Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ingstons LdU Magazine, Of New
York city, has been convicted OF fraud.
VIM. II. Mcdowell and Daniel G. Cali
lahan have contracted to rebuild the Sa>
rannah and Charleston railroad.
Reports, which are based on good au>
thority, are in circulation that the French
government will soon publish a peaceful
manifesto, and simultaneously reduce
the army.
A late rumor from New York is to
the effect that Secretary Seward has
bought an interest in an evening paper
there, and will soon assume its polite a.
management.
The independence Beige repeats the
story of rupture between the Pope
and the Spanish government. on account
of an attempted dictation Of Spanish af-
fairs by the Pope.
Miss Chaloner, whose seducer her
brother shot, is said to be an elegant,
ladylike looking person, rather petite,
with an air of refinement and Of the
deepest melancholy.
Walter Phillips, telegraph operator at
Providence, Rhode Island, is the CHAINS
pion of his craft, and has received from
Prof Morse gold medal for recording
2,73l words in an hour.
A Massachusetts, man claims to have
made one>huDdred>mile journey on a
veIocipede in twenty-five hours. Seven,
teen Of these miles were made in one
hour and forty minutes.
Accounts from all parts OF South Care
lima represent the upland cotton crop as
very seriously injured by the recent cold
weather, in many cases rendering re-
planting necessary. Sea Island crops
look promising.
Captain Dan Ammen, Just appointed
Chief Of the Naval Bureau Of Yards and
Docks, used to 60 TO school with Presi-
dent Grant in Ohio. He says that they
often used to fight, and that one Of them
got whipped every time, and he wasn't
the one.
Eugonie, of France, having recently
appeared in public in singularly unosten-
tatiOus and cheap toilets, the ladies of the
Legitimist aristocracy accuse her of pur~
suing this course for the purpose OF in
huenciug the elections, and they say she
is wearing electoral toilets.
The Mount Vernon estate originally
consisted of about twelve hundred acres.
The ladies', with the aid of Mr.. Everett,
so ne years ago bought wohundred acres,
including the Washington House, and it
is the remaining one thousand acres
which is now advertised for sale al
| auction.
At the last day session of the Ameri-
can Nj edical Association it was resolved
"that all contract physicians, as well as
those guilty Of bidding for practice at less
rates than those established by major
ity Of the regular graduates Of the same
locality, be clsssed as irregular practi-
toners"
The tide OF emigration is setting west
ward. ThirtyNseven thousand dollars
worth of the Kansas Pacific railroad
lands were sold by the National Lane
Company in the month Of April. The
lands were sold TO actual settlers, mostly
in tracts OF from forty to one hundred
and sixty acres, averaging about three
dollars per acre.
The Memphis Opera House has beet
handsomely arranged for the approaching
convention. II, has been divided int
sections for the different States, with am
pie arrangements for delegates and mem
bers Of the press. The order Of ceremo'
MES provides for display of the fire de
par.ment, grand procession on the frs
day, and series of excursions, banquets
hops, etc., during the remainder Of tn
session.
Hon. Lorenzo Sherwood died in Brook
lyn, New York, on Wednesday, in tn
fity-n ninth year of his age. lie wa
somewhat prominent in New York poll
tics in his early days, and in 1S49 re
moved to Texas. lie opposed secession
there, but devoted himself mainly {
railroad interests, until the outbreak {
the war, since which time he has liyet
in the North.
Mons. LessepS, the engineer OF tn
Suez canal, which will be completed in
short time, is endeavoring to get up a
international excursion party around tn
world. His idea is to have one hundre
gentlemen Of different nationalities met
: in Paris in the spring of 1870, to procee
: to Egypt to be present at the opening
, the canal. His programmes after I'll:
event is a visit to China and Japal
thence across the Pacific Ocean to Sa
Francisco, and across the American col
! tinent by the Pacific railway to Ne
: York.
A gentleman who has recently passt
through the country between Louisvil
and Now Orleans gives the result Of b
n observations az follows: "There HI
n been much damage and delay fro
v rains and overfows in West Tennessee
/. Mississippi, and Louisiana cotton crc
9 three weeks behind, and much of it n
3 vet planted; prospects for fruit go'
Y throug hout the South; people pate
and hopeful Mississippians don't Iii
negro juries, but have resolved to give
of occasion for complaint on that scoI
s. negroes in Louisiana and Mississippi qui
l. and well-behaved, few Of them bel
born and numbers of them dying"