Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-26
NEWS OF THE DAY

The fortune left By Sol. Smit
,, amounts to Si25,000.
Nearly six hundred Methodist churche
were dedicated last year.
! A Maryland Postmaster, appointel
! under Jackson, has just resigned.
The Raleigh Sentinel claims tn
telegraph as North Carolina invention
Extensive coal mines have been dis
covered in Johns Mountain, near Dalton
Georgia..
A Chinese couple have been arrested
in San Francisco, for killing q female
child, according to Chinese custom.
| Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and GOV.
cred all over with five-clawed dragons.
1t has recently been decided in Paris
that "the obligatory revelation of medi,
cal secret does not exist in French legis
ton"
The Southern papers report general
zeal for cotton planting. The bales Of
1869 will probably fall little short of the
crop of 1860.
The Georgia Legislature will soon be
asked to incorporate company at At
lanta for the manufactured paper from
sugar cane.-
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that
when the railroad is completed, ''the Pa
cihc Ocean will become virtually an
American lake."
Nelaton, the famous French surgeon,
thinks it will be safe to sever the Sia~
mese twins, and the operation will prob
ably be performed.
In the New Orleans VINE case, the
other day, the judge, counsel and an ex>
pert used up about twenty bottles in ex.,
perimental tasting.
A secret society has lately been organ
lied in Western New York called 1.-THE
Noble Order Of Guinea Witches" whose
object is masquerade parties and fun
| generally.
Gen. Sheridan will arrive in Washing,
ton sometime during the present week, to
witness the ceremonies Of the Inaugural
ton and to receive instructions in reg ard
to his new command.
ST. Thomas Church, in New York city,
Is to have full chime of bells, the lar~
gest of which will weigh $500 pounds,
and be the heaviest harmonic bell ever
cast in the country
General Grant is reported to have said
severe thing about some of his party
de remarked, that no one wanted the
Tenure-of>ofice Bill retained except the
thieves and scoundrels and their friends.
A difficulty occurred at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, Saturday, between two men,
during which pistol was fred, the bali
taking effect in the side of Col Hobson's
little son George, indicting a dangerous
wound.
The bill to redistribute the National
Bank currency is under consideration by
the Committee ON Finance. The indica-
ton is that the Senate plan to give the
South only twenty millions of the excess
OF the East and North will be adopted.
A New York paper asserts that the ad-
ministration Of the police system of that
city Is tossilized; but the detective or
ganlzation is sham; that the detectives
compound felonies and rapidly grow rich
upon small salaries.
Louisiana and New Orleans both ins
tend to beg Congress to give them the
valuable properly occupied by the New
Orleans branch of the United States
Mint The State wants it for a capitol.
and the city for Court House.
Nancy c. Carver got into difficulty
with onnfhnr gAIo.-.--.
lucky, last week, when she drew q pistol
and fired it at the woman, but missed
her and killed little boy by the name of
Peter Steinburger Nancy was ar
rested.
According to information from the Ins
ternal Revenue Department, the low tax
on whisky has added success to its coll
lection. 1t is estimated that upward of
forty million dollars will be drawn from
this source during the fiscal year exclu-
sive of tie amount paid in on account of
whisky in bond
Further adviees from Mexico represent
dlsgraceful state Of affairs at the capt.
tai. Foreigners, especially Americans,
are strongly of the opinion that the gov
eminent is imbecile, and the Ministers
corruptly making money and sending it
to foreign countries. Minister Rose
Grams attempted to influence the govern
ment to take measures for improvements,
which he looks upon as in suffering
condition.
A New York dispatch Of the 23d says:
With reference to the reduction of
freight it is stated that it was begun by
the Great Western Dispatch, one of the
fast freight lines which made a reduction
of 80 cents per 100 pounds on heavy
freight between this point and Chicago
and st. Louis. The trunk roads then
followed, and tO-day freight has been ems
gagged between here and the points
named for 30 cents per 100, against 81 SO
about ten days ago.
A spring wagon has been invented by
agentieman in Mayslick Kentucky, which
he proposes to run without any kind of
animal or steam power He has already
perfected small model, which runs up
or down hill very rapidly The power is
received from an immense cOiled steel
spring, which will run for half an hour
without being wound up. In going up
hill the spring exhausts ITSELF but in go-
ing down hill it winds itself up. The in
VentOr claims that he can carry very
heavy loads over an ordinary road.
The case of Miss E J. Mckinley, the
Louisiana heiress, has been at last settled
by the Circuit Court of Jefersonscounty,
KY. Judge Bruce on Saturday made the
final order disehargiDg Miss Mckinley
from the custody of the St Ursuline
Academy, and placing her under the
care of her deceased mothers second
cousin, Mrs. Amanda Shafer, of ThibaI
deaux, Louisiana. The property of the
young heiress Is now in the hands of an
appointed attorney, who will hold it IN.
til she attains her majority
The President authorizes Il denial of
the statement that he intends to defeat
good deal of the legislation of Congress
by refusing to sign bills because the Sem
ate has declined to act on any of his
nominations lie says he will carefully
consider every bill in the brief time al
lowed him, and if there are any that he
cannot approve, he will at once return
them to Congress, and not pocket them.
He also authorizes a denial of the as
sumption made in the Senatorial caucus
that he would not sign the bill for the
repeal OF the Tenure of-ofice law
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