Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-30
NEWS MISCELLANY.

scheme of the Virginia State debt are
not flattering. 49,.
-Four hundred printers were dis
charged from the Printing Bureau a.
Washington on Saturday. l..
Mississippi has no State debt She
owes not dollar and yet the integers
ana carpet-baggers run it,"
The Greeneville InteUiQencer saye
Mr.. John johnson, shipped a car load
OF turkeys-700-from this depot Mon.
day. ~
The Chicago Tribune is satisfied from
the tone of the letters received from
the people that the West is not in favor
of initiation.
The Bristol NeOs says: Mr.. Hen.
derson, fireman, who was pretty badIv
bruised and cut up in the collision &
able to be out
a new line to the West has been
| opened from New York via the Cen
trail to Buffalo, and the Canada South
ern to Toledo. --'
Rev. ]. n. Coombs, Presbyterian
minister residing in Washington, com
mltted suicide on Sunday Cause
mental troubles.
The feeling in Tennessee is in a con-
trary direction, and strong efforts will
be made in the next Legislature to re-
peal the ten per cent. law.
The report of the Governmen,
prisons in England shows a decrease
In crime since 1870, through the policy
OF teaching convicts useful trades.
The new tax budget for New York
City for 1875 fixes the city tax at 3 per
cent. OF the sum thus raised, 50. 360.-
900 is required for interest on the civ
debt .r.0 ~ I -
Mr.. Maynard offered resolution in
the House of Representatives calling
for report of the survey of the HolS
ston and Tennessee rivers on the 18th
instant.
Henry Instantly has started on anoth.
er expedition into Africa on behalf OF
the New York Herald and London
Ietegrdph to discover the source OF
the Nile. .. -.
The Greeneville IateLLigencer SAYS
There are three new still houses 10 be
erected not thousand miles from this
point. Crusaders should not be dis
couraged.
The will of the late Mayor Have
meyer, of New York, has been probat-
ed. his property is valued at from
So, 900, 900 to 100000. The only heirs
are his widow, six sons and two dauqh-
tiers. -,
The Philadelphia Board of Trade
have agreed to petition the State Leg
lslature TO pass an act TO allow the rate
Tor the use of money to be the price
agreed upon by the parties to the con.
tract. III ~
Samuel j. Anderson, who blew ont
his own brains last Sunday in Atlanta.
left the following among his requests:
= To Robert Toombs-my pistol, with
my recommendation that he rid the
world of his presence by initiating my
example,"
Mayor Vance has removed two of
the Commissioners of Charities and
Correction, and appointed in their
stead two men who will change the
orders of the board by which Boss
Tweed is made gentleman of leisure
on Blackwell Island.
a Washington correspondent saws.
" A careful canvass of the Finance
Committee of both Houses show that
the passage of the bill restoring the
tax upon tea and coffee Is very proba-
pie, and that, consequently, there is
little prospect of any increase in the
TAX on WHISKY"
The Greenville Intclligencer saws
Henley Overton, Sheriff of Claiborne
county, while attempting to arrest
Leford on the 10th inst, was shot.
The Sheriff shot Leford dead and died
himself the next day. 1t was an awful
Both parties are of highly
families.
o Dan. G. Byerly, managing editor of
the New Orleans Bulletin, who was
stabbed by Gov. Warmoth last week,
died Saturday. A duel was pending
between one of the proprietors of the
Buttettn and Warmoth, which, but
for this street difficulty, would have
been fought in Alabama esterday
The Athens Post says: ]. H. HAYS,
near Charleston, Bradley county, sold
three hogs which weighed ], 497 pounds
gross; The largest one weighed sos.
He also sold As others that averaged
PSF pounds. Capt. w. l.. Mcknight,
on the Hiwassee, this county, has a
hog that weighs $50 pounds gross.
Next.
The Greeneville Lltclkigeacer SAYS
Messrs. Mitchell and Mays, of Ken
lucky, who have been feeding stock
a. Messrs. Cain and Nelson's ON
Chucky and were TO start South YES
.erday, sixty-five mules. Messrs.
y. l.. Hale, w. f. Scruggs
and - Osment were to start 10
South Carolina yesterday with horses.
By post bellum law in Georgia,
merchants could take out
lein upon farmers, crops for loans adj
'anced. The latter class vigorously
md successfully clamored for the res
peal of the law. Now they want il
because they can not get
my advance money from the mer-
'hants with which to pay their hands.
The Memphis avalanche of 10th
iays The several candidates in Shelby
county for the office of State Con-
roller, to be elected by the General
Assembly. agreed among themselves
o have but one candidate from this
county. The members elect also an
proved of the policy of settling the
question, and the choice has fallen
lpon Mr.. Leflingwell.
The Cleveland Banner tells how an