Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-07
To Subscribers of the Daily Chronicle.
PENCILETTES.
Rain rainl rain. . !,

Rain, rain! rain !
Two weeks till the municipal election.
The sun has got to be an entire stranger
in these parts.
Orders for Starbright coal received at J.
W. Slocum, drug store.
The Herald boasts that Cleveland is at
last city-got a boot black.
Athens had fall of snow to the depth of
two inches last Saturday night.
Miss Francis E. Willard, the temperance
lecturess, was in Nashville, one day this
week
Alban A. Boyd died quite suddenly at his
home in Sweetwater Thursday, aged 35
years.
The local papers all over the country pub
lish formidable lists of marriage licenses
these Christmas times.
Corn is reported not in much demand in
the Cleveland market, but finds ready sale
at rs to 80 cents from wagons.
The charter of the Knoxville Water Com
pany was registered by the Secretary of
State at Nashville Wednesday.
The Jonesboro Herald and Tribune learns
that an old colored man was run over and
killed by passing train last Tuesday.
The board of trustees of Sullins' College,
at Bristol, have determined to build an adj
ditional wing to the present building.
The city of Nashville has been tsued by
one of its citizens for $40, 900 damages, alleg-
ed to have been sustained by fall upon the
sidewalk.
Mrs Sallie Stevenson, wife of Cicero
Stevenson, died in Cleveland, December 20,
1881 She was wife of about one years
duration.
Miss Lizzie Woodward was married, Wed
nesday, at Gadsden, Ala, to Mr.. VIM.
Dortch. Miss Woodward is well known as
former Knoxville society belle.
The E. T. V. g. G. Railroad Company re.
ceived yesterday, another one of those large
Baldwin engines, with three drivers which
will beput into use on the road.
4 The Nashville Criminal Court has been
engaged in the trial of persons engaged il
cock-tighting. Verdicts of acquittal have
been the only results SO far, however.
The Post reports Mr.. David Cleague, OF
Athens, who had a serious attack of sick
ness, as reported in the CHRONICLE some
weeks ago, pretty well recovered.
Sd. IL, Laffite, of Savannah, Ga, and Mis-
Blanche G. Heiskell, daughter of Maj. F
s. Heiskell, were married in the Presby
terrain Church at Rogersville, December 27
1881.
DIR. Isaac Taylor, the oldest man il
Washington County, member of thu
Presbyterian Church most of his life, dice
at Chucky Valley, Sunday, January LIST, il
his 94th year.
Uncle Sam P WINS, of the Athens Post
says: Capt. Sam P Evans is the Repub
lican candidate for mayor of Knoxville
Judging from the name he ought to be {
pretty good sort of man.
Greeneville Herald: The cost of keeping
each pauper in Greene County, last year, pei
day, was ~ cents; per month, S1.35; pei
year, $l6.20. The net product of the poor
farm for 1881 was 1858. so.
Mrs. Cuthbartson, of Louisiana, is {
student in the dental department of the
Vanderbilt University at Nashville. She il
said to be the first female student of den
tistry reported in the United States.
Sweetwater had two notable wedding
during holiday tunes. They were Mr.. Jas
l. Carter and Miss Samuella l. Childress
and Mr.. Chas E. McLin and Miss Nellie NJ
Cooke Rev. Jas. A. Wallace performed
the ceremony in both instances.
According to the journal, the stockhold
ers of the Washington County Fair Associa
ton have voted down proposition to de
clare dividend, on the principle that it i
public and not private enterprise. Tn
association has about $500 in the treasury
The Chatata correspondent of the Cleve
land Herald says: Mr.. Ezra Owenby
while cutting down tree, was Instant
killed, December 9th, by a limb hyin
back, striking him on the head. He wa
fifty years old, a member of the Baptis
Church. and a well respected citizen. II
left wife and several children to mourn hi
departure.