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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-30
TIE AGASSIz MEMORIAL.

TEACHERS AND PUPILS FUND.
'Louis Agassis, Teacher" This was the head
ing Of his simple will; this was his chosen title:
and II Il we'll known throughout this country, and
in other lands, how much he has done to raise the
dignity Of the profession, and to improve Its meth
DDS. His frends the frisads Of edueation, propose
to raise . memorial to him, By placing upon .
srrong and enduring basis the work to 'shich he
devoted his life, the Museum Of Comparative
Zoology, which 10 1t once . collection of natural
objects, rivaling the most celebrated collections
Of the Old World, snd . school open TO all the
teachers Of the land. 81
1t ID proposed that the teachers and pupils Of
the whole country take part in this memorial, and
that on the birthday Of Agassis, the 18th day Of
May. 1s7l, they shall each contribute something.
however small, to the Teschsrs and Pupils Me-
mortal Fund, In honor Of Louis Agsssii; the flAd
to be kept separate. and tbs Income y BE- sDptsd
70 the expenses Of the museum. '<s
John Eaton, Commissioner Of Education, wssh-
ington. D. O.; Joseph Henry, Secretary Of the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, d O.; jog
White, Secretary Of the Board Of Education
Of Massachusetts,, Boston; W. I. Harris, Super
,ptsndsnt Public Schools, y. Ioaia. Nd; Edward
J. Lowell, Boston; JoSk 8. Blstehford, Boston;
Jas n. Barnard, Treasurer Tsschsrs' and Pupils'
Fund, Boston.
An eomminisa&isns aSd -rsnittaness NJ the
"Tsaehsrs' and Pupils Fmd6 Of the "Agassis
Memorial" may b sent TO the Treasurer. Jas p.
Barnard, Room 4, No. u Exchange street Boston,
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SALE OF VALUABLE BooKS

Among the books 70 BE- sold by Messrs. Latimer
copies OF Mckinney Hairs North American IN
dians, complete set Of Harper's Magazine, Web
ron, and many other rare and valuable works.
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SPRING OPENING

! Mrs. J. p. Palmer, 100 F street. respectfully
announces the spring opening Of Paris millinery
on Tuesday, March 81, and Wednesday, April !.
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"IRT PLAOE-THIS BEAUTIFUL LIT
W TIE FARM Of . acres, good House Of Il
Grape Wines, &C., sitaated within ave miles Of
Washington, and one quarter Of mile nom High
land Stallion, b. o. K. H., having three fine Ma
eral springs near the house. "a splendid location for
\ Brsf-elass Summer Hotel. will be sold or az
terms. For further particulars inquire Of X. W.
BATES, Gus Fifteenth street, opposite Treasury
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Thomas Green stood on the threshold Of sehufeh
where funeral rites were being performed and
acted contemplate. Il cost him .. Thomas
Randolph stole . package Of macaboy mssse
snun from the wagon Of Hall b Hume. He was
Ansd t2o or sixty days IN jail Rsdmoad Smith
assaulted Susan Clay with . broken case knife,
ssraaching her In several places. nned ~. Mary
Stevenson, laresny Of one ehsmiss sal N apron;
Aned go and costa. George Williams, asnalt
ed battery % Annie Lee. This was THE uspal
knockfng down and dragging out; Aned - md
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-30

ENOR SALE
Il THE KIRKwOOD HOUSE.
7 am authorized to offer for sale (for limited
time) that valuable property known As the KIRK
WOOD HOUSE, situated ON the corner Of Pennsyl-
erty has receauy been put in nrst-class repair-
Capitalists desiring to invest In nrst-clAss pf0py
erty will be offered great Inducements in price and
terms; s 10, IS and % year, time Will be given on
. large proportion Of the amount asked for the
For further particulars inquire Of ". b. CLAG-
81 Market space. maria
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Fog sALE-A. Gp S1;. 81. SET e, q
s:: g: e :::s ! B . 70 X ssns
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EoR SALE-ELEGANT HOUSE. IN THE
y NORTHWESTERN section Of the city, three story,
pressed-bFick fronf, bay window, nine rooms, water
and gas, bafh room blilard room and e0nser
inside walls painted, paneled and trimmed in gilt,
and in fact. II does not want single appel ntDent
that either luxury or CONVEX ience could demand;
large yard front aA rear; nfence In front. Prte0
on time. Street Improvements all made: A very
rare chance The furniture contained in the Above
house being OF the latest style viii also no sold on
reasonable Terms. b. II. WARNER,
-. = s---TF : =, : Real EState broker,
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WE HAVE a FEW APPLICATIONS
w fron owners Of sA1t-clssss farms, within .
few nile Of Ws.hinston, fsr money Or one and two
Property zen stT F s. Tlss q sneahs needed
Address or caii On i. 3. HoND 4 CO., "
- - y1PEfMls Lana Company,
sissatisn l. Ho0TsIH SERvxSf q cXREiXGE
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MARY KNOTT

