Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thomas N. .StiIwell Of Indiana. YVES
nominated by the President, on Saturday,
as Minister to Ecuador. aaf avAgg
It is rumored and generally believed
in Havana, that the Havana Lottery is to
be suppressed by the home Government.
A large majority of the delegates
chosen at the Spanish Cortes elections,
which are passing off very quietly, are
in favor Of . monarchy.
II has been decided that tho Cadiz in,
surgents are to be tried by council of
war, but that, in no case, will the ex-
IRENE penalty Of death be inflicted.
The Erie directors are said to be ne
gotiating for the Boston and Albany
Railway, and will probably get it. They
are rapidly extending their combina-
tons. SIS ga az .Es-e
The Commissioner Of Internal Reve-
nue. has decided that real estate and
building companies leaning money on
aeal estate, are liable to the special tax
as bankers.
The Bellefeld Presby terrain church, in
the Fourteenth ward of Pittsburg, was
totally destroyed by fire Monday. Loss
$4,000 Insured for $4,000.
The rumor which prevailed in Paris,
that Russia had sent an unfavorable
note to France, on the Eastern question,
provesst) lave been q canard, invented
to depress the market. ysr,esrs ~
Andrew Kelley, prominent railroad
contractor OF Missouri, and well known
in Pennsylvania and the East, died in
St Louis on Saturday evening, after a |
short illness of congestion of the brain.
The Germans had meeting at Chicago |
last Sunday on the liquor question, in op- |
position to the recent State Temperance
Convention in Bloomington. Strong |
resolutions were passed, one of them de-
claring that political support would be
given to no man in favor of prohibition.
2 G. H. Camper, emigrant agent at Co.
lumbuS, Ohio, reports the arrival of 27S
emigrants during the week ending Satur>
day last. They design settling as fol-
lows: Ohio, 81 Missouri, 70; Illinois,
81 Indiana, 80; Kentucky, %; Ten
hesSeo, IL HlScOnSln, Il michigan, y. |
Charles II. Wignall, for the past eleven
years commercial editor of the Chicago
Jout nal, died in that city on Sunday,
iged thirty years. His disease was con-
He was a Christian gentle-
nan and an able and trustworthy repor-
er. tlfu E Bass stHh
The Paris MOniteur says the Powers
Who signed the treaty of 1856, continue
o urge cancellation On both the Greek
md Turkish governments. The Pdtrie
Isserts that the Porte will submit to the
,reat powers documentary proofs tina
freeze intended to incite an instruction
n the Turkish Islands, and then take
possession of them.
The artesian we'll of st. Louis has
cached depth Of nearly three thousand
i've hundred feet, and is still going down
ward. No one knows when the chase
will be abandoned it has been kept up
IT rather down--day and night for two
years and more, at the rate of three feet |
,er day. The temperature at the bottom
S said to be two degrees colder than at
he surface. 1908 .
The Erie railroad is going into business
more and more extensively. Besides
,Iying real estate by the million at Ho-
,oken ard Weebawken, New Jersey,
md rolling mill at Biughampton, New
I FORK, and leasing the Atlantic and Wes-
ern road; it now proposes to build tun-
lei under the Hudson River, and grand
lepot on the New York side to accom-
nodate its immense business.