Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Arizona has adopted the Office of At
torney General, and established a com.
mon school system.
A saloon keeper, at Stratford, Conn,
has found petroleum well in his cellar,
and refuses $4,000 for it.
M. Theirs is writing work which will
occupy six volumes, treating on religion,
history, art, sciences, philosophy, etc.
M. II. ]. Lewis, for many years Assis-
tant Superintendent of the Kentucky
Central railroad, died on Saturday in
Newport. He had been in i'll health for
nearly year.
1t is rumored that the ship Viceroy,
from Liverpool for San Francisco, was
burned off the coast of South America.
The rumor can not be traced to any re-
liable source.
L. G. Randall, Postmaster of Portland,
Oregon, convicted of robbing the mails,
has been sentenced to twelve years inn
prisonment. Randall's clerk, Fox, has
been arrested on the same charge.
In all parts of the State of Texas SELL
ers demand coin in payment for cotton,
and 1t brings from fourteen to eighteen
cents per pound in gold. This carries
large amount of gold into Texas.
Freight for Salt Lake is now sent from
New York city to the end of the Pacific
Railroad s-:tlse-t-~ls~a5O- Cars--zr00O
miles. This forms the longest line of
continuous railroad track in the world.
The gold hunters along Valley river,
North Carolina, are said to have averaged
three dollars per day to the hand during
the past season, and large increase in
the business is anticipated in the spring.
The wood>chopper in Sullivan, Indi-
ana, whom rumor has made the possessor
of $4,000 in gold, has confirmed the
report by giving in $4,000 in gold for
taxation, the tax on the amount being
$500.
Greece has rejected the conclusions Of
the conference on the eastern question:
This conduct may indicate valor, but it
does not exhibit discretion, which is con-
coded to be the better part of the former
quality.
Two thousand women, wives, ETC., of
the Rajah of Jeypore, lately set upon
their guardian, who was keeping them too
strictly, and beat him most numerically.
He barely escaped with his life and
broken arm.
The extensive pork packing and lard
establishment of Boyntoa, Swallow &
Co., in Brighton, near Boston, was de-
stroyed by fire on Sunday night. The
loss was $4,000, on which there is a
partial insurance.
A Newfoundland dog saved the life of
his drunken master, soldier garrisoned
at Fort Preble in Portland harbOr, last
Saturday night. The drunkard was
freezing in the snow, and the dog watched
him and howled until help came.
Robbers attacked the house of ex-
Sheriff Reuben King, of Robinson
County, near Cumberton, North Carolina,
and mortally wounded Mr.. King and a
visitor named S. E. Ward. The perpe-
traitors Of the crime have escaped.
Police Superintendent Kennedy, Of
New York, has received dispatch from
the Chief of Police at Montreal, stating
that the reported arrest of Bogert, the
alleged delaulting Paymaster in the
United States Navy, was without foun-
dalton.
Tabriz, in PERSIA city of sixty thou
sand people, and which has just been ter
ribly shaken by an earthquakes one Of
seventeen cities which are celebrated for
wealth and magnificence, and abounds,
like all the Persian cities, with gardens,
minarets and domes.
A Law case Is reported wherein de~
cisiOn Of Judge Ball, Of New York city,
was oVerruled by the Court OF Common
Pleas, which affirms that gift Of money
or any other valuable thing to secure or
reward the bestowment of Office, conveys
title good in law.
THE EASTERN QUEsTION.-It has
transpired here in diplomatic circles that
the Greek government has no notion of
accepting the result Of the Paris confer
ence. As evidence of this, it may be
stated that some of our leading builders
of war vessels are being conferred with
for the purpose Of ascertaining the cost
and time necessary to fit out six ships,
such as Greece may want. Usually
Greece has no money wherewith to pay
for such trifles but having recently
made loan of $20,OOO,000 she may be
ready now to buy a feet. The present
Greecian charge d'affairs here is Mr.. c.
r. Rangabe, son Of the Greek minister to
France.