Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

: out Mountain, in search Of iron, coal al
i. petroleum is to be made. 5ltB
is Hon. w. Chandler, of New Hampshii
A is named as the probable successor
t Judge Richardson, in the office Of ASST
tant Secretary of the Treasury. h1G q
!, The farmers of Virginia have general
: commenced cutting their tobacco, an
q although the yield is small, the quality
o much better than was anticipated.
A jswelry store under the Fifth Avenr
Hotel, Hotel, New York, owned by Bisho
. & Reed, was robbed last Tuesday of di.
: monds TO the value of $4,000.
John w. Moore, the murderer of Mr.
: McAdanl, at Greenville, ILL.,, on the 9Th {
: July last, has been convicted and sentence
to be hung October o. He plead guilty
The Temperance Reform Party {
Pitssburg advertises the names Of It's 90
Vigilance Committee men, and the list In
cludes prominent men of both politica
parties.
Gov. Page has appointed Charlie
Pomeroy Button, of Burlington, delegaI
TO represent Vermont az the Nationa
Commercial Convention, at L0uisVill
next week.
The exhibition of cotton at The st
Louis fair is very fine, and altogether IN
precedented, there being about two hun
dred bales already on the ground, and con
siderably more on the way. s
James Brothers, one-legged man, as
saulted General Hunter at = race track in
Mason county, Kentucky, and the latter
shot and killed him. An examining
court acquitted Hunter. s-.t
Application will be made to the Cana
dian Parliament, at lis next session, to in
ccl porate Il company for the purpose o.
building tunnel under the Dstroit river,
connecting Detroit and Windsor.
Great danger to the crops by frost in
Southwestern Kentucky is reported, espe-
ciaily to the tobacco, which, in many ln-
stances, is sill green, and not over half,
it is said, will be gathered 10 that region
At Vinceanes, Indiana, few days ago,
mother was trying to force her child 10
take dose of pills, and in its struggles
against sSsllowing them, one of them en-
tered lis Windpipe, aud 1t died in few
mOmeut5. .......-. ..
Democrats are Offering 10 bet by odds
that negro suffrage will be defeated in New
York by fifty thousand majority. And
here in the South there are some OF our
wax. kneed brelhrea who want 10 accept
the situation"
T. D. Pennington, Of Monroe county,
Georgia, is the inventor of a portable cot
ton press and gin, which can be carried
into the cotton field, where picking, GIN
ming and packing can be carried on at one
and the same time.
The last horror possible has happened
Byron. Mrs. Stoves article was nothing
to it. Martin Farquhar Upper has writ
ten defen-e Of the poet, and calls it "a
Lance for Byron" Worst of all, it com.
meuces, Gore lill in charity"
The extent to which the wine manu-
facture in California is approaching may
be inferred from the fact that one firm
has already reached the facility of max
ing champagne equal to the BEST at the
rate of 10000 bottles year. -.-
The commercial convention, TO meet in
Louisville this week, is TO haVe grand
concert on the 18th, a banquet on the 18th
and river excursion on the 10Th. Conn
mittees TO have charge of and prepare
for each have been appointed.
Gen. Negley, of the Congressional Mill.
| tary Committee, has recently seen Gen.
Sherman aud the President, and they have
told him it is not advisable to further re.
duce the army, ''at least, until all danger
from Indian troubles Is over"
The Treasurer of the 81. DaVid's So
ciety, in Philadelphia, upon being called
upon for five hundred dollars for the Avon
dale families, Is alleged TO have been found
| a defauller to the amount of nine thousand
| dollars of the general funds of the Society.
Mr.. Lawrence C Robinson, we'll and
fayOrably known in Louisville, died very
suddenly in St. Paul, Mimi, at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning. The deceased was
a son Of the Rev. Stuart Robinson. He
has been in bad health for several years,
suffering from consumption.
The roastabouts and deck haLds at
MemphiP, taking advantage Of the scar
city of laborers, struck for sixty'fVe
dollars per month, which the steamboat
men are compelled, by the exigencics OF
their busine :, TO pay.
The wife of a saloon keeper 10 Quincy,
Thursday, attempted TO commit suicide
by taking lsudanum, but failt 1 in con-
sequence of the dose not being large
enough. She WIS acting as bartender in
her husbands saloon, and the insults
which che was subject to in that position
caused b.. T to commit the act.
Grant orc sssboardedl with Mrs. Porter
whom he has nov made postm ;siress o.
Louisville. She was then Mrs. Gore, and
her husband was Msjor of the regiment in
which Grant was then serving p Captain
1t is said the present appointment wal
actuatcd by Capt. Grenrs grateful remem
brauce of MsjOr Gore.
During a recent visit to New York Pres
dent Grant expre~ ! d sire 10 purchss'
come cigars, and visited quite a number o
stabl shments for the purpose OF testin.
their brands, etc. The result wa that, un
known to each other, each dealer VISITED
resolg j to make the President = pr tent
and he received no less than seventy
thousand prime IIavans'.
The Charleston 6. c. News reports
that a Northern man, who is extensive
ly engaged in planting on the Sea Is
lands, having been struck with the re
markable speed attained by some Of tn,
negro bostmen in his employ, has deter
mined to extend in their behalf, to tn
rowing clubs of the world, a challeng
to grand contest.
Of the twenty new member Of the Cali
fornia Senate, fifteen are Democrats, tire
Republicans, and tvs Independent. Tn
hold-over Senator'S stand twelve Demo
Gratis to eight Republicans, giving tn
Democrats twenIy-even Senators alto
getler, or a majority of fourteen. OF tn
eighty assembly men, sixty-siX are D1mo
Gratis, eleven Republicans, and three lode
pendent, giving the Democrats majorit
Of fifty two.
Under date Of Sept. l6 the English cor
respondent of the New York Times write
| of Charlotte Cushman: "She is suffer
J | ing from one Of the most painful and fats
| of diseases. After few week at MalVer
, she went TO Edinburg to have an operatio
one of the most hopeless in surgery
| performed by Sir James Simpson, and sht
, now lies at the point of death, quite give
up BY her nearest friends, and those VIII
should be the be st judges of her condition
1t may be that her strong constitution vii
carry her through, but no one seems TO en-
a terrain the least hope"
t The Titusville (Pa) Herald has tn
following concerning some recent maj
l riages in that place: at is sOmewha
remarkable, first, that four wedding
took place during the past week; second
T | .bot tha cour oantlaman Uera all maj