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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
a War Reminiscence,

Considerable excitement was occa-
stoned during last week in the Paint
Rock district, growing out of the ar
rest and examination of Calvin Pope
and Osborne Whaley, charged with
the murder, during the war, of "a man
by the name of Billingsley. The pre-
liminary examination was had before
Esquires Taliaferro, Byrd and Mitflin,
and lasted two days, some fifty or sixty
witnesses being summoned. James
Sewer, Esq, appearing for Pope, and
ID. Nelson, Esq, appearing for the
prosecution.
The testimony shows it to have been
cruel, cold blOOded murder, by
whomsoever perpetrated. Billingsley
sympathiZed with the south, and there
by probably made himself obnoxious
to Union men, aud which finally cost
him his life. The manner of his taking
off is testified to by Whaley, who has
turned States witness, as follows: That
for a pecuniary consideration paid him
by Pope, he hired himself out to decoy
Billingsly from his house to a certain
place, where Pope lay in ambush ready
to shoot him. He succeeded in getting
him out, when he was, as he states,
shot dead by Pope. Per contra, there
are numerous lndlvlduals TO whom
Whaley confessed that he, himself,
had committed the murder.
The justices, however, after hearing
the evidence for the prosecution There
was none offered for the defense) de
cided to send the prisoner on for fur
Their trial, and required bail in the sum
of 5000 Whaley was also held in
the sum of 81 900 for his appearance,
when called for.
Neither had given the required bail
when last heard from, and arrange
ments were being made to confine
them in the Loudon Jail, the prosecu-
ton Directing to our Jail on account Of
relationship between the prisoner and
our jailor.
Pope was indicted for this murder
two or three years ago, but for want of
evidence, or some other cause, the At
torney~General entered a nole.
Whaley left the country at the close
of the war, and has, as we are in.
formed, since been living in the
mountains of Georgia, and now makes
his appearance under the promise of
immunity from punishment by turn
ing States evidence. Livingston East
| IenHCSSCCdH.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MONROE
COUNTY.
Jack Hunt ShOoIs His wife and Is.
capes From Justice.
JACKSONVILLE, July 2lst, 1875

capes From Justice.
jacksonville, July 2lst, 1875.
To the Editors of the Chronicle:
On Monday fearful crime was com.
mitted at Telivo Plains, in the upper
part of this county. Jack Hunt known
a. Washs Jack, some time since mar
ried a young and estimable girl the
daughter of Glenn Davis. Her husband
has treated her unkindly, and on Mon
day she left her house and went over
to John Farmers, brOther-in-law of
her husbands, and on going in asked
for water. John Farmer took his
bucket and went to the spring (some
little distance), and while in the act of
dipping up the water heard two pistol
shots. This being common he thought
nothing wrong until he saw his wife
reckoning, he then ran, and found Mrs.
Hunt lying on the floor dead. Hunt
had followed her, aud in the presence
of his sister had shot her first through
the shoulder, and the second shot
through the heart. Farmer followed
with pistol, but Hunt had fled. Dill
gent search is being made for him.
Thus two lives are sacrificed as she
was soon to become a mother. No
reasonable cause can be assigned for
the preparation of this crime. AS the
usual one of insanity will not hold in
this case, as Jack Hunt was cool,
sharp man, and with an eye single to
his benefit alone
The general decentralization of the
"late npleasantness" is being crop
ped out, and we are feeling occasionly
the necessity of the utmost stretch of
our forgiveness and Christian forbear-
ance. There is no necessity of send
ing Missionaries abroad we need them
nearer home; at least the .feld is bear
in many sections. Let us have justice
and mercy. MONROE.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

