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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
THE EXODUS.

GALVESTON, Feb. TIA News
Dallas special says that conyen-
ton of colored men called to
meet there to discuss the exodus
movement, to organize a colored
colony in northwestern Texas, and
to deliberate upon other subjects,
met there yesterday. Seven
counties were represented. At
the night session a series of resolu~
tions was adopted, endorsing emf
grafton from states east Of the
Mississippi river, denying the me-
cessity Of emigrating from Texas,
showing advantages offered by this
state to those seeking new homes
and inviting eolored brethren to
turn toward Texas instead of more
northerly states.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
XLVI. CONGRESS.
SEN ATE

WASHINGTON, ID. C., Feb. II.
Senators Wallace, Johnston,
Cameron (Pa. J, Eaton, Bayard, Ker-
nan, Thurman and others presented
petitions of the Broad Top, North
ern Pennsylvania, Central of New
Jersey, Delaware and Bond Brook,
Philadelphia and Reading, Pennsyl
vania, Washington City, Virginia
Midland and Great Southern, New
Haven and Northampton, Philadel>
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railways,
and other railroads, and the Della,
ware and Hudson canal company,
against the proposed reduction of
the duty on steel rails. q Gti35
Senator Mcmillan (Minn.) pre-
sented the memorial of the chamber
of commerce of St. Paul, asking an
appropriation for the relief of the
Irish sufferers, and that governs
ment vessel be sent with American
contributions to Ireland. This gave
rise to some discussion as to the
reference. The sense of the senate
appearing to be favorable to the
memorial, it was referred to the
committee on appropriations.
Senator Jonas La presented a
memorial OF the union soldiers as
sociation Of New Orleans, asking
the senate TO unseat VIM. Pitt. Kel-
logg as senator from louisiana
Senator Mcmillan fMinn.I from
the committee on claims, reported
adversely the bill for the relief Of
the city of Macon, Gss and it,was
indefinite postponed. y ~
Senator Harris Tenn. J, from the
select committee )on Aepidemic dis
eases, reported j., favorably on the
joint resolution authorizing the
president to call an international
sanitary conferences. Placed on the
calendar.
i Senator Salisbury, aDeL) from
the committee on privileges and
elections, reported sundry resoiu-
tions relating to the right of con-
gress to1compel telegraph rcompa-
nies to produce kilograms, to be
used as evidence. Ordered printed
and laid on table o GE qkg
Senator Randolph N. j. intro
duced an amendment to the bill for
the relief lFitz John Porter, author.
izing the president to reinstate him
in rank of colonel, his commission
to bear date Of January, 1858, with
pay and emoluments since that. time.
Printed and laid on the table.
z Senator Salisbury (DeL), frou
the committee on privileges and
elections, presented the report of
that committee upon Senator In
gals case, stating that in the com
mittee's opinion corrupt means were
used in Ingalls, election, but that
it has not been proven that he was
in fact elected thereby or that he
was personally implicated in such
fraudulent practices. The report
was ordered printed and laid on
table. 90 -rf DO
Senator Logan (ll. J in ntroduced a
joint resolution directing the secre>
tary Of the navy to detail q vessel
to transport provisions to Ireland.
Referred.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
Senator Gordon b (Ga.3) gave

Senator Gordon b (Gs.o) gave
notice that he would tomorrow
call up the question Of appointing
an inter-oceanic canal committee. N
The senate then took up the bill
to authorize the employment of ads
ditional clerks in the pension bu>
reau, which, after a long discussion,
was passed.
Senator Jones (Fla. from the
committee on public lands, reported
fayorably the bill to amend the
laws relative to settlers afidavits in
presumption and committed home.
stead entries. Placed on the cal
endar. Adjourned. HA yaA. w
HoUsR.uoiJi1semoo
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IT.
In the house this morning a reso,
luton for investigation into the sys-
tenn of compensation of clerks and
other officers Of United States
courts was referred, and other miss
,cellaneous business is now being
transacted. III &
! After agreeing to reconsider its
yesterdays action with regard to
the prohibition of the publication
Of lottery advertisements in the
newspapers of the District of
Columbia, the house resumed the
consideration of the bill regulating
the removal Of. causes from state to
federal courts. klEDE8}
Mr.. Knott (Ky), made a long
argument in support of the bill, but
at the expiration of the morning
hour. it went over without action.
The house then resumed the cons
sideration of the revision of rules,
the question being the adoption of
rule Fl relative to legislation on
appropriation bills. A number of
amendments intended to limit the
power Of the house TO legislate on
such bills, were offered, but all were
voted down amid applause of the
democratic side, by majorities rang-
ing from 5 to 10.
Without finishing the considera~
ton of rule 21, the house at 4;20 p.
m. adjourned.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
CALIFORNIA.

