Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

There are 269 churches in Brook
| Ign, of which lS9 are built of either
brick or stone.
The cost of barb wire fences built
in the United States in 1881 is esti-
mated at S10,000,000.
Last season between 1900 and
1,400 tons of sugar beets were raised
on 100 acres of land at Schenectady.
A man in Knox County, Maine,
who wanted to vote against a
projected high school, wrote on his
ticket know"
Miss Phoebe Cousins, the wells
known suffrage sdvocate of st.
Louis, has applied to President Ar
thur to be appointed one of the five
commissioners to reorganize Utah
Territory under the recent act of
Congress.
The Rev. Dr.. Robert Collyer has
been asked by his former congrega-
ton in Chicago to return to the
Unity pulpit, recently left vacant by
Mr.. Min.
Governor Churchill, of Arkansas,
is not likely to be reelected. Ac-
cording to the latest report of the
Senate investigating committee, he
is short in his accounts with the
State more than 100000.
George I. Seney, the Methodist
phianthropist, of New York, is i'm
portuned by so many letter>writing
beggars nowadays that he no longer
looks through his mail until it is
winnowed of the alms-asking letters.
The wife of ex Senator Dorsey is
a beautiful woman, with gentle man
ners, and is spoken of as charming
converser. She was much admired
when she first went to Washington,
and the subsequent changes in her
husbands fortune have not altered
her friendships.
DR.. Samuel D. Gross, for twenty
six years professor of surgery at the
Jefferson Medical College, Philadel-
phia. has placed his resignation in
~he hands of the board of managers.
He retires on account of age.
Arkansas will elect one Congress-
man>at-Large this year. Among the
Democratic candidates for the honor
is Colonel Clifton r. Breckenridge, a
son of the late Vice.President John
G. Breckenridge. He is credited
with possessing as much political
ability as his father,
Gen. Grant has absolutely no vans
| ity in the matter of dress. A stran-
ger, who was waiting with several
others to see him in the corridor
outside his business Office in Wall
street, asked colored porter how he
should recognize the General when
he came in. jess yo' watch out TO
de fust gemmen dat looks as eff he
nebber had his clos brushed, and
OATS him" was the reply.
Hon. Alexander H Stephens, on
retiring from public life, will devote
his remaining days to the cultivation
of literature. The result will prob
ably be something in the form of a
political history,
Crow-Dog has been found guilty
of killing Spotted-Tail, and will ap-
peal to the Supreme Court; but he
can't write his name on his photos
graph albnm and sell it for a dolla,
to a Washington society woman, as
Guiteau can.
Mrs Garfield has directed num-
Der of improvements to the farm
building at Mentor, and men are now
at work there. Her fine span OF
bays have been moved from Wash
ington to quarters on the farm. II
is likely that Mrs. Garfield will pass
part of the spring and most of the
summer there. Her boys will be
with her.
Says Governor Cullom, of Illinois
"I have been made poor in public
| life. When first entered as Con
gresham, was, for young man,
considered well off. Had 1 been
close and lived like a hog, I might
be in good shape now financially
Mrs. Senator Jones, of Nevada
invites twenty pretty young ladies tc
afternoon lunches. Ten little tea
poys are arranged for their conve-
nience; no servants are visible, each
cavalier waiting upon the damsel Of
his choice. Solos, duets and read
ings furnish the rest of the entertain
ment. Mrs. Jones is a pretty young
lady herself.
Senator Logan has been taker
with another severe attack
and will probably, if ably te
undertake the journey, leave for the
Hot Springs this week. His Difficult
ty is termed lumbago by the physi-
clans, and prostrates him with ex.
cruciating pain. His friends ar,
somewhat uneasy about his condi
, ton, owing to the tenacity will
which the disease clings to him, re-
! fusing to yield, except temporarily
i to treatment thus far.