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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
Wagon Factory.

S. Il. Post & Son are now prepared to
put up and to iron all kinds, of one and
two horse wagons, of good dry stock, at
their factory on Jackson street, near the
Railroad depot. Wagons on hand for SALE
Biacksmithing horse shoeing and jobbing
done with neatness and dispatch.
Knoxville, March26, 1878 wifi.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
WambIe,, e,nuntv Notes.

During the past week the following ship
ments of cattle were made from this point +:
X. b. Lloyd, car loads Mr.. Susong, l
car load M. A. Lathim, 2 car loads,
On Thursday the Goth inst, colored
preacher-we failed to learn his name
was drowned in Pigeon river at Newport.
He was attempting to ford the river ON a
mule when he was thrown off and drown.
ed.-AIoyTistoaUu Gazette.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

how cheap he can get it at Payne's, he will
regret it.
II. s. Payne & Co. are selling nearly all
the hats, and no wonder they, have such
an immense stock and selling so cheap.
There are numbers of men who have,worn
hats from Payne's house three years-and
their shoes are cheap and good. They
man and child in East Tennessee. The
city and country people are learning they
can save money, and lots of it, by buying
their shoes right along, year after year,
for their whole family, from r. S. Payne
d Co. Their store is crowded every day
and their trade don't leave them, because
they know that one price to all alike and
fair dealing is the plan. ..r.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
Not New.

The Charter Oak Stoves were introduced
to the public twenty years ago, and the
demand for them has increased with each
succeeding year.
The Excelsior Manufacturing Company
is now prepared to supply, in any quanti-
ty, those who need good stove.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
New uopwen sunday school.

The closing exercises of the winter term
of New Hopewell Sunday School in the
18th district took place last Sunday, March
3Oth. The term was for three months and
was attended with great success under the
following officers: A. w. Rose, Superin-
tendent (; G. NJ. Monday, Assistant Super
intendent, and b. +. King, Secretary.
They organized with thirty scholars and
closed with one hundred lively and ener-
getic members.
The Superintendent gave prizes to the
following scholars for punctual attendance;
M. J. Monday,N. l.. Monday NJ. J, Brown,
NJ. l.. King, M. A. Rowland, J. w. Dun
lap, r. a, Rowland, y. M, Monday, NJ.
NJ. Rowland. ...y .. .
Mr.. Isaiah Ford gave a book, Baptist
Succession) as a prize to Miss NJ. j. Mon
day. for reciting 36S more Bible verses than
any other scholar. The whole number she
recited was 1852 verses. Miss NJ. l.. King
received book Testament with notes.
from Mr.. G. NJ. Monday for the second
highest number, she having recited during
| the term 3,164 verses. These good little
girls are but thirteen years old, and recited
| the above named verses in the last four or
| five Sabbaths. They claim that it is not
! an irksome task for them to memoriZe
such lesson as they recited last Sunday,
which was 675 verses each. There are
numbers of others in the school who are
considered their mental equals, and it is be.
lieved that they will test their memory
during the next term. .U".
1t was said by one of old: "a wise son
maketh a glad father" and we presume
the same will hold good as to wise daugh'
ter. If so, Mr.. G. M. Munday and Mr.. M
| V. King have abundant cause for rejoicing
The exercises closed with an address of al
hour and three quarters by Mr.. William
Hawn, on the necessity and duty of study
tIn fNtt
summer term of this Sabbath School viii
open tomorrow, and judging the future
from the past, we hope to hear good re
port from that quarter. .~. .rH
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

The number enrolled the previous month
was 1904, while the average attendance
was S75. This report shows gain in the
number enrolled of 81, and a loss in the
average attendance of 60, which is proba-
bly, owing to slight panic among the
children, caused by exaggerated reports
coming evident that there is no cause for
alarm, and the schools are beginning to be
better attended.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Messrs. FAM d Jones purchased yester-
day two as fine beef cattle as have ever
been offered in this market from gentle
man by the name of A. r.. Meek. They
were only years old, and the two COM
bined weithed 2,775 pounds, the least only
weighing something over 1900 pounds.
We understand they will be killed and Of
fered i'll market this morning.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
OUR FOURTH VOLUME.

