Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-05
NEWS BY NAIL.


TO its readers a semi-weeklv edition.
1t is understood that exPresident john
son is preparing statement relative to the
hanging of Mrs. Surratt, which he Will
give to the public soon in pamphlet form
DIR. w. f. Munsey publishes card in
the Nashville Banner, vindicating himself
against certain false charges which have
gained currency through the public press.
Joseph Arch states that he has been de-
tanned in Canada, and will have to defer
his tour through the United States until
next spring and summer. lie sails Tor
England shortly.
General N. r Banks, after debating the
matter far several weeks, has come to the
conclusion that he will not run as candi-
date for the State Assembly of Massachu-
setts Fl.
Again Brigham Young is reported in
bad health, causing serious uneasiness in
the minds of his faithful adherents, and
those whose existence as sect depend
upon the time allotted to him.
Professor Lay was announced TO make
balloon ascension at San Francisco Satur-
day with q young lady and q Justlc OF the
peace and the professor and the young lady
were to be married above the clouds.
The New Jersey Constitutional Commits
sion has adopted an amendment forbidding
the election of q Governor to the United
States Senate, or his acceptance OF any
Federal appointment during his incunl-
bency.
An Irishman, writing from Philadelphia
she other day to a friend in the Old Coun-
try, concludes letter thus: IF liver it's
2ne good fortune to live till dy-and God
nose whether it is so-I'n visit ould Ire
land afore lave Philamadelify."
The st. Louis Republican, former
Democratic journal, which has some mod
.ern ideas, says to the Democrats; AN
other Democratic victory or two will set
tie the question of Grants third term
in the Affirmative
It is rumored that VIM. H. Vanderbilt
~, has sailed for Europe to negotiate
3, OO0, 900 of New York Central bonds
still remaining out of the recent issue of
Sl0,000,000.
A dispatch from Cave City states that a
difficulty occurred to-day between ID. L..
Graves, proprietor of the Mammoth Cave
Hotel, aud Edward WilcoXen, agent for
the cave, in which several shots were fired
Graves was wounded in the bowels, proba-
bly, fatally. WilcoXen was unhurt
The Rev. DIR. Parker, one of the dele
gates to the, Evangelical Alliance, who
has retGrned home, preached at Exeter
Hall, London, last night. He spoke in
the highest terms of the institutions re-
sources and future of the United States.
At the special meeting of the House of
Bishops, of the Episcopal Church, held in
New York on Friday, Rev. j. f. Spauld-
ing, of the diocese of Pittsburg, was unan-
CilOS6u DIsuOp VI SOlOIduu, w
oming and New Mexico, in place of the
late Bishop Randall.
The workingmen of Caldwell county,
Kentucky, have resolved that Hon. Ed.
Grassland, their Representative in Con-
gress, acted contrary to their will in voting
Cor the "back salary grab" and that he
ought, therefore, to resign, but If he will
not do that then introduce bill for the
repeal of the law
1t is estimated that there are at least
twenty thousand working girls out of en-
ployment in New York at the present
time as one of the results of the depression
of all kinds of business, and especially
such kinds in business as straw sewing,
artificial flower making, and the lighter de-
scriptions of printing office work.
Mr.. 2. Il. Barnum has arrived in Lon
don. He will go at once to Paris to hold a
conference with the most prominent zero
nauts of Europe upon the subject of q
transatlantic balloon voyage, which he in
tends to have accomplished under his i'm
mediate supervision if any feasible plan
should be presented.
Theodore Tilton has written lettor to
the Plymout Church Committee, saying
that, inasmuch as he has not been men,
Der of the church for the past four years,
he does not feel in duty bound to obey the
citation to appear before them, and there
fore respectfully declines to answer the
charges made against him in the Beecher-
BOWEL SCduudl.
The amount of timber cut on the head
waters of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries the past year was equal TO l.
$4,000, 900 feet. This quantity, estimating
the yield of pine land at 10000 feet per
acre, would require the denudation of l55,
600 acres, or nearly $50 square miles of land,
When these pineries, the last we have, are
exhausted, the fence and building question
will present itself in a new ana trouble
some aspect to the Western farmer.
From the Commercial, we learn that
George Isom and William Gillem, OF
Chattanooga, got into a quarrel Monday
morning about Il dog, when the former
shot the latter with a double barreled shot
gun. SXty-two large squirrel-shot were
taken from the wounded mans side, and
two penetrated his lungs. The wound will
probably prove fatal. Isom made his es.
cape.
tits stated that Attorney General Will
liams received Saturday letter from
Montgomery, Alabama, saying that in
consequence of the heavy rains and the
destruction of the cotton crops by the ar
nay worm great restitution exists ia sever
al counties, especially in Sumpter and
Marengo. In some places there is actual
starvation, and unless help Is rendered
during the winter months many persons
na1st perish for want of food.
The nephews and and grand nephews OF