Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-02-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

One Of the New York railroads employs
female detective to look after pickpock-
cts.
The New York police authorities lodged
$3.50 persons last week of these / All We're
females.
After an illness of twenty-five days,
Mrs. Benton, of Aurora, Indiana, died on
Sunday, from eating pork which contained
trichine.
A Washington correspondent calls atten-
ton to the fact that not a dollar has been
missed from the Department of the Comp
troller of the Currency, where women are
employed as clerks.
At the meeting of the Southern Histori-
cal Association, held at Baltimore Satur-
day night, Gen. Wade Hampton made q
speech containing the usual amount of bal
derdash about the Southern Confederacy.
Until few years ago the nobility and
some other classes in Russia were exempt
from CONSUMPTION. Now there are no ex-
ceptions, and conscripts can no longer buy
themselves of with communication money.
1t is said Governor Woodson, of Missou-
ri, has offered reward of 1000 apiece for
the capture of the outlaws who robbed the
Iron Mountain railroad train at Gad's Hill,
q few days ago, but no official announce
ment of the fact has yet been made.
Mr.. Morrill,, Chairman of the State Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
thinks the work on the public buildings,
on quite a liberal scale, will be allowad to
go on If the receipts for the next month
improves as much as for the past.
The police force of the city of Paris costs
50, 10000 per annum. 1t consists of COM
missioner, l sub-commissioner, ] chief de
bureau, "a clerks, 3 superintendent of di-
visions, SO commissaries, % principal in
spectors, 100 brigadiers, 200 sub-brigadiers,
and 800 ordinary police officers.
A lady lost her life in Cincinnati Sunday
night under the following circumstances ::
She was using liniment containing alcohol
for rheumatism, when the bottle dropped,
broke and caught fire. The flames were
communicated to her clothing and she was
so badly burned that she died the next day.
The U. S. Circuit Court at Chicago has
affirmed a decision in bankruptcy that q
woman may be q partner in business
with her own husband, and the partner
ship debts must first be satisfied before
the assets can be applied to the husbands
individual debts.
The prospect of ever completing the
monument to Stephen A. Douglas has
again been dimmed. The Committee on
Appropriations in the Illinois Legislature
has reported, without recommendation,
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the pur-
pose.
Judge Busted, of Alabama, arrived in
Washington on Monday, to conduct his
own case in the impeachment charges
against him, now pending before the
House Judiciary Committee. Ex-Gov-
ernor Smith, of Alabama, who has been
summoned as q witness in the case, is
also there.
James Costello died in New York last
week, and although he could neither read
nor write, yet managed by industry and
natural business tact to accumulate an
estate of over $500, 600. He left $500 to
buy burial lot, build vault and erect q
monument to his memory, the monu-
ment to cost 81 200, and the balance of
his estate he leaves to his wife.
The wants of Virginia are summed up
by the Richmond Enquirer as follows :
Virginia wants money and muscle. She
wants strangers as settlers to aid her in eff
forts to develop her resources. She wants
her big plantations and farms divided and
subdivided until the tracts are so small
that they will be cultivated more highly
and made more productive. She wants
manufactures. She wants legislation
which will draw capital"
A bill was introduced in the House on
Monday by Mr.. Dawes, reducing the rates
OF postage, fixing the rates as follows On
all mail matter of the first class, including
local or drop letters and postal cards, posts
age shall be charged at the rate of two
cents for each half ounce or fraction there
Of, provided, however, that no stamped
envelopes shall be hereafter issued
A special to the New York Times OF
Monday says: Mr.. Dawes has been re-
quested by several Congressman of promi-
nence to introduce resolution fixing the
day of the adjournment Of this session of
Congress at about the middle of Nav. Mr..
Dawes. after considering the subject, has
decided to act in accordance with this sug-
gestion.