With last weeks issue we entered upon
the publication of the Fourth Volume of
the KNOXVILLE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
We have labored to make our paper well
come visitor to the homes of our patrons,
and furnish such table of contents that
from the variety offered every taste would
be suited. The tone of the CHRONICLE
has been pronounced, and its efforts have
been in the aid of progress and the adj
vancement of the best interests of the
people. That our efforts have been APP
preciated, we believe, from our large SUBJ
in the future that has guided us in the past,
we hope to merit an increased patronage
and enter with confidence on the Fourth
Volume of our paper! 81.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
Narrow Escape From Being Drowned.

Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock,
Mrs. Harvey Ryan's little girl, seven years
of age, while playing in a boat in the riv-
er, just below the piers of the new bridge,
fell out and came very near being drowned.
1t seems that the child reached out to get
hold of block and lost her balance, fell
out on the upper side of the boat The cur
rent Immediately drew he'll under the boat,
and when next seen she made her appear
ance on the lower side, she sank again,
and next rose near the second boat, when
the current again drew her under this boat
also. A young man by the name of Dock
Jones, employed in Parks mill, was
luckily on raft near by, and up
on seeing the child fall in immedi-
ately rushed to the rescue. and ar
rived on the spot just in time to dive UNI
der the second boat and bring outthe child
in an almost lifeless condition. We will
not attempt to describe the mothers joy
when her darling child was restored to her
bosom by that brave young man, and
doubtless her relieved heart poured fourth
blessings upon his head. He certainly de-
serves credit for the cool and daring man.
ner in which he risked his life to save the
life of another. When we last saw the lit
tie girl she appeared to have entirely re-
covered from her fright, and seems to have
sustained no serious harm, but it is to bt
hoped that it will teach her lesson to bt
more CAREFUL in the future.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
To Clerks of County Courts in Tennessee

The Clerks of the several County Courts
in Tennessee will confer great favor, and
at the same time do valuable public ser
vice, by reporting at once to the under
signed, at Nashville, the proceedings at
the April terms of their respective Courts,
in reference to Common School matters.
JNo. NJ. FLEMING,
State Supt. Public Schools.
April Z, 1878.
BEA- Papers throughout the State please
copy.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
sppeaking at Strawberry Plains.

G. w. Charlton made plain talk to the
farmers at Strawberry Plains on the 5th
inst. He urged the farmers to raise clover,
improve their poor lands and then farm
ing would pay. Press on our columns
cempels US to omit longer notice of the
meeting furnished by J, NJ L.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
The Atlantic and Great western Canal

Governor smith, OF Georgia, has invited
Governors and principal citizens of Wes-
tern and Southern States in Atlanta on the
Goth of May to consider what is best to be
done to forward the interests of the At
lantic and Great Western Canal. He also
asks that delegation be sent from our
city. We presume the Board of Trade will
take steps to be represented.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Capt. Derrick, of Jefferson county, ar
rived at our wharf yesterday, bringing 40
bales of hay, so bushels of wheat, from
500 to 1000 dozen eggs, so pounds of but
ter, chickens, ducks, turkeys, as well as
some fruit and other produce.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
NORTHERN CAPITALISTs VISITING
KNONyIILE
Through the south by Rail.

