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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-The
National Board of Health, after sew
eral days session adjourned last
night to meet at Atlanta on May
first. The Board agreed upon the
provisions of the bill to promote the
public health and to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of contagious and infecN
tious diseases and will send that
measure at once to the Senate Com
mittee on epidemics, at whose re-
quest it was preferred. 1t has also
selected number of subjects which
require immediate attention, and
referred them for investigation
and consideration to the various
standing committees on food adul-
terations, epidemic diseases, statis-
tics, &C., and to the Executive Com
mittee, which, when the Board is
not in session, is empowered to act
in all matters not involving money
expenditures, with the view to a
more careful study of contagious
and epidemic diseases in the foreign
countries where they originate. The
Board has appointed a special COM
mission, which will soon sail fol-
Havana, to investigate the yellow
fever question in Cuba.
The President has sent the fol
! lowing nominations to the Senate
Andrew p. Mccormick, to b.
United States District Judge fo1
the Northern District of Texas
Israel w. Roberts, Second Lieu
! tenant; NJ. F. lamar, of the Thir-
I teeth Infantry, detailed as PROBES
sor of Military Science and Tactic
at the Louisiana State Universit.
| at Baton Rouge.
I Petitions for writs of habeas cor
/ pus and certiorari were submitter
to the United States Supreme Cour
to-day by the Governor of Vir
ginia in behalf of the State, and b.
/ j. D. Coles, Judge of the Count.
Court of Pittsylvania, for the pur
pose of bringing up and testing tn
legality of Judge Rive's action i
causing several Of the Judges of tn
State courts to be arrested and i'm
prisoned upon the charge of vic
lating the civil rights of citizens
The petition of the Governor sci
forth that Judge Coles was indicte
in the Federal Court for an allege
offense against the laws of tt
United States, the indictmer
charging that he excluded and faile
to select as grand and petit juror
certain citizens of PittsylVani
county of the African race and {
black color, who, it is furthe
alleged, possessed all other qualif
cations prescribed by law, an
charging that he excluded from sal
jury lists as aforesaid, on account
their race, color and previous col
dition of servitude. The petitio
further sets forth,that in obedienc
to and by authority Of a proce'
issued from the clerks Office of sal
District Court and styled benc
warrant. Judge Coles was arreste
ON the 18th of March by an Unite
States Deputy Marshal and take
into custody. The petition declar,
that the District Court had and b
no jurisdiction of the matte
charged against Jud ge Coles, in ii
indictment; that they constltu
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s,nrn,ar curiosity.

Mr.. s. G. Pyott called at our office
last week aud left little paste-board
box containing number OF what
proved to be hens eggs. hut the most
singular lot of chicken eggs we ever
saw. They are of all sizes and shapes,
the largest of ordinary shape and the
size of guinea eggs, others very a1 small isa
and round, some elongated ABOUT tne
oiza and shane of small mulberry.
But the most remarkable fact about
the whole affair is that these eggs were
y one hen at as.s1t single sb. 81 sittag be
faot that ali the eggs were lain at one
time. before the hen moved off the
nest. Mr.. Pyott bought the hen and
eges - Of a farmer on Clinch river, and
several gentlemen vouched for ,ti the
trnth of the fact here stated. The
eggs are on exhibition at the CONNER
ciGT office. where the curious may look
at them.-CFdttdno0gd Commercial.
go Ahoao finQ 2E0vQta a
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Cincinnati Market.

CINCINNATI, April 7.-Fiour firm
and unchanged. Wheat in GOOD de-
mand; choice red held at Sl.O7. Corn
quiet but firm at 37a38. Oats Ia gooo
demand at 29a32. Pork dull and nom-
inal at $40 50a1O rs. Lard in good de-
mand: steam, 6.3Oa6 323. Bulk meats
quiet; shoulders held at $40 cash;
sales at 3E; short rib, 85; short clear,
S. Bacon dull; shoulders, Al; clear rib,
So: clear sides, s.. Whisky easier at
81 OIL. Sugar steady and unchanged. !.
Hogs quiet and firm; packing, 3. 75a4 10
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FRANCE.

