Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-08-14
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New YORK, Aug. 14.-There were six
cases of sun stroke yesterday. Several
showers of rain, accompanied by lightning
and thunder visited here last night and
continuing this evening till ten o'clock,
when it cleared again and become ex-
tremely hot.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 13.-O'Baldwin was
arrested to-day, but was released in $1,000
bail not to fight in Maryland. Mace has
not arrived.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-A Greensboro i,
North Carolina, dispatch says that negro
named Jim johnson was arrested there
yesterday for an attempt at poisoning
party of twenty six, on the occasion of the
commencement of Rev. Mr.. Fontaine's
Female Academy at Reidville on the 9Th
inst. Johnson, to avenge himself for
supposed grievance by Fontaine, poisoned
the ice cream which he had been directed
to freeze and suTerintend. Twenty-slX
persons, including many young ladies be-
longing to the elite of society, were subse-
quently seized with poisonous symptoms.
No one has vet died from the effects, but
the attending physicians say several will
not recover. When arrested, Johnson
called upon the negroes to rescue him.
The community threaten him with lynch
ing.
Wadsworth & Co. this morning notified
I1le EOUOCh vi OllOll Acti1ulSs OOiIO
few hundred shares of stock were sold out
for their account.
1t is expected the political discussion
between the colored men, Saunders for
Greeley, and Garnett for Grant, will take
place Thursday evening. A challenge has
also been sent by Saunders to Rev. M. F.
Butler, a Grant colored man, inviting him
to meet his colleague, George w. Hatton,
a Greeley man, in like manner.
Senator Henry Wilson, returned here
Yesterday, from Indiana
A Washington dispatch says that Col.
Whitley, chief of the secret service divis-
ion, reports in favor of the pardon of Col
lins and seventeen others of the kukluX,
from South Carolina, imprisoned at Alba
ny.
Collins was one of the prisoners for
whom Garrett Smith had interceded, and
who is an illiterate, simple minded man.
Seventeen other cases are analogous to
Collins
Col. Whitley reports against the pardon
of Brown, for whom recommendation was
made by Mr.. Smith, but makes no recon-
mendatiOn in the remaining forty-six cas-
es. 1t is understood those recommended
for pardon will be released Immediately.
Some excitement has been caused among
the residents of Staten Island at the arrival
yesterday afternoon of Spanish warship
WIN yellow 1eNer on DOafu. A Str1cJ
quarantine is to be maintained. 1t is
hoped that the scourge will not reach the
city.
A private telegram from Rome to Arch
bishop McClosky announces the appoint
ment of Right Rev, VIM. Henry Elder,
Bishop of Natchez, to be Archbishop of
Baltimore. He is to succeed the late Arch
bishop Spaulding Bishop Elder is na-
tive of Baltimore, where he was born i'll
1872.
LYNN, MASS, August 13.-A large meet
ing the Crispins was held to-day, at which
the following was adopted:
. "While we recognize the right of man.
ufacturers to offer such terms as justice
and and a regard for their own interests
may seem TO require, we also shall assert
and maintain, at every cost and every haz-
ard our right to belong to and participate
in any organization social, industrial, re-
ligious political or beneficiary, which, in
our judgment, is wise and proper, and any
attempt on the part of any one to abridge
or obstruct such right is vile and indie
observation-disclosures with personal---very..