Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-05-23
WILLIAMSON.
NEWS ITEMS.

Kansas APPEoPBIATIoNs.-Th Vermont Legisla-
ture has refused to appropriate money relieve the
Kansas sufferers. The New York Legislature has
done likewise, and Massachusetts, whose Lsgisla-
ture began the movement, has reduced the amount
of its quota $4,000, and will probably, in the end
vote nothing. The Concord Statesman the organ of
the Republican party in New Hampshire in view Of
the approaching session Of the legislature of that
State says " It is to be hoped, in all conscience
no member is insane enough to bring in Kansas
project"
The attorney general of Indiana has given his
opinion that Senators Bright and Fitch we're duly
and coustitutonaIy elected by the Indiana legisla
ture.
"A Geographic despatch from Philadelphia says:
J. NJ. B. Petriken, esq, member Of the Pennsylvania
house Of representatives, died at Harrisburg the
18th inst, from disease contracted at the National
Hotel in Washington.
Trinity College, at Hartford, Connecticut, is
about to make an effort to raise 900 among the
Episoopalians of New England to increase the en-
dowments of the professorships, and to generally
improve the college. Two new professOrships have
been endowed within the last two years, and anOth
er soon will be.
The people of every county north of this, says
the San joaquin Republican, adopting active and
energetic steps for improving the roads leading into
the Sacramento valley from the eastern side Of the
mountains.
The State Normal University of Illinois has
been located at Bloomington. The contesting point
was PEORIA the offer of which was $4,000 cash and
$4,000 in real estate. Bloomington subscribed
sos, 900 cash and S45, 900 in real estate.
Adam Belcher, of Susquehanna county, Penn
sylvania, was cutting railroad ties few days ago,
when, in stepping across tie, his foot slipped and
he fell across the edge of his axe cutting his side
and lungs, so that he died the next day.
The editor of the Toledo Blade who has just
passed across Ohio from the lake shore to Cincinnati
says that the wheat looks wen in southern Ohio but
in the centre Of the State the fields present good
many bare patches, where the wheat has been win
ter killed.
The New Orleans Bulletin of the 9th inst, says
that the ball given by the Typographical Union of
that city to the delegates of the National Union on
Thursday evening, at Odd Fellows Hail. was SPLEEN
did affair, and reflected much credit upon the mem
| bers Of the craft who got it up.
Judge VIM Wilson, of Illinois, one of the early
pioneers of that State died at his country seat in
White county on the 29th ult. Judge Wilson went
to Illinois as early as 1917, and from 1919 to 1919
was chief justice of the supreme court, which posi-
| ton he filed with marked ability.
! - Papers received from the central part of Mis-
sissippi, at Memphis, says that great hail-stOrm
recently prevailed in that quarter destroying the
crops great freshet also occurred near the jack
son railroad, washing away portion Of the road
and cars.
"A Rockingham (Va.) exchange believes there
will be tolerably fair, if not full crop of wheat
in the Valley, and throughout the State. 1t has i'm
proved wonderfully in appearance within the last
fortnight.
"A boy in one of the public schools in Newark,
N. J., was whipped few days since by the teacher,
who held his head downward between his knees
while he inflicted the punishment. The holding the
head downward created rush Of blood to the head,
causing brain fever, and death few days afterward
Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne has selected San Fran
| cisco as her future home.
1t is stated that the quantity of land open to
presumption in Kansas is sufficient to accommodate
1000 families-or half million individuals. 1t
embraces an area of I26, 253 square miles-twice
large as Virginia. three times as large Ohio and
fourteen times as large as Massachusetts There is
room enough, therefore, for half million ndepen-
dent quarter section squatters, with preemption to
fine lands, at the minimum price of a dollar and a
quarter an acre.
The Washington Organ, the great central Know
Nothing organ of the Order is offered for sale. Its
purchase by an adventurous and ardent disciple of
the order would give him frstrate opportunity of
getting rid of a few thousand dollars.
Mr.. Murdoch, the actor, is trying DR.. Wilson's
water-cure at Melvern, England.
The gross earnings of the Georgia Road from
Atlanta to Augusta for the fiscal year just closed
were 81, 314, 563-net income S529,s74. The road
pays eight per cent dividends.
The Iowa Reporter states that the census re-
turns show that there were s., 60 more men than
women in Iowa in June last
At the next commencement of Henry college,
Kentucky, in June John G. SAKE is to be the poet.
u. Wilson Brown, a citizen of Wood7ille, Miss,
recently deceased in his will bequeathed $4,000 to
the corporation of WoodyiIle for the benefit Of fe-
male education.
- The San Joaquin (Cal) Republican says: " We
noticed on the streets yesterday number of wag-
ons heavily laden with wool on the way to Atlantic
markets. One load was from the Tuolumne river
Wool is destined at very distant day, to cOnst-
tute an extensive and valuable article of export 1t
has already been demonstrated that, wOOl-grow-
ing district California has no superior in the world
There is an extensive establishment in New
York for the manufacture of " Wallosin," or arti-
fetal whalebone, the raw material being ratans,
which are stripped of their outer covering and i'm
pregnated with some dark substance. Thus pre-
pared they are said to be better than the real whale
bone, and can be AFFORDED for much less.