A party of prominent railroad officials
and capitalists on tour through the South
visited our city yesterday. Some three
weeks ago they left Philadelphia in a car
specially prepared for them, arranged for
sleeping, eating, cooking, and as draw
ing room. AT Louisville, Ky. it was put
on new trucks for the southern guage.
Mammoth Cave, Nashville, Montgomery,
New Orleans, Atlanta and Chattanooga
have been visited. The party travels by
day only, and take notes of the general
condition of the country. The party COM
prises the following gentlemen and ladies;
Alfred l.. Dennis, President of the New
Jersey Railroad, with wife and son.
Josiah Bacon, of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, with wife and son.
VIM. w. Astor, New York. ...r....
Beach Nanderpool and wife, Dan. Dodd
and wife, 40. Keasbey and wife, Chas. G.
lockwood and daughter, Peter S. Duryee,
wife and daughter, Newark, n. j.
ABOUT THE CITY.
After partaking of a good dinner at the
Franklin House, the party took carriages
and visited with p. Dickinson, Esq, the
wholesale house of Cowan, NIcClung &
Co., which all confessed was an establish
ment far ahead of any other they had seen
on their tour, and much more extensive
than any they expected to see here.
They also visited the East Tennessee
University. From the beautiful grounds
of the College, and from the observatory
they got fine view of our grand scenery.
10 the South were the ranges of the Smoky
Mountains, to the North the Cumberland.
This view they pronounced the finest in
the South.
Lieut.. Thornburgh called out Bearden's,
| Spences and Crawford's Companies OF
Cadets, whose drill won special praise.
From the University the party went to
| the National Cemetery by the Custom
House, the marble in which excited their
special attention. They called on Senator
Brownlow and then were escorted through
4 the grounds of p. Dickinson. Altogether
they pronounce Knoxville the pieasantesi
city they have seen in the South, and they
| go back to the North pleased with our peo
| pie and growing city.
They leave this morning for Wytheville
where they will spend tonight, thence
to Richmond.
They were called upon last night by
Hon. Horace Maynard, Maj. r. G. Jack
son, Mayor Rule and DIR. Bailey. Col
Jno. Brownlow and Mr.. Kicks were will
the party in their visits about the city.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

The Tennessee Land Register contains
valuable information about properties,
lands climate, soil, minerals, &C., publish
ed monthly. Subscription SOC per annum.
Munson & Bailey, Proprietors, Knoxville,
Tennessee.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
school Apportionment.

This is to certify that the following is a
correct apportioment of the school money
collected by the Tax Collector of Knox
county and State of Tennessee from the
last day of March, 1873:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

-=Munson & Bailey, Real Estate Agents,
Knoxville, Tenn, have large list of the
finest, well selected properties in East
Tennessee, full list in the Tennessee Land
RcOister
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

The plan for the New Court House at
Athens, Tenn, as furnished by A. c..
Bruce, Architect, was adoptedby the Coun-
ty Court and ordered to be built, as soon as
practicable.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

J.,,R. McCallum & Co., Tobacco Manu-.
facturers of this city, buy Leaf Tobacco.
iii25dt&s wtmay. ITr HFfr-
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Parkey, Chiies & Co., will prosecute
claims, and pay special commissioners
fees for special contracts, iil2w2m.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Send SOC for one years subscription to
the Tennessee Land Register, published
monthly by Munson & Baily, Proprietors,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

If any young lady buys a new Hat be-
fore looking at those beautiful styles at
Payne's, she will regret it. -oy m
ii;w3t e...
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

If you have collie which gripes very hard,
Pain in the bowels nearly driving you mad,
Or cramps or spasms so hard to endure
Use Harris Great Relief, it will certainly cure.
1t drives away pain and gives quick relief,
Curing all pains beyond your belief;
1t is good for thousands of everyday ills,
Aad saves the making of long Doctor bills.
Each house in the land this prize should con
tain
The cure Of all aches, the King Of ali Pains.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
City Free Schools.

The following is a report of the number
of children enrolled during the past month
and their attendance:
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Have you o cough or pain in the breast?
Are you with hoarseness or asthma oppressed
Are your lungs affected Do they feel sore
These are bad symptoms; go at once to the store
Mako you feel easier and much better of.
If consumption threatens, it will drive it away
And make you quite we'll for many o day,
And almost without money, for should poverty
cramp,
A bottle you will get for fifty cent stamp
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Subscribe for the Tennessee Land Regis
ter, published monthly by Munson &
Bailey, Knoxville, Tennessee. Subscrip-
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Personal.

Mr.. II. T. Wilson, the very efficient
President of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad Company, and the
head of the firm of bankers, r. II. Wilson
& Co., al Broad street, New York, is in
the city and will remain for few days.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09

Given under my hand at office in Knox
1878. c. w. JONES, Chairman.
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-11
Jesse Il. Grant.

