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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22
DnusOic decbp aag anO Gbun aoOnsOap December 90 1876

b ed. When some delay seemed inevi-
he made request for an immediate
of Inquiry. Now that his case is sure
thorough and immediate investigation
/, he civil tribunals, he asks that the
!, t Of Inquiry he dissolved. All this is
. an innocent man, smsrting under u
= of injustice, would be apt TO do, and
L. entities the General to n considerate
n candid hearing. 1t Is well for him,
O.. YER, and for the President also, that
curt of Inquiry is to be put out Of the
1t was not satisfactory tribunal,
it placed the President, who APP
.l ed it and would have to revise
ndings, in q peculiarly embarrassing
ion toward his confidential secretary,
N it was to try. We do not believe that
officers of this Court would have en-
Il in any whitewashing, nor do we be-
that the President would have wished
rrmitted it. But it is vastly better for
{ them that the civil tribunals are to
use of the case in the legitimate and or.
y way"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

HERE is the Amendment TO the Con
stitutlon Of the United States as pro-
posed 10y Mr.. Blaine:
"No State shall make any law respecting
an establishment Of religion, or prob biting
the free exercise thereof, and no money
raised by taxation in any State for the sup
port Of public schools, or derived from any
public fund thereof shall ever be under the
control Of any religious sect; nor shall
any money so raised ever be divided be
tween religious secls or denominations.
The Nashville American says OF
It:
at is extremely doubtful if the Demo
orsts, as body will offer any serious op
position to the proposed amendment. In
deed, numbers will doubtless vote for it,
thus depriVipg it Of the character Of a
Republican measure"
If the American is correct in its
representation Of the temper Of the
Democratic Members, the amendment
il almost certain TO be adopted.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22
A Meteorological Phenomenon.

About 8 o'clock on Monday morning a
novel and brilliant spectacle was witnessed
by those who had the good fortune to be
IN the vicinity of Chaudiere bridge. A
the blue heavens, and by those who witness
ed 1t wlnot readily be forgotten. 1t was
apparently about six feet ia diameter and
as bright as the sun, which was shining
brightly at the ime. Followed by an
immense train of FIRE of vividne that
can not be easily described, terminating in
an immense body Of blood-red fame and
dense smoke, it fell In an oblique direction
TO The west, and then with fearful kissing
noise into tho Ottawa, creating a dense
Free Press
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22
The Press Invasion.

Never before has there been such an
invasion here OF representatives Of
the press" Of high aud low degree, but
very generally of the Democratic per
suasion. The local editor Of the Texas
Clarion of Freedom, the commercial
reporter of the Alabama Sentinel Of
State Rights, the musical critic of the
South Carolina White Mans Cham
pion, aud the bOok-reviewer of the
Tennessee Trumpet Of Liberty, with
some four score others, have come
here To obtain situations under the
Clerk OF the House. Failing in this,
they will be assistant doOrkeepers,
messengers, bathroom attendants,
folders Of documents, -anything. But
mean while they desire front seats IL
the Reporters Gallery, an abundance
OF stationery, public documents. aud
invitations TO the different social en-
tertainments. The legitimate repre-
senialives of the Democratic press re
gard these recruits very much AZ
FalstaH did his recruits, and would
evidently like TO see every one Of them
appointed Consul at Jericho.-Wash'
ington Correspondence Chicago Tri-
bune.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

The Memphis Avalanche is not
well pleased with Holman's anti.sub.
sidy resolution, as we infer from the
following, which we clip from that pa
per
"The policy of the Democratic party, as
agreed to by the resolution of the House Of
Representatives, against the Southern Pa
ei6c Railroad, can not be sustained by the
public opinion Of the South. If the Demo.
cratic party cannot be Of any service to the
South, it were better 70 abandon it, and
better for the South to take care Of its in
Sustrisl reconstruction under new and diff.
ferent auspices"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

