Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-29
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


don is dead.
The drought throughout Germany is
very severe. Adviccs from all quarters re-
port the crop pro- poets discourging.
New YORK, June 27.-The rooms of the
Cuban Junta has been robbed of $50, 600
in United States bonds.
CANANDAGUA, June 27.-The trial Of
the Fenian raiders has commenced. The
proceedings to-day Were preliminary.
HAVANA, June 23-All native and for
eign freemasons were released on bond to-
day, TO appear before military court when
wanted.
The Internal Revenue for the present
fiscal year will reach one hundred and
eighty millions of dollars, which is a great
excess over previous years.
OTTowA, June 24.-The Canadian dele
gate to England is instructed to demand
indemnity for past and protection against
future Fenian raids, ana to urge aid for the
Pacific Railroad.
VIM. A. Richardson will relieve Bout
well during his summer trips. Richard
son has resigned, but his resignation will
not be accepted during the summer recrea-
tons of Boutwell,.
AELvices from London received at the
State Department, report the Incarceration
of the American Consul AT Leith, Scot
land, for misdemeanor IN connec, ion with
the Bolton masquerade.
LONDON, June 22.-Chapman, the pub
Usher of Mr.. Dickens works publishes a
statement that only one half OF Mr.. Dick
ems story, 1.-THE Mystery of Edwin
Drood," had been written.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-One-third of
the navy now afioat is in the North At
lantic squadron. including three iron-clads.
Admiral Lees instructions are TO protect
American citizens to the fullest extent.
RALEIGH, June 22.-Col. Kirk, late of
Tennessee, has been commissioned Colonel
of the Second Regiment of North Carolina
State Troops, with headquarters at Ashe-
vile. He has issued circulars calling for
one thousand recruits.
James Boyd, one of the largest Wall
street brokers' writes the Stock Exchange
that he is unable TO meet his liabilities
He is about one million dollars short. The
Exchange under the rules. sold him out,
at Sl.lltaSl liz Boyd's $500, 600 i'm gold
being forced on the market caused the de-
cline.
Late letters from the Plains report that
nearly all the young Indians belonging to
the Arapahoes and Cheyennes tribes are
below the Arkansas River, on the war
path. Several trains have been captured
and n number of white men killed. 1t is
very dangerous for trains, mail parties or
anybody else to travel below Fort Dodge.
LONDON, June 25.-The details of the
Cork riots, say the barricades erected in
the streets were defended obstinatey by
the rioters. The cavalry charged and car
ried them. Many Of the police We're
wounded. One soldier had his skull frac-
tured by q stone hurled by "a rioter. Many
of the leaders have been arrested.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-Mr Abbott in
troduced bill authorizing the consoliia-
ton of the Western North Carolina Rail-
road and the Wilmington, Charlotte and
Rutherford Railroad and the Spartanburg
and Union Railroad, under the name OF
The Western North Carolina Extension
Railway Company, for the purpose of con-
structing railroad to Cleveland, Tennes-
see, and establishing contiguous railway
connection between the Atlantic ports OF
North and South Carolina and the Pacific
Ocean, by way of the contemplated South
ern Trans Continental Railroad.
The Star also contains this unpleasant
statement: T 1t is understood that orders
will be issued authorizing the assignment
of white recruits 10 the 9th and 10th Regl
. ments of Cavalry, now composed OF color
ed men. The object OF this Is 10 keep tbs
regiments in this arm Of the service up toi
numerical standard. II is only with grea
I. difficulty that colored recruits can be Oh
tanned