Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-06

disabled. The cars are stopped. The out
ward bound mail and express matter fail
ed to make the trains and boats for want
of horses.
The horse disease is evidently abating.
The disagreeable feature of the epidemic Is
the number of carcases in the streets, the
facilities for removal not being equal to
the demand.
The malady is abating and it is believed
it will not last more than week.
AT II o'clock to-day the United States
Grand Jury found indictments against
Victoria Woodruff and Tennie G.. Clat1lin,
who were arrested acknowledgement with
mailing indecent printed matter through
the post office. The prisoners were taken
from Ludlow street Jail at l o'clock and
brought before Commissioner Osborne who
said the indictments relieved him of the
necessity of holding an examination. The
accused were visibly affected on hearing of
the indictments, Woodruff almost to tears
and Clafflin looked somewhat depressed.
The counsel for the prisoners complained
of the conduct of the Government in press
ing the indictments, and sreaking of the
examination as most arbitratory proceed
ing. The accused came prepared for the
examination. The Commissioner ordered
the warrants following the indie ments to
be served upon the accused and they were
removed to Jail in default of $4,000 bail
each.
Three Tmen were suffocated by gas in
new mineral well opened at Avon.
The department of business Is nearly
| suspended. Three-fourths Of the clerks are
gone home to vote.
Judge Advocate Maj. II. B. Barnham
has been relieved from the department OF
the South and goes to the department of
the Platte.
At Conference of the Baptist Clergy of
| Boston and vicinity to-day the commit
! tee on close communion reported First,
| that christian baptism is the immersion of
believer in water, in the name of the
| Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and is pro-
fession of his faith in Christ. Second,
that christian churches ought to be COM
posed of such regenerate persons only as
| have been baptised on a profession of their
faith in Jesus. Third, that the LORDS
supper ought to be observed by christian
churches only. Fourth that invitations
of courtesy to partake of the emblems
should be given to none but orderly mem
bers of churches properly constituted.
| CHARLESTON, S. c., Nov. 4.-The horse
malady is here and the majority of horses
and mules are more of less afflicted.
MADRID, Oct. 29.-While the army bill
was under consideration in Cortes yester-
day, Senior Garridas said the Radical par
| ty in Spain existed only by the sufferance
of the Republicans, This remark gave
| rise to Il warm debate, during which q
sharp encounter took place between Senior
| Gorilla, President of the Council, and
Senior figures. The latter, in the course
| of an excited speech, declared that the
present was the last Spanish ministry
that would be formed under King ANA
| deus.
LONDON, Oct. 31.-The London Bank
ing Association has received four hundred
thousand sovereigns from the Bank of
| Paris and more coming.
| RONIE Oct 81 Tho liSpntchpS from TuriIl
report no abatement of the floods. The
damage is beyond calculation. In Ferrara
alone forty thousand people are house
less.
TURIN, Nov 1.-The Pc flood continues
and people are slowing on house tops and
i'll trees. The streams are filled with car
cases of cattle and wrecks of houses. The
town of Reggie, fourteen miles from AIedi-
ma has almost disappeared beneath the
flood.
ROME, Nov. 1.-The Pope has resolved
| to defend the cause of the Church of Ge-
neva against the decree of the Swiss Gov
eminent, forbidding exercise of his Epis-
copal functions within the Swiss territory
by the appointed Bishop, Nurmillard,
LONDON, Nov. Music Hall in Ok
ford was burned last night.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-The corner stone
Archbishop Bailey conducting the cere-
monies.
No cars running to-day.
The Government sells 81 900 900 in
gold each Thursday and buys 81 ,000,0 900
in bonds each Wednesday of November.
In Baltimore eleven out of the eight
hundred street railway horses are we'll
fatal cases are rare. Nearly all the horses
in New York are stabbed on account of the
cold rain storm. The only horses used in
Boston yesterday were those needed for
hotel guests.
The Common Council of Chicago meets
to-day to pass an ordinance allowing dunn
my engines on the street roads.
The noted trotting horse Springfield,
bay, died in Sringtield, Mass, to-day.
Messengers of the Signal office deliver
probabilities on foot. Their horses and
mules too are afflicted.
A horse valued ut S., 900, property of Col
Rossle, of Arlington, had his leg broken
by kick
There are no cars running and but few
hacks. There are comparatively few d. aths.
A letter was received at the Treasury
Department this morning from the Col
lector at Stonington, Connecticut, an
nouncing the arrival off that port Of the
schooner, Grown Point, on the 2Sth ult.,
with two cases of yellow fever on board.
She is from st. Domingo, with a cargo of
sugar, dye woods, ETC., for Boston. The
vessel was quarantined and since then
none but the health officer has been allow
ed to visit her. One of the patients died ;
the other is convalescent. No new cases
| are reDOrted A fter being ouarantined