Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-29

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PESCILETTES.


Open-air concert tonight.
The most delightful day of the season
was yesterday.
9oc. Goods at the E. T. China
House for 65 cents. Price, and see
for yourselves.
Mrs. Catherine McGaughey died of con-
sumption at her residenc near Greeneville
last Sunday morning.
Mr.. O. P. Temple, of Greeneyille, has
been rendered a department clerkshlp ut
Washington, according to the Herald
Mr. JOS L. Wade, telegraph operator at
Johnson City, and Miss Jennie Berry were
married the other day.
According TO the Herald. Greeneville has
a mana WelshInan-who eats live rats or
snakes of any kind after skinning them,
and the bite Of Il snake does not effect him.
The Natchman and Reporter claims for
cambridge the best and most commodious
post-office in East Tennessee, outside OF
knoxville.
Amanda Harrison white, and Phillip
Crumpton. colored, were lodged III the
cambridge Jail last. charged with larceny,
says the Waterman and Reporter.
William Holden. one Of the prisoners who
broke jail at Greenevi1le on the 18th inst,
has been recaptured by Sheriff Stuart, of
Washington county.
\ party of four Greeneville Nimroads,
according TO the Herald. killed fifty squir-
rels in one days hunt and one dog did the
freeing.
Mr.. Ebert L. Watkins, worthy and
highly respected citizen of cambridge, died
Thursday, 21st inst He was buried Satur-
day. with Masonic honors.
John Collier has been awarded the con
tract for transferring the mail from the
fSreeneyiIle post -office TO the depot, for $50,
says tire Herald.
The farmers of Cooke county viii hold a
meeting at Newport next Monday, to ap-
point delegates 10 the East Tennessee
Farmers Convention. which meets in this
city Tuesday, May 10.
Crreeneville Herald: DIR. Marion Maloney
ma, been appointed postmaster ut WarTens
burg, Greene county. Tenn.-...Ar. J. d
Allen, who was recently appointed store
keeper and gauger, has been assigned Il
duty at the distillery of Col William Green
in Hawkins county.
According to the Times, purse was start
ed IN Chattanooga Wednesday for the relet
Of the late G. H. Boyd's family, and EN-
ploves of the A. e. = Road subscribed $50
1t is believed a good SUN can be raised
The family are needy.
From the Press and Times We learn of {
grand concert to be given in Rogersyille
May II. for the benefit of the Southern
Methodist Church. Among the performer
Will be Miss Kate Deaderick and Mr.. VII
Price.
According to an exchange Col. Il. NJ. Ed
wards, the kind-hearted, goOd-natured gen
tIeman who fooled away his time IN canvass
ing the State on the Greenback ticket, /
now canyassing Sumner county on a matri
monial platform, with better hopes of sue
cess than lie had last summer. One vOt
will elect him.
cambridge Watchman'and Reporter; Mr.
W p Heskins, our circuit cour clerk, i
very ILL., confined to his bed with typhoiC
fever..,,..O Our highly esteemed and energed
young friend, Mr.. VIII Pryor, departed 70
Knoxville last Monday, where he has
clerkship in the drng house of Rodgers &
Cook.
Labor is said to be in great demand il
Jefferson county, from the fact that 80
hands are wanted on the river improvement
below cambridge, 100 more i'll the ne'
State quarry, and a large number in tn
zinc mines. Thirty or forty teams are ais
wanted in that county to haul walnut mum
Der to the railroad. and everything is bus
and booming