Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-20
PENCILETTEs.

Our up-country cousins will be on hands
to-day.
Greeneville, Tenn, has citizen named
Bookwalter.
The acts of the last legislature are heing
sent out by the secretary of State.
/. The Chattanooga police have killed abont
went INTO effect there.
Wheat has advanced in the Chattanooga
market from 81 to $105 and $110 per
bushel, the rise beng due to the unexpected
shortage in the crop.
large squad of hands were taken out
yesterday evenings X. and o. train to the
sections of Myer, Hay & Co., on the new
railroad connection.
We understand that Mr.. Magill is having
a very successful season as White Cliff
Springs, Monroe County. He has now
over 300 guests, and they continue to ar
rive.
The news butch" had lively race for
the IL O'Clock train yesterday, as it pulled
out of the she'd, and would have been left,
had it not hare checked up for him. Next
time he won't take so much time at his
drink.
Sam Lane, nine year old boy, has been
arrested and tried in Chattanooga for rob-
bling q man of $50 and gold watch and
chain On account of his tender age the
recorder required time to consider before
passing sentence.
The case of Jas Edmonds, who was
arrested last week in jefferson county, by
Deputy Marshal Taylor Duff, on the charge
Of counterfeiting, was taken up in the Fed
eral court yesterday, and is still on trial.
He is charged with having in his possession
and passing counterfeit SIS gold piece.
The E. T., v. and G.. railroad authorities
commenced yesterday making q foundation
of concrete cement, sand and macadam, for
the new Office building. The carpenters are
already engaged on the wood word, sils,
&C., and the work will move right ahead.
Spontaneous combustion is thought to
have been the cause of the fire which con-
sGmed the hay barn and contents of Messrs.
j. c. & G. H. Strong, at their farm near
McMillan's Station, as we learn from MIR.
Albert n. Strong. who was up Sunday.
Their loss is estimated at about $1,000,
with no insurance.
Many ersons iron towels, fold them and
pace them away before they are thoroughly
dry. This is an error and sometimes leads
to results not expected. In this damp con-
dition there is mould which forms
on lem called Sodium" one variety of
which causes a skin disease known as ring
worm Exchange.
The city of Cincinnati passed through @
fearful ordeal last week from the oppressive
heat. The official records show that for the
week beginning the 10th and ending the
10Th, there were Ala deaths in the city from
the heat. The highest number of deaths in
one day was Sc, on the 14th
Chattanooga Times: A young lady
ma ned Lusk was bitten in the leg by cop
perhead snake on Wallens Ridge Sunday
The wounded member swelled rapidly, and
the young lady suffered the most excruciat-
ing a3onies. Every antidote was admins
tered without apparent benefit and Sunday
night her life was dispaired of.
The Knoxville and Ohio Railroad has
been totally swallowed up by the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia management,
and the depot of that line will be entirely
abolished, all the business being transferred
to the management of this road. Yesterday
they commenced to handle the freight at the
E. L., V. aud G. depot, and the west end of
the building has been devoted to that pur-
pose, with Mr.. P. j. Kennedy, the well
known clerk at the K. & o. depot, as re-
ceiving and billing clerk. The ticket de-
partment has also been transferred to Mr..
Motfett's window, under the shed, and every
thing appertaining to that line is under the
superintendence and management of Major
OBrien and Major Huger, though the old
schedule is maintained, and the same men,
regulations, DC, continued
His Last Dose.
Said sufferer from Kidney troubles when
asked to try Kidney Wort: 81 will try it,
but it will be my last dose" The man got
well and is now recommending the remedy
to all"