The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-21
News Items,

DN1ioA' Liz D'llleIlteS D pOSSeSslOn
OF one ward and elected delegates whose
seats will be contested.
The smallpox is raging in Lowell,
Mass. There were eleven new cases re-
ported on the 18th inst,
Judge Chase was in Chicago last
Saturday, He is no. in the enjoyment
of good health. Gen. Beauregard was
also in Chicago the same day, and yisi-
ted the Judge.
Specie shipments from New York on
the 10th, were S250,000.
Ex-Judge Stewart the celebrated Grim
inal lawyer, of New York, is dead.
A man attempted suicide in Boston
on Saturday.
Prot. II. Mahan, a West Point educa-
tor, committed suicide by jumping from
a boat from West Point ON his way to
New York,
The surveyors of the South Pacific
Railroad have reached Petropolis, thirty
miles from the Angeles.
The Democratic State Harbor Com
mission is elected in California.
Lyman Comings, the Oldest lawyer in
Burlington, VT, is dead. Aged rs years.
The Treasury has issued an elaborate
statement exculpatory of itself in de-
iaulting paymaster Hodges statement.
Hodges bonds are forty thousand. His
property is estimated at fifty thousand,
The President has returned to Wash
ngton.
The Mexican Claims Commission re-
assemblies in Washington this week.
The War department will soon com
mence proceedings against the bankers
of the defaulting paymaster, Hodge.
The Mount Gems tunnel, in Europe,
has been completed, 1t is traversed in
SO minutes. The air is excellent and
the rails perfectly level.
The leaders of the International Soci-
ETY. have promised the London weavers
that they will prevent the importation
Of foreign labor.
The London labor league denounce
the introduction of foreign workmen
into English shops as a dangerous po-
litical expedient,
The British wheat crop is represented
disasterously deficient,
Clark, the American bond forger, was
sentenced to Is months Imprisonment
and hard labor.
A man named Tom. Cawood, died
suddenly, while shoeing a horse, in
Meigs county last week.
Mr.. Mccormick, the Southern Pho
tographer, is still at Athens.
The office of Dr.. W. W. Alexander, in
Athens, was recently entered and the
cash drawer robbed of some thirty dol
lars,
Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, has gone to
California, but nobody appears to know
or care, for what purpose.
Beast Butler seems to be making con-
siderable Roadway in his aspirations for
the G~overnorship of Massachusetts,.
Robt. Bonner is said to have $279,00O
worth Of horses in his stable.
G. w. Charlton, East Tennessee Agel {
for the Tennessee Immigration, has az
ranged to furnish the South and North
railroad with a hundred Scottish labor.
ers who are to be shipped from Dundee,
Scotland, within six weeks.
Mr.. Gallegos, the Democratic candi-
date for Congress in New Mexico, is
elected by a majority of 500. In Santa
Fe county the vote stood, Clavey, Repub-
lican, Ill; Se,,o, boiling Republican,
900; Gallegos, Democrat, TIT. Official
returns have been received from but
few counties.
Governor Brown, OF Missouri, has APP
pointed one delegate from each Con-
gressional District of that State to at
tend the National Commercial Conven-
ton, which meets in Baltimore ON the
25th instant.
Secretary Boutwell, has volunteered
to address the Republicans at Cincinnati
on the 2Sth inst, and at Cleveland on
the following day, on the Republican
party's position, and the relation of the
Administration to it.
Hannah Roberts, colored, nearly one
hundred and thirty years old, was burn
ed to death last Friday night.
A negro, in attempting to jump on
the cars while in motion, at Huntsville,
Ala, n day or two ago, was caught,
dragged underneath and crushed to
death.
The fruit is being destroyed by worms
in Middle Tennessee.