Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-12
NOME NEWS
CANADA OFFICIAL KILLED.
Trouble Bctwee" OrangcDcn aud Cnth



NEW York, July 10.--Archbishop Nc
Closkey's sermon intimates that the Or
angemen intend to provoke outrages. He
hopes the proper authorities will prevent
the procession, but if allowed, urges and
warns all parents, husbands and brothers
to go to their employments and attend to
their ordinary avocations on "Wednesday,
as usual, and return peacefully to their
homes in the evening, as though no such
temptation to do evil were ever thrown in
their way. Let Catholic mothers, wives
and sisters remain at their homes and at
tend to their home duties and allow no UNI
worthy curiosity to draw them near this
procession.
NEW York, July 10.-Mischief is brew
ing between Irish Catholics and Orange
men which can hardly fail to result in a
serious riot unless the authorities interfere.
The said Orangemen have organized five
thousand men to defend the procession and
the Catholics have organized q much larger
number under the name of the Hibernian
National Volunteers. Both parties avow
their intention to parade fully armed.
Two divisions of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians have met in secret session.
Remarks made outside Of the Hall indicate
a bitter luminosity toward the Orangemen,
and an extensive purchase of arms seems
certain. The Hibernian Society will get
up target excursion for Wednesday, with
the intention of meeting the Orange pro-
cession. Mayor Hall expresses his posi-
tive opinion that the preparations against
the riot are so perfect as to render it inn
possible. .-
NEW YORK, July 1O.-Mayor Hall again
says there will be no riot, and that the Or
auge procession will be protected. The
impression prevails that the Irish will take
the advice of the clergy and not interfere.
NEW YORK, July lot is freely re-
nprtal fhat tho now (toyprn loan bo
been withdrawn from the market
MEMPHIS, July 10.-A tobacco dealCE
named Shutley, from Louisville, was hope
lessly burned last night. He was robbed
of six hundred dollars at supper Deputy
U. s. Marshal Mesler, while looking for
the money, broke a lamp on Shuf1ey's lap.
Some believe the lamp was blokeu to con-
ceal the crime.
CHICAGO, July 6.-A coroner's inquest
over a lynched man elected the followin
Mary Mera, mother of the child testified
as follows My husband, Martin Mera,
whipped my son Martin, aged ten years,
two weeks ago Tuesday night. My babe
was born that day and / did not see
the whipping. 1t was done in another
room. heard the blows and heard the
child cry for mercy. The child went to
bed about ten o'clock. The next morning
the child came to my bed room, followed
by his father, who was whipping him very
hard with q blacksnake horsewhip. The
child lodged around the room
to avoid the blows, and begged for mercy.
The child was completely naked his father
having compelled him to strip, himself.
His face was swollen from the whipping he
had received the night before. His father
whipped him very hard for ten or fifteen
minutes, but at last he stopped and told
the child to put on his shirt He made an
effort to do so and failed. His father repeated
fhn Arln x.rIa hTx- n
see, can't see. You can't see it, respon-
Died his father. No father L can't see you,
| can't see you, i feel like am dying. The
father then rubbed the boy with spirits
and forced some down his throat The
child raised his hands, moved his lips and
expired. Mera then took the body and
put it under the bed where the sick moth
er was lying and it remained there until
evening when he buried it. The testi-
mony of her sister is still more horrible.
NEW YORK, July l0.-The Western
Division of the Western North Carolina
l Railroad Company are bringing suit in
the Supreme Court against S. w. Hop
kins & Co., TO recover $4,000 on an ac-
copied order. The suit grew out of the in
surfing of 81 900. 900 of bonds of the State
of North Carolina to the plaintiff, Geo.
w, Simpson, who was President of the
Company at that time, and Milton 5. Lit
tlefield 1t is alleged that the bonds are
in this city, and with somewhat over a
| million of dollars Of proceeds and bought
bonds of some Florida Railroad Company,
which were afterwards consolidated and
in which the Florida Legislature offered
State bonds in exchange for the first mort
gage bonds of the consolidated company
These Florida bonds were sent here to
Hopkins & Co., for sale. The State OF
North Carolina, however, appointed a COM
missioner to examine into what had been
done with the bonds Of the North Caro-
| LIMA Railroad Company, and it is alleged,
| under threat of criminal prosecution, that
Simpson and Llttlefeld gave an order for
eight hundred thousand to favor the
North Carolina Railroad and offered to
furnish iron for fifty-three miles of that
Road.
His order Hopkins & Co. accepted but
| they afterwards declined to pay II ; where
upon Sydney w. Hopkins was arrested
| and held to bail in bond of 100000. A
| motion was made to vacate the order of
arrest 1t was argued by the defense that
Swepson & Littlefield had no right to pay
their own private debts to the North Caro-
lima Road with the proceeds of the sale of
bonds issued 20 the Florida Railroad Com
pany for a special purpose. The plaintiffs
argued that, by accepting the order the
defendants were not III position TO ques-
tiOn the Dlaintiff's T-vht 10 the road