Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-17
NEWSrBY MAIL.


John j. King, President of the Georgia
Railroad was stricken with paralysis, on
the 9th, but seems to be improving.
The Emperor of China sends to Paris
for gardener to lay out his imperial
grounds on the general plan of those about
Paris. He offers GO, 400 per year.
Gen. Forrest has effected lease of the
Alabama Central Railroad, by which he
runs freight trains through from Green's
boro to Selma. He hopes soon to finish the
line to Eutaw.
Sam. Bowles, of the Springfield RepuJ-
licd1, says $1,000 of the 10000 Democrats
in Massachusetts, would vote for Butler.
Anything to beat the regular nominee, we
suppose.
Washington Irving received about $780,
600 for his literary laboIs. In that respect
no American author has equaled him.
! Bayard Taylor and Longfellow have made
| about 500, 900 each by their books.
The Fayetteville Express speaks very
highly of the scholarly accomplishments
Of Taz. w. Newman, son of Capt. J. w.
| Newman, who has been appointed to ca
detship in the U. s. Naval Academy, at
Annapolis.
The Nashville Banner says: 1.-THE MEM
bers of the Second Tennessee Regiment
! date of the G. S. Al will have a reunion
| October II, near Nashville. The reunion
is to merely social, and entirely free from
any savouring of politics."
The Memphis Avalanche of the 18th inst.
says: Hon. David A. Mum, of Browns
vile, member of Congress from the Eighth
District, was in the city yesterday. He IS
in good health politically stands on the
| Massachusetts, Republican platform, and
will vote for the repeal Of the back salary
law"
The Washington Chronicle says:
Ex-President Johnson has announced
his intention of visition this city in q few
days and replying to the charges of Judge
Holt regarding the Surratt case. tits UNI
derstood that number of his admirers in
tend to give him grand banquet during
his stay in the city.
Comptroller Burch issued a card on the
18th, saying:
1.-The poll tax has to be paid into the
State Treasury for distribution. The nuns
Der of polls must therefore be reported up
on the tax aggregate of each county, so
that the Collectors may be properly charged
withsit on the books of this Office"
Nashville has three buildings ola public
character now in course of erection-the
Vanderbilt UpiversitX-, the. AVhUee Hall.
Singers now in England, and a Blind Asy-
lum, being built through the liberaity of
Judge John NJ. Lea.
The Athens Post says Superintendent
Janeway advises US that the scholastic
. population of McMinn amounts to 4, 7G4.
This includes all between the ages of g
and IS. There are schools organized i'll
every district of the county, the number
of which he will give as soon us ascer-
tained.n
The Fayetteville Erpre8S, of the 18th,
says: Several of our most promising young
men are going elsewhere to obtain educa-
tional advantages. Andrew Martin, j. o..
Gray, S. ID. McPhail, Ed. Hall and James
Murray, five clever young gentlemen from
this place and vicinity, left here Tuesday
morning to attend the East Tennessee
University at Knoxville.
The Mobile Register wants Ben. Butler
to come South or go to Europe. 1t wants
to see him get hurt-6f course it does. 1T
says: This base insuter of Southern wo-
men has never dared to set MS foot on the
continent of Europe. When he does mus
ter heart enough to do it, he may expect to
meet on those neutral shores the cowhides
of the husbands and sons whose wives and
mothers he has outraged. But he won't
go"
- The Memphis Appeal of the 18th says /:
"There never was q time in the history
of Memphis when her prospects for BUSH
ness and trade were so promising. Orders
from the country are pouring in upon our
merchants in such numbers and of such
magnitude as to induce the belief that we
are at last about to take the flood which
leads to fortune. Bankers and business
men were never in better condition nor
| better prepared lOE u luIBelJ luCleuotu buSl-
ness than noW.n
The betting men had little confidence in
Wise's balloon trip and such bets as these
were offered but not taken, that the bal
loon will neither cross the ocean nor get
half way across, bets are offered 10 to l {;
that it will never go 100 miles away from
land, to ! !; that the balloonists will not
stay up single day, 3 to one; that Wise
will never find his westerly current, 3 to
one that the whole thing will be q tizzle,
. to that the balloon will burst, bets are
even.
The disrespectful language that led Gen.
Stanley to arrest Gen. Custar, of the yell
lowstone expedition, was as follows: Gen.
Stanley sent an order to Gen. Gustav pro-
hibiting the latter from using a cooking
stove which had, up to that time been
employed by his servant. He also wrote a
message to Gen. Gustav, inquiring by what
authority he allowed a certain civilian the
use of horse belonging to the Govern
ment. Gustav rejoined that it was by the
same authority that he Stanley allowed
the same privilege to certain other civil
ian, the correspondent of New York
newspaper.
Short horn cattle seem to bring high
prices. S. Campbell sold his herd at Utica,
New York, on the 10th. Buyers were
present from England, Canada and all
, parts of the United States. One hundred
and fifteen cattle were disposed of, the to-
tai receipts being about $3.50, 900 The
highest figure paid was $4,000. This bid