Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-09-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

Memphis has new evening paper, styled
The Press.
The New York San declines to investigate
the city accounts.
The New York Herald wants politics in every
respect severed from education.
There were 537 deaths in New York last
week, 80 less than last week.
The New York T5iJtoae predicts that our
population by 1880 will be 40, 60000o
There are $1,000 Chinese in the United States,
scattered over twenty-four States of the Union
The revenue officials are having trouble with
illicit distillers in North Caroline. ,------. -
Garibaldi has recovered. Repose is only ne
cessary for the restoration OF his health.
After thorough tests the use OF eondurango as
a specific for cancer, has been pronounced a
humbug.
Rev. T. De Witt TalImage says nine tenths
of our churches do not have income enought to
meet their outgo.
At a fire in Amboy, H., on the 18th of. Au-
gust, prisoner in Jail was burned TO death be-
fore he could be rescued.
The Exposition at Cincinnati is to be. more
extensive than last year. and likely to be the
largest ever held in the West 49sH
Under the last census Alabama lacks only
eight persons of round million. We suppose
they can easily be supplied.
Richmond has society called "The Daugh-
tiers of the Golden Caldlestiek,' an exchange
suggests they are shutters
The Republican Executive COMMITTEES of
Ohio deny that they propose to levy upon
Washington clerks for the election fund.
On and after the LIST Of October next we again
remind our readers, postage by the closed mail
via England will be reduced from 10 to ceuts.
The North Missouri Railroad was sold at au-
ton on the 18th at st. Louis for two millions.
1t was purchased by Morris X. Jessup, of New
York. stL
No news has been received at the War De-
partment concerning the killing of Gen. Cook
in Arizona BY the Indians and the report Is not
credited.
The Treasury Department announces the alb
sorption, through the agency OF Jay Cooke u
Co, of two hundred millions Of the five per
The New York Times thinks Walter Scott
libeled by Hepworth Dixon, "a literary nounte-
bank presiding at dinner in England in honor
OF his memory.
The Press says Philadelphia has capacity for
storing 2 600 0O0 bushels Of grain. 1t also says
that the handling capacity OF the city is $4,000
bushels per day.
Another postal treaty just concluded reduces
international postage between America and
Germany, via Bremen and Hamburg from
seven 10 six cents
speech against the new departure" disap-
pointed his friends the Democrats of the West
ern States, more hopelessiy than ever"
Full returns in Kentucky show an increased
vote OIL ol,VuO iNepuDHcan votes since last ear
and that the party has grown from minority
of25O00 in 1868 to "a great party $1,000 strong.
Both parties in Texas have made their nomi-
nations for Congress. The election takes place
in October when the proposition TO make three
States out Of their present territory will be voted
on. 49,
Old John Harper with saddened heart and
depleted pocket, left Saratoga, two days after
the race, for his home in Lexington. Longfel-
low walks lame. Such are the fortunes Of sport
ing men.
"A New Y ork dispatch says the movement OF
the honest Democrats against Tammany in
likely in the coming election Tammany will be
overthrown. ~
The old line Democrats Of Wisconsin are dis
gusted with the nomination of Doolittle for
Governor and call him renegade radical"
They have some of that kind of timber running
their newspapers in Tennessee.
The New York Tribune thinks that the rem
edy for existing evils in this country is through
social rather than political influences 1t deems
more trtIstful relations between capital and In
Dor necessary to our well-being In other
words il fayors socialism"
The Chicago 7Fmes democratic. does not
believe in the democrats of Ohio 1t says 1.-The
Wisconsin democracy were wise in that they
did not embody in their plantform the Ewing
proposal to recede from, instead of advancing to-
ward specie payments, or any sort of patent de-
vice for making debts pay themselves"
the Statistics Of Homicides' just published
show that for the year ending last May, there
was in Georgia one murder for every y 600 Of
the population, while in New York it was one
for every 1000 In Texas there wa one muir
der T every 2 GOO persons, while in Ma-sachu-
settle there was but one for every 900