TIE Democratic papers throughout
the State with few exceptions have
condemned in pretty strong terms the
failure of the State Authorities to pay
the July interest on Tennessee bonds.
Some of them have been unsparing in
their fault-fnding of the last Legisla-
ture. None of them have spoken out
against Gov. Porter as we remember,
except our lively Democratic evening
contemporary, The Age. 1t doesn't
place all the blame on the Legislature,
but says:
awe don't want to tell tales out of school,
but nevertheless. there is a silent belief in
the public mind that our Governor is not
fully equal to the occasion, and that he is
deficient in breadth of craftsmanship. Some
folks have the hardihood to insinuste that
he is not capable of graphing with this
knotty question of State finances, and that
he can't weather the financial hurricane
now sweeping over the commonwealth. We
can not tell exactly how this is, but circum-
stantial evidence is pretty strong in that
direction
The fact is, the Governor does not
seem to find much favor in the eyes of
either of our city contemporaries, al
though they are both Democratic to
the core. While we do not agree with
the Governor on political questions,
as our readers well know, we most
cordially approve his determination
not to call an extra session of the
Legislature,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
The Ohio Canvass.

GALLIPoLIs, ONO, July 22.-Gov. Allen,
George II. Pendleton and others addressed
the Democratic meeting. Pendleton's in
depreciation Of the financial plank in their
platform was as follows: "a cessation of
contraction; a sound and sufficient curren-
cy; the promotion of industries the surest
road to the appreciation of paper to par
with gold; greenbaeks instead of national
bank notes greenbacks for customs to the
extent that the necessities of the Govern
ment will permit" He announced hiIA-
self hard money man, but would not
rush ruthlessly back to specie payments
over the prostration of all business and the
ruin of the debtor
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
POLITICAL NOTES.


Private Dalzell is a candidate for the
State Legislate in Ohio, and it is said
he will be elected.
"Will the Cincinnati Commercial
send an interviewer to Archbishop
Purcell and ascertain if the venerable
gentleman really did reprove somebody
for saying that the public schools were
goddess 81 We have done our best to
get at the truth of that little matter,
and, as yesterdays Globe Democrat
showed, we failed. 1t is an important
item within the Commercials balli-
wick, and it should be looked after. u
Globe Democrat.
1t would have been better for Gov
ernor Allen if he had never emerged
from the ObscuTity of the farm at
Fruit Hill. He has given up peace
and quiet to gain one Gubernatorial
term, to desert his principles, to expose
his demagoguery, and to be disap-
pointed in Presidential aspirations.
His venture has not paid, not by a
great deal.-CiRciRnatj Gazette.
The Cincinnati Commercial closes q
long article reviewing the political his
tory of Ohio during the past two years
with this paragraph: We come,
therefore, to the conclusion that a Re-
publican victory in Ohio this time is q
certainty-and that the majority for
Hayes will be handsome and emphat-
ic, larger than he received on former
occasions, and sufficient to pronounce
the doom in the nation forever of the
sort of Democracy that is now assert
ing itself in this State"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
NnOtO docekp dbo Gbunit doeOnesDap yup g. 1875

not. A man of Charles O'Conor's
professional record, having retired
from active practice, wealthy, honor.
ed, able and free from all unworthy in.
fuences, occupies q position where he
can afford to criticise a court that sets
loose the prince of American thieves.
OF course lawyers can be found in
New York who will side with the
court and pronounce O'Conor foolish.
Some such will agree with the court
from honest motives, and others be.
cause they want to curry favor with
the Judges who have their cases un-
der consideration. So far as we are
able to judge at this distance, Mr..
OConor's letter is q serious blow at
the court, and must make its impress
sion upon the public.
One of the most startling results of
the decision is as Mr.. O'Conor shows,
that it leaves Boss Tweed a remedy
by civil suit for damages against the
Judge, jurors and officers who aided
in his conviction and the jailor who
confined him beyond the twelve
month which the Court fix as the linn.
it of his lawful Imprisonment. 1t
would, indeed, be a strange ending OF
the great reform movement in New
York, if the boss thief of this age
should close the series of suits in
which he has figured, with an action
for damages against the Judge and ju,
ry who found him guilty of his So.
100000 speculation. If he could re.
gain his former power in New York
City, such q trial would soon be wit
messed and the result would certainly
be q triumph for the thief. 1t il right
that some one should forewarn the
public ofthe possible end of this great
reform effort, and Charles O'Conor is
a Waterman whose alarum will not
pass unheeded.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
THE RAINS.
What Some East Tennessee Exchanges
Say.


