Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mrs. Lydia Beecher mother of Henry
| Ward Beecher, died in Brooklyn yes
terday morning, aged eighty.
1t is reported that John D. Clifford, Of
Massachusetts, is to be appointed COL
lector of the port of New York.
Secretary Cox has decided to retain
w. L. Otto as Assistant Secretary Of the
Interior, at the request Of Gen. Grant.
Chicago merchants are taking meas
ures to import directly from China and
Japan as soon as the Pacific railroad is
completed. 81 a.. r-s-. ~. q
The victims of Herman, the bounty
broker, are about to send committee to
Washington to lay Their grievances before
the President.
A Northern firm are making ak, hoe,
shovel and spade handles in the city of
Augusta, and shipping them North for
their attachments.
The London correspondent Of the CHS
cago Tribune says that next to the 81.
amese twins, the greatest curiosity here
is Mr.. ReYerdy Johnson"
Rev. James McChain, for twenty
years pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Abingdon, Va, died last Monday after
long and lingering illness.
Prince Salm>Salm, formerly Colonel of
an American regiment and afterwards in
Maximilian's service, has been appoint ed
| Adiutant Of Prince Frederick Charles Of
| Prussia.
A squad of negroes tramred on foot
all the way from North Carolina to Wash
ington, that they might be present at the
Inauguration of Grant. They were not
invited to the ball.
Professor Bond, the wireNwalker, did
not fall and break his neck in Charleston,
South Carolina, on the 9Th instant, but
that will be the finale of his reckless
performances.
Monsieur Evan, a French Hartist in
Paris, is painting a picture for A. L.
Stewart, for which he is to receive $780,
600. 1t is to be 35x50 feet in size the
subject, Freedom of America from
slavery" ...
By recent experiment instituted be-
tween Boston and San Francisco, it has
been found that electricity flies at the rate
of 5000 miles in something less than
sixty seconds of time.
Gen. John C. Breckenridge is finally at
home. He expresses himself as one whe
has dismissed all ambition to again figure
in public life, and as anxious to enjoy
the peace and quiet possible only in re
tirement.
Queen Isabella threatens to publish
sier wrote TO her in former times about
the leading members of the Liberal
Union party who now advocate his cleo
ton to the Spanish throne.
The German villain who lately muir
dered the little boy Of his employer, at
Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, by smothering
him under a pile of wheat that he
might rot the house, has been arrested
and il in jail awaiting trial.
The insurance agents of Columbus,
Mississippi have been indicted for not
filing and publishing, as the law requires,
the annual statement of the affairs of the
companies thay represent. The penalty
is $500 fine and six months imprison>
ment.
Judah P. Benjamin has written to
some people in New Orleans that the
persons in London who profess to have
found links in the chain of evidence of
heirship to vast English estates, are
swindlers of the worst character. He
also gives full description of the way
the thing is done.
A duel already arranged between
Major Randolph, Of the Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama, Monitor. and Capt. John Martin,
of that place, was amicably settled by
the interposition of mutual friends Of
Memphis, Tennessee, while the parties
were in that city en- route to the field.
Saturday afternoon, John Key, Jr., a
young man, shot and instantly killed his
father, John r. Key, wealthy farmer
| living near Maysville, Ky. He also ser
verely wounded Mr.. Giyens in the
mead. No cause is stated for the act,
whether insanity or otherwise.
| At Lynchburg, Va, On Monday, a
man about 80 years of age was found IN
one of the cars ofthe Western tram in a
helpless condition, being unable to speak
or walk. From papers on his person
his name was ascertained to be DIR. j. P.
| Jones, of Memphis, Tenn. Medical aid
was summoned, but all efforts to rouse
him from his stupor failed. He only had
three dollars on his person and it is sup
posed that he had been drugged and
robbed on the train.
1t is a somewhat remarkable fact, bui
a fact nevertheless, that the opposing can,
| ddates in the first congressional district
of Connecticut have exactly changed POI
sitions within the past four years Mr.
Dixon, now Democrat, was then Re
. publican and his opponent, Mr.. Strong
then Democrat, is now Radical.
The Cuban insurrectionists have pos
session of Puerto Principe, and defy thu
government force to displace them. Thu
Eparty of independence steadily gail
ground. The intelligence of the spread
Of the revolution awakens profound anx
; iety in the Spanish government at Mad
} rid, the organ Of Serrano stating that
; has seen a letter from Havana, admittin
that the young men of the island wer
: all joining or sympathizing with Cespe
> des, and that the liberal proclamation c
, Dulce had been wholly without etfec
, And it adds that the letter referred
declares that there is no escape from tn
exciting troubles except by giving tn
. island q constitution like that of Canals
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