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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
A Noble Example.

w. p. Parker, Esq, worthy citizen of Clai-
the County Fair. He is poor mana carpon-
ter by trade, but recently has ''gone to the
plow.n He owns but ten acres of ground is
turning the soil with the aid of his wife and
double his amount of subscription, and give a
life lease on himself and little ones rather
than tho County Fair should fail. Patrick
Henry, in the dark days of Nirginia's peril,
could not have acted or spoken more sublime
~ of his country and its future. To those who
are more than doubly able to take q similar
amount, and still have left countless acres, we
would say ''Shame where is thy blush 2'-
Cumberland Spectator.
The above is an illustration of the spirit that
should animate our people en- maSSe in aiding
the Eastern Division Fair, and if our friend
Charlton could only find a few hundred such,
he would be as happy as if he had received a
legacy.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
LAVAL NInima.

| can be found Mt Office of Special Commits
House, in Knoxville, until Saturday, April 9th,
where all persons desiring testimony taken, OF
claims otherwise attended to, in any respect de,
volving on the Special Commission, are invited
to come. - . -.--- ga. 1900.
l will attend the following appointments out
side of Knoxville as special Commissioner in
cases Of claims against the United States, as fol-
lows
Unitia, Loudon county, Monday, April Sth.
jacksonville, Monroe county, Monday, April
10Th. L. &. HoUK,
iii22d3twalS Special Commissioner.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
sale of Railroads.

On yesterday at u clock, the Commission
ers appointed by the State to sell the Knoxville
and Charleston and the Rogersville and Jefier-
son Railroads, offered the same at public auc-
Steers and Patterson for the sum of $l05, 600
The sale of the latter was postponed till 2 p. NJ.
and was purchased by Captain Jaques, of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
for $4,000
The sale included only the States interest
The terms were one-fourth cash in hand, and
the remainder in equal instalments in one, two
and three years.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
COMMERCIAL.
KNoxvntr. TNNN.. Mar. I'd. ~
CONNECTED DAILY BY
J. w. GAU1


KNoxvIItE, TENN.. Mar. '26, 1872.
The shipment of grain and hay have been
light since last report for want Of stock Low
water in tho Holston and French Broad rivers
prevent arrivals. Several boat loads are. en-
route for the market awaiting tide.
Only local demand for -four at prices pre.
vailing last week. Some inquiry for bacon but
at low prices. ... ..
Quotations of leading articles
PRoDUCE-Stands about asl at this timellasL
week.
WHEAT-But little offered; readily taken by
CoRN-Is worth 60c loose, buying; selling
price, T2i to 73c in car loads, sacked.
OATs-Good local demand at Acc. loose; sell
ing from store, 5TaG0c. sacked. ..
HAy--Buying price 90ca$l 90 per cwt, baled
selling, 81 l0a1. Is by the car load. ~.
DRIED FRuIT-Nomnal; half peaches, 81 to
&c Apples, 4Aa5c.
FLouR-Scarce and in demand best family
brands, 1926 per sack; extra S. 90.
BACoN-Buying loose from wagons, Ta7lc. for
hog round. Well trimmed Hams are wanted
at Zoe.
LARD-Some demand at ea9sc.i selling at loa
101c. in tin cans.
FEATHERs-Prime, 55 duck and mixed, 40a
Acc. r ... ...... H.
BUTTER-Prime for local trade 20c TO DC
irregular lots 10 TO loo, dull.
Eaos-13 to I4c per dozen
IRISH PoTAToEs-65a70c., loose from wagons
RAas-3a3tc.
BEEswAx-27a28c per pound
SEED-Clover, So 50a9 90 per bushel tim
othy, SIS 50a6 90 per bushel.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
To the voters Of Knox County.

take this method of announcing myself, q
candidate for reelection, to the Office of Sheriff
of Knox county at the August election, 1872. l
have been serving you in the capacity ofSheriff
for the past two years as to how have con-
Quoted the business of said office, is to you well
known. will, if elected, in the future as in
the past discharge the duties of the Office to
the best of my ability, irrespective of party.
l cannot close this announcement without
rendering my sincere thanks to my friends OF
all parties, for their hearty support in my last
election V F. GossETT.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

