Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-27
OVER THE STATE.

A cheese factory is soon to be established
at Alardt, Fentress country.
The control of the lockwood Republican
has passed back to D. NJ. Coffman.
The funding board received $40, 600 of
old bonds Saturday morning to be funded.
The Hawkins County Telephone" is the
name of q new paper just published at Ro-
gersville. 1t is newsy paper, but has no
politics SO far as we could see.
A new paper called The Statesman, has
been started at cambridge. 1t is about the
size of one of A1lcock's porous plasters.
Long may it stick--Mountaineer.
A small boy clerk in Chattanooga store
presented the proverbial unloaded pistol at
q colored man, who came in to trade, and
as usual it went off; but, fortunately, the
ball missed the mans head. The boy is q
much wiser ONE
The man Easily, who was one of the
managers of the defunct Colored Birthday
Association, of Chattanooga, got into q
fight Saturday, with two colored men nam
ed Boyd and Brown, who were criticising
his association, and got a severe cut in the
arm.
The Citico furnace will be located on
Citico Greek, their property extending from
the river to the E. t., Va Il Ga. Railroad,
comprising thirty acres. The price paid
was SIC, 900. comparatively cheap, consid-
ering the advantages of the location. Chat
tanooga Commercial.
Chattanooga has in its vicinity possibly
the largest and oldest building devoted to
the retail business in the world. The struc-
ture is known to be over 5000 years old, is
built largely of solid rock, granite and lime
stone and is about fifteen hundred feet high,
mile wide and over fifty miles long. The
store-reom is ridicuiously small, compared
with the size of the whole structure. al
though it was designed by the Master Arch
itect of the world. The room devoted to
selling goods is about 20 feet wide; its
length is not precisely given but it is known
to be half mile at least We refer to the
grocery apened in the mouth of the cave
under Lookout Mountain.
The Tennessee Trotting Horse Breeders
Association, of Columbia, was chartered last
week, the incorporators being Maj. Will.
Polk, Vanleer Polk, J. E. r. Carpenter, W..
]. Embry, Maj. Campbell Brown and Geo.
W. Polk, jr. This company has been or
ganized for the purpose of breeding trot-
ting stock in Maury County. The noted
horse, Enfield, will be at the head of the
bluu, duo tAOy lAbOAo PoISAoohhk ooAiO VI
the best mares to be found in the country.
They have leased l, 200 acres of the Ashwood
farm for five years, some of the finest land
in Maury County, and it contains all the
improvements necessary for stock breeding.
We understand that parties in Nashville ex-
pee. to take stock. The capital stock will
be SO, 900.
A strange incident happened to Mr.. j.
w. Snap, of Jasper, Tenn, while in Spar
tanburg, s. c., last Friday night. On that
night about 10 o'clock he awakened his
wife, who was with him, shouting at the
top of his voice that their house was on fire.
She jumped out of bed, but could see no
fire, and discovered that her husband was
only dreaming, and finally persuaded him
there was nothing wrong. He said that he
dreamed he was at home in Jasper, and
that his home was burning. Nothing more
was thought of it until they reached Chatta-
nooga Thursday morning, when they were
informed that there house caught fire on
last Friday night at IL o'clock, and came
near being destroyed MIR. Snap then re-
minded his wife of his dream. He is gen
tleman of unquestioned veracity, and is not
given to superstition. 1t is certainly a very
strange occurrence. Nashville Banner.