The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-21
CHATTANOOGA.
Notes, News and Items Of Local and
General Interest.

CHATTANOOGA, May 20, 1880.
The Roane Iron Company are erecting a
new brick laboratory. 2S by 20 feet in di-
mensons N. w. Smith has the contract
The Public Schools close the session to-
day. All the rooms in the various build
ings are handsomely decorated with flowers,
flags, bric-a-brac, &c. The closing exercises
are interesting ana listened to by large au-
diences of interested parents and friends.
The graduating class at the High School is
the largest in the history of the Schools
The Board of Examiners will hold exam
nations Of applicants for positions In our
public schools May 25th and 26th. An
other examination will probably be he'd
in August. Our School Board has in view
the improvement of our corps of teachers,
and there will probably be some opportu-
nifty for experienced teachers to gain stu
ations as principals and assistants. The
pay of principals next year will probably
be fixed at 500 per month; assistants,
from $35 to $685. according to grade. The
city employs about forty teachers
Mr.. Geo. Child. we are glad to notice, is
nearly well of the injury received about
two weeks since.
The Soddy Coal 90. are erecting fifty
coke ovens at their mines twenty miles
north OF Chattanooga, on the G. s. r. ,R.
They have a superb cnke-making coal, and
have contracted with the Barton Iron
Works, Georgia, for their entire produc-
tion a year ahead. The Barton furnace
has recently stopped operations on account
OF the difficulty of obtaining first-class
coke.
The soddy Coal Company will next week
begin their first shipments by rail South
over the @. s. R. R. This Company has
alwa heretofore shipped its coal by river
to Chattanooga, dumping the run of the
mines into barges. the coal reaching here
often saturated with water in such way
as to materially affect its weight. At
times OF low water they have frequently
been unable to ship at all for weeks They
will now grade their coal and ship entirely
by rail.
A. L. Lester, inventor of the Lester pat.
ent shirt and reversible bow, was in the
city yesterday, and left on this mornings
train for Cincinnati.
Mr.. J. T. Williams, Of the Soddy Coal
COMPANY, leaves in few days for Atlanta
and other southern points.to establish
agencies for their coal, the product OF
which will be greatly increased by the ship
ping facilities afforded by the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad.
The Chattanooga Fire-clay and Brick
Works are making all the fre-brlck for
the new rolling mill at Birmingham, Ala.
A good story is told on Ed. Bearden, an
old veteran who went around to interview
General Johnston when here the other
day, who engaged in lively conversation
with the boys. Referring to the campaign
in Mississippi, Edward asked the General
"whv do you suppose 1t was General, when
the Yanks had whole corps OF 40, 600 men
we'll equipped and well fed and we had
only four or five thousand ragged, half
starved, dirty fellows that they didn't fol.
low us up faster and scoop us all in2'
"Well," said Johnston, with a merry
twinkle in his eye as he scanned Edwards
lean form, II don't know, unless they just
didn't think you were worth the trouble. "
Bystanders say Edward retired to reflect.
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