Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


1t their work.
%. Advices from Oregon state that abo
ef one thousand Cinnamon are working I
y; the East Side Railroad.
he Old settlers Of st. Joseph say tn
he have not within their remembrance, se'
o, the Missouri so low as at present. ,
ne Forney bowls "copperhead" at Dar
er and the rest who scold Grant for rela1
:. ing himself at government expense.
n Juarez is tired of being constantly n
t. elected President, and consequently
d about to become Dictator of Mexico.
&c The convention Mt st. Louis, in th
interest of a removal thither of the ma
i, tional capital, will be held October 30.
d Chang and Eng, the Siamese twin:
have an aggregate of seventeen children
). but most Of them belonging to Chang.
}. Col. R. j. Moses, of Columbus, Ga
has received a small number of coolies
who may be seen working on his farm
near that city. j ia =
Somebody suggests that if Grant!
! courage was ever doubted, it is salts
factorily established by his yenturing tt
, ride on the Erie train.
The principal candidates for United
States Senator, in Maine, are Mr.. Fessen-
den, Speaker Blaine, ex-senator Morrill,
and Governor Chamberlain.
The Assessor of the fifteenth New
York district is cousin of all the Dents
by marriage, and the Collectors grand
mother was Simpson! 20 ~ g.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the months of April, May, June and
July, 1869, exceeded those for the same
period in 1868, by 100000.
The New York Board of Brokers have
sent a committee to wait on Commits
sion Delano to protest against his late
decision taxing the capital employed by
brokers'.
Miss Ada Webb, the wellSknoRn and
| popular young actress, was, on Tuesday
evening, married, at her residence In
Brooklyn, to Mr.. VIM. Conner, of New
Orleans.
American Girl and Goldsmith Maid
are to trot at lancaster, on the list of
September. They will be at the Quincy,
Illinois, fair, later in the month, where a
special purse of $4,000 is offered.
The strike in the coal mines of Penns
sylvania continues. The miners in the
Scranton region held a mass meeting
Saturday, and resolved not to resume
work on the terms submitted by the en-
piSyers .tt
A. II Towne, Assistant Superintend>
ent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy railroad has been appointed General
Superintendent of the Central Pacific
railroad, at salary Of $4,000 per an
mum, in gold. Es
A curious letter from Sir Walter
Scott to Mr.. Slade, disclaiming the au1
thorship of the Waverly Novels, and
dated 1921, has been bequeathed to the
trustees of the British Museum by the
late Felix Slade, Esq.
A committee appointed by the Scott
County, Iowa, Medical Society, to inves-
tigate the cause of the death of DR.. j. NJ.
Witherws, who died June Is, have re-
ported that it was the result of hair dyes |
used by him.
In Newcastle, England, there died re-
Gently young girl of an eruption which /
her waterfall brought on. This danger.
Gus ornament of the head was probably /
made of hair which had been imported /
for this purpose from the hospitals and /
grave, yards of the Orient.
General dissatisfaction at the removal
Of J. Ross Browne exists among both
English and Americans in China. They
have united in drawing up an address
expressing their sense of his energy and i
admirable fitness for the position of /
Envoy of the United States to China.
Amsel L. Linch committed rape upon
his cousin, Miss Myers, last Sunday i
week, near Seymour, Indiana, having /
overtaken her as she was going home
from house she had been Visitin by a
path through the woods and fields He |
was arrested last Thursday week.
The Secretary of the Treasury has &C
ceded to the proposition of the business
men Of San Francisco to draw upon the
coin now lying in the sub~treasury at /
that city. The trade Of the State has, in
the meantime, however, suffered greatly /
from almost total suspension, on account
of lack of means to move the crops.
Molly Kelley, aged los years, resides
in Harrison county, Kentucky, was born
in West Virginia, but has resided in Il
Kentucky for rs years and has IS grand
children; is in good health, save she is
blind from age, and has been so for three /
years; and converses freely and correct
ly on matters of her early days. |
The carpet>bag Governor of Florida,
Reed, was married on the 10th inst, at
Syracuse, New York, to Miss Chloe
Merrick, who for several years previous
ly taught the colored idea how to shoot,
in the Land Of Flowers"
The trial of Col. Dickens and DR..
Samuel Dickens, for the alleged murder
Of Wade II. Bolton, at Memphis, which
was set for trial on Thursday, was, on
account Of the absence of a material
witness for the prosecution, postponed
until the October term.
Allen, the prize-fghter, ought to res
tire to monastery, or go to Alaska, or
do something to get away from st. Louis,
where his noble qualities are evidently
not appreciated. He has been victori-
Gus now in two fights, and been
'chiseled' out of the fruits of his VIC
tory in each.
An extensive gang of horse thieves
have been unearthed by the detectives
at Vincennes. One of the parties ar
rested has turned States evidence. and
from his disclosures it is learned that the
organization extends from Sedalia, Miss
souri,, via Mitchell and Seymour, Indiana,
to town in Kentucky, with members in l
all the towns and cities on the route.
The sister of Lord Byron, to whom
Mrs, Stoves ISLANDERS refer, was his
fathers daughter by Lady Carmarthen.
Capt Byron, the poets father, seduced /
that lady, and she was afterward divoi ced /
from her betrayed husband, and became /
the mother of daughter by Capt By
ron. The girl, whose name was Augusta,
when grown up, married Mr.. Leigh. |
Two years after her birth Mrs. Byron |
died, and the Captain married the poets |
mother, Miss Gordon
MIR. PEABODY AND THE SOUTH.
In reply to the eloquent address of Hon.