Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-18
NEWS OF THE DAY

James Fisk, Jr., has offered $1,000
600 for the New York Times establish
ment, and the offer has been refused
Thos. A. NOEL. of Madison county,
Tennessee, committed suicide few days
ago by shooting himself through the
head
II. Boggs, Grants former partner in
the real estate business at st. Louis, and
who was to have been appointed Sur
voyor Of Port, died Friday.
A lady who writes in the Independsnt
says that the Judges of the Supreme
Court are chiefly remarkable for their
grave faces and immense stomachs.
R. II. Breckenridge, for the killing of
DR.. Burton, at Meridian, Miss, has been
found guilty of manslaughter, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for nine years.
Sc gross is the present dramatic liter
ature in France that there is hardly a
theater IN Paris to which man could
with propriety, take his wife or daughter.
A London correspondent writes that
there is great influx of American
shoddyists'' in that city, who astonish
and amuse the public by their lavish ex-
penditures.
Rev. Dr. Berkeley, leading EpiscOpas
Ian minister at st. Louis, has denounced
the woman's suffrage movement from
the pulpit, and other ministers are pre-
pairing to take the same grounds.
A late divorce case in Chicago develops
the fact that an old mao, after nineteen
years Of welded life, married three other
women in rapid succession, and main
tanned four separate establishments.
The Queen Of Holland recently made
an attempt at suicide. Domestic troubles
are said to have driven her to the rash
act. Her life was saved, however, and
steps were taken to hush up the whole
matter.
The Jail at Columbia, Caldwell parish,
La, was set on fire and burned to the
ground few nights ago. a. Cain, who
was charged with murder and who was
the only prisoner in the Jail, was burned
to death.
A bill is before the Senate Railroad
Committee at Albany, New York, to en-
large the powers of the Erie Railroad
Company by authorizing new articles of
association under which they can operate
all their leased roads at the West
Should man be taxed for a watch
which was drawn in lottery and that
didn't go after five dollars were expended
in repairs? was the question decided in
the negative recently by an Internal
Revenue Assessor.
The Merchants and Commercial Trav~
elers' Association, of Chicago, have SEX
cured the repeal Of the city ordinance
which required commercial travellers TO
pay license for tho privilege of soliciting
trade, or selling goods by sample.
Ashley of Ohio, the ''great impeacher"
as he is fond of being called, has res
eeived his quietus He applied for the
GovernOrship Of Montana, and was in
formed that some one u resident of the
Territory would receive the appointment.
The negro Harris, who was nominated
for Lieut.. Governor of Virginia by the
Radical convention at Petersburg, Va
last week, has q white woman for wife
| She was Nankee school marm" from
New Jersey. They were married sincf
| the war
There has been a Stewart case in the
British Parliament. Sir Sidney Water.
low, rich London contractor, has been
obliged to retire from business in order
to hold his seat, the law imposing PEN
atty of $500 day upon any one sitting
in the House while interested in Gov
ernment contract.
A handful is posted about Richmond
Va, declaring that the nominations res
Gently made at Petersburg ARE of such
a character as to make it impossible to
make the Radical party successful in the
State, and calling another Radical con-
vention to be held in Richmond on the
18th Of April.
An ARRAY took place in Sabine county,
Texas, last week, in which Willie
Quarles, son of DR.. j. W. Quarles, was
instantly killed by two brothers named
Noble. 1t was the second meeting be-
tween the parties, and young Quarles
wounded one Of his assailants, perhaps
MORALLY, before he was killed.