Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

Two hundred horses have arrived at the Long
Branch race course b..
The grand total of internal revenue receipts
for the present fiscal year TO date is Sl44, 21sOt3.
The evidence taken by the Kuklux Com
mittee last week was very voluminous.
The cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai
has been repaired
new fire insurance company is to be organ
lied at Augusta Georgia
Harvest hands have been receiving S225 and
50 10 per day in northern and central Indiana.
Efforts to suppress the revolution in Bolivia,
South America, have proved unsuccessful
The New Orleans Btlletin has been changed
to an evening paper.
Deaths from smallpox in London number $40
weekly,
The farmers in the vicinity of indianapolis
have commence delivering new wheat.
Twenty thousand visitors arrived at Long
Branch on Saturday.
The war claim of Connecticut, amounting TO
Sl54,2I3, has been paid,
A new Hebrew Temple is being erected in
New Orleans.
The value Of the works of art destroyed by
the Communists in NJ. Thers house in Paris is
estimated Mt 500, coo.
The German Government has called in the
first issue of $1,000, 600 thalers in German bonds
maturing in January.
The sum of .s145, 5oS.7O will be required to
run the municipal government Of Cincinnati
during the month of July.
The Khedive of Egypt has sent hundred
thousand francs to the orphans of the French
civil war.
The degree of l.. L. D. has been confined on
Lieutenant General Phil Sheridan by the North
western University at Evanston, Illinois.
General r. E. Lees famous gray horse. "Trav-
eler, died at Lexington, Va, on Monday night
of lockjaw. He had run nail in his foot.
A negro named Osbell was hanged by mob
at Springfield Mo-, the other day, for commit
ting rape.
man named Douglas beat another man
named Sapp to death, at Pleasant Hill, Pike
county, Ill, last week, and is now in Jail.
The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, now chancel-
lor of the exchequer, first made his mark in
England as a writer for the London Times.
Hon. A II. Stephens health is improving.
He now weighs 10 pounds-his weight about six
months ago being only 7Opounds. -
Forty-seven ships of the French navy have
been dsarmed, and twelve thousand sailors dis
armed and dismissed from service.
In the Methodist Book Concern trial last Sat
urday the action Of the committee in the Lam
ahan case resulted in his removal from Office.
White winter wheat of this years growth.
from DeSoto, Illinois, has been offered at
Chicago
Gen. B F. Butler defends the Paris Com
of free government
Capt Halls steamer, the Polaris, will sail on
Monday the Sd inst. from New York to the Po-
lar regions.
OBadwin the Irish giant, has challenged
Mace the English champion. to fight for 80 =
800 side, anywhere in the United States.
Brooklyn has issued city bonds to the amount
of $500, 702.j0, to meet the semi-annual Interest
due on the corporation indebtedne-s
The number Of deaths in the city Of Brook
Ign, last week, was 2O4, being an increase OF -
over the previous week.
The village of Fitchville, Conn, with mills
water-power, &c has been sold 10 Henry Wa
terman Of Providence. for Sos 600
A negro in Oregon has sent his old master the
State right 10 a window fastening Ia return for
freedom conferred on him in old slavery days
The Commissioner of Agriculture saws tea
enough for home consumption will be grown in
the Western and Southern States in few years.
The people of the Sandwich Islands have con-
tributed 81 600 10 the French sufferers
Hon. Simon Cameron, Of Pennsylvania. has
been. suggested as candidate for the Vice
Presidency.
The G. S. Newcomb Printing Company. Of
Cleveland Ohio has been Incorporated with
capital Of $4,000
Edward Vancil, lad fifteen years Of age,
stabbed his elder brother aged nineteen at
Rushville, H., 10 the heart, with a penkniie,
killing him Instantly.
been discovered in owen county Indiana
which il pronounced equal TO that imported from
Germany.
The steamer Ida Rees sank in the Missouri
river with Government stores on board valued
at 100000. The boat and cargo will be a total
loss
Judge Strong, Of the United States Circuit
Court in Philadelphia, recently delivered an
opinion sustaining the constitutionality Of the
income tax.
The state department has prepared a list Of
the Alabama claims. The whole number Of
vessels destroyed was 23i, and the value at that
time is set down at Sl2s}0,3oI.
Major Campbell Wallace has been recon-
me nded for the Presidency Of the Georgia West
ern Railroad, and the Atlanta Constitution en-
dorses him for the position