Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Three of Grants first cabinet were o
foreign birth. Stewart was born in Bel
fast, Ireland; Cox in Canada, and BoriC
in France.
The Franklin county Undiana) Circuit
Court has awarded $1,000 damages
against James II. WiIport for seducing
his own cousin.
Meridian, Miss, is growing more rapid
ly, it is said, than any other interior town
in the South. Its present population is
stated at about $500.
There is subscription being raised in
Water Valley, Miss, to build Lutheran
Church for the benefit of the Swedish
population of that place.
Dr. s. C. Russell, Secretary of the
New Orleans Board of Health, reports
the whole number of interments in that
city last week to be ninety four.
The difficulty between the Northern
Central and Erie railroads has been adj
justed, and the cars of the former COM
Pany make regular trips over the Erie
line.
Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, the new
Secretary of State, is a native of Maine.
He was brought up printer, serving an
apprenticeship in the Office of the Kenne-
bee Journal.
DR.. Walls, dentist of Madison, Ind,
while eating some oysters a few evens
ings since, found pearl which meas
ured scant half inch in diameter, and
said to be of fine quality.
1t is authoritatively stated that a
huge disability ring" exists in Wash
ingtOn, ramifying within and out of Con-
gress. Twenty-Five dollars is the charge
for removal. Cheap luxury.
Gen. Hancock's friends are very indig,
nant at his Punishment to Dakota, and
are about to make an effort to induce
him to accept the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Pennsylvania.
The result of the suit between st.
Louis and the gas company has been q
triumph for the former, reducing the
charge of lighting the city from forty to
twenty-five dollars per lamp.
According to the Albany Argus, Jas.
Fisk, Jr., is ambitious of running a news
paper, as well as a railroad and an opera
house, and is trying to buy a controlling
interest in the New York Times.
Capt. John Ericsson is of the opinion
that there must be mistake in the an
nouncement of his decease, as he has had
no information of the event except that
contained in the newspaper paragraphs.
The Memphis AUalanche says:
Next to the obituary of the man who
Invented the accordeon, the adjournment
of a Tennessee Radical Legislature is
the most cheerful reading we can con-
ceiVe Of
The Missouri Radicals have become
furious oyer the Presidents determine
ton to fill the st. Louis offices with his
personal friends, and to utterly ignore
the slate prepared by the Congressiona'
delegations.
The Philadelphia Post says that Mr.
BoriO, of that city, Grants Secretary o
the Navy, was one of the principal con.
tributors to the purchase of Gen. Grant:
| house, on Chestnut, above Twentieth
street. Philadelphia
Judge Brewster, Of Philadelphia, il
prOnouncing a sentence last week, said
that the public had come to regarC
nearly all murderers as either heroes o.
martyrs--heroes if they escaped punish
ment martyrs if the received it.
The Dayton Journal (RadicaD say!
"there can be hardly any doubt that i
was mistake on the part ofthe Presiden
to solicit Congress to pass a specia
statute to enable A. II. Stewart to accep
the office of Secretary of the Treasury
E1 President Pierce writes to frienc
in Georgia: "SiDce you left The North (il
December,) l have been Frustrated b!
illness, .but my physician thinks | ma.
be quite on my feet again when tn
groen grass puts forth and the bird
come back"
Jacques Ritch, Swiss Consul at Cincin
natl for the States of Ohio, Indiana ant
kentucky, published card in the Ger
man papers of that city, denying charg
published in Milwaukee German paper
that his own and the German govern
ments are Systematically transportin
vagabondS, paupers, and criminals to tn
United States. So far as Switzerland
concerned he speaks from official sources