Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-12
NEWS BY MAIL.


Victor Emmanuel is said to have wound
up his visit to Berlin by giving one hum
bred and fifty watches to the various at
taches of the Imperial Court.
Switzerland has 1000 primary schools,
G 600 teachers, and 400, 900 scholars. The
education of children is compulsory in all
the cantons except Geneva and Uri.
A wealthy Texan, who is now visiting
Hartford, used to sweep the steps of the
theater there for 81 week when he was
boy, and he got sent to the reform school at
that.
Holman Hunts great picture, "The
Shadow of Death which has engaged
the artists attention during the past four
years, three of which were spent in Jeru-
salem, is finished ...- -.--... .
The savings bank at Bethel, Maine, was
entered by burglars last week, who blew
off the lock of the outer door with powder,
alarming the neighbors, who captured
three of the robbers.
Ostrich feathers are exported from the
Cape of Good Hope to England to the
value of 81, 100000 annually. The feath-
ers are worth fifty guineas per poundin
the London market.
The New York city appropriations for
! 1874, as fixed by the board of apportion-
ment, are S25, 900; county arpropria-
| lions, S13, AS, 900; the total showing an in
crease of So, 231, 900 over last year.
A Haddam Conn., man has obtained
! 81 900 damages for getting himself horse
whipped, and finding the business so re-
numerative is anxious to rouse somebody
else's old Haddam as soon as possible.
California farmers are up in arms against
| what they term the squirrel nuisance, and
at convention held in San Francisco re-
Gently, they demanded some legislative
enactment that would result in externi-
nate the pest. Rifles would do it.
| 1t seems to be nearly certain that Gov.
| Pinckney White will be the next Senator
| from Maryland, to succeed Mr.. Hamilton,
most of the Democratic members elect
| having been nominated by the influence of
| his friends.
An old widow named Catharine Geiger,
| residing about two miles west of Milford,
Kosciusko county, Ind, in crossing a field
to go from her residence to neighbor's
| house, was attacked by ram and butted
! to death.
Professor Agassiz recently answered an
| inquiry concerning his health in this way:
| ~ am weak and unable to accomplish the
amount of work which demands my at
tention. My powers often fail me when 7
| have most need of them"
DIR. Livingstone has varied the monot-
! ony of being alternately killed and lost in
the jungle by getting himself captured by
a Central African chieftain, who, accord
| ing to London gossip, demands an i'm
mense ransom for his release.
1t has been stated that the Legislature
| just closed in New Jersey will elect Sem
ator in the place of Mr.. Stockton. The
| election for Senator does not come off till
| winter after next, and only two-thirds of
the present State Senate will participate in
| it.
The Comptroller General of Georgia, in
| answer to numerous applications, declines
| to extend the time for payment of taxes
and says: "Planters should sell sufficient
cotton to pay tax, or store some and draw
against it, if they do not wish to sell.n
During the month of October the re-
ceipts of grain at Buffalo, New York, in
Guiding flour received as wheat, was IA,
! S47, l76 bushels, an increase over 1872 of g.
| 1872, 267 bushels; from the LIST of January to
| October 81, Ga, ABS, IA bushels, an increase
over 1872 of 10, 16l ,l56 bushels.
The Chinese have taken to largely adul-
| terating their teas. In London there are
! 10000, 600 pounds in bond which have been
CONDEMNED as unfit for consumption, and
| notices have been given to mer-
chants in China that all spurious teas will
heuceforth be destroyed.
The director of the Mint at Philadelphia
! telegraphs Secretary Richardson that pri-
vate persons in Chicago have sent to the
| Mint 10000 ounces Of silver to be coined,
| which they propose to use for business pur-
poses. y large number of five-franc pieces
| have also been received at the Mint to be
coined into American money.
| EX-President Fillmore and four SurviV-
| ing members of his old Cabnet-Conrad,
of Louisiana, Secretary of War; Hall, of
! New York, Postmaster General Graham,
of North Carolina, Secretary OF the Navy,
and Stewart, of Virginia, Secretary of the
Interior-are expected to visit Washington
this winter for friendly reunion.
The churches of New York city number
$40, with a seating capacity of 30S, 500 per-
sons and an estimated value of SAC, 000,-
900. 1t is a somewhat suggestive fact to
find that not more than half the minis
tiers in New York receive salaries of ST.
500, while very large number do not get
more than half this sum.
The Christian Uunion claims a circula-
ton of 1872, 900. the Independent AZ, 900, the
New York Christian ADVOCATE AZ, 500, the
Baptist Examiner and Chronicle 10000,
and at number Il on the list of the re-
ligious journals the Christian at Work is
named for a circulation of 20,500. These
facts are good sign.
Disraeli, the English tory leader, is pro-
nounced most accomplished and agreea-
bic man in social intercourse, and very
polished, humorous antagonist in debate.
He is the only member of the House of
Commons who always sits bareheaded dur
ing the debates, and furthermore, he is in
favor of confering the suffrage on widows
and taxpaying spinsters, though he has
not yet educated" his party up to this