Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


The rinderpest Is Increasing in France
They have small pox at Salt Lake City.
Lieut. Fred Grant who has just graduated at
West Point, has gone " est
Gen. Gordon, Of Atlanta, is to appear before
the KTkluN Committee.
Senator Sumner is on visit to Longfellow,
at Cambridge, Massachusetts
\ Terrible FIRE occurred in San Francisco on
the 23d inst, resulting in Il loss of $250,0OO.
1t ie reported that Cabral has ceased his OPP
position TO the annexation of San Domingo.
Senstor Scfurz is TO sever his connection with
the Gel man Republican paper at Saint Louis
1t IS said that the President has written a let
ter to Secretary Fish, urging him not TO resign.
Grand fancy masquerade balls are the sensa-
ton now at White Sulphur Springs, Va.
Parepa- Rosa, after long illness is herself
again, and will sail for America soon.
Through trains are again running over the
New Orleans and jackson road, being the first
in tss'ee months,
tue work OF reducing the force of Assistant
IITernal Revenue Assessors for II" several
Ststes goes Gu vigorously.
Mrs. Jay Cooke, wife OF ~ MI banker,
died at her residence NJ slphis, on Sat
prday last
A New Orleans s.an no tried to frghten his
wife by playing burglar hopes to recover, even
if they can't find the ball
The President HAS Internationally pardoned
G.. r. ReddeR and T. L. Brown, convicted of
illicit distillatien in Tennessee.
The Republican State Central Committee of
Illinois have called State Convention, to meet
at Springfield September 10th.
Ges w. II. H. Terrell, Third Assistant Post.
master General is absent from Washington on
a lesve of absence for one month.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister,
has sailed for England. II Is stated that he will
be'elevated 10 the rank of ambassador.
al IN 81 lot
of Southern Republicans is spoken Of ia Wash
6ngton, to be conducted by Gov Holdea-
The internal revenue receipts for the new fiscal
wear keep Up remarkably well, and frequently
average half million DAY
Tho number of assessors in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and ,onnecticut has been re-
,duced in year from lo2 10 W.
A Pennsylvania lawyer has just been sen
+anced TO fourteen years imprisonment IN The
ngnitentiary for forging pension claims.
prof Peters. Of New York, has just discoN eled
another small planet, being the one hundred
and fourteenth in the group OF asteroids.
One hundred and seventy nine trains, carry
5rc. ,u--as ofarg daily arrive and depart from
Cifidaga eighty-three of which carry the |. :
mail.
Virginia editor sgsPends publication anC
d,votes. ,1isc day to humiliation and prayer, OF
the anniversary ol lHe IcDe' io'ic"' Hoii NtI
tyfburg
Tho President has appointed L. S, Smith and
TIsa,nes Hardcmann, Of Georgia, to be commits.
siouers TO the centennial Anniversary at Phila-
deli ha ~ 1870
Probationary between steamboats, on the HudsoT
river i 40 great that they carry passenger
from Sew York TO Albany for ten cent?. TIT
distaEec r l4G miles. .-. ...
A taueIter of NJ. Rochefort, aged L. LA
clipped with young man ot 10, I ne moth9I
the Youth jTAertered ana PreNSAUSu inc IMAM rag
by fore. HLd strategy.
Iondou dispatch says that arrangement
ara heinz a.a8e b give Andrew johnson pub
lie RECEPTION "a Paris, he being expected there
in A short tirEe. rhis il the first intimauon We
lave had tlaat &c IS going there.
Tsaac NeSeaaladen, of Monroe county, had hi,
nd cr.usbe1 Is a thresher last Tuesday, and il
We so severtag injured as to require anputatior
at-the wrist j0i6i- The Ehte'P"1sf says he Il
doing well.
M - beSuaseu the United States and tht
NJ NE and Gu sttanOOga railroad j. now an
nnnrrld ag com promised upon the exact terms
e,iveIs a our editorial last week: WeEere right
0nly as.:,w days ahead OF the telegraph-nothing
unusual for the CHE"SIcLk'
Tho ~ Amherst College Agricultural Six
hoat Gov, have defeated the Harvard Six, here
,oG'rc caps.Iered inviucible Yale aRd Harvard
49, be~e.ofore con tested for the championship
rIdisnuteS but now Amherst enters the arena
and take aeIy the prize al the hr'' pun
Tho mother Of Hon. Henry stanberry eK-At-
torley GeneErl of the = ailed 81 1tAtes; dled al
rine' I'D age0f sae hundred and two years. She
~ a 'areoynai a,sauaintaOcs of George Wash
i Ta = De wits clinton, Washington Irving
R6bcrt s'ultoI aat many other OF their con-
temporaries.
Tic yyorl, of changing uhe gauge from siK 10
four Sset nins inches g the ono and Mississippi
iPa;i-oSd cemmenced ID daylight Sunday morn
aIar1 ,yar completed throughout the entire
i img S1 lance Of $40 mile at Il A. Narrow
I.n me- traics oeUAlenced bgnnhg on Monday.
S'be louisville dSy4son wa ehpged the Sab
bath previous.
The Messrs. Harper., OF NssN York, having
teSn ~ S' their bidding, &c. for their cartoon
s 40 III hid denunciation OF the late riot have
anu o,,1ro5 themselves and their large corps OF
ppm SPI 10 defend their premises the best they
can What oommentary or the heN10'rT"e
government N that cIiy