Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-13
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EAST Lynne" for two years.
David Knox, of Florence, Pa, was found
frozen to death, Saturday morning, near
his home.
Surrey Williams, Jasper County, Geor-
gia, negro, is in jail for whipping his daugh-
ter until she fell dead.
Howard Alden, of the firm Of Edwin Al
den & Co., advertising agents, died Dec.
9th in Charlottesville, Va, where he had
gone for his health.
There is Robert T. Lincoln Presidential
club in San Francisco, organized for the
purpose of forwarding the candidacy of that
gentleman in 1884
At Kingston, N. c., Alfred Brooks, while
drunk, crawled into cotton press and went
to sleep. Not knowing he was there the
packers pressed him into bale of cotton,
making him as fiat as wafer.
The favorite fowlipg piece of Henry Clay
has been added to the collection of relics and
curiosities in the State museum of Indiana.
1t is light shotgun, with rather long
barrel, and was bought by Mr.. Clay, in
England.
The Jasper Herald says there are now
three cases of smallpox in the Lane family,
and VIM. Lane convalescing All the fam
| lily are bed-ridden except Mr.. Cox. DR..
Griffith, the physician, says they are all
improving.
At Athens, Ga., Foggy Cabin, a drayman,
knocked the bung from forty gallon bar
rel filed with whisky, lifted it to his lips,
took drink and let it down again. He is
said to be the strongest man in the State, if
not in the South.
While sportsman was fishing in Clarke
County, Va, last week, duck, unobserved
by him, dived and swallowed his minnow,
and he had the surprise and pleasure OF
landing in his boat and capturing a live
duck in this novel manner.
A New York man has 300, 900 invested
in the gathering of stale bread from the no
tells of that city, grinding it into food fol
pigs and poultry. He employees nine team
in the business. He pays the Aston House
TO, instance, $500 year for its stale
bread
The Attorney General of New York ha
granted a hearing, set for December 18th
on an application made to him by JOSEPH
P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name O
the people against the Western Union Tel
egraph Company to vacate its charter, ans
to remove the directors.
The whole week of the Circuit Court a
Shelbyville was consumed in the suit o
Mary E. Gollithan against the Nashville
d st. Louis railway, brought to recove
damages for the death of her husband
The jury rendered verdict of five thousan
dollars in favor of the plaintiff.
Hon. W. NJ. Willingham, of Clarke
turned six little carp loose in the mill-pon
of Mr.. l.. M. johnson, near Crawford, an
few weeks ago the latter gentleman wa
astonished to find that his pond wa
stocked with German carp by thousands
the offspring of the six fishes placed ther
two years ago.
The latest oddly in the insurance bus
ness, is scheme conducted in Nashville
Tenn, called the Mutual Guarantee Assc
citation. The plan is to soothe fellow
s feelings in the event of his girls going BAG
/ on him." In the case of person SO a
ficted the mollifer is gift of $15 da
from the time of insuring to that of jiltint
: 1t is now six years since the first crem
q ton gin the LeMoine Crematory at Wasl
: ington, Pa, took place, and it is said b,
v fifteen bodies have been burned the
!. during that time 1t is evident that crem
ton is not making rapid progress in th
}; country, but New York cremationists THU
IS there may be much progress when the pr
If posed crematory is erected in or near tn
:. city.
: A charter has been filed, Incorporate
10 the Texas and New Mexico Railroad Coz
% pany. This company proposes to CO
s. struct railroad and telegraph lines fre
h Ell Passo, Tex, to the coal fields in the
cinity of White Oaks, and from thence t.
: point of connection with the St. Louis a
;" San Francisco Road, north of White o
le and east of Albuquerque. The CAPT
,f is So, 100000