Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-10
NEWS BY MAIL.

Harper's Weekly says the pot house
clamors for war; but the home pays for it,
Gen. Garfield expresses the opinion that
the salary bill for the last session will be
repealed.
Tweed wears a "larceny Jacket and
occupies Cell No. "a in Blackwellis Island
penitentiary.
Our navy now has 165 vessels, carrying
l ,269 guns. OF these only AS carrying 407
guns are in commission.
Those who predicted that submarine ca
bles would be destroyed by the Inhabitants
of the deep sea were not far from being
right after all, rs the cables thus far laid
have suffered more or less from the attack
of a species of teredo lthe ship worm
from whales and from unknown fish.
The Prince of Wales, on November .,
celebrated his thirty second birthday. The
annual dinner of the tradesmen enjoying
his patronage was held at Willis Rooms
London, two hundred and forty persons
sitting down to a banquet, of which two
magnificent bucks, presented by the
Prince, formed part.
The Atlanta Herald has the following
list of Tennessee creditors of Burr &
Flanders, the Macon firm which failed re-
Gently: Foster Brothers, Columbia, So
600; j. A. Foster 6c Bro, Pulaski, 81 800 !;
Reid & Talley, NIurfreesbOro', 50 800
Surgeon, Cleveland, $4,000; Hough d Co.,
Knoxville, S7,000.n
At Genearl Won Manteuffel's suggestion,
the German Government has decided to
establish at Mayence large mandatory
of preserved meat and vegetables for the
use of the army. The outlay Including
the cost of the site, amounting to lO0, 900
thalers,) is estimated at 900, 900 thalers.
There are to be four steam engines in the
place, representing collectively 200-horse
power. ... ..,v ..
1t appears by the report of Attorney
General Williams that the civil suits on
the first of July last to which the United
States were party were as follows : Gus
toms suits, $3.50 internal revenue suits,
l, 4S2; postotfice suits, 142 miscellaneous
suits, 2,2l6, making in the aggregate, u
500 suits pending on that day. During the
same year the aggregate amount of judg-
ments in favor of the United States in
these suits was SIS, Dos ,402, and the amount
actually realized on the judgments was
81, SOS, 1873.
The day on which forged note was
first presented at the Bank of England,
forms an era in its history. 1t was in
lbs, and from that day until now, during
period of llj years, there has passed no
decade in which more than 100000 have
not been refused payment at the bank on
plea of forgery. Sometimes the amount
greatly exceeds this. In the ten first
years of the present century it rose to
ElOl SOL, ana from 1871 to lo6O G1S, 44O, was
stamped "forged" at the bank counter
The Government owns in the District
of Columbia real estate and public build
ings to the value of 500, 9S6, 1860. At the
same rates, the private property in the
District amounts to SOC, 433, 720. 1t is
therefore claimed by the residents that
the Government should pay one half the
taxes necessary to improve the city, as be.
comes the seat of great government.
While, since the year 1902, the citizens of
provement of street and avenues and for
Sewerage SIS, Jas, 1852, the total appro-
priations granted by Congress for those
purposes reach the comparatively small
sum of - 476, 76649