the Democratic party will be respon-
sible for it, and it will be accepted as
evidence that they never expect to
pay the State debt.
These are some of the questions to
be taken into consideration, when we
undertake to convince our creditors
that if they viii allow us to take up
the present bonds, with others bear
ing lower rate of interest, that we
Will promptly pay interest in the fu-
ture.
It's proper to say that the whole
trouble lies in the selection of incom-
petent and corrupt officials. If
Legislators, under the manipulatioDs
of bond rings, see fit to adopt meas
ures to depreciate the value of bonds
and allow their masters to go into the
market and buy, they can do it. They
can tie the hands of the Governor
and other State officers, as thev have
done, and they are helpless, If they
see fit to pursue some other deceptive
course, and temporarily increase the
price of bonds, SO that the rings may
"unload," they can do this also. If
the honest people Of the State will
cut loose from the manacles OF party,
and elect honest, capable men to the
Legislature, who will set their faces
against corrupt rings, and work only
for the credit of the State, we have no
doubt that such an arrangement as
Governor Porter speaks O. may be
made at an early day, and that our in
terest account may be largelyreduced.
But five are to keep on in the future
as we have gone in the past, we see
nothing TO hope for but reputation
and everlasting disgrace.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

IT has been charged that General
John A. Logan was mixed up with
the whisky ring. A Washington
special to the Cincinnati Gazette
says:
"The attention of the Secretary of tho
Treasury vas called this evening to recent
publications in the West in which the
name Of Senator Logan was connected with
the whisky ring Secretary Bristow said ;
" You can say that there is no evidence,
and has never been any, which in any way
implicated Gen. Logan in the whisky ring
and l don't believe there will be-"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

The Church property of New
York City is found to be worth from
eighty to ninety millions of dollars.
Hon. Benjamin J. Lea is a prom
inent candidate for Congress in the
Ninth District at the next November
election.
-Ex-GovernOr John c. Blown has
been rendered, and, we learn, has ac~
cepted the appointment of Vice Presi-
dent Of the lexas Pacific Railway
Company.
The Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune thinks that
the race for the Republican Presiden'
tial nomination has narrowed down to
two men-Blaine and Bristow.
On the receipt at New York OF
the information contained in Gov. Por-
ter's open letter, which we published
yesterday, Tennessee bonds tumbled
to AZ cents on the dollar.
Mr.. H. Y. Riddle has been elect
ed to Congress from the 4th Tennessee
District, as every one supposed he
would be. Only about half the ordi-
nary vote was polled.
On the forty-second ballot, the
Memphis Democratic Convention
nominated Judge John r. Flippin as a
candidate for Mayor of that city.
Judge Flippin is a man OF character
and influence.
Woodward, late County Trustee
of Shelby county, who defaulted some
time ago for ST. 500, has been arrested
in San Francisco, on a requisition
from Gov. Porter, and is Oh his way
back to Memphis, in charge Of the
Sheriff.
Col. Fort, who introduced the
resolution in Congress- the other day
in reference to the appointment to Of
flee Of worthy disabled ex-Federal sol
diers, served in the Union army
throughout the war, from 1861 to 1865.
A Baptist Church has been or
ganized in New York, called the
Centennial Church, and Rev. J. D.
Fulton, d. D., has been selected as
Pastor. 1t will be remembered that
owing TO dissatisfaction OF his congre-
CATION, DR.. Fulton, a short time since
resigned the Passionate Of the Hanson
Street Baptist Church, in Brooklyn.
OF the thirty-three votes cast
against Mr. Holman's anti-subsidy
resolution, twenty-five of them were
from Democrats. Two of these were
Tennesseeaus, Mes-rs. House, Of til,
Nashville, and Young, Of the Mem
phis districts. TheTenuessee Member
who voted for it were, Mcfarland
Thornburgh, Dibbrell, Caldwell an,
Whitihorne. Bigst and Akin
lodged it.
THE President gives mortal OF
Tense to the partisan editors of a larg
number of Democratic newspapers b,
insisting that no guilty man in tn
whisky ring must escape. If he ha
shown a disposition to keep down in
vestigatiun and to shield the guilty
they would have gone into ecstaciei
How cruel to thus disappoint them
It is too bad.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22
TIE New York Tribune has this to

