Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-02-05
HON Z NEWS.
THE WHARTON Jury STILL OUT.
Desperate Efforts Of stokes Counsel.

Desperate Efforts of stokes Counsel.
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 30.-To-day, at
the municipal election, it is said the ne
groes will not be allowed to vote unless
they have previously paid their taxes, and
that nearly all the colOred voters have
rendered their taxes to the collector who
refused to receive them. \ company OF
the Sixteenth United States Infantry was
sent there yesterday from Frankfort for
the purpose of keeping the peace.
General Murray, Marshal of the State,
is expected to arrive there to-day, with II
number of deputies.
To-day all was quiet at Lexington, Ky.
All negroes who could show a clear tax
receipt were allowed to vote. \ strong
Republican vote!is being east. The Demo
Gratis so far, are forty ahead of Montgom-
cry.
The Legislature has organized with
Republican majority in both Houses.
BoSTON, Jan. 2S,-The Public Library is
ordered to be opened every Sunday after
noon.
The deaths OF 1872 exceed those OF 1871
by 30 per cent, exclusive of small pOX
deaths. The increase is p per cent.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, Jan. 2S.-Judge
Busteed to-day appointed w. ;. Lamier
Receiver of the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad, on bill filed by Aimcr and
Others to have the assets administered ac-
cording to priority of claims.
The Legislative ENHANCEMENT still con-
tinues.
The House, Republican, refuses to notify
the Senate of the organization until the
contest for the Senatorial seat from Butler
is decided.
1t is uncertain when the Legislature
will begin.
COLUMBIA, :. c., Jan. 2S.-Half of the
business portion OF Kingston, Williams
burg District, was burnt to-day. Loss
$50. 900.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 2S.-A difficulty
occurred on the 25th inst, in Forsythe
county, between United States Deputy
Marshals and citizens charged with vio-
lating the revenue law. Seventy-tive shots
were exchanged, One citizen was killed
and two deputy marshals wounded.
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-Judge BOardman
telegraphs that he cannot be here on Fri
day, but will be here on Saturday. to hear
the motion for writ of error in the Stokes
case.
1t is stated that several important docu-
ments relative to criminal matters, includ-
ing some bearing upon the Tweed case, are
missing from the District Attorneys
office. A clerk employed by the late Dis
trict Attorney has suddenly left the city
and it is believed that he has either taken
the documents with him or destroyed
them.
NEW YORK, EeD. LINE COunSel III the
Stokes case in the event of failure to
obtain an order for a new trial from Judge
BOardman, will apply for stay OF pro-
ceedings AMI thereby secure review of
the case by full bench in the Supreme
Court, and on failure they will go to the
Court of Appeals.
RICHMOND, Feb. 1.-The first train east
ward over the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road through from the Ohio river, arrived
this morning, bringing four loads of can
mel coal, the first of the kind ever received
in Richmond.
CHICAGO, Feb. I.-EX-Governor Joel A.
Mattison is dead.
JACKSON, Tenn, Feb, IA hundred
thousand dollars Worth of property was
burned, embracing the business portion of
the town.
BALTIMORE, Feb. lit is rumOred that
Joshua Nicholson, one of three parties ar
rested for the murder of Mrs. Lampley, has
turned states evidence and confessed. de
says that while he was up stairs breaking
open the trunk where the money was de
posted, his two companions, Whalen and
Tucker, whom he had left below, threw a
piece of carpet over the head of Mrs. Lamp
ley To prevent her from giving the alarm,
and strangled her to death.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 29.--Gen. q. a. Gi!-
more, who conducted the long lombard
nent of Charleston, during the war, is
now experimenting operations for the
improvement of the harbor entrances OF
Charleston. He expresses great confidence
that the steady result of work now in pro-
/ gress upon the beach channel viii give a
depth of fifteen feet on the bar at low
water, which viii greatly add 20 the all
! vantages of Charleston a 8 sea port