Js . strange specimen Of the African race. For
some time past she has been denizen Of the
woods in the county, living In caves and perform
ing Wild and crazy antics whenever approached
by man. She can climb tree with the agility Of
an adult monkey, and throw stones In . manner
that would make champion basebaIlist white
with jealomly. Attempts have oftsn been made
TO secure her. but all signsly failed until Friday
last, when she was taken by surprise by police
man. Parties having complained to one Of the
mounted officers that this wild woman had been
seen building fire In the woods, about midnight
he set out to arrest her, and on coming TO the
spot designated a the place where the creature
was last seen, he found the ashes still warm, and
Appearances which indicated that she had skulked
away while he was approaching. Hsimmsdistely
commenced securing the woods, and Ut last found
her erouched shivering like an ashen In I dense
elump Of bushes. She made no effort to escape.
but quietly obeyed the oficsr and followed him.
ragged and filthy through the streets Of the city
to the Ftation-house. She WAS subsequently
brought before Judge Smell; who, after hearing
the testimony, sent her to the work-house for
ninety days. - fi'-r's = e.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.

BOARD AND RO0MSCENTRAL LOCA
~ TiOH-z3a uorthease corner Hing and Patricl
stI eets, AexAnGgla, VirRinla, mh2;-eoat
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE Trade PcUieW for last week,
sent out from New York, is not over
encouraging. Buyers from the West
and South are not as abundant as usual
at this season Of the year, and those
who are there, are purchasing light
stocks, waiting for developments be.
fore buying largely. The usual week.
~ review closes as follows:
a very largo proportion of business men
have not yet returned to the city from their
summer tours, and the apparent apathy
displayed by them in thus prolonging their
season of pleasure is very readily con-
strued by the commercial community rs an
evidence that the absent leaders do not
look for any immediate return of activity
in the markets. The export trade Of this
port does not yet show any improvement
in volume, though the imports of the psst
week are higher in value than TO any
similar period since the close of the spring
business, With our imports at upward OF
S9,O00,000 and our exports a trife in ex-
cess of So, geo, $50, there is evidently a con-
siderable balance of trade against US fOr
the weeks operations.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

