Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-25
PENCIEETEES.

ClarKsVllle mas q military company
named for Gov. Marks.
Chas. Starkley, Nashville fire
bug" has been arrested.
The city of Macon, Gap pays off her
policemen regularly in gold.
Kate Claxton is filling an engage
ment In Memphis this week.
The waters are receding at Nasb-
Vile ard the people are joyful.
NASHVILLE is beginning to punish Of
tenders against the sanitary laws.
New Patterns and New
Dress Goods at OWENS.
Strawberries command the market
price of fifty cents quart in the south
ern market.
VIM. L. Scruggs, who has been ap-
pointed consul at Canton, China, is q
native of East Tennessee.
The breezes were decidedly chilly
yesterday morning, evidently coming
from snow to the north of us.
Nashville will have another COM
pany of colored citizen soldiers, to be
called the "Bledsoe Guards"
The Selma, Marion and Memphis
road was sold in Memphis, last Mon
day, for the unusual sum of $500.
Seventy Virginians and Tennessee
ans made up party of Mormon emil
grants. They go to Alimosa, Colorado.
During last week about 200 crates of
asparagus were shipped by express
from Charleston, South Carolina, to
New York.
Ninety-fiye trees, one for each coun-
ty in the state, are to be planted in the
capitol grounds at Nashville, during
the centennial.
Sam. S. Hall, of Davidson county,
has presented to the Tennessee Histori
calsociety watch which once belonged
TO Washington.
The market still continues to bs
well supplied with eggs, and they arr
being laid in chesply for Easter. The
ruling retail price is s! to 10 cents.
A big catfish from the Mississippi
river is underway over the ocean to be
at the international fishing exhibition
in Berlin, Prussia.
Some apprehensi0ns are being felt
that we will have an easter squsll
which will be rough on the fruit,
which has been so forward in putting
ont.
The state convention of the national
gTeenback party has been called to
meet in Nashville May 22d to appoint
delegates 10 the national convention at
Chicago.
Farmers, Attention. We will have
IS car loads of Land Plaster ON hand
and for sale. Call early before the
supply is exhausted. w. w. Wood
ruff & 20.
The Times reports Chattanooga
flooded with eggs for Easter. 1t has
had demorslizing effect On the mar.
ket, aud they have fallen from 10 to u
cents, wholesale.
The murder case of Dave HenritZ,
for the killing of companion at q
dance in Chattanooga.about year ago
has been set for trial in the court al
thai place next Monday.
Our friend of the Bristol Argus gets
his credits mixed sometimes. The
CHRONICLES article on the Cranberry
and johnson City railroad enterprise
be credits TO the Tribune.
We have rather slim market, these
pretty days, with the exception oil
turnip greens, onions, etc. The farm
ers are too busily engaged on their
farms to come 10 market.
They Say there is no advance on
Oliver Chilled Flows. The farmers
ought TO lay in their supply before
the advance, which is sure to come.
Woodruff u Co. Keep large stock.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Harris has commenced
the work of erecting himself a new
dental office, to be built of brick, 1t
is located just adjoining his present
Office, on Asylum street, in the rear of
Payne e. Co.'s wholesale house.
The Atlanta, Georgia, Constitution
hss been shown sample OF wheat
grown In that vicinity this season.
The stalk ia three feet long and the
heads nearly filled out. Rather for.
ward we would regard it up in this
part of the world.
The cor cert given by Miss Austin
last week will be repeated tonight at
the Austin school house, colored, on
Crozler street, and should meet with a
liberal patronage There will be some
good music. The proceeds are to go
towards purchasing organs for the
building.
Something rich, rare and racy In the
way OF q breach of promise trial by
moot court is on the bills for the opera
house next Tuesday night. 1t will be
an entertainment richly worth attends
ing, and the proceeds are to be donated
to the fund which is being raised for
the purchase Of pipe organ for
Church street NJ. E. church, south.
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