Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-24
PEECsLETESS.

"Listen to that frog"
"Mardigrassn is the way they spell
1t in Greeneville.
Atlanta has 1900 girls at work In
the various mills.
Horse thieves are operating extn-
sively around Nashville.
The newly elected members OF our
police force have donned brand-new
uniforms, and present nooby APP
pearance.
A car load OF mules and horses and
car of beef cattle were loaded and
shipped south from this point by yes
teriay's train.
The grand jury of Shelby county
has found three true bills against Jas.
A. Anderson, late public administrator,
for enlightenment.
The Nashville American, of Sum
day, notes the fact that John Trayner
has been appointed coal oil inspector
at Cleveland, Tenn essee.
Sunday was a typical. spring day,
and it was enjoyed immensely, espe-
cially in the afternoon, by the pleasure
seekers and promenaders,
Miss Matte J. Bird died at o'clock
a. M, February 22d, at the residence
of Rev. E. J. Hyatt, Whitesburg, Ten
nessee, aged 10 years and 10 months.
Those weather prophets who figured
out yester day to be the coolest and
severest day of the winter, had better
crawl in their hole and pull it in after
them.
Yesterday was observed as a legal
holiday in the chief cities of the
United States, the day falling on Sun
day, consequently we have no market
reports by telegraph.
We noticed yesterday that the new
notion house of Messrs. Ault & Lii.
lard is rapidly being filled with goods.
They are certainly getting in hand
some stock Of notions.
Washington's birth day, last Sun.
day, passed of withou: anybody
knowing it hardly. 1t seems that this
memorable event is growing more
neglected year after year, in this sec,
ton.
Knox county securities seem TO be
somewhat on the advance. A gentle
man informed US yesterday that sew
eral months ago he was offered IS
cents for bridge bonds and yesterday
he was offered So.
Our wholesale coffee market is quite
excited and feverish, as will be seen
by our market quotations. There has
been an advance OF two cents on the
pound, all around, within the past
week, and tits still advancing.
A number Of Mormon missionaries
are reported as preaching in and
around Carter county. If ever q
judicious application of the products
of pine tree and the goose were de,
fensible they certainly are in this case.
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 & Co, keep large stock.
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 & 20.
The police force, one man beirg as.
signed to each ward and supplied with
the proper blanks, began yesterday a
thorough inspection of the city to as
certain the exact sanitary condition OF
all premises and locate all nuisances
after which Sanitary Policeman Nose
Smith will come along and abate said
nuisances.
Nashville American: flames Rob.
ertson, a boy fourteen or fifteen years
OF age, was drowned in the back water
near South Front street, about half
past o'clock yesterday afternoon. He
rode horse into the water for the pur-
poee Of watering him, and it is sup>
posed that the horse became frightened,
as he took Robertson into deep water
and began plunging about"