Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-02-25
NEWS SUMMARY.

We are mining 900, 900 tons per year,
and at this rate, according to statistics our
coal will last 100000 years.
There are two Mexicans in the Colorado
Legislature who neither speak nor UNDER
stand the English language.
Tie granite Confederate monument
erected by the ladies of Atlanta, Georgia,
is receiving the finishing touches.
Another remedy has bee0 discoved for
rheumatism in London. 1t is hot sand
bath. This makes 1918 remedies-all in
fallible.
The Illinois Legislature has passed law
making drunkenness on the part of rail
road officers while on duty "A criminal Of
fence.
The st. Louis Globe says the money
wasted in keeping dogs is sufficient, If
placed at compound interest, to pay the
national debt before the year 1900
The Western railroad of Alabama
brought to Columbus, en- route for Savan-
nah and New York by rail since Septem-
Der 13l 900 bales of cotton
A man named \. NJ. Wood shot himself
and poisoned three of his children at Rut-
ledge, Ga, Friday night. The cause is
supposed to be the desertion by his wife.
Advice from Fort Laramie indicate that
| hostilties from the Indians are not immi-
nent in the vicinity of Red Cloud and
| Spotted Tail agencies, though occasional
| murders and Expectations are reported,
and frontiersmen are moving in with their
| families.
The annual wine production of the coun-
| try is estimated at 10000 600 gallons. "Of
this amount 6. 040, 900 gallons would come
from the Pacific, $4,000 600 from the At
| lantic. The market value of this product
is estimated at nearly Sl4,O00,000, to which
must be added "a the total value of the
| vintage about SS,0o0 900 for grapes con-
sumed, grape vines, etc.
The direct shipment of grain from Chi
cago for the last year, not including flour,
amounted to more than 100000 bushels,
as shown by the books of the British con-
sui in that city. This amount does not
embrace all the grain shipped to Liverpool
from Chicago, but only that which was
billed through from that point and did not
| require any further official attention.
The last Congressman to add his name to
| the list of those who have returned their
back pay to the treasury is Horatio &.
| Burchard, who represents the fifth district
of Illinois. The sum refunded by Mr..
Burchard amounts to Sc, 049.60, of which
| 81 ,229 GO was his increased pay as a men,
Der of the Forty-second Congress, and
| 81, $50. 90 as a member of the present House.
The three-foot narrow guage railroad sys-
|
| country, AID bat few people are aware of
| the fact that since it came into vogue, DUR
| ing the last three or four years, no less than
| ] ,445l miles of narrow gauge railway have
| been built in this country and in Canada,
which roads, when completed. will have a
mileage of 4,5622 miles, while there are l.
! 29l miles under construction.
| The new census just completed shows
the population of Richmond to be 90 7O5,
| 81, Of ri Gl
| White males, IS, 4S3 white females, 1908;
total whites, SO, 492. ColOred males, II,
6l5 cOlOred females, l5,54S; total colored,
-, 163. There are 526 more white females
than males, and 3, 933 more cOlored females
than males. The total number Of houses
in the city is 7,779-3,sl5 brick and 1888
wood.
Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, and Wis
cOnsn produced last year 3S2 600, 900 bush
els of corn, and on the 18th of January
had 100, 900 900 bushels of il on hand. The
hog crop in the same States has fallen of
twenty one per cent. from the previous
year 5 estimate and the condition of hogs
below the average, though prices have adj
vancci. This was caused by the outflow
of marketable hogs. There is slim out
look for summer packing.
The hop plantations Of England have
been much Increased during the past two
years, and it is reported as probable that
the area lin full bearing will by an
other season have risen 10 the unpTece-
dentcd amount of 81, 900 or even IS acres.
| Mr.. Cameron, Senator from Pennsyl'
vBnia, has introduceda bill TO allow 50, OOL
| Russian MennOnites to purchase a large
tract of United States land in q compact
body under the preemptOn law.
A committee Of the House of Represen
tatives will soon visit Fredericksburg, Va,
TO examine the condition of the site of the
monument TO Mary mother of Washington
the cornerstone of which was laid by
President Jackson, in May. 1888. The site
of the monument is overgTown with
brush. The committee is 10 make q
thorough examination, and report the
facts TO the House of Representatives
which will be asked to appropriate ~, OOu
for the erection of the monument.
Major Dudley, Of the third cavalry
commanding at Sidney barracks, Nebras
ka, in his dispatches TO the headquarters o.
the department of the Platte, copies o.
which have been forwarded 10 army head
quarters i'm this city, states that he has
noticed for some time the indications o
great restlessness on the part OF the In
dians. He says that he is satisfied tina
many Of the bands of Indians will shortly
abandon their reservations and rely OF
, their own resources, and not return unit
they are forced 10 do so. lie further pre-
diets that early in the spring the prairie
will be swarming with parties OF varlou
2 bands and tribes of Indians. Col. smith
commanding at Fort Laramie, says tn
an La iV,Gf ,I..FaF nd