Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-12-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

President TaylOr's remains are to be re
moved to the State cemetery of Kentucky.
Queen Victoria has had a magnificent stone
sarcophagus made to contain TIE remains Of the
late Napoleon Ill.
- General Beknap, Secretary of War, was
married to Mrs. A. Il. Bowen, of Cincin-
natl, at Harrodsburg, kentucky, yester-
day.
Senator Sherman, schairmani of the Fl.
nance Committee in the Senate, favols let
ting things alone on the currency ques-
ton.
Gen. Roger \. Pryor has been telling
the people of New York what he thinks
about the ''past, present and future of the
negro"
The contributions by Henry Ward Beechers
church during the past year amount TO S97,-
1888, of which $57, 385.SS was for benevolent
purposes. ~
General Fremont has cancer of the stomach,
but has until lately kept the matter II secret
from family and friends. His physician says
that he can not live year. ..
Supervising Architect Mullett having
recommended the repeal of the eight hour
law, the workingmen of Roston demand
that the President shall remove him.
There are IS, $50 miles of railroad in Eu-
rope. Great Britain has 10 ,35l miles, Ger
many 10, 730, France 10.511, Austria 4 1872
Russia 1 75S and Belgium ], S92.
1t is said that nearly 900,000,000 of let
ter, so 200, 900 of postal cards, 10000, 900 of
newspapers and 100, 100000 of book pack
cts pass through the English Postofiice
annually.
Mrs. 5. NJ. Parker has been appointed
deputy collector of internal revenue for the
fourth district of Indiana. This is the first
lady appointed to the position of collector
of internal revenue. .. POP ... ..
Silas Hotchkiss, the lessee of the Grand
Union and st. James Hotels, New York
city, has been forced into bankruptcy by
the effects of the late panic. disabilities
amount to $4,000.
Private advices from Cuba state that the,
new President of the republic, Marquis de
Santa Lucia, has ordered the Insurgents
to treat all the prisoners they may capture
with the utmost humanity.
1t is asserted that number of Republi-
can Senators have requested the President
to withdraw the name of Attorney General
Williams for the Chief Justiceship in order
to relieve them from embarrassment.
Messrs. Tabb, Trigg, Royal and Mere
dith, seconds in the McCarthy-Mordecai
duel at Richmond, Va, have renewed
their bail. Their cases We're continued I'M
til the first day of the next term.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, to the N.
\. Herald says that Gen. Sherman's in
dorsement of n. b. Forrest, as published,
has done more to heal up the old wounds
than all the peace proclamations for hun
dred years.
While driving Friday Henry Ward Beechsr
and another gentleman were thrown from q top
wagon by the horses taking fright and suddenly
running away. Beyond getting their clothes
covered with mud, neither Mr.. Beecher nor his
friend sustained any damage
VIM. NJ. Tweed is Willing away his
prison life by writing biographical
sketch of himself, telling how he has sue
ceeded in life. He will make some rare
disclosures, and reveal the price OF an av-
erage Albany Legislator.
The Baltimore Sun thinks that the only
moral there is in Senator Summers queru-
lous criticism of our Governments action
in the Nirginius affair, is that if he
had managed the business it would have
been conducted wisely and satisfactorily
to all parties
The Chicago Commercial pithiIy re-
marks that 1.-THE Middle Tennessee county
papers occupy most of their space on the
side printed at home in nominating candi-
dates for Governor and Congress, and dis
cussing their relative merits.n
The Kentucky Legislature made an eff.
fort to resolve itself highly indignant at the
murder of the Nirginius captives. That
body, no doubt, has a wise, statesmanlike
and well defined policy in relation to Gu
ban matters, which the Government would
do well to adopt.
At Il reception given by Fernando Wood,
in Washington, on Tuesday evening, Re
preventative A. II. Stephens, of Georgia,
was among the guests, and received mark
ed attention from the entire company, in
GLIDING General Sherman.
Rev. Chas. +. Cheney, having consult
| ed his congregation and received their.
| unanimous approval of the step, has de-
cided to accept the appointment as Bishop
In the "Cummins Episcopal Church, and
has telegraphed Bishop to that effect.
Christianity means sixteen ounces to the
pound, three feet to the yard, just weights
and measures. 1t means honesty in all
dealings, purity in all conversation, char
| lty as broad as the race, unflincbing in
| tegrity, sympathy with and humanity to-
man. With these there can be no COM
| promise. f
The Richmond Dispatch publishes
! tabular statement of the annual receipts
and disbursements of the State treasury
commencing October ], 1872 aud ending
| September 80, 1878. The total is as fol-.
lows; Receipts, 5000, 1926. 70; dsburse-
ments, S2,96S,G90 rs balance on hand DC
tober /, 1873, S747, 9S54l.
The jackson Courier of the 18th SAYS: Dur.
| ing this week fifteen car loads of heavy ord
! nance including bombshells grape and canister
! shot, passed here on the Mobile and Ohio road
gong from st, Louis to Pensacola. We also
learn there are number of large guns at Co.
| Iumous awaiting transportation to the same
| point some Of them large enough to chamber n
| horse and buggy,
! Orders for >, 600 freight cars to be placed
| in readiness for the transportation OF abouf
/ $50, 600 bushels of wheat Savs ,bp 81 pau