Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-16
NEWS SUMMARY.


Hon. George II Pendletcn has just returned
from Europe
Senator simmer is 1t Philadelphia the guest
of Col Forney. .
Subscriptions to the new loan scebi to be rap
idly increasing. i'
a party of Tennessee editor. are visiting
number Of Northern and Eastern cities.
About one hundred Mormons have bctp viz
ting Pennsylvania. '' %
Copper is reported as existing ihlarge 1uonti-
ties in Butt county, Georgia, ~.
The Trib,tle speaks Of the, New York State
Democracy as.an appendage TO TamiharN I'm,
\ sulphur well is among the late discovcries
IN the Ncinty OF Louisville, Ky. ............
General b. f.. Butler is spoken Of "a the Las
Dor Reform caitfidat for the PresdencY. .s.f
Work has been resumed on the custom house
at Charleston, for the first umc since the war,
The Arlanltuml Convention npw. in, session
mt Rome, GAS seems to be u decided success.
The census of Great Britain shows that out Of
3l,5O0,000 people, only 10000 are landhulders.
Gen Spinner, who has been travelling in Eu-
rope for his health, will return next month
The Washington Chronicle stylesthe removal
of Pleasanton II terrible defeat of the whisky
ring
1t is said there are more immigrants coming
to our shores now from England than from Ire
land.
i C ldulinNllN leaders SNOW Signs Oh lCdli uHN
are endeavoring to explain. They make a sor
ry showing.
The papers are very busy in predicting the
exact time when cholera is to make its appear
ance in the United States
Z. Il. Ruxbury, an ex-Conlcdcrate, has been
appointed to clerkship in the PostotfCo De
partment at Washington.
The friends of the late c. l.. Valandigham
propose to erect suitable monument to his
memory.
The interest on the tcn-forty loan, which falls
due September l. 1871, and payable in coin, Is
S4SG4 lS2 10.
The Democratic leaders Of North Carolina,in
view Of their recent crushing defeat are crying
Justify for reorganization.
The official investigation of the Wcsthed
affair reveals sad state of negligence On the
part of steamboat inspectors.
y movement is on foot at Saratoga to pur-
chase John Morrissoy's club room and turn it
into free reading-room and library.
Petroleum V. Nasty is about to take charge
of new paper mt Toledo. Ohio, which is to be
the organ of Free Religion. .... ........
A Mississippi editor has been stricken from
the roll of attorneys for speaking in way not
complimentary OF the court,
The editor Of the Atlanta Constitution is con
frmed in his faith in the New Departure by
Il trip through the Northern States,
The excitement prouced by the poisoning
in London Ohio which has been the subject Of
so much comment in the newspapers, is about
to izzle out. ...|. .-.
A dispatch from Cincinnati announces that
the gazette recommends Gen. John NJ. Harlan
as the next Republican candidate for the Vice
Presidency. ...
The Trijume says that it ne longer expects an
exhibit of the city receipts and expenditures,
for the reason that Hall and Connolly cannot
make n satisfactory exhibit.
A rumor prevails at Washington that George
w Curtis is q tukp Mr. FiShar's plnop in the
Cabinet. 1t would be most excellent appoint
ment. ...... s.. ...... ...
In the canvass which has just terminated in
Kentucky, General Harlan, the Republican
candidate for Governor, made upwards of 100
speeches.
The Cleveland Ohio Louder heads notice Of
the New York corruption, The biggest rob
berry on recor Over $50, 600, GO stolen within
twenty-eight months by Denocratict thieves.
Vessels arriving at New York now from Ha-
vana and other central American cities are
held in quarantine on account of yellow fever,
a few cases of which have appeared on board,
The New York Standard says the various
markets of Wall street have ruled firmly for
the past week, and quite 4 generous advance
has been established in all leading stocks and
Hon. T.sW Clark, the present Representa-
tive in Congress from the Third Texas District
has been'numinatedby the Republicans for re-
election. he viii be reelected byl from five
thousand to ten thousand majority. 50 s.fi
Senator Sumner has declined to receive gold
medal from Hayt because, as he says'it is not
permitted by the strict letter of the Constitu-
ton, for him to receive. presents from foreign
powers. f-- .tsf.. ,,T. tt.ft .,y,,s.fsI- s-r. g..
The, Louisville (ourier-JouiRakr wickedly
styles Alexander ii, Stephens an ''idiotic CAB
bier Then the Southern Cenfcderacy had an
'fdiotie gabbler for Vice President, and how
was that for high?
General Pleasanton, while Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue, excluded himself from per-
sonal relations with the employees under him to
that extent that about forty of the clerks only,
out of the several hundred employed in the bu-
reau, ever got an opportunity to see him.
MIR. REDFTELD, the correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, is going through
the country to be opened by the proposed