Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fanny Kemble is to read Hamlet at
Indianapolis next Wednesday evening.
After January the fee on registered
letters will be fifteen cents instead of
twenty.
Twenty-Five thousand Irish left Ire.
land during the quarter ending June
last
The growing wheat crop is said to look
very promising throughout the State of
Indiana.
Minister johnson has not yet signed
the details of the treaty for the prOtecS
ton of American citizens abroad.
1t appears that General Resecrans de-
lay in taking his departure for Mexico is
sanctioned by the State Department
The prairie fire in Iowa still RACES
fercely. It has done Immense damage
to farmers.
The port of San Bias was recently
early entirely destroyed by a hurricane
and tidal wave.
The public debt statement for October
will show a larger increase than has been
anticipated
|
Fargo d Co. will soon carry passengers
from Denver to Cheyenne at from Sc to
IS rate.
The Brazilian government has offered
a reward of $4,000 in gold to the inventor
of any practical mode of preserving beef
for expectation.
Fanny Fern is expected to take the
Presidency of the New York Sorosis, AL
ice Cary having resigned because of i'll
health.
A lady in Lyons, New York, adver-
tises that she can fit out ladies with the
pannier to produce that "ravishing ac-
complishment," the Grecian Bend
The st. Louis Laclede Racing AssOcia-
ton at its last meeting failed to meet ex-
penses by $1,000. The present Associa~
ton may be dissolved and a new one
formed
One hundred and fifty barrels of whis9
Ky were seized Friday at the warehouse
of the Terre Haute railroad, by govern
ment authority. 1t came from Chicago,
Work on the great Missouri river
bridge at Omaha is to begin at once. A
large number of mechanics are already
building barges to be used for sinking
piers.
1t is generally believed il Washington
that General Reynolds will be relieved
from the military department of Texas,
and that Gillem or Buchanan will take
his place.
The celebrated stallion Revenue, died
recently at the farm Of his owner, John
Minor Bolts, in Virginia His stock is
well known and highly valued in Ken
lucky.
The Substantial business men" Of
Laramie keep Sunday They don't do
business on that day, but just so around
hunting up suspicious characters, and
hanging them to telegraph poles.
| TEOrators and engineers have pronounced
it impossible to dam up the Mississippi.
An irreverent General officer now in the
army recently id up the Mississippi
all the way from New Orleans to 81.
Louis in something less than a week
A man named Maurice Foley was muir
| dered in Boston four years ago, and his
alleged murderer has just been arrested
in New York His name is ex-Lieutens
ant William J. Fulton.
A son of Major Rogers. Of Madison
Indiana, has elOped with and married
young lady who was to have been we'd
ded to another cavalier this week, her
parents having fixed up the match.
Wisconsin papers are filled with ia.
mentations over the failure of the hop
crop in that State "Last year success"
SAYS the Milwaukee Wisconsin, ICON.
verted otherwise sensible men into hop
mOnomaniac5.
At q recent baptism in the Platte river,
near Rochester, Missouri, a man named
Stephens died suddenly, as he was being
carried up the bank 1t is supposed that
he had the heart disease, and was fatally
chilled by the complete immersion.
The Army and Nary Jouraul which
supports Grant, speaks of the shameful
and contemplate attacks by Radical
newspapers, upon the "illustrious militia
~ career of General Blair
Pork packing will commence in In-
dianapolis about the 18th of November
1t is expected that between $4,000 and
| 10000 hogs will be slaughtered in that
city this season
A Vermont paper having stated that
! all the prisoners now confined in Frank
lin county Jail 90 for Seymour and Blair,
| they come out in a card Indignantly de-
nying the charge They are for Grant
every one of them.
A respectable woman Of New Haven,
who has known nothing of her husband
since he deserted her, many years ago,
and who has been married six years to
another man, was arrested for bigamy on
complaint of husband No l, few nights
ago
DIR. Il. r. King, of Nincennes, whow
severely injured by "a kick from the horse
BILLY Bar at the races at Evansville,
few weeks ago, and who has become de-
ranged in consequence, was taken to the
Insane Asylum at indianapolis lastweek.
The San Francisco y Dung Mems Chris,
tan Association has recently erected a
hall for its own use, at an expense of
$4,000 The building, three stories
high, with a sandstone front in the Nener
tian style, is 51l feet front, and 100 feet
deep.
1t is estimated that there are over fifty
thousand Hebrew voters in the three
States that have just gone Republican,
who, although voting with their party on
local issues, will oppose Grant in Novem-
Der, because Of his infamous "Order No
H.
The body Of a murdered man was
found in the water at Buffalo, the other
day, and his skull was given to a doctor
for examination. The skull dropped into
the street from the doctor buggy, and
the gaminS used it for a foot ball. The
police stopped the game and took charge
Of the grim toy
A hospital for women who are dis
gusted with their husbands, has been
proposed in Cleveland, but canvass of
the prospective applicants for admission
showed thathalf the buildings in the town
would be required to accommodate the
patients, and the project has been aban'
doned for the present
On Monday next the government will
disburse the twenty seven million dollars
Of gold ordered for the November interest
on the five-twcnty bonds of 1862 and 1863.
Ca the coming first Of January it will dis
burSe, as interest, thirty millions more.
There is now reserve of about one hum
dred millions in the treasury
At the Hardin County kentucky Fair,
held last week, grave ques ton arose
regarding the proper status of widows