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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-27
Death of A Prominent odc Felron.

Lodge of Odd Fellows, in this State, died last
week Mt his residence in Middle Tennessee.
The Lodges in this city will take suitable action
in regard to the demise of their distinguished
brother
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-27

mate cadse for the terrific snow-falls, such
as were experienced last year along the
lofty mountain windings of the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-27

VARIETY is the spice of life Yester-
days issue Of the "big organ was pretty
fair speciment of a Grant organ. The day
before wasn't so good. To-day it may be
still worse. A few days ago it went so far
as to even give Mr.. Maynard some advice
as to how he could be elected Speaker Of
the House, while yesterday it republished
some Washington ribbler's thrust at
Senator Brownlow. we were permitted
to say 90, we would Ii TO remark, that as
a Democratic organ it's complete fizzle.
and that as Radical organ it's knock
kneed.
We supposed the "smoke" had CLEARED
away sufficiently since the battle of the
9TH to enable our contemporary to know
where 1t stood, but it Is evident IN at the
smoke Is thicker and heavier 10 its vision
than usual. w hen it "clears away tive
shall see what we shall see."
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-27

WE publish in another column an inter-
estng article about " Kintergartens, such
n school would prove a valuable addition
to our educational interests and would be
highly appreciated by many mothers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
"AStigmatiSm.o

1t isn't a new disease. There's nothing
epizoodemic about it. Very likely, however,
you yourself are victim. Have you never
suspected that there was something slightly
dstigmatic about you? Examine YOURSELF
Close and cover your left eye, and with the
other, look at some particular part of the
parallel lines of cornice or mouldings or brick
work across the street. Now try the other
eye. Any difference in the sight, as to dis
tinctness? Try the same experiment with
written or printed page. If you discover a
difference, then you may be sure that you've
got the sastigmatism," and you had better
consult DIR. Farley.
Many persons are conscious of having i'm
perfect sight; they know that they cannot
see so far or so clearly as others; and they
suppose themselves to be '.near- sighted. .
Perhaps they try ordinary glasses, but these
prove to be oflittle if any use. The fact is,
probably, that they have taco eyes, one OF
which gives them one picture of an object,
and the other different representation. and
the two eyes mingle in confusion. The writ
er's recent experience in discovering his own
effectiveness of vision and in securing com
plete remedy, induces him to attempt to per-
suade others, similarly affected, to do like
wise. There may be no necessity in the case,
but the tat1ury Of clear sight is beyond COM
parison with the slight cost and trouble of Sc
curing it. To illustrate The moon, to nv
unaided sight, has SO many repeated
false discs, that it is almost I'M
pleasant to look at it and ssthe
Seven stars make a nebulous spot plight:
last night 1 saw but one moon, clear and
fair and, as never before, wondrousIy beauti-
full, and counted six in the Pleiades, by the
aid of Mr. Farley's glasses. L have never be-
fore seen distinct edges and outlines in the
clouds, in branches Of trees against the sky,
in scenery in general. l am, as it were, liy-
ing in me,o avortdl And yet had not
thought my sight to be particularly defective.
can but think there are many others who
share in this frequent yet generally unsus-
pected infirmity Of vision, and who may be
glad to be directed to this complete and salts
factory cure. . a. N. W. r, r.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
News and other Items.

The St Louis Globe heads an account of ;
printer who committed suicide by drowning
"A printer who dlutes his whiskey.''
The salary of General Mcclellan as Engineer
in-Chief of the department of docks in New
York has been reduced from $4,000 to 5000
year, at his own request
1t is wonderful how easily that "bIoody
chasm" was filed and how speedily those who
''clasped hands across it, relax their grin and
| so about their business.
1t is rumored in army circles at Washington
that General NJ. G. Meigs, quartermaster-gen
eral, will be promoted to the vacant major-gen-
eralship.
Gen. Mott well known in the old hird army
corps has lately returned from Egypt where
he has for several years been in the military
service of tae Khedive
1t turns out that Rev. DR.. j. Brinton Smith
President of the Augustine college of Raleigh
N. c., who was announced to have been pois-
oned by colored domestics in October, was
really poisoned by his faithful wife and dutiful
daughter by adding strychnine to dose of
seidltz powders. The parties have been com.
mitted to Jail.
Senator Sumner is expected home about the
30th inst,
Herald correspondent says the election of
President Grant produced a disagreeable i'm
preston with the Cuban insurgents" 1t did
with some others.
John NJ Langston, the colored lawyer, called
on the President at Washington Wednesday,
and assured him that the reports put forth in
administration papers that he was candidate
for a Cabinet position were without his knowl-
edge or consent, and that he was not a candi-
date
"Mark Twains" middle name has been a
mystery. 10 is Samuel Longhorne Clemens.
Six years ago he was the worst-brokcn man in
California. Prosperity makes humor a hard
work, and it is to be doubted whether the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
Political Notes.

