Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-09-13
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THE rAmMANY ooRnUrr1oN1srs,
Mayor Hall Demands the Immediate Re.
signatfOn of Connolly.

signatfOn of Connolly.
New YORK, Sept. 12.-Mayor Hall has re-
quested Comptroller Connolly to resign on ac-
count of suspicious attaching to him from the
disappearing of vouchers.
The Mayor has no power to remove him
except by tedious process of impeachment and
desires to replace him at once by person
possessing confidence of the people.
The young man who accidentally shot his
mother while defending himself from brutal
uncle has been honorably acquitted. The
mother has recovered.
The abortionist Rosensweig was soundly
thrashed by fellow-prisoner in the tombs yes
terday.
The Horld commenting on abstraction
vouchers from the Comptroller's Office says
every honest man in the city will endorse and
applaud the frmness and vigor of Mayor
Hall in demanding the immediate resignation
ofComptroller Connolly after the untoward in
cident, which just occurred in his department. 1t
is too well known that Mayor Hall has no power
to remove heads Of departments. If he pos
sessed that power the request now made would,
of course, be followed up in event of non
compliance by a step equally as prompt
and still more decisive The case is too ur-
gent for the slow andEdilatory process of i'm
peachment. Since this unfortunate occurrenc
the Comptroller has lost all capacity to be use
full in the present Office, and not only public in
terest, but self-respect of his associates in the
city government demand his retirement
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. ia mechanic re-
turning from work, in attempting to shield a
woman from roughs, was killed.
CHICAGO, Sept l2-There is diamond ex-
citement at Yankton, Dekotah. 1t is said a
diamond, worth $lO0OOO was found on the
bank of Jim River.
LOUISVILLE, Sept12-There was a collision
between the Federal forces and alleged Kuklux
in Russell county, Kentucky, in which a soldier
was killed and Sergeant wounded The SOL
diers captured two.
NEE YORK, Sept. 12,-The leaders of the
Young Democracy held meeting with view
to new reorganization.
Two wings of the Republican party are CO.
quetting.- r--E E.Err-- ..--,.r
The World says regarding Comptroller Con-
molly: IF he is so mad and so blind as to disre-
gard the firm demand of the Mayor, he will find
before night that the scorching and resistless
public indignation will make it too hot for him.
1t may be his misfortune and not his fault that
this alleged robbing of his department occurred
just at this juncture but it has so suspicious and
damaging a look, that if he is an upright and in
nocent man, with reasonable sense and honor,
he will be too glad to afford the Mayor an op-
portunity to appoint successor"
CHARLESTON, August 12-The accounts
coming in faom all sections of the State repre-
sents the continuous rains of tho past week as
very disastrous to the growing crops on the Sea
Islands The expected yield has been cut off by
unfavorable weather at least one-half and from
the interior reports of rust aud the plant she'd
ding the fruit are universal.
The Board of Health report no deaths in
the last twenty-fOur hours.
SALT LAKE, September 12.-Baum, Nor
mon, who had been indicted for murder, was
fatally shot while attempting to escape arrest.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12-The Great Coun-
ell of the Improved Order of Red Men has as
sembled here.
BALTIMORE, Sept 12-The Republican State
ConveRtion has organized. Resolutions we're
adopted endorsing Grant and Creswell.
NEW YORK, Sept. -2-Comptraller Com civ
in long letter TO Mayor Hall, declines to resign.
Rothfeldsr, the inventor of the stem-winding
watch, suicided.
1t is said Woods is going to Europe this fall
10 race with the English oarsmen.
There is still no clue to the stolen vouchers.
Connolly, in letter to the Mayor, says the
abstraction of the vouchers does not vitiate his
accounts. -