Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-28
NEWS BY MAIL.

sofa was either born or spent thcearly 1,art
| of his life in Maine. .rHn
| Fourteen thousand dollars have been
| subscribed towards II new opera house ia
| Davenport, Iowa. .... i....,......
| The new Texas constitutional amend
ment was adopted in the late election by
| over 81 900 majority.
An immense ice foe struck one of the
piers of the Missouri River bridge at Oma-
ha, throwing it out of place two inches.
An Alabama editor offers to name his
baby after the patron who will pay his
subscription the longest time in advance.
The debt of the city of Petersburg, Va,
Is ST O33, 000.73, the annual increase being
S7S, 7OO.73 ranging from 8 to 10 per cent.
A dispatch from White Pigeon, Mich.
says that the reported drowning of ska
ting party near Burr Oak, Mich, is untrue.
AT the annual meeting of Franklin In
stitute, at Philadelphia, 1t was decided by
vote that the library hereafter shall be open
OH Sunday.
l.. B. Chambers, one of a gang of North
Carolina counterfeiters, was arrested near
Abingdon, Va, on Friday, with ST. 900 in
bogus money with him.
Chicago boasts Of having the heaviest
cattle dealers in the world. One man
bought 1877, 497 head last year, and paid
therefor STA, 1856, 071.14.
n New Orleans man wanted to take out
an insurance policy on his life, but when
he found that he would be required to give
his age, changed his mind.
The New Hampshire Publishers, Edi
tors and Printers Association favor a law
allowing newspapers to go free in the coun-
ty where they are published.
The English railways paid $500, 900 in
lS12a as compensation I'd persons injured or
their lines by accidents, or to the relatives
OF persons killed.
Memphis is not losing any cotton trade
so far as heard from. Our receipts to dale
are 10000 more bales than for the same
time last .season.-ACaldnche.
a panic party at Brownsville, Pa, re-
Gently came off, in which the participants,
however "well oh,n We'd with each other
in shabby, ragged costume. Proceeds for
the poor.
The Georgia Legislature passed resolu-
ton cOngratuating Texas upon her release
from Radical rule also thanking Presi
dent Grant for his impartial decision in the
Texas matter.
a company of British capitalists have
recently invested 81 200, 000in water power
in Augusta, Georgia, for the purpose Of
manufacturing cotton. A fine cotton mill
is on the property.
Little Rock, Arkansas, appears to be a
States. The Republican, of that city, has
fifteen proclamations from the Governor
offering rewards for murderers.
Mr.. Baker, au English gentleman,
who owns smelling works in Warren
county, Va, realized the handsome profit
of one hundred per cent. last year. He is
seeking for farm to purchase near Alex
andria.
During the past year there were export
pegs, valued at over $4,000, and $40 cases
Of shoe nails, valued at $4,000, while the
import of shoe bristles during the same
time to amounted nearly $4,000, E.n-.
The Legislature of Ohio has passed an
act to allow Gov. Allen to use stamp in
Rffixing his signature to official papers in
stead of signing his name. The next pro
vision will be to allow a boy to sit in the
Executive chair and represent his Excel
lency while the old man is in bed.
In reply to a Senate resolution, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury reports the amount
Of expenditures for public works
in all the States and Territories from 1865
to 1873 at sos, 294 ,501.34, and for railroads,
canals, and wagon roads from 1889 to 1873
ut Sl04, 700, l63.43. ....
Robert Toombs says that Georgia farmers
give rs an excuse for buying Northern hay
that grass will not grow there, when it is
hliOh IL W NC a. l'tCp ILelI VIC glowing
season every man, woman and child, white
and black, able to work is laboring hard To
kill grass. ..t....r ...
The Richmond (Na.) Journal says:
I'VE regret to learn that Ex-Governor Wise
continues very i'll. The carbuncles with
which be is afflicted are enlarging their
area. The last time he was operated on his
condition was such as to require the use OF
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By an explosion at the Dunbar furnace
fifty miles from Pittsburg, Pa, last Thurs
Day, one man was killed, his head being
thrown distance of twenty feet fIom his
body. The receiver was blown to pieces
some of which were sent distance of Il
quarter of mile. The roof of the casting
house was blown of. -
The first cannon ball ever fired in the
United States for the purpose of saving
lives was a 2i-pound shot, which was fired
on the 18th of January, 1850, over the ship
Ayrshire, wrecked on the Squan Beach
Having line attached, it was the means
Of saving the lives of POI persons. The
ball is now on file in Washington.
There is Yally in Montana 5000 feet
above the sea, and north of the 46th par
lllel of latitude, where snow never falls.
Indians, trappers, and old settlers say snow
was never yet seen on the ground in Val
ley Eden.n While snow falls to the depth
IF even inches on the surrounding noun
ains and valleys, never does an inch fat
On this favored spot.