Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-04
Geld Discoveries Reported Near sitka.
Prosecutions Of the Catholic Church
Recited by the Pope.
American and British Vessels C9aCen-
trating at Honolulu.
Municipal Volunteers Organized 10
Fight the CarliSts.
HON Z N EWS.
A Western ssaIe-Bad Weather in Rev
York.

York.
AINswoRTI, ILL, Jan. 3.-Thc Fertil>
ling Company's works is burned. Loss,
over Sl70,G0O.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-A gale travelling at
the velocity of seventy miles per hour Is
prevailing.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a billiard match
between DAILY and Cyrille Dion was de-
clared off. 1t is alleged that there was a
miscount. The police quieted the dispute.
Z. II. Barnum lost Il thousand dollar
diamond in a stage coach.
The heaviest fog of the season was seen
here to-day. Fully forty thousand work
ing people are detained from work Oh ac-
count of il. The streets are in a horrible
condition. 1t is raining and the slcsh is
ankle deep. \ few ferry boats are now
running.
The safe of the Fifth Avenue Theatre
has been recovered, and the contents found
TO be unimpaired.
The evidence in the Stokes case has
closed and the argument is proceeding.
The court is crowded to excess.
The Government sold to-day, 81 900, 900
in gold at a fraction over a Sl.11!.
Two ferry boats collided to-day, but no
damage was done.
\ ferry boat ran down row boat drown
ing an unknown man.
The fog is the heaviest ever known.
Seventeen hundred immigrants have ar
rived since New Years, many of whom
are destitute of calians.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 3.-The ice is moving
and is quite rotten. Boatmen are hopeful.
The ice has moved, carrying down the
Carrie Brooks. 1t has also moved at Mad
ison, Indiana, carrying down the General
Buell.. The ice at Licking River has just
started.
DENVER, COL, Jan. 1.-The horse dis
ease is raging in this city and other Sec
tons of the Territory. Most of the ami
mails of the Colorado Central City Stage
Company are sick and no coaches are run
ming between Central City and George
town.
AUBURN, \. y, Jan. 2.-About 8 clock
this afternoon seven convicts escaped from
the State prison here by digging through
the wall, where shaft ran through for
the purpose of turning machinery in the
prison. 1t is believed that the convicts
had assistance from outside, as they are all
supposed to have been provided with citi-
zens' clothes. Their escape was projected
and conducted by Dan Noble, a notorious
bond robber. Their terms of sentence
varied from five to twenty years.
New Orleans dispatches apprehend trou-
BILE next Monday.
Emery will have from 5000 to 1000
troops at his disposal.
The committee on securities and Stock
Exchange have recommended North Car
DINA old bonds to be divided in two classes
in dealings of exchange, that those with
coupons on, due January LIST, 1869, be
placed upon call and designated as North
Carolina old bonds, to aid the North Car
Olina Railroad Company, with coupons on
and that the second class be those with
first maturing seven coupons off, due July,
1872, or October, 1872, and to be designated
on cali as North Carolina old bonds, to
aid the North Carolina Railroad Company
with coupons off.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. SIT is reported
that rich gold quartz have been discovered
i'll Sitka.
British and American war vessels are
concentrating at Honolulu.
BOSTON, Jan. 3.-The body of second
mate Henry b. Bollard and four other
bodies, from the wrecked ship Peruvian,
washed ashore on Cape Cod yesterday.
SAVANNAH, GA, Jan. 3.-A committee
on direct trade Inauguration was appointed
by the Georgia State Agricultural Conven-
ton, of which General John B. Gordon is
President. The committee met in this
city to-day and issued an address, of which
the following is a brief synopsis: The
committee invites the Cotton States to
meet by delegations in convention at Au-
gusta, Georgia, on the ID of February
next; refers to the common interests of
the West and South, and asks delegations
also from Cincinnati, st. Louis, Louisville,
etc; notes the importance of great through
lines by rail and water with the far West,
especially the Atlantic and Great West
eern; and also the necessity of some COM
blned, organized and sustained effort to
make known abroad the advantages the
South offers. The interest of the whole
country Is in the increased prosperity of
the South, as we'll as in enabling the
Western farmer to work his land nrofita-
bly,. Millions of people in the South and
West pay tribute to enrich the East. in the
hope of fastening on prosperity by conn
selling together in the true spirit of Amer
lean fellowship. Delegations are earnestly
invited from the Southern States and from
ihe West.