Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-14
PENCILETTFS.
Threatening weather.

Threatening weather,
Christmas turkeys are moving South
ward.
Thos. w Keene, the tragedian, is play
ing Richard III, Richelieu and Macbeth in
Nashville, this week;
At brilliant entertainment given by
Miss Matte Gordon III Nashville last week.
Miss Ora Miller, of this city, and Mr..
Lewis 7. Baxter, were honored guests.
The express men begin to feel very sensi-
bly, the effects of the Christmas trade.
Packages begin to be shipped to and fro in
all directions.
At the railroad conductors convention in
New Orleans last week, r. B. Brown, of
the Louisville & Nashville road, was elected
president. The next annual meeting will
be held in Milwaukee.
Saturday night a passenger coach, with
baggage apartment, on the Wilmington and
Weldon On. c.. Railroad, took fire and was
consumed, with baggage worth 81 800 The
passengers escaped unhurt
The warehouse of the Chester and Lenoir
Narrow Guage Railroad company, at Ches-
ter, S. c., containing 100 bales of cotton
and other freight, was destroyed by fire from
spark from a locomotive Saturday night.
Loss about $4,000.
Kingston Cyclone: Sam Miles, a young
man about 81 years of age, met fearful
death Thursday, by the caving in of
Hench's ore bank, near Thief Neck. A
few minutes before he had seen a large
piece of ore commence to fall, but ne
escaped from the mine unhurt. He then
returned and commenced work again, and
Immediately the ore fell again, and crushed
him to death.
jefferson Davis has telegraphed the man.
ayers of the Atlanta Exposition, that cir
cumstances will prevent his attendance be-
fore the close.
The bill boards about town are profusely
covered with flaming bills, after the show
fashion, advertising a North Carolina
smoking tobacco.
The Chattanooga Times has reliable in
formation that negotiatins are pending
whereby the projected Lookout Mountain
Railway, from Chattanooga to Rome, is to
be completed
The stables of the Atlanta street rail
way company were destroyed by fire Sat
llrday night, about thirty mules perishing
in the flames. Loss about S., 00O build
ings and live stock included.
Another curiosity is exhibited in the show
window of Messrs. Ross Brothers, along
side of the big gourd. 1t is small snake,
of the spreading adder species, with two
distinct and perfectly formed heads. 1t was
captured in North Carolina, and is bottled
We understand that special excursion to
the Atlanta Exposition is in contemplation
by the teachers of our city schools mex
week. The plan is, we learn, TO leave
Thursday of that week, and the Christmas
holiday week for the children will begi1
with that date.
The E., T., ", G. e. g. Railroad Com
pany have provided their conductors ant
agents on the entire combination of roads
with book, suited for the pocket contain
ing, in condensed and convenient shape, the
passenger tariff from and to every station
between Bristol and Meridien, on all thu
lines. 1t is matter of great convenience
to both conductors and agents.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
Sia Railroad Company has received a
Brunswick, Ga, eight cargoes of tirst-clasi
steel rails, to be used on the extension o.
their lines between Macon and Rome
Track laying has begun at Macon, about tire
miles having been laid up to the presen
time. This company, also writes our cor
respondent, is greatly charging it
wharves at Brunswick, and has also beGul
the erection of new depot there.