Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Four more persons haVo been bitten
by mad dogs in Brooklyn within two
days.
1t is claimed that Tupelo has the most
extensive trade of any town on the Mem
phis and Ohio Railroad.
Z. B. Washburne is too i'll 10 make
an appearance in public at present. But
there are several others left.
A ssw-mill boiler attached to the dry
docks at Evansville exploded Tuesday,
killing and wounding five persons.
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a
resolution prohibiting the chewing of
tobacco in the Assembly Chamber.
A patent for snoring preventative,
has been applied for. 1t consists in the
application of clothes pin in the nose.
The owner of BelIadrum, horse en-
tered for the approaching Derby in Eng
land, has wagered S250,000 on his ami
mai.
The New York World publishes a
letter that the statement about Chas
Jefferds killing DR.. Burdell is entirely
untrue.
A "direct line" of steamers from
Mobile to Liverpool is endeavoriug to
secure the cotton trade of Southwestern
Georgia.
The Captain General of Cuba has is
sued proclamation stating he will pros
ecute vigorous campaign against the
rebels.
Tho communion nina NJ H. n,,roo,,I
vile (Pa) Church, was recently drugged
and all the communicates had violent fits
of vomiting.
A Memphis dispatch of Tuesday says
The sleet last night extended as far
south as Tallahatchie River. Fruit un>
doubtedly killed.
Mrs. Mary T. Crittenden, mother Of
Gen. Y. #. Crittenden, died at the resi-
dence of her son, in Madison, Ind, on
Monday, aged 70 years.
A Washington dispatch says: The city
is full and the hotels and boarding houses
are reaping rich harvest Every train
comes laden with visitors.
Two New York mechanics have in
vented mOnocycle'-a one-Wheeled
velOcipede--which they claim can be
driven sixty miles an hour.
Mr.. Rost left Ottawa Monday night for
Washington, to attend a meeting as
British Commissioner on q boundary
question between the United States and
England.
The wealthiest man in America is
of la
Stevens, Of Hoboken, who when he
reaches his majority, will be worth some
$l5OOOO,OOO.
Shelby and Henry counties, Kentucky,
have imported nearly twenty thousand
head of Spanish Merino sheep from
Pennsylvania, at cost of about 81 per
head.
j. G. Reedin, German teacher, while
endeavorIng TO cross the track of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, on
Tuesday morning, was run over by an
engine and instantly killed.
Gen. John C. Breckenridge was in AL
exandria, Virginia, on Tuesday, attend
ing the marriage of his brother in~law,
Rev. DR.. Bullock, of Baltimore. He left
for Petersburg Wednesday night.
In the Georgia House of Representa-
tives on the 22d report was made show
ing that DR.. Angler State Treasurer, had
used the money of the State contrary to
the laws Of the State for his individual
benefit
Randolph Rogers is to execute a celos>
sal statue of President Lincoln for the
city of Philadelphia, has completed a clay
model, which is said to be remarkably
fine, both as a likeness of Mr.. Lincoln,
and a work of art.
a Little Rock special says the senti-
ment of conservatism is daily gaining
ground among members Of the Arkansas
Legislature. 1t is thought Gov. Clayton
fears the result, and for this reason he is
urging an early adjournment.
Two weeks ago George Salmmiller, Of
Chicago, was divorced from his wife, and
next day he married girl of eighteen.
The same day the divorced wife was
married By the same justice to a man of
forty five. A morning or two since, after
having slept sixteen hours, Salmmiller
awoke to find sponge, strongly saturs-
ted with chlorOform, on his pillow, and
his wife and $500 missing.