Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-31
OVER THE STATE.

The funding board received Thursday
S6o,OOo OF old bonds to be funded.
There are 400 wires running into the GEN.
trail office of the Nashville telephone ex-
change.
Roley Stanford, sent to the penitentiait,
IN July, 1879, from Fentress County, has
been pardoned by the Governor
A young man took sick in the Nashville
jail Wednesday. He proves to have con-
fluent smallpox, and was carried from the
jail to the pest-house.
! 1t is said that of the 400 members of the
/ Chattanooga Colored Birthday Association,
399 had their birthdays in December. and
nearly all of that lumber came on Christ
mas day.
William PEBBLES, farmer aged As,
/ bachelor, committed suicide Thursday
morning by shooting himself through the
F head He lived on Bueps farm. Tempo
rary alteration of mind from strong drink
was the cause.
DR.. McReynolds received request yes
terday from Riceville for nurses to attend to
/ the smallpox cases three miles from that
town There are six cases at Gettis' Facto-
~, and great excitement prevails.-Chatta-
nooga Times yesterday
Maj Alfred Gardner, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of Dresden,
seventy weight years of age, died Oh the oath
INST Major Gardner served as a member
of the lower house OF the State Legislature
for two years, Immediately succeeding the
adoption OF the constitution of 1884 and
was also sheriff of his county for several
terms He was q faithful representative,
an efficient officer and an excellent citizen.
The Legislature meets at Nashville next
Monday-New Years Day. The same
/ thing happened under somewhat different
circumstances just seven years before The
Legislature that elected Andrew johnson
United States Senator, after desperate
struggle, and over fifty ballots, met and or
gained on New Years Day, 1875. Some
of the same old members will be on hand
this tlme and many of the influential out
siders will be on hand as then.-Memphis
Ledger.
In the 18th senatorial district, the returns
first elected DR.. II. NJ. Colquit, of Overton,
by three majority. The Doctor had hardly
smoothed the smile out of his cheeks when
Bob Cox, of Clay, discovered an error of
ten IN his favor in Macon County. Bob,
thereupon, jumped on the fence rider and
crowed Justify. The Doctor then began to
run his nose among the figures, and now
has discovered an error of ten in his favor
IN Picket County. and again his face is
wreathed in smiles. And now Bob is smell
ling among the r5turns from the other
counties. What the upshot of this see-saw
now-you- see-it and now you -don't-business
no man can tell Bob is fellow hard to
get nd OF. We know him o...7o o.
Nashville, on Tuesday, was filed the bill of
Robert Harp vs.. the Book Agent of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The
complainant substantially sets forth that he
is mini ter of the gospel and a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South;
that the above corporation established
/ branch house at New Orleans, La, in 1857,
that was known as the New Orleans deposi-
tory of the publishing house, or branch
house; further, that in November, 1865,
complainant took charge of the above con-
Germ at New Orleans, being employed by the
defendants from then until July, 1880. He
claims S25 900 for balance on salary and for
advances made to the house during that
time.
DIR. W. W. Estell, prominent evangelist
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
well known and highly esteemed citizen of
Chattanooga, died very suddenly Thursday
morning. He fell i'll Saturday, and at the
| time remarked to his daughter that he was
| threatened with congestion of the brain.
He improved rapidly, however, and was
much better on Monday, and on Tuesday
felt SO well that he accepted an invitation
to preach next Sunday in a neighboring
town. He continued to improve and
| Thursday morning ate hearty breakfast in
his room and chatted pleasantly with his
| daughter When he finished she noticed a
pallor suddenly overspreading his face, and
| hastily left the room to summon assistance.
and when she returned life was extinct.
The physicians think heart disease was the
| immediate cause of death.