Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-28

/ 1uC hOplCu Illi1 Vi Onu1Cb hIuSbEOuS
at Germantown, near Philadelphia, was
destroyed Sunday night by fire. The
building, machinery and stock are total
loss
Last Sunday night, a fire at Union
Point, in the suburbs of Memphis, de.
stroyed eight tenement houses, leaving
ten families, all laboring people, house,
less. The fire was caused by the explo-
sion of coal. oil lamp.
Meigs, the Quartermaster General, has
issued a circular of instructions to the
officers in charge Of the ceme;e .ial operas
tons, in which he censures the extrava-
CANT outlay of money in decorating the
cemeteries
Representatives Of the various express
companies are in session in New York
Their object is said to be the formation of
cooperative society.
The controversy between Secretary
McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins on
the whisky question, has ended for the
present, by referring the matter to the
Attorney General.
In the Protestant Episcopal Convention
on Saturday, an amendment to the canons
was adopted, allowing clerymen to off.
+ ciate outside Of their parishes
A firm in Middlebury, Vermont, have
obtained a verdict of $4,000 in the Cir
cult Court at Rutland, against the Hart
ford Live Stock Insurance Company, for
insurance on their blOoded buck, which
died not long since.
Frederick Repenock, a German actor,
eloped from Detroit with the daughter of
Appointment lawyer a few days ago. He
has wife and lot of children in Chi
cago.
Wendell Phillips has chosen, as the
subject of his lecture next Tuesday eve.
ming, in the Parker Fraternity course,
Boston, the following expressive title
AFTER Grant-What2" ....A
Harry Choate, Fred. Alderman and
Anthony Honing, received the prizes,
first, second and third, respectively, in
the late Ohio billiard tournament held in
Cincinnati.
An old architect in Paris has invented
universal alphabetical piano, in which
children can be taught instantaneOusly
to read, to calculate and play music. This
interesting and ingenious instrument
costs onl y six francs.
Mr.. Matlock, mail agent on the Coving-
ton and Lexington railroad, was severely
injured last week by fall from mail
car at the rOund-house in Covington.
A new kind of cotton is being raised
in Mecklenburg. 1t is called "woOl cOt>
ton, and is nearly the color of wool 1t
is said by cotton dealers to be superior
article.
Rev. VIM. Stevens Perry, of Connecti-
cut, has been chosen historiOgrapher to
the Protestant Episcopal Church, rice
Rev. Dr. Hawkes., deceased
A decree Of the Madrid Revolutionary
Junta announces that it is devising
means to provide employment for arti-
sans out of work another decree
changes the names of the principal
streets, thus, the Plaza Isabella is to be
called Plaza Prim, and the famous Plaza
dOriente is to be changed to Plaza de Ia
Marina,
C. A. Campin, general emigrant agent
for the West, at Columbus, Ohio, reports
the arrival of769 emigrants there during
the weeking last Saturday night, who will
locate as follows Ohio, 90; Missouri,
24l; Illinois, rs; Indiana, At; Ken
lucky, 81; Tennessee, 60; Wisconsin,
81; Iowa, 80; Michigan, 40. Mr.. Com
pin reports that l79, los emigrants arrived
at the port of New York from January
l, 1868, to October IA, mostly from the
German States.
Vance rogues have invented and put
in practice a method of robbing cars,
which is novel At q favorable point
they grease the track, and while the lO~
connective is slipping and struggling to
get along with its load, they break open a
freight car and tumble out boxes and barr
rels and whatever they can find to their
liking. The night being chosen for the
purpose, the stolen goods are not noticed
by the conductor of the train, whose ats
tention is occupied with the unexpected
detention of his train.