Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-19
! NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gen. Jabal A. Early has taken th
stump in Virginia for Walker and agains
the constitution. r.
Frank p. Blair Jr., goes to Oaliforni
this week, TO make arrangements for Oh
establishment Of Western Department
| of Life Association of America.
Mr.. C. w. Thomas, late Postmaster q
Cincinnati, has purchased an interest i
The Evening Chronicle ofthateity, an
become actively connected with tina
journal. tf.t. -
A sausage vender Of New Orleans ha
procured the arrest Of all the neighbor
ing butchers because they barked AMI
mewed when customers came to buy Q
him.
Senior Pedro Lopez, nephew of Gen
Lopez, passed through Galveston, Texas
a few days ago, on his way to Cuba, t
join the insurgents.
Prof. Nickles, French chemist, wa
recently killed by inhaliHg the fumes o.
hydrofuoric acid. The only known use
of this gas is for etching glass.
/ Capt. d. G.. Pepper, who shot and
killed Capt. j. W. Simmons at Techuls
Miss, few days ago, has been tried and
acquitted on the ground of UNSUITABLE
homicide.
1t is stated that the militia at Hum
boldt, Tennessee, wesried of doing moths
ing, have gone into the fields at work for
the planters in the vicinity. 50 -h
1t is understood that John Russell
Young has arranged connection with
the New York Commercial Advertiser
and will shortly assume its editorial con-
troll.
The prospect for large supply of tur>
keys in the Bluegrass region of Ken
lucky for next winter dinners is not fstS
tering. A fatal disease has been raging
among them, and eggs are scarce. ofa-
The Vermont Republican State Con-
vention nominated Gen. Peter B. WASH
burne for Governor, George Whendle
for Lieutenant Governor and John A.
Page for Treasurer. ~
Hon. Daniel Voorhees,, Of Indiana, is
now attending the Supreme Court at Ok
ford, Mississippi. He has been requests
ed to address the citizens Of Memphis,
Tenn, and will probably do SO in few
days. IaI
A colony of seventy-five families from
Brooklyn, New York, who settled in
Republic county, Kansas, this spring,
have been driven from their claims by
Indians, and are said to be in an almost
destitute condition. ..sf- -z-..
Gen. Fremont sailed from New York
for Paris last Saturday, on business cons
nected with the Memphis, Ell Passo and
Pacific railroad a-r..s.. i. .-..-.
The Court of Claims, at its recent ses~
sion, tried some thirty cases of cotton
suits, all but four of which resulted so
unsatisfactory to the claimants that they
have appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Russian Imperial Bank at st.
Petersburg and its branches at Moscow,
Mitau, Riga and Odessa have reduced the
rate of discount on bills of exchange to
to four and half per cent.
A beautiful rosewood piano, valued at
500, has been presented by Messrs.
William Knabe Il Co., of Baltimore, to
the Southern Association, through its
President, Hon. Fl. A. Wise, OF Richmond,
for the benefit OF widows and orphans OF
the South.
In 1864 the proprietors of Barnum's
Hotel in st. Louis seized the baggage Of
lady who was Indebted to them $lG0,
and soon after sold the trunks without
opening them The lady brought suit
for the value of her wardrobe, and res
ceived a verdict for the full amount
50, 3S9. -. .. .....-
A sad event occurred during the per ,
formance in the Coliseum, at Boston, yes
terday, in the death of Mrs. Dunlap, OF
Chicago, Of heart disease. She was the
wife of the President Of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, and daughter OF
Moses Pond, Of Boston.
The remains of Capt. Henry A. Wise,
late Chief Of Ordnance Of the Navy De~
partment, who died in Naples about two
months ago, are to be brought to this
country in the steamer Palmyra. They
will be taken to Boston for interment at
Mount Auburn-by the side of his father>
inSlaw, Edward Everett. s
One of the benefits of Chinese immi-
grafton hitherto overlooked is just com :
ing into notice. 1t utilizes rats, hitherto
one Of the most useless as well as de-
structive of the animal creation. The
Chinese will eat them and render the
whole race extinct.
Advices from Athens state that all
the Cretan refugees have returned home.
None remain in Greece but those who are
determined not to go back to their own
country. The number of these last is
estimated at about 1900.
A young planter named Mari, son o.
R. II. Mari, prominent lawyer of New
Orleans, was wsylaid and murdered last
week on his plantation, in Mississippi, by
negroes. When found he had been dead
probably two hours, and one hundred
and thirty two buckshot were discovered
in his body.
An Omaha special says there is moth
ing further from the Indians near the
Platte. Several companies of cavalry
are scouting the country insearch of tht
Indians. Six companies of troops arriy-
ed from California this week and have
been distributed along the Union Pacific
railroad.
Regular false calves are manufactured
and sold in extensive demand; the sai(
false calves being composed of lambs
and other wool woven into the material
of merino leggings, just like a pair o
masculine drawers; sometimes bran i
used, and in all cases the imitation il
very artistic and perfect.
| A case recently came before the pen
sion Office where the applicant had serv
ed in the Confederate and subsequently
enlisted in the Union army, in which
| he was wounded. The commissions
decides that by having been in the rebe
service the applicant, although wounde'
in the Union army, is not entitled t
benefit under existing pension laws.
The Health Board of New York city
in conjunction with the Fire Commits
sioners, have found out that not NOR
than one in ten of great many sample
of kerosene oil, tested under their order:
can be considered safe to burn. Such
revelation as this should arouse judi
cious alarm To meet the general ris
which it points out, good legislation
needed speedily. ,,..
The use of absinthe is said to be in
creasing to an alarming extent in Nel
York, and many Of the bars retail it q
they do other liquors. One Of the mos