Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-13
PERCILETEES.

Only one court now in session.
Have you sent your valentines?
Don't forget the Lecture to-nigh'.
The small boy continues TO Peg
away with his top.
Easter Sunday falls on the lS'h OF
April this year.
It continues muddy, sloppy ARd
quite disagreeable.
A pretty Valentine, in neat box
sI for 25 cents, st Rsmsge's.
Let slI who wish to hear about the
old Greeks go to the lecture tonight.
Atlantis, Ga, claims to have added
1000 to her population during the past
year.
The building OF the Nashville Gus
tom House, which was Interrupted by
the cold weather, is now steadily pre-
crossing again.
Col. NJ. c. Galloway. one of the edi-
tors and proprietors of the Memphis
appeal, has been forty years in the
newspaper business.
Rev. y. Baehman, who has been
conducting q revival meeting in At
lanta for some weeks, has been invited
to Decatur, Ga, to hold meeting.
Messrs. Marshall & Co., at the new
music house, announce o great variety
of new instruments, pianos, organs,
10 hi al a. -
tention is directed.
Mr.. z. w. Adkins, Clerk of the
Circuit Court, is still confined to his
home with sickness, and Mr.. @. l..
Maloney, Criminal Court Clerk, and
his assistant, Mr.. w. w. Dunn, are
performing the duties of that official.
The wife of George e. Schooley,
the Nashville Express rObbeTr who re-
Gently came in and gave himself Up,
has been driven to distraction by The
trouble, and is now an inmate Of a
Iunatie asylum in Kentucky.
A convention Of representatives of
the different orders Of Masonry was to
have been held in Chattanooga yester-
day. Past Grand Master CawOOd,- of
Jefferson county, and Past Grand
Commander II. N. Aiken, of this
city, represent upper East Tenn essee.
If you would feast your eyes on
something real handsome, just take a
lock at Metler & Z9igleT's stall in the
market this morning. They have on
exhibition ard for sale the meat OF
some extra fine stabilized beeves pur-
chased from the "Island Home farm
Of our distinguished and enteTpFising
fellow citizen, Mr.. Perez Dickinson.
The passenger train by which the
man Broome was knocked from the
track at Talbott's Station Tuesday
morning, was what might be termed
decidedly s temperance train. Col
Young, the conductor, thinking some
stimuIent would be beneficial - the
Injured msn, went through the entire
train in search of something, but was
not able 10 find a single drop of any
kind Of spirituous liquors on board.
Lovers Of mirstrelsy in Knoxville
look forward with bright anticipa'
tions to the coming next Tuesday and
Wednesday nights Of the famous
Billy Emerson Ministries, the boss
troupe on the road with - men. They
may expect a rousing reception, il
having been so long since We have
had g first-class travelling minstrel
troupe slong this way. They come
from he East, jumping from Rich
mond, Virgins, clear through to
Knoxville.
1t is hoped there will be q large a.
tendance upon the lecture to be deliv'
cred at the Reading Room tonight by
Prof. w. q. McAdoo on The Home
Life of the Old Greeks" The suhjec
is one Of interest, and Prof. McAdOo ii
possessed of the qualification and abil-
ity to make something really interest
ing out of it. Such it may be expected
TO be. The proceed are for the benefit
OF the Library Association, an object
to the success of which every Knox
william should take pride in contrib
utiug. The admission il only > cents
Let there be 3 good crowd.