Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Extensive preparations are being mad
at Memphis for the commercial conven
ton next month. .E
| J. o. Green, of New York, has beef
appointed chief clerk in the office OF Ia
Solicitor Of the Treasury.
| a petition is being numerously signe
at Boston, requesting the President t
appoint Fred Douglass Minister to Bra
| I'll.
There are enough railroads projected
through different districts in Missouri
to absorb in their construction all tn
personal property in the State.
The Illinois Central Railroad has
served an injunction on the Cairo ant
Vincennes Railroad to prevent the latter
from crossing the track ofthe former a
Cairo.
The Cairo and Fulton ARKANSAS,
Railroad has been sold to Kennel
McRae, British banker, for 100000
who proposes to secure means and COM
plete the road Immediately.
There are in Massachusetts abo ut7OO
colored Free Masons, who have seven
flourishing lodges in existence. They
have never been acknowledged or recog>
nized ty the white Free Masons of Mas
sachusetts
Samuel Tate & Co, have contracted
to build the South and North Railroad
of Alabama, between Montgomery and
Decatur, for $6,014,OO0. The work is to
be completed by December, ISL.
Daniel D. Page, one of the founders
and first Mayor of st. Louis, Mo-, died
in Washington on Saturday, of conges-
ton of the lungs. He was aged seventy
seven years.
A curious branch ofindustry has lately
sprung up in New York-that of pre-.
serving in their natural color and form
the flowers used as decorations at we'd
dings and funerals.
A Workingman's Colony, consisting of
two thousand families, is to be estab,
lished at Waterloo, Kansas. The adj
vance party, consisting of one hundred
and fifty persons from New York, arrived
at that point few days ago.
The steamer Lizzie Hopkins, from
hreVeport for New Orleans, took fire
mong cotton stored in her hold, on the
22d. With difficulty she was saved by
partially filling her with water. $50
bales of cotton were thrown overheard.
During the week ending last Saturday
$40 enigrants arrived at Columbus, Ohio,
seeking homes. Their destinations are
Ohio "A, Illinois l52, Missouri 81, Indi-
ana 90, Kentucky q, Tennessee Is, Iowa
43, Wisconsin 81, Michigan %, Kan
sas "a. 49,. .....r. .-....-...
The Secretary of State, Secretary of
the Treasury and Postmaster General
being absent from Washington, it is not
thought that any important appointments
will be made in their respective depart
ments until their return. unless the PUB
lie interest shall render it necessary.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
Company on Friday purchased ten acres
of ground in the rear of the Penitentiary,
j Jacksonville, Indiana. Upon these
grounds large depot, warehouse, and
machine shops are TO be erected. 1t is
said the company will remove all their
machine shops from Seymour to Jeffer>
sonVille.
The steamer st. Elmo, belonging to the
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, while
on her way to Mobile, last Monday, ex-
ploded her boilers. Mrs. Clay, the stew
ards wife, was blown overheard and
and six officers Of the boat
were seriously burned and bruised. No
passengers hurt.
The latest bit of gossip ahOat at Wash
ington is statement, which has some
foundation, that the Washburns are en-
deavoring to get the President to ask
Secretary Fish to resign. The latter
official has excited the ire Of that family
by refusing to make some forty foreign
prepared by that member
who occupied the State Department for
less than a week.
The President has at last rendered
Horace Greeley an office. After inform>
ing his friends that he would give him
the compliment of the mission to Eng
land, he has appointed him government
commissioner, to examine the Union
Pacific Railroad. The pay is ten dollars
per day and mileage. Mr.. Greeley was
philosopher enough to decline the posi-
ton.
The steam boiler of Snyder's mill, on
Clay street, Cincinnati, exploded Mon
day The wall of the mill was injured,
twelve feet square being blown out. A
daughter of Mr.. Snyder was struck with
a brick and knocked senseless for time.
Her injuries are not serious. Neighbour
ing houses were set on fire, but were
soon extinguished. The engineer es-
capped. The boiler was carrying seventy
pounds of steam, running forty horse
power. The engine was twenty-five
feet long and thirty-six inches in diame-
ter.
Rev. Michael Mullen, Assistant Pastor
of st. Patrick's Church, in Chicago, died
Saturday morning, aged thirty-four, 1t
is strange coincidence that he died in
the same house which has had the same
fatal influence upon four priestly occup-
ants within a period Of about seven
months Rev. Patrick Dillon entered
the house on the 1lth of September,
1868, and died on the 18th Of October
following; his brother, Rev. Jas. Dillon,
took charge of the house October 18th,
and died November 18th, following; Rev.
Dr. Dunno died in the same house De-
cember Doth, thirty-two days after, and
now, Just four months after, Rev. Mr..