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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-10

The snow storm which commenced in
the Cottonwoods on Friday has been the
most severe seen in that region this
Winter, and the prospects last evening
were that the storm would continue.
No mails nor passengers came down
from Alta City yesterday, the great
depth of snow making 1t impossible
to get through. The stage went mp from
the terminus of the narrow-gauge to Tan.
ner's, where the horses could 20 NO
farther. About six feet of snow fell al
Alta up to yesterday noon, and the storm
was still raging.-[S. L. Herald, 4.
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TeIcgraphie Dispatches

srreI.r TO rHy rIocHr DAILY rsooKp
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-10
FLORENCE

Is sure 10 please. II there is
Il one within n Thousand miles Of
San Francisco mot working veil,
to the owner. SAMUEL. HILL, Agt,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
An Old Fashioned Mother.

Some time ago a Mrs. Buckelby, who
lives over in Berrien county, Mich, direct
ed her son Samuel, a lad of fourteen years,
to take a turn at the churn. Now, as Sam
uel bad set his heart on going q fishing at
that very time, he "got his back up" and
fatty refused to agitate the cream. The
spine by slipper, and, with tears in
his eyes, he went on duty with the dasher.
In about half an hour, and during the
brief absence of his mother, his eyes fell
upon plate of fly poison, and a bright
thought struck him. Just before Mrs. B.
came in, Samuel lifted the fatal platter to
his face, and as she entered be put the
poison to his lips with the dramatic excla-
nation "There, mother; L guess you
won't lick me no more.n Now what did
this Spartan dame do? Did she shrek
for a doctor, and fall into hystericks
Not much. She simply took Samuel by the
nap of the neck, lifted him def1y into the
pantry beat the whites of six eggs together
and told him to enguIf the same instantly
he refusing she called the hired girl, and
in twinkling Sam. found himself
outside the aIbumen. Then Mrs. B. began
| preparing mustard emetic. Seeing
| this, Sans pluck dissolved, and, he COM
menced begging and crying, Il was only
| trying to skeer yen But the stern mother
was not to be softened, and Samuel had to
swallow the mustard. He was then forced
| to take dose Of pain killer, and had his
back rubbed with "Vigor of Life" and
his stomach with the con of Gladness."
Then he vomiled up everything but his
| boots and socks. This being over, he
of castor oil a teaspoonful of salts and a
| blue pill. And now, if you want to behold
| the maddest boy in Michigan just say fly
| poison - TO Sam Buckelby. H....I
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

