Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| IL Is stated tnat the season Is so milo
in Maryland that the farmers have com.
menced blowing. -.
Over $4,000 bales ofcotton have been
received at Shreveport, Ls., during the
present season.
The number of Sue Murphy Claims
on file in Washington is 20176, amount
ing to 100000.
The Viceroy of Egypt is to found
at Cairo a gambling house on the model
of that at BadensBaden.
Some of the colored people of Florida
are getting exalted in their notions.
They refuse to work for half the crop.
A Chicago gentleman has bought one
hundred and twenty-five square miles of
land in Kansas for wheat field.
Government lost a million dollars
worth of property last year by the sink
ing Of steamboats, on the Missouri river.
The Eagle and Phoenix Mills at Colum4
bus, Ga, have declared a dividend Of
S33,65S 81 for the last four months of
last year.
Scientific men in France and Ger
many think the recent commissions of the
earth indicate the ultimate formation of
a new continent.
Without counting the ROthschilds, there
are in Paris about one hundred and fifty
Israelites, whose combined fortunes
amount to about f2000O0,OO0,
1t is admitted by the Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
that Benjamin F. Wade will not be called
into a place in the Cabinet of Gen. Grant.
A member of the French Parliament
invited the electors to take cup of coffee
with him before the balloting, and his
seat is now contested on the ground of
bribery.
The New York Assembly at Albany
has granted the use of its chamber to the
National Typographical Union, for its
annual session, commencing the first
Monday in June.
Gen. Lee has published card relating
to his college. He wants new depart
ments created, of agriculture, commerce
and applied chemistry; also improvements
IN the engineering school.
The Salt Lake DAILY telegraph in
vites strangers to visit Utah, eat straw
berries and apples, and adds You
need not have more than one wife if You
don't want to. There's no compulsion
about it,
Walker Hammond, said to be one of
the Seymour Express robbers, was ar
resed at Worthwhile, Kentucky, last
Thursday night and taken to Seymour,
Indiana, by the Sheriff of Jackson county,
Indiana.
Judging by the great number Of peo-
pie who hail from Galena, at present in
that prOVicincial city must
be depOpulated, or else the generally ac-
cepted opinion in regard to its size must
have been terribly erroneous
A man deserted his wife in Cleveland
a few days ago because a servant girl |
had maligned her character. He had
little faith in his wife, who was proved /
and much faith in the servant |
girl, who was proved guilty and publicly |
read out OF church by the priest. |
A 'double>ender" locomotive is the
last invention in the railroad line 1t has
no tender, but carries water in a tank l
over the boiler, and coal in a box in the
rear Of the furnace IL has trucks and
cOwcatcher at either end, and runs with
equal facility either end foremost
aRobert Dale Owen comes out in the |
Boston Advertiser in vigorous oppo1
sition to the latest constitutional amend,
nent, on the ground that it prohibits dis
on account of education. He
thinks the amendment ought to be de-
'eated if proposed to the Legislature in
is present shape.
Cities on the Pacific railroad rise and
all as if by magic. Two years ago the
,ity of Meadow Lake had q municipal
two theatres, thirteen
hotels, stock exchange board, seventy
i've barrooms and a daily paper. With
he extension of the road, its population
has been reduced to 80.
The Cuban passengers found on the
schooner Galvanic have been sentenced
% death by the Court, but Gea. Dulce
will probably commute the sentence to
PENAL Imprisonment. The schooner has
been declared legal prize, of which the
British Consul has notified his govern
nent.