Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-28
HERE AND THERE.
James Gordon Benefits income IL
81 500 a day.


James Gordon Benefits income is
81 500 a day.
General Franz Sigel has taken
charge ola new Liberal German paper
to be started ia Newark, n. J.
Several of Messrs. Sankey and
Bliss byms are to be translated into
the vernacuiar in India,
Francis D. Moultou, who came into
prominence during the Beecher trial,
has been suspended from the New
York Produce Exchange, for conduct
inconsistent with the great and euui.
table principles of trade"
The ex.Khedive's dinner and break.
fast service cost 81 sos 900.
Boston is to celebrate her 25O.h ami
versay next year.
The census eDumerators next year
are to do their work in June, aud the
{ az is not to exceed $l0O per month,
or 81 per day.
A man dying recently in 81. Louis,
left 81 900 to an individual who, years
ago, ran away with his wife. He said
10 his will that he never forgot q f.
vOr.
A young lady at certain place In
Wayne county, Penn, asked the
prayers of the congregation, because
she could not set eyes upon certain
young man without feeling as though
she must hug him to death. She got
| 'em.
There are As 5000 900 of acres in
Kansas now open for presumption I'M
der the U nited States homestead laws
or purchase from various railroad COM
panies.
The Texas belI-punch law has closed
a great many saloons in that State. -
According to official data the total
number of the Hebrew race to-day is
about what it as in the days of King
| David-between six aid seven mil>
lions. There are in Europe about
| 100000, in Asia 200 600, in Africa
over $4,000 and in America from a
million to million aud a-half. The
present population of Jerusalem is
given as l3 500 Jews, 900 Mahomme.
dams and 5000 Christians.
The Boston advertiser hits off But
ler's triple alliance in the following
stanZa:
Gainst the triple convention don't say q
harsh word;
For who would begrudge a poor widow
her third2
If her ambitions height be third nomi-
nation,
| La.k - L. y
ton. -..
The ten orphaned children of Gen.
Hood are now under the care of their
grandmother, Mrs. Eleanora Hennen.
Ethel and Amabel, twins, nine years
old: John Bell, seven years; Duncan
HeUnan, six year,; Lillian and Marian
twins, I've years; Ollie and Ida, twins,
three years; Oswald, fourteen months,
and Anna Gertrude, two months old.
SIS there letter here in a scented
envelope for my wife ?" he asked the
postmaster. while the green fire from
his eyes made the office look like a
leafy forest. Eyes, cir" answered the
P. NJ, as be handed it out. The jeaI-
Gus man tore 1t open at once, when, l0
aud behold it was the milliner's bill
tor $50. The end.
The following is said to be the man
ner in which General Grant and Gen.
eral Mcdowell greeted each other on
the deck of the Toxic: GRAFT, with
both hands extended, said, How are
you. Mac?" Mcdowell, a little choky
said. How are you, old boy?"
The youngest managing editor in
the country is probably Walter Hut
chins of the Washington Post.
The Republicans of Virginia are
going to vote against reputation
Their motto is, "Ouce debt, always 6
debt until paid" Tennessee Repubii
; cans too.
, The Boston Times says: "a gooG
stiff ramrod spliced firmly to the spi
nal column of Mr.. George William
Curtis would vastly increase that gen
tleman's value as q statesman"