Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-20

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ton in July. @ts -
Turner,the negro postmaster at Macon
Georgia, has failed to give bonds.
Over four hundred changes Of postmas
ters have been made by the Postmaste
General.
I Nova Scotia is forming leagues through
tout the province for the purpose Of ad'
vancing the cause of annexation to thu
United States. e3E Aa
General Vega, who sailed from Cali
fornia some time ago with designs upor
Mexico, has effected q landing, and was
welcomed by the people.
Hon. VIM. A. Howard has decided not
to accept the mission to China. He has
accepted the position of Land Commiss
sioner Of the Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad Company.
The new fractional currency will be
ready for distribution about the 23d and
the legal tenders by the 1st of July.
The Kentucky cheese factory, situated
near Winchester, Clark county, is manu-
featuring 700 pounds of cheese daily.
The Capitol Hotel, of Frankfort, has
been sold to Alfred Harris, lawyer Of
Louisville, for the sum of $4,000. y
Caleb Cnshing and r. J. Walker ups
hold Senator Summers views on the Ala
bama question.
Gen. Hamilton, in his canvass for the
Governorship of Texas, declares that if
elected he will never pardon a fairly cons
Yicted criminal.
Judge Parrot, charged with suffering
assassination at the hands of Georgia
"Rebels," last week, denies all know
edge of the occurrence.
Mrs. Jackson Fennel, living near
Wooleytown, in Miami county, Indiana,
gave birth to three girls on Monday of
last week. They are all alive and well.
"Idlewild," on the Hudson, the home
of the late n. p. Willis, has been sold
by his widow to Thos. George, of News
burg, New York, for $35, 200.
A Louisville gentleman ronders him1
self unpleasant to his family by yielding
to the hallucination that he is commisS
stoned to chop his wife into small pieces.
The new Fronch Atlantic cable is 1852
miles long, or 400 more than either of
its predecessors, and the receptacles of
the Great Eastern had to be considerably
enlarged to contain it. Sir Samuel Can
ming is the chief engineer of the expedi-
ton.
Representatives of the different fire
insurance companies of the country, in
session at New York, Friday, voted, 81
to 5, to continue for two years the press
ent fire patrol, at an expense Of not over
$4,000.
The English Privy Council have res
Gently decided that bankers are not re-
spOnsible for securities deposited with
them, provided they have exercised rea,
sonable care. t- a.-t
Miss Van Lew, Postmistress of Rich
mond, refused the request of the clerks
to close the postofice on Memorial Day,
but the young men applied to Gen. Grant,
and the decision was reversed. There's
upon Miss Van Lew discharged. oHs
whom she supposed to be ringleader
in the movement.
New York has 2l2 miles of streets, of
which eighty-one are in stone block
pavement, six in wood, and the remains
der in cobbleSstones or unpaYed.
Longworth's famous wine house at
Cincinnati, Ohio. one of the public at,
fractions of the city, will be used as
brewery after July l.
1t is stated that over one Thousand
clerks haEe been dismissed from the
public service in Washington, whose
places have not been supplied.
The Orleanist and Legitimist parties
will have no representatives in the new
French Corps Legislatif, and may be con-
sidered extinct. ......... ....
James Gordon Bennett, Jr, will sail
for Europe in the yacht Dauntless about
the 20th OF June. Three other yachts of
the New York squadron are going about
the same time.
Mrs. Laura L. Campbell, of Concord,
North Carolina, desires information of
her son, W. II. Campbell, who is printer.
He was some time ago in Detroit, and
aferward in Toledo, leaving the latter
place in April.
Col. Jacob Elliott, of Navarro, Texas,
has been nominated for Congress in the
Galveston district. He has lived in the
State twenty five years. He had previ-
ously published a newspaper in LOUIS
vile, KY. Hs-E.s rssE ETNs+ a
A German Emigrant Aid Society has
been formed in New York. Its object is
to procure legal advice free for German
emigrants who are too poor to pay for the
same, and who, being ignorant Of the
English language, are incapable of de-
tecting swindies.
During the last thirty days, according
to Texas paper, the Indians have de-
stroyed and stolen more property, and
killed more persons on the frontier of
that State than during any similar Pc
riOd since Texas was settled. The res
suit is attributed to the withdrawal Of
troops from the borders and stationing
them in the interior. .
Last Tuesday night party of forty
men armed with muskets, and with their
faces blackened, went to the house oi
Croft Houston, living near the town oI
Shawnee, johnson county, Kansas, and
raped at his door. Upon his opening it
he was seized, a rope put around his
neck, and he was taken a short distance
frem his house and hung until he was
dead. lie was accused of being a horse
thief, and this summary punishment is
supposed to have been dealt out to him
by parties who believed in his guilt.