Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-04
PENCILETTES.

Railroad travel is quite good now.
81. J. Ovens calls attention to his
ro,Ice of White Goods. iiSd2t
The railroad excitement at Bristol
continues on tae increase.
The Grand Lndge Of Tennessee
Knights of p thias meets In Nashville
next Tuesday.
Auosher new steamboat is soon TO De
built at Kingston, according 10 'he
East Ten nesseeap.
Three thousand pounds or faooi''
are said TO have been shipped IroM
Fa;len,s Depot during The past three
week.. ,,,,
According t, the Spectator, little
daughter OF F. Il. Yates, OF Rogers
vile. was badly burned while stand
ing before the fire few days since.
WI Welcker, Esq, of Loudon,
cantemplatss locating at Kingston IN
The practice Of his profession-the law
1T is said.
There were seventeen deaths In
Chattanooga last week; eleven white
sni six colored. This is the heaviest
record in one week since 1878, yellow
isver times.
Charley Stewart. son-iD-law Of Thor.
J, Upton, of Kingston, lost both legs
by being run over by train at Somer-
SIT, KY, last Sunday, so the East
Tennesseean learns.
A colored woman, who claims to be
an escaped Cuban slave, having been
stolen from Chattanooga when two
wears of age, lectured in Chat 'anooga
Wednesday night.
Jnnesboro Journal; The track on
the East Tenn essee and Western North
Carolina Railroad is laid nearly to
Eizsbethton. Several large bridges
are to be completed before the engine
or train can be OF service.
The reward offered for their capture
does not seem TO have suppressed the
sueak thieves about Kingston. The
residence of Mr.. Robinson has been
entered. be fired upon them and
they escaped.
The bursting of large driving
wheel at Firestone Il Robinson
saw-milI, Kingston, last week. caused
8 Suspension of work and damaged
things considerably, but no one wa
ipiured.
Accos ding to the Press and Times
twenty marriage licenses were issued
by tue county court clerk or HaWklnt
bringing Ia the sum Of $40 revenue.
The Rogersviile Press and Time
learns that Mont gOmery Woods, 81
old cnlZ-n of Hawkins county. wa
killed ar Marble Hall one day las
week, by lick IN the abdomen, acct
drtt.ly Inflicted, by the poll of al
axe.
RogersvilIe Press and Times: Mr.
Wilson Scale, of Black water, Han
cock county, died about two week
since Sne was probably the larges
aud feshiest person in tie State
Weighing at her death, 30 Ne are in
formed, 492 lbs.
We will have brief rest in the wa
of courts now. The Gnancery court
about through, but is to meet to-mOl
row. The federal court has adjourne
till the 18th in t., to wind up Ii
business of the term.
We are glad to notice that Engine,
r. s. Patty, Of the E. T., V. &
Railroad, il able to be out, after a col
finement Of about ten weeks with ser
Gus Illness. He looks much worste
by his confinement, and is not u
able to take his engine.
Nelson Rogers, colored man, in tt
employ of the Chattanooga gas work
while digging trench on the stree
of that place Wednesday, was burie
under falling wall of dirt. He WI
extrlcsted in about fifteen minute
but died in six hours.
According to the Rogersviile pape
which came to hand yesterday the Wi
nesses had all been heard in the ca
of Joe Harris for the murder Of your
Brown and Heck, at Marble Hall,
few months since. The evidenC
though circums tantial settles the gu
very conclusively on Harris. A verdi
was not hardly expected before
day.
Rogersville Spectator: Judge Ell
Cooke has been retained by Heck
prosecute the second indictme
against Harris. II the jury shou
fail tt convict in the Brown case, the
can be but little doubt as TO the &c
ond. The report that Judge Coo
would press for another trial in c.
Of Harris conviction is false;
would be the last man, he informs
to put the State to so much unnec
sary cost,