Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-26
NEWS By MAIL.

Major General w. S. Hancock and fami-
ly have taken apartments at New York
hotel for the winter.
Samuel BOwles, of the Springfield,
Mass, Republican, has declined the citi-
zens' nomination for Mayor of that city.
General Garfield thinks that the in
creased salary bill will be repealed, and
that the involuntary feature of the bank
rupt law will be repealed.
Hugh McCulloch, of Jay Cooke, Nc
Culloch & Co., London, sailed for England
Saturday The firm will be dissolved at
the end of the present year, when Nc
Culloch and his English Juniors will con-
tinue business under new and strong
combination.
A Lexington special to the Courier
Journal dated 18th says. Among the
cases decided to-day was one for petit lar
ceny. Thirty-nine lashes were admins
tered this afternoon. This term will be the
last when this brutal punishment will be
inflicted.
A Washington special to the same pa
per says: Numerous applications have
already bean addressed here in behalf of
prominent newspapers of the country,
asking permission for their correspondents
to go aboard of the men-of-war destined
for the Gulf squadron.
Minister IWashburne is on as intimate
terms with the present President Of the
French Republic as he was with NJ.
THEIRS. The American Legation receives
invitations for all social events, and some
times these invitations are exclusive.
The expert employed to investigate the
books of the State Treasury office at AL
bany, reports the amount of the Phelps
ENLIGHTENMENT at between $4,000 and
S3ll 900, and from present indications there
seems to be no chance of the State recoy-
ering any of the stolen funds.
Ill Tow. in, IN inf faNu Will n
newspaper reporter in Washington says
that Gen. Longstreet has for year past
been organizing a pioneer, expedition in
New Orleans for an advance upon Cuba, ct
the moment the Government would be en-
broiled, which he has longlsnticipated.
The triennial assessment of the taxable
property of Philadelphia, just made, shows
the whole property subject to city tax is
S54S, 243 ,535, of which SASS, 1868, 1902 pays
full city tax, S29,SS1, ass pays suburban
rate, and $50, 20, 154 ,9l5 farm rate. OF this
total all but 50 $50, 900 are levied on real es-
tate and money at interest.
The grave of General Harrison, at
North Bend, Ind, is almost obliterated,
and a movement is on foot to have the re-
mains moved to Spring Grove, and placed
under a monument, fitting the men,
DRY of one so eminent.
1t is said that movement is on foot in
Philadelphia to elect Col. John w. For
ney next Mayor of that city. The election
will not take place until next year, and the
term for which the Mayor will be chosen
extends until 1877. The proposition arises
from the fact that Col. Forney is so earn
estly engaged in behalf of the centennial
celebration, and not frem any political ia
vor.
The number of Congressman who have
died since the elections last fall is six their
names, politics and districts being as fol-
lows: Ambrose r. Wright, of the Sth dis
trict of Georgia, who never took his seat :;
Samuel II. Peters, Republican, of the 4th
district of Louisiana /; William Whiting,
Republican, of the Sd district of Massa.
chusetts, Wilder d. Foster, Republican,
of the 9Th district of Michigan James
| Brooks, Democrat of the 9th district of
| New York York, and Joseph G.. Wilson,
| Republican, of Oregon.
A special to the Baltimore Sun from
| Washington says that Postmaster General
Cresswell will shortly issue an order re
| ducing the registration fee for domestic
letters and packages to eight cents. The
| law limits the charge to twenty cents for
| each registration, and it was fixed by Post
master General Dennison at the present
| rateof fifteen cents, which Cresswell thinks
| unnecessarily high, especially in view of
| the facts that the fee for registering letters
or packages going through the mail to
Europe is only eight cents. 1t Is believed
the intended reduction will result in a large
| increase of registration business without
materially augmenting the present ex-
penses of the service.
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