Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-06
PENCTL.ETTss

Although 1t is leap year don't 'lope.
Will we have an ice harvest, after
all is the question.
There is something of relaxation
Ia the cold wave already.
There's one leap year in every four
Breathes there a man who asks iof
more?
The Chattanooga Tax Collector col
lected Sls, 3l9.6S, and the total receipts
of the city were $29, 4o4 81.
County warrants OF Roane county
have been raised and the officials are
trying to find out who did it.
Capt. P. Naples, OF Sewer county,
landed at our wharf yesterday with
cargo of about 500 bushels of wheat.
Two car loads of mules from the
livery stable of Thompson & Jones
were loaded and shipped South from
here yesterday.
The old Flag Pond was entirely
frozen over yesterday, the first time,
we believe, this season. Ii isn't bear
able yet, however.
VIM. Grimsley, merchant Of
Olympus, Tenn, accidentally drank
some hydrate of chloral the other day,
and died before medical aid could be
obtained.
They say there is no advance on
Oliver Chilled P ows. 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.
w. A. Knight, Davidson county's
defaulting Trustee, who was recently
elected to that important position by
the County Court, has rendered his
resignation as such, and 1t was &C.
cepted.
Tonight the young ladies and gen.
tlemen of the Second NJ. E. Churc b
on Clinton Pike will give a musical
entertainment in that church, which
ia expected to be quite an interesting
occasion. The sdmittance ia only 10
centa.
Mrs. Rosa Crumley, white woman,
aged about fifty, was run over
and instantly killed by on engine
Of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Road last Monday, at Chattanooga.
The Coroner's jury said IT, was an
unavoidable accident.
We are sorry TO learn that Mr.. JAS
r. Ogden has another little boy, about
three years of age, very sick and
seemingly affected the same as was hii
little son, Willie, who died few day
ago. The little fellow was restin,
somewhat easier, yesterday, however.
A shoemaker, of Clarksville, trieC
to get man to pay for pair OF boots
and when the. man wouldn't do it,
pulled out a large knife and tried tc
cut it out Of him. He received cor
dial welcome in the shape of an i'm
petuous bullet from six-sh ooter, and
died the next morning.
Mr.. Herbert w. Hall has com
menced in earnest the work OF i'm
proving and beautifying the premise
OF the Col. Reeve residence, on Tenn
pie avenue, beyond the Universit,
grounds, recently purchased by hin
for q residence. When he get
through with 1t, 1t will be one of tn
most attractive places about the city.
Kingston East Tennesseean Co
Scott, of the Oakdale Works, left 70
st. Louis, Mo-, one day last week
where he goes to buy locomotive 70
his railroad now being built from tn
coal mines to the furnace. We under
stand 1t is the intention of the Oakdal,
Company to extend the road to tn,
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, 1t bein,
only six miles further.
Martha Foster (col), OF Nashville
met most horrible DEATH Tuesday
morning, Her clothing became ig
nited and, psnic-stricken she leape,
into bed. The bed clothing tool
fire and she ran to the stairs of tn
tenement house where che lived, an,
stumbling, fell headlong, from top t
bottom. She was burned 80 badl
that the flesh peeled off from til
body In great strips.