Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-08
Personal.


The Agassz Memorial fund has reached
S91, ,23S.
Gerritt Smith throws up his hat for the
crusaders.
Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant.
weighs $50 pounds.
Pullman, of paace-car fame, is building
q SIS 900 cottage at Long Branch.
Ex-Governor Walker is a candidate for
Congress in the Richmond district.
Chief Justice Sargent, of New Hamp-
shire, has founded scholarship in Dart
mouth College.
correspondent of the Daily Grdphic
predicts that Hon. Jas. G. Blaine will be
the next President.
The poet Longfellow is on visit at
Hamilton, Ontario, and intends to spend
this summer in Canada.
b. p. Shillaber, atlas Mrs. Partington, is
now an invalid, and asks his friends to buy
book he has published.
Mark Twain's new residence in Hart
ford, now nearly completed, is said to be
the funiest building in the State.
William 3. Astor is reported to be n
large stakeholder in the Western Union
Company, which is said to have a surplus
Of So 100000.
The Shah of Persia wants Mrs. Samuel
Colt to come over there and start q revolver
factory, and has agreed to marry her
daughter as an inducement.
The st. Louis Globe states that at the
end OF the present session of Congress,
General Schurz will resign his seat, and
return to st. Louis to edit the Westlichc
Post.
Ex-Governor Foote once offered $4,000
for the scalp of an abolitionist. A few days
ago he dined with Wendell Phillips in q
restaurant in Washington, kept by col
ored man.
The Executors of Edwin Forrest have
effected settlement with the divorced
wife of the deceased by'paying her S95, 900,
she agreeing to forego all her claims for
this sum.
They are discussing the capital punish
ment question in the Illinois Legislature,
| and majority report from a special COM
| mittee has been submitted in the Senate in
| favor of its abolition,
One of the most delicate compliments
ever paid to man was that which spoke
of the late Jonas Chickering, founder of the
| Chickering House, as being, like his pianos,
| grand, square, and upright"
James Gordon Bennett is reputed to be
worth SS,000000 to $4,000, 900, including
the Herald property; and he is, therefore,
| one of the richest men of his age the is but
| thirty-three) in the whole country.
Sunsot Cox attributes his failure to his
| lack of size. He says that if he had Fer
| nando Woods legs under his own head,
with Swans digestive apparatus, the Pres
idency would have been to him manifest
destiny
VIM. Lloyd Garrison is terribly mad at
| the Massachusetts Legislature for passing
| resolutions lauditory of NIilard Fillmore.
| 1t is still uncertain whether the members
will voluntarily resign, or wait for LLOYD
| TO march up and disperse them
Florence Nightingale and Harriet Mar
tineau have signed an address to Mr.. Dis
raeli soliciting him to use his influence to-
ward extending the right of franchise to
women in the British Islands He is
thought to be favorable to the project.
Charles Sumner, in his youth, achieved
the arduous feat of swimming across the
boiling rapids below Niagara Falls-a feat
which few men have had either the muscle
or the nerve to perform, and much more
arduous than Byron's venture in SWIM
ming the Hellespont.
The friends of John G. Whittier have
fears that he may never he strong enough
to resume his literary labors, and are urg-
ing him to go abroad for his health. New
er robust, he has been losing strength for
some years past. When the rebellion was
crushed he said that he felt that his life
work had been happily ended.
Mrs. Pinchback, wife of the Senator, is
| a handsome Octoroon of unusual intelli-
gence and cultivation. She has a beauti-
| fully moulded figure, very small hands
| and feet, and the finest gait and carriage
| that can be seen in Washington. Possessed
as she is of sprightly and ambitious ma
ture, her manners and conversation are
both pleasing and distinguished