Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-28
Personal.

Thompson has q. newat~,ir-o OF 81, 70
coo earrings.
Hon. jeremiah = Hack has cot 20 bea.
farmer and is "a leading granger in Penn
sylvania.
Ex-senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, has
temporarily accented the Presidency of the
Chicago University. rI'...
a Chicago art critic says that Madame
Christine Nilsson Is cold and unsVmug.
thetc and talks love like n statue.
Ex-Minister Sicklcs will not return %
New York until spring, having business
to transact in London and Liverpool.
\ letter from London says that Mr. Spur
gcon's health makes it necessary that he
should leave England for few months
residence i'm more Congenial cline.
Jefferson Davis has given up for the
present his intention of taking IA sea trip
for the benefit of his health, and will prob
ably spend the winter i'm New Orleans.
Col. Withers, Nirginia's United States
Senator elect, is the father of twelve chill
dren, of whom ten daughters and one son
are now living. Three of his daughters
are married.
The Catholic Rtrie,U Indignantly denies
that Cardinal Antouelli was anointed the
other day or was even dangerously i'll, a.
the laundering cable reported,
Gail Hamilton expresses the opinion, in
the Christian Union, that Adams fall iss
very CtACVWIdBIuB CIRCUMSTANCE
Governor Ha~tranft, Of Pennsylvania,
MIN at the beginning of the >>ar, ana MS
example, it Is expected, will be TO. lowed by
all heads of the State department,
Mrs. John Z. Fremont writes to a geiI.
tleman in Philadelphia that the report de-
claring her husband to be afflicted with
cancer Is entirely false, and that the Cen
erals health is excellent.
A party of Americans recently visited
Plus y. and left as token of their love
ana esteem gold casket filled with En-
| gllsh soYerelgns, and cross of solid gold
| three feet high.
Hon. j. L.. Pennington, the present Gov.
ernor OF Dakota, was an apprentice boy in
the OLD Raleigh Star office thirty.three
| years ago. Elk Governor Holden was fore.
| man i'll the office at the time.
Eev. DR.. Carlton late of the Methodist
Book Concern at New York mas been elect.
ed City Treasurer of Elizabeth City, n, j
MI. Washburne, the American Minister
TO France, has presented eX-President
Theirs with a gold medal on behalf of the
French residents of Philadelphia.
Louisville is mad at Strakosch. He loves
Louisville, but keeps away from there with
his opera company, Struggling his should.
ers, and saying, mo monish."
Victor Hugos hair is as white as snow,
while his bearing is said to be as proud
ahu olSCI anu MS eyes InagDetlcalIN bril-
liant as ever.
Grace Greenwood says that something of
| the dignity and importance of the old feu
dal system still hangs about Alexander II.
| Stephens.
Peter b. Sweeney has been heard of in
| Florence, where he stated that he should
come to this country before long and re-
| turn in few weeks.
Tom. Sayers' widow has been fnei in a
London police court for neglecting the ed.
ucation of two of her children. In what
! the art OF self-defence?
The fact is recalled that the late Thomas
n. Benton, speaking of Caleb's desertion
from the Wings, remarked that he was
not content with quitting, but threw all
the obloquy upon them which for fifteen
years he had lavished upon the Democracy;
and quitting the Wings he reversed his
conduct in all the measures of his life, and
without giving reason for the change in
u single instance.
| A correspondent of the Bangor Who
writes that the family of the late Rufus
| Rocks, OF Clifton, Me, consists of seven
| boys and two girls" whose united
| weight is 1919 lbs.-an average of over
700 lbs. each. They were all born on the
old homestead farm, which Mr.. Rocks be
gan clearing forty-eight years ago Mono
OF them use ardent spirits or tobacco ia
any form.