Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-01-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

JOAQUIN Miller IS gong 10 marry Il Hootcn
Peeress so the gossips say.
Tho latest Patent Office Report shows that
Bureau to be self-sustaning.
Horace Greely's 0lst birthday will re cele-
brated on the Sd of next month.
There was q snow in New Orleans onW ednes-
day, TOR the first time in several years
Chief Justice Mcclure, of Arkansas, has
gone to Washington TO testify in the Clayton
case
An effort is being made to have branch
United States mint established at Carson City,
Nevada.
\ lively fight IL going on before the. Ways
aud Means Committee relative to repeating the
duty on rice,
Tho main topic of interest in Kansas, is the
investigation Of alleged fraudulent Senatorial
elections.
Tho Apgsai says the Colored Masonic Frator-
nifty Of Memphis has the most elegantly htted-
up hall in that city.
Archbishop Spaulding is seriously i'll. APP
prehensons are felt by his physicians as to his
ultimate recovery.
The people Of New York are enjoying a sea;
son of excitement over frequent murders and
other outrages in the street cars
The Republicans of Kentucky hold meeting
in Louisville March 18th, for the purpose of Sc
Letting a delegate to the National Convention.
1t is said that Senator Wilson's friends are
determined 10 push lis claims for the Vice Pre-
sluency on Ine hepuOl4cAn llCkeI.
The press throughout The country join in APP
proving the verdict Of the jury in the celebrated
Wharton poisoning case.
The Car of Russia has issued decree, maxi
ing compulsory the use of the Russian language
in the Common Schools of Poland.
The advisers of the Pope are urging him to
quit Rome and establish the Holy See in some
other locality.
The latest Ant-Grant Presidential slate is
Groesbeck, of Ohio and Graft Brown, Of Mis-
souri,.
The charges against the Postmaster General
turn out TO be something on the " Cousin Sally
billiard order, only more SO.
The stone which marks the grave of Wash
ington Irving is said to have cost ffteen dol
lars.
The government is repairing Forts Moultrie,
Sumpter and Pulaski. The Spanish compiled
tions are ssid to be the cause Of this step.
The 18th anniversary OF the birthday Of
Robert Burns was enthusiastically celebrated in
many parts of the country on the 18th inst
majority of Republican Senators and Rep
resentatives are said to be in favor of an early
adjournment Of Congress.
The conduct OF Senator Clayton, of Arkansas,
is being made the subject Of the strictest scru-
tiny by the Senatorial Committee at Washing
ton.
The Southern Aethodists have determined to
establish University with an endowment fund
Of 100000. Its location will be left TO the Col
legs of Bishops
Prominent Englishmen are taking a deep in
terest in the reformation q inebriates in Amer
lea The question Of estabhthing asylums there
Is being discussed.
\ party Of hunters near Golden City, Colo
RADIO, undertook to dry box of powder on
Monday. Two funerals and several cripples
was the result.
The Frankfort correspondent Of the Courier
Journal says the rejection OF the Cincinnati
rail Senate n
gone conclusion.
Zeb Vance, II is said, has finally concluded TO
resign his commission as United States Senator.
This is probably the wsest course he could per-
sue in the premises.
Previous TO ex-Attorney General Akerman's
departure from Washington he was offered, but
refused to accept, the Judgeship in Florida,
made vacant by the death of Judge Mckinney.
The widow of Gen. Robert E. Lee asks Con-
gress to appropriate $4,000 to purchase the
Arlington estate from her, when she will give
the Government a clear title TO It.
& bill has been introduced in the Lower
Branch of Congress, providing for the appro-
priation of $4,000 for the improvement Of
navigation on the Ohio River.
The small talker" of the Coio'ier-Jomnal
says there is a general brushing up of claw
hammer coats and bee-gum hats in view of the
prospective visit Of Alexis 10 that staid old city
Forty-flve barrels of oysters were received in
Menphis on Monday, said TO be the largest
consignment of the bivalves ever received in
he Bluff City.
Rev. J. X. Foster, prominent Methodist
minister Columbus Ohio, has surrendered his
parchments under charge of being too in
timatewith servant girl.
Washington correspondents, who profess to
know, say that the President will say no more
about San Domingo Congress now having the
facts the responsibility rests with that body,
United Statos Attorney General Bates, o.
Utah, is in Washington urging the necessary
appropriations 10 carry on the prosecutions fol
polgamy among the Mormans in that Terri
tory.
They have eleven tons of gold and silver orc
in the laboratory OF the Massachusetts, institute
Of Technology. This is certainly enough fol
the stadents 70 have ample opportunity for test-
ing their skill.
company of citizens of Georgia has beer
organized for the purpose of contesting before
the courts their legal rights TO the lease Of thu
Western and Atlantic railroad under the bid o
the present lessees.