PARIS, April 7.-At the supplies
mentary elections for members OF
the Chamber of Deputies yesterday,
the Moderate Republicans generally
defeated their Radical competitors.
! Two hundred and thirty more
communists have been pardoned.
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TEIEGRAPHIC.
The Army Appropriation Bill Re- /.
ceived in the Senate, -
And Referred to the Committee
on Appropriations.
The New Hampshire Senatorial
Case Still Under Discussion.
Doings of the National Board of
& Health at Washington.
The Pennsylvania strikoz. Ended
and Miners Gone to Work. 6
XIV-G0 CONGRESS-.
XLVI CONGRESS.
SENATE.

Cd WASHINGTON, D. c., April 7.
The Army Appropriation bill was
received from the House and re-
ferred to the Committee on Appro-
priations.
The Senate resumed the consid-
Grafton of the New Hampshire
Senatorial case, the question being
an amendment by Mr.. Hoar to the
resolution of the minority of the
Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, declaring that Bell is entitled
to his seat, the majority reporting
he is not. ..- ~ ~
After brief debate, further con-
sideration of the subject went over
till tomorrow.
A resolution was introduced,
which was agreed to, that the Presl-
dent of the Senate appoint select
committee of FIVE members on the
Freedman's Savings and Trust Com
pany, to take into consideration al
matters relating to said Institution.
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L0uSsvIlIa Mark ct.

LOUISVILLE, April Flour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat firm; req
and amber $1OOa1.03. Corn steady,
in fair demand; white, SO; mixed 81.
Oats steady; white 80; mixed 20. Pork
strong, s10.75. Lard steady, choice
leaf in tierce, u; in keg, ot: Bulk
meats stronger; shoulders 50; clear
rib. 81: clear sides ST. Bacon steady;
shoulders Al; clear rib $40; clear
sides 1856; sugar-cured hams, 83a9t
Whisky steady, $l.02.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

THE editor Of the Tribune is very
smart man. He fixes up, in his own
mind, the sort of an editorial that
should appear in the CHRONICLE, then
goes to work to demolish the points of
the should hIUe been article. If the
editor of the Tribune should like to get
the better of Us, for the first time, let
him write something for US in which
the points are entirely untenable, and
we will publish it so that when he
pens his reply it will appear as If VIC
tory has crowned his effort. We hate
to see a man who is aLtOdy8 being
whipped.
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PENNSYLVANIA.

PHILADELPHIA, April IA dis
patch from Pittsburg this evening
says the strikes among the miners
on the Monongahala river, the Pan
Handle Railroad and in the coke
regions of Southeastern Pennsylva-
mia are now over and work has been
generally resumed. These strikes
have resulted in an advance except
in the coke regions where demand
for an advance was withdrawn. A
new strike however is expected in
the works along the line of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Westmore-
land county. ,
READING, April THE Read
ing cotton mill resumed operations
this morning, the greater portion o.
the strikers working at the ten pei
cent. reduction.
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mAsKETs BIZ TELEsRAPH


New YORK, April z.
Money, 5. Exchange, $4 86a4864
Governments weak, $l.04s. States
dull.
Flour dull and strictly in buyers ia.
vor; Southern -four unchanged and
moreRactive. Wheat, spring, dull and
scarcely firm; winter, 3alc lower; IN
graded winter led, 81 O1a1 O12; No 8 do,
Sl.O9. Corn 4a1c lower, with mod
crate trade; ungraded, 432a45c; No. 8
443a443c. Coffee in moderate demand
and steady. Sugar quiet and un'
changed; refined steady. Molasses un'
nged and fairly active, with job
bing demand. Rice firm, with
moderate inquiry. Pork more active
and higher; old mess, spot, $9.40a9. so
new, $I9.621a1o.65. Lard higher and
more doing, closing strong; priml
steam, spot, $6.5Oa6 624. Whisky nomi
nal at 81 053.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

