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

kept as motel.
Twenty car loads Of tea arrived az Omaha
Saturday morning from san Francisco.
There are one hundred and twenty men
residing in six counties in California who
own 8, 10000 acres of land.
The Kansas senate has passed the joint
resolution to submit the question of female
suffrage to vote of the people.
| The number of hogs killed in Chicago to
the 2lst inst, during the season, IS $780,
| 437, against ,29l coo same time last year.
Eight hundred sleighloads of wheat,
amounting to 80, 262 bushels, were brought
| into Red Wing, Minnesota, one day last
week.
New York brides are introducing the
London fashion of wearing bonnets at
the ceremony when it is performed in
church.
Among the officers of the Iowa Legisla-
ture, ladies fill the position of postmaster,
| folder, and engrossing clerk Of one of the
houses.
Tea growing in California is thought to
be a success, and there is already talk of
planting tea in some of the central South
ern States.
The Consul of the United states at Bue-
nos Ayres has reported, under date of the
30th of December last, that the cholera is
prevailing there.
The Springfield RepuJlicool mentions as
its ticket: For President-Charles Fran
els Adams, of Massachusetts. For Vice
president-Newton Booth, of California"
Henry Ward Beecher told his congrega-
ton on Friday night that history could
not show parallel to the present temper
ance movement of the women of the coun-
try.
Chicago is becoming a second Pittsburg.
No alor- 80 Yfo.,f ho4 IN
creased and they are emitting dense vol~
umes of soft coal smoke from morning to
night.
A careful estimate shows that up to
Saturday night 100000 tons Office had been
gathered on the Hudson River, and the
harvest is considered over. Last year
l,j09,000 tons were stored.
Over 800, 900 votes were cast in the late
parliamentary elections in Great Britain.
The total number of voters in the United
Kingdom is about 3,O0000 Fifty years
ago there were only 200, 900 voters.
A petition is now in circulation and will
soon be presented to the Massachusetts,
Legislature, praying the abolition of the
exemption of churches from taxation. 1t
is estimated that church property in that
State amounts to at least S2j 100000.
The Finance Committee of the Virginia
Legislature has fully considered the expe-
diency OF licensing faro banks, ana have
concluded to report separate bill provid-
ing for license tax of 81 900 upon that
kind of business. This tax would yield
not less than $4,000 in Richmond alone.
We are now not only supplying the
United States with patent leather, but ex-
port it to London, Hamburg, Canada,
West Indies, South America, Australia,
China, and Japan, and we seem destined
TO catch the loose trade of the world with
it. III
The Democratic journals of Missouri are
dissatisfied with the action of their party
leaders, and are uttering loud complaints.
The st. Louis Republican says the old
fondness for the party is disappearing, and
that nearly all the leading organs are ex-
pressing their discomfort.
The London Times correspondent says
that among the rumors in circulation, one
is being repeated more persistently than
before, TO the effect that the Prince Impe-
rial will enter France Immediately on at
tanning his majority, which is at hand,
there being no ground on which such
resolution could be opposed.
a law has been enacted in North Caro-
lima that all commercial fertilizers shall
bear the name and address of the manu-
facturer or seller, together with a true
analysis of the article that any failure TO
furnish the genuine article thus composed
may be plead in defense to an action for its
price, and that the State geologists shall
when required make an analysis and pub
lish the results thereof.