Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Congress is TO be petitioned TO give fnar'
C al aid to the construction of Northern
Pacific Railroad, from Lake Superior tc
Puget Sound.
The extensive tobacco mandatory Of
White & Barickson, Of st. Louis, was
seized Tuesday by government! authorities
for violation of the revenue laws.
Negro suffrage received majority in
two Of the Missouri Congressional districts;
5000 iE the fourth and 1000 in the third.
the remaining seven districts give $4,000
majority against it.
The Atlantic Works, Boston, are build
ing an iron brig one hundred and thirty
feet long and of three hundred and fifty-six
tuus register, which will be the pioneer
iron sailing ship in America.
Next Wednesday night Rev. Stephen H.
Tying, Jr., of New York, the fearless advo-
cate of a free pulpit, will deliver lecture
at Pixies Opera House in Cincinnati. Sub
ject: "Bulls and Bears"
All the New York theaters are being Of
fcially inspected by the city superintend-
ent of buildings, and their facilities for
egress in case of fire thoroughly examined.
Nearly all will be ordered to make i'm
provements.
Parties in New York, in the interest of
the Cuban revolutionists, says the dispatch
of Captain General Lesundi, published
Friday, is full of falsehood, and that the
instruction has good promise OF success.
The revolutionists are near Matanzas in
large force.
With the eyes of the President elect upon
him, Dexter, on Tuesday last, trotted a
mile in 2:21f, on frozen ground. Favored
Dexter! And after that, be drew the
President and Bonner back TO New York |
from Fashion Course.
The Cairo Democrat having been pur-
chased by the Republicans, who issue it |
under It's old name, Democratic company |
have purchased the material in Memphis, |
and will soon issue a newspaper to be called |
the Cairo True Democrat. Bully Demo
crits.
There is no truth in the rumor that the |
Secretary of the Navy will recommend in
his report the creation Of Board of Adj
miralty, empowered to exercise supervis-
ion over the Bureaus of the Navy depart.
ment.
The French Government has prose cuted
and puni he'd some parties who have been
getting money TO erect a monument in
Paris to citizen killed during the coup d.
etat that preceded Napoleon'5 elevation to
t throne.
Mr.. Sew I'd has issued an order that in
all communications hereafter issued from
the State Department the title of "Hon."
shall be ignored. The term has grown into
such disrepute by indiscriminate use as to
have ensured its bestowal GA negro of.
ficials.
A Tallahassee letter says that Lieut.
Gov. Gleason, who is trying to impeach
Gov. Reed, of Florida, out of Office, "was
lumberman in Wisconsin, and is a man of
very ordinary caliber, aud would be doing
his country and State far better service on
his plantation catching terrapins, than in
running an impeachment machine at TaIla-
hassee."
The Houston Union says that the ques-
lion of dividing Texas into three States
will be agitated on the Resembling of the
in December next. The bill
'ailed by moderate majority before, and
il is said that several Of the delegates who
voted against division then will vote in
favor of it this time.
Tie Scientific American CAUTIONS the pub
lie against the use of adulterated vinegar.
The heavy government tax on alcohol has
raised the price so much that resort is had
o a cheaper substance TO give the required
lcidity TO vinegar. For this purpose sui
ohuric, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are
Ill used though sulphuric acid, as the
cheapest and sourest thing that can be
Iound, is chiefly used.
In the United States Court, at Rich
nond, Tuesday last, the trial of a hGbaGs
orpus case commenced, in which counsel
or Coras Griffith, who was sentenced to
be peEitentiary for shooting q white man.
lsks his release on the ground that Judge
Shelby, who held the court, was ineligible
Inder the fourteenth amendment. The
decision of the case will affect nearly all
he Judges in the State, and make void,
,r confirm, all legal business transacted by
hem since the proclamation announcing
he adoption of the fourteenth amend
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