Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-06-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

sh ministry. .r.
King Victor Emmanuel returned to Florence
without visiting Rome.
IL is said 1900 insurgents have been shot
since the capture Of Paris.
Mrs. Gen. Gaines proposes to cndow several
colleges for females in the South. ..."
George Tate the historian, died in London
on the 10Th inst, in the nth year Of his age,
The Bonapartists are spending large sums OF
money to secure representatives in the next
Assembly
The policy Of aboishing privateering by the
English Government has been preached in Par
lament
Bonaparte Restorationists are using money in
France to effect the election of delegates to the
General Assembly.
Prince Napoleon has accepted the candida
ture for the Assembly at Corsica and his cleo
ton is thought to be certain
The whaling fleet of Edgartown, Mass, for
merly numbering twenty vessels, has been re-
duced to five, and these do not pay.
The capital invested in boats on the MISSISSIPPI
pi river, and in the cargoes they are constantly
carrying is estimated at Sl,5000O0 600
"Reddy, the Blacksmith" notorious New
York rough, is again in prison. for an unpro-
voked attack on peaceable citizen.
According to information at the Indian Blu
reau, the Indians everywhere arc quiet with the
exception of those in Arizona and Northern
Texas
Maj Louis f. johnson, son of Hon. Reverdy
johnson, has been re-appointed by the President
United States Marshal for the District of South
Carolina
Secretary Boutwell, will shortly order the
payment of the semi-annual interest on the
public debt The amount is about twenty-cight
millions.
The police have broken up the gambling
houses in st. Louis, and the sports are leaving
in preference to being hauled up under the va
grant act.
Tbo E,nnoror opd Ernnross of R-oy;l lordo5
at Lisbon on Tuesday and met an enthusiastic
reception. They will go 10 Madrid and soon
afterward to London.
Crops in North Alabama will be short on ac-
count of heavy spring rains. In some instances
planters have plowed under the damaged cot
ton and planted corn
Gen. Won Moltke has been promoted to the
position of n Field Marshal in the Imperial ar
my of Germany, and Gen. Won Room created
Count of the Empire.
Commodore Ashbury is coming to New York
with new yacht, the Livonia to contest with
the New York yacht Cap, for the Queens cup,
next September
Juarez is laboring hard to suppress the insur-
rectons in Mexico. Tampico was stormed on
the 18th at An, and all the insurgents either
killed or wounded.
Admiral Rogers, unless otherwise ordered to
the contrary from Washington, expects to con-
tisue hostities against the COreans. Great ex-
element prevails at Hong Kong.
y terrible famine l. prevailing IN the central
and southern part Of Persia In Khorass0n
parents are selling their children slaves to the
Turcomans to keep them from starving.
The manifestations Of sorrow at Dayton, on
the Goth inst, on the occasion of the funeral'of
Hon c. L Valandigham surpassed anything Of
the kind in the West for many years.
Gen. y b. Forrest Gen. Gordon Adams
and Dstrict-Attorney jacobson, of Mississippi,
have been summoned to appear before the Ku-
klux Committee as witnesses.
Favre says at the first negotiations for peace
Bismarck demanded Strasburg He asks
Frenchmen to compare the government since
the 4th Of September with that preceding.
The beneheiaries under the act of last session.
giving pensions to the surviving soldiers and
Sailors of the war of 1912, number about 26, 600
whose claims have already been admitted.
King George has addressed autograph let
ter of thank. to MIR. Tuckerman, United States
Minister at Athens, for his recent phlhelenc
report on Greek brigandage.
Count Moltke, it IS understood, will visit
England in order to be present at the great
military gathering which is to take place on the
Berkshire Downs next September
Pierre Bonaparte has addressed petition to
the National Assembly begging that the statue
of Napoleon in his great coat and hat may be
replaced on the Vendome column.
o. Baldwin, the pugilist, pub ished a card in
St Louis, Saturday, challenging Tom Allen TO
fight him for s. 500 or more, the mill to come
of in not less than four months from signing
articles.
The number of pensioners already reported
of soldiers and sailors of 1872 is over 260O0
and new ones are reported mt the rate of l76 per
dav The payments from February 70 next
July will exceed three millions.
1t is said that previous to his death, Dom
browski demanded from Gen. Fabrce passage
through the Prussian lines for the Communists
the intention being TO continue the Instruction
al movement in Belgium.
At meeting OF the board Of managers Of the
Nashville Exposition building, held in that
city on Thursday it was resolved to sell the
property Final action was, however, deferred
until future meeting.
Universal regret has been publicly expressed
at the tragic death of Hon. Q. l.. Nallandig
ham The funeral, which took place at Day
ton, was one of the largest and most imposing
that ever took place in tho west
The French Communists of New York at
meeting held last Sunday in that city, de-
nounced Theirs as another Charles TX, and
compared the slaughter of men, women and
children to the massacre of ST. Bartholomew.
Gen won Gablenz has returned TO Vienna with
the reply of the Emperor William TO the con-
gratu lations of the Emperor of Austria. The
Grand Cross of the Red Eagle was conferred
on the General by the German Emperor.
The Grand Jury Of Fulton County, Ga,
have indicted Foster Bodgett late Superin-
tendent of the State Road, and his private
Secretary, Varney A. Gaskill, for embezze-
ment of the State Road funds
Forty miners were temporarily imprisoned at
instant, caused by the caving in of the slope.
and oil will ro-