Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

imagines himself a candidate for the Pres.
! idency in '76. $50
st. Louis has had twelve inquests in one
day, and now scornfully asks distracted
Chicago, "What about the metropolis ?u
| The Prohibitionists of Connecticut have
called a mass convention in New Haven,
on Thursday, January 10, TO nominate
candidate for State officers.
Boston received last year 8, S75 ,0S4 bushels
of grain, and 500, 913 barrels of flour in
1879, 9,OO5, 461 bushels of grain and I,447,-
OILS barrels of flour.
| Col. Forney predicts that before the hol-
| days of 1875 John G. Breckenridge will be
back in Congress, and also speaks pleas
ant word for that distinguished Kentucki-
an, ... O. .a. ...... H End Hr..-.
| Newsboys were first introduced into the
streets of London as late as 1912, by Isaac
Pray, an American, who started cheap
newspaper in that year, called the Even-
ing Star. ee E.ngs 81 -al-s ~ ~
she bonded and floating debt OF Chicago.
has been increased since 1869 by SO per
cent, or from IS, 1S9,371 to SIS, 1861, 1872.
The expenditures for four years have
amounted to SIS, 500 900. - -. 81. .-.+
New Orleans recently received by rail-
road in one day from various sources 6,S46
bales of cotton, which the Picdyune says
Is the largest quantity ever received in a
single day by that means. .
A boy at Portland, Maine applied at the
police headquarters the other day to be sent
to the reform school. He was told that he
could not go unless he was naughty, and
that he must not be naughty. #-..
The stock of provisions in st. Louis is
as follows: Pork, Is, $50 barrels lard, 81
$50 tierces dry sailed meats, about thirty
two million pounds hams and shoulders,
in sweet pickle, about 5000, 900 pounds.
A man in Evansville, Indiana, recently
had the pleasure of attending the wedding
OF his own parents. They had been d.
vorced thirty years, but the number of
times each had been married in the in
terval is not stated.
A new steamship line between San
Francisco and Australia is about to COM
mence operations. Letters sent via San
Francisco go for 10 cents, while the post
s g, by England is l'' andDy the continent
In Castro Valley Alameda county, Cal,
there is forest of Australian gum trees
covering over one hundred acres. The
trees were planted only three and half
years ago, and some have attained height
OF hfty feet and diameter of twelve inch
es.
A teacher of Cairo, ILL.,. lately thrashed
a small boy nearly to death because he
wouldn't multiply IS by z. There seems
to be no adequate justification for so en-
phatic reproof unless the little wretch OBJ
stinately refused to multiply ga by s.
Gov. Booth, of California, will not re.
sign his office in consequence of his cleo
ton to the United States Senate, as he will
| not take his seat at Washington until
| 1875, and he is thought necessary to thwart
anticipated railroad schemes in the Legis-
| lature.
The late Professor Agassz was never in
Jured by the bite of snake or the poison
of any venomous reptile, herb or fiower-a
| fact attributed to the courage and inpuni-
| ty with which the naturalist moved among
them in their wild and heterogeneous
| state.
The Governor of Wyoming closed his
Thanksgiving proclamation with "Give
| thanks unto the Lord, for His mercy en-
| dureth forever. In witness whereof, /
have hereunto set my hand and caused the
great seal of the Territory to be affixed"
| etc.
The New York World again appeals to
the country to spare the buffalo which, it
| says, are being pursued by an army of
1000 men armed with all the modern APP
planes for rapid Staying, in the field,
some Of them pleading guilty to the
slaughter of :, 900 head.
| Mrs. Lincoln has written to a friend at
| Springfield, denying that Mr.. Herndon
| had such conversations with President
| Lincoln as those alleged, with relation to
the latter's early history, &c. She says
they. are totally inconsistent with every
word Mr.. Lincoln ever uttered on the sub
ject. g.,
South Bend, Indiana, celebrated Christ
mas by test of their new water works.
They consist of three sets of pumping ma.
chinery discharging into a stand-pipe two
| hundred feet high. Nine simultaneous
streams were thrown through an inch and
quarter nozzle over one hundred feet
high.
An editor of Virginia paper has been
refused admlttance to hook and ladder
| company because his feet are so large he
can not get them into the ladders. He has
| to put his pantaloons on over his head, and
is obliged to get out Of bed to turn over.
Official figures in relation to the trade
and commerce OF Canada show them be in
a most prosperous condition, Fiscal re-
turns for the year ending June 80, 1873,
exhibit an increase in the total commerce
Of no less than S26,s4S,31S over the pre-
vious year.
n review of Chicago's wholesale trade
| for the year 1873 shows great gain over
any previous year. The aggregate sales of
| the wholesale merchants of all classes for
the year foot up $3.50, 600, 900, which Is Is
| per cent. in excess of those of 1872, and 81
per cent. more than those of 1870. 10.
The total number Of deaths in New York
during 1873 is slightly over %, 600. This ia
| 5000 less than the mortality of last year,
! the decrease being chiefly due to the less
! fatal character of the diarrheal diseases of
the heated term. Assuming that the av-
erage population of New York for the year