Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The German expedition to the North
Pole will start june z. Eg u}FfftE.l
Ben. Wade has accepted the director
ship Of the Pacific Railroad.
The city authorities of Quincy, Illinois,
have passed an ordinance closing all bar
Der shops on Sundays.
A New York court decided, on Thurs
day last, that it was q penitentiary Of
tense to fail to pay hotel bill.
A Boston capitalist has purchased the
Millaudon plantation, 5000 acres, above
Gretna, Louisiana, for 100000.
Thirty days are all it now takes to
land merchandise from YOkohoma, Japan,
in the shops of the st. Louis merchants.
Cyrus Field failed in the paper business
eight years ago. He has since paid all
his old debts, and is worth good million.
The editor Of the Townsville Enter
prise Acknowledges the receipt of the
first green corn in that section, on the
10Th instant. @ tlaffu f..ttH
Michaux, the French velocipede in>
yentor, nearly starved himself while
trying to introduce his machines. He
now employs five hundred men.
The New Orleans, Opelousas and
Great Western railroad was sold on the
25th to Charles Morgan for $2,O50,0OO.
1t will Immediately be extended to Saline.
Thirty-four white printers were dis
charged from the government printing
office on the day that the negro printer,
whose appointment has made such a
rumpus, was admitted. wssf varT
Two Chicago detectives have captured
in New York the robbers of the jewelry
store of Giles Brothers, Of Chicago, and
the diamonds stolen, to the value OF
. 600. - I,~-, -,oovn-nl
The receipts Of the late FAIR Of Nat
chez, Mississippi, for the benefit Of the
Orphan Asylum, were So, I6l %. This
is exclusive Of contributions Of groceries
and provisions amounting to over S4OO
The humanitarians of New York de-
uouncs the Delaware whipping post
but. saws the Herald, sin the Empire
State our prison authorities may shower
men to death with cold water, and there
seems to be no barbarity.'
A violent thunder storm swept owe
the city of Charleston, South Carollnn
on Saturday evening, damaging proPert!
to a large extent. A boat in the harbo
was capsized, and Mrs. Douglass and
two children drowned.
The Apache Indians, having beel
driven from Arizona, are making terribl
inroads upon Sonora, devastating tn
whole frontier. Reports from Chihua
hua and Nuevo Leon are equally alarm
ing with regard to Indian depredatiOns
The trade in sermons (manuScrip'
sermons sold TO clergymen for use in tn
pulpit is an English institution, as no
where else do we see them so freel
advertised. This trade, we are told b
the English journals, has grown Ell
ormously within few years.
Reports from Iowa say that the whe;
crop never looked so well as now. III
extent Of the growing crop is very larg
! | varying from twenty five to one hundrC
per cent. broader than last season, ar
= many farmers will even harvest t.
acres where they did one last year. Coz
planting has also been very general.
The Vice President of the Unit
: States has been heard from. VIII
Grant is said to want war, Coliax wan
' peace. In speech at Chicago, last wee
he said: 81 know that the military THU
a for war is rife, and that there is an e
!, preston of q growing feeling in our !
t, public which seems to cry out for wi
but, if | stand alone, | stand here
resist it to the extent Of my feeble
. fiuence."
- We are told that the Spanish autho
a. ties threaten soon to end the Cuban
N surrection by proclamation that it is virt
m ally defunct. They may find that G.
Of pedes and Quesada can proclaim just
'. vigorously on the other side, and f
IN quite as ready credence. With the n
ne outbreak in Porto Rico, Spain is like
IN to have enough on its hands in the w
he Indies, to say nothing of home troub
20 for some time yet. aae.
" The Montgomery Daily Adverti
says "The portion OF Florida west
~ the Apalachicola is sold to the STATE
"a Alabama for the sum Of 81 100000
he Alabama bonds the bonds to be de
.pe red when the sale is ratified in accO
ar ance with law. The sale or transfer
for 10 be voted upon by the people of "
nd Florida and after being ratified by
lie Alabama and Florida Legislatures, i.
APP be rejected or approved by Congress.
lIr A rather sensational story reaches
CO. from New York to the effect that
Carrie Roberts, a beautiful blond
twenty, ran away last week with
~ fathers coachman, one Patrick OCOn
III They were at once married, but the
'ar. morning the young lady returned h
nds and said that she welded only for
the Proceedings for a divorce are to bt
stituted, but as the only grounds
social inequality, it is difficult to IN
lble stand how the result desired, by on
tied least, can be obtained.
ton
ties Mrs. Gaines has gone to New Or
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