Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-16
Personal.


, Personal.
LIrs. J. 7. Taylor, of the firm of Taylor
& Co., arrived on the $50 train this morn
ing, after five weeks sojourn in the Eastern
cities.
MIR. A. B. Jones, of the Methodist Advo-
cate Publishing Company, at Atlanta, Ga,
arrived Thursday night and went out yester-
day evening to Clinton to attend the East
Tennessee Conference.
Hon. S. A. Rodgers and wife and little
son, came up from Loudon yesterday even
ing.
Mr.. E. E. McCroskey, of the Central
Coal Company, returned yesterday evening
from Chattanooga.
MIR. W. W. Champ, of the firm of E. 1.
Wilson & Co., proprietors of the Atlanta
Telegraph College, is in the city for the
purpose of procuring suitable location for
the establishment of branch college at this
place. Mr.. Champ is an energetic young
man and we hope his company will meet
with the success their enterprise deserves.
Mrs. F. A. Butler arrived home yester-
vile.
Mr.. Max Lobenstein, of Knoxville, and
Messrs. P. B. Smith and E. A Thorman,
of Cedar Grove, Georgia, have purchased
from Messrs Jones & Sons, Business Course
scholarships in the City Department of the
Knoxville Business College, and Mr.. Arthur
Wright, of Knoxville, has just entered their
Telegraphic Department. Mr.. Wright might
recently have taken his choice of no less
than three good positions, if he had under
stood telegraphy.
S. D. Lewis, Grand Patriarch" E. B.
Mann, Deputy Grand Master, Alex. Kelly
and David w. Lewis, representatives to the
Grand Lodge, I. o. o. F., left for Nash
vile this morning, Master Isaac A. Lewis
accompanying them.
Mr.. B. N. Magill, the genial and cleve,
salesman for Lewis & Carhart, has returned
from trip down the road.
Mr.. T. L. Van Fossen and family, of Lou.
isiana, who have passed the summer quite
pleasantly in the city, departed for home on
the IL o'clock train yesterday.
Miss Laura Andes, daughter of Mr.. Ben.
c. Andes, and her aunt, Miss Nan. C. Andes
left yesterday for Chattanooga.
Miss Kate Lyle and Misses Annie and
Mamie McMillin, of Chattanooga, who have
been visiting at Col j. w. Gaut's for few
days, left for home yesterday.
Mr.. w. r. Turner, a prominent attorney
at Sevierville, was in the city yesterday, Ell
route to the Atlanta Exposition.
Col L. Fl. Reeves, United States Marshal
left yesterday evening to join his family Al
Jonesboro.
Hon. r. Mcfarland, of the Supreme
Bench, went up yesterday evening to Nor
ristown to pass Sunday at home.
Mr.. W. H. Wiley, of the Atkin House
arrived yesterday from Saltville, Va.
Mrs. Sas. p Reeder and child returned
yesterday evening from visit to Athens.
Mr.. w. Dow Rule, of the river mail ser
vice between Chattanooga and Kingston, ar
rived yesterday evening to spend q shor
furlough at home. He is in bad health.
Mrs. s. A.. Craig and her sister, Mis-
Hattie Williams, arrived home yesterday
evening from an extended visit to Ohio.
Mr.. w. NJ. Ashmore went up yesterday
evening to Messy Greek to visit home folks
Mr.. Robert P. Hill, lately with Fain
Moore, of cambridge, Tenn, is now viii
Messrs. Ross Brothers, of this city, where
he will be pleased to see all his old friends
and many new ones.
Miss Rebecca Felts, of Loudon, was il
the city yesterday, visiting Mrs. Chas. O
Ward, at the Hattie House.
Hon. W. B. Staley leaves to-day for May
nardville, Union County, where his Chan
Gerry Court opens Tomorrow.
Tho Knoxville Post-OfFice.
Reliable information reached Knoxville
yesterday, from private sources, that the
name of the present incumbent, who was
nominated for the position by the late Pres
ident Garfield, had been or would be with.
drawn, and the name Of Ex-Chanceilor O.
P. Temple substituted IF it has not been
done already, it will be done this week,
most probably tomorrow. Judge Temple
was an applicant last spring, but it has not
been understood that he was pressing bis
claims latterly.