Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-19
NEWS BY MAIL.

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Saturday for S., 800.
1t is said that nine-tenths of the minis
ters OF the country are not as well paid as
| the base ball professionals.
Commodore Vanderbilt has given s.. =
600 to the Moravian Cemetery, at New
Dorp, for receiving vault.
| Mm. Simpson, prominent citizen of
Williamson county, was shot and killed at
Nolensville on Sunday
| Inc tovern0r has issued a proclamation
| setting apart Thursday, the 9th instant as
day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
Inc city corporation of St. Louis has
issued S3,O0O,OO0, in 81, So, aud SIS shin
p.asOers, 10 relleVe the present money
| stringency.
Seven Of the railroads which centre at
indianapolis have agreed upon q reduc-
tion OF ten per cent. in the wages of en-
ployees.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennes-
see see assembled at Nashville on Monday.
Three hundred and fifty subordinafe
Lodges were represented.
The dead body of horse thief named
Thomas Box was found hanging in tina
woods near Virginia City, Cedar county.
Missouri, last week.
The complete election returns from Vir-
gina snow that Kemper's majority over
hughes Is q ,O63. This is an increase of
9,632 over Walkers majority in 1869.
Col. Il. G. Yancey, owing to ill-bealth.
1 l., 1 I.
mas sold his Georgia agricultural monthly,
the ISdatdtton, and retired from the field
of journalism.
The ''Nemoir of John Quincy Adams.u
edlted by Charles Francis Adams, having
been delayed by the editors appointnlent
to the Geneva Convention, will now soon
be issued.
Prussia has one physician for every 1920
inhabitants, Austria has one in 4, ,355,
Hungary one in 4, 4,492, while Russia has
but one for II, 1876 people.
The wife of Jas. II. Erie cashier of the
Ola Colony Railway, Boston, died in a
dentists Office on Monday, while under
the influence of ether. Only a smallquan-
tlty had been administered, when she went
INTO convulsions and did soon after.
The island of Jamaica has been visited
by tropical rains such as have not been ex-
perlenced i'll fifteen years. The rivers rose
twenty.mve Nv feet ab9'ys lttheia considerable
Ia in.. .SeiiYife vi life and property.
Last week Sheriff Aisabrooks, of Lauder
dale county, was murdered in cold blood
by railroad man named jeff Baker. Ba-
ker was afterwards taken from his cell in
lall-suspended from limb and his body
pierced with sixty bullets.
Hon. j. b. Beck, of Kentuckey, has
just returned from Europe, and is ready
TO give his views about the back salary
grab, tell how to improve the financial
condition of the country, and run for
Speaker of the House, all at the same
time. ....
The Philadelphia Press suggests as a
means of raising money for the suffering
poor of that city, that on the 9th of No
vember, the Thanksgiving day of official
appointment, each of the 100000 inhabi-
tauts of Philadelphia contribute ten cents
to that cause. This suggestion, if carried
out, will raise $4,000.
Under the present internal revenue law,
Al nnf fnVsll oil L
cial allowances, TO be fixed by the Com
missioner. This system creates good deal
of dissatisfaction, and embarrasses the
Commissioners, who, to avoid the trouble,
will recommend in his report system of
fixed salaries.
The Chinese have taken to largely adul-
terating their teas. In London there are
10000, 900 pounds in bond which have been
condemed as unfit for consumption, and
notices have been given to mer-
chants in China that all spurious teas will
henceforth be destroyed.
On Tuesday of last week, a colored man
was publicly whipped in Paducah, Ken
lucky, by the Marshal, who made him
shed his linen and hug lamp-post while
the humane (?) punishment was inflicted.
This will probably be the last exhibition of
this relic of barbarlsm in that State as the
law for it is repealed.
A Washington special to the Baltimore
Sun OF the l4tn, says: "a distinguished
public gentleman, who has recently ar
rived in this city, and who is on terms of
close personal intimacy with the President
has expressed his belief that the name of
Senator Roscoe Conkling, of New York,
will be sent into the Senate for the posi-
ton of Chief Justice.
From the same source we learn at is
that feeling prevails pretty
among the leading Republican
Senators TO cOudOne the OffauSps of SaDo-
tors Sumner and SchurZ, and receive them
back into full fellowship in the Republi-
can party. This would include their res
toration 10 their former leading places on
important committees, and q full partici-
patton i'm the councils of the party.
For the fourth time the Hon. Daniel
w. Voorhees,, better known as The Tall
sycamore of the Wabash, has now an
lounced his purpose to retire permanently
rom the arena of political strife. He not
Inly declares that he will neither seek nor
accept office but that his eloquent lips,
lpon which the unlettered baciIwoods De-
nocrary were wont to hang like bunble-
Iess on the clover blossoms, are to be sealed
brewer.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says: The number of
,andidates for Postmaster of the House of
has reached eight. Thus
ar there is no organized opposition either
o Mr.. Mcpherson, the Clerk, or to Mr..
Buxton, Doorkeeper. Gen. Markland is
developing much strength for Sergeant-at-
rms