Germany is making cannon at the rate
of 100 week.
General Butler subscribed 5000 for the
relief of the Massachusetts sufferers.
Mr.. Tennyson, it is given out, thinks
Joaquin Miller Americas greatest poet
One hundred Indiana editors are in the
East on an excursion. It's getting fashion
able.
Hannibal Hamlin has been in public
Office, without cessation, thirtyrelght
years.
1t is stated that General Mcclellan il,
likely to be the Democratic nominee for
the Governorship of New Jersey.
A little girl who fell into sewer at Des
Moines, the other day, was valued at Sl0,-
600 and the corporation has got to foot the
bill.
A father, mother, three children and ser
want were buried alive by the falling in Of
a brick building in Cincinnati. One child
was killed the Others are alive, though
bruised.
Seventy thousand dollars have been
voted by the Mexican Congress to pro-
vide for the purpose of the representation
of Mexico at the Centennial Exhibition in
Philadelphia in 1876. t.-..,.,t.s.,r
France last year produced 1881 900 tons.
of pig iron, being 1000 tons more than
in 1872. Her production of steel was l6T,-
677 tons, viz "a, 444 tons cast steel and
10S, 233 tons Bessemer steel. l1Hu
Governor Seymour, of New York, is out
in letter in which he "refuses to be a
candidate for any Office in the gift Of the
people.n The letter was called out by the
proposition to place his name upon the
Democratic ticket for Governor.
Suit has been begun by the United States
| against the official bond of ex-Postn aster
Patrick Henry Jones, of New York, for
| 100000, to recover adefficieDcy in his ac-
| counts of $l0l 900, arising. as is alleged,
| from embezzlements of John w. Norton
and others.
Arrangements have been Completed for
holding In Montreal, next October, O con-
| ference of the Dominion branch of the
Evangelical Alliance, to which leading
| clergymen and laymen of the various
provinces of Great Britain and the United
| States have been invited. . IYt..
There are in the United States at present
! about $1,000 cergymen belonging to the
! Church. The average amount of salaries
are from $500 to $3.50 only; the highest
| average in any one denomination being
| in the Methodist Church. and that but
| 500.
Weston, the pedestrian, who undertook
| to walk five hundred miles at New York
| in six days, commencing on the midnight
of Sunday and ending midnight Saturday,
| brought his walk to close at ll:59l4
| o'clock Saturday night on the 430lh mile.
The last mile was done in 10 minutes 81
| seconds.
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good for the Church and the world will be
accomplished
It represents nearly 6OO,OOO oominuning
members, and over 1900 ministers. Ad-
ding to these its baptized members and its
adherents, it represents II population of
more than 100000 souls. Among the
delegates to the Assembly may be found
some of the lea ling thinkers and scholars
of the age. The action of such a body
will, of course, be looked to with interest
The General Assembly of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church is also in session
at Springfield, Missouri, having convened
the same day that the Assembly met at
st. Louis. This meeting is also composed
of leading divines and laymen from all
parts of the country, and represents large
and respectable body of Christian workers.
The General Assembly of the Presbyte-
rian Church (Southern) convened at Col
umbus, Mississippi, on the 21st. Commits
sioners were received from the Synod of
Missouri, ard the report of Committee
of Conference with the Dutch Reformed
Church was received. The Presbytery of
Haukow, China, was recognized. We are
told that the attendance is very full-the
largest Assembly Of this Church that
has ever convened. 1t is composed of a
very able body of Christians, and repre-
sents very large membership.
During the week an Episcopal Conven.
ton has been held in Philadelphia, the
notable event of which was a declaration
from Bishop Stevens, against ritualistic
tendencies.
The Great Southern Baptist Convention
at Jefferson, Texas, adjourned only few
days ago, and was an event in the history
soon
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
AN ECCLESIASTICAL SENSATION

DR.. Swing, an eminent Presbyterian di.
vine of Chicago, has announced his pur-
pose to withdraw from the church. This
movement is the sensation among church
circles in the West. He has just been ac-
quilted by a vote of A. to Is in the Chicago
Presbytery, in which he was tried for 4" un
faithfulness" and "helesy.n His prose-
cutor is DIR. Patton, the minlster who pro-
cured censure of DR.. Cuyler for permit
ting Miss Smiley to occupy his pulpit. DR..
Swing is pastor of the largest aud wealth
lest Presbyterian Church in Chicago, A
dispatch from that city says:
The event is very significant in the his
tory Of Chicago Presbyterianism, and con-
sequences, proXimate and remote, are of
the greatest importance to that church.
1t is declared by the leading Presbyterian
divines, such as DR.. Robert Patterson aud
the Rev. Arthur Swazey, TO be the begin
ming of a conflict which will divide the
church anew and finally. 1t is essentially
the same dispute which caused the original
division into the Old and New schools
which were reunited in 1858.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
" UKsAvoRY RECORDS.

The Memphis ACdldncho is unwilling
that live issues should be lodged in the
approaching campaign for the Ueneft of
individuals with "unsavory records"
The Avalanche is not alone in this matter.
But these gentlemen with unsavory rec.
ords are determined not to have those
records ventilated if they can prevent it.
The Comptroller does not desire discus
sion of the question how his predecessor
sold out and how he came into office. Peo-
pie are naturally inquisitive, and it would
be very embarrassing for one of these poll
ticians of the "close corporation school,
to explain to an unsophisticated old
farmer how such things could be, and yet
all be right. The whole transaction is very
"unsavory," and If 1t can be kept in the
back ground it will be done. If the minds
of the voters can be excited ON some other
subject, so they will forget all about the
Hobbs. Burch transaction, II will prove
very convenient
Then that public printing swindle, to
which we have alluded frequently in these
columns, is another question that will not
bear discussion. 1t is very unsavory."
These Public Printers would feel exceed
ingly awkward in trying to explain before
an audience of honest, intelligent people
how they could appropriate to their own
use, contrary to law, the sum of forty
thousand dollars in the space of two
years. TIE proprietors of the Press and
Herald would find it an unpleasant
undertaking to explain to the people of
Knox and surrounding counties what
equivalent they rendered the State for the
three thousand dollars and upwards that
was wrung from the tax payers in 1s7O-'71.
Our people are striving to get the money
to pay their taxes and find it hard to get,
and they would like to hear from these
great "leaders of public opinion where
in the masses were benefited by this " fat
TAXI" received by the p. ana II. men us
their share of the public printing swindle.
That is most "unsavory y subject, and
if it is to be made an issue, our virtuous
neighbors would no doubt urge very
short campaign, during which they could
dodge by leaving the humid atmos-
phere" of their office and fleeing to the
mountains.
These are only few of the unsavory !"
points that might come up as issues in
the campaign. No wonder some people
want it short. Wrong doors dread public
opinion, and as long as they can avoid it,
they will not stand in conspicuous places,
where the finger of scorn can be pointed at
Them, and where their crimes will be made
the subject of remark. So with these men (:
they do not intend to submit what they
have done to the public gaze, but will hide
their rotten, "unsavory records, by rais-
ing other issues.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
pemoeratle Congressional Committees

