Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Havana is tranquil, and troops from
Spain are arriving there.
Five hundred New York bank clerks
have united in Cooperative insurance
scheme.
Three persons We're killed in Fitch>
burg, Massachusetts,, last week, while
coasting. lE stEf
The Republicans of Connecticut Wed
neSday nominated Marshall Jewell for
Governor.
The wife of the doomed young
Twitchell, in Philadelphia, does not visit
him in his cell.
The side>wheel steamer Lexington
was burned at New Orleans, early We'd
nesday morning.
Miss Sophia Howe, a respectable
young lady of Springfield, Mass, is mys.
teriously missing.
The city authorities Of Mobile are dis
cussing the propriety of having twenty
i've velocipedes for each fire company in
the city.
The Luthern denomination in the
United States has now 1900 ministers,
1882 houses of worship, and nearly 400
600 communicates.
Blonden has recovered damages in
France against manager who adver-
tised bogus Bionden.
The earnings ofthe Chicago and North.
western Railroad, for January were
S7l,2lS, an increase Of $l5S,272 over
the same month of last year.
1t is currently reported, SAYS the New
Orleans Picdyune, that Gen. Longstreet
is an applicant for Collector ofthe Port of
New Orleans, under Gen. Grant.
Charles j. Dupont has been sued by
the Young Mems Christian Association
at Chicago, for $500 damages, the Asso-
citation claiming that amount as due for
the rent Of their hall.
The proposed bridge over the East
river between New York and Brooklyn
is to be 40 feet high, have but one span,
is estimated to cost $I0,0O0,0OO, and
take five years in building.
A resolution is pending in the West
Virginia Legislature, looking to the
annexation of the Shenandoah Valley,
some twelve or fifteen counties, all west
of the Blue Ridge, to the State of West
Virginia.
Cheyenne has four hotels, eight laws
yers, seven physicians, three daily and
one weekly paper, one church (Catholic)
sixty-nine stores, fifty gambling hells,
and population of 5000, of whom 400
are abandoned women.
ExQueen Isabella is issuing diplomas,
accompanying the bestowal of decorations,
antedated, which is supposed to indicate
her belief that in few months she will
bereturned TO the throne of Spain.
Pinto, the thief who snatched things at
the New York Park Bank the other day,
declined to have his portrait taken for
the rOgue'S gallery because he was can.
didate for Alderman, and he didn't think
it appropriate.
The New York Sun has correspon,
dent in San Francisco who gives an
alarming account Of the ravages Of the
smallpox throughout California. He
says the streets are filled with funerals,
and the grave-digger has his hands and
graves full. In some cases burials are
made by night. Despite every precau-
ton the contagion remains as deadly as
ever, and though it can scarcely be said
to be increasing, its decline is hardly per-
ceptible, and men, women and children,
with vaccine scars on their arms as large
as twenty shilling piece, have fallen
victims to the epidemic. Whole families
have died, but the plague>spot of the
State thus far has been the town of San
Juan, in Monterey county, one hundred
miles from San Francisco. Out of popu-
lation OF one thousand, four hundred were
taken down with smallpox, and of these
four hundred persons, one hundred and
sixty died.