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

The gold and silver coined at the Phila-
delphia mint last month was $751; 1856.
The Louisville wooden mills have re-
duced wages from fifteen to twenty per
cent.
Dragging a man over the rocks until his
shoulder blade is broken is what the Nash
vile Banner calls dragged into eternity.n
There are twelve public night schools
opened for the benefit of the poor children
who are compelled to labor in day time in
Cincinnati.
New Hampshire has now at its capital
portraits of all its Governors since 100,
with a single exception, and the portrait
of Gen. Henry Dearborn, soon to be added,
will make the collection of its Revolution
airy generals entire.
Dayton, Ohio, is unhappy because it
spends annually one million of dollars for
whisky alone in bar rooms, and only four
hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars
for -four. 1t is evident that bread is not
the staff of life in that city.
The meanest man in Tennessee lives in
Memphis. He is an Alderman and his
name is Paul Cicalla. He forged the name
of poor widow lady with seven children
as a means of swindling one of the relief
associations out of commissary stores dur
ing the recent prevalence of yellow fever.
Gen. Early says that it was the purpose
of Gen. Lee to write history of the late
war, and he was engaged in gathering the
material for it at the time of his death. He
has written to his subordinate Generals for
all information in their possession, and
was not unmindful of the high duty he
owed his fellow-soldiers and the South.
The most extensive family wedding on
record occurred the other day in Cincin-
natl. A widowed mother, three sons and
two daughters were all married at once.
The cost of the rites was put at wholesale
prices. 1t is observed sagely by "a local
newspaper that perhaps this is the COM
mencement of a system of domestic econo-
my which will save many a sixpence for
rainy day.
The unfavorable showing of the public
debt statement IAN increase of three and
half millions of dollars) issued Saturday,
is accounted for at the Treasury by the an
nouncement that the revenues have been
very much diminished by the partial pros
tration of business, growing out of the
financial panic. At the same time, the
demands upon the Treasury have been
as large as usual. Every one who held
claim against the Government pressed for
its payment, as the Treasury was the only
source from which he could obtain relief
financially.
A letter from Rome saws according to
the report in the official journal, the eccle-
siastical property sold under the hammer
in September, in the whole kingdom Of
Italy, brought 8, $4,000 francs, consisting
of one thousand three hundred and nine
ty seven lots. The valuation which the
government had fixed upon this property
was I, 2S7, 600 francs. During the current
year, eleven thousand three hundred and
thrty-three parcels have been sold, bring
ing 81 ,l6S, 900 francs. From the end of
September, 1867 until the end of Septem-
Der of the present year. lightweight thou
sand eight hundred and thirty lots have
been sold, bringing 1888, 1913, 900 francs. The
price at which the property was put up is
represented by the gross sum Of $50, l07,-
SIS francs, showing Il difference of about
ne.quarter between the estimated value
and the price realized"