Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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ofthe kidneys.
Governor Pickens is dangerously i'll, at
Edgewood, South Carolina.
Additional reinforcements are soon to
leave Cadiz for Havana.
New counterfeit twenty five cent script
is circulating in Eastern Cities
California is badly in need of more
lighthouses and demands them Of the
Board.
The cost Of running the Pittsburg
Waterworks, during 1868, was some~
thing over $4,000.
In New York, on Thursday, a boy Of
fifteen was committed to Jail for throwing
snowballs in the streets.
AT Columbus, Ohio, on Monday last,
Gen. Sherwood filed his bond, and was
sworn in as Secretary of State.
Chicago has established its first iron
blast furnace, an achievement which the
Chicago reporters deliberately glorify.
| A street fight occurred last week in
Montgomery, Texas, in which four men
were killed, all pestilent desperadoes.
The Central Pacific had yesterday
reach point four hundred and eighty
seven miles east of San Francisco.
General Spinner, Treasurer of the
United States, is still in very bad health,
and is unable to transact business.
Mr.. j. R. Dunn, Of Lexington, KY,
sold one hundred mules to Hall & Lyle,
on Wednesday last, for $3.50 per head.
Great damage has been done by the
frost to the orange groves in Florida. In
some parts of Eastern Florida the trees
have been killed.
A proposition TO build railroad from
Carlisle by way of Cynthiana asd George
town to Frankfort, is being agitated now
n all those places.
1t is stated that the Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroad will complete branch OF
their road from North Vernon to New
Albany during the receat year.
One hundred and eighteen thousand
four hundred and ninety-four bales Of
cotton were received at Mobile from
Sept ember l to January L.
Six locomotives, four sleeping cars, en-
passenger cars, and six hundred freight
cars are to be Immediately built at the
car works in Fort Wayne, Ind.
1t is rumored at st. Louis, that Billy
Emerson, the negro minstrel, received a
draft for $4,000 in gold, recently left
him by a deceased uncle in ireland.
The Madrid correspondent of the In
terRGtiondI says, with shocking indeli-
cacy "Gen. Prim is believed here to be
the father Of No. and No. 5 CT Isabella'S
little ones"
"A citizen of Saugerties, N. Y, an ex-
member of the Legislature, has lately
made $4,000 by the rise in Central
Railroad stock, and another pocketed
$4,000.
The Cleveland lOhio) Superintendent
of Cemeteries publishes a card stating
that the recent reports of body snatching
in that city are fables of the newspaper
reporters.
A man named Cisco, formerly express
messenger, and Lew Voorhees,, q driver,
were killed by Indians while hunting
four miles from Lake Stanton, on the
Smoky Hill road, Friday.
Judge Garvin, of New York, has de-
cided that a spectator of q play not
printed and not copyrighted, may take
down the play, and afterward print and
publish it, without fear of prosecution.
The Commercial Bank of Kentucky
on the 7th instant declared dividend of
four per cent on its capital stock, payable
to the stockholders at the principal bank
and branches on and after the 10Th inst,
free of government tax.
1t is estimated that Governor Cum
mings despairs of being confined by the
Senate for the COmmissionership Of In
ternal Revenue, and will ask the Pres.
dent to withdraw his name during the
present week.
On Wednesday of this week, the 18th |
inst, the national convention Of cOlOred |
men will assemble in Washington. There
will be large attendance of leading |
colored men from the South and from the |
Border States.
Several Madrid journals construe the |
visit of Louis Napoleon to Queen Isabella |
as an indication on the part Of the French |
government to favor the election of the |
Prince Of Asturias, her son, to the
throne of Spain.
The loss of the brig A. K. Dunlap,
from Boston for Halifax, with thirteen
lives, is fully confirmed. Portions Of the
wreck, and one body, recognized as Miss
Talbot, have foated ashore in Prospect
Paw thirfu nc frnvN HaEc,x
During the past three months there
have been 10000 new rifles sent from
Providence, Rhode Island, to Europe. |
Over 5000 have been sent to Cuba, and
5000 muzzle, lOaders, transformed to
breach>loading, shipped to Mexico.
Brick Pomeroy's New York CORES
pendent swears that he did not receive a
cent to advocate the Alaska purchase /;
but he admits that he had "a brother"
convenient at hand to receive a thous-
and dollars for clerical work " in the
business.
Paris correspondence says that Baron
Rothschild's fortune is $250,0O0,0O0. He
left $50, 100000 to his widow, Sl00OO0,-
900 to his eldest son, $40,OOO,OOO to his
second, and S30,000,000 to his youngest
son. He also left $5l,000,0O0 to his
nephew, son of his brother Solomon.
1t is stated that the principal chiefs Of
the Cuban revolution Carlos Manuel
Cespedes and Francisco P. Avullera)
| liberated from the very outset their
slaves, some 600 in number, and their
example has been followed by many in
the Eastern Department.
A learned SdUGD writes TO the Ameri-
can Naturalist that "the male mosquito
is beautiful, both physically and morally,
as they do not bite; their manners are
more retiring than those Of their stronger
minded partners, as they rarely enter our
dwellings, and live unnoticed in the
woods"
Joye, the poisOner of Marssilles, has
confessed everything. He says that the
two women who were acquitted at the
AK trial were innocent. Several other
women whom he charged with buying
poison for him for the purpose of mur,
dering their husbands or other relatives,
have been arrested.
The contested election case of Switzler
against Anderson, Of the ninth Missouri
district, which has been pending since
the beginning of the fortieth Congress,
was again, on Monday, decided by the
Election Committee of the House unani.
mOusly in favor of Switzler, Democrat
The previous report the committee was
voted down in the House, and the case