Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-26


law, commands the appreciation of a
very large number Of nis constituents.
-Governor Hendricks was at the
Mecklenburg Centennial Celebration.
Senator Thurman, Governor Allen and
Governor Tilden were not. The
Hoosier Governor is sharp old coon.
Mr.. Withers, the new Senator from
Virginia, has eleven daughters, and
the Richmond papers say that when
he removes to Washington four mill
liners of the former town will shut up
their shops. In this case, it is the
Washington milliners who can say,
I" Let the CALLED jade vince, my With
ers," etc.-Gicdgo Times.
-The recent visit of Jefferson Da-
Wis to Texas seems to have aroused the
editors OF the State TO the highest pitch
of enthusiasm They say that his re.
eeption there was equal to that of
Washington at Trenton. One of them
observes: 1t is to be hoped the noble
chieftain will find it to his advantage
to spend the balance of his life with Us.
Our accounts of the grasshopper
plague which we give elsewhere will
serve to show those who have been in
clined to ridicule the proclamation of
the Governor of Missouri that the dan
ger is more threatening than they be-
lieved. Only those who have witnessed
the frightful devastation these pests
leave behind can appreciate the terror
with which their approach is antici-
pated.
Some of the papers are render
ing themselves unnecessarily unpleas-
ant in reference To what they repre-
sent as disagreement between Gem
erals Grant and Sherman, as TO who is
entitled TO the honor OF having
planned the " March to the Sea-" Gen.
Grant has always accorded to- Gen.
Sherman the honor of that brilliant
monument, which did so much to eX-
pose the weakness of the Southern
Confederacy, and to destroy the con-
fidence of the Southern people in its
ultimate success.
THE Clinton paper winds up a
notice of murderer on the Cincin-
natl Southern Railway with this dia-
boiical sentiment: We learn that
an average of one negro week is
killed at the works on the Cincinnati
Southern. We are in for sending re-
cruits to the scene of action and of
letting the good work continue" We
are sorry to think that any civilized
community will support paper in
culcating such atrocious, barbarous
principles. It's editors ought to be put
beyond the pale of decent society;
We thought when the stormy
special election for a Congressman in
the Ninth Georgia District was ovel
that the fight would cease. But it ap
pears that we were mistaken. The
Atlanta Herald warmly espoused the
cause Of Ben. Hill, who was elected
Now some. one Of the papers that op
posed him cay that the Herald il
owned by Hill, and intimate that golC
was the consideration upon which i
supported him. That paper retorts il
the strongest kind of English, ant
says that Mr.. Hill nor any of his kin
folks ever owned a dollars worth @
stock in the concern, either directly o
indirectly.
Some of the brilliant editors an
correspondents who attend the I'll
ton-Beecher trial think Judge Porte
is too severe upon Tilton. We shout
like TO know what these men thin
ought to be said of perjurer an
adulterer, who tramples his wife i
the mire to crafty his malice. Porte
after long experience in the courts {
the country is given to plain talking
He calls lie, a lie, and perjury, pc
jury. We admire his vigorous Ell
glish and plainness Of speaking, an
we think the jury do. If there is Oh
corner Of the internal regions hottt
than any other, Tilton and Moulto
should both be lodged there for etc
nity-that is if they are to go the
at all.
The Nashville Banner publish
loug interview with DR.. L. ID. Hog
of that city who dressed the wounds
Reed, the negro, who was thrown ov
the Suspension Bridge by the mob f
the murder of Policeman Frazier. III
doctor seems TO think the man who
wounds he dressed was Rec
He claimed TO be the man, al
those who came for him said it W
Reed. His escape was almost mirac
lous. The point to be remembers
however, is that mobs are very uni
liable agencies for Furnishing crimina
Reed would certainly have been hui
by the courts. His murder was unpr