TIE New York Tribune has this to
say in reference to Gen. Babcock:
General Babcock has done a sensible
thing in asking for the dissolution Of the
Court Of Inquiry. 1t must be confessed that
appearances have been from the outset
much against him. The indictment is in it.
self presumptiye proof Of the existence Of
evidence which the Grand Jurors thought
important. The kilograms themselves, the
declarations Of Henderson, Dyer, and 9TH
ere, all point to a strong belief in his guilt.
But, on the other bond, justice requires the
public to note that, thus far, Gen. Babcock
has done everything which an innocent man
could, under the circumstances, be expect
ed to do. The moment his name was i'm
plieated he telegraphed request to be ex-
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

TIE Nashville American, referring
to our notice Of the failure to lease
the penitentiary, and that consequent
ly the present lcssees would have it
eight months longer, says:
"yYas there ever such stupid ignorance D.?
The present lease expires only a month be-
fore the meeting OF the Legislature to be
elected next year.
If the ass who wrote this paragraph
had taken the trouble to refer to the
Acts Of the Legislature he would have
seen that, in case of a failure 90 lease,
the Governor may extend the present
lease eight months. Does the long
cared editor of the Nashville double
barreled bugle expect that the penis
Tertiary will be left without leasing
until the Legislature can act on the
question q? While the American is on
this subject, Wilt please explain why
the bid Of NIessrs. White & Lands fol
the lease Of the penitentiary was re
jected?
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

THERE are q few Democratic pa
pers throughout the country the ed
itors of which are scarcely less re-
markablc for their mean vindictive.
ness than for their want of brains,
They are unable to write any
thing which comes up to the dignity
of an argument, or even to state
facts, and seek to supply this impor-
tant deficiency by calling names.
Hence when they allude to q Rcpub-
lican paper, it is called an admin
istration organ grinder" Supremacy
mercenary in all they say and do
themselves, they would have the
world believe that a paper can not
support the Administration Of Presi-
dent Grant, and the principles and
policy Of the Republicanparty except
at q sacrifice Of personal independ-
cnce and from mercenary motives.
Hence they have learned to say
" Government organ " Administra-
ton organ grinder ETC., and parrot
like, continue to use these expressions
in reply to everything that is said by
Republican papers. The editors Of
not few Of these little mercenary
sheets, since Congress met with Q
Democratic minority in the House,
have been in Washington, Emporium,
ing, hanging on, imploring and boring
Democratic members, boarding,
eating and sleeping with them, all for
the sake Of some little office, they
don't care what. They will take
anything from the highest clerkship
down 10 the lowest position under the
Doorkeeper Of the House. They are
such q seedy, insignificant, utterly
worthless set, that the more respecta
BILE correspondents of Democratic
papers snub them and write them
down as dead beats. 1t is this class
of men and this style of journalist.
that answer every charge made by {
Republican newspaper by character
izing their opponents as "carping
Administration organ grinders
They are without influence at home
or abroad. They are not respected
by the better class Of their own party
associates. Some Of them have 81
conducted themselves in the commu
mites in which they live, that they
find it much pleasanter to remain a
: Washington, where they are no
known, than remaining at hom
where they are known to-
well. We much prefer tina
such fellows should speak agains
US than for US. Their friendship j
more to be feared than their oppos
ton.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

THE Memphis Appeal is very en-
thusiastic over the passage of the
anti-subsidy resolution of Mr.. Hol-
man, but says not a word in reproof
Of II. Casey Young, its Represent
alive in Congress, who was one Of the
thirty.three who voted against it.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

Bowed knees and beautiful words
can not make prayer but earnest de-
sires from the heart bowed In love, in
spired by Gods Holy Spirit, and
thirsting for God will do II, anywhere
or In any place, at any time.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

