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

this fall will be, IL is said, "lhe unity OF
the Republic"
Tennessee Baptist, published at Memphis,
is out for Hon. John 5. Kerr, for Cover
nor.
papers and periodicals printed in the United
states in 1850. There were only 81 100000
published in Great Britain in 1901. we
printed as many in 1880.
In one Of his recent speeches, Mr.. Glad
stone declared that Great Britain was ere
atinp wealth faster than any country on
earth with one exception. His exception
referred to the United States.
A dispatch from Washington says that
duel is imminent as a consequence of a
disagreement between Herschel V. John
son and Gov. Smith, Of Georgia. Their
friends are urging an amicable settlement.
1t Is estimated that the number OF copies
Of newspapers printed in Great Britain in
1870 was $50, 000, 900 and the same III France
The census returns show that over l ,5OO,-
600, 600 were issued in the United states Ill
| the same year.
We learn that the Rev. Hermann Bo-
kun, of Atlanta, Georgia, has finished the
| translation of the Evidences OF Chris
tianity,n by the latS Bishop Mcllvaine,
| into the German language. 1t will be
published at an early day.
| In these dull piping times of peace
|
citing political canvass. The opposing
candidates for Mayor are stamping the
city, holding joint discussions, in which
each shows up his own virtues and his
opponents dement's for the entertainment
| of voters.
James +. johnson, heretofore promi-
nent member Of the conservative party in
Virginia, and an opponent of the admin
istration, has written letter announcing
that he can no longer act with the party
with which he has so long been identified,
and declaring his intention to support the
Republican State ticket and the admins
tration of President Grant.
The Nashville Workingnldn is out for
Andrew johnson for Governor in 1874.
The same paper advises mothers to keep
their girls off Of the street, out of the way
of the prostitutes that kidnap them. II
declares that policeman is needed on ev-
cry corner to keep guard of innocent girls.
Governor Alcorn has opened his canvass
as independent Republican candidate for
Governor of Mississippi. 1.-THE Democrats
make a nomination, as seems probable
Alcorn will not poll votes enough to make
his candidacy respectable.
The Memphis mail carriers delivered
, 125, 754 letters in that city in August.
The Chattanooga Commercial says: A
coal mine has recently been opened OF
+ Walden's ridge about eight and half miles
from the city and about mile and hal
from the top of the ridge, The coal is de
, scribed as hard and brittle, similar to tina
which is mined at Coal Creek, in Ander
son county, and may be handled withou
soiling the hands.
> The Atlanta water works commissioner
: have asked the City Council for $30O,0 900 il
bonds, and the Council favor the PROPOSE
ton. The matter has been referred to
o special committee.
: William H. Stewards heirs have receiv
4 ed Sal AGA for the copyright of the frs
! six months of his "Travels Around tn
: World" profit probably unparalleled il
a this country, if not in any.
' y The fourth Industrial Exposition wa
2 opened at Cincinnati by an address b.
q Hon. J. d. Cox. The attendance reacne
). 5000, and was largely composed of the bes
: citizens of Cincinnati.
p Gen. Longstreet has written a letter de
i nying the statement of Col. Withers, {
:. Virginia, that he Longstreet) "weu
A over" to the radicals 'for money" an
# also in relation to the attack upon his mil
= itary record as soldier by Rev. Mr.. Pen
!, dleton, offers to prove by Pendleton's ow
= witnesses THAT his statement is also false.
q Andrew V. Stout, President of the She
!. and Leather bank, has just sold his eigh
> shares of New York Times stock for twelv
" thousand dollars each, to George Jone
Il the publisher who is understood has dis
l. posed of them to Louis J. Jennings, II
NJ managing editor OF the paper, at the sam
, rate. Jennings is now said TO be the owl
!. er of twelve shares, and he and Jones t
It gether hold fifty shares, which with pc
,e session constitute control.
N BY the United States census report latel
1s published, the whole number OF hogs in a
vi the States and Territories is given at q
Ms 134, $50. OF this large aggregate Illino
has the largest number OF any State, =, IO3
1863; Missouri shows 2,3O6, $50; North Ca
H. DINA, 1875, 2l5; Indiana, l,S72, $50; Ke
m lucky, 1887, 22T Tennessee, l,S27 go
h. Ohio, 1,72S, 99S; Iowa, l 1853, sos. The
TO are the eight heaviest hog raising States
ht the Union.
or A correspondent writing of the notorio
"a. Iowa railroad robbers, says Of the marx
fv manship of their LEADER " Mccoy h
he earned the reputation of being the dca
ho lest pistol shot in America, on horsebac
he and is stranger to fear. At Gallatin,
10. this State, while being pursued by sol
av citizens he had robbed, his wonderf
ed craftsmanship saved him hempen nee
IN. tie. While his horse was at full speed NJ
for Coy shot a citizen in the forehead who "
t a sixty yards to his right, and turning, fir
ad over his left shoulder, and put a b
ks through the brain of an unfortunate VII
en-. lante who was taking aim at him will
our shot gun from behind tree fully 10 pa
nd distant. Both men fell dead ia tn
nj tracks
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