SAN Francisco, Feb. 17.-The
workingmen still continue to make
demonstrations, and visit places
where Chinese are employed and
request their discharge. The direc-
tors Of Mission and Pioneer woolen
mills announce the, discharge of the
Chinese in their employ, whose
places will be filled by whites. i'lv
o'E The Eureka Consolidated mining
company declares dividend of 80
cents per share.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

IF the Augusta Chronicle and Con-
stitutionalistist to be considered worthy
of belief, Mr.. Stephens certainly has
some influence in his district. 1t
says: "a
"A correspondent, over the sigma
ture Of 'Enquirer,' in this days issue
Of the Chronicle, asks us great many
questions about Mr.. Stephens. We
are frank to confess that Mr.. Stephens
appears to be, and really is. the politi.
cal autocrat of the eighth CONGREGATIONAL
district. He totes II in his little skill.
let. He is at liberty to speak and vote
az he pleases. He can be
bourbon OF the bourbons-
a straightout Jeffersonian democrat,
as he calls himself-an Independent
democrat or anything else he chooses.
He can sustain Grant In the presi-
dency, support Mr.. Hayes in opposi-
tion to the democratic majority; he
can advocate the confirmation OF Sim.
mons Ia opposition to the Indignant
protests OF his people. He can devote
himself to the affairs OF the nation
with big NJ and fall to get an ap.
preparation for his district. His sue.
cess IN falling to get appropriations for
his district has been signal. He went
into congress in 1845 and remained
there until 1858. If he secured snv
appropriations Ia that time, or since
his return to congress In 1873, we do
not remem ber Mr.. Stephens can saw
what he pieases and do what he pleases,
and his people tolerate bis political &c.
centricities and return him to congress
all the same.n
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
VIRGINIA.

RICHMOND, Feb. 17.-Acting po.
lice justice Crutchfeld appeared at
the bar of the house of delegates
to-day and submitted a written state
ment declaring that his remarks in
connection with the Archer and
Frazier fracas, which had been un,
derstood as rejecting contempt upon
the authority Of the house, were
made in jest and in a friendly man
ner. He was thereupon released.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE New York Tribune is inter-
viewing Pennsylvania republican
members of the county and township
committees on the presidency. Out of
a total of 1888 thus far interviewed, +,
57l are for Baiue and only 1870 are for
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

NOT long since, a Mormon bishop
went to Mexico TO see if the govern,
ment Of that country would protect a
colony of saints. He has just returned,
very much disappointed, as the au-
thorities announced that they would
be protected in their worship, but not
in their polygamOus practice.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

IT now transpires that the managers
of North Carolina wanted the dele>
gates at large for that state instructed
for Grant, and called the meeting of
the executive committee early for that
purpose, but Sherman stole march on
him.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
BEN. HILL has written another lie

ter. In it occurs the following:
"All thinking men in the south feel
and believe that our constitutional
system of free goveromentis ia In very
great peril of final and complete over
throw. With the few exceptions i
mentioned before, we are naturally
more anxious to avert the overthrow
than are the northern people. Why
should we feel more anxious ? 1t Il
because our southern people feel and
believe that the causes which produce
this peril have derived much strength,
perhaps their chief strength, from
their own act-the act OF secession.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

FRIDAY last being the seventy fret
anniversary Of Lincoln's birth day,
an association was formed in Spring.
field, to be known as the Lincoln
Guards of Honor" They propose to
buy the presidents old home and keep
1t in repsir. - AEE
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
A Cross Baby.

