Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-04
Personal.

John Morrissey has leased the Saratoga
trotting track for five years.
A correspondent calls Representative
Beck, of Kentucky, the Ben. Butler of the
Democratic side of the House.
There is report that Hon. John For
syth, the editor Of the Mobile Register, is
to become the editor Of the New Orleans
PicGyU1e.
Out of five children which composed the
family of John Jacob Aston, only one re-
mains. This is VIM. =. Astor, who is now
upwards of eighty.
Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" ena-
bled him to regard, with about SD 900
worth of complacency, the multiplication
| of innocents at home.
Wendell Phillips says that il there were
twelve hundred millions of greenbacks in
circulation it would be impossible to get
up "cornerh on them.
joaquin Miller says that Bryant is
Americas second greatest poet, and con-
| fesses that his modesty forbids his men,
tioning the first of the list.
| General Banks has q lecture on "The
Duration Of the Republic" in which he
predicts that within the lives of his hear
ers there will be men worth $500, 100000.
| Bret Harte, it is said, can command a
| higher price for his work than any literary
man in the metropolis. Scribner's Month
1 ly has paid him as much as 500 page.
President Eliot, of harvard College, has
sailed for Europe on "a three months visit,
for the purpose of investigating the educa-
tional systems of Oxford and Cambridge.
A Washington correspondent of the
| Chicago Times reports Senator Sumner as
remarking that ex-President Theirs told
him that he considered the Electoral Col
lege the one serious flaw in American Re
Ipublicanism.
| Cardinal Antonelli is described as tall,
powerful man, with eyes as dark as night,
prominent nose, full lips, lemon-color.
ed complexion, robust constitution, with
attitudes and gestures that show him born
to command.
James Jackson, of Banks county, Geor.
gia, died recently at the age of 1l5, leaving
q widow aged ITO, and several children
now unhappily orphaned. Mr.. Jackson
never took dose of medicine in his life
| and it is no wonder he died.
The degree of Doctor of Laws has beer
conferred upon the Hon. Morrison r
Waite by the Faculty of Kenyon College
of which institution he was q Trustee a
the time of his appointment to the Chic
| Justiceship.
Nilsson, who is paid $3.50 per night ant
one-half the receipts over $1,000, received
for singing at Boston, last week, 1850, o
which So, l50was for the Saturday matinee
The receipts on Wednesday evening wer
about Sc, 400, and Nilsson's share was g.,
800.
r. G.. De Large, colored, ex-member o
Congress from South Carolina, died il
Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunda,
last. He took prominent part in the pol
itics of the city and State after the close o
} the war, figured as q member of the recon
} struction convention, was also appointed
magistrate, and afterwards a trial justice
f which he held at the time of his death.
John G. Whittier is spending the montl
! of February with Ex-Governor Clafin, il
Boston. He is enthusiastic over the repea
} of the Sumner resolution of censure. N
triumph of his life correspondent writes
{ has moved him to a profounder deligh
than the passage of the act of repeal
which was originated by himself, an,
, which frees from censure the honOre'
name of his friend.
Queen Victoria is gradually recoverin!
from the grief of her widowhood. For
long time after the death of the prime
} consort she could not bear to touch a piano
} nor did she even allow one to be opened il
her presence. Now she has resumed he
old accomplishment, and plays duets will
her last remaining daughter, the Princes
l Beatrice, and GOunOd has arranged som
e of the music of "Jenne dare as a duet 70
: the Queen and her daughter.
! John G. Potts, one of the Oldest Cd
Fellows in the United States, died at Gale
ma, Illinois, last week. He was initiate
: in Lodge No. L, in Philadelphia, in SEP
= tender, 1925, and was Grand Master of tn
= Grand Lodge of the State of Pennsylvani
; in 1929. In 1886 he and George M. Balla
We're arrested by order of the Pennsylva
mia Legislature for being connected wit
secret societies. He removed TO Galena /
i. 1898, and for several years held the pos
h ton of Deputy Grand Sire of the Unite
Ie States for the, Northwestern States.