WHILE Democratic papers general
ly have manifested a disposition to
"growl" at that part of the Presi-
dents Message referring to a perma-
nent settling Of the school question,
and forever removing it from the field
of politics, very few of them have the
hardihood to come out boldly against
it. We see no good reason why the
amendment to the Constitution as
proposed by Mr.. Blaine should not be
adopted. We can not see how Cath
olics, many of whom are undoubtedly
in favor of a division of the school
fund for sectaria9 purposes, can OPP
pose it. They themselves profess to
be in favor of keeping the question
out of politics, and if some such mea-
sure as that proposed by the Presi-
dent, and put in practical shape by
Mr.. Blaine, were adopted, it would be
done.
If Democratic papers are sincere
when they denounce the Introduction
Of the school question into a political
contest, what can they say in opposi-
ton to such an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States rs
will forever settle the question and
take it from the political field. Such
q course is no injustice to any sect or
party, and cannot be construed into q
prescription of any sect.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

a WASHINGTON special to the
Louisville Courier-Journal says:
"Mr. Blaine is rapidly looming up as
the Republican nominee for President, and
is gaining strength every day."
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-22

THE Church property of New
York City is found to be worth from
eighty to ninety millions of dollars.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
Saturday, june 10, 1875,

within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tennes-
see, tO-wit:
In district No. T. and beginning at a stake,
from which north 70 east, II links, to a black
oak marked Z. & B., the northwest corner OF
Pillow and Bradshaw's $50 acre tract; thence
south so chains and 10 links, to stake and
dead pOstOak pointer In John Kenneday's
lane; thence west 10 chains, to a stake and
black-gum, marked ]. K, poplar and sweet
gum pointers, said kenneday's northwest cor
ner; thence north, with the east line Of george
DOugherty's 5000 acre tract, so chains anu ~
links, to a stake, said DOugherty's nor ntssb
corner; thence east, 10 chains, 10 the OesAu-
ming.
Also, one other tract, adjoining the above,
marked n n thence west 81 poles, to a stake
20 links east of an elm LuaIkeQ E'5 Lhence
south 2l7 poles to sdHS ~ ii ad Olst VI
DOiU tors. tbance east 81 poles, TO a stake in Ed
dings;s line; thence north 2l7 poles, to the be-
Ont If the above dover has been assigned,
which is described as follows: 8 lS-l00 acres of
land in section 3, range of eleventh survey
or1 district and in the seventh civil district Of
shelby county, Tennessee, beginning at the
nOrtheast corner OF the tract out Of which the
dover was to be taken, stake u links south
~ west of a blackjack marked B., with null
berry, white-oak and hickory pointers; run
ming thence west 80 chains, to a stake with
sweet-gum, white oak, dOgwOOd and ckOry
pointers; thence south 26A chains, 10 sycamore
ana hOTnbeam pointers; thence east 80 chains
to the east line, a stake with hOrubeam, sweet
gum ana poplar pointers; thence nOliu ~
chains, TO the beginning, for timber land ana
% PHO acres of same tract, beginning at a
stake where the east line crosses the ceGter OF
the Raleigh and Somerville road, IS 40 mains
from its southeast corner, and running thence
south 500 west along the Raleigh ana SOM
erville road, 20 chains; thence south 10 chains
and Is links, to stake IN a Gltch, win sweet
gum, elm. cherry, dOgwOOd and white-Oak
pointers; thence east 10 chains and 20 links, to
a stake in a road thence north 1919 chains, TO
the place Of beginning, including the residence
and other improvements
The property outside Of the dover, and the
remainder interest in the dover, will be sold
separately. Surveys OF same will be made and
filed before the sale.
Terms of Sale-One-fourth cash; balance in
seven and,tWelve months, purchaser executing
notes with approved security, bearing six per
cent. interest; lien retained; equity of re-
demption barred.
This May %, 1875.
NJ. d. Il. STEWART Clerk and MASTER
By Geo. Mallery, ID. Gard NJ.
Wilson & Beard, soils. To- cOmplt myth
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
CHANCERY SALE
r. . al Estate.
On Saturday, June &c, 1876.