OUR weak brother down the street,
the figure head of the Tribune, is
wonderfully exercised over the fact
that the editor of the OkolOna States is
an Ohio man In bis contemplate
, ,.t''e Paragraph of Sundays paper he
-''e0 u leave the impression that the
ou'se o' that paper is controlled by
nan Does he really think so-dO
you ASK gentle reader? Why GER
tAlnly not If lie only had the manli-
ness to say it, he would acknowledge
that the States is owned nv Col, aar-
per, who was a Confederate soldier
and consequently Herman il on1v IN
the position that every other editor ia
who is not also the proprietor of The
paper he edits, suits his articles to the
platform of his paper. The Tribune
man might also inform his reasars
that the assertion was made on the
floor Of the House last "Wednesday
and not denied, that the States was
more largely subscribed TO- than any
weekly in Mississippi.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

THE Clarksville Tobacco Leaf
nominates Senator j. w. Clapp, OF
Memphis for Governor.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08
AT THE HOTELS

The following is list OF arrivals at
the city hotels for April 9TH
ATKIN HOUSE.
Chas. P. Wright, J. w. Bachman,
Chattanooga; John Burns, j. n. Cant,
Memphis; d. B. Childress, SweetWa-
ter; w. t. Mann, Tennessee; w: ID.
Porter and daughter, Abingdon, Va
J. d. Potterfield, Baltimore.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

THE world do move, il do News
papers are comparatively new institu-
lions in this old world of ours. By
their extraordinary activity, though,
they make up for their youth, They
are printed in almost every nook and
corner on the whole earth, and on
some Of the larger rivers, but it re-
mains for Prof. w! S. Clark, LII. D.,
late Professor of Amherst Agricultural
College, to start one upon an Ocee n
steamer. II has been given the very
appropriate name around the World
and hiss for it's headquarters the "Gen-
eral Werder," the steamship of The
Northumberland Expedition, which
will leave New York the first of next
month for the purpose of ciTcumnavi-
eating the globe. It will be devoted
to science, and Will contain accurate
accounts of the voyage and experiences
Of the expedition. We may well ask,
What will come next?"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

LET him take a dose OF bromide
and c nsole himself with the Ttf1ec-
ton that the postoffices of the country
will not be affected by the revolution
for I early two years yet.'-Tri6uae.
Itis often said that the important
point of a lady's letter is always found
in the postscript. The editor of the
Tribune has evidently followed this
feminine example, and the point OF
his exceedingly powerful editorial,
which has caused the CHRONICLE to
"hee to the mountains" aud to be
seen only in sack cloth and ashes, F"
is found in the very last sentence OF
the tremendous article. Poor fellow
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

The Confederate "Brigadiers" ought
to give our great Tribune pull at the
public teat.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

GIVE the Tribune a postOffice, lest it
die of starvation.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

BE sure and see those fine Stoves, al
Hawkins, Butt, DePue & Co.'S.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08

The charters of the following named
towns were repealed by the Legls'
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Russla,s PerIIous POSITION,

st. Petersburg Cor. Paris Soleil.
The aspect Of Russian society at
this moment presents a curious and
striking spectacle, the sense of which
is, however, beyond the reach of
superficial observation. Apparently,
nothing has changed. A crowd Of
elegantly dressed people throng the
pavement of Morskaia and the
Newsky, the fashionable prOmenades.
The young merchants Of Moscow are
as prodigal as usual of their rubbles
and champagne to the Tsigane dancers.
The nobility of st. Petersburg give a
ball to the officers of the Guard at an
expense of 10000 rubbles. The only
subject of conversation in the saloons
is the Franco-Spanish violinist Sara
zote, the new Paganini," as he is
called, or of the pictures exhibited at
the Academy by Makowski, or
his rival, the celebrated Yer
schaguine. Sardou's pieces are
applauded at the Michel Theater /;
small lotteries are organized among
the upper class under the pretext OF
~succoring the distressed cab drivers or
the numerous wounded in the late war.
Lord Radstock, an English enthusiast,
with the soul of a Fenelon and the
face Of %Pantagruel, who breaches in
the boudoirs and in the face of the
orthodox priests a species OF quietism
which no one comprehends, is ac-
claimed or ridiculed according to
taste. People dance and playand incur
debts without any care about Lord
B~eacons6eld or the plague at Astra-
khan. In short, everything is in order.
And yet a certain uneasiness prevails
in the Winter Palace, however care
fully it is closed to rumors from with
out. The fact is obvious to every one
who can see below the surface
that the situation is pregnant with
storms, and the crisis may occur much
sooner than is expected.
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Bathing I'm the Den1 Sen.

