Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-26
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>Sa3wery and changeable weather yester-
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.Ila Rogersville Spectator tells of fox
hu It which was engaged in by Dock Ken
her Ian Helton near that place the
other night. and ran the fox into a hollow
los Laa stood at one end and told Dock
70 IN zen with the muzzle of his gun at the
OF Ie.. which he did and the thing went off
i -caar ing the full load into Lan's leg, in
i 4 painful wound.
8.r.ev brings 81 5 per bushel in the
r s- lille market.
4 party Of 1877 members of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
which has been IN session at Cincinnati, are
taking in Chattanooga on an excursion trip.
The Chattanooga Street Railway Com
panv has abandoned the horse car business,
purchased mules and commenced working
them III teams.
''Saint- sin-at-her" is the way letter
ha ling from the Emerald Isle was addressed
10 Cincinnati.
1t is rumored up the country that Hon.
James NJ Meek contemplates opening a
National bank at New Market.
A son of W. p Brewer, of Bristol. was
killed by sunstroke at Little Rock Ark. on
the 14th inst.
A daily hack line from Kingston to Emory
Gap on the Cinninnati Southern Railway
was put into operation last Wednesday, ac-
cordng to the East Tennesseean.
The latest name mentioned for the new
paper to be started by j. J. Littleton, jr..
at Kingston, is - The Cyclone"
According to the American 100 laborers
were sent from Nashville by the Intelligence
Company the first of the week to work on
the Knoxville branch of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad.
Both passenger travel and freight bust
ness continues very heavy over the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
and instead of abating, travel seems to be
On the increase.
Jonesboro Herald and Tribune: Mr.
Thomas J. Peoples, brother of L. C. and
NJ. L. Peoples, of this place, has been APP
pointed by State Senator Brown to a
scholarship in the University of Tennessee,
at Knoxville
cambridge Waterman and Reporter: One
night about six months ago DIR. Bradshaw,
of Sevierville, was stopped on the highway
between Fair Garden and Sevierville and
robbed by three men. Last week two men
were travelling over the same road at night,
and were also robbed by three men. No
clue has been found to the robbers.
The carpenter who was injured Wednes-
day by the falling in of the brick arch work
in McNulty's new oil vault, was Van Elliott,
white man. He was able to be out yes.
terday, and will soon be able for work
DR.. A. w. Hawkins, Commissioner OF
agriculture, statistics and mines for Ten
nessee, was in Chattanooga Wednesday
night and delivered an address on the sui
ject of immigration.
Mr. E. E. McCroskey had in his posses.
sion yesterday, in a box with glass cover,
fine specimen of live rattlesnake with
seven rattles and button. 1t was brought
from Coal Creek, where it was captured,
all has been in the box since May last
without food or drink. 1t has shed during
the time, and the thrown off scales are YET
IL the box.
The Office of the Baptist Beacon is being
r. moved from the opera-house building to {
vacant room under the Lamar House, OF
Cumberland street.
Everything is remarkably quiet now abou
the court house and all court circles, ex
c-pt the Justices and police courts. 1t is
for the regular siege of courts will begir
the first of September, to be continued fol
sew raj weeks.
The courthouse aud vicinity is infested
b. large brood of English sparrows
W lich seem to multiply and increase quit
rapidly. Early in the spring only two O
three were to be seen about there, now the,
appear to be almost or quite half a hun
dred strong.
Mr.. w r. Cooper, who has moved hi
citizenship from the 18th to the End dis
trict of Knox County, has been appointe,
by County Superintendent Gibbs, to tn
position of school director for the End dis
trict, thesvoters of that district failing t,
hold an election, therefor. Mr. Cooper wa!
director for years in the 18th district, an,
is a good man, well qualified and adapte,
for the place.
large squad of hands, about fifty o
sixty, most of whom came up from Chatta
on the X. II o. train yesterday evening t,
Condon's works on the railroad connection
John Haywood, colored youth, was al
ranged yesterday before Justice Allison
charged with stealing two knives, worth q
cents each, from old man McFeteridge's tw
girls, all of whom employed at the frui
canning factory. The evidence was insult
ficient, however aud he was discharged II
was afterwards charged with carrying a pis
tOl, waived examination, was bound to cou1
and sent to jail
Sash, Doors and Blinds For Sale, by
W. W. WOODRUFF & Co.