Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
NEWS MISCELLANY.

The Chicago Tribune advocates free
trade.
The official vote for Governor in
New York is as follows: Tilded DEM
4l6, 343, Dix, (Rep.) 361 400, CLARK
Temp 1924, Tilden over Dix, s. ,037.
Official returns thus far received of
the vote at the New York State cleo.
ton on the constitutional amendments
indicate their adoption 10y ct least 100
600 majority.
Yale College has now ,03l students.
OF these, ls4 are in the theological de
partment, G3 in the law department,
81 in the medical department, and S6S
in the department of philosophy.
Philadelphia has another abduction
case. This time u is young lady
Annie Beaver-who il seventeen year,
of age, and when she left home was
/ clad in n palm-leaf calico wrapper,
white hat and blue veil.
/ Speaker Blaine has written letter
| to the Portland press, in response to
/ paragraph mentioning him as pos
sible candidate for Senator, in which
/ he states decidedly that he should uu-
/ der no circumstances accept the Seua~
| torship.
| 4 plain marble slab has been placed
on Locust Hill, in Greenwood Gene
terry, to mark, temporarily, the grave
/ of Mr.. Greeley. 1t bears the simple
/ inscription, " Horace Greeley, Born
February 3, ISL. Died. November g.
1872"
a Dauville, Virginia, dispa ca Of the
18th, says, a fire last night destroyed
4 the Roanoke Smoking Tobacco work.,
Rammey's machine shops and box
factory, ana Crews IL Radpnhi2er'-
Touring mills. Total loss, StOO, 600 ;uo
insurance.
| A,Lexington, Kentucky, telegram OF
the 18th, says: Leslie Combs, Jr..
reached home to-day with lot OF
Short-horp cattle, about a dozen d..
number, selected by him in England.
b The animals are much admired Uy
those who have seen them.
Prominent Democrats say that any
= attempt to- nominate Fernando Who'd
as Speaker OF the next House, will en-
counter very. serious opposition, and
that he VIII be defeated. Hhe Western
Democrats claim that the Speaker-hir
should be given to the West.
The Cincinnati Gu-lHs says: Wheat
is improving, hogs are high, there B.,
pleHty Of money to buy, and within
the next sixty days over one hundred
million dollars in good crisp green
backs audnatiOual bank notes will be-
= distributed amOng Western farmers.
T. Lawrence Mathews, an old citizen
} of OvertOn county, was struck by light
ming about noon on the llth, and in
| staltly killed. He had just finished
! his dinner and passed into an adiOin-
/ ing room. The lightning set fire TO
{ the house, but the family succeeded in
e extnguishing it,
: The Rev. Edwin Potter, Of New
York, has been [eceived from the
I Methodist Episcopal Church into the
e Reformed Episcopal Church, on exam
s inatun of credentials. A. this church
r recognizes as valid the ministry of all
. churches Of Ch.ist, it does not demand
= re-Ordiuauun.
, y Father Gerdemau, the Catholi,
20 Priest who elOped from Philadeiphis
with his female Organist, was held L,
bail in Philadelphia on the 10Th inst.
IN the sum Of $4,000, on charge o.
embeZllement. Several prominent
u members of the Young Mems Chris
> tan Association furnished the bail
and he was liberated.
Postmaster General Jewell has is
!, sued an order di-conrinuing pay am,
- services of John n. Callahan, specia
~ agent Of the department, for loaniul
," to his brother an annual pass from tn,
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroa,
y, Company, which had been granted {,
=; him solely upon the ground that h,
=, was an accredited special agent of th,
- postotfice department.
p a Chicago dispatch, of the 18th, say
"a the news of the death of Rabbi Dr
10 Geiger, of Berlin, has made sad i'm
preston among the Israelites of thi
city. A memorial service was hel,
to-day i'm Martins Hall in honor of tn
deceased scholar, which was yer,
IN largely attended. Eloquent and touch
at ing eulogies were pronounced by tn
ne Revs. Adler, Felsenthal, Koeler, Mo
T. chal and Messing.
III The Cincinnati Ga-ettc, Of the 18th
es says The late rains have relieve
IN the water famine throughout the coun
al try. Few city people have any idea q
as the trouble that has been experience
ry in consequence of scarcity of watel
C. In many places in Ohio cattle had {
tie be driven great distances for water
er and citizens were compelled to use i'm
lie pure water in many cases for hOu-ehoI
purposes. A. "a consequence, there IN
been "A great deal of nrlvation and SICK
he ness. Never were rains more hearth.
welcomed.
~ 4 want Ncver Irfurc supplied.