A correspondent of the Washington
Star, who has had a bath in the Dead
Sea, describes his experience as fol-
lows 1.-THE water, which is quite
clear, and nearly the color of the
Niagara river below the Falls, seemed
to me a little more bitter and salt than
that Of Salt lake, although brighter
and more attractive to the eye when
seen close at hand. It's supporting
power struck me as a little greater,
also, than that Of Salt lake, as the body
hoated more easily and the difficulty
of swimming was greater on account
of the inability to keep ones feet IN
der water. So large a quantity of salt
is held in solution that the water has
what is called, | believe, a 'ropy' an
pearance, much like hat ofea plate of
we'll made tapioca soup. | observed,
however, that when we came out of
the water there was not SO large a de-
post of salt crystals on the body as
after a bath in Salt lake, and the
feeling of the skin, instead of being
dry ana pflckly, as 4 expected, was
rather oily and sticky. Our din
ner that night was seasoned with
salt made from Dead Sea water by
solar evaporation. 1t was a little
lighter in color than the best article
Of brown sugar. Its crystals were
large and hard, and though foreign
substances were evidently present, in
considerable quantity, it was not un,
pleasant to the taste. | was told that
two quarts of the water will produce
one quart of salt, but this IL probable
an exaggeratiop, 10 complete III
statistics Of this remarkable bodv Of
water, / may add what many of nv
readers may already know-t6at there
is no living thing Of any kind in Il !.
that even the drift wood bronobt
down by the floods in the Jordan il
speedily cast upon its shores; that lis
length is about forty-fve andit great
est width about ten miles; that Il q
over thirteen hundred feet deem a.
the deepest place; and that the inn.
mepso quantity Of fresh water ncnped
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-25
Judge Davis. speech.

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, April p. - Judge
Davis, of Illinois, made a twenty
minute speech to-day in the senate on
the army bill. 1t was delivered in lust
such a voice as a judge would charge a
jury. There was no attempt at rhet-
oric. Its logic, though, made a more
powerful impression than could the
ford imagery of the most polished
orator. Not a word escaped the atten-
ton of the senate. 1t was known that
he had no ~ipartsanship purpose to
serve, and that he would deal with the
law. Blaine drew his chair to the
immediate front of the speaker, and
during the whole delivery Of the
speech never took his eyes off the
portly figure who was delivering an
argument, every sentence of which
fell like a series Of sledge-hamme
blows, and completely brushed ava!
the imaginary fabric of revolution
which had been set up to distract tn,
attention Of the people from the rea
issue. Conkling, too, was a study
When Davis began he was in tn,
space in the rear of the seats. Will
the first sentence he planted himsel
against the wall, and, until Davis sa
down, never once changed his facia
expression, which was that Of an in
terested student never moved hi
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eyes, and even after the close remained

eyes, and even after the close remained
as one spell bound.
THE BURDEN OF THE SPEECH
was that after fourteen years the in.
terests of the country would be better
subscrved by healing the wounds o.
the war rather than reopening them
that the good of the nation demanded
it; its suffering creditors demanded il
as well; that prosperity could not be
brought about unless We make up our
minds that we were one people, united
in a common cause. In the point that
the repeal clauses were german, the
judge emphatically said that he had
not the slightest doubt. With equal
emphasis he held that congress had
the right to repeal the law in its own
way, though he frankly admitted that
he would have much preferred that
the repeal provisions should have
been. brought forward as separate
propositions. "Why," said he. the
very men who passed the law allowing
the troops at the polls did it as a war
measure and were they alive to-day
they would vote to repeal in time of
peace any law made necessary only by
the %exigencies of war"
WHAT LINCOLN WOULD HAVE DONE.
Abiding to the speech of Blaine, in
which he had conjured up the wither-
ed hand of Abraham Lincoln to re-
strain the present President from
giving his assent to the bill, Davis said
that no man had better opportunities
of knowing Abraham Lincoln than he.
He was a man of the broadcast charity.
without malice-a man who loved his
country, and wanted to save it and
were he alive to-day and in the execu-
tive chair, he would have no hesita-
ton in signing the bill. Applause
followed this remark, and it was
doubly renewed when he added that
had Lincoln lived the political ami
mosities which now divided the sec
tons would, by his wise counsel and
craftsmanship, have soo been buried
in the forgotten past.
CHEEK.
In the course of his remarks Davis
said the Federal law was recognized in
all sections Of the land. Logan took
issue with this declaration, and
quoted from a report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue to show
that the law was not recognized by
moonshine distillers in the South.
One sentence from Davis demolished
him The criminal law said he,
=" is disregarded in all sections of the
land. There is crooked whisky made
in the South, as we'll as in my own
State but the Federal law is SUI
preme, and recognized in every quar-
ter Of our land"
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IT WAS ALIVE.
The Finest Exhibit at the Paris EXPOSE
tiOn.
81. Nicholns.l