A swindIer ON his Travels-A Knoxville
HL Man yietimisel. Il

mbH NlgttNhtAtNtsaaA
A young man calling himself Wilson Garter t,
OF Rockingham county, Virginia appealed TO
one of the employees of thei Knoxville Iron
Company on last Tuesday week for aid. The
person who was appealed to Is young man OF
great merit who, by his unaided exertions, sup
ports a widowed mother and his younger broth
crs. Seeing that Carter was in destitute circun-
stances and in need Of assistan ce,he invited him
to his house and made him as comfortable MS
circumstances would permit. Carter, thus do
mciled, told q. Very stEaight-forwaSds story
about being engaged in Chicago in the gas
fitting business, and that he was ruined in the
late fire. lie seemed 10 be n very honest, de-
serving young man, Judging from his converse
ton and other appearances. He started out
last Thursday, as he said, in search of employ
ment and returned in q short time stating that
he was to report on Monday 1sthl TO Mr.
Moore, at the Virginia and Georgia depot,
claiming that he had obtained the posi-
ton Of Special Freight Express Agent
on that road. On the strength of this be
borrowed, Monday morning, his hosts best
pants, shoes, and shirt, and for the day ap-
pesred to be away attending to his duties. But
Mooro's happened to reside near Carriers st op
ping place, and through his family, this young
gentleman Carter was unmarked. When he
returned Tuesday evening. they charged him
ried him THUS far, did not forsal1e him now. He
framed plausible answer, and intimating that
he would be needed at the depot, when the
freight trains arrived, he endcsvorsd TO obtain
his hosts overcoat. In this he failed. Ne then
left, but was traced 20 q drinking saloon neal
the depot.
He left for parts unknown on ono of the might
freight trains, carrying Off with him what
clothes of his benefactors he had about him
He is about five feet ten inches high, very much
sunburned wears his hair parted in the middle
is rather dignifed, light moustache and goatee
His eyes are of that kind commonly denomina-
| ted cat eyes In his address he is very pleasant
| converses fuently, and is well posted on mos
subjects.
He claims to have been on Gen. Fitshugh
Lees staff, showing a confederate commission
in substaniiation of his assertions and to be re
| lated to Missouri Governor.
Unsuspecting people should be on their guard
His depredations may extend further than mere
| ly cheating and robbing the widow and the or
phan, should he play the same role again.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
so. M. d.

Don't stand aghast with awe and fear, eyes
wide open, hair on end and fingers tightly
clinched with the idea that THESE mysterious
symbols are cabslistic signs and represent some
secret organization ofmasked demons who carry
terror and dismay with their midnight prowl-
ings and dispense on the dawn of morning. Mol
They are only the initials of DIR. Pierce's Col
den Medical Discovery, that pleasant medicine
which has acquired National reputation and
proven so efficacious in Coughs Colds, Bron'
chitus, Consumption and kindred diseases. For
these complaints it has no equal. Sold by oil
druggists
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

The discovery made by our friend DIR. Calfee
from Lower East Tennessee, of preparation
for the cure of Liver Diseases without the use
of mercury, calomel or minerals and of which
we made a notice a few weeks since, bids fair to
be of even more importance than we the sup
posed The cures it is performing seems Won
derful We believe L. j. Sanford & Co.. are
his only agents at present in East Tennessee.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

This superb AIR DYE Is the Best in the World
Perfectly Harmless Re liable and instantaneous. No
disappointment No Ridiculous ti9ts 9r upPle@s91 n,
DYE produces IMMEDIATELY splendid BLACK
or NATURAL BROWN Does not san the Skin
FUL. The ony safe and PERFECT Dye Eoit by
all Druggists. Factory Ii BOND ST.. New York.
mch3ead6 ly
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
suicitc Off woman.

