Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-05
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zar Rochester, &c.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-Robert ]. Harvey, a
shipping merchant, has died from an assault
by midnight assassin on the corner of Flush
ing and Adelphi streets, Brooklyn. tf
The Union Pacific railroad trains are still
blocked near Sherman.
Two persons broke through the ice near
Poughkeepsie and drowned.
The small poI deaths in Chicago last week
numbered eight ~
The people of Rochester were not allowed 10
stop and talk on the streets last night
Only thirty delegates attended the Labor Re-
form Convention at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
There have been many arrests msde for ter
rible murder at Windsor Lock, Connecticut.
All the parties are lewd characters.
The Senatorial Committee is holding open
sessions in New York.
4 New York Herald special says Bismarck's
note TO the German agents indicates distrust
in Theirs government
The archives of the old Board of Aldermen
Of New Yolk have been seized and locked up
by Commissioner Van Mort
The Clifton Springs Hotel is burned. Loss,
$4,000
RICHMOND, Jan. A negro in Prince Ed
ward-county took by force from her mothers
house a respectable white girl aged thirteen
years and outraged her and escaped. The peO
pie are in pursuit.
MATAMoRAs, Jan. 4-Troops are placed in
Notifications around the city to repair and
strengthen the works. 1t is reported that q
strong insurgent force is coming. The insur
gents are at Mier and threaten Comerga.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 4.-There was no quo
rum in the Senate yesterday.
The arms taken from France by Prussia were
secretly purchased by the Internationalists
The House made motion to declare the chair
vacant, when the cry aye rang through the
House Thirty or forty members rushed toward
the chair, but were checked by number of per-
sons who mounted the platform from the
Speakers private room. Speaker Carter de-
clared the proceedings revolutionary.
The Warmouthtcs claim six majority against
Carter on the test questions.
ROCHESTER, lJan. All is quiet The peo-
pie are not allowed to go into the vicinity Of the
JAIL or on the streets leading thereto.
NEw YORK, Jan. 4-The run on Third Ave-
nue. Savings Bank continued to-day.
A meeting of the bar is 10 be held tonight,
the object is to secure the removal of Judges
HcCsnn, Cardoza, Barnard and one other.
The philanthropist Bergh is sick with the
pneumonia.
Greeley stated before the Senate Committee
that the only abuse he knew of was the politi-
cal abuse by the custom house officials. He be-
lieved that Generals Porter and Bsbcock shared
the profits of the general order of business.
He believed many would be deferred from
giving testimony on account Of positions held
in the custom house.
A man who knocked soldier down yester-
day, was sent to the penitentiary to-day for six
months
The negro victim is reported to be improv-
ing. .....- ----
ASNAPoLIs, Jan. 4.-In conclusion of DR..
Warren's direct evidence he said on Wednes-
day, the day of his death, the symptoms of cere-
bro spinal meningitis were present and not
those of tartar emitic poison, and thinks the
different diagnosis of these diseases proves that
the increased senstiveness of the skin on the
day was characteristic of meaningless and no
tartar emetic the poison. Indeed, the insen-
sitiveness of the skin is a characteristic of the
latter
1heIe was seCIcIlOII Vi uIInt, WHICH was al
invariable characteristic of poison by tartar
emetic, but there was suppression of urine,
which was Characteristic of cerebro spinal men
ingetis. This proves to witness that X. died
of this disease. This conclusion was from the
symptoms alone. The post mortem went to
show that death did not result from antimony
which, had it been present, would have been
developed by irritation of the mucous MEM
brane.