Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-12-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

Two more indictments have been found
against Connolly in New York. al
The New York Tribune has opened its winter
campaign on Senator Conkling.
The New York Tribune is we'll pleased with
the new Attorney Generals views on pressing
reforms in the public service. E
GOVERNOR HoFFstAN, of New York, will re-
commend the Legislature to pass law prohib-
iting in toto all Sunday parades.
/ Thurlow Weed has written a letter in reply TO
some structures of Samuel j. Tilden's, upon Mr.
Seward, defending the latter as pure upright
public officer. -
Whitelaw Reid, the managing editor of the
New York Tribune, is to deliver course of
lectures to the students of the, New York Col
lege, on Journalism"
All the pension Offices in Ohio are filed by
one-legged soldiers. Gen. Browne. just APP
pointed Mt Cincinnati lost his leg in Shermans
famous Atlanta campaign.
JOHN WESLEY HARPER, eldest son of John
Harper, of the firm of Harper Brothers, has
built and furnished entirely, at his own expense.
a Methodist church at Fort Washington, j.. i.
THE Washington Chronicle says that Gen.
Schenck, having completed the labors connected
with the Washington Treaty, for which he was
specially appointed has requested to be recalled.
Mayor Hall, of New York, is sacrificing his
last friend TO save his own head. He is as patri-
otto as Artemus Ward, who was willing to save
his country If it took his last blood relation.
Senator Trumbull denies the newspaper re-
port that he considers Grants recollection GER
tain. But what of it? That doesn't change the
fact that he will be re-nominated and reelected.
The Southern Republicans urged Hon. Horace
Maynard as n proper successor to Mr.. Aker-
man for Attorney General. The President had,
however, previously decided upon Senator Will
liams.
The Tribune is making war upon the Gam
bling Hells 1t says there are 800 professional
gamblers, "ropers" and thieves to be driven
out Of New York, and gives a list Of 95 Of the
worst "dens' and their keepers.
The receipts of cotton at all ports last week
was l209lS bales as against los, S39 bales for
the corresponding week of last year. The total
receipts since September, l,ll8557 bales as
against J, 1872 557 bales for the same period last
year
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles it is said is aboutto re-
sign his position as Minister TO Spain to accept
retainer from the English stockholders in the
Erie Railroad, TO prosecute Fisk, Gould and
Tweed for their rascalities in the management
of that extensive corporation.
Hon. ROBERT WINTHROP presided at the
Boston banquet in honor of Duke Alexis. In
his remarks on assuming the position, he said
he was conscious that there were many gentle
men better fitted than he, not by their age, but
by their accomplishments and their youth - for
playing Corydon to such an Alexis"
The House has been excitingly debating
whether a recommendation from the Foreign
Affairs Committee appropriating sum for the
Geneva Arbitration Commission should first be
acted upon by the Appropriation Committee
1t IS q struggle between committees as to their
jurisdiction, q subject upon which they are as
jealous as courts of law.
A PROPOSITION has been introduced into Con-
C-ess to connect a Labor Bureau" wsth the
Department of Agriculture. The object of the
Bureau will be to gather statistics concerning
the comparative advantages of the eight and ten
hour labor system, the benefits or disadvantages
Of cooperative unions; and facts bearing upon
the present unhappy relations between labor
and capital in the mining districts.