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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS,
Proc, dirgs of the City Council Las!
Night,

Night,
The Board met at the usual hour Iast
night, Mayor Luttreu presiding, and
the following Aldermen present:
Williams, McAftry, Cruze, Kerr
Stephenson, Sullivan, Harris, Bird
FIenniken, Allison, Shea, Smith,
Fields and Irwin.
The minutes were read and ap-
proved.
Mr.. ]. A. Rayl, OF the Board of Ed
ucation, addressed the Council
on the subject of the prop
osition by Miss Austin, Of Boston, to
assist in raising funds to build new
school house for the use of the cOlOTed
public school of the city. Business
men Of Boston, he said, were willing
to contribute the sum OF $4,000 for
such purpose, provided the city would
anprOpriate $4,000 as q guarantee of
good faith, and they wished some ex-
preston from the Council as to their
corporation in the matter.
A general discussion ensued, and it
was finally ordered, on motion of
Alderman Allison, that the city
accept the generous proposition and
guarantee a site, aud also
the sum asked for, provided they
should have entire control of the
building, and, on motion of Alderman
Smith, Messrs. J. a. Kayl, {. J. Nc
Clung and z. Dickinson were asked
to attend to the matter.
Mi E. G. Camp, who was present,
made some remarks relative TO the
opening up OF Gay sire ct out in North
Knoxville, from the bridge to Fifth
avenue.
After some discussion, on motion of
Alderman Harris, the following com
mittee was appointed to investigate
and confer with ali parties owning
properly along the proposed route and
report to the Board: Aldermen Har-
ris, Kern and Williams.
The following bills were presented,
properly approved and passed for pay
mpUt
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QUERY: Why Will men smoke
common tobacco, when they can buy
Marburg Bros. Seal Of North Caro-
iad,' at he same price ?" feb6dlyeod
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24
THE EAST.

LAHORE, Nov. ga column of
the British army advancing into
Afghanistan by way of Quetta,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24
SCRI8NER'S MONTHLY,
Conducted by j. c. Holland.

The American edition of this periodical IS
now
MORE THAN 70.001 MONTHLY,
And it has larger circulation in England
than any other American magazine Every
number contains about one hundred and
fifty pages, and from fifty to seVenty-fye
original wood cut illustrations.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24

Cleveland is beginning To be stirred
up on the municipal canvass. The
election occurs not until January
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24

occupied, without resistance, a place
called Sibi, within the Ameer's ter
ritory, due east of Dagar.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24

Examine the assortment of hand
some Cloaks just received by Express,
at the NEW ORLEANS TORE.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24

Jo. McTeer has just received q full
lice of Underwear, White Shirts,
Night Shirts, Gloves, sc. nOv2ldtf
Every body eau afford TO have a
Cloak at such prices, as offered by the
New ORLEANS STORE.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24

Aye-AlIison. Bird, FlennIken,
Harris, Neatly, Sullivan, Shea,
Smith and Wtlliams-9.
No-Cruze, Fields, Irwin, Kern aud
Stephenson-5.
jOurned.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
MAKING GOLD.

Charles Mantelman, Suabian by birth,
simply bored holes in Jumps of coal, filled
these holes with gold, closed them up with
black wax, and threw these Jumps into the
crucible when the masses were in full
fusion. He was detected, however, and
cruelty beheaded and quartered at Regens-
burg about 1910. Another worthy, one
George Honauer, met with similar sad
fate few years after at Stuttgart, where
he was hanged. This ingenious gentleman
always travelled with large chest, with a
double bottom to it, concealiug his own
son, sharp lad of about 10, who used to
come out from his hiding place at night
and put the gold into the crucible, in
which the mass was in fusion over the
laboratory fire. Honauer pretended that
it was indispensable to leave the mass few
hours to itself, and the laboratory was,
therefore, always carefully locked up for
the night. The poor boy on one occasion
caught cold in the head, and his ire
pressible sneezes led to the detection of
the trick. Another, II Swiss adept, used to
stir the fused mass with sticks of wood
deft1y bored at one end and filled with
gold, which readily dropped into the mass.
A servant of his always managed to put a
few of these so prepared sticks upon the
bundle of wood which his master used to
stir the mixture with. This trick was also
detected in the end and visited with con-
dign punishment TutSleys Magazine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
SCIENTIFIC.