In Delaware Grants majority is Oil and
for Lofand rep for Congress the majority
is 345.
Maryland consoles Mr.. Greeley with 1867
majority (officiaD except two counties.
Official returns from all the counties of
Kansas except nine, give Grant majority of
30,4S5. The remainingcounties will increase
the majority 5000. Only two of sixty-twe
counties gave majorities for Greeley.
Senator Brownlow writes the N. Y. Times
that the election in Tennessee is great Re
publican victory, securing eight of the ten
members of Congress and legislature oppos-
ed tothe reactionary element that has CONTROL
ed the State for four years. He thinks Hor
ace Maynard should be made Speaker of the
next House of Representatives.
Mr.. Stephen Philbrook of Tamworth, now
in his 102d year, was the Oldest man at thu
polls in New Hampshire; the citizens of thu
town stood with uncovered heads while Mr.
Philbrook deposited the first ballot throw
for electors. Mr.. P. votes the Republican
ticket and has voted for every President W,
have had, including Washington's SECOND
term.
The New York Commercial Adrertise
suggests in view of Mr.. Greeley's small vote
that his friends make the election of Gen
Grant unanimous.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
Powder for Fire.

1t is clear that water sometimes ayails
nothing to stop fire.
1t is also plain, that powder, or other ex.
plosve, will sometimes alone avail.
1t is also well-known, that at the great fire
IN this city in 1866, powder was not Seasona-
bly, applied; and it is getting to be well under
stood, that at the recent great fire in Boston,
it was not effectualy applied.
The truth is, when these awful emergen-
cies come upon us, it takes SO long to learn
what to do. that the juncture at which decs-
I've action IS most needed passes, and we lock
the barn after the horse is stolen
What want to say, therefore, is this.
Let US have proper training land appara-
tus, event for the use of explosives, as we
have fOr that of water. r
l. First, then, let us know beforehand.
whose authority and business it is to blow up
buildings to stop fire when necessary.
2. Secondly, let such persons study the
mode OF operation, the kind and degree of
exigency calling for this extraordinary rem
edy, and how the material shall be readily
and instantly had when it is wanted.
AT the Boston fire Mr.. Minis states that
six kegs of powder, of twenty-five pounds each
were placed in building, and the kegs re-
fused to explode simultaneously, so nothing
was done. Afterwards, few kegs of 120
pounds were procured, and great effects were
produced. He adds: II haze no doubt the
.fre routd hare been stopped at MIX street
u eee had had plenty Of powder in cannisters
Of 120 pounds.
nave much more to say on this subject,
but will make this item brief, and perhaps
follow it up if nobody else does. ~
T r. M
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15

GEORGE WILLIAMS CURTIS, in the last
number Of Harper's Weekly, urges the peo-
pie to bring pressure to bear on Congress
in favor of the civil service reform. He no
doubt sees, as every one else does who has
taken any notice of Congressional tendencies,
that if we wait till members become enthusi-
astic, of their own motion, in depriving them
selves of the influence and power that come
of patronage, we shall wait till the freezing
over Of region where the temperature is
supposed to be peculiarly unfavorable to con-
gelation. Congress will never take another
step in the direction of civil service reform,
until there is great popular clamor about it.
Republicans and Democrats alike treat this
matter precisely as they do the ranking
privilege. Ben. Butler only a few weeks ago
explained that he always voted for the re-,
peal of the franking privilege, it being under-
stosd By him and OTHER friends Of the measure
that the Senate acould not concur. The Pres
ident having shown an undeniable alacrity in
making good use Of all the power Congress
has given him to reform the civil service,
honorable members will now regard it as ex-
tremely unsafe to make laws for ''buncombe''
on san understanding that they will not be
executed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
A Colored Man in the Cabinet.

