Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-22
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Genuine March weather.
4 cold snnIo Ia brewing.

Genuine March weather.
A cold snap is brewing
Attractions of some kind every night this
week,
Memphis has been taken down by the
aesthetic craze.
Chattanooga talks of celebrating Mardi
Gras next year.
Chattanooga sent about thirty visitors to
the New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities.
This is week of unusual attractions in
the amusement line.
The divine Patti recovered from her sick
ness sufficiently to sing, Saturday night, at
the great opera festival, in Cincinnoti.
This is the last week of MIR. Stops skat-
ing rink, and the frequenters OF that popu-
lar institution are improving the oppor-
tnnity.
MIR. Staub has put force of carpenters
to work in the opera-house, setting things
in good shape for the coming OF the great
Emma Abbott Opera Company.
The crowd to hear Emma Abbott will be
immense. and it is understood that the
large hats viii not be worn by ladies', ex-
cent by few who have nothing else to
wear.
Mr.. Dickinson's mammoth Island
Home steers will be exhibited to-day. on
Gay street, at 10 o'clock, accompanied by
band of music 1t will be a show well
worth witnessing.
A-State temperance convention has been
called at Nashville Thursday, April 2Uh,
1882, and all organizations favoring the pro
hibition of the liquor traffic have been re-
guested to send delegates.
r. G. Houston, of Post Oak Springs,
Roane County, aged so years, was married
few days since to Miss Bradley, aged 30
years. Mr. Houston's first wife died about
ten days before, says the Cyclone.
The Republican district and ward con-
yentions will he held next Saturday, to Sc
Iect delegates to a convention to be held at
the court house Monday for the purpose of
choosing candidates for county offices.
Our head line yesterday morning, by an
unexplanable oversight, made Johnnie
Staub wear the medal for the champion
roller skating. 1t should have read ''John-
ME Payne" as appeared in the body of the
article.
Col e. W. Coles private travelling car ar
rived here by Sunday evenings train, IN
charge of his porter, VIM. Booker. 1t
came from Cincinnati. Col. Cole and his
wife went from that point to New York,
and will be met by the car at Washington
in a few days.
The comic season calico hop given by the
Knoxville Turn Verein, at their hall in the
opera-house building tonight, will be one
of the society events of the season IL
Knoxville. No pains has been spared by
the efficient management to contribute te
the pleasure of all who will attend.
Miss Louise Montague, Adam Forepaugh'i
famous $4,000 beauty, who was hurt in {
railroad collision at Bowling Green, KY
last summer and sued the Louisville anC
Nashville Company for $4,000, has com
promised on $500. The compromise wa
made without the knowledge of her lawyer
and lie is left ont on his fee.
Messrs, Hope & Brother have receives
the invoice from New York of their clock
which is at last ON the way and is to b
erected on Gay street, in front of thei
jewelry house. It will be mammoth
clock, with 40-inch dial, and an elegan
piece of workmanship. It viii stand on
post 10 feet high, and will be both an orna
ment and a convenience to all of GA,
street.
A letter from John G. Scott, president o
the Oakdaie Iron Company, to W. L
Welcker, of Kingston, states that the las
nail has been driven in the Walden's Ridg
Railroad, and that they have already com
nenced hauling coal for transportation owe
it. It is nine miles and six hundred feet i
length and the completion of it was de
iayed over one month by the unusually We
season.
A sensational story has been afioat thu
there was foul play in tampering with tn
steam guages Of the engines which con
tested on the Mcmillan hill last week. It
gross mistake No test could have bee
fair. The same steam guage was used c
each contest, and it was thoroughly testc
before commencing. Every precaution wi
taken to prevent any appearance of frau
or foul play.
The one-hundredth- light souvenir of Mr.
Francis Hodgsop Burnett's ''Emeralda'
the Madison Square Theatre, New York,
beautiful panel picture, designed al
painted by MIR. G.. Wiley Presbrey. II
picture is an idealjzed portrait of the h
roine from q drawing by the same arts
The Madison Square Theatre has just col
cluded its second year, and during this tin
the house has been open continually, wint
and summer, and only three plays have be-
presented Hazel Kirke," The Professo
'Emeralda''
Our informant was slightly mistaken as
the fate of the horse which performed SUE
strange freaks in the river, Monday, spoke
of by us yesterday. 1t was not browne
bat was rescued, pretty well exhausted, aft
having swan about mile and half dow
the river. 1t was Mustang pony, one
gang which we're being kept at Thorn
sons Palace Livery Stables, and escaped {
little hntic while being taken to waite
They were shipped away yesterday. T.
fact of its being a Mexican pony explai
its getting out alive
The managers of the Girls Industr
Home have determined to give series
entertainments for the benefit of that ins
tuition, beginning next Wednesday. TIL
design TO give lunch between the hoU
of IL a. Ii. and p. M. The lunch "
consist of the usual articles served at eve
ing parties for which the moderate sum
so cents will be charged. Their object
to raise funds to purchase house, or
building a permanent home for the insti
ton The lunch will be served at Turr
Hall, on Gay street. This is worthy
terprise, and we trust our people will g
it encouragement by patronizing the lad
in their enterprise.
The unpleasant appearance of even