The continued rains raised the rivers
considerably. For several days the
back water was over Clark's Spring
and all the low grounds in that VII
entity.
We hear much complaint by the
farmers at the continued wet weather.
Their crops have suffered seriously. A
large amount Of growing corn has
been drowned" on the Clinch, Ten
nessee and Emory bottoms. A farmer
from up the Clinch informs us that all
the bottom corn in that section has
been drowned ont, and will prove a
serious loss to many of them. East
IennesSeedR.
The recent prolonged and heavy
rains have done much damage in our
county. We hear from all quarters
that wheat is sprouting in the shock
and have reason to fear that the loss
occasioned thereby will prove very
serious and extensive.
Even the infallible blackberry crop
has not escaped the general disaster
occasioned by the rains. We are told
that in some places the berries mold as
fast as they ripen.
The damage to hay will turn out a
very serious one, We understand,
throughout the county, Itwould seem
that all the elements are combining
against man in this section. Greene
UtLLe american.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

LIVERPOOL, July 22.-The Post de-
clares that nothing has occurred to create
the least uneasiness in the cotton trade and
says that reports to the contrary are sus-
tanned.
LONDON, July 22.-The Times this morn
ing in financial article condemns the ST.
lence Of the managers of the direct United
States cable in regard to the line, and says
inquiries Of its stockholders meet with a
blank refusal to impart information.
LONDON, July 22.-In the House of Com
mons Disraeli announced that the Govern
ment had abandoned the merchants ship
ping bill this session. He expressed hope
that the session would close the 10th or
18th of August,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
TERRIFIC RAIN AT ATHENS.
The Railroad Track Submerged
Train Delayed. DC.

CHARLESTON, Tenn, July %, 1875.
Via CLEVELAND, Tenn, pm.
To tie Editors of the Chronicle:
There was terrific rain fall at Ath-
ems to-day about . O'Clock p. NJ. In
fifteen minutes the railroad bitches
were overlooking, and the railroad
track three miles west of town was
submerged in three different places,
one of them about fifty yards.
When within one mile of Athens,
the eccentric strap of the engine at
tached to the mail train broke, and the
train was delayed until the arrival of
the freight. The engine of the freight
train was then attached to the mail
train, and proceeded on to its destina-
ton.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

WE hear complaints from persons
engaged in almost every class of bus.
mess in this country, that our people
do not properly appreciate the impor-
lance Of patronizing home institu-
tions. 1t is evident to us that our
impoverished condition is owing, in a
large degree, to the fact that we send
our money Off to purchase too many
articles that we might produce at
home. We alluded some time ago to
the shameful manner in which some
people give manufacturing enterprise
es the cold shoulder. They will send
their money off and pay more for ar
ticles than the same would cost, man.
ufactured by their nelghbors, and
generally without giving their neigh
bors an opportunity to bid on their
work. This is not the way to encour-
age home enterprise.
We also hear merchants COM
plain that persons will send
away 70 New York and other
Eastern markets to purchase
articles which they could sell them at
as low or lower prices than they can
be obtained elsewhere. Now we do
not dispute the right Of any one to
purchase where he or she pleases, but
is it the proper policy? If every one
sends to New York for their dress
goods, our dry goods merchants will
have to close up their stores and 90
at something else. If people will
send somewhere else for their wagons,
buggies, plows, &C., it is conclusive
evidence that they do not wish such
manufactures at home. If persons
who want printing done will send to
New York for their job work, they
certainly do not want printing press
es at home. The tendency of such a
policy is to centralize all commerce
at New York, and break it up else
where; to centralize manufacturing
in the wealthy Eastern States and
forever break it up in the South, In
this way we impoverish ourselves and
put all our earnings into the pockets OF
Eastern capitalists.
After pursuing such policy as this
for half a century, we set down like
children and whine about the "scarci
ty ofmoney" and "hard times, as if We
need ever expect money plenty when
we send away all we receive and then
go in debt for goods we could manu-
facture at home. The South is poor,
and such a policy as this will only
confirm us in our irretrievably power
ty-stricken condition. No people car
have plenty Of money who spend two
dollars every time they produce one.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

position is, the announcement has es-
capped our attention. We respectful
" ask the Press and Herald to inform
its readers whether it favors econ.
traction or expansion"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

we HAVE already heard complaints
from dealers that wheat has been
brought to our market in wet and
damaged condition. Farmers should
be very careful about this. When
you send such wheat to market you
damage not only yourself but all your
neighbors. Give our market the char
acter ofbuying and selling such wheat
and you get a bad name that is not
easily got rid of. If farmers would
ali clean their wheat as well as it is
possible to do they would find that in
the end it would pay them a great
profit. Let our market have the char
acter of furnishing such an article and
we will never experience any Difficult
ty in realizing the very highest mar.
ket price.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

