Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-17
ssENCELETTES.
naIiphtful weather,

Corn is in taesel in some parts of
Florida.
1t begins to smack somewhat of
March weather.
Now the editor Of The Bristol News
has three cases IF measles in his
family.
Irish Land Leagues are being Or
ganiZed IN sll the principal CT es over
the country.
The ladies, taking advantage OF the
beautiful day, were cot in large num-
bers yesterday, shopping and calling.
The MorristCwn Gszstte learns that
q lizzie child was drowned in Chuckey
River last week. No particulars.
A Chattanooga woman, Mrs. Rob-
ertson, gave birth t. a child on the
street Sunday night.
lis published that Texas hen laid
125 eggs and raised five broods of
chickeus last year.
The Blount county Medical Society
is preparing to vaccinate persons in
that county, to prevent smallpox, says
the Democrat.
According t. the News, the Bristol
Coal and Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company has made contract for $780,.
600 cross ties at the average price of Is
Gel Is s mills per tie.
Mr. w. T. Helms, con Of the editor
of the MOrris!OWn Gszette, has be.
come editor and business manager of
the Mountain Voice, published at
BakeIsville, n. c.
The town-clOck, under the engineer
ing Of Mr.. J. NJ. Lancaster. who was
recently employed by the city council,
seems to he all right again, and is
striking the hours correctly.
John T. Burchell has established a
tent on Asylum street, near Market
square, where he sells his publications
and chromos, and expects to keep a
L eTs stard.
Selma Fetter, the new Kentucky
dramatic saf, is the daughter of a
wealthy louisville pork packer, and a
neice of Henry w, tterson, OF the
Courier-JOurnal.
The Secretary Of the Treasury yes
to-day received the sum of $50 in an
envelope pos mark ed \ ashviIle, Tenn,
from an unknown person. The money
hiss been deposited in the treasury Oh
accom- Of conscience.
Tennessee has sent an enthusiastic
turfman to the United States Sensta.
.JIdgs Jackson married the youngest
daughter of Ger. W. Ct. Halding, OF
Belle Meade, and he takes the liveliest
interest in thorough bred horses and
the turf.
Nashville American: Under the re-
cent reduction on the part Of the
Pennsylvania, Erie aud New York
Genital Railroads, the emigrant rate
from New York to Nashville has been
reduced from SO so to 1925. The
rate, however, to Louisville IS only
$500, though the difference is but 1876
miles.
Another brief session of the United
S ates circuit court was held yesterday,
at which time it was expected that the
great East Tennessee Zinc Company
causes would be disposed Of. They
were not ready for disposal, however,
and the court adjourned again till the
l1th of March, when it is hoped they
will he finally settled.
Capt. Jas. NJ. Davis, the famous and
undaunted revenue official at Nash-
vile, has recovered from his recent
wounds, when he was reported killed,
and is at them again. He arrested
four viOlstOrs Of the revenue law, in
Wilson county, the other day, and
took them t. Nashville, where they
waived examination before Commits
sjoner Lewis t. Baxter and bound
over t. court.
The valentine boom in Knoxville
has been a'oig one, and still continues.
The post-office was as heavily beseiged,
and the clerks kept as busy yester-
day as the day Before. and tue pigeon
holes are still crowded with the per-
fumed and comical missives. The
bulk of the business since Monday is
in the shape of retaliation. AS an
inkling of the size of the boom, the
delivery clerk, Mr.. w. L. Bradley, in
forms Us that he sold during the two
days nearly $500 one-cent stamps.
Many were sent with two and three
cents, and it is safe to estimate that
500 valentines were mailed in this
office.