Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-11
PENCILETTES.
ap JOB PRINTING at Ramage's

Chattanooga's "pink-eye" epidemic is
getting better.
Next Wednesday, 10th inst, will be rail
road day at the Atlanta exposition.
The Greene County poor-house contains
81 paupers, &C cording to the Herald.
1t is said that there was smart sprinkle
of snow in Bristol yesterday evening
Coal is selling at Kingston at 20 cents a
bushel, according to the East Tennesseean.
Wheat is reported on the decline and
worth about 81 80 in the Greeneville mar
ket.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes has been elected
supervisor of roads at his home, Fremont,
Ohio
The editor of the Newport Seminal has
been shown a matured ripe cherry of the
second growth.
Over fifty tickets were sold from Greene
vile to Knoxville, in single day, during
the fair, says the Herald.
Apples of the second growth of good size,
sound and apparently well matured, have
been found near Gallatin.
The Tennessee Historical Society met in
Nashville last Tuesday. L. L. Schleler was
elected an active member.
The grain and produce market has been
very dull and inactive, with scarcely any
thing doing for the past few days.
Bill Kerr had his his hands full on yester-
days train. He had aparty of about twenty
emigrants for Texas and other points.
A rumor prevailed in Atlanta, Tuesday
night, that Frederick Paulding was dying at
Macon, Ga, where he has been quite sick.
The Kingston East Tennesseean reports
Col Thos. b. Byrd as raising a sweet po-
tato which weighed 10 pounds when first
dug.
Kingston is building a new calaboose, into
which, the East Tennesseean intimates, the
Cyclone man ought to be put for telling
stories.
Thieves burglarized a drug store in New
port few nights since and stole several
quarts of whisky. Nothing else Of account
was disturbed.
The corn crop of Greene County is re-
ported to be turning out much better than
was expected, and will fall but little short of
an average crop.
Brownlow Compton, son of Mr.. James
Compton, and his wife returned home
Wednesday from Russellville, where Brown
low went to work on a farm, but was taken
sick with fever
The Youths Sentinel heretofore pub
lshed at Sweetwater, by Rev. r. A. Hut
sell, of the N, E. Church, South, has been
removed, and will hereafter be published at
Fincastle, Campbell County.
At a special session of the Roane County
Court Monday D. C. Sparks was elected
county surveyor in place of J. A. Newton,
resigned Dr. j. N. Willis was elected
DhySician for the county DOOR
A telegram was received Wednesday
night by Mr.. w. E. Atkinson that his
brother, Lieut.. j. J. Atkinson, of Jones
boro, was thought to be dying. He has
been a sufferer for many years
Newport, Cooke County, continues to be
n good stock market. The Sentinel reports
the shipment, during the past week, of five
car loads of fat hogs from that point fol
Cincinnati ard one car of cattle and shoats
for Charleston, S. G.
Elizabethton Mountaineer: Mr.. Robt
johnson, depot agent at this place, report!
that one hundred and sixty-three Thousand
pounds of freight have passed over the E
T. & W. n. G. Railroad, during the montl
of October. This is pretty fair business
for the new road.
The East Tennesseean is authority for tn,
statement that Prof. Dewey, of Chatta
nooga, charged the county of Roane $50
for his analysis of the contents of the stom
ach of one of the victims of the Colone
Dali wedding poisoning, and he proposes T.
bring cult to enforce payment.
Death to rats and vermin, Parsons FL
Termination