Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-11
NEWS SUMMARY.


ed the Brooklyn Tabernacle congregation
on Sunday.
The failure of the rains of December has
shortened the Barbados sugar crop by
1000 hogsheads.
Persons in condition TO know say that
The property of the widow of Col. James
Fisk, Jr., is worth fully 100000.
Hon. George II. Pendleton knocked a
Columbus hackman down last week. One
vote less at the next National Convention.
The Catholics of New Haven, Conn.,,
held temperance mass meeting on Sun
day, which was attended by over 5000
persons.
Bismarck's opinion is that another war
with France is inevitable that she will be
backed by Russia, and that all Europe will
be involved in the contest.
The Governor of Maine recently sent to
the Legislature of that State the first veto
for fifteen years. Both Houses sustained
he objection.
Hon. r. B.. Vance, representative in
Congress from North Carolina, delivered
atemperance address in Baltimore on Sun
s1ay to on immense audience.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
bill providing for the appointment of a
Board of Railroad Com missioners, and the
regulation of railroad fares and freights.
lue CCLtJOTIlbU fCJTIItCT estimates UDe
suit fast years harvest as follows: Wheat,
bushels, 26,500,60 wool, pounds, $1,000
900; wine, gallons, 5000, 600; hops, pounds,
1000, 900; barley, oats and corn, bushels,
100000.
Portland, Me-, received last year 100, 900
Quintals fish, 600, 900 barrels -four ., 600, 900
bushels corn, over 400, 600 bushels oats,
10000, 900 feet lamber, @, 627 hhds. molas-
ses, 1927 hhds. and p, 200 bags sugar, and
packed some 10000 hogs.
The planters in Plaquemine parish, La,
are preparing to raise the largest crop of
rice this year ever produced in that parish.
A number of old plantations that have lain
idle for several years will be planted this
season.
\ Seneca county Ohio correspondent
of the Cleveland Leader, who says he is
nothing but an old farmern and has
lived in that part of the county for fifty
seven years, suggests Gen. Sherman as an
available and qualified candidate for Pres
jdent.
There are nearly fifty women practicing
medicine in New York and Brooklyn,
most of them homoopathically, and many
having incomes of between $1,000 and
$4,000, while several reach S., 900, and one
or two over $4,000. There are three med
ical colleges there and fourth is now
building.
The government has commenced o suit
N the United States District Court against
the New York Flax Spinning Company
to recover 500, 900 gold for alleged under
valuation of invoices of linen goods. The
company is said to be an English one, and
the action therefore lies against their
agency in New York city.
The Vendome Column in Paris, which
was pulled down by the radical mob, is
I'd
lion. The spiral bronze has reached the
seventh turn out of the twenty-five, which
will complete the height. The last plate
liked represents the attack and capture of
Funzburg,
Additional articles of agreement be-
tween Switzerland and the United States
have been entered into, providing for the
interchange of postal cards between the
two countries, at the rate of two cents
from the United States and ten confines
from Switzerland, the postage to be pre-
paid in all cases. The agreement goes into
effect on the first of May next.
The rice crop OF Louisiana, the last sea.
sou, reached 100, 900 barrels. The New Or
leans Picdyune looks upon this industry
much more hopefully than upon the sugar
culture in that State, and says that the rice
planting this spring will be the largest on
record Another year Is expected to put
louisiana ahead OF California as rice
producer, and the crop will reach enor-
nous proportions in the next decade.
Gems. Sheridan, Hooker and Whipple,
Of the Thomas Monument Association of
the Army of the Cumberland, have con-
cluded q contract with ]. @. A. Ward, of
New York, the designer of the Shakespeare
statue and Indian Hunter in Central Park,
for an equestrian statue in bronze of Gen.
Geo. III. Thomas, fourteen feet high, to be
delivered in Washington in three years,
the model of the same TO be submitted to
the committee in July next, for its APP
proval.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the I'd says; A
summary Of the temperance movement in
Ohio to-day, from sixty Ohio villages and
towns, shows eleven towns in whichliquor
selling has been entirely stopped, and over
forty in which from five to twenty six
places OF selling liquors have been closed.
The work everywhere is going on VigOr-
ously. In Chillcothe and Dayton work
has been begun by frequent visitations
daily by small committees, without sing
ing and prayer, at the saloons.
Some weeks since Mr.. Daniel Drew, the
millionaire Wall street speculator, was
suffering from severe attack of sickness,
and acting i'm this hint some eyil-dlsposed
person started rumOr in Wall street on
Friday last that he had died or was serious.
ly i'll. Daniel is perfectly healthy and
likely to remain 50 from present appear
ances. The circulation of the report had