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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-24
Sheriff S Sale of Real Estate

DY VIRTUE OF FIVE EXECUTIONS IN
ID my hands, issue from the Circuit Court Of
KnoI county, Tennessee. in the following cases.
to-Wit: Tive in the case of A.'P Mulraney We.
Linsty Rose ct al two in the case Of A. G. E.
CaIlen VS.. Lnsey Rose ct al, an one in the case
of a. G. 4. allen admir-. We. Linsey Rose, ol will
front of the court house in the city Of Knoxville.
Knox county, Tenn ess ee proceed to sell, at pub
lie cutlery to the highest bidder for cash in hand
all the right, tide. ella IA, interest and demand
that the defendant, Linsey Rose. has in and to
the following described piece of land. situated
and lying in the 22nd civil district OF knox
county. Tennessee. and bounded as follows.
to-wit: Beginning at pine knot and sassafras
Wyrick's and Carriers corner. thence vest oS'
east four, cen poles to black oak. thence south
$50 east three poles to q small hickory thence
south e5o west one hundred and forty six poles to
q stake. thence North 26o west three poles Z" y
fallen down pine. thence north $40 west fifty
seven poles to stake, thence north s60 east one
Carter's corner. thence south i42' east sixty two
poles to WE'LL thence south 7so easttwenty-seyen
poles to the beginning. containing sixty-fve
acres, more or less; This Deeember the 18th,
1879. G. b. GOSSETE. D. Sheriff.
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THE KNOXVILLE CHRONICLE
And Weekly Wing and Chronicle
for 1880.

VIZ SoAAn6
year, the DAILY CHRONICLE will
take an active part in the vigorous
discussions of all political issues
involved, and will, at the same
time, keep its readers folly posted
on all the important events Of the
day. It will do whatever is honest
and legitimate to promote the sue
cess of the Republican ticket,
placing fidelity to the interests of
that party above any personal aims
or privata ambition. To this end
it will favor the selection of good
men with clear records, per-
sonal and political, for standard
bearers in the coming canvass, and
when such are selected, it will do
everything reasonable to secure
their success.
In State politics, the CHRONICLE
will support no man for any Office,
from Governor down to constable,
who is not in favor of paying the
State debt upon terms satisfactory
to the creditors of the State. It
will oppose the efforts of repudia-
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down to their low and degraded
standard, first, last and all the time,
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should be successful, it will continue
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snake coiled around the leg, is the
latest novelty. When the girls get
to wearing these stockings thou
sands of men will be anxious to
sssee snakes"
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, 1879-08-24
WESTERN MORTGAGE SECURITIES.

WESTERN MuhliAGG hECuKtl1Eo.
It has for some time been difficult mat
ter to account for the persistent attacks on,
and misrepresentation Of, Western mort
gage securities found in the New York pa-
pers. notably the New York Times but,
since the irnpecunious insurance sheets of that
city have been brought into the sans service,
the real aninus has been discovered, and it
is found that the New York and New Jersey
1ife-insurance companies are the prime
movers in the crusade.
And right here We wish to say that it is
in exceeding bad grnce for the life compa-
MES whose agents are scattered all over the
West, soliciting business from our people,
and who have taken millions Of their hard
earned money, to turn around and attempt
to discredit us abroad
The following table, compiled from the
last report Of the Auditor Of Public Accounts,
will show the amount OF money paid by the
people Of Illinois for premiums to the New
York and New Jersey life-insurance COM
pauies during The wear 1878:
, 1879-08-24

San Francisco was yesterday the scene Of
the widest excitement it has witnessed since
the d II on which the telegraph carried to
the Pacifc Slope the news of the asaassina-
ton of President LINCOLN. At an early hour
in the forenoon CHARLES DE- YOUNG, the
senior proprietor Of the C1ronicl, attempted
to kill the Rev. I. S. KA11ocu by firing two
pistol-shots at him, both taking ef-
feet, though not fatally. The reverend
Don Juan, who was years ago
driven out Of Boston on account of debauch-
cries and immoralities that were without a
parallel in either ancient or modern history,
by some strange caprice Of fate had been
whirled into the vortex Of pothouse politics,
from which he emerged as the full-bfossomed
Mayor1 candidate Of the Sand-Lot rabble,
whose prophet and spiritual guilds is that
able blackguard, DENNIS KEARSEY. An
opposing political party rejoicing in
the euphonious title Of: "Honozable
Bilks your oli-time Californian has always
owned patent-right on eccentric nomen-
clature-held convention few days later,
at which CHARLES DE- YOUNG said he would
make his sa1acious reverence withdraw from
the canvass, or he would rake up and publish
in full his record in Boston hnd Kansas.
After having thus declared himself, he sent
his ultmatun to KA11cH, who re-
torted that he would in that
case do the same thing for the
De YOUNG family. Wer having been thus
declared, the Chronicle, which was perfectly
justified in its action. devoted its issues Of
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to an
ungloved exposition of tho ministerial and
business career Of the Sand.Lotters' candi-
date. These publications created an intense
excitement among the Kearneyites, who
were assured that KA11ooH, at = public
meeting Friday night, would retaliate
in kind Aud they were not dis
appointed. In the course Of his speech he
denounced the De YouSGs in the most merci-
less manner, and closed his hhrangus by hurl-
ing at them the most Infamous insult Of
which the English language is canable. Yes
terday morning CHARLES De YOUNG went
in pursuit of the only vengeance that
could make a possible atonement,- for
there ara injuries for which the slow
Of the law does not offer an ade-
quate reparation. KA1noc9 whs severely
wounded in the right lung and in the hip.
De YoUSo WAS taken to the jail, which was
soon surrounded by bowling mob shrieking
for his blood. Although the affair will be
dep1ored by all good citizens, because of its
tendency to degrade American local politics
in Tho eyes of the world, no reputable man
will waste any sympathy on KA11ooH, and
The almost universal verdict will be 'sSerred
him ,in3t
, 1879-08-24

The most brazen pieco Of intimidation
snce the riots Of July. 1877, came to light
Yesterday 4 few days ego Messrs- EscEI d
Co., leather manufacturers, were compelled
to dismiss one of their employees because Of
his inebriate habits. The other workmen in
The same department sent m impertineut
note to the EsGE1s demanding his rehabili-
tation under threat Of an immediate suspen-
sion Of work. The firm declined to entertain
the proposition, and SO the matter stands
, 1879-08-24

| the southwestern shore Of the lake anu the
! washings from the bluffs on the northwest
ern shore. It is only, then, in the case OF
IN exceptionally strong wind from the south
| west that any Of the small amount of sewage
| emptied directly into the lake can be carried
into the neighborhood Of the Crib, and then
it will be lost and purified in the depths Of
the lake.
The great bulk Of Chicago sewage ia emp
tied into tho river, and, while it is undoubt
edly true that the Dimensions Of the canal
and its current are not adequate to carry off
the water Of the Chicago River as promptly
as is desirable, it is equally true that only
few days in the year does the water in the
river run into tho lake. For week or ten
days in the spring, when the snow melts and
the water of the Desplaines and the contigu-
Gus watershed turns the current through
the Chicago River Into the lake, and on rare
occasions when 1ong-continued and heavy
rams produce the same result, the sewage is
carried into the lake at the mouth Of the
river, which is some three miles from the
Crib. But this is the case during not moro
than thirty or FORT. days in the year at most,
and during all the remainder Of the year the
sewage is carried away from the lake aud not
into it. The apprehension TINT the Fullerton
avenue conduit will materially increase the
sewage contribution to the lake-water is not
well founded, because it is the intention to
pump the water from the lake into the North
Branch to swell the current into the canal
during the entire period when the current is
in that direction. and it is only during the few
days Of the year when tho river empties into
the lake that the pumps will BE- reversed and
the water Of the North Branch thrown
through the conduit into the lake.
All the dangers from impure water in Chi
cngo are in the remote future. Those OF the
present are simply imaginary. The careful
fltering Of all water will separate animalcules
that microscope msgni6es into frjghtful-
looking creatures; but there is no reason to
believe that the sewage contributes any
poisonous matter to Chicago drinking water,
either Of animal or vegetable nature. It
may be that the articles intin,ating as much
have deeper purpose than mere temporary
sensation. It is whispered among men likely
to know TINT Il grand scheme Of public
improvements, involving the expenditure Of
many millions Of dollars, is in contempla-
ton for the second year Of Mayor HAnn1-
SONS administration, with the dasign Of Civ
ing the Democratic politicians a big haul
Perhaps the process of manufacturing public !
opinion to sustain that scheme has already |
been begun. The ngitation about water and !
sewerage may be part of the preparatory
work. In New York the public was i'm
pressed with the necessity Of having new
Courthouse, now docks, new market-hoqses,
and vast improvements in the parks as a
means for oponing up opportunities to the
Ring that robbed the people of that city of |
$3.50, 100000. The people Of Chicago will
do well to Keep this warning clearly in view
whenever there is tho remosest hint of spend
ing money on q large scale for public i'm
, 1879-08-24

