Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gallagher has paid the forfeit rather
than fight again with ALLEN.
The st. Louis City Council has passed
a resolution to purchase the City Gas
Works. Ea- .H..a
Many ladies in Havana have sold their
Jewels to contribute to the patriot army,
and many planters have given much
money. ....-
The bill creating a Metropolitan Police
for Philadelphia has been defeated In
the Pennsylvania State Senate by vote
Of 20 to ii
On the arrival of Warren and Costello
from England, they will receive grand
reception by their Fenian friends in
New York.
General John II. Forney, who was as
signed a chair in the Alabama State
University a short time ago, has become
hopelessly insane.
Information received at army head
quarters, st Louis, states that Little RAJ
ven and three hundred Sioux Indians had
surrendered to General Gustav.
Sugar makers report the sap of the
present season as being of an inferior
quality, and say that the yield of maple
sugar and molasses will be small.
The West Virginia Legislature has
passed bill locating the capitol Of the
State at Charlestown, Kanawha county,
the act to take effect April l, 1870
Tho third annual Insgstir,rs r4 tI--s e-4-vf<
wing soldiers OF the war of 1872, was held
in Paris, KY, on the 23d inst There
were thirty of the old heroes in atten-
dance.
The New York Legislature, has adop-
ted a resolution requesting the Represen,
tatives of that State in Congress to use
their most active efforts to secure the rCs
peal of tenure-Of- ofhce law.
Ii is asce:tained that Col Vim. G.
Halpin, formerly City Civil Engineer of
Cincinnati, who was convicted in Ireland
of being engaged in 2 Fenian conspiracy,
il confined in Vau Diemans Land,
wheeling stone in a hand cart.
The new Grand Rabbi of the Jews is a
young man named Zadoe Kuhn, only
thirty years of age. Jewish people say
that, according to their records, he is the
Youngest Grand Rabbi since the prophet
jeremiah.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
decided that money lost at faro can be
recovered at law by the loser or his cred-
| itors, within six months after the money
was lost; and after six months by any
one who may chose to sue for it.
The report of the labor exchange in
| New York city shows that the demand
for labor during the past year was far
greater than the supply. Two ship
loads of German girls could readily be
| disposed of, if they were to be had, al
from $l2 to Sl4 per month.
TheIegislature of Wisconsin has con.
sented.to give up portion ofthe terrific.
~ of that State for the purpose of form,
| ing the new State Of the Lake superior
region, on condition that Michigan does
the same. This seems to insure the sue
cess of the project
| Adam Butcher, farmer living neal
Bloomington, Indiana, shot himsel
Thursday morning After learning o
her father ) death, the daughter, eighteen
years old, admitted that her child wa
his offspring. This fact is supposed t
have prompted Butcher to the rash act
Mr.. J. II. Rice, well-to,do farmer
living near Shamrock Ian ding, Adam
county, ON the Ohio river, few mile
below Portsmouth, was murdered in hi:
barn, on last Tuesday morning, unde
circumstances which lead to the belle
that his stepson, a young man q year
of age named Frank Hardy, was the as
| sassln.
The Washington correspondent of tn
San Francisco Times says that James NJ
Quinn, formerly Of California, but a resi-
dent of Charleston, South Carolina, ha
been put in possession ola box by ar oil
family servant, which has been found t
contain papers, documents and cores
pondence establishing clearly his lega
right to large estate in Ireland, and t
the title of Earl of Dunnraven Mi
Quinn and his lawyer, Mr.. Huhes {
Washington, will leave for Ireland soOr
to take possession of the estate.