Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
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There are 5000 lewd women in San Francisco,
and 2,4O0 grog-shops.
The yellow fever is reported as rapidly abat-
ing at Charleston
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is stumping Califor-
MIA for woman rights
Memphis has Just mad another homicide One
each week is naturally expected.
The fall fairs have opened in Kentucky, some
OF them proving very successful.
Emerson Etheridge has been heard from He
takes the new departure, and seems to like 1t.
The Courier-JournaL thinks the charge that
Jim Fisk parts his hair in the middle unfounded
The quarrel between Gen. Hawley and Ben
Butler is full of acrimony and bitterness.
War is being made in New York on that hor-
rible class OF beings known as abortionists.
There seems to be disposition on the part of
the Mormons to quarrel and show spirit of in
subordnation.
A colony of Scotch immigrants direct from
Scotland, have settled in Mecklenburg county,
Virginia.
The Lynchburg Tirginian thinks Hancock
has the inside track for the Democratic Presi-
dental nomination.
Aleck Stephens indignantly denies that he is
the author Of the pamphlet, entitled "Conces-
sion" &c.
Carl Schurz has announced that he will ad-
dress the people of Tennessee at Nashville on
the 10th inst.
The Colrier-Jo,anat proposes to give every
bourbon Democrat an office and to every one
in ten, an organ.
The people of Chillicothe now;are lending the
credit of the city to the amount of $40 600 in aid
of manufacturing enterprises.
The Washington Chronicle takes the lead in
its advocacy Of measures for the suppression of
the social evil,
Bigamist Bowen, it is said, aspires to the
Governorship of South Carolina with some
prospects of success.
tsMarl Twoir,N tho oraat An,ariean bunooris+
has taken up his residence at Hartford COnneo-
ticut
Chief Justice Robertson, of Kentucky, has
resigned his office. He has held that position
altogether q years.
Twelve small Democratic weeklies in Hi
nois have nominated Thos, A Hendrix as their
candidate for the Presidency.
The Carlst movement in Spain is rather an
open one. They give notice of the exact day
the revolt will begin-on the 10th inst
St Louis is ambitious. She proposes now to
reach salt water by building a canal from the
Tennesse river to the Georgia seaboard.
The Standard dominates Congressman Roose-
welt as a candidate of the Reform party for the
Mayoralty in New York.
Victor Hugo is said to be writing a book in
which he gives the recent history Of the French
army and heartily ridicules it.
The great summer resorts which have been
the scene of so much gaiety within a few months
past are collapsing before the autumn breezes.
A meeting Of the Catholics opposed to the
dogma of infallibility has been called 10 take
place at Munich, during the present month.
A colored Sabbath School, said to have been
organized by Stonewall jackson before the war;
is still kept up at Lexington, Virginia.
The November number Of the GaLary is to
contain an article from Horace Greeley on the
one-term principle as applied tot the Presidency
Jefferson Davis figured prominently at tho
last ball Of the season at White Sulphur Springs
JEFF, seems 10 be gaining the procliyities Of
youth.
A man committed murder in Buffalo, New
York, on the evening Of the 9th inst, by
throwing his antagonist into the canal, where
he was drowned.
Col. Joseph Given, Of the Internal Revenue
Office at Washington, has been nominated for
District Attorney in the Des Moincs, Iowa,
district and will probably accept
"Strikosn seem to prevail in nearly all the
manufacturing centres Of Europe, prompted by
dissatisfaction on the part Of operatives with
the hours Of labor.
The Pittsburg Post dominates Gen. McClel-
Ian for the Presidency on the Democratict tick
ct The New York Herald thinks Chase and
Hancock the ticket.
The New York Sun thinks the first duty of
Congress is 10 restore ChaAes Summer TO the
Craftsmanship Of the Committee on Foreign At
fairs.
The President informed the delegation of New
Orleans Republicans, representing the War
month faction that the use of troops at the late
convention was unauthorized by him.
A band Of KukluT attempted to enter the
Danyille, Ky Jail the other night, and met
with a warm reception. After a number of
them we're wounded, they all Aed
Hen. Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune
seems to have created fiutter among the Ohio
Democracy, by his late able speech on our Ma
tionAl finances.
The Cincinnati papers are dwelling together
in anything but state Of Observation-Disclosures.
They spare no occasion to give each Other
heavy dig under the fifth rib,
Hon j. G.. Blaine has written letter which
is scathng rebuke 10 certain Democratic
sheets, which have slanderOusly reported that
he has grown rich through corruption.
Theodore Titon says he does not propose
waiting for a 10th amendment to give women
the right Of suffrage He believes the Consti-
tuition now gives them this right.
The New York Herald says the new de-
parture" has fallen like . wet blanket on the
Southern fire eaters and divided the party and !
that the elections thus far show decidedly that |
under Grant are gaining ground |