Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-07
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Grant Is expected at Louisville.
Butler is going 10 run for Congress
next year.
There are 100. 00O men connected
with the Post Office Department.
Two daughters of the poet Long
fellow are lady Students st. Harvard.
Maj. Marter received the sun Of
$500 for the capture CT the Z1lu king.
Geo. VIM. Curtis couldn't get the
Republicans up to the scratch, a it
were.
Mra. President Polk is now a lady
of medium heig bit, slight in figure,
but round and youthful.
Gen. Grant is heavier and more
solid than of old, but bis features re-
tain the same logged expression.
Lieut.. T~hornburgh was buried III
the same grave with his little s0n, u no
died recently al Fort Fred Steele.
The great Workingman Kallocb,
Mayor of California, recently held a
reception but all the w~orkiGgmen had
to pay Z dollar TO get in.
II Think it's time to be going" said
young Skinner. after boring his be
trothed till q late hour one night.
- Yes" said che, " this is a go-as-y0u
please match ~ Chicago Tribune.
Most of the New York burglars are
under twenty years of age, which
leads the Graphic to believe that there
isn't enough spanking machines IN
the country.
Oliver Johnson says Of Greeley !:
"He was the only public man / ever
knew who insisted on answering all
letters hal were written TO him by all
sorts Of queer people, and he usually
did it with his own hand.'
Prince Bismarck is blessed at the
present time with 40 crosses or deco
rations Of all kinds, the display OF
which, in a single row, would cover
about six yards. The only power
which is not represented in the coliec-
ton is Great Britain.
A number of the most prominent
lawyers in Albany have agreed among
themselves not to defend any man
who attempts to bride an eLector on
election day, and 10 unite in prose
cutting any one who interferes with tbs
rights of voters, or attempts to cheat
ia counting the ballots.
Lord Wentworth, whom Mis-:
Fletcher, the author OF 'Kiemet," |:
to marry, is the oldest surviving sol
and heir of the Earl Of L~0velace, ant
the only surviving grandson Of LORD
Byron. Miss Fletcher's mother,
lady Of rare intellectual gifts, was the
daughter Of n Of the most distin>
guished ministers Of Geneva, il
Switzerland.
The Democratic quarrel in Charles
ton, s. c., has eliminated in the nom
ination Of two city tickets. The new
committee, organized by the citizen
in opposition to the managers OF tn
old Democratic machinery, mad
overtures to the latter but wer
spurned. The old committee main
tanned that it was the only legitimat
Democratic authority in the manage
ment of city politics, aud would hes
nothing short Of a complete surrende
J OF their opponents.
IN view Of Postmaster Gener.
| Keys recent decision, some one, pos
sibly q victim by carelessness, 8ent +
him the other day a letter directed o.
an envelope OF prodigious size, th
words occupying nearly all the face
as follows: Hon. d. M. Key. Post
master General. Washington, Distric
+ of Columbia, United States of Amer
= lea. Land OF the Fres, Western Hem
isphere, Temperate Zone, between la
itude % and 35, and longitude q an,
127, situated on the planet known q
the Earth, which ~revolves around th
planet known as the Sun, etc." H
correspondent was determined tia
that letter should not go to the Dea
Letter Office.