The new frman appointing TEwFK Pasha
Khedive OF Egypt, which has been ap-
proved by the Powers, has just been made
public IN Europe. The most important
changes are three in number. The first fixes
the iA1 Of succession to remain as it Was
msde at tho desire Of the 1ate Khedive. By
the; second the Khedive Is not to contract
new debts without the consent of the Porte.
the absurdity of which could only be
!ightened by another provision that the
Porte is not 10 contract my new debts with
ret the consent Of the Khedive- The third
change reduces the Egyptian army to about
6.00O man
, 1879-08-24
CHICAG0'S DRINKING-WATER.

4 city journal mora given to sensation
than to facts, and more solicitous for noto-
riety than the public welfare, has recently
endeavored to alarm the people who inhabit
Chicago as to the quality Of the water they
drink, and at the same time furnish the
newspapers Of rival cities with a new pre.
text for discouraging immigration to this
city. IF the water used for drinking in Chi
cago were either offensive or un wholesome
it would be proper for newspaper to as
certain in the public interest how it could be
improved in quality, or how other water
might be procured; but it is notorious that
our drinking water, procured two miles from
the shore Of the lake at q great depth, is
neither offensive nor unwholesome, and the
journal wa refer to has made no suggestion
of batter system for providing the city
with drinking water. There is no occasion
for alarm, in the first place, and, in the next
place, if there were, the journal engaged in
a sensational effort to create alarm has pro-
posed no remedy, and hence done no service.
The basis for the charge tina" Chicago
drinking-water is impura is that the contents
of the city sewers are mixed with it. eve
get from the faucet, says this journal,
'' animalcules that, short time before, went
through our underground drains with the
fostering sewage Wa have a system where
by the contents of the househoEders' sinks
and water.closets arc pumped back by
way OF the lake, at vast expense in
tunnels, standpipes, and nionstrous en-
gines. With all Difference to the Mayor,
the machinery for pumping sewage into
the water-malns is already quite up
to the needs Of the people" It can be easily
demonstrated that all this is gross exag-
eeratlon where it is not positive misstate-
ment The only sewers that empty directly
into the lake are located in a small section Of
the city lying east Of State street and
south Of Twelfth. It is safe to say that
these drains do not carry off one-twentieth
part Of the daily sewage Of this city, and so
much as they do carry is emptied into the
AXE at distance of several miles from the
source OF the water-supply, which is located
sWo miles east and from three to six miles north
rom the mouth Of these sewers. It is a}so
3el known that the current Of the lake
Tater On this shore is to the south, that is,
n the opposite direction from the Crib which
furnishes the >water~supply. The proof Of:
his is found in the sand-banks piled up On
, 1879-08-24

