Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Miss Bat6man's salary is 1900 week
and she contrives to comfortably support
husband with it.
The Erie road thinks Of lighting Bergen
tunnel, one mile in length, By Drummond
light in the middle.
The appointment of Ex-Governor
Lowe, of California, to the Chinese mig
sion is received with great favor in San
Francisco.
The political excitement runs high in
Chicago. Every daily paper in the city,
with two exceptions, supports the peO~
pies ticket, the success of which is now
conceded by many members Of the ring
party.
Madame Pochaud, a wealthy LAZY of
France, was recently sent to prison for
six months, all for the simple amusement
of now and then stealing 8 small sum of
money, a species Of pleasantly to which
she seems very much addicted.
Nearly one hundred ounces of quinine
have been sold in Frankfort, Clinton
county, Indiana, within the past two
weeks. Personal earthquakes have
been very numerously enjoyed in that
region this season.
A World reporter interviewed A. 7
Stewart, the great dry goods man, last
Friday. lie denounced Secretary Bout
well with great severity, as the cause Of
all the trouble, and said that his policy
would not restore specie payment in a
thousand years.
A trotting fair will be held at the AS
ISOLATION Course, near Lexington, on the
10Th, Dist, 22d and 23d days of this
month, under the auspices Of the Ken
lucky Association. There will be three
trOts each day.
An extensive Stoneware mandatory,
has been commenced near Abingdon
Virginia. The clay is almost as white
as chalk, very tough, and makes excel~
lent ware. On the same land is mill
stone rock equal to the celebrated French
burr.
Gen. Sherman is anxious to see Jud sc
Dent elected Governor of Mississippi.
Grant, although Dent is his brother>in-
law. wants to see nothing Of the sort. The
chances are that, in this conflict Of wishes,
Sherman will get the better of the Presi~
dent.
Two thousand dollars has been raised
in Cincinnati and presented as a testimo-
NAL to the family of Geo. S. Bennett.
the veteran reporter Of the Enquirer,
who lately died in that city.
A horrible accident occurred at the
Gardner coal mine, at Gardner, Ill
Last Friday evening, at 8 O'Clock, as
four persons were descending the coal
shaft, the wire>hoisting rope broke, and
the men fell with the cage upon which
they were standing, distance of Isl
feet. TO the bottom Of the shaft. Great
excitement prevailed among the miners
and citizens of the town. AS soon as the
fact became known, immediate step;
we're taken to descend the shaft to the
relief Of the sufferers. After repairs were
made. the other cage was lowered anC
the mangled were brought up. StrangD
I to say, none were killed outright, thOugl
{ all had bones broken. One, a lad O
4 fifteen years, had since died, and twt
b others are supposed to be beyond re
t covery. Ed. Sutton, an engineer, wa
3 one of the sufferers, and is supposed t
s be the least injured His mind is unim
paired, and he describes his feeling:
when making the terrible descent to bt
IS as he supposed, certain death. No salts
Il factory theory has yet been advance
for the cause of the accident.