Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

1t is stated that Gov. Holden declines the
mission to Peru.
Two females of New York are said to be
training for prize fight
The Liberal Republicans of Kansas lave
not met with the success they expected.
The Sultan Of Turkey is said to be in debt TO
his trades people Sl5,000000.
Vice Admiral Rowan, who has been serious.
ly ILL., is recovering.
The kuklux have broken up q colored school
IN Montgomery county, Texas
a man was frozen to death at White Stone,
Long Island last Wednesday.
The claimant in the Tichbone case is said to
be butcher instead of baronet.
Jim Fisks military charger has been sold for
$500, one-eighth of what Fisk paid for him.
Manton Marble, of the New York World,
has gone to Cuba. The World moves on.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was so severely
injured by fall a few days ago, is recovering.
The militia of Virginia has adopted a uni
form similar to that of the late Confederate
army. ... .. .-.-.E .r.4..s .r-. 81 ,.....
Supervisor Emery has been among the illicit
distillers in Middle Tennessee and North Caro-
lima. .. ... ...... b .-...r ...
The French Governments finds the question
of controlling the public press q troublesome
one. ... -t.... .i.. ....
Hon. Robert G. Schenck, United States Min
ister to England, has been on visit to Ediu-
burgh. r4r Ii. ...t. .r..r .-. 81
Woolen manufacturers are urging the Ways
and Means Committee to repeal the duty ON
raw wool. .- ....r. . .... .... F.. .. ... -. o..
Hon Dan, w Voorhees, peremptorily declines
to be the Democratic candidate for Governor Of
Indiana. NM. ...E .st.l... ~. ..
Ben Hill thinks there is not political intelli-
gence and virtue enough in the country for
Wing party. .' -. ,tts- ~. -iI'..-..
A young man fell through four flights of
stairs in Momphis on Sunday night and escaped
with slight injuries. ri ...f. ,..r .. ...
Gen. Howard proposes to contribute $1,000 to
build new court house in Prince William
county, Virginia. .-. .H......r. .. d.
Gen. Joseph L. johnson has been elected
President of the Georgia Military Institute at
Marietta. ... ....i E... .. ..-...
Col. Thos. A. Scott denies that he has entered
into any bination TO raise the rates for trans
porting tho mails. ...- .s E..T.i 4. --
Lynn, Massachusetts, shipped nearly ten
thousand cases of shoes last week. No complaint
of "hard times in Lynn. t..... ...
Rev. Father Ryan has been appointed coad-
jutor to Archbishop Kendric1 of st. Louis, and
will be consecrated rs such at Easter. GU.
The Grand Duke is reported as having spent
last sabbath at Havana, with his staff and the
Governor, at a cock-fght in that city. f
The press of California condemns the sending
of General Howard TO interfere with General
Crooks operations against the Apaches
1t is believed that theIowa Republican Con-
vention will recommend Grant for President
and Hon. j. +. Wilson for Vice President.
The Postmaster at Kansas City, Missouri has
been removed from office for retaining por-
ton of the salary allowed by law to his clerks
The Virginia Legislature very modestly re-
quests Congress to appropriate 60,000,0O0 acres
Of the public lands to pay the debt of that State
1t seems that the Liberals" made PROPOSE
tions TO the wrong man when they endeavored
to invege Gov. Palmer into their organiza-
ton. ... .... ..
I'LL, II
can success in New Hampshire next week be-
! cause the Democrats have espoused the cause of
Free Trade. .. -... ...
Jubilee Gilmore, Of Boston, has the first cho-
rus of 1000 voices already full, and q second
is forming for the international concert 1.-THE
chorus is now rehearsing by sections.
The editor of the Louisville Courier-JournaL,
who is in Washington, seems pretty certain that
Horace Greeley will be nominated for Vice
President at Cincinnati
A. j. Jones, late a railroad President in
North Carolina has been fined $1,000 for fraud
ulently using bonds and sentenced 10 a years
imprisonment in the State penitentiary.
A Nashville actor attempted TO commit sui
eide at Bowling Green on Monday night, stab
bing himself 35 times. No hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery. r..
General T. Il. Crttenden, of the counsel for
ex-Congressman w. =, Stokes, has entered
suit against him for 500 for professional ser
vices in defending him in the late trial
through the Southern States During his re-
cent visit to Houston, Texas he drew very large
audiences, and the tickets sold at FIVE dollars in
gold.
II. V. r., of the Cincinnati Commercial, find
ing that his interviews with Andrew john
son were growing stale has gone West and is
now writing up tho Mormons and the snow
blockade
Tho District Attorney at Montgomery Ala,
has telegraphed TO Attorney General Williams
requesting troops to assist in the arrest of per-
sons indicted under the kullux law. The troops
will be furnished. Eae
The "Small Talk man of the C0ia.ief-J Jouy--
nal says that Immediately upon hearing that
Louisville firm had bought up all the old whis-
ky, the editor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer left
for that city with spacious demijohn.
Rev. Stuart Robinson has instituted suit
against the Chicago Post for 100000 damages
Tor saying that he advised his congregation dur
ing the late war 20 ship clothing Infected with
yellow fever TO Northern cities.
A newspaper correspondent speaking of Min
lister DeLong, who accompanies the Japanese
Embassy, says that if he would put a basket on
one arm and bundle of papers under the 9TH
er he would pass fora newsboy. ...
The bottled wrath of Democratic editors Of
several months accumulation, Is being poured
upon the devoted head of Judge Busted. be-
fore whom three kuklux have been convicted at
Huntsville, Ala II is natural that they should
defend their friends,
The temperature at Pittsburg on Saturday
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