Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-29
OVER THE STATE.

The train from Nashville to Lebanon,
Monday evening, ran over and killed an old
man 20 years old. He was walking the
track and did not observe the train in time
to make his escape.
j. Adam Payne, after protracted illness,
died at his residence in East Nashville on
Saturday night last. The deceased was one
of the best known citizens in Davidson
County, and was an enterprising and sue
cessful farmer for a long period.
The Nashville Banner says that there is
greater scarcity of money in Nashville than
ever before in the history of the city. The
banks are even closed against any who want
to borrow, except regular customers, and to
them only on gilt edge paper.
Two men were run over and killed on the
Cincinnati Southern Railway on Christmas
day. One was an unknown white man,
near Georgetown, KY, the other negro,
near Danville, Ky.
Mat Godsell, brakeman on the Cincin-
matt Southern railway, a. native of Greene
vile, Tenn, but at present resident of
the 4th ward of this city, was very seriously
injured yesterday at Dayton, Tenn, in
jumping from box to flat car while the
train was moving. In leaping, he alighted
very heavily and the shock ruptured him,
and his intestine was forced through the
cavity of the bowels and compressed in
such position that circulation ceased, and
when he reached the city, gangrene had
already set in. n.-Chattanooga Times.
Miss Fannie G. Turner, daughter of the
attorney general, will leave shortly for
New York to prepare herself for the stage
The young lady is gifted with the personal
attributes necessary for success, and the
ambition, without which talent would avail
nothing. By hard study and persevering
effort she may become star that Memphis
will be proud of-Memphis Avalanche.
A few weeks ago Mr. A. Mueller received
letter from friend of his son AdolpE,
formerly well known young man of this
city, in which he asked for pecuniary as
sistance for him, stating that he was very
i'll. The money was sent, but nothing fur
| ther was heard in reference to the matter
| until about December 18th, when, in re-
| sponse to letter of inquiry from Mr.. Muel-
| ler, the friend replied that the money had
come, and that Adolph had been put on the
| train at Pittsburg, Ark, bound for Chatta-
nooga. Nothing further has been heard
from him, and his relatives are very anx-
ious, not knowing whether he is alive OF
dead. Chattanooga Times.
Fifty six arrests were made by the police
at Memphis Christmas day.
The cotton receipts at Memphis are now
40, 437 bales ahead of last year.
w. II. Powers, prominent merchant of
Gadsden, has failed, being woefully in.
solvent.
The latest report from Messy Greek
shows sixteen cases of smallpox and two
deaths, the deaths being in the Holdman
families, where it first broke out Dam
bridge Banner.
WINoHEsrER, December 27.-The Judge
gave his decision in the Poe case this morn.
ing. John is to be hanged on the 23rd OF
February, and Cicero will be put in the
penitentiary for life.
Frank B. Earnest, a former Knoxville
| journalist but now a resident of Texas, is
iu the city, en- route to his old home In
East Tennessee. He is accompanied by
his wife.-Nashville World.
The after Christmas issue of the Knox
vile Tribune comes to our table with bad
headache. There is moral to be found in
a turkey and stuffing which the ''short'
editor is trying to digest. Nashville World.
Rube Shaw, the colored desperate of
Shelby County, has been received at the
penitentiary. He escaped in 1862: Rube
has seven buck shot in his arms and legs
and neck. His term of sentence is some
where between fifty and sixty years.
Over $14, 900, 900 of old Tennessee bonds
have been funded into new 6O-3 As
bonds. The arguments which the able
statesmen at Nashville will make for the
reputation of these bonds for the purpose
of repudiating ten cents more of the public
debt will be printed and will be read with a
great deal of interest throughout all parts
of the United States and Europe
Avalanche.
Christmas night, as the Nashville train
was rounding sharp curve near Bellonaris,
30 miles from Chattanooga, the train was
tagged by an old colored man. Upon ex-
animation it found that rail was chained
across the track, the evident intention of
the parties who placed it acre being to
wreck the train. The miscreants who COM
| mitted the deed were arrested and are now
| in Jail at Scottsboro, Alabama.
| Tuesday, as the lockwood was rounding
the point of Half Moon Island, in the Ten
nessee, few miles above Chattanooga, q
fine barge, containing 200 tons of iron ore
was sunk. In rounding the point, the bow
of the boat was in eddy, and the stern in
swift current, and this caused the boat
to suddenly swerve, and in doing so, the
barge struck a snsg and was sunk before
anything could be done. The barge was
valued ct 1.60O, and the ore at $400. ii
is the property of Roberts, Winston i Co.
One of the most mysterious affairs OF
Monday was shooting affray on Broad
street. No one could tell how nor why it
came up, and no one knew the participants
in it. While man was riding along the
street some other person on the sidewalk
| shot at him. The man on the horse re-
turned the fire. About ten shots were ex-
changed altogether, but as both seemed to
be bad marksmen, neither one was hurt.
The affray caused a good deal of excitement
at first, but as both the combatants disap-
peared it soon died out-Nashville Ameri-