Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-09
| whipping in Illinois.
Proclamation from Count de Chambord.
nae NEWS.
SHOOTING AFFAIR AT 5EoDIAE.

SHOOTING AFFAIR AT MOBILE.
seven Lives lost on New Jersey Railroad.
NEW YORK, July S.-The trains from
Newark and New York colllded to-day.
The cars are q burning mass. Seven bodies
have been taken from the ruins, and 1t IS
supDosed others vet remain. The list of
the sufferers show no Southerners.
WASHINGTON, July S.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury instructS collectors 10 take
no active steps to interfere with quarantine
regulations where The port OF entry ana
un-river ports conflict. The question
arises from conflict in the regulations OF
Florida and Georgia, regarding navigation
into State rivers.
Irish societies. in secret session, it IS said,
resolved to appeal to the Mayor, and the
appeal htling, TO break up the Orange pro-
MoBaE, July S-Baxton Bragg, ,Jr.,
nephew Of Gen. Bragg was attacked by
Madison WILSON, SON of l.. NJ. Wilson,
Vic6 President of the Mobile and Mont
gomery Railraid, this morning in front Of
the custom house. Each fired one shot,
when Wilson was instantly killed. The
particulars viii be given after the trial.
PORTSMOUTH, y. H., July S.-United
States steamer Kansas has been quaran-
tined here. fE@
The hay crop is from one-third to one
half less than last year.
LoEe TBR ANCH, July SIN the third
raceVeA teFdsSAthe winner was Conductor.
Tme-2:43.
FRIGHTFUL BRUTALITY.
CHICAGO, July 8.-A coroner's inquest
over a lynched man elected the followin
Mary AIera, smother of the child testified
as follows: NV husband, Martin MeTa,
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
hy bis father, who was whipping him very
hard with blacksnake hOrsewilip. The
child rdodged around the room
TO avoid the blows, and begged for mercy.
Thechild 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 ne stopped and told
the child to put on his shirt. He made an
effort todosoand failed. Hisfather repeated
the order. when the boy said / can
~eegJcant Ssee. % You can't see it, respOn-
ded his father No father | can't see you,
can't see you, feel like L am dying. The
father then rubbed the boy with spirits
and forced some down his throat. The
chiIdgaised his bands, moved his lips and
rXIired. Mera then took the body and
frut it under the bed where the sick moth
ar wag lying and it remained there until
evening when, he buriedi it, The testi-
mony Other sister is still more horrible.
TAtAQUA, PA, July S.-The Lehigh
coal mine is burning The miners are
BosroNs. July S.-The ship White Swal-
low, from Boston to Hong Kong, has been
&iandoned at sea-
NEW YORK, July S.-DeWitt IL Dun
cans cotton storehOuse was burned to-day.
WASHINGTON, July S.-Judge r. b.
Carpenter, of Charleston, was five hours
betOre=the tukluX Committee. He said
there had been kukluX Outrages i'll Yarl-
Gus parts of the State, not, however, Origi-
mating from hostility to the Federal Gov
ernment, but the natural outbreak of men
who had-fleTedress through the forms and
administration of the law. The Govern
l7IeRt of the State is defective in capacity
in EACH and all of its departments, and
venalityhad increased the debt eleven mill
lion dollars without constructing mile OF
railroad ors a foot of canal house
When candidate for Governor last year
he revisited every county III the State but
one ard never heard a man utter word
agSiGst the Government The opposition
VyaS 80 the corrupt and maladministration
of the |Ssate Government. The members
of the loyai league committed outrages
such as murders and burning gin-houses,
9efore there were any kullluX Organiza-
Ei0ns. The people submitted quietly for two
sears, until they found they had no re-
dress Through elections or forms Of law.
The kukIuN are composed of men of high
rSpectability. The organization is for re-
dress and protection. Carpenter however,
did not endorse the organization.
Carpenter testified that the collection OF
the four million dollars levied this wear
will bankrupt One-third Of the State. The
general condition of affairs in the State is
bad. q DF@sfta
Roar. Gao oyJuly S.-The city election
held today to decide whether Rome would
subscribe one hundred thousand dollars tC
the North and South Road from Rome t
Columbus, Ga. resulted unanimous
ly IN favor ofsnbscrptioR. of
RICHMoND, July S-Mary Bishop wa.
married to-day
\ woman committed suicide this morn
ing by cutting her throat with a pocket
knife and bleeding to death. The cause wa.
-EoBl domestic troubles. She leaves six
chiIdfSl-all girls. Her husband is i'm Bal
iROre.----
LoNG- BRANCH, July S.-JuIius won the
airst and Helmboldt the second race. time
SAB, Willie Ransom won the third time
2:403. 3.....,-.-..
NEW YORK, July S.-John Kelly wa.
fatally stabbed to-day by young r1fian