Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-15

Good Friday.
The weather continues quite phenomenal.
The second spring month is now half
gone.
The town of cambridge is to have fur
niture store soon, according to rrlmor.
Eddie Hawkins, the boy orator. was III
Greeneyilie the first of the week
The season at the popular Rhea Springs
viii be opened the first of June.
The closing exercises at Tusculum College,
Greene county, will take place FRIDAY, Y
inst.
Call q book agent colonel" and he viii
always come again, says knowing para
grapher.
4 special session of the Roane comfy
CONT has been called for the first Monday IL
Nav TO take action on the new road law.
goo. Goods at the E. T. China
House for 90 cents. Price, and see
for yourselves.
Bvcicles are growing into pretty general
use in Nashville. Business men ride them
TO and from their homes.
\ new United States mail box has been
put up at the car shed, in place of the
broken one. and the convenience of posting
mail at the railroad is restored.
Henry Ru5e. colored convict from VIII
hanson county. under sentence for 10
years from November, 1880, died of con-
sumption in the penitentiary Monday
Two gambling-houses. one white and one
colored. were raided IN Nashville Sunday,
and half dozen men captured IN each
place.
Mr.. James Madden, of the butchering
firm of SeiIaz & Madden, at Chattanooga,
has purchased a fine lot of beef cattle for
, their business. which were shipped last
night
About seventy horses are now in training
at the Nashville track, for the spring meet
INC of the Nashville Blood Horse Associa-
ton, says the American.
It is hard to conceive of much more
disagreeable day than yesterday. 1t ralned
all the forenoon, drizzled and turned cold
the rest of the time, and continued 50 last
night.
The household goods of Rev. H. H. Nor
rell, the new rector of st. Johns Episcopal
Church. have arrived, and he and family
took up tssir residence yesterday in the
parsonage n Walnut street, near Asylum.
The Tri-State Medical Society, composed
of physicians of the States of Tennessee
Mississippi and Arkansas, met in regular
se1ni-annua1 session in Memphis Tuesday.
About one hundred members were present
The appointment of H. r. Gibson as
post-office inspector. noted by US yesterday
was for this district, not division as the
printer made us say. His district cover:
East and Middle Tennessee and a portion Of
Virginia, if we mistake not.
The Chattanooga city council has passed
on two readings an ordinance drawn up IL
conformity TO the bill recently passed by the
legislature. authorizing cities to fund then
indebtedness. The council also authorized
the street car company to adopt the modified
ct" rail.
Athens Post: The statement that the
peach crop has been damaged but lightly
is made by parties who don't know mucE
about it. The prospect is utterly ruined IL
this section. We have examined quite 6
number of trees without finding a single live
bud
According to the Morristown Gazette
Mrs. c. Linck, proprietress of the Mag
nolia House. Nashville, cOntemplates leasing
aud running the celebrated Mineral Hill
Springs this season. Mrs. Linck was up tt
look at the premises this week.
John Thompson alias Mason Moore, wa
convicted at the recent term of circui
court AT NIorristown of grand larceny, AN
sentenced to three years in the penitentiary
Robert Mitchell was fined 800 and sent t
the county jail six months for feloniou
assault.
Among recent donations to the Tennessee
Historical Society were the following b
Judge Pitkin C. Wright of Nashville
The Great Vest a large work of muc
interest printed III Greeneville, Tenn, i
1854. and lottery ticket in the first cor
solidated lottery of the State of Tennessee
dated November, 1926.
The funeral Of Mrs. Ellen Dunn. wife G
Mr.. G. G.. Dunn. took place yesterday ever
ing at the Catholic Church, attended by
large concOurse of mourning friends, an
the remains were followed to Calvery Gene
terry for interment by a large funeral co
tage The bereaved husband is populf
engineer On the T. T., Y. & G. Railroad
and has the sympathies of many friends
his sad bereavement.
Morristown Gazette: A daughter of Wac
H Smith, ESQ. of Hawkins county met with
painful accident last Wednesday. She h,
cliIifbed up q ladder into the loft of bull
ing to get some eggs. Her foot slipped al
she fell to the floor below, SCATTERING Il
bones Just above the ankle of the rig
foot The limb will probably have to
amputated.
Don't buy your Fancy Hose until you S
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