to his own home, and for the sole rea.
son that be was known as a Repub-
lican.
A CHURCH FIRED INTO AND FOUR
CoLoRED PERSONS KILLED.
Authentic dispatches received here
this afternoon, show that a more das-
tardly outrage than any of the pre-
ceding has been perpetrated in Lee
county, Alabama. A gang of white
KukluX, without p"rovocation of any
kind on the part of any person, de-
liberately fired into n colored church
and killed four persons These are il
lustrations of a system of terrorism in
Alabama, the existence of which is
confirmed by many trustworthy wit
nesses, who have arrived here within
the last few days.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE REPORT las GONE abroad and
largely prevails, hat the indignation
meetings and the vigorous deuuncia-
tions OF the Trenton and Trousdale
outrages, that have gone forth from
Memphis and Nashville, were put
forth for political capital North. Its
said hat protestations against the folly
Of such murders come thick and fast
from Northern Democrats, and hence
the fierce indignation sent out by
newspapers, whose ]iucendiary articles
had provoked the very violence they
were denOun ing. II is certain that
the Indignation expressed at Memphis
aud Nashville does not exist at Tren-
ton, for communications apologizing
or openly defending the massacre have
been published from that place. But we
will give the authorities a reasonable
time to prove their sincerity by their
acts before questioning their motives.
1t is now over ten days since those
murders were committed. As YET
there have been no arrests We know
such q crime could not be committed
in Knox county and the perpetra-
tors escape detection and arrest. How
is it with reference to the SOmerville
tragedy The Reeves family were tc
the " manor born,n highly respecta-
Die, honorable and laweabiding. A
letter of late date from Somervillt
says:
Think Of it, the bloody assassin walk.
about the town now and says the Reeves
have to leave. The Sheriff has been ar
rested for malicious shooting while no on,
can be found to indite the assassin, simplt
because he only killed a few Republicans.
We are not going to charge insin'
certify upon the authorities at once
but the only way they can prove theil
sincerity, is to arrest and punish thes,
murdercrs. They can do it if they
will
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THOSE HOT HEADED men in Gibson
county, who are denouncing Governor
Brown for his efforts at discountenau-
cling wholesale butchery, present a
queer spectacle to the civilized world.
Whether Gov. Brown did all that he
ought to have done in the presence Of
the appalling crime, and in view Of the
fact that the eyes of the civilized world
were turned upon Us as a State, is
questionable. He would have placed
the State ia a more enviable position
if he had gone in person to the county
and have given the officers Of the law
on the spot the benefit of his presence
and support. But, whether he ought
to have done this or not, he certainly
deserves-as against the attacks of the
friends and apologists for the massacre
the support Of all law-abiding citi-
zens. 1t must be surprising to the
Governor to find such men get en-
enlargement from leading men of hi,
own party.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
rnE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES

We present this morning the result
Of the county conventions of jefferson,
Union, ROane, Monroe and LDudou
counties, held Monday,
These conventions were unusually
well attended, fair and representative,
aud the result is exceedingly compll-
mentary to Hon. J. II. ThOrnburgh.
In addition to the counties from which
we present reports this morning,
Sewer and Anderson, and perhaps
other counties, held meetings, the
result of which we can announce to-
morrow.
The resolutions passed by the con-
ventions of Jefferson, Union aud
Roane counties, are particularly cons
plimentary to Col. T%hornburgh. JEFF
ferson county is his native county.
Union is made up largely of men who
have known him from his infancy and
Roane county Is where,i If anywhere in
the districthe was supposed to be weak.
These conventions we believe foreshad,
ow beyond all doubt the re-nomina.
ton of Col. Thornbuagh by a conveH
ton, which will he composed of as
good Republicans rs the district Of
fords. 1t shows that the war made
upon him is not endorsed
by the people and that he still retains
as he deserves, their confidence. Il
shows too, that our Judgment RS to tn,
wishes of the Republicans Of the dis
trict was correct. In the remaining
conventions, we trust the people viii
see that their wishes are as fairly rep
resented as they have been i'll thos,
held yesterday, for il is our hope tina
the convention to nominate our candi
date for Congress will be fair AMI rep
resentative beyond all dispute.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

