Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Texas has raised large castor oil CT
this year.
Among the of1ice>seekers at Washir
ton is lady who is an applicant for
Stoffice at Louisville.
The New York EpjscOpalidn fe:
the Methodists are trying to take pc
session of the government"
Ii. B. Cropster has been appoint
postmaster at Shelbyville, Kentucky, al
j. M. Stockton at Maysville.
Kansas is said to have better syste
of railroads constructed and project,
than any other State in the Union.
| A young lady of Staunton, Virgini
keeps list of her male acquaintance
a pocket diary and calls it her devotion
him book.
| The North Indiana Conference of tn
M. Z. Church holds its next annual Sc!
sion at Richmond, commencing on Thurs
day, April Is.
The Cuban refugees at Key Yves
Florida, are shortly to start a newspape
to advocate the cause Of the revolution
lists in Cuba.
There are Indications that travel t
Europe will be very great in April an
May, many steamers having full passen
ger lists for those months.
Orders have been received at tn
Portsmouth Navy Yard to fit the Unite,
States steamer Galena for sea. 1t i
supposed her destination is Cuba.
Gen. Boyle is endeavoring to get Hen
derson county, Kentucky, to subscribe
$4,000 to aid in completing the Evans
vile, Henderson and Nashville railroad
Minnesota farmers raise four hundred
bushels of potatoes to the acre; but thu
trouble, one of them says, is, that they
also raise bugs enough to eat 'em all up
Mark Twain, lecturing on the Sand,
wich Island, offered to show how the
cannibals eat their food, if some lady
would lend him baby. The lecture was
not illustrated.
Cuban sympathizers have private ad-
vices of the safe arrival of the schooner
Carrie Milton on the southern coast Of
Cuba, with arms and munitions for the
insurgents.
The Postmaster at Hampton, Va
has been displaced, and Mrs. cambridge,
mother>in-law to Maj. Gen. Reynolds,
United States army, has been appointed
to fill the place.
Prussian authorities have discovered a
conspiracy among the Poles to start an
other revolution in case of war between
Prussia and France. Several arrests
have been made.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says
Steamers sailing to Southern ports yes
terday carried full cargoes, owing to the
activity of the spring trade and improved
prospects of the South
Mr.. w. Gilbert, of London, has pub
lished life of 'Lucretia Borgia, " in
which he endeaVors to prove that the
lady was pious, virtuous and moral
woman, much maligned by contemporary
and subsequent SANDER.
When Grant was inaugurated he SAID
to his brothers>in-law and all his other
kinsfOlk ard personal friends, TASK and
We shall receive" EVery-sOn of gun of
them took him at his word, and he has
kept his word to the letter.
C. H. Camper reports the arrival Of
39l emigrants at Columbus, Ohio, for the
week ending Saturday night, who will
find homes as follows: In Ohio, 81; Mis-
sour, lO2; Illinois, Go; Indinia, Al; Ken
lucky, 81; Tennessee, 80; Wisconsin,
43; Minnesota, a; Kansas, -, LOuisi-
ana, q.
The chiefs of the different branches
of the New York Vigilance Committee
met Saturday night, and, among other
things, resolved that the perpetrators of
the late Outrages in the Fourth Ward
should be brought to justice, and ap-
pointed members Of the committee to see
that they were properly watched.
The EUeniRg Post says Collector Grin
nelli An honorable merchant, but may
fail to see the knaVeries which more zeal
GUS eyes would detect, and seVerer and
less indulgent temper would repress and
punish in an exemplary manner. In this
way, if at all, his administration of the
Customhouse will be defective.
The Inauguration ball has left a laws
suit in prospect. The committee hay-
ing charge of the affair, it seems agreed
to give Mr.. Grey, the caterer, one-half
the proceeds for supplying the supper.
Now, however, the committee, finding
the profits so steep, refuse, it is said, to
stand to the bond, and want the caterer
to receive less than he bargained for.
Prosecutions, both criminal and civil,
are to be instituted by the passengers of
the horror ship James Foster. The con-
Signees will be sued for damages, and
those Of the officers who are still alive,
will be sued for homicide or cruelty. 1t
is certainly time there was some penalty
for the Outrages often perpetrated upon
emigrants in passenger ships.
A floating hotel is to be opened on the
Hudson river. A steamboat is to be
tOwed to Pollipell's Island, in Newburgh
Bay, near Cornwall, where she will be
permanently anchored. She will be
thoroughly overhauled and repaired, re-
furnished and repainted, and so altered
as to convert her into first class sum-
mer boarding house.
President Grants revocation of Gen.
Sherman's order, by which the latter
attached the heads of all departments to
his staff, is the theme of very general re-
mark in military circles at Washington
1t appears that Sherman's order was in
violation of several laws and quite num>
Der Of army regulations. This direction
of the President restores the War De,
partment to the condition existing before
Gen. Sherman assumed command of the
army.