Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-13
PENCELETTES.

Two more days till the municipal
election.
tt il safd that Texas resl;Z 2s annual
~ 81, 600 coo from the pecan crop.
The M0rrist0wn Gszatte has donned
2 new dres9.
Nashville had fall Of three inches
Of snow Sunday night
The municipal pot begins to boil
quite lively.
The street crossings and side walks
are in fesrfully muddy aud sloppy
condition. The scrapiDg force Is bad
~ need.
It is estimated that boy can pull
four times more weight in boys on
sled than he can coal from back
yard.
Morristown has organized an anna.
teur dramatic company, who give an
entertainment this week.
Mr.. John w. Brown is editor Of the
Rogersville Press and Times, not the
Spectator, as was Inadvertently stated
in our issue of yesterday. The Press
and Times is staunch republican
journal, and one of the mCst newsy Of
our weekly exchanges.
The Hawkins county court last
week, as we learn from the Press and
Times, elected John Alton, chairman;
John n. Spears, vice; L. w. Brown,
superintendent Of public instruction !;
Joseph Brooks, coroner, and b. w.
Anderson, enumerator.
Murristown GaZetts: Under the new
census Hamblen county is entitled to
sixteen civil districts instead Of ten as
now. The last session of the county
court appointed a committee, consist
w. II. Howell to redistrict the county
and report at the next term of the
cours.
No further information has been re-
ceived, as far as we are able ID learn,
about the reported killing OF Jas. n:
Ray at Huntsville, Scott county, and
it is generally believed to be false
rumor.
It was shout as steady a day Of snow
fall yesterday as we have ever wit
messed, but the ground was not in con-
dition to. receive it, and it melted as
fast as it fell. Last night it cleared IF
and turned cool.
The windows and boards about the
city are handsomely adorned with
portraits of Miss Charlotte Thompson
and representations of scenes in her
play, The Planters Wife," which will
be given Friday night.
Col. J. NJ. Heck, president of the
Coal Greek Mining and Manufacturing
company and the Coal Creek and New
River railroad company. gives notice,
in another coumn, of meetings of tn e
boards OF directors February 18th and
18th.
D. w. G. Davis, ESD, was elect d
chairman, and I. L. Gregory wee
chairman, Of the county court of
M. Sherwood was reelected county
uperntendent Of public in! truclion,
it being his fourth term.
It is stated that Ka.o Thayer has
cancelled her engagements south,
some say on accontt Of the cold
weather, others because she has re-
Gently married. Sne was booked for
Knoxville, and our music lovers will
regret to hear CT it,
Mr.. Geo. ". Ross showed us yester
day an ext fine specimen of a Florids
sweet ora ge, just fresh from the tree
II is the finest ever seen here. It was
brought by DR.. J. F. Spence from the
plantation owned jointly by these
gentlemen, and IL one OF the frs
raised by them.
The appropriation for the govern
ment work on the Tennessee for tn,
year 1880-81, amounting to SIC, 600, hs
been exhausted. and the work dis
continued for the present. The fore.
was engaged at Choto Shoals, and die
considerable work. It will next bs
moved to the Little river shoals, nea
Knoxville.
The funeral of Mr.. Joseph q
Crockett, veteran printer. who's
sudden death was announced by u
yesterday, occurred yesterday evenin
from the residence. The religious gel
vices were conducted by Rev. F. E
St1rgis, pastor OF the Second Presby
terrain church, and the remains wer
inferred in Gray cemetery. Th
printers of the city attended in larg
force.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad has nc
obligated itself as yet to comp let
their Knoxville branch to the Tennes
see state line. though they have an
nouneed their purpose t. do so.
resolution of the directory Of til
Knoxville and Ohio Railroad "a lin
running north from Knoxville to Ca
Teyville, Tennessee), was recent
adOr ted authorizing the issuance Q
$500 900 in bonds 10 take up the pres
ent Indebtedness, and prosecute til
extension OF their line to connection
with the Louisville and Nashville 8
the State line, when that road obligate
itself to build as above.
w. w. Woodruff & Go.
Are Sole Agents for