Nothing is SO conducive to mans
renal ming bachelor as stopping for
one night at the house OF married
friend and being kept awake for five
or six hours by the crying Of q cross
baby. All cross and crying babies
need only Hop Bitters 10 make them
well and smiling. Young nap, re-
member this.-Ed. = lee 80
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE republicans In the various
counties in Indiana held meetings last
Saturday to appoint delegates to their
state convention. Indiana has q
Blaineish look.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

Mr. TRowBBIDGE. who is spoken of
in connection with the vacancy in the
Office of Indian commissioner, is q
brother to Gen. L. s. Trowbridge, who
once resided in Knoxville.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

WASHINGTON, Feb. ia con-
vention of the United States quar-
antine officials has been called to
meet in Washington early in May,
for the purpose of revising the
quarantine rules and regulations.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17.-Flour, easier
and slow; fancy, SO 10; family, $5,7S.
Wheat, dull and lower. Oats, lower,
323c. Whisky, quiet, $l07. Pork,
lower; jobbing lots, $ll.75al1. 80. Lard
easier, 7a71c. Bacon lower.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
General Market.

New YORK, Feb. l7-.WheRt heavy,
4aac lower, very moderate trade. both
export and speculative; uDgraded red,
81. 45a1 .464. Corn a shade stronger
with good export inquiry; ungraded,
57}a59c Oats shade easier and fairly
active, 46a47c. Coffee quiet and firm,
and prices unchanged. Sugar steady
and quiet, French Island, 81; fair to
good refining, tic; prime, 73c; refined
fairly active. Molasses quiet and firm;
New Orleans, 40a60c. Rice steady and
in moderate demand. Pork opened
lower middles firm and quiet. Lard
opened lower and closed shade firmer
and fairly active, 81 67l. Whisky
nominal, 81 10. N
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
W . want 100000 feet Of Walnut Lam Der

We want 900 feet Of Walnut Lamber
of the below assorted sizes W
Logs Is feet long. 3 .-ssg M
Finch thick from II inches wide up.
;roh H&
IL inch 8 inches wide, 18 inches wide
and 10 inches wide. .'@7 .-.
Ii inches thick, 10inches wide and up.
n
8 inches thick, 10 nches wide and up.
|..f
8x3 scsntling. kCgvH&a
8tx3a scantling. WIN. CAsWEIL& q 90.
mar6wtf KnoRyllle, Tenn.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

A NATIONAL Blaine club has been
organized at Washington with Con-
gresham Price, Of Iowa, as president. I.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE republicans of Oneida county,
New York (Conkling's home), have
chosen Conkling delegation, but one
that is anti. Grant.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 17.-Flour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat dull, 81 20.
Corn quiet; No. 2 white, 43a44c. Oas
quiet; No. 2 white, 40c. Lard steady.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

WASHINGTON has bounded to the
front In the last few days as the place
for holding the democratic national
convention.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE duchess of Marlborough wants
Jas. Gordon Benefits Irish relief
fund, but it is thought that the
duchess will want In vain.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE Globe Democrat says 1t is
Grant and Blaine, and adds, the infor-
nation is private but reliable.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
RELIEF FOR IRELAND.

MEMPHIS, TENN, Feb. 17.-Fif,
teen thousand dollars have been
subscribed here for the relief of
suffering Ireland. r.s4a sUaf
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
Chancery Sale Of Valuable
Lands.

No. 1853.
James 8, Hall and others vs., Adaline Gibson
and others.
DURSUANTT0 A DECREE.PR0N0UNCE
l. in the above cause at the January term, 1880,
Of the Chaneery Court at Knoxville, Tennessee,
will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder,
in front of the Court House door in Knoxyille,
ON SATURDAY THE 18th DAY OF MARCH,
NEXT AT II O'CLOCK. A. M.
The tract of land mentioned and described
in the pIeadings. lying ON the waters of Beaver
Creek In the 7th civil district of Knox county,
Tennessee, adjoining on the east the lands Of the
b eirs Of Joshua Brown. decd. on the north the
lands of VIM. Hall. and on the west and sout b
the lands of Charles Weaver, ". L. Ledgsrwo d.
". b. Hall and peril haps others, containing about
lii acres. more or less, and being the tract Of
land upon which Absalom Hall resided at the
time Of death. Said land will first be otfered in
three separate lots. containing about 36, 4S and
80 acres. and numbered ], 3 and 8, in plat now
on q fle in this cause; and then offered rs whole,
and win adopt that sale which realizes the high
est price. Hss laa
TERMS. @
Ten per cent. Of the purchase money
will be required in hand, and the remainder on
a credit of and IL months, taking from the
purchaser, or purchasers, notes with good secu-
rity, bearing interest from date, and retaining
lien as further security. This February 18th ls80.
feb ,4dlw4t III, 4. PA rTERSON, G, M
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

