Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-17
NEWS OF THE DAY,

Mrs. Gaines is willing TO compromise
with the city of New Orleans for 81, :
100000 cash.
Francis McQuade, machinist Of Lowell
is under arrest charged with making bO-
gus fve>cent pieces.
Kossuth says he will never, never go
back to Hungary until Hungary goes
back on Francis Joseph.
Brigham Young has no fear of the To-
comotive. mine must be a id poor
religion" he says, eff it won't stand one
railroad"
Government detectives are at Mem
phis investigating the frauds Of claim
agents. Several of the latter have been
arrested.
Maggie Mitchell is putting up $780,
three story front, in New York, on One
Hundred and Twenty sixth street, near
Fifth avenue.
There are rumors in Europe that the
Prussian King is to embrace Catholicism
in order to be crowned Emperor of Ger
many by the Pope,
One Of the family of eleven persons
accidentally poisoned in Brooklyn, by the
use of arsenic for saleratus by the SER
want, is dead, and some others are in a
critical condition.
The Republican members Of the Ohio
Legislature are terribly prosecuted by
office seekers. They make it a rule to
sign ell the papers that applicants present
/ - afiv Ioryav far
the same Office.
The New York Times, in commenting
upon the anarchial condition of Mexico,
says the only remedy for Mexico, pro-
badly, lies in the United States; Mexico
feels it; but she is patient who detestS
her spothecary.
| Vague reports have reached Charleston
| of mysterious embsrkation at various
portions on the Georgia and Florida coast,
of parties partly composed Of Cubans. 1t
is supposed that their movements are
connected with the revolution in Cuba.
C. H. Camper reports the arrival Of
2S5 emigrants at Columbus, Ohio, for the
week ending last Saturday night. They
propose to locate as follows In Ohio, 80;
Missouri, 80; Illinois, At; Indiana, % !;
Kentucky, 81 Tennessee, IS; Wiscon-
sin, q Kansas, IL.
The Montreal papers point to the re-
cent accident at St. Patrick's Hall as an
example Of the good effect Of proper
means of exit. If its proprietors had not
fully complied with the law on the SUBJ
iect of doors, etc, hundreds would have
been killed by the falling roof. As it
was, the audience were out before the
final crash.
The railroads III the South, it is an
nounced, in order to afford an oppOrtu>
nifty to Northern capitalists to examine
for purposes of investment the cheap
lands and mines Of the South, have held
a convention, and resolved to issue ex-
| cursion tickets over their respective rails
roads at low rates Of fare, and if possible
| to induce hotel>keepers to entertain the
holders of such tickets at reduced prices.
This season of the year, it is stated, is
the most agreeable time to visit the far
South
1t is argued by some that that part of
Gen. Grants remarks relative to
the removal and appointment Of
officers, will probably determine the
Senate in the disposition of the bill to
repeal or modify the Tenure-of-Offce
Act. The Senate has had taste OF pow
er under that law never heretofore en-
joyed by that body, which it will be 10th
to surrender; and it not IS now believed
that the Senate will agree to repeal OF
the act, and possibly not even to moditi-
cation of it, until Gen. Grant discovers his
mode of getting rid of and appointing
| officials.