Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-02
PENCILETTES.
Rain in abundance .. . g..

Yesterday was pay-day at the Knoxville
Marble Company's works. Mr.. George w.
Ross, the secretary and treasurer of the
company, went up TO the quarry, with
bountful supply OF specie, and gladdened
the hearts of the numerous employees in a
substantial manner. et
The falling weather of yesterday shut off
all the building and outdoor work about
town. and gave the laborers days rest.
One dollar for immediate delivery is be-
ing paid for new wheat in Athens.
Cleveland has broom factory and an ice
cream saloon.
Bob Career and Arthur Masll were wrest-
ling in Sweetwater a few days since, and
Bob was thrown on the pavement and his
collar bone broken in two places, according
to the Democrat.
The line of the Narrow Guage Railroad,
from Bristol TO Elizabethton. has been
finally determined upon, and the work is
soon to be commenced, says the Jonesboro
Journal
The Press and Times wants the army of
Migrants that infest the town of Rogersville
put on the rock pile to improve the street.
gray eagle, measuring seven feet ten
inches from tip to tip, was killed by Thos.
Brown near ROgersville last week, according
to the Press and Times. Its talons were
full of wool.
According to the Press and Times the
court house at Rogersville has been for the
last five years gambling hell" 1t con
sists of the assembling of disreputable
parties in the temple of justice of nights
and carrying on their pernicious practices
The Press and Times calls loudly for sup
preston of the outrage.
Mrs. Fortner died near Rogersville June
"A, aged about "a years. #as#s
Two car loads of new wheat were sold at
Shelbyville, Tenn, last week. Price 81 in
the field 1881
The little girl of Mr. George Wormuth.s
who was under treatment by DIR. Geo. L.
Wiley of the Atkin House, for poisoning
from drinking DIR. Bulls cough Syrup, has
entirely recovered.
The east bound train yesterday evening
had very heavy travel, both through and
local. Eighteen through passengers off the
train took dinner at the Akin House.
Some delightful showers of rain yester-
day evening made material change for the
better in the atmosphere.
The age of John Chumlea. Esq, whose
death was noted in our yesterdays issue,
was Y years. In the notice it was written
compositor put itup q" thirty"
Fritz Frieke, a youthful but intelligent
Young German, from Hamburg, Germany
is in the store of Nh John Litchtenwanger.
He has been but one month in America, and
cannot, as yet, speak a word of English.
The Fourth Of July celebration commit
tee at Chattanooga has raised by subscrip-
ton, including the 800 given by the city
II m Of
the occasion. All the railroads, the hotels
and d. d. Loveman gave 500 each.
The base ball contest at Chattanooga on
the Fourth will DE between the Chatta-
nooga Z" Browns" and the Sewanee club.
As We see from the Times, the Garfield y
base ball club of this city, and the ''Ath-
etIcs, OF Huntsville, Ala, both colOred
have given notification that they will play
match game at Chattanooga on the Fourth,
for $50. All the funds were provided for.
but an effort is being made to raise such a
purse.
Last nights train was heavily loaded with
passengers. large party of young ladies
from various points in Middle and West
Tennessee stopped here to attend the Nor
mai Institute. There were number of
passengers for Morristown, going both to
Tate and Warm Springs, and in addition to
other local travel, about 40 through passen-
gers.
The colored Odd Fellows of the city en-
ioyed picnic excursion yesterday 10 Mary
VILE and closed the days festivities with a
festival at the opera-house last night Both
We're largely attended and they enjoyed
themselves immensely,
Murphy q Chambers of Seviergille have
purchased and put into operation a steam
threshing machine, with a capacity of 400
bushels of wheat per day. This is the first
introduction of the kind in Sewer county.
cambridge Li.tle Rock: Mr.. NJ. c. Sto-
yer, of Trottel's Store, Sewer county has
a gun that he has killed, since October last
one hundred and thirty rabbits sixty doves,
nlnety-One squil. els, twenty-five ducks, ten
snakes, two dogs, four bucks and cat, and
has only missed twenty-one Shots He also
has pair of the best trained dogs in the
State, and says he would not take $50 apiece
for them.
According to the cambridge Little Rock.
Mr.. Isaac Hoskins, Hayes Ferry cut four
hundred dozen of wheat off of twelve acres
of ground and it is estimated that it will
make bushel to every dozen and a half
bundles. This is what proper cultivation
does.
The Little Rock is the title of a sprightly
little weekly paper, the publication of which
has been recently moved from Loudon to
cambridge. 1t is controlled and owned by a
stock company OF cOlored men, edited by
ID. w. Wells, d. ID. Brooks and Phillip y.
Daily. 1t IS newsy, and quite credit to
the eolored folk. We wish it success.
cambridge Little Rock: We are glad to
know that our fl end J. p Swami, Mrs.
Graham and Miss Kate Swami who have
been quite i'll for some time are improving
slowly. aest fs Et-F5s E
Corn meal sells at IS cents bushel in the
JOnesboro market.
The colored people of Jonesboro propose
to celebrate on the Fourth.
The Washington county fair will be held
at JonesbOro October 9th, 9th and 7th.
The Krutzsch concert company of the
city, consisting of Mr.. Oscar krutzch, Miss
Cornelia Crozier, Miss Kate Deaderick. M.
TO. Deaderick, Mr. Frank Barker. are to
give coucert at Jonesboro next Tuesday
night -a -F =, IS
The real estate and bank furniture Of the
recently busted Discount and Deposit Bank.
at Chattanooga, have been sold for $7,49O,
one-third cash, the rest in six and twelve
months.
A new tobacco factory, owned BY Z. H
Penn, j. r. Anderson AMI A. b. Carr, was
put into operation at Bristol last Monday.
About seventy-five hands are employed