Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-05
PENCILETTES.

meT,' or course. 7
The closing exercises of the Morris !
town Male School began yesterday
and will wind up tonight.
The Gazette reports the whoopirg |
cough prevailing among the children
about Morristown. There have been
some deaths.
Illicit whisky is known in Tonnes
see rs moonshine," in North Caro-
lima as "pirctop," and in Virginia as
" ragged mountain"
According TO the Jonesboro' Times,
Hugh J. Bowen, of Granger county,
came out ahead in the competitive
cadetship recently held at Jonesboro'.
Morristown Gazette Mrs. Post and
daughter, OF Knoxville, are the ex-
perienced and very efficient house
keepers at Mineral Hill Springs this |
season.
The Chattanooga Times is anxious |
for one or both of Knoxville's base ball |
clubs to go down and participate In
the championship game at that place
on the Fourth.
Atlanta, Georgia, has a new daily
called the Dispatch. an evening paper,
and published by Miller & Dickson. 1t
is a sprightly little sheet, is Demo-
cratic with Greenback procliyities.
The examinations at RogersviIle
Female College commence next Mon
day. Rev. Mr.. McCorkle and Hen.
~ II. Pettibone, OF Greeneville, are to
deliver addresses on the occasion.
The Morristown Gazette's Hawkins
county editor notices the arrival last
week Of five fine Jersey heifers from
Camden, \. J., for Mr., Il. t. Beal, of
Meadow Brook Farm, near Rogers
vile.
Rev. DR.. c. II. Fowler went south
from Athens. He delivered his lee
ture, "Great Deeds of Great Men," in
Chattanooga Tuesday night, and was
to deliver the same in Atlanta Wednes-
day night.
oar young friend s. E. Kelley,
operator at the railroad telegraph office
In this city, who is now enjoying a
trip out among the Rocky Mountain
countries, has our thanks for late pa
pers from that region.
The travel over the railroad going
east begins to pick up very materially.
The train night before last pulled
three large sleepers, heavily loaded
with through passengers, and every
train going east is more or less
crowded.
The Austin Texas Statesman, oil
May goth, has this paragraph: Mr.
Jefferson Davis and Bob TOombs viii
probably spend the summer at the ia
NOUS Mineral Hill Springs, at Beam
Station, in the mountains of Eas
Tennessee"
4 colored man was elected council
man at a recent town election a
Glade Spring, Va, and majority wa
cast in favor OF local option. The "F
F.V.," who was elected Mayor at in
same election, has Indignantly re
signed since His blood was to
"blue to stand ali that disgraC
hesped upon him at once.
The first barrel of new flour, manU
factured from wheat raised this yea
was sold at the Merchants Exchang
Nashville, Monday, bringing 81
The wheat was raised and the f1OI
ground in Giles county. Ii was ha
vested on the ooh Of May, grour
aud shipped on the Slst, aud reache
Nashville the same day.
In an item on the Cincinnati SOutl
ern Railroad, the Chattanooga Tim
OF Tuesday says rails are pat down
a point ten miles beyond DAyto
Rhea county, making thirty-seve
miles of track thus far laid at q
Chattanooga end. On Sunday the
was a big dinner at Dayton, in hon
OF the event of the track arriving
that village. The contractors ha
now about liz miles of track to Il
before trains can run through.
In the Circuit Court yesterday Il
Islander suits brought by J. J. DISH
against Rev. G. w. LeVere, Pet
Copeland and John Crowley we
reached on the docket, and the plat
tif's counsel allowed till the next tel
of the court to file his declaration
Each suit is for 5000, and it is
damages claimed to have been sustai
ed by charges brought against O'Sh
which caused his removal as teacher
the city colored schools.
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Marriages,