The idea of giving colored man place
in the Cabinet if fit person of that race can
be found, is good one. But the reasons Civ
en- for it are abominable. If Mr.. Langston
has legal ability and experience sufficient to
entitle him to the eminent position of Attor-
ney-General of the United States, let him
have it by all means. But TO give it to him
because he is colored instead of because he is
good lawyer-to elevate him to a place
lately occupied by such men as Stanbery,
Evarts and Hoar, for the sake of "recogniz-
ing the colored races TO make that race
absurd as well as the government itself.
There are some nominal friends of the rights
of woman who mistake the true path in pre-
cisely this way. They propose to grant tocor$,
to show kindness and to be chivalrous in
case where rights are demanded. To such
men the comforting of liberal property rights
on woman, or exempting her from arrest
privileges now depending for their value and
permanence wholly on the grace and good
pleasure Of those who confer them, and sub
ject to suspension or loss by thousand Ca
prices or accidents-is equivalent to giving
her full civil and political equality. What the
colored people, the women, the laboring men
and other subject classes want is not primari-
ly anybody's patronage or benevoence,, but
an equal chance with their fellows to earn
the rewards of industry or merit. To offer a
stick of candy or a wax doll to those who are
crying for bread is simply insulting. All our
thoughtful readers will remember that last
year the Tory aristocracy of England attempt
ed to win to their support the laboriag classes
by proposing to enlarge greatly their social
privileges, without in the smallest degree en-
larging their political rights. 1t was thought
that the workingmen would abandon the op-
portunity, afforded them by the exercise Of
political functions now easily attainable, to
secure to themselves and to their descend
ants the rights so long denied them, for tie
sake ct the present enjoyment of better mark
cts, larger houses and more amusements un-
der the patronags of nobility! This fine offer
ofgilt gingerbread thrown out of palace
window as gift, instead of the joint tenancy
of the palace, granted as matter of tight,
was finally spurned by the people as it de-
served to be. The colored people of this
country have been placed by the laws in po-
siton where they can win the highest emolu-
ments of professional life or the-most desira-
BILE pnbic station. They can command At
torney-Generalships or even Presidencies by
deserving them Until that time any attempt
at arbitrarily recognizing them will be only
recognizing their continued inferiorty, as ex-
empting women from arr st in civil suits is a
recognition of woman's political prescription.
There is one thing more hateful than a denial
ofjustice on account of color or race. and
that is favoritism on the same account.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15

, " neseye!t. Hssf.msn. Havana Is days! YuEsuh,
Jonn on; sae9a brigs Jeremiah, Ford Matansas 10
VS sIhs e. warren, johnson, Demarara 20 daysl
Geo Shattnck. from Rockland; Snbad, Perry, do;
Kana nun n J;iiais; Cypress Allen, Millbridge;
Rockland; joachim, Kane, Belfast: NJ 7 Iangbfon'
Laugatop Pembroke; ORION, Osborn, Belfast; Judge
Rockland; Viola, Ingraham, Machias. a nrcy,tt
Hart Vinahaven; Alligator, McCireaor Calais. Ca
"a Rankin Fuller. Bangor; Anna Maria, Cole, Sha-
from Portland; JEANNE, Brown Gardiner: Rosinss
Cummings, Maebias; q w Rowley, Rowley. Vipal
Providence; Idaho, Jameson, Fall River; Emma W
Day. Clark, Boston; Scud, Halloweli, Pawtucket;
Francis Coffin. Wass Providence; Sammy Ford, Al
len, New Bedford.
Also ar 18th, barque Endeavor. Mountfort, Calves
ton; schs Louisa Baker, Sawyer, Calais; Viola, Hail.
Machias.
Passed throuhg Hell Gate, schs VIM Arthur, Hutch
inson Port johnson for Portland; Evelyn, Crowley,
New York for Salem; Julia Newell. Spear, Rondout
for Boston; Marion Draper Meady, Am5oy TOT 90
Elizabethport for do; Starlight, Hopkins, New York
for Newburyport.
Jacksonville for FAN River; NJ w Drew, Perkins, do;
II Cady, Hall, Hobokep; Paragan Sbute, Bangor :;
Jas Croker. Currier, Augusta; Albert Jameson,
WARREN, RI-Ar 9th, sch Alabama, Meservey,
Newburc.
NEwPoRT-Ar 18th, schs H S Rowe. Tayenen. I'm
Boothbay for Providence; Delhi, Emerson, Whining
ton for Waldoboro; Scio, Smith, from New York for
Boston.
FALL RIvER-Ar 9th, brig Sarah Gilmore, Sta
pies, Galveston.
Sid 10th, brig Mansanifla Benson, New York.
Ar 18th, sch Winslow Morse, Oliver. Bath.
Ar 18th, brig Zavia Williams, Vcazie, tor Bangor
sch Mary Augusta, Wbittemore Ellsworth.
VINEYARD-HAVEN-Ar 18TH schs Saml Nash,
Hart Port johnson for Boston; Deborah Jones. Dun
ham, So Amboy for Bath; Jeddie, Turner, Hilsboro
delphia. M
Sid nth, schs Mindoro, NJ varney, Nettie Cush-
ing, L Watson, Onward Ann, L H Nash, S Hall
Mary Louise, Howard and others.
EDGARTOWN-Ar 9Th, sch Pilots Bride, Brew
ster, New York for Boston.
In port 18th, sch j Lindsey, Crockett, from New
York for Portland.
BoSToN-Cd 18th, barque Walter, Berry, fol
Charleston.
Ar 14th, schs Mazurla Kimball. and Mexican
Nickerson, Bangor Stanley, Madden, and Ken
tucky, Spaulding, Rockland; o Dodge, Hinckey
Bath.
Cid I4th sch Mary Bliss, Shields, Portland
NEW 10th. schs Sabao, LamsoD
and Howe, Ellis Weehawken.'
GLOUCESTER-Ar 18th, barque Carrie Long
Park, Cadiz.
PORTSMOUTH-Ar 18th, sch VIM Barnes, Gott
| Port johnson.
| GARDINER-,Ar 9th, sch Mary Louisa, Simpson
| New York. r
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15


