Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-15
PENClLETTES.

The whooping cough is prevailing
10 some extent at Blountville.
The editor of the Bristol Courier has
eight cases of measles In his family. {
St. Valentines day will be the next
attraction.
The train from Bristol yesterday
presented quite winterish appear
ance.
In the Nashville police court va
grants are fined $50.
Ice is being gathered ct Nashville
nine inches in thickness.
Memphis has commenced the prepa-
rations for 8 grand Mardi Gras cele.
bration this year.
Richard johnson died in Cooke
county last week, aged 81 years.
Fanny Davenport played Pique in
Chattanooga last night.
Harper's Weekly, of the current |
week, contains an excellent portrait OF
Hon. Alvin G. Hawkins, governors
elect of Tennessee.
Now for the final tug In the munic-
ipsl contest.
Country roads in soms places are
almost impossible.
Mr.. G. E. D psser has retired from the
editorial management OF the Jones'
boro Journal, and Col. r. 81. DUNCAN
is sole editor.
Prof. E. s. Joynes, of the university,
is 10 lecture for the Iron, Coal and
Manufacturing association in Chatts-
nOoga some time during the winter.
The chart4r of incorporation for
pheasant Grove church and school
honse" was registered by the secretary
of state at Nashville last week.
Blountville Star: John Hystt's little
child, aged about seven months, died
last Friday night, without the knowl-
edge of any member of the family,
until the discovery was made next
morning.
Mrs. L. c. French, of this city, is to
give an Evolutionary entertainment
at the Masonic institute, Cleveland,
Thursday night, Goth inst.
Cleveland pays 20 cents per pushed
for BLACK Diamond and 10 cents for
Soddy coal, laid down in the coal yard,
according to the Banner.
Miss Charlotte Thompson and COM
pany will arrive on the 3:05 train this
afternoon, and has rooms engaged at
that popular hotel the Hattie house.
D. B. Loveman & Co., Of Chatts-
nooga, have made a new departure in
the dry goods business. They now
run a delivery wagon in connection
with their business.
The county court of Sullivan county
mas decided to submit to g. vote ii the
people the question of levying school
tax for 1881. The court un' Iimously
adoL tel resolution rec" amending
the repeal of the act p ablishing 8
corporation in the town II Blouatvilfe
W. R. Austin is tle Tennessee re-
present alive at Washington the recep'
ton committee Of: the presfde entail in
auguration ceremonies. Those wht
contemplate at ending the Inaugural
ton from t1is state will no doubt d.
we'll to correspond with him.
James Thompson, formerly Of Nc
MINI county, was arrested in Cleve
land last Monday, taken to Chstta
nooga and jailed on the suspicion @
having burned the Chickamauga depo
a few weeks since.
There was another fall Of snow yei
terdsy morning, following cold an
clustering rain which lasted throug
though the ground was SO moist, til
snow lay to depth of half inch Q
80 in places.
Capt. Gaines Harrill, who is loc'
messenger agent at this point for til
Cincinnati Southern railway, tickete
a family of emigrants on yesterday
noon train, bound for Springfield, Nj
over the Cincinnati Southern.
Mr.. Peter Autoguoli came down
ves,erday's noon train from Mem
Ian's, where he was married Wedn'
dav t. Miss Laura Poltis. His W
remained at their country home
the present.
The fret spike7was driven on t
East Tennessee and Western MOI
Carolina narrow gauge railroad
johnson City "Wednesday, and trat
laying will proceed at the rate OF
mile per day, says the Jonesb'
Journal.
Jonesboro Journal: Winfield
Thompson has half-breed Jersey C
from which he has sold 20 pounds
In t.r for $14 since the first OF u
her and had plenty for family use,
sava-pearly as much as he sold.
was two years old last April.
Jonesboro Herald and Trlbu
Farmers living on Holston river
this and Sullivan counties, are max
nreuars t ons to boat their corn, VII
and produce in general, down
Knoxville when the river is suffici'
lv high to take them there.
Mr.. Peter J. Antognoli, of this {
was married Wednesday evening
Miss Laura M. Ports, at her ht
near McMillan's station. The gr'
isa clever Italian, one of tue prop
tors of the City Fruit store, at the 70
house corner. .--
Two colored boys. Is and Is veal
age. were fined $50 and sent to
work house the other day at Ch
nooga, for stealing coal from
Roane iron works. The Times
mates that 100 tones Of coal have
st lien from the works this winter
would pay them to keep watchm
cambridge Waterman and
norter: We hear q great deal of
over the election of the second TT
Sav in February, which is for the
nose OF deciding whether or not
county stock in the East Tenne
Virginia and Georgia railroad shs
sold or retained, aud very large
iority we find are In favor of sci
hut those who are opposed to sci
we notice, are the best financers o.
county.
Newnort Sentinel: Col. Lsngh