Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ex>President Davis intends returning
to home in Mississippi in short time.
Seven car loads of emigrants for Salt
Lake City passed through Columbus on
Saturday.
A new Jewish synagogue is building
in London, to which Baron ROthschild
contributes $4,000.
Mr.. Burlingame is making preparations
TO leave Paris for st. Petersburg, with
the Chinese Embassy.
Judge Springer, of Iowa, recently adj
mitted lady to the bar as an attorney,
at Mount Pleasant, in that State.
The steamer Great Republic, from
Hong Kong, arrived at San Francisco on
Saturday with l $50 Chinese immigrants.
Susan Z. Anthony urges the women
to organize resistance to the authorities
and refuse to pay their taxes. She says
that the laws can't compel them to pay.
A quiet gentleman who lately died in
Germany confessed on his death bed to
having poisoned sixteen members of his
own family in order to inherit their pro-
perty.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
Missouri, this season, will amount TO
100000 bushels, being three times
larger than the yield Of any previous
year.
Suit has been brought against the city
of New Orleans for 100000 by Charles
johnson, who was wounded in the knee
joint by pistol shot during the riots Of
1866.
d. The State Department has received Of
iicial dispatches direct from Minister
McMahon, stating that he is in a safe
place in Paraguay, and has been in little
or no danger.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have
just been offered $4,000 in gold to play
for one season in Australia. They were
recently offered $4,000 to visit Califor-
MIA professionally.
The contract fer the collection and
exchange of news between the Western
Associated Press and New York Asso-
ciated Press has been extended for one
year from August 1.
EdmOnia Lewis, the colored sculp.
turess, has returned to New York, after
four years life in Rome. Among her
latest works in plaster are excellent
busts of Charlotte Cushman and Long,
fellow.
Mr.. Senator Sprague has returned
home from his brief visit to two or three
Southern cities, and is telling how much
cotton will be made this year. He "esti-
mates" the crop at from 100000 to :, :
100000 bales. .... ..-..
The memorial concerts at New York
last week, for the benefit of the family
of the late Charles C. B. Seymour, dra-
matte critic of the Times, Melted nearly
| $1,000, which will be sacredly set apart
for his only child.
Six convicts in one of the Penitentiary
| auarries near oliet, made break on
Saturday, and attempted to run away
The guard fired upon them, bringing
down two of the number, and hating
the rest. One of those shot is seriously
| wounded
The Montgomery (Als) Mail Of the
18th, understands that company Of
Northern and Southern capitalists pro
pose the erection OF new telegraph lines
between Washington and New Orleans
to be worked as part OF the cheap posta
system.
Information has been received at th,
| Internal Revenue office Of the seizure O
10000 cigars and about $4,000 w0rtl
of machinery, in New Haven, Connect
cut, belonging to the National Tobacco
and Cigar Manufacturing Company Of tina
place.
The money of the recent prize fight
$1,000, has been surrendered to Mix
McCoolo, in accordance with the unjuS
decision of the referee. The proprieto
of the island on which the fight too
place has sued McCoOle for $500 dam
ages to his crops.
Judge Bowling, ofNsw York, has go
himself into trouble. McClelland, tn
lawyer whom he forbid to practice i
his court, is about to impeach him, an
says he can prove that bowling has re
ceiVed money from thieves for decision
in their favor.
In Columbus, last Saturday, a stree
car conductor, while on his car, hear
the cries Of child. A search under th
car seat revealed basket, and in th
basket a babe about two weeks Of,
magnificently dressed, and one hundre
! dollars pinned to his clothing. He WI
adopt the child.
The principal shops in Paris will henc,
|, forth be closed on Sundays. This in
. portant social reform is not the result
9 q religious movement, but Of desire G
3 the part of shOpkeepers and their en-
ployes TO obtain additional recreation
The latter appeal to the good will of IL
public to aid them in making the measul