Householder and executor Of to-day earfias the
light heard and easy genius of the Bohemian Of
former times
Mother Goose is not an imaginary person.
She was mother-in-law of printer in Boston,
and her real name was Elizabeth Goose The
first edition. of her weli-knawn rhymes was sold
for two coppers on Devonshire street.
James Grover, Postmaster at Woodstock, N.
B., has absconded, leaving liabilities amount
ing to 81 200 and a post-office deficiency of
$1,000.
A morning contemporary publishes a column
article to prove that business in ST. John is
healthy. We suppose that prudent, careful
ly managed business is healthy enough; but as
there have been dozen more failures in a
few weeks it is plain that there is something
rotten in the State of Denmark. st. John
| Globe.
The Quebec Chronicle says the Dominion
paper manufacturers are taking advantage of
the advance in chemicals to raise the price of
printing paper set says we have noticed how
ever, increase in the price of saw-dust, an in
gredient largely used now-a-day in the manu-
facture of paper.
Fewell, who has been on trial at Brentsvile,
Va, for the killing of Clark, editor of the Ma
masses Gazette, while the latter was in jail
charged with the seduction and abduction OF
Fewelfa sister, girl of some sixteen years, was
acquitted Wednesday, the jury only being out
five minutes.
A Boston woman speaks of her husband al
her So, 600 darling, that being the amount of hi.
life policy.
The wife of Jack Grant, late Representative
from Polk county, in the Oregon Legislature
last year shot and trapped three hundred ant
fifty-eight squirrels.
The Troy Press says Governor Hoffman ha
taken passage for Liverpool, to sail the secont
week in January next, to remain abroad two
years.
According to the Syracuse Journal, 500 page
of Mr.. Stewards autobiography, which were un
completed at the time of his death, are alread,
written, or are in notes ready for engrossment
The portion completed embraces his persona
history, and the notes which he dictated pertain
to the late war, and are of great historical
value.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
THE GREAT FIRE.
The Accident List.