The Chairman of the State Executive
Committee made the following appoint
ments for committeeman of the several
Congressional Districts:
First District-W. n. Clarkson, of Haw-
kins; John Slack, of Sullivan; J. NJ.
Cameron, of Carter; II. H. Carr, of Wash
ington f.. w. Headerick, of Greene; DIR.
Robert Owens, of Hamblen; S. S. Mas
sengill, of Granger: VIM. H. Barnard, OF
Claiborne G.. w. Allen, Of Cooke; Joshua
Davis, of Hancock; Joseph II. Wagner,
of Johnson. t
Second District-William A. Henderson
of Knox w. NJ. McCown, of Sewer; II
Il. Dick, of Jefferson; Thomas Weir, oI
Campbell; John Jarnagin, of Anderson
John l.. Smith, of Scott; Julian Scott, Of
Morgan; w. ID. Mckinley, of Blount
Joseph +. Houston, of Monroe w. c.
Julian, of Loudon; John w. Wester, o.
Roane; Green Palmer, of Union.
Third District-W. L.. Eskin, of Hamil
ton d. +. Wallace, of Warren; kober
Saunders, of Grundy; L. y. Drake, o
| Van Buren,; s. b. Deakins, of Marion
Asa Fitzgerald. of James; z. b. May field
of Bradley; M. IL. Hancock, of Polk
James NJ. Henderson, of McMinn; n, J
Lillard, of Meigs; S. j. A. Frazier, o
Rhea; J. A. Tulloss, of Bedsoe; II. A
! Pope, of Sequatchie; Column us March
banks, Of White; Joseph Clarke, of DE
| Kab Warren Cummings, of Cannon
| Jerre Gibson, of Cumberland. ... .r.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
THE MILL RIVER DISASTER.

That the breaking of the reservoir at
williamsburg was through some defect in
its construction has been apparent ever
since the sad tidings of the deplorabe mis-
fortune hOrrified the country. A commit
tee Of the Massachusetts Legislature has
been sent to the spot to examine into the
subject. Engineer experts, as well as the
contractor with the specifications under
which the dam was constructed, accOmpan-
led the committee. They proceeded at
once to the fatal gap through which the
irresistible torrent poured on its mis-
sion of destruction. There Bassett,
the contractor and builder, at
tempted to explain that he had full
filled his contract and claimed oxoneratiou
Of blame Of himself and those who acted
for him. The words had scarcely dropped
from his lips, says a Correspondent OF the
| New York Times, when Col. Nelson, an
| experienced engineer of Boston, said:
"This dam was not built according u
the Specifications of that paper In yfu'
| hand" Bot, sir" interrupted Mr.. Bias
| replied the Colonel; "yOu are talking now
| 10 a man who fully understands this kind
uf thing, and can see just how ii is, Mr.
! B asset We are standing on your owl
witness, and lie testimony condemns you
| The Colonel then proceeded TO point OuI
| to the astOunded contractor, his engineer
Mr., Wells, aud the no less SURPRISED lrgls
hltive cummittee, that the -pecIh a t'n'
had called f'r the building az tne foun'ia
ton wall at lta,t three feet b Inv the b Il
tom of the Reservoir, whereas, IL was hull
Gully upon Ihft bptt"uI bt-tweetl which auC
the wall Tie Wainr Was found l. pass EASILY
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
WHY THIS SILENCE

