Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-29
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Fourth HelSkellS tennessee hePOrts are
ready for lawyers and courts.
The University of Virginia recently
opened with four hundred and twenty
seven students.
Hon. Alvin Hawkins, ex-Supreme Court
Judge, has united with the Baptist Church
at Huntingdon.
The Exposition Concert at Nashville, for
the benefit of the Memphis sufferers, net
ted 81 500. So far Nashville has contributed
the handsome sum of $4,000 .....
We learn from q Baltimore exchange
that $500 has been raised in that city for
the relief of the family of DIR. w. Il. Num-
sey, and sent to Mrs. Munsey, at Greene
Vile, Tennessee. IHaY Gl.| .H.TH I...
The Supreme Court at Washington has
a full docket of cases for hearing. The
new law permitting appeals from State
courts i'm all cases where Federal questions
are involved will require modification.
Nose Williams, a convict in the peniten
tiary at Springfield, Illinois, has eXpresse
h is ability and willingness to point out til
parties who murdered Hon. Sharon Tyn
dale, in April, 1871, on condition that he
pardoned when they are convicted.
1t is twenty years this October since tia
State of Ohio elected her last Democrat
Governor, before the election of Aller
William Medill was the last of what wa
called the 'old guard, and he was electe
in October, 1853. ..... .......
Among the cases to be decided by til
court is one from Iowa, as to the power
State to prohibit dealing in alcohol
| liquors. 1t is contended that, as Congress
recognizes property in liquor, State car
not deprive citizens of the right to hole
and deal in it,
| A Washington dispatch says it is stated
| in the report of the Commissioner of Pub.
| lie Buildings and Grounds, that the gran.
tie platform quarried for the Winfield
Scott monument weighs $50 tons, and is
believed to be the largest stone ever sue.
cessfully quarried in this country.
The published statement that the bodies
of Captain Jack and Schonchin were de-
capitated after execution and their heads
forwarded in alcohol for deposit in the
army medical museum is contradicted by
the Secretary of War, who says that he at
least never heard anything about it.
General Spinner's report will show that
the receipts of conscience money for the
past fiscal year amounted to S2,997 A.,
against So, Dol 81 in 1872. This leads &c
the conclusion that there is a stringency il
the conscience market The total receipts
thus far, up to July /, 1878, amount to
S154 ,G95 IS.
The mill owners of Massachusetts are
undecided just at present what course &c
pursue in regard to the depression of trade
| IebulllllB lIOlli llG panic. 1neN
have resolved to meet and consult together
and settle the question by vote, all to abide
the decision. This will enable them, in q
measure, TO control the market. i1.' ....
The LOudon Journal of yesterday, 25th
says If we are to judge from the number
of mules and horses going South this win
} ter, financial matters must certainly b(
easy in the Southern States. They con
tinue to go by this place in great number:
from upper East Tennessee and Kentucky
The National Board of Trade for tn,
t United States, suggest the following
changes in the bankrupt law: The aboii
, ton of fees and establishment of salarie,
for officers enlarging the powers of as
signees; authorizing creditors to choose
committee of their own number to settl
, accounts and make distributions that tn
! Federal Government fix the amount anC
kind of property exempt from assignment
q not subject to change by the States.
a The Nashville Jubilee Singers startet
: out to Europe to raise $50 600 for their FISH
, University. The whole amount to be raise,
+ was so, 600. They had about $4,000 whel
: they left America, and they had at last d
! vices earned 5000 in Europe. Their fina
o | success is assured, a number of subscrip
+ tions have been received apart from Wha
! the singers earned, and these sums are /
a be used for providing the internal fitting
a and furniture of the University.
i THE Methodist AdUocdte, at Atlanta, re
+ Gently published without comment re
q port of the meeting of the "Chattanoog
q Home Missionary Society,"" which q CORES
pondent of the HOlston Methodist at Nor
ristown, has discovered is negro socie
: ty.n He is alarmed over this terribl
C stride towards "negro equalityn by
: Christian minister and editor. From th
+ fact of DIR. Cobleigh's publishing the re
: port of that meeting, which contained no
. thing but a simple statement of its relig
ious exercises, the correspondent draw
a these fearful conclusions
!. "If DIR. Cobleigh will admit negroes int
e his columns, will he not also admit then
o into his parlor and into his pulpit, and per
+ NIT them to eat and sleep with his family
: DIR. @. does evidently endorse all of Bishol
g Haven's negro equality notions, for action
3 speak louder than words. No wonder tn
e two Churches do not come together, and i
is to be hoped they never will Cd thes
n terms.n
t We are very much surprised that a sen
sible editor allows such trash to appear il
: his columns.