Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

: spite all opposition. s.. 's.
s The workmen on the Hoosac tunnel
struck for eight hours day, instead OF
ten, and carried their point.
The cotton growers. of India are ask,
ing aid of the Government, to enable
, them to compete with American plant
: ers
Secretary Rswlins has approved the
plan Of the East river bridge between
New York and Brooklyn, and work will
be commenced Immediately. b
| Nice people in New York. One Of
them picked the pocket Of an old man, .
stranger in the city, while he was lying
in faintibg fit on the sidewalk.
The women Of Rhode Island having
withdrawn their petition 10 the legislature
for suffrage, have resolved to appeal di-
rectly to the people of the State.
| Thurlow Weed is in New York, hearty
as ever, and purposes 10 wreak vengeance
upon those who have cheated his friends
out Of their spoils in the new deal.
Mr.. Butterfeld, cashier of the Bow
doinhsm (Maine) Bank at the time of its
robbery, is now lying dangerously Ill
from the injuries given him by the burg
lars. y
| Two young women recently fought a
duel in Pueblo, TO decide their claim TO
tho possession of male Mexican's love
and person One OF the coInbatants was
killed.
A half>witted fellow in Minnesota
cured his dog of hydrophobia by rolling
The animal up in bis bed clothes and set
ting them on fire. Loss 5000; no in
surance.
Queen Victoria celebrated her fiiteeth
birthday by creating six new Knights of
the Grand Cross, twenty one Knights
commanders and sixty. five companions
Of The Order of the Bath.
The HayneviIle (Alabama) Examiner
reports that the dreaded b0lI>Worln has
made its appearance on plantations in
LOwndes county, and is carrying destruc-
ton to the cotton crop.
w P FOrney, the clerk in the Surgeon
Generals office who married Annie Sur
ratt, a few days ago, and is now of on
honeymoon trip, was discharged, by
the War Department, by a special order.
The prize-fight Monday, on the out
skirts of Springfield, Massachusetts, be-
tween King and st. Lawrence, was brok-
en- up by the police. Three hundred
spectators, One-third women, witnessed
the affair.
The Internal Revenue Collectors have |
seized several illicit diStileries in New
ark and Jersey City. Two of them
were in dwelling houses, and another in
an establishment inOstensibly devoted TO |
soap making.
The Rochester Union wants an organis i
zstiOn to prevent and punish cruelty |
to children, and holds that such an i
organization would do more for the cause |
Of humanity and morality than all others
put together.
1t is stated that Gen. Forrest is nego,
tiating for a large number of Cinnamon
to work on the Memphis and Selma rail-
road. They are those thrown ont of |
employment by the completion of the
Union Pacific railroad.
John w. Swasey, one of the holier~
than thou sort of people, kept writing
school in Montpelier, Vt. 1t was dis.
covered aftera while that many young /
girls were disinclined to attend his school,
and the result was a mob.
A company has been formed in New
York to bring fresh meats to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of their
vessels is lined with a non conducting
E,IE Irr, ,b r..
low the freezing point will be kept up.
Miss Adelaide Phillips got 81 300 for
what singing she did during the Peace
Jubilee, while Parepa Rosa received $500 |
per day for her services. The latter, it /
is reported, lost fourteen stone in weight l
by the terrible exertion Of her attempt to |
out~sing Gilmore's big drum.
St. Louis has a report that five thOus
and Chinese labOrers have reached Oma-
ha, en- route to New Orleans. A con-
yenLiOn of Tennesseeaus Alabamians |
and Mississippisns has been called to
meet at Memphis next month, TO take |
measures for the importation Of Chinese
laboTerS.
Mr.. Wolf, New York cap maker,
Whlle attending meeIlhS SI MS stilhlbS
employees, Friday, was set upon by the
men, and beaten and abused with ton
CUES and fists, until the girls, who were
among the strikers, came to his rescue,
and stopped the maltreatmet. Mr..
Wolf promptly hired the girls over again,
and gave them all the increase OF wages
they asked.
| After Mr.. Raymond's death there was
| found lying on hIs desk an unfinished
editorial paragraph referring to Major
Gen. Mcdowell, probably the last words
that flowed from his pen. 1t breaks oil
abruptly, leaving the sentence incomplete
Ms if the writer had been suddenly inter
rupted ut his work and called away; a
sadly suggestive incident.
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