Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1874-09-11

from the districts nearest the city, and
will give the others as they come to
| hand.
Knoxville City Convention.
! A large number of the Republicans.
of the 1st district of this county met
at HOxsie's Hall last night, to select
delegates to the State and Congress
sional conventions. Almost every
class of our citizens were represented
railroad men, machinists, carpenters,
brick masOns, lawyers, physicians,
merchants, etc, were there, taking
part in the proceedings. 3
q Z Nr.EY. F.sGossett stated that in the
q absence Of the chairman of the IIx-
ecutive Committee, it devOlved upon
him to call the meeting 10 order. ~
w. F. Yardley, Esq, moved that
MI. S T. Logan take the chair, and
] ] tidge Andrew nominated Capt>h.D.
i Bearden. 3 Mr.. LoganSaskedrto3b be ex-
cused, and Mr.. Bearden was elected
chairman, unanimously. .-.f ...-.....
Mr. Bearden then stated that the
object of the meeting was to select
4 delegates to the Chattanooga State,
+ and the Knoxville Congressional cons
ventions, and declared the meeting
open for the transaction of the bust
ness for which they had met.
On motion of Major Prosser, Mr.. s..
Il. l. ogan was elected Secretary.
Mr.. Gossett moved the appointment
of Committee of five to select dele
gates to both the Chattanooga State
and Knoxville Congressional CehVei,-
ton. Carried.
/ The chair appointed Geo. Andrews,
I Jn0. Hudiburgh, H. L. Bradley, Yves
ley Stuart, Harvey Clark. o..
+ On motion of Judge Andrews, Mr..
Y. F. Gossctt was added 20 the COM
mittee. ....... ....-.
After an absence Of from - 10 20
/ minutes, the cOmmitteg upon dele
/ gates reported as. follows fof the .-.
! = g. tONG REssToNALt CONVENTION:
/ Perez Dickinson, D. T. RoyutCn,
/ Ignas FAM, Isaac + Barry. L. 4. r.
! Nelson, James Pickens, J. Il. H0Xsie,
| David Richards, John Long, Isham
| Young, s. II. Smith, A. s. Pro8ser,
| w. L. Osborne, Emanuel johnson,
| Ben. Maynard, Burrell Blair, w. w.
! Pesterfield and Hugh Lynn.
And as follows for State Convention:
lie = CHATTANOOGA DELEGATEs
| S.P.Evans, Ezekiel WeatherfoTd, W.
| T.OsbOrne, William Rule, 5. T. Logan,
! NJ. L. Hall, John Leahey, NJ. J. Chill
dress, E. c., Camp, II. NJ. Aiken, f..
n. Parham, Col. Jno. B. Brownlow,
E. &. Locke. Capt. w. O. White,
ThOs. A. r. Nelson, ]. Is. I0xsie, NJ.
d. Bearden, Hon. Horace Maynard,
Hon. J NJ Thornburg h, T II. Schleier,
A, w. Rose, Capt. John Martin, J. c.
s. Mcdonnell, VIM. Porter, Green
Fields, ROl ert Kennedy, Sam. Os-
ment, Theodore Miner, 10. Black.
Upon suggestion of the chairman
( of the Committee the lists of dele
| gates, to each Convention were voted
upon separately and adopted unani-
| mously.
On motion the Committee to select
| delegates was added to the delegates to
1.-The two Conventions.
! a resolution by w. F. Yardley, ESQ.
to instruct the delegates to the Com
gressiOnal Convention to vote for the
Hon. Horace Maynard, was laid on
| the table.
a motion was made and carried that
the chair appoint an executive com
mittee for this (the 1st) District.
The chair announced that the COM
mittee would be duly appointed, and
publishedin the daily papers.
A motion to appoint additional col
ored delegates to the two Conventions
! was lost.
A resolution instructing the dele
gates to the Congressional Con-
ventiOn, to meet at Knoxville, to vote
| for Hon. j. NJ. Thornburgh, was car
ried by vote of nearly three to one.
| Adjourned. ..
NJ. D. BEARDEN, Chm.
S. T. LOGAN, Sec'y.
NeehanicsvilIe Meeting.
The Republicans of the Eastern
| part of Mechanicsville, met in front of
Mr. Jos. Richards store, as per APP
pOintment.
Mr.. j. Attix was chosen Chair
man and David j. Richards was ap>a
pointed Secretary. Wiley B. Wright
and A. J. Kicks were chosen delegates
to the Congressional Convention
Judge IL. Z. HOuk Co. Coffee Chiles.
N. A, Williams, JOS. Richards. Tavfor
Williams and Abe Gay We're elected
delegates to the Chattanooga COnven- /
ton. Mr.. j. t. Ambrose was elected
one OF the members of the County
Executive5COmmitt from the 10Th /.
District.
The Second District. ..
The Republicans Of the Second Dis
trict, held meeting at RouseI's Mills |
yesterday. 81 h-fs575s I
Daniel Lee was called to the chair
and w. r. Murphy elected Secretary.
w. a. "A. conner, >. Y. Morley and !
JAS, NJ. McCampbell, We're selected as
delegates to the Congressional Conven-
ton. Messrs. w. r. Murphy, Jas. I
Crawford and John NJ. Harris, were
chosen as delegates to the Chatta- !
nooga Convention. Mr.. Daniel Lee
was elected q member of the County .
committee, for the Second District.
Twelfth District.
At MOnrOe's voting place a goodly
number of voters assembled Yesterday
at O'clock. Jas. Nichols, ESQ. was
called to the chair, and Henry Cooper
was chosen Secretary. Mr.. Paul Gau-
din was elected a delegate to the
Congressional convention, and Capt.
Jacob Lones was elected delegate to
the Chattanooga convention.
Mr.. Jacob LOnes and Jonas Irish T.
were chosen committeeman for the
next two years.
Fourteenth Districa.::
The Republicans of the.f4th district
net at Temperance Hall. Large num-
0ers of voters in attendance. J. Fl,