REDFIELD's LETTERS TO the Cincin-
natl Commercial have generally been
very popular with the Democratic
press, but they are not pleased with his
latest productions. The Union and
american is displeased with them.
He talks very plainly, as witness the
following about the Gibson county
butchery
Circuit Court was in session at Trenton
when the negroes were murdered they
were slaughtered under the very shadow Of
the law. Nobody arrested, and only a few
cheap resolutions were adopted, that don't
amount TO the paper upon which they are
written. The Governor, 20 be sure, offers a
reward, but nobody will feel like risking
his life among a hundred murderers
to get this reward. TIE whole civil govern
mJsHt Of Tennessee IS poUertess 10 arrest
these men. That is the plain truth, and
unless the Government of the United States
takes Gibson county in hand the murderers
will not be broughtto punishment. / hope
the people Of the North will push the Gov
eminent into declaring martial law in that
section. a regiment Of cavalry is what j"
needed. Colonel Merrill and his com.
mand, who effectually did the work foi
the kuklux Of the upper counties Of South
Carolina, three years ago, is the man 20.
Gibson county.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE NASHVILLE Union and amer
lean publishes two communications
from Gibson county, criticising the
press Of the State for denouncing the
Trenton massacre. The writer's at
tempt o show that some such example
as the massacre was necessary to iu-
timidate the blacks and their " white
allies F" from theaggressive disposition
shown in their night organizations.
One of these correspondents says
The wholesale denunciations of the Mem
phis appeal against the people of Trenton
is having a very pernicious influence in our
already excited community, and the col
ored people, many of whom can read and
do read its articles, feel justified in resort
ing to any measure of revenge upon our
people for permitting, On act of violence
upon a body Of wretches for whose protec-
ton they were under no obligations to eX-
pose their lives.
Another correspondent boldly in
Inmates that it will not be difficult to
find the men who encouraged the
massacre. He says
"Murderers," indeed Out with the
vile wretch that would cast such an asper-
sion upon US, knowing the dangers that
surround us
Our county is responsible for the murder
twas it a murder?) of the wretches who
were melting a vile instruction against US,
and the Governors reward Of $500 is
placed upon each of our heads. Come and
take Us, our wives and our little ones lfor
they sympathized with u.s.; and craven
would be the spirit that would say, 1t was
not IT,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

GEN. FORREST, Jefferson Davis, and
a good many other prominent Exon
federates, Joined in an indignation
meeting at Memphis to denounce the
Trenton massacre. Their action is not
satisfactory to the people of Gibson
county. One Of them writes to the
Memphis appeal to say 0 It has
generally been understood that Gen.
Forrest was one of the Kuklux organ
ization that held sections Of the South
in terror four or five years ago. The
writer referred TO seems 70 know
something about that, for he makes an
ugly ''insinuendon to that effect in the
following stunning extract, explaining
how the massacre might have been
prevented
Perhaps had we had some Of your val
SAINT orators who took part in your indig-
nation meeting on last Friday night, the
murder might have been prevented. Some
OF them might have made use Of IA few
eaba..s-.t words and phrases peculiar % th,
hgE.lN with which they might have beer
stl. familiar, and thereby persuaded then
20 rgt.ge, but al no 70 in the corporation
ot Trenton retained any connection witt
-ae H".'' 1E1o-. We were p1Wcria--.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
TIE Memphis AppcaL saws l:

We want men in the next legislature who
are not in the service of any man or clique.
We want men who are not pledged or COM
mitted for or against any man for any Of
fee, and who will be free to act upon every
question as they deem proper and expedi-
ent. No man can be elected to the legis-
lature from Shelby county, who goes be-
fore the people, and declares that any one
particular man among the many distins
guished sons of Tennessee, has 70 be elected
Senator.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
Tho New Name for the KuEIux-Thc
white League
mingo. Miss. Herald

Tishomingo. Miss. Herald
We must act speedily and decidedly,
no matter what it costs. Better lose
the lives of half our citizens than see
the whole outrageously trampled upon
by an ignorant and savage negro mob.
We suggest to our brethren the forma-
ton of white leagues in every civil
district, in every county in the State.
Let them meet in secret and be bound
by the most solemn oaths, and let
death be the penalty of any violations
of the order. Already, we have good
reason to believe, such leagues have
been formed in many counties, and the
thing is becoming more and more pop
Mar every day of its existence. This
land is ours, by right and by inheri-
tence, and we must, we will control it,
even ut the expense of ocean of blood
and millions of lives. The constant
cry all over the South is, the negroes
are threatening to burn this town and
that to murder the women and chill
dren in this place or the other. Let
the hellish barbarian brutes 20 on, we
will take a score of lives tor every wo-
man or child murdered, and when
once we start, in fact, not a damnable
negro savage assassin will be left in the
South. We accept the gauge.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE Press and Herald only wants
to see Houk get fair play. That's what
the Democrats said when they took
Greeley. Anything to beat Grant
then, and anything to beat Thorn
hurgb now.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
Sullivan Items.

