Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| CapItoi OF WISCONSIN,, commlISu sulCiu
by drowning near that city, on Sunday.
It's calculated that there are now abou
$4,000 Cinnamon settled in California
nearly all being natives of the province c
! Canton.
1t is said that Donnelly, the defeate
Radical Congressman in Minnesota, vii
probably be elected United States Senator
A Mrs. Frazer, wife Of Confederat
General from Louisiana, died suddenly a
Alton, Illinois, Tuesday night. She wa
found dead 10 her bed.
Quite a number of The persons mad
houseless by the burning Of the Widows
Home at Cincinnati, have been provided
With temporary quarters at ST. Lux
Hospital.
-Four hundred tons of iron have been re
covered from the sunken wreck of the Con
federate ram Merrimac, in Norfolk, Va
harbor.
Miss Della Shackleford, one of the mos
accomplished and beautiful women in Mis-
sissippi, the youngest daughter of Judg
| Shackleford, of the Supreme Bench of tina
State, was married few days since II
Capt. J. C. Preistley, CT Canton.
The Pacific Railroad will be completed
in eight months-that is, the two road
viii make junction, thus forming con
tinuous line from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc There is at present a gap of abou
five hundred miles to be filled in.
Louisiana and Florida are now begin
ming to compete successfully with Cubs
and the West India Islands in raising or
| aDge5 for the Northern markets. The
| steamers which leave New Orleans nov fol
New York take out quantities of Oranges
and along the St. Jchn'5 river, Florida
heavy shipments are being made of thi:
fruit by steamers 10 New York The tide
of immigration to the fruit aud vegetable
growing region Of st. Johns river, Flor
ida, has been setting in strong from the
North and West for some time past.
At the October term of the Sixth Judi
cial District for the parish of Livingston
Louisiana, Jarret Ishman, freedman, wa:
convicted of the murder of Stephen Dur.
den, the ColOred orator who was killed il
August last, Just after he had made a De.
| moCratic speech at Hammond Louisiana
The jury found him guilty without capita
punishment, and he was sentenced TO The
Penitentiary for life
A description of vehicle propelled by
the feet, and which exactly corresponds t.
The velocipede so much in vogue st thi:
moment, is published by a Paris paper q!
an extract frcm the Journal de Paris o
1873. Is there nothing new under thu
sun?
Some workmen, in excavating last Tues
| day, for a new block of buildings, on Pros
pect street, Cleveland, Ohio, came across ;
portion Of an ancient cemetery. A large
quantity Of human bones were exhumeC
and carried away.
Knoll, cigar manufacturer at st. Louis
was victimized by two men who, informing
him Of violation Of revenue laws he haC
committed, induced him 10 leave the stor,
in their charge while he ran off to Illinois
pursued by bogus detectives. The sharper
sold ont or removed all his stock. Rea
detectives heard of the violation of law
chased Knoll to Illinois, arrested anC
brought him back, but not in lime to cate!
the sharpers.
Ex- Governor DennIson, OF Ohio, is sail
to be after place in Grants Cabinet. l
is "uip and tuck" between him and Sam
| Galloway. 1t is understood that JohI
! Sherman prefers TO return to his place il
the Senate rather than try for the Cabinet
The Memphis Aralancae states that 9Th,
| efforts of detectives have developed, be
| you'd possibility Of doubt, that the assas
sination OF General Hindman was planned
in Little Rock by leading Radicals, ant
executed by their orders. The assassin
was a white man, who was paid $500 70
the transaction. He LETT Little Rocl
stealthily, approached Helena, and wa
! taken charge of there by Radicals ia tn
| plot. who furnished all needed information
about General Hindman, the most practi
cable method Of committing the murder
etc. As soon az the deed was COMMITTEE
the assassin returned to Little Rock, an
| thence went to Mexico yia Texas"
NJ. Bournet Aubertol, one of the richie;
tradesmen in Paris, has just died, and le
a fortune Of six million dollars.
Des Moines, Iowa, was fred in iv
places last Sunday night between the hour
eight and nine O'clock. No great damag
resulted, but the citizens are hot after in
cendiaries.
A young lady named Miss Lulie DAME
daughter of Major William Daniel, {
Edgeield district, South Carolina, wa
burned to death last Sunday. Her ga,
ments caught from the kitchen fire.
1t is said that General Grant is alread
annoyed by the many letters he receives
Z - 81 L., h. In iap
Radical politicians The antsgonis
among themselves is more bitter and il
tense than against their party opponents.
Emma Goss, wife of Joe Coburn, Il
New York pugilist, was sent to the pen
Tertiary for one month, Saturday, for praC
ticing her husbands manly art on anotht
woman, who got decidedly the worst
the mill
A contract has ust been entered in
with the city of Paris 10 buy up all the Of
paving stones for the purpose OF shiPpir
them across the Atlantic, where the
are to be used TO pave the princip
thoroughftres Of Buenos Ayers and Mo
tevideo.
The Russian Government il still quiet
pursuing its ibhexible policy as regar
Poland. Hencef5rth The Ministry
! Justice in that unhappy Kingdom will
merged into the general administration
, the empire. 1t il also stated sthat t
Polish provinces on the right bank of t
, Vistula are to be incorporated with
| Russian provinces on the left bank of 4!
|, river.
From Rouen to Paris, distance thirt
two leagues, OF about one hundred al
= thirty miles, was travelled on VelOciped
E by nine Young men in eleven hours, havi
t rested three hours en- route. They start
at seven A. NJ, and arrived at nine P. NJ.
An impecunious Frenchmsn adverti
in Paris paper that for pension Of SIC
be will place himself wholly at the disl
. sal Of his purchaser; will do his Eighth
r climb glaciers, descend into Nesuvlu',
J precipitate himself from balloon.
e The portrait of Mariortf the Intender
7. of Isabella of Spain, has a great sale
o Paris. He is said to have the physique
n one Of those herculean footmen who sta
i behind BelgraVin carriages. He was {
ginaily fourth.rate actor, and gained
e favor of his royal mistress by his pers
re alton Of knightly warrior on the stage
E The question, "ShalI We ever learn
fiy =" according to the statement of K
i; sian journalist, is about to be solved. Ii
"a letter addressed to the Lemburg StGro
mentions the invention Of machine
navigating the air. The motive power
steam. and the inventor estimates the
tainable speed at eighty miles per he
I'd Patents have been grantei him By seva
ar European governments.
.le STATISTICS OF IRISH PRIsOEs.-ln
y wear 1867, the number of persons, exc
rs ing debtors, confined in The prisons of
"' land was 30,007, being three per C
o,raster than in 1853 The number