Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-24
PENCILETTES.
Thanksgiving day.
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The weather holds out well
Cheap JOB PRINTING at Ramage's.
This is educational day at the Atlanta Ex-
position.
The hotels will all do their best to-day on
Thanksgiving dinners.
Indications point to united Thanksgiving
observation in Knoxville.
Everybody that is able will feast to-day on
turkey and other good things.
Hog-killing has commenced in earnest in
some parts of the country.
The Nashville city council goes on an sx-
cursion to the Atlanta Exposition next Sun
day.
The charter of the Rugby Commissary"
has been registered by the Secretary Of
State at Nashville.
1t has been decidedly unfayorble weather
in which to make prearations for the obser'
vance of thanksgiving,
Col. Marcellus E. Thornton has pur-
chased the Post-Appesl, at Atlanta, Ga, and
will change it into morning paper.
From the movements and preparations
going on about town, the woods will be full
of Nimrods to-day, and the game had better
hide out.
A Columbia, s. c., telegram of the 22d
inst says: Bishop Wightman. the oldest
bishop of the Methodist Church, South,
now lies at the point of death in Charleston
His dissolution is momentarily expected.
Maj A. H. Gregg, mayor of NTorristown,
of the firm OF GreggA Co, Johannesburg,
n Y, has al excellent display of agricul-
.ural implements at the Atlanta Exposition,
which he Is experimenting in person.
James Foster, a colored gardener at Nash
vile, took'a so premium for the best dis
play of potatoes Ill the agricultural depart
ment of the Atlantis Exposition. He also
took several other awards On different arti-
cies.
The editor of the Bristol News, I. c..
Fowler, who Was at the recent election
elected as Readjuster member of the Vir-
ginia house of delegates, from Washington
County, is prominently spoken of rs q can
didate for speaker.
A letter was received in Nashville Mon
day, according to the American, from CHIEF
Justice Deaderick, stating that his health
was improved and he hoped to be able to be
present at the approaching terra of the Su.
preme Court at Nashville.
Officers Youngblood and Ruckart, of the
police force, gave lively chase yesterday
evening to young blood from South Amer
lea, who was in town on little spree, anc
was guilty of slapping woman on CroZiel
street
Engineer Zeke Weatherford tells gooC
one on our clever friend andfellow-citizan
Josh Mcclure. He says the last he saw O
Josh was about two days before the recen
elections, and Josh was making his way, will
all his might, to help out the Democrats il
Mississippi.
The Bristol and North Carolina marrow
guage railroad has been abandoned Tn
News man says he has never believed
would be built, and with friendly allianc
with the Norfolk and Western and Eas
Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia, he sse
little reason Why it should be.
Rev. John Jasper, the famous "sun
move" colored preacher of Virginia, will nc
be at the Baptist Convention here, as ha
been stated. He has not been for som
years identified with any regular church, {
We are informed, but goes at it rather
random and on his own hook.
The city oil lamp lighter, T T. Locket
has been introducing in some portions
his territory a new improvement III Il
shape of a tubeless oil burner to his lamp
Ii appears to be great improvement ov
the old lamp, giving al much, if not NOR
light than tho gas posts II seems to us
should be introduced on all the oil lamps.
VIM. Fielding, the young fellow who W
arrested and jailed few weeks since,
stealing about SIS from j. ). Cakes, W
released frsm jail last week, on the securi
of his counsel. The release was advised
the physician, he being subject TO fits 81
Lot in condition to be kept in jail FieI
ing's father came here from his home
New York State, and took his son ava
and that viii likely be the last of him