THE Iowa legislature is wrestling
with the subject of treating" A bill is
before them declaring 1t nuisance.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
ures.

NEW YORK, Feb. 17--Net receipts
ISL bales. Futures closed barely steady;
sales, 1900 bales. February, Is. 13;
March, 1918; April, l3 AZ; May, l3 GA
1883; June, 1S.SlalS 50; July, 139ls
l3 SO; August, l40Oal4,02 Septe ber,
13. .48al3 81. Hr. ...s4-rr
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18
VOL. x.
Weather Report.
KNOXVILLE, Feb. IT, 1880,

Maximum Thermometer, "a b; Min.
imum, 345o; Rainfall, 0 90 inches.
INDICATIONS: For Tennessee and
Ohio Valley: Rising, preceded Ia
eastern portions by nearly stationary
barometer, increasing cloudiness, oc-
casional rain, winds shifting to colder
westerly winds ---.-..
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-18

MICHIGAN is entirely Blaine.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
Robert Collyer On the Newspaper.

The somewhat celebrated Rev. Robert
Collyer has been discoursing to the people
of New York Oh the newspaper. He quotes
DR.. Chalmer as saying many years ago, that
tie best writing and good deal of the best
thinking Of this day was done for the news
papers. Mr.. Collyer is chiefly impressed
with the enterprise Of tho press:
Do the hidden forces break out in an earth
quake? A man springs up with his note book
and pencil, while the land rocks under his
feet, and begins to write and fash his words
over the first wire he can lay his hands on.
Is the fire burning up a city? There is
among the flames, scratching at his paper,
the coolest man you shall find.
Is the war field? The newspapers will
give you news of the battle far ahead of any
thing the government can get who are most
deeply involved, and vastly more true as a
rule. Nothing escapes this ever present
and an-present eye. It mirrors the great
markets in one page and tells you Of an oys-
ter supper in the basement of a church, and
reports impartially murder or sermon.
Does the old lion roar over there in Europe,
or the bear gowl, or the eagle scream?
you hear them all through this wonderful
telephone of the newspaper. 1t brings to
you tho froth and foam Of the chalice Of our
life, and reports the vast and awful move
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
The Square Man.

The square man mezzures the same each
way, and haint got no wainny edges nor
shaky lumber in him. He is free from
knots and sap, and wont warp. He is lklear
stuff. and I don't care what yu work him up
into he wont swell, and he wont shrink He
il amongst men what good kill dried boards
amungst carpenters, he wont season krack
1t don't make emmy difference which side OF
him yu cum up to, he il the same bigness
each way, and the only way tew get at him,
emmy how, IL to face him. he knows he IL
square, and never spends emmy time trieing
to prove it. The square man IL one ov the
best shaped men the world has ever pro-
duced, he IL one ov them kind ov chunks
that kant alter tew fit spot, but yu must
alter the spot tew fit him.. jock Billinas.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
A BLAST AT CANADA.