The father of the President of the
United States, Jesse Root Grant, died
last evening at Covington, Kentucky,
after a long illness. Ihe President
was informed on Saturday evening hat
his father was dying, and started I'M
mediately for the West, but before he
could reach Covington, the old man S
life was at an end. He was the son of
Captain Noah Grant, of tn. Revolu-
tionary army, who, after tire war, emil
grated from Coventry, Connectlcut,
10 Westmoreland county, pennSylvani' .
There Jesse, one of a numerous family,
was born in the year 1874, so he had
reached khe advanced age of seventy
nine years. In 1899 the family removed
to Ohio, and at the age of sixteen Jesse
was sent to Maysville, Kentucky, and
apprenticed to his half-brother to learn
the trade of tanner. He afterwards
set up the business at Ravenna, Ohio,
twenty-five miles above Cincinnati
In 1920 he was married there to Miss
Hannah Simpson, and on tho 9th Gf
April, 1892, tnelr eldest son, destined
to become President Of the United
States, was born. Jesse Grant prospereo
in business, and finally removed tC
Galena, Illinois, where he added to the
tanning business 2 leather and EarnGs
store. Ulysses, who had been edncatet
at West Point, and had served during
the Mexican war, became tired of army
life in time of peace, and resigned h !
commission in 1854. He tried farming
for awhile, but at last accepted an IL
terest in his fathers business at Galen;
in which he was engaged when the re
belliOn broke out. Jesse Grant, afte
the war, gave up his business and wa
appointed by President Johnson, Post
master at Covington, Ky, opposite t.
Cincinnati. which position he has con
tinued to hold, although failing healtl
and old age had united him for work
and although the President had desire'
him to resign. He was plain nnpre
tending working man, lut one of ex
cellent good sense. His only distinc
ton, however, beyond this, was tha
he was the father of the victorious l'a
der of the Union armies who bccam'
President of the United States Q
America Yankee Erch0agc.
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-11
tsSumner,, or SsSnln slAer''i

The New York Tribune calls atten-
ton to the fact that III the 'Sofficiaf
draught" 70 Captain HALL sexpaOrationH
in the Polaris, as prepared by the Sig
nal Bureau at Washington, a "high,
bold. and noble headland, (Which Cap
tain HALL had named ''SUMNER" In
honor of the Mass, senator, is printed
".SuhlIlc.'.
1t ia twice SO printed, once in the
map and once III the report, from which
the Tribune infers determination on
the part Of the officials at Washington
to rob Mr.. SUMNER of the compliment
intended for him by Captain Hall. az
an acknowledgement of his efforts TO
get the Arctic expedition afoat. We
could hardly imagine a greater mistake
than to name a bold headland in the
Arctic regions "SUlIMER. It looks
/ very much like deliberate change OF
name under color of a resemblance In
names. 'If," says the Tribune, ''it
result from q petty after-mallce to-
wards statesman who Is no longer
numbered among the Kings friends,
1--WE can only say that the power OF
meanness could go no surtler. We
beg leave to differ with the Tribune
upon this point. The act was quite
shabby, but in this day of general
meapness, this day of siding with vui.
garity when question between tnas
and decency is presented, why this Mt
| tie spite to SUMNER is mere 'hea-Dase.
In the ocean of wrongs OF these tunes,
this ssSummer" insect can hardly be
seen with magnifier of thousand
fold capacity.-Richmond DssfascA.
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-11
HIRAM POWERS-HHIS CAREER
OPENED TO HIM BY SOUTHERN
(:ENEIHOSI'EX.

