Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold is reported TO have been found il
New Hampshire and Vermont in quaint
ties sufficient to pay miners.
The Pacific railroad is employing ar
army of fence-builders, fences being neces
sary to keep the animals off the tracks.
A Lisbon special says the majority O
the Portuguese are opposed to Spanish an
nexation.
The New York Sun has an editorial
nominating Manton Marble for Mayor in
place of Hoffman, and urging his fitness
for the position.
Herds of buffalo, according to letter
writers. dispute the passage of trains on
the Kansas Pacific railroad.
Since the overthrow of the Bourbon
monarchy in Spain, FIVE hundred Jesuits
have fled across the frontier TO Portugal.
The fires in the Oregon woods are a
double calamity. Besides the destruction
of property. they drive the wild beasts
into the settlements, where they commit
great ravages.
A yerdict has been rendered against the
| Boston and Worcester Railroad Company,
| giving Samuel B. Stone six thousand dol
| lars compensation for injuries sustained by
being run over while travelling on the
highway in Natick.
Stock growers in Texas are much troub-
led by thieves, who kill their cattle and
| steal their hides. They have therefore
determined 10 shoot every one5ound thus
employed.
There are Alt male and II female con-
victs in the Southern Penitentlary OF In
diana. The prison has paid all its exPen-
ses during the last two years, and has a
balance in the treasury.
A Chicago man is said to have recently
patented an invention by which train of
cars, running at the rate of forty miles an
hour, may be stopped in few seconds.
The invention consists in a new method of
working the brakes from the locomotive.
The engineer on the locomotive may with
ease apply the brakes on all the cars of
which the train consists, and the services
of brakemen may be dispensed with.
An unclaimed express package was
opened in Memphis the other day previous
to its being sent to the sale OF quantity
of such bundles to pay expenses OF trans
portation, and found to contain twenty-five
thousand dollars in counterfeit fractional
currency.
The Trustees of William and Mary Col
lege, Va, have received this year from
England 5000, the proceeds of legacy left
in 1742 by an. English lady.
A relic Of the famed ram Merrimac, in
the shape of an immense anchor, weighing
5000 pounds, has been raised, and is on ex-
hibition at Norfolk, Virginia.
Brigandage ia Italy is growing worse
than ever. The bandits have excited such
fear of their vengeance that no witnesses
can be found against them. The sons of
one Of their victims dared not recognize
the assasins in court.
A Paris correspondent writes: Picking
pockets, Fobberies in the pablo thorough.
fares, often with violence, and plundering
and swindling in an infinite variety OF
ways, are just now particularly rife in this
capital. There is also a great deal OF
counterfeit coin in circulation, especially
fve-franc pieces, supposed to be mauufac-
tured in Belgium. Robberes are COM
mitted with the greatest daring. and by
persons whose exterior and department
would never give rise to the fainlest sus-
picion of their nefsrious calling"
Two prisoners, named Burton and
Z4nes, while being conveyed from Cairo to
Joliet, whittier they were being taken to
serve out a sentence 10 the State Peniten-
tiary for robbery, attempted to escape from
the officer by jumping from the train. On
backing up the cars, both men were found
lying near the track, Burton in dying
and Zanes SO badly injured that
he will he a rriDDla for life