No. l466.-Union and Planters Bank of Men,
phis vs.. HUI. l.. Brinkley, ct al.-In the First
Chancery Court Of Shelby county, Tennes-
see.
By virtue of an introductory decree for sale
entered in the above cause, on the 9th day OF
April, 1915, and amended June 3, 1875, l will
in front of the Clerk and Masters office, new
Court House, Main street, Memphis, Tennes-
see, on
Saturday, June 26, 1875,
Within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tennes-
d. The fee-simpIe Of II. L, BrinkIey
in the undivided One-halt reVer-
s sion IF e n5gTest IN bS Isl eetba is s to
say, fronting ~ feet on the east side OF Main
street running 6acE, between t,' parallel lines,
OF Madison and Main streets.
on Lot No. S65, city of Memphis, triangu-
lar living between jackson street, Raleigh
road and the alley east of Third street. De
iendaDt has reversiOuary interest in one IN
divided half Of same.
III fsJ Lot No. 800, city of Memphis. I38Iz bv
I4s}5 teet, northwest corner of Concord and
Third streets. Defendant has reversiOuary
interest in one undivided half of same
a. Lot No. 1913, city Of Memphis I4S% by
l4S2 feet, northeast corner of Concord and
Third streets. Defendant has TeversiOnaTy
interest in one undivided half of same.
And also his fee-simple, absolute, in the fol-
Lying in Shelby county, Tennessee, be-
northeast of the city of Memphis, and
designated and described upon the plat
book No. l, page sS, registers office shelby
county, Tennessee, and by a partition between
defendant, h. L. Brinkley, and Annie e. snow
den, the lots COlOred yellow on said plat, be-
longing TO said defendant, II. j.. Brinkley, as
particularly named in a partition deed regis
tered in book No. IS, pages ASS and 4jg, regis
te 3 Office, Shelby county, Tennessee, tO-wit:
Lots Nos. and g. block No. I; lots Nos. 3, 5, g.
and g. in block No. 2; lots No. J, s. 9, 10, II, H.
~ 49, % p and p, in block No. 5; lots Nos. l. 2
3 s. ~ 49, n, IS, Is and Il, in block No 8; lots
Nos Z g. g. TO- H. II, Is, 10, 20 q and p, in block
No :; lots Nos. J. 2, 3, 4, ), g. = s. Is, 49, 20 D. D.
% 81 % and %, in block No. S; lots Nos. 9, 10
H. r. l3 II, I5 10 H. 2, q, D. 30, 81 81 80 and a.
in block MOB; lots Nos 9, TO- H. Z, b. IL Is 10,
IT, 81 IS 49, 30, 81, 30, % and 81, in block No lO
lots Nos l. 2, s. Z u, IL, I5 IT, H. Is - and 90 in
block no. Il; lots Os. p J. g. T. 8 y, H. d. T. 20
y, q, and %. in block No p; lots Nos. 2, T. 6 s.
., H. H. 10, Il, l9, p, p and o. in block No iS
and lots Nos l, 3 and 3, in block No. l.
Terms Of Sale-On a credit Of six months:
purchasers to give notes, with approved secu.
Tityi lien retained, and equity Of redemption
barred.
This June 8, 1879.
EDMUND A. COLE,
Clerk and Master,
By r. J. BLACK, d. c. and NJ,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
Attachment NOtice.

BEFORE JAMES HALL, ]. P.-Trial Docket
No. mo. l364.-Goodbar Il Gilliland a firm
composed of j. NJ. GOOdbar, J. K. s. Gil Inland,
]. L. Goodbar and A. B. GoOdbar, v 5. T. w,
O'BannOn.
In this cause an attachment hayi, lg been
sued out under section 3455 of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned into court levied
upon the personal property Of the def endant,
affidavit having been made that the defend
ant is justly indebted to plaintiffs in he sum
OF stxty-four dollars and eighty-ive c. ents, by
note, with interest, and that he is n on-resf-
dent OF the State OF Tennessee:
1t is therefor e ordered, That the said defend
ant, T. w. O'Bannon, make his persc nal APP
pearance before me, at my office,iin the city
OF Memphis. Tennessee, on the Sd day of July,
$50, at 10 O'Clock am, and defend aid at.
tachment suit within the time prescr ibed by
law, or the same Will be proceeded ' nth ex.
parte, and that copy of this order be pub
pished for four successive weeks in tn, } Mem
his Daily Appeal.
This the 18th day of May, 1875.
A copy-attest:
myl6-w JAMES HALL J. p.