Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

L Was hAl1Cu bh OhhScoNl
night by the proprietor of drinking
saloon.
Perry NJ. Hunter, an extensive wooden
manufacturer at MorIistown, New Jersey,
committed suicide Thursday by shooting
himself.
The object Of the Southern School-book
Association is to have uniform set of
hooks in all the schools OF the Southern
States.
General Robert E. Lee has been rendered
| by the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Com
| pany the Supervisorship of its agencies
South at a salary of $4,000 year.
The Deseret News announces the arrival
at Salt Lake City of 10000 first and second
readers for the schools of Utah, printed in
the New Mormon alphabet.
The Paris Temps says that Andrew John.
con, who will visit Europe next spring,
will be stared at by thousands who read
about his trial, and thought, if convicted,
he would be sent TO the sc9tlold.
The yield of corn in Alabaml is res
ported very large, and cotton is turning
out somewhat better than was anticipated
The weather has been very fine for gath
ering lately.
The certificate Of incorporation of the
| Odd Fellows Hall Association, of Dayton,
was filed in the Office of the Secretary of
State on the 10Th Its capital stock is
$4,000.
A few days ago, Van Orden's mill, at
Belle river, Ontario, was burned, and
three persons persisted. A man named
Chesholm has been arrestedon the charge
of setting it on fire,
Near Independence, Iowa, Wednesday
night, Jno. Oaks shot and killed Jno.
Oakley while the latter, with others, was
charivaring newly married couple in
Oaks house
The returns Of the Land Office show
that nearly $4,000 acres of the public
lands were disposed of in Kansas and
Nebraska during October, mostly for ac-
tual settlement
The arrest of the Secretary of State of
Vera Cruz, was made on the ground that
he had violated the laws in accepting a
civil office while holding position in the
army. They have curious laws in Mexico.
Late Arizona advices give numerous In.
dian outrages. Governor Mccormick dis.
approves Oh lu6 ESCSuL uld5ShCIe vi 1uulduS
by whites near La Paz, and has ordered
the arrest of the principal actors.
The Paris Magazine says that Anson
Burlingame is the trickiest diplOmatist
whom the United States have pFoduced for
a long time past, and that European gov
ernments, therefore, should be on their
guard 10 their negotiations with the Chi
nese embassy.
B. F. Spar, magnetic doctor, from
ST. Louis disappeared Thursday night
after selling out his furniture, carrying |
of his eldest child, boy of seven Mrs. |
Spar says female other Acquaintance
disappeared at the same time.
The usual winter carnival of crime has
commenced in ST. Louis. In the Court |
of Criminal Correction last Thursday only |
twenty prisoners, arrested during the day,
were arraigned for grand larceny, and |
ten others were convicted and sentenced |
in the Criminal COurt.s
Late advices from Fort Hayes represent |
Sheridan in active pursuit of the Indians. |
Carr and Bankhead, With a large force, |
are making aggressive movements west of |
Fort Wallace The Third United States |
hundred disafected Indians.
Accounts from the interior Of Missouri |
represent the growth of the crop of winter |
wheat sown recently as unusually heavy, |
and indications are that the yield Of this |
description ofWheat next year will be more |
than double the quantity ever before pro-
du,ed in that State.
A lad named Waters aud tWo boy5 |
named Schulz and Tool have died from the
effects Of boiler explosion in Shenandoah
City, Schuylkill County, Pean, on SL,ur-
day last, at the mines of Miller Sons &
Roads. The engineer, named Ntzhugh,
lin, is in very critical coalition. two
other persons are also badly injured.
It is an idiosyncrasy of Maine manage.
ment TO exempt new enterprises from taxa
tion until they gain their strength. Ban
gor has Just done this for ten years for the
wood manufacturing company. Il would
be well if some other localities had little
of the Maine idiosyncrssy on this Paricu-
lar subject
At a banquet given By the founders Of
the cooperative societies at Fauxhall, IN
Paris, one of the speakers made the follow
ing pun on being called upon to say few
words "My friends, let US drink 10 the
health of Fennimore Cooper, the first
founder of cooperative societies" The
French pronounce COoper-Co
In the course of an editorial on the sub
iect of franchise the Cincinnati Commercial
of Friday says: We hold to the PROPOSE
ton that shere can be no permanent peace
where there are permanent inequalities OF
rights, civil or political, and We are not in
favor of relieving one class of political
disabilities and comforting them upon
another at the same time. Whoever has
capacity to acquire property or knowledge,
| whoever pays taxes or contributes to the
wealth of the country, Is entitled to equal
| privileges in the direction of the Govern
ment that imposes burdens upon him, or is
benefited by his labor.
In Danville, on the evening Of the mar
rage of the Rev. DR.. Breckenridge, num-
| Der of men and boys assembled at the house
for the purpose of treating the new Y mar
ried couple to charivari. The Doctor
had an intimation of the affair, and had
employed force of police to protect him,
but the rowdies oVerpowered them and
locked them in Jail, and returned to the
house where the bridal party were assem-
bled, and made night hideous with all sorts
of noises, winding up the disgraceful affair
by calling the roll which consisted OF the
names of the professors Of the Theological
Seminary and all the clergymen in town.
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