Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-16
FRIDAY. AUGUST Is. 1897.
Largest CIreuIatIon IN CIty and SAC
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The political contest 10 California is
waxing very bitter.
The Empress Eugenie is to accompany
Napoleon in his visit to the Emperor Of
Austria.
Mrs Munger, Of Piqua, was TO celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary Of her birth,
on the 18th Of this month.
Old Bill Towel, nearly seventy years Of
age, ran seven miles inside Of sixty min
utes, at New York, on the 18th inst
The Peruvian Legislature has voted
gold medal 20 Juarez, in testimony Of his
services TO American republicanism.
The Germans Of Chicago have called a
meeting Of those who are opposed to any
Sunday laws, 10 be held at the Opera
House next Saturday.
Ex-guerilIa Quantreli is in the commits
sion business in Mexico, just across the
Rio Grande, under the name Of Samuel
Anderson.
Shanghai merchants refuse TO receive as
currency, Mexican dollars coined during
the reign Of Macmillan.
Garibaldi is said to be at Sienna, where
he is making extensive preparations for his
movement on Rome.
A Paris paper says that the Italian gov
eminent had decided TO station corps OF
observation of some 10000 men on the
Ponti6cal frontier.
Some discharged soldiers and sailors
have called meeting at Philadelphia, on
next Saturday, to express their condemna-
ton Of the Presidents removal Of Mr..
Stanton.
1t has come out that an Austrian alliance
was guaranteed to Mexico in return for the
life Of Macmillan. Juarez replied that
the decision Of the whole case was with
the jury.
J. Wade jumped seventy feet from the
mast Of a vessel at Brooklyn, into water
only twelve feet deep, and stuck in the
mud and was drowned The leap was IN
dertaken to decide bet.
The latest theory about Carlotta's in
sanity Is that she was poisoned by the
Juarists while in Mexico. The drug de-
stroved her intellect without putting an
end to her life The story lacks credibility.
The privilege Of exchanging seven-thir-
ties for 6ve-twenties has been extended to
September Is, after which all not converted
will be paid in currency, at treasury offices
in Washington, New York, Boston and
Philadelphia.
A terrible earthquake occurred on the
18th Of June in the Island Of Java. I'M
mense damage was done to the indigo and
sugar manufactures. The sugar crop will
be nearly a total loss About three hun
bred are reported TO have persisted, In
GLIDING many Europeans.
James A. Cutting, Of Boston, the discov-
erer Of the ambrotype process, died recent
" at the Insane Asylum at Worcester. Mr..
Cutting made a number Of ingenious in
ventions, and was the protector Of the
" Aquarial Gardens" of Boston, the finest
establishment Of the kind in the country.
Details from Shanghai, giving an ac-
count Of the late battle ofthe American
ships Hartford and Wyoming, with the pi
rates at Formosa, have been received. The
fght appears TO have been a long and
bloody one, lasting some FIVE hoursor more,
and resulting in the defeat and desperation
of the pagans. Lieut. Slidell Mckenzie,
the leader of the United States forces was
killed.
Ira Aldridge, the mulatto tragedian, who
was soon 20 appear on the American stage,
but died recently in Poland, was born in
Maryland in 1910. In 1896 he was Ed
mund Kean's personal attendant, and thus
became attracted to theatrical pursuits.
He accompanied Keene to England and re-
turned TO this country as an actor in 1880.
lie did not succeed, but going back to Eu-
rope, won many triumphs. He received
decorations from the sovereigns Of Russia,
Austria and Prussia, and was considered
especially fine in Shakspearian characters.
His wife was a white woman.