Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Emperor Of Morocco has granted
a large tract of land to an English com
pADy for the purpose Of raising cotton.
Alfred Sanford, an old schoolmate Of
Mrs. Grant, has been appointed Super.
vising Inspector of steamboats, at st.
Louis, rice Daniel G Taylor.
That portion of the Mt. Vernon estate
sold on Thursday brought prices rang
ing from $25 to as per acre.
The present Chinese population Of
San Francisco is estimated at from ten
TO twelve thousand.
A fair is to be held at the Union Hotel,
Saratoga, the last week Of the present
month, by committee of Cubans.
The wheat and corn crops in the inte-
Iior of Missouri have been good deal
damaged by the long continued rains.
The parties recently arrested in War
renton, Ga, by the Radical Sheriff,
charged with treason, have been released,
and the Sheriff has been suspended from
Office.
A special train on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, recently made
the run from Council Bluffs to Chicago
lSS miles-in thirteen hours and twenty
minutes.
The wheat is now being harvested
throughout the upper portion of Georgia,
and 1t is said that the general yield will
surpAss, for quantity and quality, any
previous crop grown there for many
years past.
A newly organized society for the pres
vention of cruelty to animals, in Phila-
delphia, commenced operations Wedness
day, by arrestiug a number of city car
drivers for overlooking their cars.
The csrgo of the Italian bark Lutte,
consisting Ct oranges and lemons, which
arrived at New Orleans, Wednesday, was
thrown overheard by order Of the Board
of Health, being in decayed state.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany hsve engaged physician to exam
inc all immigrants passing over Their
road. None who are affected with any
contagious disease will hereafter be taken
"a Reports made to the National Division
Epf the Sons OF Temperance, in session al
Washington, show that that organization
now has SOS divisions in operation
with 96,673 members and 407S1 lady
visitors. The receipts Of the order las
year were SlS6 PCS, and it has $223, 90;
IN cash or good investments.
Bubuy, new specie Of the cotton
plant, it is reported, is now extensively
cultivated in the Philippine Islands by
the missionaries. The plant is of very
large size and beigns to yield in its fourtl
yesr. The cotton pods measure three {,
four inches IN length, and one hundred
OF them, IT is asserted, will yield tire
pounds OF the fibre, which, when cleaned
sells for nine dollars hundred weight.
Geo. II. Jones, an engraver of Cincin
natl, has perfected and patented system
of printing bank notes, which, it is said
defes counterfeiting He prints on un
sized paper, which is we'll known to tax
the clearest and sharpest impressions
and then proceeds to apply mechanical
a sizing perfected by him, which, hAvin
been set by subsection to a heat Of 20
degrees, is henceiorth insoluble and IRE
movable without destroying the in
preston beneath il, and thus leaving Ii
uaper nearly white and wholly illegibl
The colors, being wisely chosen, cannC
be photographed, but are japanned, as
were, aud laugh at the most ingeniOJ
and skilful efforts 10 transfer, which cs
be removed only by etfacing OF destrol
ing them.