st. Nicholas.l
An interesting feature of a number
OF the foreign sections at the Paris
Exhibition was the soldiers who had
been sent there by their respective
governments, nominally to guard the
exhibits, though principally as a sort
Of ornament, they being simply re-
quired to stand around and be looked
at by the curiosity-seeking visitors.
Some economical governments, think
ing that wooden soldiers would answer
the same purpose at a less expense,
accordingly displayed figures repre-
senting soldiers in the various uni
forms, and people in the different
costumes of the country. These
figures were sometimes quite we'll
made, and placed in such positions as
often to appear very life-like. w
have more than once seen people
open their mouth to ask their way OF
one Of these wooden soldiers and
ourselves en- one occasion deeply
apologized to a wooden Chinese man.
DARN, whom we had carelessly run
into and almost thrown off his bal
ance.
Sergeant Jones, of the United
States marine corps, had doubtless
witnessed similar laughable mistakes
and this is probably what suggested tC
him the idea of playing a little trick
at the expense Of the visitors.
AT all events, one fine afternoon. a.
we were passing through the Ameri
can section, we found the sergeant
standing perfectly straight, and abso.
lately still, near one Of the show eases
Rather p~erplexed at his attitude anC
at the seriousness of. his expression
we sought a post of observation anC
waited.
For a while ne one noticed him, bu.
as he continued immovable, some ONT
stopped before him and stared. Ther
two, three, four, six idlers stopped Il
see what the first idler was looking at
There stood the sergeant, grave, silen.
and motionless. An incredulous smil,
appeared on the faces Of the observers
and their number doubled, trebled
q%uadrupled. The sergeant had no
moved. Some one yentured to toucl
his hand, another followed. ant
presently a dozen curious people wer,
feeling him from head to foot. Not
muscle relaxed-he had not so mucI
as winked. An exhibitor who was dust
ing the showcase seeing what was up
sauntered carelessly along and care
fully busted the sergeant. This set
tied the question beyond a doubt
was a statue There was now abou
300 people of all nationalities gathere,
about this marvellous piece Of work
manship
"C'est bien une statue !n
"Ouel merveillaux travail l'-
Avn weally, now you know, thos
Yankees are jolly clever people p
Wall, | reckon there amt any
thing that can beat this in the Who'll
show !"
|. "Chin a ting, chop stick youn
hyson picking yang tse kiangi"-
AmiodO maya sakito kio yeddo p
Stamboul maho metal va tib
loublou y came from three hundre
throats in twenty different language,
The last man had barely opened hi
lips to have his say, when the look q
admiration suddenly departed fror
the three hundred faces, and the tire
hundred threats simultaneously ser
out a guffaw which fairly shook tn
vast edi6ce and attracted hundreds {
visitors from all sides.
The statue had turned on its he,
and quietly marched off.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-25

1t is impossible not to be struck by
the originality and ~cleverness of the
Spanish gypsies, even in their vices.
A gypsy man was recently at confess
sion n day and, while he was con-
Tossing, he spied in the monks habit a
silver snuff box, and stole it. Faith
or, he said Immediately, " l accuse
myself of having stolen a silver snuff
box. Then, my son, you must
certainly restore it." Will YOU have
it, yourself, my father? II? Ger
tainly not, my son." THE fact is"
proceeded the gypsy, that | have
offered it to the owner and he has re-
fused il" Then you can keep it
with a good conscience, answered the
father.