Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gen. Lew. Wallace is said to be wait
ing for customer in az.law Office at
era wfordsville, Indiana. Il z.CE

/ Gen. Lew. Wallace is said to be wait
ing for customer in alaw Office o
Charlottesville, Indiana. riaCE
Mayor Hall, of New York, was poison
ed, almost seriously with ice cream
favored with extract of banana, a few
days ago. roiil5nE sIT
An Ohio paper predicts, that, in very
few years, there will be tens of thou
sands if not millions of Chinese voters
in this country. Va-
1t is stated that of the men wht
landed on the coast Of Cuba from the
9 apeshot, one hundred have been cap
tured and shot. o,a.e.rr5 7
Grant has become the possessor O
some real estate in New Jersey. de
bought it (; the accounts neglect to say
who contributed the money.
J. A. Broadhead, of Boston, has been
appointed liquor commissioner under the
prohibitory law. He is to purchase and
sell liquors to local agents.
Eliza Haycrat, a famous cyprian Of
st. Louis, and noted for many acts Of
benevolence, died, Friday of apopIexy.
She leaves an estate valued at over
100000. 7 iag.i-9 5 g..
Il The trustees of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad applied to Council Of Cincin-
NAH last Saturday for loan of $4,000
to pay for surveys and incidental expen.
SEES. ata4
| The new Governors eneral is out in
Cuba with a new proclamation. The
next thing he will be out Of Cuba with
out any proclamation, closely pursued
by Cubans and their bayonets. 1900
Gideon h HOLSTER, OF Litchfield, who
still holds Andrew Johnson's appoint
ment as Consul to st. Domingo, is writ
ing history of that island, which will be
published next winter. .....
An exchange says Gottschalk is COM
ing back to the United States, and cru
ely adds, mot by way of San Francisco"
1t will be remembered that Gottschalk
left that city suddenly, some years ago.
A match between Allen and McCoole
has been arranged, articles of agreement
drawn up and two hundred dollars side
deposited. The fight is to take place
November 10, within fifty miles of Gin
cinnati.
There is flying machine in San
Francisco which, the owner claims can
travel to New York in twenty four hours.
Every body will believe him when it has
accomplished the first trip in that time.
One of the most brilliant exercises at
Harvard Commencement last week was
an Grafton on "Philistinism," by George
Alden Mcleod, of Baltimore, who lost
an arm while serving in the Confederate
army during the war.
Albert Grisar, the brilliant composer
Of so many comic operas, died the other
day at Asnieres in great poverty. He
was q native of"Antwerp, Belgium, and
was in his sixty-firSt year. Seven orders
have been conferred upon him for his
operas. -r NJ
Conservative Republicans at Washing
ton aver that the postponement of the
elections in Mississippi and Texas to the
remote time which has been determined
upon will assuredly have the effect of
undermining the Republican cause in
those States.
The society of the Cincinnati, founded
by the officers Of the revolutionary army,
still maintains feeble existence, and
takes its dinners regularly. The New
Yerk branch, of which Hamilton Fish is
the President, gathered about thirty
members on the Fourth.
An East Indian correspondent OF New
York paper notes the intense hostile
feeling Of the natives Of that country TO
the English rule, and says that sixty
days without protection Of British troops
would not leave single European sur
vivor in the peninsula.
The owner Of house on the Boule~
ward de SebastopOl, ia Paris, hung cut
on the day after the first riot a huge
poster, containing the following inscripo
ton: Windows to let, at francs an
hour, for to nights riot" The police had
considerable difficulty in inducing him to
remove the poster.
Mr.. Seward said 10 the Sacramento
people the other day: If you are for
the country and the whole country to its
uttermost borders, l am with you in that.
If you are for preserving what we have,
and adding to it what may be properly
annexed, | am with you. But if there
are any who are not for adding whatever
God has designed to be part and parcel
of the republic, l am not with them"
Whereat there was great cheering.
DR.. Harris, late negro candidate for
Governor Of Virginia, with his sister at
tempted to travel in the cabin of the
steamer Mystia from Baltimore to Nor
folk, but were elected. He, on former
occasion, was elected from the cabin of
the steamer Eliza Hancock. He now
brings suit against both steamers for
damages.
Fierce opposition is manifested by all
classes of citizens Of Louisville to allow
ing the Louisville and Cincinnati railroad
the use of the streets in that city to eff.
feet connection with the Louisville a. /. :
Nashville road. The road will prob .Yiy
be driven, to effect the desired junction,
to going around the CITY