Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

The price of coal is advancing in New York.
There arc 200 masons and Il lodges in Colo
RADIO
Weston. tho pedestrian, is walking at Gin
cinnati.
Disarming the Algerian rebels progresses with
difficulty.
1t costs $4,000 per annum to examine school
Cassius NJ. Clay will take the stump in Mis-
souri, next week.
The total cost of the Mount Gents tunnel is
G5000000 francs.
There are GO prisoners now confined in the
Shelby county Jail.
The Emperor William has given away forty
thousand iron crosses.
A dispatch from Fort Laramie states that
serious trouble with the Indians is anticipated.
The wheat crop will be short one hundred
million bushels this year in France.
The fall races have commenced at Nashville
with a lively interest manifested.
A plot for the restoration of Napoleon was
discovered in Paris and suppressed.
The lives of outside barbarians' residing in
the Celestial Empire are not safe.
The reduced rates of postage to Germany
goes into effect on the 1st of October.
Nineteen horses belonging to Olders circus
were roasted TO death by fire last week
Senator Conkling and the Administration
have been endorsed by the Syracuse Republi-
cans.
Twenty-Five emgrants from Iceland have set
tied in Wisconsin. They prefer a warm eli
mate, evidently.
The largest hog in the West is owned byCapt
Wright, of Illinois His hogship weighs ,3o5
pounds.
4 negro convict named Norton attempted to
escape from the guard in Memphis last Thurs
day, but was shot and killed.
The Tyler Davidson fountain will be unvailed
in Cincinnati next Friday. 1t is the gift OF Mr..
Henry Probasco, and cost $4,000
General Stand Waite, a prominent Indian,
and a Confederate General during the war,
died in the Cherokee Nation a few days since.
The great fires in the woods of Wisconsin and
Michigan are nearly extinguished. The damage |
cannot be estimated
Weston undertook to walk 113 miles in Gin
cinati in twenty-four hours, but broke down af- |
fer walking the eighteenth mile.
The Bristol Meas is indignant at Democratic
bluff which is going to be practiced in Wash
ington county, Va.
The Norfolk papers note the arrival of TWEEN
ty-six English families some of them destined
for Tennessee.
The imports last week at New York reached
So, COS, 289, nearly million more than the cor
week last year.
The relatives of Talbot, the Fenian leader,
killed some moths ago in Dublin, have entered
suit against the city for $4,000.
The amount of money borrowed by real es-
tate spectators in Chicago for which mortgages
are given j: estimated at 100000
An epidemic among fish in the Gulf of Mexi-
co prevails, and large numbers are found float
ing on the surface of the water
The loss by the explosion at Rand's powder
mills, NewbuTgh, \. Y, reaches $1,000. One
man was killed and the building demolished.
Breads riots in New York are feared on &C
count of stopping the public work and throwing
a large number Of labcrers out of employment
ID. 4
all burroughs granted to officers aud enlisted
men, in order to test the efficacy Of mobiliza-
ton.
In ten years mich COWS in Vermont have in
creased ten per cent. The batter produce has
increased 100000 and cheese has declined p
10000 pounds
Twenty-three worRmen in all Of the United
States Watch Company, in New jersey, have
been arrested aid it Is believed their steatings
well reach $4,000.
Deputy Controller Green, Of New York, has
determined to distribute the printing Of his de-
partment among number Of printing establish
ments.
y French engineer suggests the building Of
a railroad from Paris to Pekin, the cost of
which he estimated at Z2O,000,0O0 francs-about
$40, 100000.
The Crown Prince has presented lockets to
the ladies of honor who welcomed him at the
entry, at Munich. as souvenirs Of the festive oc-
casion.
met in New York, and gave out contracts for
the construction of $50 miles of main stem and
branch roads in Minnesota and Dakota.
The findings and sentence of the court mar
tal IN the Hodge defalcation case have been
sent TO Washington, but can not be made known
until the President has examined them.
Thirty miles of the Great Northern Railroad
of Texas have been completed, and are accept
ed by the State Engineer. a passenger train
will begin running at once
The Princess Mary, of Holland is said to be
five years the senior of her new husband the
Prince of Weld, to whom she brings vast
fortune as compensation for her superior
age
Marshal McMahon's testimony before Gov
ernment investigating committee on the con
duct ofthe war, exonerates Napoleon from re-
sponsibility for the disasters to the French ar
mics previous to the surrender at Sedan.
Leo Frankel, the Prussian Internationalist,
who became member of the Paris Commune
was not shot as reported, but is in London. Ii
was Frankel who as Minister Of Labor, signed
the warrant for General Cluserets arrest.
Pro and Con.
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