-'f II
1t is now possible to make list nearly COM
plete OF the loss of life and limb by the terrible
confiagration. It is, as far as can be found out
as follows: Killed, Lewis c. Thompson of
Worcester, struck by falling wall; Louis Por-
ter Abbott of Charlestown. in Weeks & Pot
ter's store; Frank Olmstead of steamer l of
Cambridge, fatally injured at Walkers carriage
repository on Federal street; William FAIRY
and Daniel Cochran of steamer 4, buried under
Weeks & Potter's store; five unknown persons.
Thomas Mallory of Worcester ankle frac-
tured; Colonel Freeman, head and legs injured
by his horse falling; William I. Woodland, hose
man OF No. Is, run over by steamer 10 and ribs
and shoulder fractured G. W. Gardner of hose
8, eyes burned; Francis Crosher, burned about
the face and arms at Purchase street; Chas
falne and Ihos. Waidron OF Charlestown, in
lured by falling walls; John Richardson of
New Haven, fireman, injured during the fire
on Central court; Peter Deighan, rieeer at %
Harris street, foot badly injured. Joseph
Burr and George Smith, the former of Dor
chester and the latter of Neponset, both came
in on Saturday evening to see the fire. They
were last seen in the vicinity of Chauncey
street, and it is feared that they have been kill
ed by falling walls Walter +. Twombly of
Sheridan Hose No. 2, of Maiden, has been miss
was last seen on State street, going toward
Pearl Street. He was % years of age JOHN
Doan, machinist Is years Of age, living at
123 Broadway, has been missing since 8 o clock
Oh
Albert G. Abbott, an exempt fireman of
Charlestown, lies in very critical condition at
the Massachusetts, General Hospital, from his
injuries received while at work at the site of the
old post-office ON Sunday afternoon during the
fire. Lewis Abbott leaves three little children
in the care of his aged and widowed mother.
Albert was to have been married to young
lady of Charlestown ON Thanksgiving day, ali
the arrangements having been completed She
mas been in constant attendance on him since
My dow xrnraIr, Al.
ment on Sunday that something was to happen
to one of her boys, and her fears were fearfully
realized. Brain fever has attacked her and she
now lies in a critical condition at her home.
Dr. Fuller says that there is little hope of her
recovery. Lewis Abbott was one of the four
brothers who were in the army He enlisted in
the Warren Phalanx, Co. b., 36th Massachus-
etts regiment, and served with great bravery
during the war; was wounded twice, not severe
ly either time; he was good soldier His oc-
cupatlon was a inachinist; he worked at the
machine shop of the Boston and Maine Rail-
road Company rayeUer. sg
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15

Avery Plummer and his wife, an aged
couple residing in Jefferson county, New
York, met with a sad fate while en- route to
visit some friends in Evansville, Ind, recent
ly. Instead of changing cars at Terre Haute,
as they should have done in accordance with
Instructions, they continued on the Vandalia
train. The conductor, on discovering their
error, arranged to let them off at the first
station SO that they could return to Terre
Haute: Before reaching the station, how
ever, there was long and high trestle bridge
to cross. When the train reached the bridge
its speed was slackened, and the old couple,
thinking they had reached the station, in
their haste and an xiety not to make another
mistake, stepped off the car, and falling a
distance OF fifty-nine feet below the track,
they were, of course, instantly killed :,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15
Worn tn n Shadnu

Flesh muscle and mind alike de.eriorate when the
stomach falters in its duty and the bowels do NOT
form their part as scavengers of the system regularly
and naturally In chronic dyspepsia the BODY IS
by and the brain incapable of prolonged or
exertion. Every organ every member even tie i'm.
mortal mind itself is to certain extent denendent
upon the stomach for support. Strengthen and reon
late this feeder of the system with Hostetter,s
stomach Btters, when it fails to perform its func
tons properly. good appetite an increased flow of
the gastric juice and perfect disgestion and assma
ton will assuredly be the result. The manner in
which the great tonic aud Alternative effects cure Of
dyspepsia Is direct and sim2ie.. 1t stimulates the
bowels regulates the flow of bile and determines II in
to the right channels and exercisesa tranquzino in
huence over the nerves. "
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-15

Vow that Mr.. Greeley is SO sorely beaten,
the New York San speaks Of the great Axe
man thus: s a
The large number of persons who have of
late conceived an extraordinary admiration
for chopping wood, especially as performed
in Westchester county, will have rare OPP
portunity for witnessing that healthful and
invigorating exercise conducted at Chappa-
qua tt day by Hon. Horace Greeley. The
attendance win be less than formerly, and
there will not be inconvenience of a crowd.
Lookers-on with not be depicted by the art IT.,
lists OF illustrated papers. DR.. Greeley VIII
proceed with judicial fairness to lop on super
huous branches-if there are any Inc 1da
Greeley club will not attend. John Cochrane
will not be there His voice has given out.
He has suddenly grown modest, and is willing
now that Ethan Allen should figure more
conspicuousy than heretofore. Coch-
rane is rather inclined to chop his whiskers-
so that they win look like mutton-chop whis
kers, and very different from what they did
Just as he feels differently-rather than to
chop wood at Chappaqua. In fact, it may be
that nobody but our later Franklin will CHOP
at Chappaqua to-day. Still he is just as
great man as he was six months ago-anG
much more experienced,