Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-18
NEWS SUMMARY.


There are ,5S5 newspapers published in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
New England contains upward of 400
priests, and nearly 100000 of Catholics.
Philadelphia has raised S7O,0 600 towards
the establishment of a geological garden.
Over 81, 500, 900 more money is required
| to complete the Boston burnt district i'm
provements.
1t is estimated that the United States
consume a million and a half iron and steel
rails annually.
In the California Assembly the bill to
make women eligible 10 educational offices
was passed by IS to 81.
Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts,,
it is said, positively refuses to be candi-
date for Governor again.
a return showing the number of liquor
saloons in New York places them at $500,
and the total yearly receipts at $32S13,07O.
Savannah (Ga.) Nelgs: James Jackson,
of Banks county, died recently aged lis.
He leaves q wife aged ITO, and several chill
dren. He never took dose of medicine
in his life.
The American Wood Paper Company of
Spring City, Chester county, Pa, are now
shipping large quantities of cottonwood
from South Carolina to their works at the
above named place.
The temperance movement 10 developing
itself at various places in Missouri. Or
CARNATIONS of ladies are being effected in
several interior towns. A few days will
see considerable army of crusaders in the
field.
There was a falling Off last fall in the
champagne importations of 364 1868 bottles.
Whether this is an indication of progress
of the temperance cause or the progress of
r.. r. -. +.
stated.
The Legislature of Texas has instituted
two new hOlidays-the second of March,
WEIGH is the day of the declaration of
Texas independence, and the twenty-frst
of April, the anniversary of the battle of
San Jacinto.
Gen. Schenck says his visit to this coun-
try is solely on private business that he
has not come home TO fill any cabinet or
other Office here, and that he will return
to England in May, when his leave of abb
sence expires.
The President has directed that Coils.
Nelson A. Miles, Fifth Infantry, and
George Getty Third Artillery, be assigned
as members of the Howard court of inqui-
ry, in addition to the officers originally
assigned to that body.
There are sixty distilleries in operation
in the Seventh (LeXington) Collection
District, making about $50, 900 gallons of
whisky per month. There were two mill
lion one hundred thousand gallons of
whisky in bond on the LIST Of March. Col
lections for the past month were $161 ,215.32.
A Washington special to the Courier
Journal of Tuesday morning says that
the friends of an increase of currency are
confident that whenever the vote shall be
had, there will be a majority of at least 4
or 5 votes for the pending amendments to
add SAC, goo, 600 to the national bank cur
rency.
Senator Sumner had in his possession a
gold watch which was presented by Wash
ington to Lafayette after the battle of York
town. Upon it is this inscription: sc.
Washington to Gilbert Mortier de Lafay-
cite, in commemoration of the capitula-
ton of Lord CORVALLIS at Yorktown, Oct.
II, ISL
The Pittsburgh Post of the 9TH instant
states that the large locomotive establish
ment in that vicinity will soon close for
want of orders at compromising rates, and
that the pressure upon ether branches of
trade there seems to be equally severe. The
panic is over, but the penalties are now be-
| ing realized.
The uprising of women in many of the
| Western States against the liquor dealers
has called forth abundant discussion among
members of Congress, and has awakened
a general interest among all classes of pol
iticians, who are watching its results in
their own immediate districts.
Speaking of war claims before Congress,
a correspondent says:
Connecticut alone has presented five
separate claims since 1870. Ohio has pre-
scented thirteen since the payment of hel
original claim. New York has presented
four, amounting to nearly $1,000, 900
Pennsylvania three, amounting to over
81 100000 Indiana and Kentucky five
each, amounting to over 81 900, 900 for each
and Missouri has one for several hundred
thousand dollars now pending before the
committee on military affairs"