Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-10
HERE AND THERE.

There are forty-five babies in one
town in North Carolina named for
Senator Zeb Vance.
In Macon, Ga, no child is allowed
to attend the free schools unless its
father has paid his poll tax.
The ordinary life of locomotive is
thirty years. Smoking in excess no
doubt tends to shorten their life.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has cleared
$40, 900 in the last three years Oh the
lecture platform.
The following verse contains every
letter in the alphabet:
Except with zeal we strive to win
Gods just and holy love,
We can not conquer strife and sin,
Nor walk with Him above.
Ex-Governor Claf1in, of Massacffu-
sets, has given thirty~one acres of
land and the buildings thereon, in all
valued at $8, 900, at Orangeburg, S. c.,
to the Freedmen's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Henry Watterson made the opening
address before the Louisville Zoologi-
cal Association last week, and that
very night the young hippopotamus
died and the zebra broke out of bis
stall and kicked the baby elephant to
death.-St. Louis IGnaes-J ournoL.
A young lady who ought to know
accounts for the disposition Of the
average young fellow to put his arm
around girls waist by the supposi-
ton that he Is looking for that rib that
was taken from him go long ago.
Boston Transcript.
Senator VOORHEES, having denied
that he said during the war that every
Union soldier should wear collar, in
scribed, "My dog, A. Lincoln" card
is published, signed by twenty ladies
and gentlemen, who say that they
heard Mr.. voorhees, use the obnoxious
phrase.
An Ohio paper relates the following :
Thurman as ked the Bellaire audience
if any of them had seen any gold. A
man in the crowd held up a twenty
dollar piece, and cried, Look here.
The men in that section have been
paid off In gold of late. He can find
the same thing here next Saturday"
A little while before his assassina-
ton Abraham Lincoln wrote to his
friend John Beeson: 81 assure you
that as soon as the business of this war
is settled the Indians shall have my
first attention, add will not rest until
they shall have justice with which
both you and they will be satisfied"
The individual record of league base.
ball players for the last season chow
that in fielding Mr.. Start, of the Provi.
dence Club is first, and in batting Mr..
Hines, of the same organization. Mr.
George Wright, whose club has sc
long been the champion, stands
twenty-seventh in the batting list anC
ninth in fielding.
While addressing public meeting
in England, Sir Wilfred Lawson, M
P, said that the late Afghan war wa
not for the purpose OF getting "a scien
| tific frontier,H but was "a stealing ex
| petition" attended by "butchery ant
bribery" and now followed by wa
| of revenge.
Paul Fl. Hayne, the Southern poet
thinks of making his home in tn
North, saying that the South show
little appreciation of letters, and give
no encouragement to the professional
| literary man. He has been for som
weeks with Whittier in Ossipee, N
H., and has enjoyed the hospitality 0
LongfelloW and others in Boston.
A double-headed steel rail was re
Gently exhibited by the Western Rail
way Company of France which is Ger
titled to have been in use for eighteen
years, during which time 256 90
trains have passed over it. 1t has bee
used only on one side, and it is nc
half worn away. The average age O
life of an iron rail is given as abOu
seven years, and as a prominent rail
road manager said recently, there ar
now few railroads which can afford t
use them.
A Southern gentleman wrote t
Governor St. John, of Kansas re
Gently, asking him how to stop til
negro exodus. The Governor replied
by next mail "Rent the negro Ian
and sell him supplies at fair prices
Stop bulldozing him. Respect tn
sanctity of his family. Make hir
feel that he is just as safe in his perso
and family, and in all his civil and pt
litical rights, as he can be in Kanss
or any other Northern State. The
he will not want to come North. Ur
les you do this, the Red Sea will ope
before him, and he will pass over DIR
shod; and you of the South. attemp
ing to prevent him, will be ovel
whelmed, as was Pharaoh and b
hosts"