Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC.
Southwestern Railway Association
Renewing Pooling Scheme.
Two Men Burned to Death in a Barn
in New jersey.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The bill
for the reorganization of the army
will be called up soon after the holi-
days. Gen. Banning will endeavor
to have day set for its considera-
ton.
The Cabinet session to-day was
brief. Nothing of interest was pre-
sented, the meeting being more of a
social than of a business character.
No mention was made of the Ger,
man mission
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Raum has received a letter from
Revenue Agent Atkinson dated
jamestown, Tenn, December 18th,
stating that the Fifth Tennessee and
Second Tennessee raiiing forces con-
centrated at Jamestown on the 18th.
Up to that date fourteen distilleries
and copper stills were captured and
thirty-nino persons arrested, nine of
the stills being in Fentress county
and the other five were taken in
Oyerton county. Good work has
been done, and thus far no fighting
or shooting has taken place. The
Fifth Tennessee force will accom-
pany the Second Tennessee into a
very vicious section Of Scott county,
where it is likely skirmish Will
take place. The Eighth Kentucky
force will then accompany the
Second Tennessee up the Kentucky
and Tennessee line to the Virginia
line, and the Fifth Tennessee force
will follow the line of the two States,
from Scott county westward.
The President to-day said he was
giving no attention to the collection
of official reports, ETC., showing in
timidation and fraud in the recent
elections in several of the Southern
States for the use OF the Teller
Committee, as he had learned that
the committee had formally refused
to call upon him for such informa-
ton.
Congressman Fernando Wood
will not accompany the sub-Judi-
ciary Committee of the House to
New York to take part in the So
called Davenport investigation. He
has already furnished the committee
with what he considers an ample
basis for the inquiries directed by
his resolution, and he is busily en-
gagged in preparing measures for by
the Committee of Ways and Means,
involving the number of complicated
questions in regard to the revenue
laws.
The committee have assigned
three days to hear argument on the
sugar question Immediately after the
reassembling of Congress, and will
then dispose of it, and of as many
other pending measures as possible,
in time to report to the House by
the 18th of January, which day has
been set apart by that body
exclusively for the consideration Of
the business of the Ways and Means
Committee.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-0n ac.
count of the reduction of $4,000
in the appropriation fol the railorad
mail service, it is estimated that one
hundred and forty discharges will
be made among the railroad post
Office clerks, route agents and local
agents. These discharges have be-
gun to be made. The work Of re-
ducing the force by dismissals all
over the country will continue until
the number of discharges is gIadu-
ally swelled to the one hundred and
forty required. 4 reduction in the
pay of seventy employees was made
to-day for the same reason.
The President has signed the
commissions of William Thompson,
Consul at Southampton; John S.
Mosby, at Shanghai; Harris J.
Heap, at Constantinoplo Geo. w.
Fish, at Tunis; ]. d. Frisbee, at
Rio Grande; ; Andrew Cone, at Per-
nambuco A. j. Cassett, at Tam
pico Eugene J. Ball, at Pesth ;
and J. G. White to be Secretary of
the American Legation at Brazil