The appeal of the Democratic State Exc
cutive Committee is silent on the subject
of the Civil Rights Bill and mixed
schools Not syllable in that document
on the subject that for weeks has torn up
the minds of our contemporary. The new
editorial contributor has fumed and sweated
and cussed and yelled "nigger, niger -
until lac is threatened with perpetual en-
largement of the throat, and so little appre-
citation has Hobbs twelve thousand dollar
successor of all his labors that in the ad-
dress of his committee not word of en-
enlargement to this remarkable develop
ment of "nigger on the brain +" is given.
1t is singular that the Press and Herald is
the only paper in the State that is alarmed
on this subject. The sentinels on the
watchtower who give the rallying cry for
the Democratic masses, intimate that there
is official corruption at Washington, assail
the tariff, railroad and bank rings, but are
silcntas death on mixed schools" Why
this thusuess
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
Knox County High school Exhibition.
CEDAR SPRING, KNOX COUNT,

CEDAR SPRING, KNoN COUNTY.
May 22nd, 1874,
EDITORS CHRONICLE: Knowing that
you always take an interest in everything
pertaining TO the education of our country,
allow me, through the columns of your
valuable paper, to give your readers few
notes from this place:
The first term of the Knox County High
School closed last night. The school house
being too small to hold the large crowd
that had assembled, they repaired to the
church near by. The exercises were open
ed with prayer by Rev. II. Russell. The
exercises consisted in declamations by the
young men, and reading original compost
tons by the young ladies. Each one as
they left the stage were greeted with
showers of boquets from all directions.
After the close of the exercises, the audi
ence were happily entertained for time
by speech from Rev. II. Russell. After
which, our highly esteemed instructor,
Mr.. A. Low, addressed the audience. in
suUtI II..-...-S. was tic
man in the right place.
After which, the crowd returned to their
homes, all having enjoyed the occasion,
and believing that they had been well paid
by going. A STUDENT.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

While the above bill was under discus
zion in the Senate last Saturday morning
Senator Howe, ia advocating it, said:
MIR. President, I say ii you insist upon it
that the colors shall never be mingled in
your sehooI-houses, this bill will lot force
them together II you choose to build
two school houses on every acre in every
district, and to give the two colOrs the priv
ilege of choosing between the two, each
color will go to that where they feel the
most at home and where their education
is most advanced. Open two school houses
wherever you please furnish in them
equal accommodations and equal instruc-
ton, and the whites will for time 90 10y
themselves, and the colored children will
go by themselves for the same reason, be
cause each will feel more at home by them
selves than at present either can feel with
the other and the child who should sep
arate from his own color to 20 into the
white school for mere social rea cons would
feel and would be treated 10y his own color
as a rebel against his race. But, on the
contrary, let your law say that they shall
not be educated together, and then the
subordinate colon must take Just such ae-
| communications as are provided, let them
be poor or good. Let the law speak, then
offer equal inducements to each OF the
| races, and each will in the school house
| continue to keep by themselves. But lei
the individuals and not the superintendent
of schools judge OF the comparative mErit'
of the schools; that is the point. They
will know where they are best taken carr
| of. / would rather trust them than e
| trust any municipal officer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
Items From Monroe County.
FORK CREEK VALLEY,


GLENLoCK p. o., May 20, 1874.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: | am still on the
wing, and have concluded to drop you a
few jottings by the way:
After the close of the Sunday school
convention, took a leisurely horse. back
tour through the intervening country be-
tween Sweetwater and jacksonville.
Wheat is universally good where the
soil is strong enough to produce it. Corn,
oats and vegetables are suffering for rain,
and some corn can not be planted until il
rains, A shower has just passed over, and
there is prospect for more tonight.
This valley is rich, and has a magnifi-
cent crop of wheat ia it besides wide area
of corn, oats, grass &c.
Farmers are in pretty good spirits.
In this valley they are wealthy and live
in splendid style, having fine dwellings,
barns and outbuildings. They certainly
live very pleasantly and independently
Good farms and good farming is what this
section needs.
The first we can have if farmers will cul-
tivate no more land than they can keep in
good condition. Good farming can be
done more easily when we have good land,
and we have farming material sufficient
if it can be properly directed.
Madisonville is quiet as usual and the
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church have just purchased a handsome
organ.
The measles are playing sad havoc
among the students of Hiwassee College,
many are down now and it will be neces.
sary to contract the Commencement u
exercises on that account. Prof. Dawson,
is down with them, but is doing very we'll
He was considerably "specked F." to-day.
Yours, &C., HERE AND THERE.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
The President and civil Rights.

