Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-01-30
PENCEEET gEs.


B. Claim, at Chattanooga, on Tuesday.
The immortal "ten" and ''six" will
lock horns again Tonight In the Clty
Council.
The Jury is still out on the il KS
hog stealing case which was taken up
in the Criminal Court Wednesday.
A young boy was killed at Rock
wood last Saturday by car in which
he was riding jumping the track and
turning over on him.
The action of the new Board OF
Mayor and Aldermen at their regular
meeting 10 might, is looked forward to
will much interest.
Two young men of Grayson county,
Virginia, Wylie Hill and Tom Patton,
got into row at a shooting match,
and the former was stabbed to death.
The members of the new police
force have had quiet time since they
entered upon their duties. Scarcely
an arrest of any consequence has been
made.
Michael Foley is retained by the
present administration of city affairs
as janitor at the City Hall and Market
House. Uncle Mike makes faithful
and efficient janitor.
A fellow feels very much like shed
ding his winter flahnels under the OPP
pressiveness of this weather, but it had
best be borne awhile. No telling
what may come yet.
Farmers, Attention !! We will have
25 car loads Of Land Plaster on hand
and for sale. Call early before the
supply is exhausted. w. w. Wood
ruff 6 Co.
The Tennessee Historical Society
has opened correspondence TO find
out what an equestrian statue Of jack
son will cost. The statue is to be
placed in the capitol.
A Memphis policeman while pur-
suing fleeing thief, Monday night,
fred at him, the ball striking him in
the foot and glancing up from the
pavement lodged in the thigh of a
negro woman.
They say there is no advance on
Oliver Chilled ? ows. The farmers
ought to lsy in their supply before
this advance, which is sure to come.
Woodr uf & Co, keep large stock.
The Governor has pardoned Robert
Wilson, of Middle Tennessee, who
was in the penitentiary for ten years
for robbery, on the conditions that he
abstains from Intoxicating drink and
supports bis mother.
Wytheville (Va) Enterprise: "a
bear weighing 500 pounds was killed
some days since on White Top Moan-
tain, in Grayson county, by Mr.. Steve.
Dickey. A bruin of such weight is
not often killed" .......
There seems to be a growing belief
that Daniel Deem, who was hanged in
Estellville, Va, on the 10Th of Decem :
Der, for the murder of Fugate, was in
nocent of the deed. He was convict.
ed on circumstantial evidence.
A lady living near Telford's at.
tempted to commit suicide the other
day. She was deranged and required
close watching, Escaping though
from her keepers, she was found in an
clubhouse with great cash in hel
throat. 1t is thought she will recover
Kingston East. Te'anesSeean: Some
parties are prospecting for iron ore on
the Manis place, a few miles below
town, with some success, good ar.
ticle of brown hemitite ore being
found. 1t is yet to be ascertained
whether it exists in sufficient quantity
to make the find valuable"
Geo. w. Herderlite, prominent
Virginia Republican and Treasurer Of
Smyth county for two terms, during q
fit of mental alteration, leaped from q
window in the third story OF the
Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, and
was dashed to pieces on the pavement
below.
Attention is directed to the an.
nouncement elsewhere of the sociablt
to be given by the ladies of the Second
Presbyterian Church in their Chapel
parlors tonight, 1t will no doubt be
an elegant and refined affair, and We
bespeak for them large atten dance
Refreshments will be served ia fine
style.
We understand that in the Mary
Vile Circuit Court Wednesday, Judg,
Young presiding, by Interchange will
Judge Rodgers, the case of arson
against Allen Garner, Esq, a former
Justice OF the Peace, who is charged
with burning Blount county's court
house, was heard, but the jury was
out on the case over Wednesday night
1t 10 fact that is perhaps not gener
ally known that ice is now being
shipped to Knoxville from Atlanta
Georgia, where it was manufactured
Mr.. Kern, who uses it in bis confec
tonery business at all seasons, has beer
getting his ice from from there since
Christmas. Our ice factory men would
do well to prepare themselves during
the next season against repetition
1t oughtn't to be thus, but then the