Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-05
NEWS OF rHEnAY.

Brigham Young is issuing paper cur
rency in Utah, which resembles The
national greenbaek.
| There was large Fenian demonstra
ton in Cork, Friday, at which Mr.. O'Sul-
Ivan made strong speech.
There were S,32I births in Chicago
during the past year, and $500 deaths.
The number Of immigrants arrived is
over 1900
-Four neto. ious negroes, who have for
months been robbing the planters around
Memphis of live stock, were arrested
Friday and lodged in jail.
The Dakota House of Representatives
last week passed, by a large majority,
the bill comforting upon woman the
elective franchise and eligibility to office.
Thomas A. Nelson, President of the
Memphis Chamber of Commerce, has re-
signed, declining to preside over the in
stitution, and alleging that it existed but
in NAME
The election for Congressman in the
second Arkansas district, vicc Kinds,
assassinated, has resulted in the choice
of Hon. j. L. Elliott, Republican, of the
Camden Journal. The Democratic vote
was very light.
Samuel L. Wadsworth, formerly of
Akeron, Ohio, was fatally shot last week
near Athens, Ala, by father and son
named McKibbon, whose near female
relative it is alleged Wadsworth had Sc
duced. The assailants are al ex 0hiosns.
The jury in the Twitchell case went
out about nine O'Clock Friday evening
and returned in twenty-five minutes
with a verdict of guilty Of murder in
The first degree" The prisoner received
the verdict by throwing up his hands in q
deprecating manner.
A noted Chinese bandit, captured at
Shanghae, is to be punished by being put
into box of such shape that he can
neither lie down, sit, nor stand; his head
and hands will protrude, and he will be
left exposed to sun, wind and rain, until
he dies of exhaustion and starvation.
Mr.. John Woodruff, gentleman well
known in sporting circles, at Cincinnati,
died last week, Of inflammation of the
bowels. He was brother of the late
Lemuel Woodruff, formerly connected
with the city press, and was man whose
loss will be severely felt by the suffer.
ing poor, whose necessities he almost
daily relieved.
The Manchester Stock Exchange Eas
recently thrown into panic by a num-
Der Of forged telegraphic messages from
London ordering the purchase of Ameri-
can bonds. A great amount Of stock
changed hands before the trick was dis~
covered. Forged orders were received
by telegraph in Liverpool the same day.
The stockholders Of the Wills Valley
Railroad Company are now in convention
in Chattanooga. The company has pur>
chased the property and franchises Of
the Northeast and Southwest Alabama
Railroad Company, and has, by the
authority of the act OF the General As
sembly of the State Of Alabama, taken
the name of the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga Railroad Company.
The following are the principal points
mentioned in the recent ultimatum sent
by Turkey to Greece Dispense the
bands of volunteers prevent the forma-
ton of any for the future; close the ports
Of Greece against the Erosis pay an ill.,
demnity to the families Of Turkish Off
GERS killed in syria; punish the authors
Of those acts; permit the Cretan families
to embark, and to enter into formal en-
gagement to conform to the international
treaties and laws.