Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-07-20
CURRENT NOTES.

OaOlnet until the first OF October.
Hon. Henry J.. Dawes expects TO visit Eu-
rope after the adjournment OF Congress
Five hundred Chinese arrived in St Louis on
Monday, destined for farm work in Tennessee.
A serious riot occurred between two comma
MES of fremen, in Philadelphia, on the night of
the 9th inst
Five hundred and sixty car loads of live
stock were shipped over the Erie railway last
week.
Col Ed, Grassland an ex-Confederate officer,
IS the Democratic candidate for Congress in the
LIST Kentucky District
A distillery worth $4,000. in Maury county.
Tenn, was, seized on Monday, by 'Collecto
Hurst, for Illicit distilling.
EX-Attorney General Hoar is said to be a
candidate for the seat in the United States. now
occupied by Hon. Henry Wilson.
The immortal -. N has been lifting the
val and assuming the pressure at Louis
vile, Ky. He is coming South.
One hundred and fifty horses are in training
for the Saratoga races, which commence to-
morrow.
The income tax for the next two years is fixed
at y per cent, with $1,000 and the rent of home-
stead exempt.
The, recent fremen's riot in Philadelphia has
caused great clamor TO be raised in favor of a
paid fire department
Jim Fisk proposes TO build a new hotel TO
cost S3,OOO,OOO, which he intends to run i'm oppo-
sition to Delmonicos.
The New York hotels are agtating the ques-
ton OF Il reduction in prices. There is a wide
Held for improvement in this line
Gen. Loring writes to his friends that he is
much pleased with his position as Brigadier
General in the Egyptian army.
1t is thought that the President will convene
the Senate in extra session, for few DAYS. after
the adjournment of Congress on the 18th inst
Inc latest feature in an eopement case. is
where q wife refused to elope in calico. and her
husband kept guard over her silk dress
It is said that Mr.. Murphy, the new Collector
AZ New ! ORR; VIII discharge all employees at
the Custom House who are not residents of that
State. '''''
The Indians continue to commit deprcdations
they are Of almost daily occurrence. 1t really
seems as II nothing but sound threshing will do
them. w
1t is said that Carl Schurz, after the adjourn
men! OF congress, Will canvass the State of Mis-
souri, IN favor OF universal suffrage and univer-
sal amnesty
Doubt Is expressed whether or not Minister
Motley will be recalled. A number of Repub-
llcan Senators have been using their inHu-
ence against such measure.
Inc State Agricultural Society of Virginia is
striving to make its next fair and cattle show tbe
largest ana most attractive ever held in the
State
statement Is going the rounds of the pa
pers that Gen. Schenck refuses to be u candi-
date for reelection to Congress on account of
ms poverty We hope it is untrue
Two IW coroners in New York city have just had
q dlinculty over the question as to which should
hold an inquest over the body of deceased
Democratic Alderman
Justice James I. Walker of Evansville, In
diana, mas declared the State law furnishing the
lntermarriago of negroes and whites to be CON
trary to the Civil Rights bill
the Vest during the coming campaign in the
interest of Free Trade. The Free Trade League
aims to bring him out for the next Presidency.
Gen. Joe Lane is a candidate for United |
States Senator from Oregon This is the first we |
have heard of him since he was playing second !
ticket in 1860.
VIM. p. Angel, a millionaire of Providence
H. l., was murdered some time since under |
strange circumstances Last week his wife and |
sons were arrested on a charge Of having COM |
mitted the act.
The musical genii of the Hub" are agitat-
ing the question of grand international concert
to be held at Boston next wear. The whole |
world and the rest of mankind" are to be in |
vited.
A number of applications have already been |
made to the Treasury Department for the organ
lesion OF national banks at the South under the
TOUR per cent. gold basis authorized by the |
currency bill which passed last week.
Tom Allen recently issued challenge to the |
world proposing to fight any body for SIS COO |
Jem Mace promptly telegraphed that he would |
accept, whereupon Tom backed down, having |
supposed that Jem had retired from the 'ting. |
On Friday night of last week, in North Kings
town, X. L., Eliza r. Smith, in Temporary fit |
Of insanity, took from their bed her two chill |
dren, aged respectively three years, and Eleven |
weeks, and first drowned them in IL csterA, and |
then drowned herself
The citizens of Pittsburgh, and surrounding
country are excited over boat race that is to
come on SOON between three dashing young
damsels varying in age from ffteen to eighteen,
and IN ayordupois from one hundren andten TO
one hundred and thirty pounds
" II. II. L." correspondent of the NevYork
Sun, writing from Greenevlle corrects tie ed
itor of that dirty sheet in regard to his sptcula-
tons touching the next Congressional race in
Tennessee. Wonder if H. II. l." isn't ~ as
piTant?
Cincinnati claims TO be the largest furniture
city in the world. Last wear
employment was given there, in that line to
nearly fourteen thousand worlmen who pro-
duced articles worth, in the aggregate, naarly
S6,OO0,OOO.
1t is in contemplation to materially reduce
the force at present employed in the collection
of the Internal Revenue Nearly all the Su-
pePvisors in the country have recently consulted
with Commissioner Delano, giving him their
views.
The United States Treasury was swindled out
of $1,000 or $1,000 on Saturday, by an alroit
change of figures ON cold checEs received f,r |