Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-05
PENCILETTES.
July has five Sundays.
rrhn :. Fourth y has come and gone.

July has five Sundays.
The Fourth" has come and gone.
Chattanooga had her time this s. Fourth"
In one year from now Knoxville will cele-
brate right royalty the opening of our new
railroad connections.
The first watermelons of the season,
from Southern markets, appeared in our
market Saturday night, and were on sale
yesterday.
There was no session of the chancery
court yesterday, on account of the legal
holiday and the sad news from Washington.
The court will assemble again at 10 o'clock
this morning.
The Knoxville Telephone Exchange now
has Young lady attendant portion of the
time. Miss Maggie Drake, a popular and
accomplished young Knoxville lady, is the
person, and she fills the position admirably.
Yesterday was a booming day for the
street car company, and they raked in the
small change by the peck. The colored
people had the cars chartered almost, and
kept the line hot and the cars crowded the
entire day.
There was an unusual amount of drunk
cnness Oh the streets yesterday and last
night.
It doesn't take any extra advertising and
promise of something great to be seen, to
bring crowd to Knoxville on the 4th Of
July They seem to come rather instinc-
lively.
Hazel KirIe." by Richmond & Nc
Elreth's Company, at the Opera-house to.
night.
Black Sam in Dr. Keys Keystone Lima
mentswagon, was one of the chief street at
fractions yesterday.
The crowds of visitors to Knoxville yes
terday was not confined to the colored folks
There were great throngs of them, but, il
addition to that all the trains coming int
the city Sunday, on the E. T., Y. and 6
Roaa, and yesterday morning from the X
and \. and x. and O, roads, brough
crowds, besides the many coming from tn
surrounding country. Yesterdays / o'cloc1
train from up the country, was a large on
and literally packed with passengers, whit
and colored. Thus the streets wer
thronged all day with strangers who hat
come for the trip.
The steamer Britannia, New York fc
Liverpool, is ashore at Nilnore, coast c
Wexford Ireland Efforts are being mad
70 tighten her. The vessel is making Il
water. A steam tug boat has gone to he
assistance.
LATER.-The steamer Britannia is ligh
ening to be ready for the next high water
The weather is fine
The Norwegian bark, Ceto, from Wi
mington, \. G Tor Rotterdam, before It
ported abandoned at sea, has been brougl
into Plymouth by the Prize crew. from tn
Norwegian bark, Colorist, for Fleetwood.
The local celebrations of independent
Day at Liverpool We're postponed.
The Liverpool Courier says: The Amer
can people will find that their brethren ca
sympathize with them. No where in tt
world viii this generous and spontaneor
sympathy be more sincere, and no where
England more cordial than e III Liverpool
whose pulse beats in unison with the tran
Auauuc people.
LIVERPOOL, July 1.-THE Post say
The world holds its breath ut the new
scarcely conceivable, of the development
the fatal homicidal mania, which has, i'll
many directions, encroached upon the secu
ity and amenity of public life. We lear
from this dire event that lands where Il
popular voice selects their rulers are as a
cessib.e as others to this foul contagion."