Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NE W6 OE TIE OAI.
Savannah imports coffee direct from
Rio Janeiro.
They are selling good beer in Baltimore
twenty per cent below New York prices.
Some of the Methodist churches in
Pittsburg are having revivals.
Vincennes, Ind, is under shadow, the
Gas Company having shut off the gas.
A vigilance committee was formed at
Los Angeles, Cal, on the LIST inst.
A family of eight persons, in Spring
field, were poisoned on Sunday night, by
eating of chicken supposed TO be dis
eased.
John Chinaman is shipping horned frogs
from San Francisco to China, for medi-
cinal purposes.
1t is rumored that Rev. DIR. Foley, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Baltimore, has
been appointed successor to Bishop Dug
gan, of the Diocese of Illinois.
A Frenchman proposes to repel a navy
attack on New York by pouring petroleum
on the water and igniting it.
The McGregor, Iowa, Nelcs charges
the anti-Biblical men with desire to in
trOduce Paine and Voltaire into the
schools
A citizen of Des Moines, Iowa, has
sent an open letter to the saloon keepers
warning them MOTTO sell liquor to bis four
sons and one daughter.
A French colony, at Williamsburg,
Kan, have manufactured some silk fab
RIGS this season, and will carry on the
business on a larger scale next year.
A stock company has offered to COM
plete all the street Improvements in Paris,
in consideration of a monopoly of public
gambling houses for fifty years.
One of Brigham Young's old DANTE
band has made death-bed confession OF
four hundred murders, as nearly as he
could reckon, for the sake of the church.
Seventeen counties of South Carolina
have increased 2,062 in population since
1850. The census has not yet been COM
pleted in the remaining fourteen cOun-
ties
The Persian silk crop is total failure,
the exports being limited to 1900 bales
against 20, 900 bales last year. This will
produce a notable rise in the price Of silk
goods.
The Prussian Government has offered
to renew the lease of the gambling bank
at Baden Baden to NJ. Dupresloir for a
yearly rent of 900, OO0h., and S,0OOf.
subsidy TO the theater.
St. Peter, MINI, merchants and busI-
ness men, to the number of fOrty-fve
houses, have had financial meeting and
resolved to give credit for no more than
thirty days.
A loyal Briton told New Yorker the
other day that in England it was notorious
that the Queen had an inordinate love for
gin and beer, and was almost constantly
under the influence.
Altogether, 1886 Chinese have
reached California. These are thus &C
counted for by the companies Returned,
81, 1928; died, 10, 425; remaining in the
State, Al, 900; and the rest have gone into
other States.
The deer in Minnesota arc recorded as
affording much sport for amateurs, and
profit to the genuine old hunter. They are
unususlly plentiful all over the State.
Oregon was so mild the last week in
November that strawberries and peas were
ripening, blackberries in bloom, oak buds
bursting into leaf, and fresh pork spoil
ing.
4 poor woman in Worcester, Mass,
who for twenty years has waited to hear
from her husband, has just received
letter from him, saying that he has
amassed fortune in California, and is
waiting for her 10 enjoy its advantages
with him.
The new school law in Connecticut,
requiring all children under fourteen
years of age to attend school at least
three months every year, is having good
effect. In one town a manufacturing
company has sent twenty-five children
out to school this term.
The distance from Duluth to Puget 5
Sound by the Northern Pacific road is
about 1,l75 miles. From Chicago to
Duluth is $40. So the whole distance to
the Pacific, by the new route, viii be
1,745 miles, 500 miles less than by the
present Pacific route.
The Alexandria, Virginia, Gazette
says {" 1t gives US pain to know that so
many native young men of the land-its
very bone and sinew-are leaving Vir-
ginia and North Carolina 10 seek their
fortunes in the far West
The Liverpool people are Mortified at
the prevalence of drunkenness among the
women Of that city. In year over five
thousand have been committed TO jail
there for crimes committed under the in
fuencc of strong drink.
Women now regularly attend the medi-
CallectUTes in the University of Edinburgh.
The male students, with true Scotch
courage, say that il the women can stand
the arrangement, they think they can
without experiencing uncommon difficulty
The earthquake shocks recently felt in
Europe have been observed over a long
space of time. At Gros Gcrau, Germany,
the total number of shocks was about 500
ih three weeks The direction of motion
was horizontal in the earlier and vertical
in the latter shocks
Two rufians named Garyin and Hicks
entered the chamber of a boy named Nc
Gamer, in Wheeling, on Saturday night,
seized the boy, who was sleeping, dragged
him several squares through the street,
beating and stabbing him a fearful mas-
ncr No cause is ascertained.