HIS HoSOE Judge Trigy, arrived in the
city, last night, By the II o'clock train from
the East. The Judge looked quite well, and
walked up street to the Lamar House, pre-
ferring to walk although vehicles were at
his seryics-Press and Hcra1d, FridGy.
We regret the necessity for stating that
this announcement was prompted by the
reports that had been industriously kept
up about the Courtroom, and about our
streets, TO effect that Judge Trigg was lying
drunk at Bristol and was coming down on
Thursdays train in a state of intoxication.
1t was in contradiction Of such SANDER
Gus rumors that the above quoted state
ment was made.-Prc5s and Hcrald, Yes
tcrd0y.
We must say that among all the
unfavorable comments we heard about
Judge Triggs failure to arrive on time
last week, and open court, we never
once heard such rumors as spoken OF
q in the above paragraph. We con-
versed with a large number Of gen.
tlemen about the hardness Of the
Judge, but none of them alleded
such a cause as that intimated in the
Press and Herald.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

WILL the Press dnd Herald favor
us with its views on the currency
question ? We believe that every
daily paper that reaches our table,
with solitary exception, has ex-
pressed its views, indicating its pref
erence for contraction on the one
hand, or expansion " on the other
as the opposing policies are distin-
guished. That single exception is
the. Knoxville Press and Herald. If
ithas told its readers recently what its
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28
Florida Omciai Assassinated.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, July Pc. G..
johnson, Deputy Collector Of the Internal
Revenue, and member of the Florida Leg
isature, was shot and killed, last night at
still house, about ten miles from Fernan-
dina, Assassins unknown. No particu-
lars.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

nessee would exclaim: "May the
Lord in his mercy save us from Dem.
ocratic expansion :"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

THERE has never been a time since
the Government undertook the task
Of supplementing the "red mans
buffalo and venison with " hard tack"
blankets and whisky, through the
Indian Bureau. that stealing was not
a part of the performance. We pre-
sumo there never will be. The OPP
portunity is 50 good that these thieves
and rascals naturally seek positions
as Indian Agents, where they can car
ry on their theft without immediate
danger of detection. A commotion
has recently been created by letter
written by Prof. Marsh, Of Yale Col.
lege, who witnessed, as he says, some
things at the Red Cloud Agency that
demand investigation Upon his
statement, an investigation has been
ordered, and we trust the truth may
be obtained. If parties are guilty as
he charges, let them be made to suf,
fer the penalties Of the law.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-07-28

