Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Voice of Cuba denies that IL
revolutionary Gen. Aringo has been cal
tured.
Intelligence is received from Virgin
of the death of Uriel Wright, formerly
leading secessionist.
Ashley, according to the New YoI
Tribune, wants to be Governor OF tn
new territory of Wyoming.
The trustees of Robert Chapel, Ind
annapolis, proposes to erect new churc
building at an estimated cost of $50, 0Ot
jim Mace, English pdgilist, is expec
ted in New York in May, and propose
a match with the American champion.
| The resident physicians OF Houston
Texas, complain Of the dlstresslngl.
healthy condition of the city at Thu
time.
The Jewish Society of K. S. B., OF st
Louis members already seventy tiV'
members, and has a well-stockeC
treasury.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of whisky
in bonded warehouse in st Louis, has
been attached on account of a prominent
firm in Cincinnati.
Colonel John Van Horn, an ex-Alder'
man of Chicago, has been arrested fol
shooting at his two daughters, one Of
whom he slightly wounded.
The King of Sweden has invited Ade-
lima Patti Caux, in an autograph letter, to
visit Stockholm at the expiration OF her
engagement at st. Petersburg.
1t is believed that after Gen. SehOfeld
retires from the war Office he will be as
signed to a command upon the Pacific
Coast, with headquarters at San Fran~
cisco.
A Washington dispatch says that Mrs.
Senator Patterson has accepted an inVl-
tation from the Secretary and Mrs.
Welles to spend few days with them
before leaving for Tennessee.
A Chicago Woman's Rights organ
states that the woman's movement
means, among other things, her sover-
eighty in the parental realm, and her
first right to woo instead Of waiting to
be wooed.
An understood triple alliance is being
arranged between France, Austria and
Italy. The boundaries will remain as
at present, and Italy will not be restrain
ed from taking Rome when she can do
so peaceably.
In the course Of the trial Of Philip 5.
Lanham and others, for selling the Pas
chall House lottery tickets, j. G. Ed"
wards, Treasurer, testified that eight
hundred dollars was paid to Charles h.
johnson, State Attorney, as hush money.
The King of Wurtemberg, brOther-in~
law Of the Emperor Alexander IL, of
Russia, it is said, has secretly turned
Catholic, and this is said to be the eason
why his Queen, Olga, who is very ar.
dent member of the Greek Church, has
lately been estranged from him.
In Salem, Ohio, on Friday morning
about eight O'clock loud report was
heared, and it was found that the boiler
in the sash factory had burstGd, COM
pletely demolishing the entire building.
T. he force Of the explosion first raised the
structure about twenty feet from the
ground, when it fell into a mass ofruins.
One man by the name of George Shuac
was instantly killed He was poor, in
iustriOus man, and leaves vile and
two children. Harlan Pyle was buried
in the ruins when the building fell, and
great fears were entertained for his safe-
ty,;,for the building had caught fire by
this time among the shavings and pine
wood of which the sash are manufac-
tured. BY some means he succeeded in
pushing out plank, which showed the
exact locality be was in, ard he was soon
lug out by the crowd, but not, however,
before he was almost burned and crushed
to death. But little hopes are enter'
,ained of his recovery.