Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.


last, appointed Postmaster at Cincinnati
Atlanta is to have a tobacco factory
which will give employment to three
hundred hands.
Blountsville, Ala, has white child
which has two pairs Of legs, or double
from the hips down.
Il is said that the damage to the Hud-
san River Railroad by the recent freshet
will amount to 100000.
Butler says that Schenck, Dawes and
Fsrnsworth, Of the Reconstruction Com
mittee, have formed conspiracy against
him.
About two hundred and City thousand
acres of government land were sold durS
ing March at the Land Office at Visalla,
California.
A large number of Northerners are
prospecting in Georgia. There are ms
dications that capital from tho North
will be freely invested in Georgia during
the present year.
Mr.. Grant has lately nominated to
Office some three hundred of the truly
loyal. There was only one negro among
the number--enough, however to prove
that they were not ali family relatives of
his.
A bill is pending in the New York
Legislature making words imputing want
OF chastity in female actionable per Sc |
without proof Of special damage, prOvid>
ing that it shall only be necessary to
prove the falsehood of the words.
The City Council Of Atlanta has ap>
pointed special committee TO consider
the propriety of exempting the property
Of cotton factory to be built sgSere,
from taxation for ten years. It is prob
able the property will be exempted.
Capt. Joseph Scott, an old merchant of
and long identified with the
liver interest, died at his residence in
Joyington, Kentucky, Friday morning.
The deceased was an applicant for the
'ffice of Surveyor of Customs for the port
# Cincinnati.
In spite of all the statements to the
ontrary, reports from Japan show that
he persecution Of Christians goes on in
ONE parts of that country with great
igor. Late letters state that on the G0to
stands hundreds of Christians have been {
Imprisoned and tortured, and many dying
fter great suffering. "
The Presidents view. about recon-
tructing Mississippi are embraced in
'arnsworth's bill, which provides that
ne constitution >hallssbe again submitted |
, the people, with the obnoxious
auses to be voted on separately, and
ne election to be held under the au- '
lority Of the General commanding.
The Feuille MedicaIe de st. Peters |;
ourg, in noticing the invasion of the
Professional schools in that city by wo- !;
len, says that since the nomination of {"
Iadame Ksschevarova to the doctorate
medicine, a crowd Of women are occu- F
ed daily in the dead-rooms of the acad- v
ny on the dissection of bodies, a
The comparatively little success Of the b
erman North Pole expedition of last t
ear has not proved any Encouragement 8
similar enterprise next summer. t
our ships are to take part in it, namely, Il
70 steamers, the Albert and the Blen- C
lkorb, and two sailing vessels, the
udson and the Hanover. The BIenen> N
orb, Capt. Hagens, has left Bremen, and Il
r. DOrst, of Julich, a learned meteor u
ogist and natural philosopher, has II
lied with her. b
Max Strakosch, the impreSsario =
ID manager Of the Kellogg troupe,
hich sang in Troy on Tuesday night, :
as arrested soon after his arrival in :
at city on Tuesday afternoon by Mar A
al Daw of Cohoen, upon a capias isl
ed by the United States Court for al r,
ged violation of the internal revenue n
W. Mr.. S. was indicted for this Of W.
use at the last term of the court at VI
Iica. He was taken before United L
ates Commissioner Sylvester, where n
gave bail in the sum Of $500 to ap> p
ar at the next session of the court to h,
held in Rochester. Il
In the United States Senate there are b
irty seven lawyers, of whom all but st
lr or five have been long practitioners m
the bar. In the House there are one fir
Indred and two lawyers, Of whom at Ell
lst eighty. five are in active practice.
ssides these are twenty-one editors, ~
out third of whom have been printers V
gularly apprenticed to the "art pre- y
rYatiye.' OF other occupations there j
e thirteen merchants, ten manufactu- Il
rs (wOOlen, cotton, iron, etc., seven NJ
rmers, four doctors-one being q col, :,
&c professor-iour miners, three bank q
;, one painter, one carpenter, one iron
older. One began life as q tailor, y
other as surveyor, tive as teachers, one "
ing a superintendent of public instTuc-
IN when elected. 3