Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-05-12

no improvement occurs in Kentucky, rs
per cent; Ohio, 81 Michigan, G2 Indiana,
&c Illinois, 63 Missouri, SO; Kansas, 81 /;
though only 80 counties in the latter State
are represented. The condition is better
in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia,
thouah below An average. A few wheat
counties in New York make extremely un-
favorable returns. The proportion to be
replanted in other crops average a per cent.
in the West, or ,2G0, 900 acres in breadth
Of 5000 600 acres seeded. The largest pro
portion is q per cent, in Missouri and IL
linois, %; Kansas and Indiana, II Michi-
gan and Ohio, 10 Kentucky, 4. Very
little replanting in tue Middle States, ex-
cept in New York.
BALTIMORE, May lO.-The Interna-
tional Sunday School Convention con-
venes tomorrow. Four hundred and
seventy delegates, representing twenty
four States, also Canada, Nova Scotia and
England, will be present
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, May 10.-Sixteen
business houses and dwellings, including
Gen. b. c. Hollonds block were burned.
Loss $4,000.
GREEN SPRINGS, OHIO, May TO-
Two houses and every chimney were pros
trated, and two children killed by tor
nado. The storm from South to North was
nearly two miles wide.
WILMINGTON, May l0.-Memorial day
was appropriately observed and with more
than usual spirit Business suspended and
a long procession, composed of the military,
tiremen, citizens, schools and societies, pa
raded, and an address was delivered by L.
S. Martin.
FOREIGN.
BERLIN, May S-The Prussian police
have redoubled their vigilance, having re-
ceived alarming notices of plots against
Bismarck and Minister Folk. A special
staff of IA detectives have been formed for
their protection.
The Federal Council meets on Monday
to consider the question of extending the
laws controlling the administration Of &C.
clesiastical property and abolishing religi-
Gus orders to the whole Empire.
DUBLIN, May l0.-In the demonstration
made yesterday at the burial OF Joseph
Mullen, an American Fenian, procession
a half mile long followed the remains.
A protest from Cardinal Manning was
read in all the Roman Catholic churches in
England yesterday. He protests against
| the prosecutions Of the Church in Germany
and Switzerland and accuses Bismarck
as seeking TO raise the animOsity OF the
powers against the freedom of the next
conclave.
LONDON, May l0-This morning, the
| Telegraph, in an editorial article on the
meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Ger
many, to-day, says it is impossible to cons
ceal the truth. The Continental situation
wears this morning, the very gravest as
pect. If we were to say that the question
of the future repose of Europe may be
practically solved before forty-eight hours
have passed we would scarcely go beyond
the facts. The tendency at this hour is de-
cidedly pacific.
Other London journals likewise comment
upon the meeting, but the thought Of war
is generally discredited.
| 1t is reported from Paris that the French
Government positively contradicts the as
sertion that Germany has recently made
representations of hostile tendency. The
same dispatch contains the statement be-
lieved to be semi-official that no cause OF
conflict exists between Germany and France
and that advices from all the capitals of
Europe are of the same tenor that the pa-
cifc ideas are everywhere in the ascendant