Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

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There was severe snow storm it Salt
Lake and north through Montana on Sat
| urday.
Chicago reports 1,060,66s hogs packed in
November and December, against sos, 304
during the same months of 1872.
The Senate Transportation Committee
will recommend an immediate appropria-
ton for the improvement of the mouth Of
the Mississippi. ...
Montgomery Blair denies that he ever ad-
vocated the banging of every officer and
soldier found in the Confederate uniform
without the form of trial.
A physician undertook to thresh q re-
porter last week in Detroit. The M. ID.
will be up again in few days, if he does
well.
AT q meeting of the creditors of Jacob
Schneider, bankrupt brewer of Brooklyn,
debts to the amount of 100000 were au-
thenticated.
The Cranberry Growers Association of
New Jersey has presented to Queen Vic
toria two packages of cranberries, with re-
ceipes for the preparation Of them accord
ing to the American method.
Survivors of Andersonville prison are to
shoulder their crutches" ut q reunion, and
together flight over again" the horrors of
the "dead line" at Worcester, Mass.
The oldest couple in Ohio are said to re-
side near Miller's Mill, Lancaster county.
They are named Joel and Mary Miller, the
former being one hundred and the latter
ninety-six years of age,
Prentiss' hat factory, in Brooklyn, and
the Planet Mill, of Brooklyn, which closed
during the panic, will be reopened imme-
diately, giving employment to five hun
dred persons.
For several days a rumor has prevailed
that Asa Packer was to succeed Edgar
Thompson in the Presidency of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Mr.. Thompson en-
phatically denies its truth.
The payments from the Treasury by
warrant during December were as follows:
Civil and miscellaneous, S6,2l7 ,654 war,
81 ,6S3, 614; navy, 81, 13S,055 interior, In
dams and pensions, $4, 1853, 9o3. Total, Sl9,-
708, 226.
The Board of Trade of Keokuk, Iowa,
has passed resolutions denouncing the St.
Louis Bridge as q serious obstruction to the
navigation of the river, and calling on
Congress to abate the nuisance.
After nearly twenty-five years expert
ence of prohibitory law, and seven or
eight years trial of a State police specially
to enforce it, there are at this hour in the
city of Boston three thousand places where
liquors are illegally sold.
A man named Brown, living at Forythe,
fancy county, Mo-, shot and killed Joseph
Long, prominent druggist OF the town,
member of his family to discard Brown as
q lover. 81.
Mr.. Terry Morton, OF Pulaski county,
Va, shot himself Christmast day while
deer hunting. In the same county on the
next day, young boy, son of Mr.. Crockett
Jordan, was shot accidentally and almost
instantly killed by gun in the hands of
a son of Doctor Painter. fa.
The real estate of the late Governor Pick
ems, of South Carolina, has been sold at
auction, Mrs. Pickens being the purchaser.
The EdgewoOd or homestead tract, $500
acres, was bid off at SIS 900; the Grove tract,
! 300 acres, at $1,000, and the Savannah
river tract, 2, 100 acres, at $13, 100.
The following Senators covered into the
Treasury the amounts due them under the
provision of the act of March
3. 1873, at the dates hereinafter named
l873-N-y 20, Anthony, $4,497 June %,
S4,553 May q, Fenton,
81, 1874; June 2, .Frelinghuysen, S4,644
May 10, Hamlin, $4,l36; Aug. II, Morton,
1902; April 8, Pratt, $4,l2l Aug. %,
$3,04l March %, Schurz, So, 761
July II, Sherman, 81, 1886 May 9Th, Scott,
81, 1888 May 2, Sumner, 81 AS May %,
81, 359 March %, Wilson, S44S;
September 6, Wright, $3,14O