Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-06-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

THE annual regatta of the New York yacht
club will take place on the I'D inst.
DURING the past year, nearly 81, 10000 OF
notes of the Bank Of Tennessee have been de-
stroyed.
SAMUEL EDINeToS, q soldier of the war OF
1912, died at his residence on Bait Creek, Mon
roe county, on the 18th inst.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company now
light thirty-fve cars with gas, each car taking
enough gas to burn sixty hours steady.
President GRANT has finally determined to
run out to the Pacific coast about the middle of
August, and visit Salt Lake and Oregon.
STATISTICS Just compiled show London to
have 100000 souls, and to cover 100 square
miles. Its increase in ten years was Az, 815.
CESsUs returns Of Pitt county, North Gallo
lima, show that there are some fifteen or twenty
persons in that county who are from 100 to 10
years old.
ACCORDING to the late census, Georgia has o
greater colored population than any other State
in the Union, Virginia comes next, then Al
ALBANIA.
THE schedule time on the Hudson River Rail-
road will be at the rate of one mile and n half
per minute, q rate of speed never heretofore at
tanned by any road in this country.
3D. LATE advices from Teheran say that the fam
inc in one district of Persia has reached such q
state that the starving people have killed and
eaten forty children
THE railroads centering in st. Louis have
union depot. The ground it will cover will
cost $780, 900.
QUEEN VICTORIA will, this week. ratify the
treaty of Washington. Dsraeli and Northcote
from the 'outs," will favor the treaty in Par
Lament. .|r
d "OuR LOUIS" it is rumored, will be a candi-
date for the new French Assembly. His bap-
tisn of ballots may be no more successful than
his baptism of bullets ~
THE law making the carrying of concealed
weapons an indictable Offense has been decided
constitutional by the Supreme Court of Ten
! nessee at its present session.
FIFTEEN Japanese passengers arrived at San
Francisco, California, on the steamer China.
Among them are two treasury officials and eight
bankers who sent out TO study the American
financial system. -
In his examination before the French Assem-
bly,, Gen. Trochu denounced the acts of the
Communists as o continuation OF the war with
Prussia and denounced Bismarck for his mild
illusions to the Commune.
THE question of saving thirty thousand in in
terest on bonds granted in aid of the water
works of Atlanta is agitating the council of that
city. Some are in favor of paying the interest
semi-annually, and others at the end of the
year.
PRINeE NAPoLEos, the debauchee, wishes to
to be elected member of the French Assembly,
thinking, perhaps, that the magic of his name
would enable him at an opportune moment, by
skillful coup det0t, TO seize the imperial
crown. ..
THE fact has been ascertsined that the EN-
peror Francis Joseph desired 70 set aside the
liberal constitution of Austria last Jauary, and
was prevented from carrying his resolve into
execution only by the strongly urged remon-
STRANGE of Count Won Beust
IL the British House of Lords on the 18th
inst, Earl Russell moved the rejection of the
treaty of Washington, as entirely too favorable
TO the United States. Earls Derby, DeGray
and Ripon defended 1t, and urged its adoption,
as a refusal to ratify it would be an insult to our
Government.
JOIN DARBY g. Co., of ST. Louis, have re-
covered damages against the Western Union
Telegraph Company for Inaccurate quotations
in their commercial reports. The arm of the law
is long enough il seems, to catch and phil
down these hashers of lightning.
SOLDIERS are advised not to part with their
discharge papers, which are eagerly bought by
SPECTATORS out west, in the hope of making q
fortune out of them. The new law materially
modifes the provisions of the homestead bill,
and the sharks are on the lookout for prey.
or the 23d ult, disabled junk was sighted
by the Pacific mail steamship China, from ia
pan 10 San Francisco, and FIVE persons were res
eued from the wreck. They report that they
were driven off the japanese coast in a terrific
gale Eleven of the crew had died of stava-
ton.
THE President having been officially notified
OF the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis, of Rus
sia, in September next, several prominent citi-
a reception 10 the royal visitor in keeping with
his high dignity and that of the empire State
THE population Of London, according TO the
report of the census is 3, 2jl ,S04 The Pail Mall
Gazette says that the decennial census is Il use
less expense, and that the Register General
could take the census every year without incur
ring any expense whatever.
CHEF JUsTICE CHASE is enamored with the
new departures in Ohio and Pennsylvania. If
in Ohio on election day, he will vote for Nc
Cook, who was and is now in favor of paying
Chases Government bonds in greenbacks
Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
THE new water gauges 20 be placed in the
Ohio, missouri and upper Mississippi rivers will
enable the Government TO tell ever day the ex-
act stage Of the water in every river and the
exact amount TO be expected on any day in the
lower Mississippi. This will be great safe
guard against oyerhOws.
Az ex-Confederate soldier Of Kansas wrote
70 Horace Greeley in 1863, urging him 10 favor
the pensonng of the widows and orphans of
the.South 40 peace measure. Greeley replied,
II coneede your Suggestion merits considera-
ton. do not consider il practicable
70 take any new steps in the direction you pro-
pose"