Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-15
NEWS BY MAIL.

The San francisco Chronicle saws Last
year we needed 12,0O0,00 of wheat bags
This year We will want at least 100000,
and If the breadth of landunder wheat Gull
tivation should continue to increase, as it
promises to do, we will require not less
than q, 100000 to S0,0O0,000 yearly. The
value of these, at very low figure. would
be from y, 100000 per annum to 50, 15O, 900.
We now pay II 100000 per annum to Scot
land for wheat bags, which we could as
well make ourselves, and so give employ
ment to over 500 people.
The Echo Agricole states that, admitting
the average wheat crop in France to be
9O,OOO,OOO of hectolitres OF bushels each,j
and the deficit to be one-fOurth, void Of
22,0O0,000 will have to be filled up.
Chancellor Bates, of Delaware, has de
cided that man has not the right to close
up his neighbours window, even if it looks
out over his own ground, if it has remain
ed unrestricted for twenty years.
By direction of the President, Morton
Rose d Co., have been designated to act
temporarily as fiscal agents of the United
States in London until Clews, Habicht &
Co. can arrange to resume business.
The Secretary of War has given orders
to have all the remainder of the Modoc
Indians brought to Fort d. A. Russell, in
Wyoming. The order includes men, VIC
men, and children, and excerpts no one.
They will be detained there for the present,
subject to the Presidents further orders.
The design is to scatter the members
among various reservations, so as to destroy
the tribal organization and any tribal as
ISOLATION of the Modocs hereafter forever.
The notable weddings at Washington
this winter will be those of Secretary
Fish's son, Hamilton, jr., to Senator Ere
linghuysen's daughter; W. 0. Charlton,
of the British embassy, and Miss Campbell;
and Senior Don Casermero Franquello OF
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The exports of produce from New York
for the week ending October Z, We're the
highest on record being rs, 3SS, 100, mixed
values, which is an increase over last week
of 81, ,lS9. The exports for CORE
spending period last year were $4,176r4 3S,
and for 1871, 5,5S5 $50.
The citizens, churches, Dlasons anG
| Odd Fellows of Nashville have contributed
to the Memphis sufferers, in money, pro-
visions, and blankets, between six and
eight thousand dollars.
July LIST, 1872, the Western Union Tele
graph Company was operating 81, OBJ miles
of wire, and 5,237 offices. At.the close Of
the year, June 30th, 1873, the company
operated 1907 miles of line, 154, All miles
of wire, and 6, $40 offices. The number of
messages sent in 1872 was II, 44i 400, and
the total for the year ending June 3Othr
1873, was II, 456, 1872.
| Inc rev. denry WaIu beecHeI, III "e-
nying the charge that the pulpit has run
its course and come to an end, said to the
Evangelical Alliance:
With all the honor to be gained through
the law, and all the emoluments through
merchandise, and fame through science, I
would choose the ministry. In it is the
sweetest consolation in it is most content
in it is poverty. When it is poor it is more
full of crowded hopes and of whispering
messages from those gone before. Near to
the Threshold, near to the throne, near
to the heart that was pierced, it loves forev-
er, and says, Because live you shall live
also,