Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Ashantee war cost Great Britain
100000.
II. L. Clafin, the great New York !
merchant, is an intiationist.
Governor Booth, of California, has APP |
proved the local option liquor bill.
There was an eighty thousand dollar |
fire at Dallas, Texas, on Friday night.
Geneva, Switzcrland, proposes having !
an International exhibition there next
year.
The thermometer was two degrees below
zero az Lewiston, Maine, on Tuesday
morning.
Madame Rumor has it that secretary
Robson viii 60 TO Vienna, and Mr.. Jay
come home.
Maryland shuts up her barber shops on
Sunday or fines them s. each, and keeps
her whisky saloons open.
Nine thousand men are employed on the
New York city public works. A small
army for the politicians to manipulate.
Georgia papers deny that Toombs has
aspirations for seat in Congress. Besides
his disabilities have not yet been removed
A resolution has been offered in the
Michigan Senate that in view Of the large
balance in the treasury no tax he levied
| for 1874.
! The Baptists Of Boston have voluntarily
decided to urge upon the Legislature Of
the Bay State the Justice Of taxing church
property.
They have raised q fund in St. | outs of
more than one thousand dollars, for the
relief of the widow of Capt. Fry, of Fir-
ginus fame.
Ex-Governor Letcher anu Hon. AleXan-
der II. Stephens have by letter commend
ed Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, for his veto
of the Petersburg charter.
General McLaws, who commanded a
division in Lees army, has beena appointed
revenue collector for the first district of
Georgia, headquarters at Augusta.
Rev. a. VI. Meil, German Catholic
priest, of Crestine, Ohio, has renowned
Catholicism, and openly declared his in
tention to unite with the Presbyterian
Church.
Tho executors Of Edwin Forrest have
effected settlement with the divorced
wife of deceased by paying her $4,000,
she agreeing 10 forego all her claims for
this sum.
Minnesota has appropriated $4,000 to
be expended in the purchase of seed wheat
for settlers in the southwestern counties
whose crops We're destroyed last year by
grasshopers.
The Rhode Island Democrats met in
convention on Monday, but recognizing
the fact that the party is dead, concluded
to make no ado about it,, and consequently
made no nominations.
Laborers in Japan have had their wages
raised TO : ! cents day. With such wages
the laborer may takea drink and cigar
once week, but ne must dispense with
such opportunities as bread and meat.
The Cincinnati distillers admit that their
business has decreased fully - per cent,
solely on account of the women's move
ment. They consider the movement a fa.
naticisnl, which will die out az the warm
weather approaches.
Mr.. Pierce brother of the Boston Con-
gresham, will complete the editorial labor
on Senator Summers work, the tenth vol
ume of which is in the hands of the print
err, while the material for two more vol
umes has been prepared.
1t appears from the last returns that the
, aggregate income of the English life as
surance offices is more than elJ, 500, 600,
that their total accumulated funds axe over
Ell3,000000, and that the assurances in
force represent nearly c9j2,0O0,000.
An ambitious young lady was tallsing
very loudly about her favorite authors,
when o literary chap asked her if she liked
Lamb With look of inefIable disgust,
she answered that she cared very little
about what she ate, compared with lnowl-
edge.
The stock of grain on hand at Chicago
for the week ending March u, was 49,
10 bushels. The figures show an increase,
: during the week of j4,74j bushels corn,
and decrease of G7,ll4 bushels wheat,
30,237 bushels oats, 1916 bushels rye, and
81 577 bushels barley.
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