Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-21
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

been sent to the insane asy lam.
Col. E. W. Morgan, formerly Superin.
tendent of the Kentucky Military Insti>
tute, died ct Bethlehem, Penn, few
days ago. /
John Stuart Mill, and other woman
suffrage advocates in England, are ex !
pected at the National Convention to be
held in New York.
Itissaid that the Sonora reFolutionists
are ready to declare for annexation, and
that the other northern Mexican States
are ripe for the same.
Pierre Soule's SON, who was charged
with being insane as well as his father,
has proved his sanity. Pierre Soule's
complaint is sOftening of the brain. 1
"A Republican, meeting 10 Maryville,
Blount County, Tennessee, recently
passed resolution condemning Grant
for giving to Longstreet fat Office. , 1
The constabulary Of Queenstown were
lately hoaxed, by being made to believe
that q vessel just arrived there was
laden with Greek fire for the Fenians.
Gen. Ames has appointed several nes
groes to q position in Mississippi. In
Adams and Jefferson counties he has app
pointed, in each, a negro justice of the
peace. +.gs .,..4...
In the French Corps Legislatif, Satur-
day, Theirs, denounced the commercial
as like the political liberties of France
q farce. A scene of wild excitement
ensued.
1t is positively asserted that Charles
A. Dana will not qualify as Appraiser Of
the port of New York, thus leaving
Thomas McElrath, the present Appraiser
undisturbed.
Captain Jeremiah Diller, an old steam>
boat captain, and for long time
wharfmaster at Louisville, died suddenly
at that place, of heart disease, last We'd
nesday night. /
1t is stated that, according to the Pa-
tent Office report, the finest specimen Of
Saxony wool ever exhibited in the United
| States was grown in Madison county,
Miss, by Mark Ceckrill, Esq.
The other Sunday lady preaching
in Wisconsin discoursed from the text,
81 say unto you, watch;' and the next
week the gallant youths of her congre.
CATION gave her nice gold one.
The Commissioner Of Internal Reve-
nue. has decided that farmers who have
their grain manufactured into -four, and
| then sell the flour in any manner, must
pay a license to the Government.
A correspondent of the Farmers
| Gazette, published at Richmond, states
that in the neighborhood of Suffolk, Vir-
ginia, the peanut crop has proved more
| profitable than either corn, cotton, or
sweet potatoes.
1t is thought that the value OF patent
brick a building material will be fully
developed in law suit now in progress
between the contractor who built the
Freemen's University at Washington,
and General Howard.
Colonel Goshen, the Arabian giant, is
now residing at Algonquin, McHenry
County, Illinois. lie is IL feet high,
weighs GA pounds, and with one eXcep>
ton is the largest man in the world, and
is native of Jerusalem, and came TO
America in 1860.
A hopeful son of B. B. Eggleston hay>
ing been appointed postmaster at Column
bus, Miss, the Sentinel gives hint to
the citizens to stop their box rents. II
was so done, it says, in a neighboring
city, cutting down the carpet-bsgger's
revenue about 81 900.
At recent meeting Of an agricultural
society in Pennsylvania, it was resolved
to set apart two hundred dollars toward
a fund to be used in importing insect
destroying birds from Europe. The
society extend an invitation to othel
societies to join them in this enterprise
| Oh. Campen reports the arrival o
5l5 emigrants at Columbus, Ohio, for the
week ending Saturday night, who will
settle as follows: In Ohio, 50; Missouri
SO; Illinois, III; Indiana, 81; Kentucky
| 81; Tennessee, 20; Wisconsin, 20; Min
nesota, 81; Iowa, q; Kansas, 80.
In the executive session of the Senat'
last Monday a good deal of time wa
consumed in discussing the nomination
Of Z. A. Stephens, of New jersey, a
consul to Leeds. Stephens is son @
Anna Stephens, and is charged with be
ing Democrat. He was almost unani
mously rejected.
A new club house for women on Eas
Twenty-th third street, New York, is to b
opened on the 18th of May, and will b
occupied by the Sorosis, the Workin
Women's Association, artists, studios, tn
, Revolution office, and as sleeping apart
, ments for women visiting the city VIII
may not desire to go alone to a hotel.
In Marion county, Ga, a few days ag'
a negro committed brutal outrage upO
a young lady about eighteen years of az
who is said to be Of unsound mind. TIL
, negro was pursued by party Of neigh
. bors and killed. The young lady be
|, longs to one Ofthe most respectable fax
g lies of Madison county.
q 1t turns out that DIR. Benjamin Ayr
!. Republican member of the Georg
( Legislature, about whom the New Yor
= Tribune got up such frightful Ku- Klu
v sensation, was murdered and robbed
s negro named Wilson, who is now
i Jail at Augusta. Ayre's pocket book an
= money were found in the Negroes pc
!. session.
l. A Washington dispatch of the 10
: says: "This morning a certified copy
/ an Indictment against Burbridge, as
special agent of the Treasury Depal
ment, found by the grand jury of t
J. United States Circuit Court for the ca:
b. ern district Of Missouri, charging h
to with bribery in receiving money fr(
n distilleries engaged in defrauding t
e. government, was produced in the Grin
" nal Court, and Judge Wylie issued
n warrant for his arrest. Deputy Marsl
} a Phillips this afternoon arrested Gen.
and he was taken before Judge Wy
by whom the case is being heard. G
B., it is due to say, alleges that it
en known that he is here for the purpose
a obtaining another position, and that
he Indictment is part Of scheme to
lie feat him"
NJ.
ter Accident at the MurfreesbOrO Fl
The Murfreesboro Monitor of Stature
g a referring to the late disastrous Contiat
ne ton at that place, says that while the