Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-31
PEECILETTES.

Where's the "oldest inhRbitant" who
ever before saw such spell of weather.
The Morristown Gazette wants an
immigration Society organized in that
town.
The mail Is still being carried be.
tween Kingston and LoudOn by the
overland route.
There are to be elected by the new
Board tonight City Physician and a
City Attorney.
Clerk and Master Patterson has a
number of nonresident notices in this
issue to which attention is directed,
One Pattern Grossly Velvet Carpet
for a room 1876 by Is, worth 1915 per
yard for 81 50 TO close out, at s. B.
Boyd's.
1t is said that the prOprietors OF the
Roam Mountain Hotel expect to be
able to entertain three hundred guests
next summer.
The market is full of green apples
just now, and they are selling at the
rate of Sl.00 per bushel. The dealers
have also on hand quantities of North
ern apples.
Buck Noe, of Ham blen county,
aged % years, was adjudged insane
last week and taken to the Insane
Asylum at Nashville, says the Norris
town Gazette.
Mr.. w. :. Clark was engaged yes
terday putting on the city boards some
attractive bills hersldipg his minstrel
performance at Staub's Opera House
next "Wednesday night.
The river was on slight rise yes
terday, with considerable drift wood
running, indicative of the fact that
there have been some heavier rains
along the upper streams than we have
had.
Mr.. Eldridge Yost, formerly of
Kingston, who was doing business at
Aliensville, Ky, was among the suf-
ferers by a recent fire there. to the ex-
tent of $1,000. says the East Tenncs-
secda.
Bristol Ncws: The store house and
goods OF Messrs. J. NJ Walker & Bro,
of Union Depot, Tenn, were totally
destroyed by fire last Thursday. They
were fully insured. Ths fire was acct
dental.
George w. Sutton, shoemaker of
Tszewell, Tenn, was murdered near
Halls Gap, KY, on the 17th. Two
men, Stapleton and Terrell, have been
arrested, one Of them having SuttOn's
watch on his psrsOp.-Er.
The farmers in some sections of the
country report that the growing wheat
crop is coming out finely this weather,
and their fears that it was frozen out
seem 10 be uDfounded. No telling
what msy come yet, however.
The coIored jury in the Newman
Garter murder case, after sittipg on
the case over night and all day yester-
day, were still unable TO come to an
agreement, and were again kept to-
gether last night. II seems probable
that il will result in a mistrial, after
all.
The revival is going on with still
greater increasing interest at the Sec
uud NJ. Z Church. Several peniteDts
sud some conversions. All who are
Interested in this good cause are most
cordially invited by Rev. J. n. Dur
ham, ti.e pistor, 10 attend.
No small degree Of interest centers
on the proceedings of the Board of AL
dsrmeh tonight, his being the first
regular business meeting of the new
Board. There is universal anxiety to
know what will be the shape OF theiC
policy whether they will make any
sweeping chang from the old land |
marks, csc.
Kingston East TeancSSeC0H Work !
men are engaged repairing the steamer /
Harry Helm, and if othing happens, |
hope 10 have her completed aud ready /
for the lrs'ie, 10y the fret of next |
week. The Emory City yet lies with |
her hui. under water. Nothing has I
bNCl No1S ~ " aAhS l1hSihB Attt' tue
water being yet too high.
The JGques' Lodge Temperance !
Dramatic Company of this city are
billed for an entertainment, "Che |
DruuksTd's Warning" at the Presby-
terrain Hall, Naryville, next Monday |
night. :. =. S;snsberry, of the Com
pany, has been over making the ar
engagements, IS We see from the Iadrr. /
II is hoped MaryviiIe will give them a
good crowd.
The Maryviiie index learns that a
few nights since the bed of Jacob
Symmetry, who lives few miles from
Maryvilie, caught fire while he and
his wife were asleep. They were
awakened by the flames, which COM
pletely enve!Oped the bed, and the
house was only saved by great exer-
tions of Symmetry and a man named
Sam. Keith. The bed was supposed to
have caught fire from spark or coal
from the fire place.
The CHARTER OAK in the new |
dress is the prettiest thing now made |
in the form of Stove.