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says:
The civil rights bill will be finally dis
posed of ia the Senate to morrow, If Mr.
Frelinghuysen, as is to be supposed, adj
heres to his notice given this afternoon
| is understood that the President does
not view the passage of this bill with favor.
A day or two ago he sent for leading ad
vocate of the bill aud minated to that
Senator that in his opinion nothing would
he lost by allowing the bin 10 go over. The
r publican Senators, however, consider
that they cannot now recede, aud that the
bill must be passed by that body, whatever
its fate may be IN the House. SOC.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
ECCLESIASTICAL MEETINGS

1t does not Of en- happen that there are
so many great eccles iastlcal ors anizations
in session at the same time as at the pres
cut. The General Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has
been in session about three weeks. 1t IL
composed ofdelegates, lay and cleric al from
every annual conference within the juris
dictiUn Of the Church. The deliberations
of the body thus far have been character
lied by harmony aud a general desire TO
do what seems best for the church, u a.
AT 81. Louis the, Presbyterian General
Assembly rs IN 'ses-ion, with bel Seeu five
and six hundred deleg ites present from all
parts Of the Uniied states. including many
OF the meet nj tuguishei divines Of the
Church. Much ian lortaHt bu,iness VII. come
belore the Assembly, aud no doubt great
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27

created leak, and eventually upset the
latter. Again the embankment protector
of this wall was forty feet narrower than
the contract specified il should have been
" In short" said Col. Wilson, "ihe speci-
tications have been entirely disregqrded,
and the accident which has desolated this
once fair valley, was inevitable. The only
wonder is that it did not occur before. The
terrible neglect and gross ignorance dis
played in the construction of the dam was
criminal, and its recent evil consequences,
murder
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27

The address of the Democratic Execu'
tive Committee gives not word of in
formation about Hobbs. This fact is the
more significant as the first signature to
that soul stirring document is, John Cir
cular Burch. Considering that he is the
man who possesses locked in the inner
most recesses ofhis heart, the information
for which the people of this great common
wealth are thirsting, his silence is cruel.
Who is Hobbs, John?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27

suppressed that part of Andy Johnson's
speech that described the "Close Corpora
ton at Nashville, We say to its readers
that 1t means Brown, Burch & Co., or per-
haps it means the three Johns and Tom.
There are gentlemen now in the city who
might he interviewed on the subject with
profit We hope for further light.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27

THE Nashville ring may as well make
up their minds to one thing and that is,
that the people of Tennessee are not going
to submit TO paying high taxes to keep a
" close corporation in funds upon which
TO speculate, and grow rich. They do not
intend to elect let of men to the Legis-
lature, who go there with placards on their
backs: "For Sale to the Highest Bidder"
These gentlemen who have grown fat and
sleek down there at the public expense, may
az well make up their minds to change
their tactics, or move their quarters.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-05-27
University series Of school Books.
Messy GREEK, Tenn, May %, 1874

Messy CREEK, Tenn, May %, 1874.
Capt. W. b. Hendricks
DEAR SIR: am now ready to give my
testimony in favor of the UNIVERSITY
SERIES OF SCHOOL Books, The high
mould of scholarship of their authors, aud
the genius of adaptation to the work Of
making text books, are Impressed upon all
tn, - books, from the speller To the Physi-
cal Geography, the last and browning
Effort of the mind of Maury, who now
sic. ps with the hunored dead.
Taxing this series, then, in all the essen
HdLs of Text Books, aud they have no
suteriors, nor dangerous Tfrols. They are
free fiom sectarian or sectional bias, aud
may there ore, be used toy all men Ut every
race, color, Or belief, from NJ line 10 Florida,
without the, least otftnse. | am truly
yonrs, n. B.. GoFURTH,
President Male College, Messy Greek
Tennessee. VSbd&wlt