The Corbett method, recently proposed,
of destroying such nox:ous gases as are
generated in the sewers of city, is both
novel and practical. 1t consists in lending
pipe from the sewer to each of the gas
lights along the line; so that the gases will
be conducted to and delivered into the
flame and be destroyed. Numerous plans
have been devised to prevent the escape
of these foul gases through the conduits
which lead from sewers into houses and
into the streets of city, but without ade-
quate means being provided for allowing
them to make their escape from the sewer;
this compels the gas to accumulate in the
sewers, so that they soon become charged
with it, and the difficulty of preventing it
fiom escaping into the houses and streets
is increased. This new plan is intended
not only to provide vent through which
these gases can pass to the open air
in the day time as fast as they accumulate,
but when the gas is lighted at night, each
gas Jet establishing a draught through the
sewer gas or vent pipe, which draws the
gases into the flame, where they are de.
stroyed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
LACE-MAKHNG
Worda.

st. Catharine is the patron saint of the
lace makers. The Catharine thus sancti-
fed to this particular industry was she of
Arragon, one of the unfortunate wives of
Henry VIII, who for the benefit of her
husbands subjects, made bonfire of oil
the costly laces she had brought with her
from Flanders, in order to encourage her
husbands subjects, and the workwomen of
poor little Cranfeld in particular, by Or
dering new ones. The fashion which she
set outlasted her generation evidently, and
took on much more generous proportions
in the one that followed; for when Eliza
beth, Queen of England, died, she left be-
hind her three tho lsaad lace trimmed
habits, and SO far as trousSeaus We're con-
cerned she might have been married any
time at fifteen minutes notice. Sine
that time lace-making has declined sadly
in England, owing to the simplicity OF
gentlemen's apparel; but during late years
it has taxi en- an upward start, and is more
than ever popular with the fair sex.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
,riters that in the ninth century vsnetians,

writer's that in the ninth century Vsnetians,
Genoese, and merchants Of Pisa, Amalf,
and Marseilles had counting houses in
Alexandria, in other maritime towns of the
Levant, and in the Holy City itself. 1t
was the arrangement in this trade caused
by the conduct Of the Seljonk Turks which
determined many to take the Cross. The
yearly fair held at Jerusalem was in danger
of being closed, and the trade between the
East and the West, as far as it was likely
to be allowed to continue at all, of becoming
a monopoly of the Greeks 1t is therefore
certain that the commercial necessities of
che times, as well as the Northern spirit of
adventure, sentiments of piety, the sup
posed interest of the Catholic Church, or
the fiery eloquence of Peter the Hermit,
must be taken into consideration, in
determining the causes of that mighty
movement of the eleventh century to chase
the Paynim from the country where the Re-
deemer had lived. Those of our readers
who may desire to pursue this subject
further will find valuable information in a
book written by the Able earlier, and
published at Amiens in 1856; and also in
learned dissertation by NJ de Guignes in
the thirty-seventh volume of tn Memories
de pAcademic des Inscriptions ct Belle Let
tree The SnerfntOr
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND
THE CRUSADES.

Long before the time of the Crusades,
the productions of Asia had excited the at
tention of Europe. Gregory of Tours tells
us that the wine of GAIA had considerable
reputation in France in the reign of
Gontran, and the courtiers of Dagobert
adorned themselves with the rich silks of
the East. The Kings of France had always
near them Jewish merchant, who was
was charged to go every year to the East,
to buy the luxuries only to be had there.
In the year $40 French monk, Bernard
by name, went to Palestine, with two
companions, one an italian, the other q
spaniard, the account of his journey may
he found in the Acta Ordjnis Sancti Bens-
dich. and we learn from him and other
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

IT is not usual spectacle to see an al
leged criminal bring his own case before
a grand jury for indictment, and urge
the public prosecutor to put him on tri-
al. Yet such was the case with The. AL,
len, the Broadway gambler, who claims
to have accidentally shot and killed his
friend, Malloy. The Coroner's jury ex-
onerated him from all blame. Not salts
fed with this, however, Allen demanded
of the District Attorney that his case
should be still further investigated. Al
first he objected, claiming that he had
nothing more to do with it, but Allen
compelled him to bring the matter up
and the result was that the granC
jury presented an Indictment for murder
in the first degree, and the charge being
non-bailable, the defendent was locked
up in the Tombs to await his vinGica
ton. There is strong suspicion tha
the shooting was not quite so Academia
after all, and it would be a singular re
suit of Aliens bravado if a judicial tria
sustained the indictment.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
The novel astronomical clock lately in

