The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-07-27
PIE ENTERPRISE.
Sweetwater, Thursday, July "a, 1871.
Selected Items.

have BEEN exported 10 this country by
way OF Bremen this season.
The I'd regiment Of Rhode Island vol
nnteersi commemornted the battle Of Bull
Run yesterday, Let them commemorate;
1t is non of our funeral.
In France, all the Theirs papers are
urging the government to suppress Bo-
naparte intrigues whenever discovered.
They are more bitter upon the Bonaparte
than the Bourbon pretensions to the
government Of France.
-Four millions of dollars will be levied
on the people Of the Territory (late Dis
trict) Of Columbia by the new territorial
government, in the shape of taxation.
Tho people of the District are beginning
already to appreciate one of the results
Of Radical rule-high taxes.
The Fourth Of July was celebrated in
Belfast, Ireland, by the launching Of a
third Irish-built ocean steamer for the
new "White Star Line" to New York.
The steamships of this company are the
largest afoat, and one of them recently
made the greatest run ON record, 1874
knots in 20 hours and rs minutes.
The New York World insists "there is
very little in the newspaper stories which
would be allowed to weigh or even to be
introduced ~ evidence in q court of JUS
tice," against Mrs, Wharton Of Balti-
moro, accused of poisoning Gen. Ketch-
um and others; and that "there are very
strong Prescriptions in favor of the en-
tire innocence" of that lady.
In portions of North Carolina, bands
of negro outlaws-real Ku-Klux-are
numbering the people, robbing stores
and houses, and openly defying the au-
thorities. Lowry, their leader, is awell-
known Radical politician. He can be
arrested by the Federal officers at any
time they please, and yet he is suffered
to go at large, and murder white men
at his pleasure. If Gen. Grant wants
to enforce the Ku-Klux bill, here is n
chance.
Tho P~leasanton- Boutwell, imbroglio
has placed Grant in an awkward posi-
ton. He is afraid to go back on Bout
well and he is afraid to dismiss Pleas
anton.
In the process Of "dis-establishing'
the Irish Episcopal Church, a Commits
sion has been appointed to take charge
OF the capital, revenues and expenditures.
A report Of this Commission, embracing
the first six months from the passage of
the act, has been published, from which
we gather that the total receipts for that
period were over five and u half million
dollars, and the expenditures about three
millions anda half, including some $685.
900 cost of Commission.
The Charlottesville, Va, Intelligenccr,
in discussing the way to spell whisky,
whether with or without the e, says:
"What have we q university for, if it
cannot decide that question? But 1T is
a matter of choice with most people how
they have their spell of viii sky; some
take it with G and some without it.
There are too many crooked letters and
characters in whisky, any how, and if
all but the W and i and s and Q were
dropped, it would be wise. To drop it
altogether would be wiser"
John Quincy Adams, of Massachu-
sets, thinks the "tug of war" iii the
Presidential canvass of 1872 will be in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and
declares that the Democratic candidate
ought to be taken from one of these
States.
William and Mary College, in vir-
ginia, has just elected Hugh Blair Grigs-
by the third chancellor of that institu-
lion since its foundation long before the
declaration Of independence. Gen.
Washington was the first chancellor.
Alate Australian steamer brings full
details of the recent scare produced
there by reports of a flibustering expe-
dition fitting out at San Francisco, to
make a descent IN the island. The col
onists expended some millions of dollars,
called out volunteers, erected earthworks,
and ~improvised n feet to repel the in
yaders before they discovered that the
story was q hoax.
Thousands of well-dressed, intelligent
young emigrants continue to flock from
the interior to Dublin, Derry, Cork and
Waterford. Last month the Inman.
Line had TO charter two extra steamers
to meet the increasing demand for trans
portation to "the States;" and the fine
fleet of Cunarders are frequently obliged
to leave passengers behind for want of
In the country districts Of Ire
land farm laborers are becoming SO very
scarce that, in the language of q CORES
pondent, 'Tioney cannot get them" but