Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Counterfeit twenty dollar gold pieces
are in circulation in Jefferson, Texas.
Corn is selling at one dollar per pushed
in North Alabama.
The Mississippi State Medical Society
will meet in Jackson, on the 10th inst.
A large amount of counterfeit currency
has been put in circulation in Georgia
recently.
The City Council Of Vicksburg have
voted 81 900 to purchase new steam
fire engine.
Fifty wives and ninety children corr
prise the household of the King Of Bur
nah.
Miss Annie E. Surratt has been ele;t-
ed school teacher at Cumberland, Md.
DR.. r. Grant, well known citizen Of
st. Louis, died suddenly in that city on
Tuesday.
The City Council of Augusta, Georgia,
have appointed a committee to visit
Washington for the purpose of enlighten-
ing Congress upon the condition of affairs
in Georgia.
| Extensive arrangements are being made
in all the Southern States for decorating
| the graves of the Confederate dead on
the 10Th of April.
A party of gentlemen from Ohio have
been spending some days in and about
Columbus, Miss, looking around with
the view Of purchasing lands.
Gen. w. A. Nichols, Adjutant General
of the Military Division of the Missis'
sippi, died Thursday, at st. Louis, after
an illness Of two or three weeks.
A German actress, Madame Olga Won
Plittendorff, committed suicide on Wed>
Desday night, in San Francisco. Grief at
the death of her husband was the cause.
Seizures were made Thursday, at
Montgomery, Alabama, for violations Of
the internal revenue laws, of several
hundred packages of whisky, tobacco and
cigars.
During the year ending April l the
births in Chicago numbered 6,957, male
children being about 300 in excess. The
deaths numbered 5,S07, of which 18e
were from violence.
Carl Schurz is very much disappointed
because Grant made all the Missouri APP
pointments without regard to his wishes
or recommendations.
MIR. Simri Rose, one of the late proprie.
tors of the Macon Journal and Messen-
ger, died at Macon, Georgia, on Friday
last. Mr.. Rose, at the time of his death,
was Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge
of Masons Of Georgia.
| Very friendly autograph Letters have
lately passed between the Emperor o.
Austria and the King of Italy, confirm
ing, it is stated, the probability of an
alliance between France, Italy and
Austria.
The French Railroad Companies are
organizing a commission for the purpose
of Arranging the indemnities to be paid
to employees wounded in actual service
and also the provisions TO be allotted to
the families Of those killed.
Most warlike reports are echoed from
Italy, and heavy preparations for defense
are being made throughout the country
The cloud is expected to burst in the
course of the present month, and hints
are given that Prussia will open the ball
The King of Prussia has sent thu
crown of King Theodore, of Abyssinis
which was bought at the capture o
Magdala, from common soldier, by q
Prussian officer, to England.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad Com
pany, in Illinois, has begun TO lay I
double track, and has it already dow
from Kankakee to 0dell. The gros
earnings of the road are about 81, 500.
. | 900 The net nrnfit Is over s. 900 O00