Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-15
NEWS SUMMARY.


A Californian sold his orange crop from
five acres for $4,000.
Queen Victoria will be fifty-five next
oath of May. She is in the thirty-seventh
year of her reign.
Sir Garnet Wolseley gets an annuity of
81, 500 for burning down the houses of
poor, ignorant savages at Coomassie.
A st. Louis paper says that Nilsson Il
would have been $3.50, 900 better of if IA
last lo9uacious Legislature had not met.
Thirty thousand dozen less bottles O
champagne were imported into this coun-
| try in the year 1873 than were imported
during 1872.
Two Congressman from Indiana have
announced that they will not be candidates
for re-election-Jaspar Packard (Rep.) and
Simeon Wolfe Dem.)
"Wor-ukr' exclaimed North Carolin-
ian, when offered job; lido you spose I'd
wor-uk, mister, when coon tracks are az
thick as grass blades !"
| There are more than nine million per-
sons in the United States who could not
find so much as standing room in the
churches, if they wanted to.
Plymouth Church has become too small
| to accommodate its weekly visitants, so il
has been decided to build new edifice to
seat 5000 people, at cost of 100000.
Senator Gordon, .ef Georgia, has been
mentioned favorably by a number OF
Southern journals as possible Democrat
C or Conservative candidate for Vice Pres
dent in 1876.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
states that the number of licenses to sell
liquor issued in that city in March last,
was 1911, decrease of POS from the same
month of 1873.
|, Senator SINNERS pictures at his house
have been catalogued. There are ninety
lg.sI tNnfs
than 5000 engravings, photographs etch
ings, &C., worth about as much more.
There is rumor in Philadelphia that
President Grant will nominate Mr.. An
, thony Drexel for Richardson's successor.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican sug-
gests that Edwards Pierrepont may be the
man.
The heaviest hail-storm ever witnessed
/ in that section passed through q portion OF
, Caldwell county, Kentucky, last Monday.
1 The ground was white with hail for some
: minutes, the stones as large as partridge
e eggs.
4 1t is stated that the fire in the EmpiT
2 mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, has cost tn
e company $4,000, spent in endeavorin
= to quench the flames, and 100000 ia Goa
b which, but for the fire, the miners would
y have taken from the earth.
d The surgeons of the Confederate army
); and navy are to hold a convention at At
d lanta, Georgia, on May 20, for the purpose
e of embodying in permanent form the i'm
u portant medical and surgical facts brought
q out by their war experience.
:, Serious results are feared from the over
!, flow of the Mississippi in the Sunflower,
= Tallahatchie and Yazoo bottoms. At
tempts to check the volume of wate
flowing through the breaks have been thu
far unavailing, and the crop will it il
feared be minus in this rich cotton coun
try.
Nine. Lenoir Josserand, who has just
n died at Paris, has left the sum of 10000,
e. 600 francs for the purpose of building
Y hospital, to he named after her late hus
lie band. In accordance with NJ. Josserand'
s. wishes, she has left to the State a collec
le ton of objects of art, valued at 800, 90
of francs, which it took thirty years II
gather.
b. The distilleries of the country last yea
40 produced over sixty-eight millions of gal
- Ions of spirits. There were AS of them il
u which about SO, 900, 900 capital was invest
lie ed, 10000 men employed, and nearly 20
IN 1000 of bushels of grain consumed, four
+ fifths being corn. The spirits produce,
yielded nearly 5000, 900 tax to the Treas
ury. Illinois isithe chief producer, and th
Western States distilled more than five
" seventies of all the spirits made.
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