Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr.. Samuel Miller, Of Lynchburg, Va.
has presented the sum of 100000 tC
the University of Virginia.
The negro woman who murdered the
little white girl in Macon, was caught
near that city on the 18th.
| The EUeniag Bulletin office, 10 Cal
70, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
night. Loss $500; no insurance.
One of the greatest feats yet done
with the velocipede is a journey Of 123
miles in twenty-fOur hours. This was
in France.
Sarah Sherman sued Richard RawsOn
for breach of promise, in Worcester,
Mass, and jury has just decreed her
1900 damages.
A girl of ten, undergoing an operation
TO straighten her eyes, in New York,
last week, died from the effects Of hloS
reform administered.
1t is reported that Gen. Sheridan pre-
ferred Chicago to st. Louis in consequence
Of the citizens thcre having promised
him handsome residence.
A wicked wretch, who claims to know
the rich men of Cincinnati and st. Louis,
says that "the great want of each city is
about thirty-tiVe first-clasS funerals"
Messrs. Pratt & Fox have offered the
city of East St. Louis the sum of $lOO,r
900 for ten years lease Of the ferry priy~
ilege granted by the Illinois Legislature.
NJ. Fabens, Special Commissioner Of
the Dominican government TO Washing>
ton, brings with him instructions to rent
the Bay of SANTANA to the United States.
Gen. Grant has made the Buffalo boot
maker happy by an autograph letter of
thanks. The poor fellow expected an
Office, and thinks he has been swindled.
The depth Of snow in Canada is shown
by the statement that travellers horse
was fatally injured by becoming entan-
gled in telegraph wire twenty feet from
the ground.
Miss Van Lew, the new postmistress
of Richmond, lived in that city during
the war, occupying an elegant mansion
on what is known as Church Hill. She
sympathized with the North, and rem
dered many kind services to Federal
prisoners.
Charley Decker, the Memphis giant,
either thirty@one inches OF thirty one
feet high, we will not positively say
which, is soon to set sail on the Medit0
erranean sea of matrimony, in which
case he will become double Decker.
A dispatch from Des MONIES says S.
100000 of the first mortgage bonds Of the
Iowa and State Line Railroad Company
will soon be issued by that company,
with j. Edgar Thompson, Of the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad, as the trustee.
Port au Prince news, Of March III,
states that Salnave'5 forces were besieg-
ing Jacmel, and the insurgents had COM
menced a siege of Gonaives. Salnave
| arrested 200 merchants ia Port au Prince
and sent them to reinforce the garrison
of Gonaives.
The cotton trade in England is very
dull, and the foreign papers report that
very few of the large manufacturers are
running their mills six days in the week.
The majority OF the establishments have
been open only four and five days in the
week, and now the time is generally to
be reduced to three days.
A horrible crime has been committed
at the village of Dulce-Aqua, North
Italy, caused by the enforcement of the
grist tax. The population rose in mass
and killed the mayor, whose head was
mounted on pike and then paraded
| through the streets. During the same
day twelve of ne municipal counselors
were asssssinated.
The New York Beard of Police Com
missioners have unanimously expelled
John S. Young, Chief OF Detectives, from
the police for taking nineteen thousand
dollars belonging to the New York
Windsor Bank as reward for the res
covery of one hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars, and refusing to make a res
turn ofthe same to the department when
called upon.
The Havana almanac for last yet
has tables of the population OF Cuba and
its different departments and civil dis
tricts for the year 1867. At that time
the population of the island was l ,370,~
600, of which 740,500 were whites and
Goa, $50 were cOlOred. OF the colored
population, 10000 are designated as Of
the free class, but includes, beside the
freemen of negro blood, large number
of Chinese. More than three>fourths oil
the population, white and black, is in the
Western Department, where the insurr
rectiOn has, as yet, hardly made its APP
pearance.
A movement Is on foot in St Louis and
other cities to call an Irish National Con.
ventiOn whose members shall be CON-
posed Of representative lrishmen, and
delegates from the various IIish religious
and benevolent societies in the United
States. The object Of the Convention is
to form central bureau in New York
with auxiliary societies in all the States
for the purpose of furnishing aid an infor
nation to Irishmen in regard to the price
of land, labor, etc in this country, oil
the general plan of emigrant societies
and render any other assistance neces.
ssry TO secure benefits to Irish immi
grants landing on our shores.
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EVER since his peremptory remova
r from command by Sheridan at Five
| Forks, Gen. G. X. Warren has manifested
great resentment toward Grant. He in
, spired very much, and passed in examin
/ alton before it was published, the whole
Of Swinton volume, which aims to prov,