Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-11
NEWS OF THE DAY

season.
A vigilance committee, to take care OF
horse thieves, is talked of in Marion coun
ty, Ind.
Six hundred and forty-three conyicts
are In the Michigan State prison at Jack
son.
There are 131, 297 Sunday school schol-
ars in New Jersey, with H. teachers.
Senator Hamlin's son has been made
United States Commissioner for the Ban
| gor, Maine, district.
The proprietors of the Nicholson pave
ment have prosecuted the city of New
York for using the McGonigle pavement.
Nearly 10000 bushels of coal and
$4,000 of coke were lost at Pittsburg a
few days ago by the sinking of some coal
barges.
The skeleton of man, who had re-
Gently been devoured by wolves, was
found in Montmorency county, Mich,
a few days ago 1t was thought to be
that of man who was lost from party
out hunting timber lands about two
months ago.
Resolutions have been introduced into
the North Carolina Legislature looking to
the indemnity of '1oyal citizens" by the
national government for property, other
than slaves, taken during the war for the
use of the Union armies.
AT sale of old silver plate in England
the other day, an Elizabethan stoneware
jug, dated 1895, mounted in silver gilt,
with silver gilt cover, and bearing what
is supposed to be the old Exeter mark,
brought $3.50 gold
The vineyard of Romaneee-C Cont, in
Burgundy, little over four acres in ex-
tent, was sold lately at auction for $780,
900 francs, and was resold a few days
afterward at an increase of 80, 900 francs
nearly $5S, 900, or about $l5, 900 per
acre. The annual average yield of the
vineyard is some half dozen tons, worth
about $4,000.
The writer of letter in the London
NeUS on the Suez Canal, expresses a dis
tinct opinion that there is a tide in the
canal. Every one he spoke to on the
subject declared there was tide and fall,
varying in their statements from two
inches to six, and none would agree to
this being due TO wind, but pointed TO a
regular water line, which they averred to
be high-water mark.
The Russians have just discovered ex-
tensive coal fields on the eastern shores of
the Caspian Sea. Hitherto, in navigating
upon this sea, their steamers were
obliged TO burn wood brought all the way
from the Ural mountains, at great ex-
pense and labor, which cumbersome ma
terial will in future be superseded by coal.
The deposits are said to be of good
quality and easily worked.
A correspondent describing a Japanese
garden, mentions some of the curious
forms of vegetation developed by the in
genious methods of culture practiced in
that country. In the Enclosure with the
labyrinth there is a wonderful tree 500
years old, two feet high, and so ingenious
ly grated and bent as to its twigs that it
presents a solid mass of foliage, as dense
as possible, twenty-five feet in diameter
A long chase has Just ended in San
Francisco. In 1867 a paymaster in Utah
was robbed of $35, 900 by his escort. The
robbers were in turn captured by Indians,
only to fall, at later day, into the hands
of the sOldiery sent out after the redskins
While confined in the guardhouse at Fort
SedgwiCk they managed to escape, and
only last week were caught by the con
fession of one of the number under arrest
for another crime.
The amnesty recently granted by Louis
Napoleon has liberated thirty-four galley
slaves, imprisoned at TOulon. These con
victs are encouraged TO employ their leis-
Ure hours in the manufacture of fancy
articles, which are sold for their benefit,
and the proceeds are handed over to them
at the expiration of their sentences. On
the recent liberation by the amnesty, the
sum paid to the thirty-fonr galley slaves
amounted to S., 200, being an average of
$3.50 for each convict
VI. D. Conway, describing the reopen
ing of the old Bun Hill Field Cemetery,
in London, speaks of the tomb of Bunyan
therein: ''But one tomb there was to
which above all others the crowd pressed
A large, gray, square tomb or monument
it is. On one side there is carved pill
grim leaning on his staff, bent beneath a
burden tied upon his back. On the other
side is the pilgrim lneeling, his arms flung
round the post of a wayside cross, his
burden fallen TO the earth behind him.
On the top of it reclines the form and the
heavenward looking face of John Bun
yam
Eleven person will cxpiate the crime
of murder on the gallOws in this country
during the present month. Unless Exc
cutive elemency should intervene, the
extreme penalty of the law will he inlet
ed upon the following persons Owen
Hand, to be executed at Brooklyn, L. l.;
John Fields, at WilliamspOrt, Pa; Zacha-
~ Taylor, colored, at Butler, Antoine Maur-
er, at New City, N. Y; William Burke,
at Jamaica, l.. l.; Joseph Messncr, at
Rochester, n. Y, Daniel Walsh, at
Chicago, H.; Robert II. Goldsborough,
in Sussex county, Del; Max Klengler, at
St. Louis, Mo-; Benjamin Fairhout, in
Wyoming county, n. Y.