Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-31
PENOIL4ETTEs.

Such delightful moonlight nights,
these 'tsa ~
One week from to day occurs the |
8 ate debt election.
Blind Tom, the musical prodigy, is
summering at Saratoga.
J.P. Hammer has been commission.
ed as Notary Public for Sullivan
county.
Chattanooga is attempting to get
up an excursion to Mammoth, Gave,
Kentucky.
Prof. 'Willoughby Reade Is booked
for reading entertainment at Norris
town tonight.
There are probably one hundred
and twenty-five refugees stopping In
Bristol, according to the NeWs.
The first session of Circuit Court,
under the provisions of the new law, is
now sitting at Bristol, Hon. n. Hacker
presiding.
It must have been In green apple
and watermelon time that Tennyson
wrote, From our waist places comes
a cry" .-.
Morristown Gazette: From private
letter, we learn that the number of
guests now registered at Tate Spring
reaches 2lO, and good number Of
new arrivals daily.
Col. A. 8. Colyar is announced to
speak in favor of the 504 compromise
at Cleveland to-day, Rhea Springs to-
morrow, Athens Saturday, Blount-
vile Monday, Jonesboro' Tuesday and
in this city Wednesday next.
A start has been made at last on the
narrow guage railroad from Bristol out
through Scott and other counties in
Virginia. A squad of twenty eight
convicts were brought from Rich
mond and put to work thereon this
week.
The Exchange Hotel, q. B. French,
proprietor, at Kingston, is pleasant
place to stop at. The table is good,
and then the managers are 80 clever
they make you feel at home. Don't
fail to call upon them when you go to
Kingston.
An opportunity is offered to any one
wishing to buy pleasantly located
home cheap. The auctioneer, e. A.
Akers, offers for sale Mrs. Waters
house in MechanicsvilIe. Attention
is also called to Mr.. Akers' auction
sale to-day.
The Hamblen county Normal School,
held at Morristown, closed last Friday,
according to the Gazette, after session
of two weeks. Prof. II. Presnell, of
JOnesboro', was principal, and he was
assisted by County Superintendent II.
NJ. Sherwood.
The work of digging out for Mr..
McNulty's cellar, besides furnishing
employment to large number Of Ia.
bOrers, serves as congregating point
for all the loafers and business men
who have little spare time to watch
the progress of the work.
We were shown yesterday by Mrs.
NJ. B. Atkinson, mother-in-law of Mr..
James A. Compton, quite an aged
lady, though full of life and sprightli-
ness, some excellent and beautiful
specimens of ornamental handwork,
which is certainly hard to beat.
We learn from Mr.. II. T. Cooper
that Senator r. K. Byrd. of Roane
county, and Representative Cunnyng'
ham, made able and telling speeches al
Huntsville, Scott county, last week
during the session of court there, in
in favor Of the 504 compromise.
John Manning, a laborer at the
Knoxville Iron Company's Rolling
Mill, was pretty seriously hurt yester.
day by a railroad bar which was being
unloaded from a car falling on him
He was insensible for some time, bu
medical assistance was rendered anC
it was hoped he would get along al
right.
from the Morristown Jail last Thurs
day morning, says the Gazette. Thei
names were Jos. Lane, Robt. Eakin
Marion Burehfield and VIM. Sparks
The first three were Federal Cour
conviots, just recently sent up from
the court here. Two were recapture
the same day and returned. The 9th
ers are still at large.
Bristol Ne,Us; +" Mr.. Robert Blevin
killed last week, on the top of Iro
Mountain, southeast of Bristol,
wonderful rsttlesnake, lacking onl
one inch of being eight feet Ions
circumference six inches behind th
head, and twenty inches in the cente
Of the body. When coiled 1t coul
not he more than covered by a larg
sized wash-tub. 1t had twenty.fiv
rattles." Go up head. Next -~
Newport Reporter Mr.. A. T. New
man, of Morristown, bar-keeper q
that place, was shot last Saturday b
Policeman Morris. It is reported tbs
Mr.. Newman and others had been fir
ing their pistols in the corporation
and not submitting to Mr.. Morri
orders, but rather seeking a row
which ended in two pistol shots in til