Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Maggie Mitchell is recovering, and
nearly as lively as Cricket again.
c The Presidents decides that Geners
/ Sickl& is eligible to the Spanish mission
/ He will sail for Madrid on the tent
proximo. hess'1 t.3}s}sN ~ 80
II Mcmahon in pefect paradise for a
ofice-holder. Rotation can not turn hiI
homeward-notice to quit can not reacl
him. He may die, but no can not re
sign.
| Papers outside the State have it tina
the alliance in Tennessee is to be cement
ed by a marriage between son of Sen
ator Brownlow and a daughter Of Senatol
Fowler. 6.aia 3 e
| A man named Buckhardt, wealth
farmer of st. Clair county, Illinois, had
his will officially recorded last Saturday
Among his various requests is one to the
Pope, of $4,000.
Belcher, the negro Assessor of inter-
nal revenue for the Third Georgia Dis
trict, was arrested in Augusta, last Fri
day, on a warrant issued by United
States Commissioner Davis, for an alleged
felony.
1t is fully believed that there is secret
order of incendiaries in California, with
members in all parts of the State, the
object being to burn the houses, churches
and schools in which Chinese are edu-
Gated. or where the teachers Of Chinese
reside.
1t is announced that the negroes, who
have now full possession Of Washington
are behaving remarkably well. They
are very forbearing' white folks" are
permitted, without moIestation to ride
in the street cars upon equal terms with
them. -. [ N-Altt-
1t has been said that although it is no
uncommon thing to see the wives and
daughters of the principal Normons at
the theatre in calico dress, plain bonnets
and modest unassuming ornaments, very
many of them exhibit a desire to be
noticed, and inclination to firt.
The tavern keepers Of Pittsburg are
having meetings and resolving in favor
of enforcing the Sunday laws vigorously
by stopp ing the street and railway cars,
livery stables, gas-houses, etc., from
doing business on that day.
John Fletcher, the stakeholder in the
late McCoole- Allen prize fight, publish
es a card giving his reasons for transfer |
ring the stakes to McCoole, and ann oun>
ces that he will have nothing more
whatever to do with prize fights.
In the rubber patent suit of GoodyoIv,
and others, against DR.. Bleake, a
dentist of San Francisco, Judge Hoffman,
Of the United States Circuit Court, on
Wednesday, granted the plaintiffs per.
petual injunction and decree for pro-
fits.
Governor Palmer has received notice
from the War Department that Secretary
Rawlins has awarded 5000 Of the con-
sressional appropriation of two millions
Tor river and barber Improvement of the
Illinois river. The Illinois legislature
appropriated $500, 900 for the same pur-
pose at its last session.
Ia a few days negroes will be forced
INTO the jury boy in the District Of Cols
lmbia, and intricate questions concerning
ife. and property decided by men who
know no more Of law than they do Of
Greek grammar, or the origin of the Indi-
IN tribes who inhabit this continent
The Journal Official records the suc~
,essful voyage round the world of the
french iron-clad corvette Belliqueuse,
oearing the flag of Rear Admiral j enhoat.
Having left Toulon on the 22d Of De-
ember," 1866, says the Journal, "that
'essel returns to France after cruise of
wenty-nine months-the first iron>clad
hat ever accomplished the voyage"
Two carpet>baggers of Jackson, Miss,
vent out fishing last week, got fifty miles
way from home, and out of money, and
inally, as last resort, went to the
Sheriff of the county, told him they
we're escaped conyicts from the jackson
,enitentiary, gave themselves up, and
we're taken home without the expendi-
ure Of cent. The Sheriff is unable to
lee much Of joke in the transaction
or he feels sure the fellows ought to be
n the penitentiary anyhow.
A female defendant in a divorce case
before the Common Pleas Court of Mora
IAN county, Indiana, at its present ses-
ZION, addressed letter to the Judge and
ury, informing them that lowing to cir
over which she had no con-
rol," she would be unable to attend the
rial, but for Gods sake and her sake, she
them to let her husband have
| divorce. The court granted the prayer.
New York is Mortified at some late rev
'lations. The inquiry Of the Board of
Health proves that there exists on
single small tributary Of the Croton river
It least one large gas mandatory, nus
nerous slaughter-houses and innumer-
Ible other smaller establishments, giving
orth filth, infection and disease, and that
hese empty their refuse into the swift
waters of the river, to be swept down
nte the reservoirs and pipes Of the Cro-
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