The novel astronomical clock lately in
vented by Dimpel and Sloane has a mer-
cur:al compensating pendulum, so con-
structed or arranged that, every time the
pendulum vibrates, its lower point, made
of platinum, passes through globnle of
mercury, and this contact establishes q
connection with voltaic battery, arranged
in such way that every time the contact
is made, ratchet wheel with teeth will
move one ratchet and produce tap. At
the tenth ratchet, a platinum arm dips into
another drop of mercury, making circuit
with another sounder giving louder tap,
80 that every ten seconds, the louder tap
helps in counting the number of second
By this arrangement, it seems, an observer
is enabled to rate chronometers to half q
second and, by continued ratings, the
computation Of errors may be reduced to
an infinitely small fraction-in fact, it is
claimed that the operator can rate the
chronometers about as fast as they are put
before him.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

as known, not one of the members of this
big family has ever been arraigned for any
crime, has ever become drunkard, or
been disloyal to his or her marriage VOWS,
and there is not one dependent man or
woman among them. Such stock ought
to be perpetuated and scattered abroad.
On the Darwinian principle of the "sur-
vival of the fttest," it might be trans
planted into many neighborhood to re-
place the degenerate and efeminate
classes, who add no dignity to the human
race and no strength to the Government,
The Follmer is evidently good strain of
blood
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
A NEW Italian process of tanningis claim

ANEW Italian process of tanningis claimed
to be much more rapid in its effect than
the old, and consists in letting the skins
macerate in bath of perchloride of iron
and marine salt, in solution in water. The
total operation lasts only from four to six
months, of which only the half is for tan
ming proper; moreover, the perchloride of
iron being a powerful disinfectant, the
new method insures the wholesomeness of
an industry which has hitherto been very
nauseous. On this account, and in view
of the apparent value Of such discovery,
hygienicalIy considered, experiments have
been made in France to remedy, by this
means, the infection arising from such a
cause, particularly in Clermont and Fer
rand-localities where the tanning industry
has long and extensively been carried
on.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
CHILDREN OF THE CONlMUNE.

On the suppression of the Commune in
Paris, among the prisoners taken were 500
boys of ages averaging from 8 to 12. OF
The many atrocities committed during the
time the Communists held Paris, the most
mischievous were those perpetrated by
these lads. While the murders and incen-
iiarisms were perpetrated by men during
N attack of political fury, the assassina-
Ions committed by these boys were done
,olely out of a spirit of cruelty and mis-
chief. The Government not liking to
treat these lads as political criminals, sent
hem to the reformatory at Rouen, and
,hortly afterward two eminent physicians
we're requested to visit them, and report
on their mental and physical condition
They found that out of the 800 youths
337 were of very delicate physical form
and stunted growth. They were among
the most mischieyous of the whole, and al
4he children of drunken mothers. - Coco
Ward,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
ANOTARLE FAMILY.

A remarkable family has recently been
brought to the front in old Berks County,
Pennsylvania Old Berks was famous in
the olden-time for the very large Demo
cratic majority she was wont to roll up on
election days which was mainly attributed
to the fact that the portrait of General
Jackson was kept at the head of the
Democratic ticket long after the hero of
New Orleans was gathered to his fathers.
This remarkable family consists of the
descendants of Jacob or Yacop Follmer,
who emigrated from Wurtemberg to
Pennsylvania one hundred and fifty
years ago. A few days ago they had a
family reunion at which five hundred
Iineal descendants of the old-tme YacoI
were present, and an inventory of over five
hundred others, scattered throughout the
country, was made up preparatory tt
some future gathering that shal
include the one thousand and odd. The
original emigrants purchased an immense
tract of land in the then unbroken will
derness, but which has now become
the richest and most pros
porous part of the State, anc
large share of this tract, divided VI
into highly cultivated farms, is still helc
by the Follmer family. But all thes'
details would be uninteresting to th'
general public if they were not followed
by the a1arkable statement that, SO ia
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

As to the cause of the sounds frequently
heard to proceed from telegraph wires iu
the open air; 1t has been customary to &C
oept the wind-its producing the sound
ings by direct vibration, similar to those of
the Eolian harp. A writer in an Austrian
journal, however, calls attention to the
fact that one who gives close observation
to both the wire and sounds will find that
the latter make themselves obvious like
wise when there is total absence of wind,
and in a quiet morning in winter, when
the wire appear covered with frost to the
thickness of finger, they nevertheless
carry on lively vibrations and swinging
while the air is totally quiet. According
to this writer, therefore, the vibrations are
due, not the wind, but to the changes Of
atmospheric temperature, and especially
through the action of cold, as lowering
of the temperature induces a shortening of
the wires, extending over the whole length
of the conductor. A considerable amount
of friction is produced on the supporting
bells, thus inducing sound both in the
wires and the poles.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
-----------------------
True Merit will Win.

