Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
FROM GRANGER COUNTY.
Hot weatber-rhe killing Of BalIep
Eer-Tbc Civil Rights bill.
TAMP1co, TENN, June 0, 1874.


TAMPIco, TENN, June 0, 1874.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: The weather
is getting 80 warm that II has produced
good deal OF that well known, but
generally non-fatsl, disease which
causes those affected with II TO have a
very strong aversion to exertion Of any
kind. Those laboring under this mala-
dy like shady places and abhor the sun.
They are called lazy by some people
but the technical term, ] believe, il
constitutionally tired" The Their
mometer stood during The heat Of the
day yesterday at go ia the shade aud
at 1909 in the sun. II stands this
morning at sun-up at ~. | write
early in the morning, because | have
felt some intermittent symptoms of the
above disorder myself, and my physi-
clan advises me TO take things as
cool as possible.
The man Ballenger, concerning
whom.your New Market corresponds
ent wrote as having received a severe
blow on the head with rock thrown
by Joe Allsup in difficulty which oc-
Cured near this place, died on sunday
evening 4 post norton examination
revealed the fact that the skull was
fractured through its entire thickness
on the right side of his head nearly op-
posite the wound made in the scalp by
the rock, that being on the left side,
Nearly half pint of dotted blood was
found Immediately beneath the frac-
tured and between the skull and MEM
branes covering the brain. The pres
sure on the brain had caused paralysis
of the whole of the left side of the
body. Allsup had been arrested the
day the difficulty occurred, and having
appeared before Justices Doyal d
Shirley had given bond in the sum of
$3.50 for his appearance at the Circuit
Court. After Ballenger's death, new
warrant was issued for his ar
rest, but up TO late hour last evening
he had not been found by the officer
in search of him.
1t is getting dry again, and shower
of rain would not be unwelcome. The
farmers are very busy blowing over
their corn, and preparing for harvest.
They will commence cutting wheat
this week.
The excitement over the Civil Rights
Bill is cooling down. In fact, it was
not as high about here as it seems to
have been in many other places. Most
of us take the CHRONICLE, and there
fore learned, some time since, that
there was but little probability of its
passage during this session of Congress;
so that we have not quite been fright
ened to death as seems TO be almost
the case with our State Superintendent
and the straight-out Simon-pure, no
compromise, Bourbon Democratic jour
nails, who advise the closing of our
schools Just because mixed schools are
talked about. | believe there are very
few, If any, members of the Republican
party who think it expedient to have
mixed schools, but they believe it right
that the colored children should be
educated, and they deplore anything
which would certainly ipjure or retard
the common schools of the country, in
the continuance of which the colored
children and the poor white children
are so deeply and vitality interested. l
believe the most sensible of the colored
people are not foolish enough to run
after q shddolO and lose the substance.
| give them credit for more judgment
than such course would indicate.
II. j.