Last Thursday or Friday we are informed, =
domestic tragedy occurred in the lower part of
this county in which Mrs. Ballard, wife of
James Ballard, was the victim of solf-destruc-
ton. The unfortunate woman had been labor
ing under mental arrangement for some time
and it is thought she committed the rash act
while laboring under one of these fits,
Our information is that Mrs Ballard procured
y rope and fastened it across the house, telling
her daughter to 60 to the spring after bucket
of water, and adding that she need not hurry
back. The girl was gone reasonable length
of time, but when She returned was Mortified TO
find her mother hanging lifeless. She was in
stantly cut down, but too late. The vital spark
had fed and all that remained was inanimate
clay. Her funeral took place on Sunday last.
Mrs. Ballard resided in Toole's Bend, in the
18th civil district.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

Mrs. W has had Wheeler & Wilson
Machine since June, 1857; to January LIST, 1871,
she has made "a, 476 vests, lin 1870 2 255 vests }
IL coats and so pair of pantaloons, besides doing
the family sewing for six persons all the work
ranging from the finest muslin to tho heaviest
haaVpr cloth
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
Ii Itimore MARKET.

BALTIMORE, March ll.-Flour very strong
and unchanged Wheat firm and inactive.
Corn steady, but duh, 05a66c Oats, 5la64c.
Rye, 95GaSl 90. Pork very dull, $3.50 Ba-
con steady. Shoulders, SIC Whisky, S9a9Oc.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

The Cumberland Foundry filled an order yes
Clark & Quaife are rapidly extending the trade
the reputation of East Tennessee iron and its
superiority for making car wheels is becoming
more widely known every day. They make
shipments TO Selma, Montgomery and other
Southern cities . T
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
Cineinnntl .pTarket. :

CINCINNATI, March 25.-Flour steady. Corn,
dropping. Pork demand light, holders firm,
Sll.7j offered /; Sl2 asked. Lard unchanged
bacon quiet shoulders and fine sides, 6ia7s.
Whisky higher IS.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
SnecinI Election.

At the Special election held in the 10th, civ
district to fiji the vacancy oecasioned by th
resignation of Elijah Dunn, Esq, VIM. WI
hite was chosen Justice of the Peace.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
Roiler nnd Steam Engine Cor Sale.

A twenty-five horse power steam engine and
boiler for sale suitable for saw mill, manutac-
turing or Touring mill. Address,
DALTON MACHINE COMPANY,
iiidlw-w4t Dalton, Ga.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

A car kpad of shoats from Whitley county,
Kentucky, arr we'd yesterday, but the pork
market being dali, the owner shipped them to
Atlanta.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
see,,si see.IsiI

George Brown has just received at his sgr-
cultural warehouse and seed store large ship
ment of choice field and garden seeds, and for
sale ut wholesale and retail He proposes to
supply dealers on better terms than they can
PURCHASE in any other market. i4dSwtf
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

See the advertisement of this medicine, which
is offered for Sale by Baker ~ Stephenson, To-
gether with large stock of drugs and medi'
cines.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

LOUISVILLE, March 12-Provisions quiet and
arm. Flour firm. Corn quiet Whisky quiet,
81
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
SO. Louis Market.
LOuisviIIe Market.

ST. LOUIS, March l5.-Whisky lower, 8
81 Provisions dnll, unchanged.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

MRS. wINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP,
for children teething softens the gums, reduces
Inflammation, allays all pain and cures wind
collie
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
corroH MARKET.
LouisYilIe Market.

LOUISVILLE March 25.-Bagging unchanged
Flour and Corn firm. Provisions, limited de-
mand Whisky, SIC,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN WEEKLY.
Ten lines. or less. solid. to constitute square.


Subscribers who find the Red Cross mark on
their paper will know their time is out. If they
want the paper another year they must let us
know We must stop all papers not paid for.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
New York market.
sTocKs.

STOCKS.
NEW YORK, March 25. - Money easy,
Cal. Sterling Qia9i Gold, 81 0ois$l .0qs. Gov
eminent, steady. Tennessees, firm. New South
Carolinas, strong others dull.
COTTON MARKET.
Cotton very quiet sales, 81 bales, uplands.
22s Orleans, q.
Futures to-day 800 bales; as follows ::
March, % 3-16, 22t. April, 22f, % 5-l6: May,
22a, 90 1910. June, q 1910, 2s August
20s.
GENERAL MARKET.
Flour quiet and unchanged common to fair
extra, So S5a7. 90; good to choice, 81 95a9. so.
Whisky sole Wheat heavy and lower win.
ter red Western, 81. 70al7l. Corn heavy and
!ower; 70Ia7l4c; Southern yellow, 7la72c,
Rice in fair request, Stable. Pork closed
steady. Lard quiet, Tallow heavy, siaec
Freights quiet.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27

A Sullivan county trapper, Mr.. James Webb,
sold sos peltins il this city few days ago
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
The Custom House BaIldIns.

