Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-06

Tuesday night.
It was quite bIustery and dissgreea-
BILE yesterday.
Rumor has it that the publication Of
new Republican paper will soon be
commenced in Nashville.
The Morgan Dispatch wants an I'M
migration society organized in Morgan
county. Good idea.
Sol. Smith Russell is with the Ber-
ger Family again this season. They
are In Cincinnati this week.
Prof. Tice missed it fearfully on his
predictions for yesterday. 1t was very
far from the coolest day of the winter.
The Legislative solons are missed by
boardiDg-house keepers and washer
woman in Nashville during the re-
cess.
Morgan Dispatch: The iron bridge
over Pettis Greek, on the Cincinnati
Southern railway, has been completed
and construction trains are now rum
ming thirteen miles below Somerset.
Rev. Judson S. Hill, of New Jersey,
has been given charge, as pastor, of
Pine street NJ. E. Church, in Chatta-
nooga, and entered upon his labors
last Sunday. The former pastor, Rev.
S. a. WinsOr, is in Atlanta.
North Knoxville society circles will
be astir again tonight, and there
will be giDgling of marriage bell&
From the outward evidences of prepar-
alton for the p2st day or two. We
would imagine that il will be a brill
liant affair
A correspondent of the Morristown
Gazette gives a fearful account of the
sudden dying of cattle in Hamblen
county from some underlined disease,
which, he says, affects the legs some
thing like a bruise, and soon kills
dying, he says. with blind staggers.
In the Nashville Criminal Court last
Monday evening, the trial of Nat. Bax-
ter, Jr., charged with having murder
ed Samuel II. Hicks, in July last, was
begun. A jury was obtained, after ex-
hausting three panels, and that was
all the progress made that evening, ex-
cept the reading of the indictment and
the plea OF mot guilty"
Our amusement lovers will continue
to bear in mind that next Monday |
night is the date of the first appear
ance this season, at the Opera House, |
of the beautiful and charming young
actress, Miss Genevieve Rogers, with
the support of the favorite Frank E.
Aiken Company. That IS looked for
ward to as an event in Knoxville |
amusement circles this season.
That bowling dog belonging to the
Express Company made his escape |
from confinement yesterday by tele-
scoping one of the large glasses in the |
office front, and the owners have been |
unable to recover his dogship. "A nti- |
howl, =" aud Ccher dodgers in the vicin- |
ity are in extacies of delight over it.
and the Express men wish they had |
never seen him, for they are few dol
lars ont Of pocket for the broken glass. |
Chicago Inter Ocean: Memphis,
Tennessee, was, and is not. Like her
ancient namesake, she vanished, and
even more suddenly, Like Barkis,
she seemed "wiIlin," and rode out into
the great future, and left her creditors
to mourn. Any communications now
addressed to residents of the former
city should read: ITO the care of the
Constable who is watching the remains
of Memphis, in the Territory Of Ten
uessee."
Mr. ist0wn Guzstte: Great num-
bers OF fish were killed in the Holston
river by the recent cold weather. More
ice formed in that river than was ever
known before, and when it broke up
and floated off the water was rising
with great rapidity. The fish were
entirely numb amt half ire zen, go they
fiOated with the tui bulent wafer and
were thrown out on the banks in large
numbers, or ground to death by the
rushing blocks of ice. The same thing
occurred in the Clinch.