Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-18

|, DUOcIVlSOI III 1HItIH6l hLNOhtO IVA 1Ato
bama and Mississippi, to- take effec'
/ July lsesso1ss ,4MAze .W.w
The wheat harvest has commenced. in
SOutherss Illinois The grain is good and
the yield large. -.
i An American last year asked to be
enobled by the King of Prussia, and is
deservedly ridicaled therefore by the
German papers. = - q lss2
! Sacramento papers give long accounts
Of the funeral Of John G. Ieenan, the
."Benicia Boy 2 - si.a, q
| ID Thomas a. Laird, Internal Revenue
i Supervisor for Virginia and West Vir-
/ ginia. and Gen. e. S. McCook, Collector
ofthe Eighth District Of Illinois, have
resigned. '.lss srr1
The Navy Department has ordered
Professors Newcomb, Harkness and East~
man to Des Moines, Iowa, to make obser-
vations Of the eclipse ofthe sun on the
7th day ofAugasty 81 gf@s#s4
Ben. Wade has gone West to exam
inc the Pacific railroad. All swearing
employees will be promptly discharged,
as Ben. allows no. eompetition IN that
line. III I#
The New York Hospital managers
have decided to locate the new insane
ASYLUM at White Plains, Westchester
county. It will cost 81 900, 600, and will
accommodate 500 inmates. y ff.
James D. Harrison, the friend and exc
cutor of Henry Clay, who removed to
New Orleans just previous to the war,
left that city last week to occupy his old
home, near Lexington. H-EAA%sS
A Hays City dispatch says: "News
was received here to-day that the Indians
are robbing and massacreing the settlers
near Minneapolis, forty miles west Of
Salina."
Four members Of the new Metropolis
tan Police Board, including Lieut.. Gov.
Dunn, who is President of the board,
were imprisoned in the parish prison at
New Orleans on the 18th, six hours, and
fined one hundred dollars each by the
Sixth District Court, for contempt in dis
obeying an Injunction of court. The
trouble grows out Of the Jefferson City
police affairs.
A letter from Chief Justice Chase, gives
flattering account of the improved
condition Of South Carolins. He says
that the people are fast recuperating
from the effects of the war, and if per-
mitted would soon be thriving and pros>
porous.
The horrible rumor reaches US that
the one hundred thousand>doilar Craig
had engaged herself to eleven of the
twelve jurymen who gave her the
| money.
Near Albion. Michigan, few nights
ago, it was discovered that two rails had
been removed on the Michigan Central
railroad, Just in time to stop an emil
grant train with seven hundred passenS
gers.
A newspaper published at Prague an-
ncunces that Queen Isabella, of Spain,
intends permanently taking up her resi-
donce in Prague, at the end of this month.
Eight young women are studying at
the University Of Zurich. One of them
gives her chief attention to philosophy,
the others to medicine. The University
| of Leipzig refuses to admit women to the
medical lectures.
A handsome synagogue is now build
| ing in London, toward erecting which
Lionel ROthschild has contributed one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
1t is estimated that the tobacco crop of
Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois
and Missouri for the season Of 1859
will amount to 10000 hOgsheads.
1t is said that Reverdy johnson denies
that he will, or has intended to submit
any published or other sort of vindica-
ton to the American people or to any
other people. .. .H..Ega Ef..- ~
Grant went to sleep while Beecher
was preaching to him at West Point last
Sunday. If Beecher wished to keep
Grant awake, he should have talked
horse.
| Horace w. Carpenter, of Oakland,
California, offers to give $50, 900 for the
establishment of an orphan asylum in
that city, if five other citizens will do the
same.
About $4,000 worth of fur skins were
brought to San Francisco on Saturday
from Alaska, and the cargo was seized
| owing to some infraction of the treasury
regulations.
Brigham ..Young, according to the
Utah Reporter, recently denounced ths
Government-President, Congress and
officials generslly-as "a set of ID
scalawags," and said if any more soldiers
were sent into Utah, the Mormons
would know how to deal with them"
Mrs. Maria L. Hood, widow Of the late
brevet Lieut.. Col. Charles H. Hood, ap
pointed postmistresS at Mount Vernon
Ohio, in March, 1867, by johnson, has
been removed by Grant. Mrs. Hood de-
. pended upon the income CT the Office fol
the support of herself and children, ant
even Republicans in the town protes
against the removal as violation Of tht
: oft>repeated pledges Of the Republican
party. "
Miss Maggie Mitchell Paddock is lyint
/, | very i'll with paralysis, at her residence
in New York, and is not expected to re
: cover.
) Mrs. Eliza Osgood died of corpulenc
a few days ago, in Philadelphia, weigh
ing nearly six hundred pounds.
= Buck, one of the lowest and dirties
!. Radicals in the State of Alabama, ha
been nominated for Congress in the Nc
I bile district.
/, Gen. Longstreet, Surveyor Of the poi
II of Now Orleans, by the grace of Ger
Grant, is making clean sweep Of tn
q Democrats in making the appointment
n in his department.
: Judge Brady, Of New York, has rer
4 dered judgment in an action againi
q man for bills incurred by the woma
I reputed to be his wife, in which th
Judge held that the fact of their NJ
Il being actually married did not reIeas
the ostensible husband from liability.
g. The spread of the smallpox in Ne
D. | York has alarmed the authorities
o. well as the tradesmen. 1t was brougl
a. from Europe in an emigrant vessSl la
November, and has been gradual
spreading, till now it breaks out in ne
places in all parts of the city. The Boa
of Health has mapped out the city, ar
sent inspectors into each district, to s.
ry that everybody is vsccinated.
o The Liverpool Mercury publishes
We list Of fourteen ships which have sail
on voyages across the Atlantic since la
October, and have not been heard Of sine
They are supposed to have founder
with all on board. Truly, those w
ne "go down to the sea in ships" encouut
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