The greatest of American sculptors
died on Friday, in that Italian city
which, from long residence therein,
had become to him \ home. Hiram
Powers lacked but two years of having
reached the three score and ten which
the Psalmist allots as the measure of
human life, but he was in full vigor of
matured genius, and had he been
spared, we might have expected from
his chisel, other creations as worthy
of fame as Eve and the Greek
Slave. The first of these was the
early product of his cunning hand
when he had but just domesticated
himself in Florence Thorwaldsen
pronounced it n master piece, and
when the next year Powers pro-
duced the Greek Slave, he stepped
to the front line of living artists. He
has produced numerous other rell-
known works, among which are the
Fisher Boy, of which there have been
three repetitions in marble; IlPensc-
roso, Proserpine. a bust; California,
America, modelled for the Crystal Pal
ace of Sydenham, England, statues q
Washington and Calhoun, and the In
dian Girl. Among the vast number of
busts which he has produced are those
of Adams, Jackson, Chief Justice Mar
shall, Edward Everett, and Martin Van
Buren,. The bronze statue Of Webster,
which now adorns the State House
grounds at Boston, is one of his latest
works.
In spite of his long residence abroad,
Powers was thorough American.-
He never lost that love for his native
land which he imbibed with the breezes
of the Vermont hills among which he
was born, and, although he may be
laid to his final rest in foreign soil, yet
his native country will hold him in
cher shed remembrance, and his com
patriots who tread italian ground viii
be proud to linger moment above
his grave.
1t may not be generally known,
though it is none the less true, we be-
lieve, that the great sculptor was ell
bled to develope and cultivate his rare
genius by the generous, fostering care
of Southern men.
The following sketch, which We take
from the Richmond Enq,sircr,, briefly
tells the story
Hiram Powers was born at Wood
stock, Vermont, and commenced life as
a waiter boy at a hotel. from which Oc-
cupation he advanced to that of Il trav
cler for merchant, and finally became
apprenticed to clock-maker at Gin
cinnati, where his talent as Il sculptor
first developed itself under the instruc-
tion of a Prussian sculptor, who hap
pened to be in that city executing n
statue of General Jackson. He there
learned to form brsts. and very soon,
under the patronage of Nicholas Long
worth, removed to Washington City,
where he acquired Il considerable rep
utat on. There he made the acqnaint-
ance of William G.. Preston, of South
Carolina, who manifested deep interest
in his success as an artist, and who
procured from his brother, Colonel
John Preston, an allowance of 81 900 a
year for Powers to enable him to go
tn Ttnl\
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-11
From the Portland (Me) Argus
Ieff. Davis Alleged Disguise.

am no admirer of jeff. Davis. [
am Yankee, born between Saccarappe
and Gorham Corner, am full of
Yankee preiudices; but 1 think it
wicked to lie even about him, or for
that matter, about the devil
was with the party that captured
jeff Davis; saw the whole transaction
from its beginning. 1 now say
hope you will publish it-that jeff
Davis did not have on, at the time he
was taken, any garment such as is
worn by women. He did not have
over his shoulders a waterproof ar
ticle of clothing-somethi like a
"Havelock" 1t was not in the least
concealed. He wore a hat, and did
not carry a pail of water on his head,
nor carry bucket, or kettle in any
way.
To the hest Il my recollection, he
carried nQthIng whatever in his hands.
His' wife did not tell any per on that
her husband might hurt somebody if
he got exasperated She behaved like
lady and he as gentleman, though
manifestly he was chagrined at being
taken into custody Our soldiers be-
haved like gentlemen as they were,
| and the foolish stories that went the
newspaper rounds of the day, telling
how wolfishly he deported himself,
were all false. 1 know what 1 am
writing about. I saw Jefferson Davis
many times while he was staying in
Portland, several years ago; and
think 1 was the first one Who recog-
nized him at the tine of his arrest,
| When was known that he was GER
tainly taken, somo newspaper cores
pondent-I knew his name at the
time-fabricated the story about the
disguise in an old woman's dress.
heard tn. whole matter talked over as
good JOKE, and the officers. who
knew better, never took the trouble tC
deny it. Perhaps they thought the
Confederate President deserved all the
contempt that could be put upon him
1 think so too, only I woald never
perpetrate falsehood that by any
means would become history. And
further, would never slandera woman
who has shown SO much devotion as
Mrs. Davis has to her husband, NJ
matter how wicked he is or may hav'
been.
defy any person to find = single af
ficer or soldier who was present at th
capture of Mr.. Davis who will say
upon lis honor. that he was disguise'
IN woman's clothes, or that his wifi
acted in any way unladylike or undig
nified on that occasion. go for try
ing him for his crimes, and, if he
guilty, Furnishing him. But 1 woul
not lie about him when the truth wi
! certainly make it bad enough.
JAS; h; PARKER.
EILBURNyILLE, Pa.