Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Brooklyn tax payers object TO To
Nicholson pavement. az .assil,i l.la.
/. Wm.s A. Pile has beenappointed Gov
! ernor of New Mexico, Of
III The New York hotel waters hav,
} struck for higher wages. Z sHia got
szGrant,ssummer tour is said to includ,
trip to the Northwest in July.
III Newark, Nov j ersey, voted largely il
| favor Of street cars running on Sunday
II 1t is said thecolony Of Americans in
Brazil are about to return to the United
| 4 The London Times says that Great
Britain extends to Mr.. Motley q hearty
welcome,
Louis Wolf Of st. Louis, has obtained
a Judgment of$3. 900 against the Amer
lean Express Company. s' 49,
Il Gen. j. B. Nagruder, late of the so>
called, is in Cincinnati. He will lecture
there on Mexico and Maximilian,.
The carriage mandatory off. Chap
| man, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was
burned on Sunday. Loss $l5, 200.
II Col. Geo. f. James, q prominent law
yer, and one Of the pioneers Of San Fran
cisco, died in that city on Monday. e
/ VIM. A.. Andrews, Of louisville, has
made an assignment. His liabilities are
said to be more than q million dollars.
4 Gen. Geo. II. Thomas and staff arrived
at San Francisco on Monday night, seven
| days and ten hours out from New York.
A consignment Of new fall wheat,
reaped in Pamela county, Mississippi, was
| received in St.Louis on Monday morn
| ing. La g - AEsbAl
The National Division of the Sons of
| Temperance of North America will meet
in annual session at Washington on the
9th inst. so Hsregs
TIE New Orleans Picayune says that
Gin appointing Daniel L. Sickles Minis
ter to Spain, Gen. Grant forgot that Isa-
bella is no longer Queen
Twenty-eight females of the District
of Columbia, who asked to be registered
as voters, have just been informed by the
Registers that the law confines the fran
chise to males.
On the arrival of Minister Nelson at
the city of Mexico, Gen. Rosecrans will
proceed with his family to California,
where he has large interests, says. a cor
respondent from Mexico.
Registrar Williams of Memphis, sue
ceeded, during the recent election, in iss
suing 1000 certificates to negroes and
only $500 to white men. There are Sc
rious charges against him.
The measles prevail to such an extent
in Lebanon, Indiana, that the public
schools have been closed, and it is spreads
ing rapidly. The same disease prevails
to greater extent in Thorntown.
The negroes of Virginia attempted to
emulate at Richmond, Thursday, the
scenes Of disorder and profanity that
characterized the recent Nashville Con-
vention, but signally failed. Their igno-
rance and blackguardism were only feeble
limitations.
Judge Brady, of New York, has de-
cided that gas company has no legal
right TO threaten the removal of a meter
or to cut of the gas supply of house in
order to enforce the payment Of claim
disputed by the consumer; and that
money paid under such threat could be
recovered in the courts.
A Washington dispatch says: The
soldiers cemeteries on this side of the
Potomac were decorated yesterday and
to-day. Owing to the refusal of the author
ties TO Allew the Confederate graves to be
decorated on Saturday, the Southern
people turned out quite freely and decor
ated those graves. The friends of Mrs.
Surratt decked her grave with profusion
Of flowers.
Miss Olive Logan, enormously Judging
that she had not already made herself
sufficiently ridiculous, prints, in the New
York Sun silly screed in which she
says: "The Boghole Bugle calls me
ballet GIRL country paper calls me
negress, and the New York Mail pro.
nounced me an Indian. They are all
wrong; / am a japanese, and was for
merly clown to the King of ths Cannibal
Islands," She doesn't seem to have
tempted the Kings appetite at all.
A most revolving outrage has been
brought to light in Williamson, N. Y. A
Mrs. Burton, whose husband died last
Wednesday, dreamed that his grave had
been violated and the body dragged out
and taken away. So deeply did this
dream impress the widow, that she ina
duced friends to go and examine the
grave. On reaching the coffin, it was
found that it had been opened and the
body dragged out, leaving part of the
grave clothing. An investigation result
ed in the arrest of DR.. Bryant and two
Of his students who made disclosures
that enabled the people to discover the
body. 1t was found in piece of woods,
concealed in lime cask, and shockingly
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