A London journal Declares that canada IL
Sending More Stomachs than Brains into the
United States.
From the Contemporary Review, London.
If any dispute arose between Canada ana
her great southern neighbor which lnVolVea
war, she would speedily succumb, and would
be annexed to the United States. Canada IS
not sufficiently permeated by any vigorous
sentiment of nationality to resist the power
full attractive forces of the American Dem
ocracy. She answers to Leigh Hunts con
ception of the United States: Gas nation,
I cannotgetitout of my head that the Amer,
leans are Englishmen with the poetry and
romance taken out of them; and that there
is one great counter built along their coast,
from north to south, behind which they are
all standing, like SO many linen diapers. They
will be far otherwise, I have no doubt, IN
time, and this unchristian opinion OF them
have come to nothing.~ Certainly this
is a sufficiently iudicrous picture of the
Americans of the present day, who are d.
verging more and more from the English
type, who have the beginnings Of a new lter-
allure and in whom we can already detect
the germs of an altogether new national life.
But it is much in accord with the actual con-
dition of the Canadian people, who want
alike the grandeur and dignity of the old
nations of Europe and the marvellous force
and colossal energy Of the United States.
Canada seems to be stranded there among
the snow and ice of the north, separated
alike from the historic culture of Europe
and from the heroic aspirations of America;
sharing none of the precious traditions Of
England and untouched by the breath Of
democratic freedom which sweeps through
the United States. It is interesting materi-
ally to the British laborer and food con-
sumner; it has not shadow of
intellectual significance for the thinker.
This !aay not be it's fault; it
is, at any rate, it's misfortune-a misfortune
which seems to remove it from the category
of possible independent nationalities. It
may be said that the United States are being
colonized now rather by stomachs than by
brains; but the United States are nation
with grand traditions. The colonization of
New England; the planting of Pennsylvania;
the revolutionary struggle. which as repre-
scented in Franklin, Samuel Adams, Jeffer-
son, was rather development of the great
intellectual movement of the 18th centuary
than mere contest against the English and
parliament, the antislavery contest, and, f.
nally, the civil war-all these developments
Of the great modern Democratic movement
have made of America land of idea, and
have invested even the young raw states of
the west with halo of poetry and romance.
As compared with this, Canada has merely
to tell of upward of a century of stagnant
provincialism, relieved only by a third-rate
instruction.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
DR.. Stebbin's SOn.in-LaW.

In The case Of Schroeder for the murder
of DR.. Lefevre, at Oakland, CAL, the jury on
the 18th, after being out seventy two hours,
returned verdict Of not guilty. Schroeder
was bank clerk and his wife was the
daughter Of the Rev. DR.. Horatio N. Steb
bins, the well known Unitarian clergyman
who succeeded to the pulpit occupied by the
Rev. I. Starr King at the time of his death.
Dr.. Lefevre was a popular dentist, and had
been employed in Schroeder's family. He
betrayed Mrs. Schroeder. She confessed
her guilt to her husband and to her father.
Her husband brooded over the affair until he
became unable to attend to his business.
He went to Lefevre's place of business one
day and shot him down. The Rev. DR.. Steb-
bins declared at the subsequent examination
that If he had had pistol he would have
saved his son-in-law the trouble.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
A CONGRESSMAN'S BOOMERANG.
How Daggett Got Even With the Railroad
Men, and How He Didn't.

How Daggett Got Even With the Railroad
Men, and How he Didn't.
From the Carson (Nevada) Appeal.
When Congressman Dagget first went to
Washington, two years agP, he was charged
$3.50 for extra baggagyt to Omaha. This
angered the Congressman so that he vowed
to make life burden for every official on
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific rail-
roads. When he gotto Washington he began
to ship tons and tons of Congressional Re-
cords, which the Union Pacific and Central
roads are obliged to carry free Of charge,
according to stipulation with Uncle Sam.
made when he granted them so much of his
broad public domain. Daggett shipped
boxes over the road, addressed to himself,
and accompanied by his big frank and the
words, Congressional documents, free"
During the first session he sent seventeen
tons of this class of matter over the road, and
as soon as he reached home he sent it back
again. Daggetts big boxes of Pub. Docs. "
soon became notorious, and the face and
figure Of the the congressman were also
pretty we'll known. Wherever he stopped he
was sure to ask some of the freight agents
if they had seen any of ''my free freight
lately" He always made himself known
and was sure to: "You must handle these
boxes carefully; they contain the speeches
of some of the greatest men of tho nation.
if you damage any of them I'll sue the road
for the full value" On election day the
boys got their revenge, every mothers son
of them worked against Daggett. Those
who ran on the Utah Division located their
voting places in Nevada in time to get their
work in on election day and they raked
Daggett fore and aft from sunrise to sunset.
When it was known that he was defeated
nearly every freight and baggage man on
the line got drunk, and for a couple of days
the road was utterly demoraiized.