Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-19
NEWS OF THE DAY,

In Adams county, Illinois, having
voting population of ten thousand, nine
tyssix divorces have been granted With
q month.
The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincin
natl Railroad Company has declared
semi annual dividend Of three and
half per cent.
Professor Syme, Of Edinburgh, ha,
advised the Siamese twins not to be Gu
apart. They will take the opinion of {
Paris professor on thu subject.
| A fine estate of fifteen hundred acres
in Carolina county, Va, was recently sold
at auction for 5000 which was less than
half the value of the improvements.
Michel Chevalier and Henri Baudril4
lart, the two eminent French political
economists, are at work upon book on
the financial affairs of the United States.
A notice Of recent steamboat explo>
sion in q Western paper ends as follows
"The captain swan ashore. So did the
chambermaid she was insured for $I5,-
| GOO, and loaded with IRON"
Pau had fall from the height of q
swinging trapeze, in New Orleans. In.
stead Of breaking his neck, he alighted
on his feet, turned a summersault and
kissed his hand to the Mortified audience.
Twenty-nine women in indianapolis
have petitioned the city council for an
appropriation of money to aid them in
leaving the city and going to distant
places where their character is unknown.
They declare their intention to reform.
Hon. Il. A. Rollins, Internal Revenue
Commissioner, has decided that receipts
for pew rents, ETC., issued by religious
and charitable societies, are illegal when
issued without stamps. There is no ex>
emption for receipts issued by such orga>
nizations. The practice of emitting the
stamps is said to be common
The Chicago Tribune says that the
real name of Marx Twain is Samuel G..
Clemens. Blessed with long legs, he is
tall, reaching five feet ten inches in his
boots; weight, l67 pounds body 1.-the
and muscular head round and we'll set
on considerable neck, and feet Of vast SIZE
News of tragedy in Monroe, Green
county, Wisconsin, has just been re-
ceiVed. Angelina Shroyer shot and killed
Patrick Crotty, who sednced her two
years ago. He refused to maintain their
child, and was insulting her when she
fired at him.
The bill authorizing a vote to be taken,
at the next August election, on the eues-
ton of imposing tax, of fifteen cents per
one hundred dollars worth of property,
for educational purposes, has now passed
both houses of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture, and only wants the signature of the
Governor to become law.
Of Gene al Buffers fra 1cial scheme
the New York Post says; He set up in
business with a proposition to pay the
governments promise not due, in prom
ises already broken. He ends by de-
handing that the people shall accept as
substitute for money promises to pay
money which are never to be redeemed.
The Patrie, Of Paris, publishes trans
lation of the letter of Mr.. Gladstone to
Mr.. c. Edwards Lester, of Ohio, and pre-
ceeds to condemn the acknowledgements
made therein as humiliating to England,
in the presence Of America, and as likely
to produce no little irritation Of feeling
against the Premier among his own
cOuntrymen.
A correspondent of the Milwaukee
Neius says the sacred orders of the Cath
Ole ministry were lately conferred on
tifty-six students OF st. Frarcis Semina,
ry, near that city, and Of this large num-
Der thirteen were raised to the priest
hood. The officiating Bishops were Rt.
Rev. NJ. Heiss, DID,, of La Crosse, and
Rt. Rev. Nj. Henni, DID, of Milwaukee
and the ceremonies were Of very in
preSsiye character.
A report from Paraguayan sources
claims that the allied forces lost 5000
killed and wounded in a battle which
took place on the 9Th of December.
Gen. Argotta was mOrtally wounded in
this fight. Gen Mcmahon, the American
Minister, was in the Paraguayan camp.
A good understanding existed between
President Lopez and the AmericaR Minis
ister
In the United States Circuit Court at
Chicago, Friday, Judge Drummond de-
cided, on two indictments, that the ruling
Of the Commissioner Of Internal Rev.
enue, that "a persons income includes
all debts and promissory notes payable
in the future" is erroneous; and the
parties indicted as having made fraudu.
lent returns were acquitted, they having
excluded moneys. due them next year.
A fresh sensation in Missouri grows
out of the question whether Gen. Shurz
possesses the legal qualifications for
United States Senator. The General
being called on lately, by committee,
for information as to when he was nat
uralized, ho replied in September, 1857,
in one Of the counties Of Wisconsin. Ins
formation from that county would indi-
cate that his first papers only were issued
at the time. Ii this be so, he has not
been naturalized citizen for nine years,
as the Constitution of the United States
requires of a Senator. The legal ques-
ton involved is the same as in the case
of Gen. Shields when elected Senator
from Illinois.
The petition for the pardon of DR.
Mudd, now in the hands of the Presi>
dent, reviews the testimony upon which
the Doctor was convicted, denying the
truthfulness of number Of the witness
as, and accounts for the Doctors apparent
unwillingness, previous to his arrest, to
give information in respect to the assassl-
nation, on the ground that the nervous
agitation of man placed in a novel posts
ton in time of unparalleled excitement,
and ignorant how far even an act Of hui
manity, unconsciously rendered to the
Presidents murderer, might expose him,
if not to punishment, at least to suspi>
cion and odium. The petitioners ask for
the pardon of Arnold.
The Georgia Senate, on reading the
Governors message, passed resolution
referring the portion relative to the
States relation to the general govern
ment to a committee of five also, reso-
luton calling on the Governor to show
the facts wherein he states that there is
no protection for life, property, and the
maintenance Of peace and good order,
and that it is the unwavering deter
mination of this body to cooperate in all
proper measures with other departments
of the government in offering full and
ample protection to life and property, and
in the establishment Of peace and good
order throughout the State, securing to
all classes and condition of people the
free expression of political opinions, and
effecting the faithful execution of the
| laws of the State and of the United
States" The House passed resolution
referring that portion of the Governors
message in relation To racnnsirnnt;nr, 10