Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The citizens of Richmond, Texas, have
formed themselves into patrol to protect
the town from lawless characters.
The residence of Mrs. NJ. NJ. Carpenter,
lear Clinton, Ala, was fred by an incen-
diary on Tuesday Of last week and burned
to the ground.
A semi.snuua dividend of five per
cent, payable on the 26th proximo, has
been declared by the Chicago and North
western railroad.
A movement for new railway betwe
| New York and Washington has been com
menced again, and will probably be
brought up 10 Congress, az usual.
The Galena Gazette, published at the
home of Gen. Grant and F. B. Washburne,
etates, apparently upon authority, that the
latter will not serve 10 the Cabinet of the
former.
Adyices from France state that there il
growing discomfort in France consequent
on the press seizures. Prosecutions are
waged by the government with unsparing
energy.
1t is understood in New York Mr.. Van
Dyck has letter from the Secretary of the
Treasury, saying it will not be necessary
to sell any more bonds during his admins
tration.
A woman named Agnes Gallagher and
two children, residing on Dry Dock street,
New York, were fatally burned Tuesday
evening by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
Hon. E. Joy Morris, the American Min
lister at Constantinople, has presented to
the Porte an energetic protest against the
imprisonment of the two American citi-
zens at Damascus.
A Chicago dispatch says that C4rme has
challenged Rudolphe to play him two
games of billiards, for $4,000 side, each
game to be played in private, RudOlphe
has not yet responded.
Gen. Thompson, who, in Calhoun's time,
was member of Congress from South
Carolina, and afterward Minister TO Next
CO, died in Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday
afternoon, aged about seventy years.
The Hungarian Red Book denounces the
disloyalty prevalent in the Danubian
Principalities to the Sultan's government,
and SAYS they have forfeited their claim to
the protection of the great powers.
Elkin's hotel, situated a short distance
from Southampton, Ontario, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning. Two men we're
burned to death, and the proprietor and
three others we're 80 badly burned that
they were not expected TO recover.
In the following heretofore Republican
States TIE Republicans have lost sixteen
members of Congress. In New York, 8;
Pennsylvania, .; Ohio, 3 Tennessee .
Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota each, /, and
Missouri, 3. 10 all other States nineteen
making total Of thirty.fve.
The important case of Rufin vs. Fer
guson was closed in the Memphis Law
Court on the 23d, the jury returning YER
dict for the plaintiff, which places the
heirs ofthe late Major Ruffn in possession
of the property purchased by Mr.. Fer
gnsOn at the tax sales in 1862.
A Washington special of the 231 says:
1t is quite likely that the President will
suspend Collector of Customs Coke, of
Philadelphia, under the civil tenure-of-
Office act, for refusal to obey the depart
ment. Some ten specifications have been
presented against him. Senator Cameron
arrived to-day, and urges the suspension.
The Democratic Congressman Randall,
from Philadelphia, also approves the pro-
posed change.