Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There are thirty-nine conyicts in the
Nevada State prison.
The London Times says India cotton
cannot displace American cotton.
The Rochester (NIinnesota) Post cou-
tains five columnsof mortgage foreclosure
sales
A handsome young lady is candidate
for Engrossing Clerk in the California
Legislature.
Koopmanschaap is negotiating to have
his Coolies brought to New Orleans by
way of the Suez Canal.
The Red River insurgents have placed
Governor McTaYish under guard for sd-
vising the Rebels to lay down their arms
A single hunter has killed eighty deer in
two months, within the wooded district OF
Marion, California
There are one hundred and thirteen
patients in the Oregon Insane Asylum,
greater number than at any former time.
Portland, Oregon, has a Sunday-schOol
for the Chinese under the auspices OF the |
Young Mems Christian Association.
Dakota is growing rapidly. Nearly a |
million acres have been taken this year
under the presumption ana homestead
laws.
Twenty-seven law making bodies, be-
sides the constitutional convention in Ten
nessee, will be in session in this country IN
January.
Five soldiers were branded CD and
drummed out of service at Fort Whipple,
Arizona Territory, recently, for the crime
Of desertion.
Several political societies have been dis
covered in Russia, which proposed a revo-
luton on Feb. II, the anniversary of the
emancipation of the serfs.
In portions of Linn county, Oregon,
where fax has been cut this season, since
the rains the second crop has sprouted
from the roots, and is higher than the first
crop, and large portion of it is In bloom.
In Stockton, Dec 4, a wholesale liquor
establishment received by railroad, direct
from Cincinnati, twenty barrels OF corn
whisky, being the first liquor conslgn-
ment received in that place overland
The Camden and Amboy Railway Com
panv has formerly surrendered the mon-
opoly which it has held for the pasttwenty-
five years, of the right of way across the
State of New Jersey, direct from Fhila-
delphia TO New York.
The ST. Louis Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation returns thanks to the Wyoming
Legislature for recognizing wOman's right
to the ballot. They also petition the Hi
nOis Constitutional Convention to recog-
nize the same right in that State.
Toronto courts are TO try breach OF
promise suit, the fair petitioner in which
is sixty, and the gay deceiver seventy
wears of age. The latter recently mar
RED another lady, and his first love wants
S., 900 to soOthe her lacerated feelings.
The whole region of country lying be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the Ms
sissippi abOunds in fossils, which are
found deposited upon the clay beneath
the soil. Science is reaping q rich harvest
of interest in this part OF the continent
The St. Louis and Cedar Rapids Rail
road-which means the extension of the
North Missouri Railroad nOrthward-has
upon it force of 300 hands between
Bloomfield and 6ttumwa, which will soon
be increased to 500.
A Russian Prince, and Judge into the
bargain, bearing the aristoCratic name OF
SchakhOwski, is on his way to visit Amer
lea, having provided for the necessary OK
pense of figuring in our chest society by
| defaultinn to the amount of 5000 rou-
bles.
The Boston people are using their larg-
est theater on Sunday evenings Tor
| church. Why theater should be con
| yerted, into a church, in city which
contains more churches than are half
filed, is a mystery we have never been
able TO fathom.
Judge provinces, of the San Francisco
| Police Court, who has heretofore refused
| to admit Chinese testimony, IN cases
where white men are parties, gave
written opinion, on the 9th inst, deciding
that the State law excluding it is in con-
| fIict with the Fourteenth Amendment
| The sugar harvest of LOuisiona is gen
erallv finished, and the yield, according
to the Crescent, will not much exceed
that of last year. Whatever of increase
there NAV be will be due to the larger area
of cane planted The product per acre
is not equal TO that of the last crop. The
sugar, however, is of excellent quality.
There is a motion made to found a
gigantic Life Insurance Company in Paris,
upon the American plan. a principal
| company of that character has failed IN
| the French metropolis, owing to the de
| falcation of one of its chief officers. This
has suggested the value of the American
plan, and the propriety of adopting it.
North Falmouth, Mass, is a mode
town. There is but single church IN
the village, and that is of the Congrega,
tional order. Butwhat is noticeable, every
family in the place attends church, anC
| worships with that church. 1t is doubt
full if another such village can be found
Nantucket has gone backward instead
,, | of forward within the last sixty years, he
greatest prosperity being from 1880 Il
1S4O, when the town had population o
! 9. 900, with over 800 vessels. Now Their
are but 4, 500 people in the town, and /,
442 of these are over sixty years OF age
Y A Young man in North Adams, Mass.
' died last week in consequence of a do
nestle af1iCtion. About three weeks az
f il came to his knowledge that the woma
( he lived with as his wife for four years
S was the wife of another man. He immC
/ diately left her for his parental roof
f where he soon sickened and died Of grief
d At Dicks Creek Tunnel, on the line O
: the Blue Ridge Railroad, in Georgia, whic
Col. T. ]. Steers has contracted to bullc
/, snakes have been found so plentiful tbs
l work had to be temporarily suspende
l. until a few thousand of them were KILLED
&c After an excavation had been made
II three hundred feet in solid rock, the po
! sonous reptiles were discovered In va
II numbers, and all hands were employed
VI disposing of them.
While the counsel for the prisoner IN
u criminal trial in Philadelphia, on Wee
10 nesday, was making his argument, one
the Jurors started up and exclaimed:
saw he's not guilty" The Judge rebukt
the Juror and fined him 800, although /
r said, in justification of himself, that
~ was hard of hearing, and misunderstood
nj the attorney, and that he was never IN
~ court of justice before, and at all event
70 | did not intend to do any harm.