Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The friends of the Rev. Mr.. Halleck,
the clergyman killed in the Erie disaster,
will bring suit for $4,000 against the COM
pany.
Senator Carl Schurz has notified the
Republican State Executive Committee
that he will devote his time to the cams
Raign in Ohio.
Leonard Meitzger died, at Buffalo
from congestive apoplexy, produced by
the excessive drinking of cold water, on
Wednesday last.
Gov. Mcclure, Of Missouri, has given
I'D the chase Of tho outlaw Hildebrand,
who is supposed to have escaped from the
country.
The yellow fever is prevailing TO an
alarming extent in Pensacola, and 1t Is
aoprehended that it will be a ScOurge dur
ing the entire season.
Chicago proposes to honor the compile
ton of the work of laying the new At"
lantic cable, by a grand demonstration,
for which preliminary steps have been
taken.
The principal gamblers at Monaco are
Russians and Americans. Among the
latter are several females, who may be
seen morning and evening at the rouge
ct nOir tables.
Vincent Collyer reports that the In
dians on the plains do not swear. There
are no words in their language suited to
that purpose. All the more civilized ln~
dians swear IN English.
At Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday night, a
boy, while playing with gun, shot his
sister, little girl Of five years, carrying
away part Of her head, and causing her
death Instantly.
James Krippenstapel, about thirteen
years old, son Of Mr.. William krippen-
stapel, proprietor Of the Louisville Volks-
blatt was drowned in the river at that
city Tuesday night.
A prominent leader in the woman'S
rights movement in the Northwest
named Anna Josephine Wilkowsky, OBJ
tanned a decree Of divorce from her hus
band, at Chicago, on Saturday, on tn
ground of adultery.
Great preparations are being made fol
the National German Turnerfest, to b
held in Chicago, commencing August
A fund of $4,000 has bee
raised by the societies there for the en-
tertainment of guests.
A citizen of Belfast, Me-, who had nc
seen his son for eight years, and sup
posed him dead, recognized him as one I
the acrobats in a circus which eXhlbite
in that city last week.
A defalcation of $4,000 to $25,Ot
has been discovered in the Bank of Con
: merce of Baltimore on the part OF one
its officers. The matter is under inve
= tigation by the directors of the bank.
Gen. Lee has in press a new edition
l Memoirs Of the War;" by his fathe
= Light Horse Harry" to which is add
an entirely new biography of that Gel
i brated revolutionary leader, by Ge
y Lee himself.
4 Miss Jennie White, aged eighteen, al
e Mrs. Minnie McGregOr, aged twent
II were drowned in Merrimac river,
Lowell, Mass, on Saturday, while bat
.e ing. Mrs. McGregor leaves a husbs
ID and one child.
The steamer Russia has Just made
shortest passage across the Atlant
She left New York, July Z, at twer
minutes past nine A. NJ, and arrived
Queenstown, July 10, at fourteen mihu
past eight. P. M.
H. Miss Ida Lewis, of light house fau
IL is said to be the reigning belle at Ne
II port. She has had over one hund
- offers of marriage within the last tn
IN months, but prefers to remain single
IA paddle her own canoe" as heretofore
of The arguments by counsel for the
ed fense, in the \ Eerger case, at jackson,
c. spoken of as mastery efforts. The &C
ier mission has adjourned till Thursday,
ne allow the Judge Advocate time to P
pare his reply.
ar lr- The cost of changing the guage of
I Missouri Pacific railroad was 81, 1000
d" including the cost of new lOcomoti
nd and altering old engines and cars.
.ar work of changing the guage was acc.
plished in twelve hours, without del
liza ing single train.
~ The Pail Mall Gazette says the
lls- body blocks of London are failure,
10 rooms being too small and the rents
- high. One Of the buildings which
'%1n % been in use two years, now presen
IVY gloomy and even offensive appeara
~. This is from paper which has alv
rs, been foremost in praise of Mr.. Peabo
generosity and good intentions.