Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-23
PESCIEEETES.

BlusIery March weather.
A small boy ard gun are harmless
when apart, but they form a terrific
combination.
y. ID. Williams is elected County
superintendent of Public Instruction
for Morgan county.
An effort is being made, says the
Dispatch, to incorporate the town of
Wartburg, Morgan comfy.
There is only one paper, the Morgan
Dispatch, published in the Sixteenth
judicial Circuit of Tennessee.
Some OF the citizens of Wartburg
put up ice from six to eight inches
thick during the recent snap.
Mr.. w. F. Pickle, thriving farmer
of this county, left some very fine
specimens Of sweet potatoes, Of his
raising, at our Cflice yesterday.
Fifty-two postal money orders were
issued from the Chattanooga postollice
Monday, which is more than was
ever issued for any one day since the
office was established.
The market which has been go
stinted and slim during the excessive
cold weather, rough roads, etc., begins
TO be flush again and prices are becom-
ing more reasonable as a consequence.
Hon. L. A. James, Of Chattanooga,
has sent $50 to the Mayor of Browns
Vile for distribution among widows
and orphans in that town, who lost
their husbands and fathers during the
prevalence Of yellow fever.
The Hawkins county editor of the
MOrTistown Eazctte understands tina;
a movement Is being made to establish
the county of Powell from parts of
Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington and
Greene, with the court house at Fall
Branch.
Capt. sam. Davis, OF the Knoxville
and Charleston railroad, loaded at this
place and took South car load of
mules last night. A car load of stock
cattle, bought up at Thompson d
Jones stable, was also shipped 10
Virgins
We learn Of the death Of Miss La,
mira IarDeIl, al Cleveland, on Friday, /
the 2ist. She was we'll advanced in |
years, and will be remembered by /
many persons in Knox county as their /
kind-hearted, faithful teacher in THE
long ago"
Mr.. Geo. ". Ross, of the Knoxville
Marble Company, shipped a hand
some piece Of marble slab yesterday
TO Florida, making it q present to the
owner of an elegant steamer. He is
also having prepared a very nice spe-
cimon TO be sent to- the Florida fair.
The case of The coI,red boy, Jordan
Mitchell, for attempted tape on q
daughter Of Mr.. Tarw8ter, of this
county, was finally terminated in the
Criminal Court yesterday by sentenc-
ing him 10 = years in the penitentisry.
This was the third trial Of the case,
mistTials having been entered at the
last two terms OF the court.
The case # Robert p. Shrewsberry,
who murdered the German, Welcel,
near Strawberry Plains, last summer,
was fgain called in the Criminal
Court yesterday, bat on sccount OF The
absence of witnesses for the prisoner,
cUDtirUaJc &C till the next term Of
court was granted, on his affidavit,
aud the witnesses for the State en-
tered iuto their recngntzlnce to APP
pear az that time,
An OH CoIorsd woman, aged seventy
year,, named Mary Jackson, living
near Chattanooga, was accidentally
killed Monday night By a shot from a
pistol which was being handled by
Charlie Adell, a youth she had raised.
All were sitting around The fire and ,
he was fo0ing wi:h the pistol when it
went ct, The ball striking her in the
back of the heat, causing instant
death. Another Argument in favor of
the passage OF Senator r.. X. BIRDS
bill la the Tennessee Legislature.
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