We have received from Hon. Horace May
nard copy of the Appropriation Bill to sup
ply Deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service OF the Government, Introduces into the
Senate on the 9Th inst. 1t contains the clause
passed in the House, appropriating one hundred
thousand dollars for continuing work on our
Postofiice building. The bill as read will
doubtless pass in few days.
The work on the building meantime, pro-
crosses most satisfactorily under Gen. Holman 5
supervision. Mr.. Green, who has been tIou-
blesome fellow, was dismissed from the work n
few days ago and has left. The work will pro-
coed better for his absence.
We noticed yesterday the workme were put
ting up the heavy iron columns in the interior
of the large center room TO be used for the Post
Office. The arches are all set and the stone are
placed nearly all the way round up to the be-
ginning of the second story. Gen. Holman
works quietly but efficiently, as the progress
made shows.
MEssRs EDITozs In answer to urgent and
repeated solicitations from my friends of the
county, hereby announce myself rs a candi-
date 10 represent the interests of jefferson coun-
ty in the lower branch of the Legislature.
with full conviction of the responsibility of the
position, and knowing something of the views
and requirements OF our particular section oi
the State, can and do cheerfully pledge my
self not only to support, but to labor assiduous-
~ for the enactment of any and al laws tend
ing TO the advancement of the varied Interests
of East Tennessee, political, social, moral, edu-
cational, DC, &c., regardless of political par
tie intriguing cliques or money rings.
As to my fitness inr the place, am perfectly
willing to submit my claims ~ the decision OF
the voters of the county where L have beer
reared ahd where l have spent the greater part
OF my life, and whatever the nature of that de-
cisio1. shall cheerfully scquiesce in the same
respectfully,
NEW MARKEr March II, 1872 iii2Owlm.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
Rest, Health and Comfort 10 Mother and
Child.

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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-22
Breech.LOaders Parker
Gun.

