Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY

The artesian well at st. Louis has
reached the depth of 1861 feet.
The New Orleans Picayune calls
upon the planters to grow corn.
The completion of the U. P. r. R. is to
be Uncle Sans first of April joke.
A bill has passed the Ohio Senate re-
ducing the levy for health purposes in
Cincinnati. DGEfs EE
Ex>COngressman Spaulding, of the
Cleveland (Ohio) district, is an applicant
for Minister to Italy.
The re~appointment of VIM. A. NJ eri-
wether as Marshal for Kentucky was or,
dered to issue Saturday.
Sickles has been consolidated" out of
a command-which will be worse for
Sickles than for the command.
There are now l04 registered distiller-
les in the Lexington (Ky.) district, 50 Of
which will be in operation this month.
Brigham Young has an Envoy in
Paris, who goes back on Brigham's prin-
ciples so far as to be contented with one
wife.
John r. Beckley, Collector for the
Fourth District of Kentucky, has been
removed, and Gen. w. Hobson, appointed
in his place.
A house and barn, and Mrs. Stoddard,
were burned at Vernon, Vermont, on
Saturday night, by the upsetting of a
kerosene lamp.
Another section OF twenty miles of the
Central Pacific railroad was completed
Monday, making $40 miles of track east
Of Sacramento. ~. F.
The London Telegraph calls Anna
Swami, the giantess, "damsel of har-
moniou3 and homogeneous, though tire,
mendous, inches"
The residence of Mr.. Stevenson, Eu-
gene City, Oregon, was burned March
Is. Mrs. Stevenson and three children
persisted in the flames.
Another meeting, in aid of the Cuban
insurgents, was held in New York Thurs
day. The call was signed by W. C..
Bryant, Charles A. Dana, Henry w.
Beecher and others.
The Postmaster General has removed
son of Ann S. Stephens from clerk
ship in his department. The young fel"
low was a good Democrat.
Applicants for office in Massachusetts,
Instead of going to Washington, are TAX
ing measures to give Grant a house.
That's the way to do it.
The Westminster ReUieao says that
Miss Thackeray's new book will be
a great triumph to those who maintain
that genius is hereditary"
Arrangements are being made, for the
annual meeting Of the American Medical
Association, which is to take pace In
New Orleans in May next.
The Treasury Department is in receipt
of information that the United States
Marshal for Georgia has abscOnded with
100000 of public money.
The Havana DidriO, in leading ar
ticle, praises the Jesuits, and deeply lie
grets that the society was not established
IN the island twenty years ago.
OF five hundred and eighty eight Pro-
testant Episcopal Churches in London
only eight wish to burn incense, and only
fourteen are in favor Of eucharistic vest
| mentS.
Rich gold diggings have been discovered
eighty miles from Caribao, British Colum
bia. Government contemplates sending
an exploring patty as soon the as the sea
son permits.
A meeting of the Centers OF all tn
Fenian Circles in New York and Brook
Ign was held on Saturday. The session
was held in the afternoon and continued
to late hour, with closed doors.
| The leading members of the Orlean
family feel confident of the election Q
the Due dc Montpensier to the Spanish
throne, ami, Napoleon is beginning 10 fee
uneasy at the prospect of his success
The net profits on o sugar plantatio
in the Parish Of st. Landry, Louisan;
last year, with ninety acres cultivated i
cane and eighty in corn, amounted t.
twenty-five thousand six hundred an,
, sixty dollars.
George Sand has written long lettt
+ in favor offcmale suffrage, female phys
clans, and female preachers. 1t is ad
dressed to Mile. RsyRouOrd, Frenc
lady, who is now lecturing in the prov
inces on woman's rights. d.
The contract for transportation froI
= St. Louis to Fort Benton and all wa
points on the Missouri river to move GO
5 eminent supplies has been awarded |
; Quartermaster General Meigs and al
= proved by Gen. Sherman, to John
=. BOtinger, of st, Louis.
:. The Liverpool Mercury breaches Il
! idea that if the United States reject Il
Alabama treaty it will be done in Il
: hope Of getting a strip of Canada or No
e Scotia or two or three West Ind
II islands as an Naturalization for the Al
+ bama depredatiOns. 1t declares Gre
!: Britain will do no such thing.
# One thousand two hundred and fort
, five miles of the Franco-American cal
"a are already on board the Great Easter
q A letter from New Hampshire says the
,e is movement to form new political {
ganization in that State, from the CO
servatives of both parties. The matt
rs is in the hands of twenty prominent m
ten Republicans and ten Democrats