Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-22
LEWIS OF THE DAY

Over twelve hundred Cinnamon arrived
from Hong Kong at San Francisco on
Friday in sailing vessel.
The white employees of the Savannah
(Ga) custOmhOuse are being removed
and negroes substituted.
Gen. f. NJ. Law, formerly of Alaba~
ma, has been appointed Superintendent
of the Charlotte and Augusta railroad, st
salary Of $1,000.
Crop reports from Arkansas, north
Mississippi, and north Alabama are IA
Yorable, despite the unpropitiOus weath>
er for some weeks past.
The Paducah kentuckisn proposes
Hon. Lawrence s. Trimble, of that city,
| for the next Democratic candidate for
Governor Of Kentucky.
A party of fifteen editors and publish
ers of Cincinnati, have accepted the invi
| tation of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company to visit Mammoth
Cave on the 23d inst.
Yellow fever is raging at Tsmpico,
Matamoras aud other points on the Mexi-
can coast, and it is feared it may extend
| to Texas and other Gulf States.
The new Louisville and Cincinnati rail-
road will be opened to the public on
Monday, the 18th inst. On and after
that date two passenger trains will be
run daily each way.
Mr.. James L. Parish, very worthy
mechanic of Montgomery, Ala, annOun.
ces himself as a candidate for Congress II
that district. He plants on the working
mems platform.
| The Shelby (Tennessee) county Agri'
cultural Society organized under its
charter yesterday by the election OF Il
r. Eunsley as President and Leon Trous
dale as Secretary.
A Pennsylvania paper reckons NJ
seventy delegates already instructed 70
Geary as the Republican candidate 70
Governor, and sixty~three instructed 10
other candidates.
Gen. J. Bankhead Magruder, the dis
tinguished ex~Confederate soldier, de
livered a lecture at the courthouse il
Paris, Ky, on Friday evening last.
Rochefort charges the French govern
ment in the last number Of La LdnteInt
with having committed the most astOund
, ing frauds at the elections in nearly ha
the districts of the country.
: A day or two ago We Published an &C
/, count of the murder Of Adkin Sens, o
his farm in Burke county, Ga. Late dis
patches announce that the negro VII
committed the deed has been arreste
! and committed to Jail.
A number of masked men captured
n notorious thief by the name Of HOwaI
q at Harlem, Mo-, few days since, an
1 tying a rope, with large stone attached
o around his neck, cast him headforemOi
q into the river and drowned him.
T. A trial of reaping and moving machm'
will be held at Louisville, Kentucky, o
i June u and 50. The contest will
g open to all reapers and mowers, and lit
: eral prizes will be given.
4 Mrs. DIR. Eliza J. Hall, of San Fra
4 cisco, has accomplished something Wort
n placing on record. Sho has invente
and patented volcanic furnace for smell
q ing ores, which scientific men, Iii
t. Charles Haraszthy, say will revolt
tionize the old system of smelling or
IA altogether"
l. Amidst all his official occupation, Il
Is Emperor Francis Joseph, Of Austria, W
Y. is quito a mechanical genius, has recent
te found time to construct clock, a We
j. ingenious piece o! workmanship, viii
3. he has presented to his mother, t
D. Archduchess Sophia. There is attach
ne TO this clock a gaudily plumed Coz
q. which crows every dag at sunrise,