Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1874-03-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

The failure of the rains Of December has
shortened the Barbados sugar crop by
5000 hogsheads.
The Catholics Of New Haven, Conn,
held temperance mass meeting on Sun
day, which was attended by over 5000
persons.
Hon. r. B. Vance, representative in
Congress from North Carolina, delivered
temperance address in Baltimore on Sun
day to on immense audience.
There are nearly fifty women practicing
medicine in New York and Brooklyn,
most of them hommopathically, and many
having incomes of between $4,000 and
So, 900, while several reach SIS, 000 and one
or two over 1000. There are three med
ical colleges there and a fourth is now
building.
The government has commenced suit
in the United States District Court against
the New York Flax Spinning Company,
to recover 100000 gold for alleged under
valuation of invoices Of linen goods. The
company is said to be an English one, and
the action therefore lies against their
agency in New York city.
The Vendome Column ia Paris, which
was pulled down by the radical mob, is
progressing rapidly towards reconstruc-
ton. The spiral bronze has reached the
seventh turn out of the twenty-five, which
will complete the height The last plate
fixed represents the attack and capture of
Gunzburg. as
Additional articles of agreement be-
tween Switzerland and the United States
have been entered into, providing for the
interchange of postal cards between the
two countries, at the rate of two cents
from the United States and ten confines
from Switzerland, the postage to be pre-
paid in all cases. The agreement goes into
effect on the first of May next. -
The rice crop of Louisiana, the last sea-
son, reached 100000 barrels. The New Or
much more hopefully than upon the sugar
culture in that State, and says that the rice
planting this spring will be the largest on
record. Another year is expected to put
Louisiana ahead of California as rice
producer, and the crop will reach enor-
NOUS proportions in the next decade.
Gems. Sheridan, Hooker and Whipple,
the Army of the Cumberland, have con-
Guided a contract with J. @. A. Ward, of
New York, the designer Of the Shakespeare
statue and Indian Hunter in Central Park,
for an equestrian statue in bronze of Gen.
Geo. II. Thomas, fourteen feet high, to be
delivered in Washington in three years,
the model of the same to be submitted to
the committee in July next, for its APP
proval.
Some weeks since Mr.. Daniel Drew, the
millionaire Wall street Spectator, was
suffering from a severe attack of sickness,
and acting in this hint some evil-disposed
person started rumOr in Wall street OH
Friday last that he had died or was serious
~ ill. Daniel is perfectly healthy and
likely to remain SO from present appear
ances. The circulation of the report had
the effect to make break of several points
in the market price of Quicksilver stock
Of which company Mr.. Drew is president,
Morgan & Co. have cable advices from
their London house, that the subscriptions
to the $lO,o0o,00o loan of the Baltimore
and Ohio railway company, the books be-
ing open only two days, amount to over
$25, 100000. This loan is in the form of
sterling bonds Of GOO each, bearing six
per cent. The proceeds of this loan, with
the other resources of this company, viii
supply the means required for the compile
ton of all the works in which the compa-
ny is engaged. The price atewhich the
bonds were taken is SCI, or 5e193 per bond
of G200. Judging from this operation,
American credit has certainly revived.