Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-30
PENCILETTES
Balmy spring weather.
last day of November.

Balmy spring weather.
Last day of November.
The Supreme Court meets in Nashville
next Monday.
Atlanta is headquarters to day for the
drummer boys.
I.pinning tops is the prevailing rage
among the average boy now.
Enigrant Agent r. S, Patty passed down
on yesterdays train with nice party bound
west He is stirring things lively.
Mrs. Mary Dllworth, consort of the late
JAS A. Dillworth, died in Jonesboro, Sun
day, November 20, aged so years
Rev John Jasper, the famous "sun do
move" Baptist preacher of Virginia, is not
in knoxville, and has not been here.
The book-keepers are engaged quite
briskly Just now, getting their accounts
ready for collection the first of the month.
Emigrant Agent W. d. Kerr still contin-
ues 10 guide the emigrants westward. He
had number aboard the early train yester-
day morning.
The hunters end sportesmen of our city
have been making good use of the recent
spell of weather, and have brought III nu-
merous strings of game.
The Powell Iron and Nail Company. of
Chattanooga, have obtained the contract FOR
furnishing the material for the construction
of 2?5 miles of road from New Madrid,
No., to Texarkana, Texas.
4 building permit was issued in Nashville
last week to Cherry, OConner i Co., to
erect a two-story brick warehouse, 62xl7o
feet. west of and adjoining the penitentiary,
to cost Sc, 900.
Nashville sent an excursion last Sunday
to the Atlanta Exposition, headed by Mayor
kerchival and the city government officials,
80 IL number. There were 243 tickets sold
in the excursion.
The negro man Anthony Joues, who had
his right foot and ankle so badly mashed at
the car shed, Thanksgiving day, reported
as getting along finely, and his physicians
hope to save his foot without amputatlon.
Mrs. Nancy Dillin, step-mother Of Hon
Jos. r. DiIlin, died at her home III Nash
vile Sunday night. She WAS q native of
England, came to this country when quite
Young. and has resided in Nashville most of
her life.
Chattanooga has foreign visitor III the
person of Prof Allen Curr, Scottish ora
tor from London. He preached sunday III
the courthouse, and is lecturing every
night since His wife accompanies him
with readings.
Nashville World Dr. A. W. Hawkins,
Commissioner of Agriculture, is on the go
nearly all the time, working in the interests
of the State lie is one of the best officers
Tennessee ever had, and is doing much to
develop the resources of the State
We notice our friend Mr.. Louis Seilaz,
the well known and proficient butcher, re-
Gently returned from Chattanooga, i'll
charge of the stall in market and also the
Union street store of Mr.. Ignaz FAM,
where he will be pleased to wait upon al
his old customers and many new ones.
John Gilbert colored, was arrested by
the police on Market Square yesterday.
John is the chap who robbed Lynch's bar of
swatch and some money, was arrested in
Chattanooga, and escaped frcm Jail here
before his trial came off. He returned to
the city day or two since, thinking per-
haps his tricks had been forgotten, but be
found himself mistaken. He had been i'll
Cincinnati He was committed to jail tC
await 8 hearing.