Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

b Three hundred boot and shoemakers
of Chicago are on strike.
i Two mad-degs were killed iii Frank
9 fort, KY, day before yesterday.
Grants trouble is severe headache,
with neuralgia pains in the neck.
a Alexander ii. Stephens is reported to
be lying at the point of death.
The Southern coast papers are san
guine of an abundant orange crop this
/ year.
DIR. Speed, the present incumbent, has
: been reappointed Postmaster at LOUIS
, vile.
Five French districts nominate Jules
Favre as an opposition candidate for the
Corps Legislatif.
1t is said that some of the Cuban in
su gents In the Cenco Villas have raised
the American flag.
| Col. Holloway, editor of the Indianapo-
lis Journal, is to be appointed Post
master in that city.
Patti has learned few words of Rus
sian, and tickled the st. Petersburgers
amazingly by singing a song in that Ian
guage.
The Demorests and the like announce
that colors of ValeDciennes laces are
again fashionable among the ladies.
Senator Sprague's recent speech is said |
to be in such demand in Washington that |
it will be printed for general circulation.
Nineteen Prot estant girls were bap-
tised into the Catholic faith, in st. Phil~
lips Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday |
| last.
| The Superintendent of Public Schools
in Detroit says every ono Of the 1000
school children have been successfully
yaccinated.
A Louisville excursion party made
trip last Sunday over twenty-five miles
of the new track of the Louisville and
Cincinnati railroad.
The personal property Of Queen Isa,
bella has been forwarded to Paris by the
Spanish government, including jewels,
works of art, linen, etc.
A velocipedist in Jacksonville, Illinois,
rode out Of a lofty third story window,
and managed to halt his bicycle on the
roof of the two story building adjoining.
A part owner of silver mine in the
White Pine district, Nevada, was in
poverty q few months since, but his
interest now makes him worth a million
dollars.
Rev. Granville Moody, preached on
Sunday in the First Congregational
Church, Washington. He styles the
triumph of Christ over death the moral
Appomattox."
Hon. Daniel L. Collier, formerly Of
Stubenville, Ohio, for many years promi-
nent member of the bar Of Ohio, died at
his residence in Philadelphia yesterday,
at.the age of seVenty-four.
The Israelites Of Natchez, Miss, con-
template building a synagogue IN that
city soon. 1t is expected to cost twelve
or fifteen thousand dollars. The archi-
tects are already busy upon the plan.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
O'Neil, the escaped Sing Sing convict,
who was shot by his keeper after he | [
had surrendered, have rendered a YER
dict of willful murder against Charles
Sullivan.
A valuable library of six hundred |
volumes, belonging to the estate of
gentleman who died recently in Lewis !
county, Ky, was sold at public auction
the other day for thirty five dollars and
twenty-five cents
1t is rumored that Mrs. DR.. Mary :
Walker, after several applications, has
received an answer from President Grant
that she might have an interview with
him whenever she will appear in dress
becoming her sex.
Advice5 frcm Cuba from rebel sources
state that Cespedes has replied to
Dulce's declaration of war to the knife ,
by decree that all persons taken here
after, excepting regular Spanish soldiers, =
are to be Immediately put to death. II
An excursion train on the NOrthwe est
ern Railroad left Chicago Wednesday af- {
ternoon with the locomotive burning oil
1t is the first experiment of the kind,
and if successful will be followed by the | I
general use of liquid fuel on the road.
The st. Louis Radical convention has t
nominated Nathan Cole, an energetic t
merchant, for Mayor, and Dwight Dur 8
kee for Comptroller. Mr.. Thomas, the 9
present incumbent of the Mayoralty, G
will run as an independent candidate. l.
Cuban advices say that when General
Lesga (Spanish) left Puerto Principe,
he had one thousand one hundred and
twenty-five men, and that when he re-
turned to Puerto Principe from his fight
with Queseda he had less than three
hundred.
A trotting colt eleven months old, by |
DR.. L. Herr's noted breeder Of trotters,
Mambrino Patchen, who is own brother
to that celebrated trotting mare, Lady
Thorn, was sold at Lexington, Ky, Fri
day, to j. w. Wadsworth, of New York,
for 81 900. l.
The citizens reform convention in Gin {
cinnati nominated Chas. Thomas, Demos
crat, for Mayor, and Judge Taft, already
nominated on the Republican ticket, for
Judge Of Superior Court. The other
nominations, with two exceptions, were
Democrats.
The conference committee on the
tenure Of office act consists Of Senators
Trumbull Grimes and Edmunds, and
Representatives Butler, C. c. Washburn,
and Bingham. Trumbull, Edmunds and |
bingham laNOT LE6 O6u1tC Dill, anu L
Grimes, Washburn and Butler favor re-
peal.
The Legislature of Michigan has passed
a righteous law to prevent the careless
use Of firearms. A playful person, who
Intentionally points firearms at his felN
low>man, can be fined $50; and when he
kills or mains friend, he can go to the
penitentiary for not less than one year.
Two ladies in Lancaster, Mass, lately
started out with petitions, one for sigma
lures asking the Legislature to give
women the privilege of voting, the other
praying the Legislature to allow women
to remain in their present sphere The
latter ran ahead, &c to l.
The funeral of Mr.. James Harper, Ex-
Mayor of New York, took place Tues
day evening, at st. Pauls Methodist
Church, and was attended by an immense
concourse, including the Mayor and mem
bers of the city government, leading
merchants, bankers and authors of the
city, and book publishers from ali parts
of the country.
The Atlanta (Ga) Press says "crop
reports kfrom the northwestern counties
of the State are very favorable-every-
thing working finely. The ground is in
splendid condition TO receive the cotton
| seed The pIanters are generally done |