EDITORS CHRONICLE Your very
lively paper continues to make its
daily visits here, and is read with ca
gerness;it is a pity that other papers are
not so outspoken.
Rain here in abundance. Corn is
made. Buckwheat is promising. Wheat
Is low. Money is scarce. Trade is
dull. Industry at a low ebb with
some exceptions. Several candidates
are out for the Legislature, but the
canvass is not warm yet. Triangular
race for Congress Butler, Gillenwa-
tiers and Mcclellan. Mac. has been
n. j. PHILLIPS.
Blountville, Sept. %, 1874.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

u his speeches in counties where he
thought it polite to do so, Judge
Houk has made an attack upon II
of the editors of the CHRONICLE,
charging him, among other things,
with having been a Democrat. The
statement for truthfulness is on a par
with most of his other charges. The
editor referred to, never cast a demo-
cratic vote. He entered the
Union army a minor and while
in the service, cast his first
vote for Abraham Lincoln in
1864. He earned, as he believes,
by three years of service in that army
the right to oppose all such men as
Houk in their disorganizing efforts to
break up the Republican party, and
be proposes to exercise that right now
as he has done heretofore. This. is not
the first occasion he has had to show
up Houk's selfish refractory policy and
it will probably not be his last, for so
long as he lives he will be a boltcr and
d~isorgani2er, no matter with what
party he acts.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

OUTSIDE of the little Democratic
ring Of three, George Washington,
Esq, is frequently spoken of as a Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress. But
George doesan't belong to the ring, and
can't make In.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

SENATOR MCCONNELL retires from
the editorial management Of the Mary
vile RGDuJAcoR, on accoun. OF the
pressure OF private busiue--. That
pressure comes at a most oppOrluue
time for him. He escapes from an
embarrassing position, but 80 would
have been fortunate If his private busl-
ness had kept A'm ouJ of the paper
altogether, He laa many personal
friends who regret the cntaugliug ALI
nucs5 into which Doc has been drawn.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE Press and Herald has not yet
hoisted the name Of Judge Porter for
Governor. Why is it? We have I'M
derstood his nomination was very dis
tasteful to the State Administration,
including some if not all of the Knox
Vile attaches, but then the p. and II.
is an organ and all the other or
gans have Porters name up. 1t is time
for an explanation.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

HENDERSON is meeting with uneX-
pected opposition in his Congressional
aspirations. The Knoxville ring of
three don't carry the Democratic VOC
ters Of twelve counties in their peck
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

To feed New York and it's adjacent
population, according to Prof. Mans
field, requires annually GOO,O 600 head Of
of cattle, 800, 600 sheep, 1000, 600 hogs,
1000, 900 barrels Of flour, and 500, 600
pond. The number of baked beans
consumed i'm Boston no man can tell.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THE new state Central Committee
is appointed, and the Knoxville clique
is not represented on it. 1t was not for
Porter. Bob Hood, of Naryville, is
The king bee.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
CARRYING DEADLY WEAPONS.

We cordially endorse the following
well timed editorial remarks il the
Washington Chronicle:
No man has either license or authority to
take the life of a fellow man unless to pre-
serve his own, and the law well provides
that the danger must be imminent to au-
thorize the resort to deadly weapons. If
our law officers will see to the prompt ar
rest and punishment of all persons, rich or
poor, high or low, that are found having
concealed in their possession deadly weap-
ons, they will do more to prevent the re-
currence of these sad encounters, which re-
suit in bringing such misery on society,
than in any other way.
So long as it is popular for q person TO
boast of having about his person a pistol or
bowie-knife, or other murderous weapons,
so long will their use be noticed in the con
slant recurrence OF the commission Of
crime.
Let the law be so vigorously enforced
that no man will risk being detected in
carrying a deadly weapon any more than
he would of being found attempting to
commit the crime of robbery, and homi-
cides will become less frequent, and these
murderous and disgraceful q%uarrels cease.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

If GEORGE MABRY had consulted
the city ring of three, his candidacy
might be noticed by the Press and
Herald, but just now it is acting un-
der orders to blow for Houk, so Mabry
must stand aside.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09

THEY ARE TO have a soldiers re.
union at Cambridge, Ohio, OF the
18th and 18th insts. General Sher-
man, Thurman, Blaine, Cows. Allen
nj Hendricks, all rival candidates
the Presidency, will be present.