Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-25
ERE AND THERE.

Mrs. Woodruff, the candid ie for
Pre- sident Of the United States, having
failed IS lecturer ia London, is COM
ing back 10 this county.
San Francisco east 40.7l7 votes
against, and only 229 votes for,
Chinese emigretiop.
a monster yellow s. oraug3 gel,
has spread terror III Burke county
| Pa. It has the shape of q humar,
| being about four feet high; arms WilD
two fingers on each paw, formed like
the talOns Of a chicken 4; feet without
| toes; eyes like Il csc Of a cat three
| crowns on is head about six inches
high; BODY naked and yellow.
The Chicago Tribune says Carlotta
Patti has just arrived in New York
with her cork leg, twenty trunks, and
husband. The Tgj5une's reporter
must be keen on the scent.
They ale still waiting for the full re-
turns of the election in California.
For Governor the footings are nearly
complete, and the latest returns are as
| follows: The vote received amounts to
| l58 9O6, Of which Parkils, Republican,
| has 81 ,6l9; Glenn, Democrat, IS ,S51;
| White, Workingmen's, "A 1876. Per
kins plurality over Glenn, 20. 7G0; Per-
kins ever White, % lS3; Glenn over
White, 2.415.
Jeff Davis has written a ;Ong letter
concerning his can iidacy for the
United States Senate, from hich we
learn that Mr.. Davis doesn't want to
be Senator almost as bad as Mr.. Til
den doesn't want to be President
The Detroit Free Press: Let's have
honest elections and larger Demo
cratic maj orities'" The terms of this
proposition appear 10 be painfully con-
Trajectory.
Horace Hunt says lbat the name OF
the Republican party was fret iopted
10 Detroit, where there were many
German refugees of 1873 to whom
Republican" was all significant
whereas "Whig" and "Free-soiIer'
where not especially attractive. Mr.
Hunt was secretary OF the meeting
which formally adopted the name. Ii
was afterwards ratified at Jacks on
Mich, and Hartford, Conn.
1t is authoritatively announced thai
Hon. Satan Devil WON'T bolt Inger.
soils new party.
A Maryland girl eats u pound c
chalk day to i'm prove her complex
ion. Her parents will be advertising
q choice lot OF crayons for sale one O
these days.
, 1.-THE woman who wouldn't vote,
wildly exclaims Susan p. Anthony
sis disgrace 10 her sex end is only Ii
to make some horrid mans home
happy"
: Ont of 225 convicts whose labor wa
f sold to railroad company in Ncrtf
Carolina, 100 died within year.
, Blanton Duncln has written lette
to the STATE Greenback Committee
Maine, in which he terms then
"jackasses," 'c0nspira;ors." aud sucf
ike.
Mr.. Cyrus w. FELL j. reported a
| declaring his purpose to reply at 81
early day to the late in e.view witt
, Mr.. Tildep, Published ia the New
e York Times. La regard to MIR. Tiden
Mr.. Fed is reported as saying II he
1 gin to believe that Mr.. Tilden is suffer
+ ing fiom al attack Of luoacy, caused
probably, by the heroic action takel
by the TammaDy members at the Syr
acuse convention-an action which
Mr.. Tilden has never dreamed of. Hi:
: whole answer 10 my letter is series
of falsehoods, patched up in such ,
shape as 10 mi lead from the actus
truth in the caso all those who 10 AZ
not happen to be familiar with MIR
Tilden's peculiar ways of mapu'ac'
turing facts, or misrepreseniing til,
| same. I repeat, he must have berl
crazy when be wrote the letter"
: The New o leans Democrat speak,
, of JEFF Davis as " the di tiDguishet
} patriot and illustrious st lte sUau.'
The Democrat is a fair exponent o
Democratic sentiment in the South.