A few years since the proprietors of DR..
Morris Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and
Horehound introduced it here. 1t was not
puffed, but sold on its merits. Our people
soon found it reliable, and already it has
become the most staple and popular pull
monary remedy in the market. 1t quickly
cures the worst coughs colds, Group bron-
chitis, asthma and incipient consumption.
and it is so pleasant that children readily
take it. Containing no opium, or other
dangerous drug, it is as safe as it is sure.
Trial size, 10c; large Sizes SOC and ST.
Sold by John Keeshan, Sixth and Walnut
streets; J. D. Wells Fourth street and Cen
tral avenue; H. +. Reum, Fifth and Broad
way.
Also Agents for Prof. Parkers Pleasant
Worm Syrup, which never fails Pleasant
to take and requires no physc Price 25c
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
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THE BUDDHIST RELIGION.

The Nagasaki Rising Sun says the
Buddhist religion is fast declining. In
Yamashima Ken alone it is said that
seventy-one Buddhist temples have
been turned into dwelling houses and
made use Of in other ways since 1873,
and during the last six years between
six and seven hundred temples have
been converted to other purposes
than those for which they were origin
ally intended.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

The new metal known as gallium recent
ly brought to notice by M. do Boisbaudran
is said to be SO slightly difused, that the
discoverer had to employ half ton of
zinc from the mine to get twelve grains of
the metallic substance. 1t is described as
resembling pewter in color, is not SO soft
as lead, but can be bent and cut; when
heated TO redness, it assumes slight tar
nish, without being reduced to an oxide;
it is very fusible, melting with the heat of
the hand, forming a white globule, and
would in fact form mirror, like mercury,
if pressed between two glass plates; and
though melting at temperature of eighty
six degrees Fab, it does not solidify again
until considerably below that temperature.
1t is one of the lighter metals, its specific
gravity, according to M. de Boisbaudran,
being not more than AZ.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

TALMAGE's experience enables him to
assert that the moral pollutions of cities
are supported by men who go to business
at 10 a. m. and get through at 3 or 4.
This reflects seriously on professional
men generally, but it lets out the indefat-
igable and never-ceasing toilers on daily
newspapers.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

Butter was known to the Scythians;
called by Hippocrates pikerion; eaten by
the Thracians at great wedding entertain
ments; used by the Lusitanians instead of
oil; Pliny ascribes its invention to the
Germans. A batterins ram was the only
kind of butter known before those days,
sxcept the billy -goat.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

SOME of the largest cotton mills in
Great Britain have stopped, and three
hundred and fifty thousand spindles in
the mills of Burnley will soon be run
ming on short time. Hard Times is a
wandering vagabond, and does not con-
fine himself to America.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

How many man whose face beams
with the radiance of prospective victory
to-day will slink away to his lonely
couch at eventide and court in vain the
sweet dreams which are forever ban
ished from the brain of the defeated
candidate.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

KENNEDY, the Chicago wife murderer,
who was sentenced to be hanged so soon
as he should recover from the temporary
fit of insanity which possessed him, prof
tied by the example of the Vincennes
murderer He surreptitiously obtained
razor and performed his own execu-
ton.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

THERE are forty thousand post-officcs
in the United States. 1t is painful to
contemplate the tongues of forty thou
sand postmasters YEARLY wagging in their
diurnal duties of licking stamps.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

OLD lake mariners assert that the re-
cent storm was by far the most severe
they have experienced for sixteen years.
REPORTS of disasters continue to come in.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

JUDGE BAXTER, of Nashville, declares
that Court can not run railroad. On
the contrary quite the reverse; rail
road often runs the Courts.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

PUsEY ANTHONY PEER was elected
from the Arch-street Theatcr in Phila-
delphia in 1874, because he was colored
man. He sued for damages, and has just
been awarded 1925.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

A HAYES medal has been struck off for
the Indians. If this will keep the
wretches from starving ship them West
at once.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
Old maids at Port Jervis, N. Y, hay

been holding indignation meetings against
widows marrying the second and third
lime, and are soliciting bachelors to attend
their meetings They say they do not un-
lerstand why it is that young men and
bachelors prefer widows, who have already
had the pleasure of killing one or two hus-
bands, to prime maidens, even though
they are little aptiquated in their ways
and not quite as young as they used to be.
Holyoke, Mass, makes nearly half the
tine writing paper IN the country.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
THE STAR.
- rino,nnoti n

THE arrival of Vicksburg papers two
months old remind us that the quaran-
tines have been raised.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05

The present laws of Ohio regulating reg
ular Life Insurance Companies organized in
the State, are acknowledged by all to be
the most stringent of any in the Union.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05
SUNBEAMS.

Our colored friends think that Hayes
Is the fodder of his country. Chattd-
i,ooga Times.