Few sportsmen at the present are sat
isfed without the possession OF breech-
loader, and certainly no one can fully
command and avail himself of all the
chances of hunting who does not pos
sess one. The decrease in the quantity
of the game, its shyness, and the irreg.
ularity of its approach of late in the
west have greatly changed sporting coll
1itions, and compelled resort to the
most facile and perfect Improvement in
guns, and the breech loader may almost
now be considered as essentially an adj.
vance over the muzzle loader as the per-
cussion cap has been rated over the old
iiLt-lock. Among the many varieties
of breech-loadine shot guns the Parker
gun commends itself to those who have
used.i as unexcelled, uniting all the at
tainable requisites for q perfect piece !;
and it is probably in more general use
and better known in the western states
than any other.
Its simplicity Of construction, ready
manipulation (as the hand is naturally
in the proper position for opening the
barrel after discharge, thus saving time
and motion) and the invaiiable excel
lence of the larrels-thc strong, even
and continuous capacity are reconimen.
dations to which every man who has
used the gun will emphatically respond
Sportsmen with thirty years expe-
rience in bird warfare in the west, who
have seen and handled these guns pro
nounce q verdict in their favor-that
they are all that can be desired. Some.
times we hear those who have substitu-
ted breech loader for q long and ia.
vorite piece, say that sit is handy, but
not SO strong as the old gun" Not so
of the Parker-its shooting qualities
uniformly satisfy-the barrel workman
ship is Of the best. There was time
among us when the great profusion of
game made the time lost in loading OF
little or no occount. Now, when bird
flights are but occasional and opportu
nifty must be used to its utmost ere it
passes by, the hunter who can load and
fire six or eight times to his muzze-
loading comrades twice, has superi,
olity such as no sportsman can put up
with, and when he exchanges his gun
for new pattern he wants the best
We advise all who desire stronger
shooting durable, handy breech- h-loader
to buy a Parker. Buy it, try it, and
you'll never deny it,-Quiacy On.
Daily Whig, Aay "a, 1872.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-22
ADMINISTRATION MALICE.
The Way TO Suppress an ObnOx-
1Ous Newspaper.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Special to the New
York Tribune.
Last light at half-past twelve clock,
the Office of the Sentinel, The leading Lib
eral paper in this State, was blown up by
a keg Of powder placed. in the press
room. The press was blown to pieces,
the building thrown down, and the roof of
another house torn off The type was
broken, the cases upset, and much other
damage done. The outrage was beyond
question the work of the Grant party. In
thejob Office paper containing three or
four pounds of powder with burning
fuse was found. There was also powder
among the ruins. The editor, the Hon
Josiah Turner, jr., has done more in the
last three years to expose the villainies Of
carpet baggers and Administration
thieves than all the other papers in the
State put together. He has been unre-
lenting, and is hated by the Ring most
heartily. They tried to take his life by
shooting at him in his Office. Eight Of
them attacked him in the day time, and his
life saved only by his cool bravery,he be
ing armed with two pistols, which he
drew. They have twice shot at his wife.
His press was broken only two or tire e
months ago by carpet-bagger at night,
and cost S400 to get it repaired. They
have gone into his office at night and
overturned everything, and now they
have blown up his office. His press-one
of Hoes steam power cost So, 900
The whole thing is apolitical outrage.
Only the day before he had referred to the
corruption of Judge, who is. charged
with having in his possession $4,000 in
North Carolina bonds, ,and also to another
officer who had received bonds. The best
men of the city are very indignant; de-
nunciations loud and deep are heard on
every side. The Administration people
are lying tremendously and declaring that
Turner did it, just as they avow that he
shot at himself and wife; but everybody
understands it They wish to break the
force of the blow. The Sentinel appear
ed this evening in half sheet, bold and
defiant.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-22
Radical Campaign Ammunition.

From the Plain Dealer, l4th inst.
The pictorial campaigner OF the Ad-
ninistration, Harper's Weekly,is covered
all over with wood cuts, representing the
Democrats and Liberal Republicans
shooting negroes in the South There
is something incredibly diabolical in this
The fact is, as shown by even those ad.
juncts Of the Administrations the associa
ted press correspondents, that, whenever
ARRAYS have occurred in the South be-
tween whites and blacks, the blacks have
begun them as often as otherwise. The
riotin Tennessee was caused by the brea-
king up of Liberal meeting by negroes
and whites. Negroes were convicted of
having provoked collisions at several of
thepolling booths in Georgia. The riot
between whites and blacks at Covington,
Kentucky, on Saturday night, was begun
by negroes, as to days dispatches affirm !;
SO was the similar riot which recently oc-
Cured in Cincinnati We allude to these
things with no desire to keep alive preiu-
dice between whites and blacks, but only
to expose the Internal spirit which actu-
ates one eff Grants principal organs. Its
sensational pictures act directly to inspire
collisions of this kind. Such spirit is
enough to make the devil himself blush
with shame.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-22
Are You Going WeStl

If so, take our advice, and purchase
your tickets over the old reliable and
popular Missouri Pacific Railroad, which
is, positively, the only line that runs three
Daily Express Trains from st. Louis to
Kansas City and the West! and is, posi-
tirely, the only line which runs Pullman's s
Palace Sleepers and fine Day Coaches
Especially for mouers) equipped with
Miller's Safety Platform and the Patent
Steam Broke, from St, Louis to Kansas
City, Fort Scott, Parsons, Lawrence
Leavenworth, Atcbison, st. Joseph, Ne
braska City, Council Bluffs and Omaha
without change! For information in
regard to time tables, rates, &c, to any
point in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, Col
orado, Texas or California, call upon OF
address S, II. THOMPSON, Agent, Nilsson
ri Pacific Railroad, Columbus, Ohio; OF
E A. FORD, Gen'l Passenger Agent St
Louis, Mo.
No trouble to dnsver questions!
mch26,lS72.