Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Prince Of Wales has arrived in Dub
lin.
There is prospect of war between France
and Italy.
The subscriptions to the new loan the past
week were $4,000
a new bridge is to be erected across the Ohio
at Paducah, Ky.
During July 1,SOO applications for patents
were made and !, l3l were issued.
Rev. Edward Eggleston is announced as the
new editor of the Hearth and Home
Phoebe Cary, sister of Alice Cary, is dead.
Both were clever poets andw never married.
Rev, Peter Cartwright, the noted pioneer
Methodist preacher, Is very i'll and is not eX-
pected to recover
Advces from the plains state that the Kiowas
have failed to draw the Cheyenne tribe into a
fight.
Senator Schurz will address the Germans of
Chicago on the 18th inst on the leading poll
teal questions of the day
The total internal revenue receipts for July
reach but Sl4, 236,0j7 90, against S2l 493 COO IL
the same month last year.
The cholera has made its appearance in
Europe 1t has evidently again started out on
a westward tour
Whole herds of cattle near Council Bluff,
Iowa. are becoming totally blind, and no cause
can be assigned for the calamity.
1t is stated that Bret Harte is paid five thous-
and dollars year to write where when and
what he pleascs. This is one of the tricks
that are dark
The amount of gold received at the Baltimore
custom-house during the month of July from
foreign imports was SS23, 39l, or Sl6,334 less
than during June
a colored man in Gallatin county, Ky, had
his skull crushed with a few days ago
while eating watermelon under the shade of
an apple tree.
The War Department has issued a circular
prohibiting any further discharge from the
army, as it is now reduced numerically as low
as it is intended to have it.
The citizens call for meeting in New York
to take action on the Times exposure OF the
Tammany frauds, is signed by the leading re-
sponsible houses in the city.
II. Y. r., of the Cincinnati Commercial is
travelling by stage, horseback, &c, over the line
of the Cincinnati Southern railroad and writing
some racy letters from the rural districts.
The Gazette says that the strong popular dc !
monstrations in Cincinnati are evidences that
the Sunday laws will be sustained and that the
only question now Is how shall they be enforced.
Returns to the internal revenue bureau show
that there is a decrease of production in dis
titled spirits Of eighteen hundred gallons for
July as compared with July, 1870
The New York Times contains every day lett
tiers from half dozen disguised Democrats 4,
announcing Themselves sick of the party and
promising support in the future to Republican
principles
Mr.. Robert 6. Gregg tt carpet dealer Of
BoweTy, New York, says 10 a Times reporter
that he sells and sends to the new court house
in New York some $4,000 worth of carpets ey-
cry month.
james Buehanan's life is being written by
Professor James G. yelling, of Princeton Coli
lego, who WIS editor of the National Jlfel{i.
gence,, at Washington, during its latter DAYS
and also clerk Of the Court Of Claims
Great excitement prevails in Cincinnati with
rnn n ha of fha do
immense mass meeting Of the friends a
the Sabbath was held IN Pixies Opera House
on Monday evening.
The Ecenjng Post says that The Tammany
leaders are now eXcusBg themselves for the
corruption recently exposed by saying: " We
stole the money but used it in buying Radicals
in the Legislature
The Union ami .10,crirqj. Is exercised over
what Senator BrownlOw said to the Tribune cor
respond mt about Kuklux in Middle and West
Tennessee, and speaks Of it as part Of the pro-
gramme TO re-clect Grant.
The Cincinnati Commercial sa; that the dis.
cussion Of the Sunday question has produced a
scare among local politicians almost without
precedent They are panicky and don't 20
ABOUT much, fearing 10 make tracks.
The Missouri Democrat speaking of the Times
great exposure Of the Tammany frauds, saws
the article Is as interesting a romance, and
the hgures more wonderful than the figures of
~
DR.. Dollinger has been elected rector of ,ba
University Of Munich. Fifty-fsur profess ors
out of sixty voted for him. Dr. DollinoeT bas
hitherto occupied the professorship OF canon
law, and the honor now conferred upon him e
significant.
The New York Tribune has a long editorial
drawing parallel between Andrew johnson
and Senator Brownlow, in which il saws: "Jobn.
son spoke with great venom of all his rivals
WINE DroWnlow treated his colleagues with
Renerosity-eyen his enemies with Consider
ton"
The latest Democratic apology for the Tam
many frauds Is that the accounts were oopied
from the Comptroller's books by some disaAect'
ed Democrats and sold for large sun 10 tbI
Times. Well, what Of tn The question IL
didn't the Democrats steal the millions ~
charged by the Times? -
The Louisville Courier-Jouraal is alarmed.s,
the growing commercial power Of ST. Louis and
Clnclnnati, and says the latter city has agents
throughout Kentucky influencing elections to
the Legislature, so that she may get her South.
ern railroad. The journal demands for tba
CITY a upNV Soutlpru rni1r,ad - 'hV