Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

"a Ddul0 aSLliOH HAS uCSlOCO III
If brides shall reside one year with the
parents.
# Rhode Island is to have State far
q Of 200 acres to constitute an asylum fl
9 her insane poor.
o Full dress wedding rehearsals, befor
the event takes place at the church, al
i now Of frequent occurrence.
J. Treasure City, in the white Pine Sill
yer regions, is said to be built so high a
G to be always above the clouds.
: Fifteen hundred women Of Cente
county, Pa. have petitioned the court
. to grant no more liquor licenses.
Secretary Boutwell, is anxious for tn
passage of the bill for redistribution
currency before adjournment of Congress
The Detroit Opera House will b,
opened on the 29th instant. 1t has JUS
been finished, and will seat two Thousand
people
Miss Susan j. Willesey, Postmistress
at Jackson Station, near Erie, Penn, has
been held to answer charge of rObbing
the mails. a#
| The Woman's National Dress Reform
and Equal Rights Convention is to be held
in Washington the last Wednesday and
Thursday in April.
Gen. Breckenridge was in Versailles
last Monday, and was warmly greeted
by many friends, but no public demon
stration was made.
Trains are now running regularly over
the Union Pacific railroad, from Omaha
as far as completed, the snow embargo
having been removed.
John Albertson, of Lexington, Ky,
has COW whose milk turns to butter on
stirring it with spun. She is thorough
bred and butter animal.
Michael Kaufman, on trial for the
murder of the boy Edward Miller, at
Pittsburg, was yesterday convicted OF
murder in Che second degree.
A New York dispatch says a COM
promise has been made between the eX>
press companies, and the war recently
threatened is indefinitely postponed.
Key West, Fla, is at present literally
overrun with Cuban refugees, and every
vessel, steamer, yacht or smack arriving
from Havana is generally crowded with
them.
According to the annual registration
report, the fatality of consumption has
decreased nearly twenty-five per cent. in
Massachusetts during the past fifteen
years.
1t is settled that Gen. Eli Parker, late
Of Gen. Grants staff, is to be the new
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, it having
been decided that, though an Indian, he
is a citizen.
Madame Moore, the pedestrienne, is
not dead. Had she been, she would not
have walked one hundred miles in twenty
one hours, in Oneida, n. Y, as she
did last week.
David Berlin. late harbor master, at st.
Louis, who has been on trial at on charge
of embezzling the city's money, was
found guilty, and punishment assessed
at two years in the Peniteutiary.
A rustic describing Louisville said the
finest residence there belonged to AIR.
M. E. Church, whose name was cut in
big letters over the door, and there was a
sharp pointed chimney on the house two
hundred feet high.
The movement of Southern sugar
and cotton northwaId over the Illinois
Central is very large, and the shipments
Of -four south are also large. Nine thou>
sand barrels were received in Carlo this
month, from the North, up to the 18th
instant. Corn is also being sent South.
The water was warmed for the comfort
Of the candidates Of baptismal occasion,
in Baptist Church at Providence, on a
recent Sunday. The rising steam caused
a general stampede among the congre-
cation and fsinting among the ladies,
who thought the building was on fire.
Prominent negroes representing the
colored people of the country, are in
council at Washington, looking after in
terests of the colored people of the South.
Many of them expect Postmasterships,
Inspectorships and other Lucrative po-
sitions.
A friend, calling upon Attorney Gen
eral Hoar, said that he hoped to see him
before long on the Supreme bench. Mr..
Hoar, bearing in mind the fact that the
bill reported to increase the number OF
Judges has not yet become law, replied,
That is counting the chickens, not only
before theyare Matched, but before you've
got hen ~
The New York Police Commissioners,
in the name Of the city, intend to bring
suit against John S. Young, to compel
him to disgOrge money obtained unjustly
by the use Of his Office as Captain of the
detective force. The suit will furnish
very interesting details of the MetrOpol>
itan police system, and will doubtless
create sensation, as many exposures are
threatened both by plaintiffs and defend
ants.
The Washington Sun ofthe oath says:
The continuance of smallpox in the city
is causing alarm among many of our
citizens, especially such as have families,
and much surprise is expressed that the
authorities of the city show no signs OF
movement Of a preventive kind. The
police report that not day passes with
out application being made to them in
cases of seizure. Tha number Of res
ported cases evidently affords but feeble
indication Of the real amount Of disease
in the city.