THE people of Tennessee would
regard an extra session Of the Legisla-
ture as an infliction equal to a vista
ton of Grasshoppers
The GOODNESS of the Press and
Herald towards Governor Porter and
his administration, is in pleasant con-
trast with this unusually hot season.
Sam Randall claims that he hs
one hundred votes pledged to him for
the Speakership of the next House,
which is more than enough to carry
the Democratic caucus.
Those who take an interest in the
wheat market will find some items of
interest in London dispatch publish~
ed this morning giving an extract from
the Mark Lane Express.
We trust our country friends
will not underrate the Importance of
drying blackberries. The almost uni.
versal failure of the fruit crop will make
the blackberry crop more profitable
than usual.
The Press and Herald made a
''fiercern assault on Judge Trigg yes
terday, by publishing the paragraph
given elsewhere, than we had thought
of making. He may very appropriate
ly exclaim, Save one from my
friends J"
The st. Louis Globe Democrat
says: "If old Bill Allen were not the
Democratic candidate for Governor in
the Ohio campaign, we should judge
from his speeches that he was i'll the
pay of the Republicans. He certainly
is helping them nightly"
Reports from the country repre-
sent the roads in most deplOrable
condition since the late rains. We
have the most contemplate road law
in existence aud it, even, is not enforc-
ed. Ifa little Overhauling Of Road Over
seers were done it would have good
effec'.
Gov. Allen has opened the cam
paign in Ohio, by making speech at
Newark. The Commercial compli-
ments it by saying: There is not "A
sentence in which the Governor rises
above the worst temper, and poorest
twaddle of a f0urth-rate politician"
And again. ait is very weak and
miserable"
1t appears from our dispatches
this morning, that the defalcation Of
George " Jackson, Deputy internal
Revenue Collector at Louisville, Ken
lucky, amounts to over $50 600. soon
after the defalcalion was discovered,
he died under circumstances which led
many 10 believe he had taken poison,
He stood well in the community, and
was vestrymau in the Reformed
Episcopal Church.
1t is believed by many that a
sane man never Deliberately commits
suicide. If this be true, it might with
equal propriety be urged that no sane
man ever attempts so hazardous a feat
as that Of Prof. Donaldson, at Chicago
last week. \ balloon ascension near
50 large a body of water looks very
much like deliberate suicide, and yet
men for Il little brief uOtOrietv will face
ia q N i'm NariDus forms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-14
COTTON MARKEra.

Vgvv ORLEANS Apr IL. -Coft0n easier and irregular
> Low AldIllng, Il - Good OIdinAFl !,
lfaa net 20J7 bales 32s baIea eNpcrts
France 3al0 bales cdaSWsr, 1jO bai - aac -''oo
p,.AsEsi APRIL I3-COtton quiet Mddinr, l5'4c Low
Millung lji4c. Good Ordinary. IT, nee receipts OOJ
nal,s sales 2g7 bales stock. 80 T37 bales. -.
MOuuF. l3.-Cotgn weaS; Mfiling i9'f-l net
oins l4a exports, coast"i 600 baeS odes' ooo
bales stock, 21,3S3 baes. , ,,,,,.- ,c-,st.o .
prt rrcaptA $50 bates sales haes stock - o3 bales
TAT,-RI ApTil l3.-C0nn weak and lower % stl Ai'l
dIiue 1880 &c: Midlng, lb SILT &C iood OIui
nary lJLld H. pc receipts - bales cusF f9' Eas
eXrGrs coastei.e $50 bales sales - bals stocx, l41ol
Us,s. ,,Aut,r
lhL1c. Mniin:. lhc Good Ordinary, lie hrt
ceir Gg3 bales 721 balcs exports, coastwae 3!S
paia. saIceI bales stock 5i,oVf bales. .,,, -,
i.-COttou easrr lower hlddlng lot
low Middliu &c; Good Ordinary, II &c net receipts
X3i hars shipment 39f bales nm, -o-,o, -.
.OglOt T. rI1 IC00D lHiet biidiIug IbDIo ~ n :
rccelts bales eports coast~se J0O baieH she Sou
bales stock. t.76i halrs.
MsaP,,i- Ap.ii li-1 Otton DIM Nddng 1890: net re
c-,ps 81 ua,es shipments, 2jl bales sales LILO o'S
NSt.iov ApT4I l3-Cotton unchanged Midlng, 10 -;
n.t receipts. ] pal.- stock 2+Go bal
Eo,ToH. April Ia otton Gnt hiddlne G'ic; Htt re-
ce.p. 277 bales gO-- 2s7:i bales saes oil bales s"c"
IiADg. Fura April Is-COtton dun Mtlllng 1880.
net receiptg Z bale gross. 80 bales. -
-r I0jis. Arui I3.-C0run lower; Mddliuc, l3'c LOW
Nttlna L. 49, GOOD Orrua7', IL -. grobs cg4ps -
Laics shipments. 4O5 bales sales $50 bales 0oS '-au
',>cI.s,rL April fs-Coti0n dun and nominal de. ne
&C. receipts. 49, baies Ri pin"nS J4O bales 7"cN
Il LoiisviIIE Apl l3.-Cotton dun Mlddling lj4c