Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Thousands Of dollars in spurious cents
are circulating in New York.
A Detroit paper calls Black Kettles
orphans fatherless skillets."
The Mexican Congress has passed a
law allowing the expectation of minerals
free of duty.
A woman has recently been sentenced
by Pittsburgh police court as "com-
mon scold."
A New York newspaper has carrier
who is worth $l00,000, and still tramps
his daily rounds.
A bill was introduced in the Nebraska
Senate on Saturday for transferring the
capital to Omaha.
A contemporary speaks of water
cure establishment, in New York, as
having dried up"
A bill will shortly be introduced into
the Kentucky Legislature establishing a
bureau of immigration.
The celebrated racing mare Ruth,
owned by Capt. Hutchinson at st. Louis,
died few days since.
Mrs. Hooten, of Hillham, Dubois
county, Indiana, died recently, aged one
hundred and sixteen years.
Dispatches from India report that
sharp shocks of earthquake have been
felt in Calcutta and Assam.
The Boston Board Of Trade is discus-
ing the respective merits of protec-
tive tariff" and revenue tariff
San Francisco is rejoicing over the
opening there Of "the largest, handsom-
est and best appointed theater on the
Pacific coast"
Gallipolis, Ohio, is excited over wild
man, naked, covered with hair, gigantic
in stature, and with eyes that start from
their sockets"
The Board of Health at st. Louis has
ordered general vaccination offs pupils
in the public schools, in view of the ap-
proach of the smallpox.
Nasty has made twenty-six thousand
dollars, this winter, by lecturing, and is
generally believed to be the best paid
postmaster in the country.
The Cincinnati City Council passed
resolution, Monday afternoon, instructing
the Mayor to issue a proclamation for
the muzzling Of all dogs in the city.
Shocks Of an earthquake were felt in
st. John, New Brunswick, Saturday
morning, lasting one miAute, during
which time vibrations were quite per-
ceptible.
An ardent velocipede rider proposes to
avert railway accidents by sending man
on velocipede ahead of every train to
give warning of any danger that he may
discover.
George Cartwright, q grocer's clerk,
shot himself through the head, last
evening, in Alton, Illinois. He was
twenty years old. The cause of the
fatal act was disappointment in love.
Letters from Fort Randall report the
Indians on the new Upper Missouri Res
ervatiOn quietly enjoying their govern
ment rations.
Russian papers published at Warsaw
assert that Russian diplomacy has gained |
a signal triumph at the Vatican, and that
at no distant date Russian legation will
be again established at Rome, and a
nuncio will represent the Pope in st.
Petersburg. In return for this, His
Holiness is to persuade the Roman Catho<
lie clergy in Poland to behave we'll and
submit quietly to the existing order of
things, and bring up their oppressed
flocks in humble obedience to the present
government.
GEORGIA CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
The House Committee on Elections has
come to resolution in the Georgia con-
tested election case, and will report MI.
Christie entitled to the seat in Congress.
Mr.. C. holds the certificate of General
M eade, and the committee has therefore
to this extent nullified Gov. Bullock's
action. Christie, however, cannot take
the oath prescribed by the 18th amend
ment to the constitution, and the Elec-
ton Committee will therefore recon-
mend the reference of his case to the
Committee on Reconstruction for exami-
nation, and for the report of bill re-
moving his political disabilities. The
Election Committee has also made some
progress with the contested election case
from New Mexico WASHINGTON Esc-
press, Jan. Ii.