Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Minnesota has immense quaint tiles of
last falPs wheat crop yet in store,
Mrs. Bloomer's husband is Republican
candidate for Mayorof Council Bluffs.
The Sault st. Marie Canal has been
ceded to the United State of Michigan.
Female aOtaries public are coming
into fashion in Missouri as we'll as in
Iowa.
A State Woman's Suffrage Convention
is to be held at Des Moines, Iowa, this
month.
A number of FreBchmen have appeared
at Decatur, Ill, with patent traps to
catch bullirOgs for the New York mar
ket.
Porter q. Bliss, one of the persons
lately rescued from Paraguay, has been
appointed clerk in the State Departs
ment.
The late James Harper sat for his
photograph, and renewed his policy of
accident insurance, on the day Of his
accident.
The Democrats have carried Cleye>
land, Ohio, by 1000 majority for their
Mayor, aud have elected the balance Of
their city ticket.
A man at New York is learning to ride
the velocipede on the tight rope, and pro-
poses in that way to cross Niagara on his
machine, this summer.
Notwithstanding the snow storm and
cold weather of Saturday last, it is now
sscertained that tho fruit crop of south~
err Illinois suffered no injury,
A Norwich doctor has been imploring
Grant in poetry to quit smoking. Grant
replied in prose that the position of phys
siciap to the White House was already
given to friend Of Washburne's.
A new trial has been granted by Judge
Prentiss, of Cleveland, Ohio, in the case
of Mulhall, the murderer, the cause be-
ing the incompetency of one of the jury
which brought in a verdict Of guilty.
Chevalier will start from New York
on his balloon voyage to Europe on the
last day Of July. He wants a few per-
sons Of nerVe-nOt nervous persons-to
60 with him. Through tickets $3.50.
The Methodist Metropolitan Church
at Washington city had among its wor>
shippers on Sunday last the President
and Mrs. Grant, the Vice President and
Mrs. Coliax, the Chief Justice and Miss
Chase.
| George Washington, negro, charged
with stealing, escaped from the Mayor:
Court in Richmond, Va, on Tuesday
He was pursued and captured by An
drew jackson and Thomas Jefferson
both negroes.
Herman Hendricks, the distinguished
Prussian actor, who few months sine,
met with rather Indifferent success il
New York, cautions German stars
against considering the United States q
theatrical Eldorado.
Revelations recently made corroborat
the horrible system Of cruelty at Sin;
Sing. 1t is proved that a number @
murders have been committed, and tina
tortures equal to those Of the Inquisitiol
were constantly practiced.
The Senate Committee on Commerc
have before them bills to create st. Loui
and Cincinnati ports OF entry, and t
regulate the appraisement and inspec
ton of imports, but will not report o.
them at the present session.
Lieutenant W. Alexander, U. s. A
met with sudden death, at Columbi
South Carolina, last week. He was of
ficer of the day; and while going gran
rounds" a sentinel shot him by mistake
He was about twenty-five years of age
) One Cornelius Russell claims to hav
made the discovery that the famou
t horse Dexter is Of the Merrill stock, An
has no pretensions to the Hambletonia
: blood; wherefore Mr.. Bonner and tn
a partisans of Hambletonian blasphem
: and discredit Russell aud his Morrillitie: