Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-19
NEWS sunny AIRY.

The Porto hlco and Jamaica cable Is lost
again.
It's said that Gombctta will soon establish a
newspaper, ~ t..AH
An agricr lturi,t in Illinois has one hundred
acres plar. ,od in onions. ... ...
Cadet Fred Grant has been assigned to the
Fourt'l Regiment of Cavalry.
baltimore with population of 3o0,000, has
church accommodations for 100000,
During the year ending June 18th, eight hun
drod and seventy patents have been issued
Turtle eggs are 80 cents per dozen in the Will
mington market
Ex-Gov. Holden will soon start newspaper
in Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Emperor of China derives a revenue of
$4,000, 600 from gambling houses
Gen. Capron and party were to leave yester-
day for Japan
New weet at Fort Wayne, Indiana, is worth
Sll0 per bushel.
The present harvest in France Will fall be-
low the usual average,
President Woolsey served ~ President of
Yale College for a term of twenty-five years
The capital of Jamaica is to be removed in
September from Spanish Town to Kingston.
Forty four clerks are employed in the money
order division of the Postotfce Department
Sleeping ears now running on the Orange and
Alexandria Road cost $4,000 each,
General Halleel, has been elected president of
the Veterans of the Mexican War in San Fran
cisco.
General John H. Logan is now convalcscing.
He has been troubled with hemorrhage of tho
lungs.
Rev. Dr. John W. French, professor of eth
les and law at the West Point Academy, died
there on Saturday.
The New York riot created the most intense
excitement in an the large cities of the United
States.
One of tho insulting features of the late
Orangemen's procession in New York was the
Star SpangIed Banner.
Inhabitants desiring to emigrate from Hon
durss are taxed the moderate sum of $1,000
each for passports
Baron Alvencbeh takes Baron Gerolts place
at Washington until the new German Minister
arrives from Mexico.
It's estimated that the number Of cattle driv-
en- from Texas this season will reach eight hun
bred thousand.
The London Fire Department used $1,000
tons Of water during the year 1870 for extin-
gushing fires.
The PENNSYLVANIA Central Railroad Com
pany has leased the indianapolis, Jacksonville
and Madison Railroad,
Gen. Fitzpatrick Is being urged by his friends
as the next Republican candidate for Governor
of New Jersey.
It is said that there is not q single dram-shcp
in Noble county, Ohio. This can be said of few
counties in the United States.
Reports which have been recently circulated
Pleasanton, are said to be unfOunded.
Hon. Peter VI. Dox, of Alabama, was before
the Southern Outrage Committee yesterday,
telling what he knows about kuklux.
General Faidherbe is engaged in the prepara-
ton of a history of the war with Germany and
the civil war for the possession of Paris.
The excited Irsbmen Of New York are
swearing that Gov. Hoffman will never live to
see another Orangemen's procession.
Thirteen locomotives on the Iron Mountain
Railroad. in Missouri, have been seized for
taxes due from the road.
The United States Revenue officials have been
having trouble in Brooklyn again That seems
to be fayorite place for secret whisky stills.
A railroad car works on a large scale is about
to be established in Memphis by company
with capital of two hundred thousand dol
lara.
j. Proctor Knott, the facetious ex- Congress
mar of Kentucky, is making Democratic
speeches in that State Of the most BOurboniC
character.
Mrs. F. A. Wharton, distinguished lady o.
Baltimore has been arrested on a charge o.
poisoning retired officer Of the United States
army
When fifteen hundred millions of francs hay,
been paid to Germany then the forts of Pari
will be evacuated. Nearly one-fourth of thu
amount has been sent across the Rhine.
The Marquis of Lorne and the Princes
Louise will visit this country during the fall
about the time the Grand Duke Alexis ar
rivos
TIE Democratic State Central Committee @
Arkansas has been trying TO organize tn,
faithfuf Of hat state, preparatory 20 joining tn
new departure"
Dan Vooxhics to whom Indiana Democrat
expect so GO when they die, announces his in
tsDtioD Of retiring from political life lie give
mp
Rev r. " Moore, Of Nashville, last wee
contributed two hundred and sixty volume
from his private library to the Library Assccia
ton Of tbst city.
Harper's severe caricatures Of the Pope an
the Catholics of New York city served to max
it target for the Irish mob. They attacke
the printing house on the 18th.
Judge Wright, Of Rome, Ca, admits, befor
the kuklux Committee, the existence OF o ku
kluI klan, but excuses it rs being a police Of
ganizatiOn for iRsurbordinate ''niggers.'
Elizabeth Gladly Stanton and Mrs Anthem
are in California sympathizing with Mrs. Fai
They viii probably insist that the right TO
hung is not one 81 "WoDssns rights"
1t seems to be pretty well settled that Gel
Pleasanton j. to retire as Commissioner Of III
ternal Rsycnae. If he is removed the who
country wiz unite in saying it was proper tn
he should be.
Mast" the celebrated artist of Harper
Weekly, shouldeTcd his Inusket and marche
with one Of the regiments against the New Yor
rioters, the leaders Of whom his graphic pene
has done so much to expose
Ex-Governor Curtin, United States Repr
sentative in St Petersburg, is quite celebrate
in that city for the elegance OF his entertain