Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-12-21
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IRON WORKS BURNED,
Foreign CEfairness-MRyOT Halls Friends
Trying 20 Aid Him.

Trying 90 Aid Him.
MOUNT CARMEL, Dec 20-The iron works
here have been destroyed by fire.
New YORK, Dec. M.-No arrests were made
last night
The Grand Jury was called this morning OF
important information by the foreman.
The HeraLFs says it is suspected that the
statement of the case by the United States be-
fore the Geneva Commission which was lost in
November, fell into the hands of the British
who have used it to the disavaEtagc of the Unit
ed States.
The Times says it is evident that Mayor
n, II has friends among the Grand Jury, who
ste,, by step fight the indictment of Hall.
At a meeting of the Committee of Seventy,
# WAS resolved that they had not changed their
views, .ond that Mayor Hall and. VIM. NJ. Tweed
should resign. The Commit have entertained
no compromise.
Mr.. Calendar, the National Bank Examiner,
was arrested, and is charged with receiving a
bride of seventy-fve thousand dollars from the
Ocean Bank.
Eighteen persons were added to the medical
staff to fight the small pox. Several streets in
Williamsburg have been closed to travel as be-
ing infected. .-~
8 St. Thomas special says the Florida sailed
from ST. Thomas and conveyed the gunboat
Shaymutt The Spanish war vessels did not in
terfers
The Congr essional inquiry into the general
order of business excites much interest among
importers. and ventilation of startling extor-
tons is expected.
Calendars bail is twenty thousand dollars.
Patrick Flynn was murdered near his resi-
denee, in Hobolen, last night.
The funeral of Henry T. Tuckerman to-day
was attended by many literary mourners. The
remains were taken to Boston for interment IN
the family vault in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
CONCORD, Dec. 2O-Bishop Baker is dead,
agep ffy-nine.
BALTIMORE, Dee. 20-Robert N. Smith was
before the District Attorney to-day, on charge
of embezzling United States funds, and was ac-
quilted.
PORTLAND, Dec. al. A. Coombs, prOpri-
etor of the Preble House, committed suicide to-
day.
CISc1NNArI, Dec 20-Hon. John Morrissey
,Vas sued John Kilgore, prominent capitalist
his city, for ten thousand dollars, advanced
at he special request of Kilgore on dit, debt
of onor. 49,,
that at the request of the State authorities he
had Ia, st Saturday disinterred Ketchum and
brought. away the liver, one kidney, spleen and
six inches Of the intestine which joins the stom-
och Medi cal o, Idence accumulates that Ketch-
um did not die natura death.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 2O.-The steamer America,
heavily la1len from Memphis Either to Clncin-
natl is bound near here on tie Kentucky
side.
The therI nometer was IL o degrees below zero
81 noon.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 20-The resolution
impeaching Gov. Scott pending, Bowen spoke
two hours, declaring himself terribly in earnest,
and that he meant TO impeach guilty State Off
GERS ceriotim.
It rs stated that Scott confessed to twenty-five
mill, Ons fraudulent bonds, and within three
DAYS tate Treasurer::P arker defed the Legisla-
ure 70 n roceed against the Ring because of the
Lepislah1 res corruption.
Row.n in order to be certain to obtain two
thirds vat. :, moved pOstponement of the i'm
pe,cbmont resolutions till after the Christmas
recess If q, 'uil House rejected the measure.
Bowen wouId esort to the courts. He pledged
himself to assist with evidence and other means
IN the conviction fol me governor and other
guilty officials f
1t is rumored that Scott admitting conviction
py the Senate, if inn esse"ed DV the HOUSE VIII
resign.
SALT LANE, Dec. 70. "A heaVy fhew pre-
walls in the mining distri, Is. Three more feet
of snow will cause commu ,lieatiOn difficult.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 20-A Mn lurking around
where the express robberi, " occurred in Union,
tennessee, killed policem, N and wounded an
other, but subsequently, the lul' ker YVES caught.
Subsequently some masked MEN broke open the
jail, killed the express robber, Lev. Harrington,
and hung the lurker, whose name is Zaler, from
Kentucky.