| In O recent issue Of TIE TRIBUNE Young
| lad set forth q grievance. It may not have
| been generally read, especially by those who
! ought to have read it, just because it was a
boys grievance, aud as such was not deemed
Of any pressing consequence or worthy of
more attention than boys grievances usually
are. But this boy in his brief statement set
forth a grievance Of which he had right to
complain, though it may seem at first sight
very simple matter. He is one Of many
who have been fairly educated. He has gone
through the 1owersohools, and graduated with
credit from the High School. Presumably
his parents are too poor to give him a uni
yersity education or he has manifested 70
desire to follow professional career, for he
is seeking position in mercantile life. At
best, such position is difficult TO find, for
all the places are filed, and when there is
vacancy he must take his chances with many
others; but there is still greater obstacle
standing in his way, aud he states it very
concisely. Parties wishing the services Of
young lads almost invariably advertise for
them as follows: Wanted-A good boy;
must write good hand. Reply in hand
writing of the applicant" Now, what is tho
boys experience? Let him tell his own
story: "Any one Of US [there are four in the
family in the same pred1cament as hinnse1f]
can give tho very highest testimonials for
character, discipline, etc., yet can't even get
an interview with an advertiser. Because We
emit write fancy hand, we never get re-
ply to our answers. We see some of the
most worthless boys got good situations, and
hold them for time, solely on account of
their good writing in answering ADVERTISE
ments, when we, who may perhaps be
great deal smarter, more energetic and wor-
thy, are left out in the cold, and can't even
manage to get the opportunity to show any
Of the talents We may possess.
Now, there must be some good reason for |
the deficiency Of these lads in this respect.
Why is it that SO many Of our girls write a
small, cramped, minclng hand, and 50 many
of our boys q sprawling, crooked hand? |
Simply from the fact that penmanship, as a |
study, is almost entirely ignored in our
schools, or is taught in hasty and super !
fetal manner. Our school authorities give |
plenty Of attention to music, drawing, and |
many other fancy specialties Of educa- |
tion which are Of no practical use and can
not even do service as m accomplishment
with the small smattering obtained in the cur /
ricuIunn Of the schools. To succeed in them,
they must Of necessity bo' made special
branches Of education, to be pursued for
, 1879-08-24
CONSOLIDATION OF TOWNS IN CHICAGO.


| CONSOLIDATION OF TOWNS IN CHICAGO.
That portion Of Cook County lying within
the limits Of the City Of Chicago is known
to the law as composing thrae "towns"
North, South, anu West Chicago. IN
der the Township law, each of these
towns has local government, consisting Of
Assessor, Collector, Clerk, Supervisor, and
Town Board. These governments have the
power to levy taxes and to expend the
money, aud have at times been guilty Of the
greatest abuses. There is an annual election
in each town for these officers The absurdity
as we'll as the uselessness of these local gov
ernments has long been apparent; but un-
der the general Inv they are part and parcel
of the township organization. Two years
ago the Legislature was induced to pro-
vide that, where several towns were
situatod within ths territory embraced
within an incorporated city, the
sane might be consolidated into one town.
No action was taken under this law because
Of the complications resulting from tho Park
Commissions, SO the business remained un-
acted on until the last Legislature, by addi-
avoiding these park complications. This
law provides that when the County Board
desires to consolidate town with some other
town or towns it shall first submit to the
people Of those towns the question whether
they. will create the town town for park
purposes, by making the Park Commission
ers the corporate authorities thereof. If by
a majority the people SO elect, then the
County Board may proceed to consolidate
that town with another town Or towns for
general purposes. It further provides that
all the powers of the Park Boards shall con-
tinue, y and the validity Of taxes and ASSESS
ments remain as now uuimpaired.
Under the law as it now stands the County
Board has full authority to adopt the pro-
ceedings leading up to the consolidation of
all these towns into one township with one
township government. The first step to be
taken is for the County Board to submit the
question to the people of North Chicago
and West Chicago whether they will crsnte
the Park Commissioners board for park
the Park Board is already distinct corpora
ton tor PARK purposes. This question will
bo submitted at the November election, and,
il decided in the affirmative, there |
will, after April next, be but one
town and one local government. The saw
ing in expense will be considerable, !
and the machinery will be united and har-
monioua. The theory that this city has
three conflicting and opposing interests will
be largely destroyed; the sectional feeling
''divisions" will be removed by ths
ob1iteration of the senseless lines by which
the divisions have been marked properly
will be assessed as the property of the whole
city and Chicago will be consolidated legally
into one undivided city. OF course, the
County Board will in dus time take the
necessary action in this matter lending to
Ibis economical and otherwise desirable
reform.