in
a day or two at least.
Daniel Coffey, an aged and respected |
citizen OF McMinD county, died at his |
home, near Ricsville, on the 1st inst,
in the seventy-fourth year of his age. |
He was a member in good standing |
of the Masonic fraternity.
cambridge has organized string |
band composed Of @. w. Holtsinger, |
first violin; W. E. Spence, second
w. F. Park, flute; Alexander Eckel,
guitar; John Mitchell, violencello:
and Ed. Miller, BARITONE, as we learn |
from the IVatchmGn.
Rev. Nathan Bachman, the we'll
known and successful Presbyterian |
evangelist, is conducting a series of |
revival meetings in Rev. Mr.. Martins |
church in Atlanta. His brother, Rev.
J. w BacHman. of Chattanooga, was |
also wl.n him the first part of this
week.
Bristol Courier: On last Saturday |
Messfs. r. NJ. Blevins, l.. II. Haw-
kins and others killed bear on Cen
try's Creek, head Of Laurel, Johnson
county, Tennessee, weighing SEQ lbs. |
His bearship was known as the big
Pond Mountain Bear" He received
81 bullets before he gave up the strug-
gle.
A recent election for aldermen in the
town Of SeviervilIe resulted in the
choosing OF NJ. P. Thomas, ]. NJ.
Aker, ID. p. Ga>s, r. NJ. Graham, P
Stafford, J. Il. Emert, and A. P. Raw
lings. Upon The organization of the
new board, II. p. Thomas was elected |
Mayor and G.. ". NJ. Nickols Re-
COrder.
Bristol Courier i. The PralEer Cot
ton Mills, at Union Depot, were sold
by the Trustee, Thomas Maloney, last
Friday, aud, az We are in formed, bid
in by the Johnson heirs, the bene-
ficiaries under Trust Deed. Price
$40, 500. This is considerable sacri-
flee, the same having cost Mr.. Pra-
ther upwards of $780,
The JOnesboro' Journal estimates
that there are seventeen lawyers in
Washington county, thirteen at Jones'
boro'r and four at Johnson city. Sui
livan county beats that, however, &C.
cOrding to the Bristol Courier, she has
twenty-three full tledged lawyers with
some half dozen students on the wav.
Bristol has thirteen, with four on the
way B.ountvilie has seven and
Union Depot three.
We have a full line. OF Boys Over
coats, that will be sold cheap.