Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

( James IL. MCOGfy, tue American ION
sui at Calloa, died of yellow fever at
Lima on April IL. isa'.1 .sHeats.i ssl. -
A man named Jas. Stephenson was
garroted, on Thursday night, about two
miles from Springfield, Ohio, and robbed
Of 81 100. ses eta r.ss Ni.h aaf- 40
i The President has decided TO appoint
no more civilians to Indian agencies, but
hereafter all vacancies will be filled by
army officers. t- Fl sb35/l
| f. A. Eastman, postmaster Of Chicago,
has received =, l33 applications for sub
ordinate positions, about 5000 of whom
viii be rejected. Si,,.6I.
| Gen. Henry Hays, brother Of the
famous Jack Hays, formerly of Texas,
declined to lead an expedition for the ss>
sistance of the revolutiOnists in Cuba.
| 1t is reported that Gen. Grant is only
restrained from recognizing the belliger>
ency Of the Cuban patriots by the OPP
position Of five members Of his cabinet.
| 1t is positively stated by Spanish
agents in New York that the junta has
chartered the Quaker City to carry three
hundred and fifty volunteers and arms to
the insurgents.
| A telegram to the Commercial Ad-
vOrtiser says President Grant viii ap-
point a number Of cOlored man TO office
in the Northern States. Mr.. Ford, one
of the New Brooklyn assessors has ap>
| pointed mulatto clerk.
The Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel says
that agents from Kentucky, Missouri and
Arkansas arc now il Yalabusha county,
using every endeavOr TO get the negroes
| away, and that in one week alone fully
one hundred hands left Coffseville for
the North.
"A London dispatch Says that the Eng /
fish papers consider the conduct of the
United States toward Spain exactly like
that of England toward the United
States during i'the war, and say that
Spain should 1hake the same deasSds
that we do in fhe Alabama GASP.
The smallpox is making fearful ray,
ages in South America, though it is
thought to be diminishing. 1t attacked |
negroes and whites inside and outside of |
the walls of Panama. The sanitary |
commission was actively engaged in
checking the scOurge.
For some time subscription has been
in progress throughout Europe towards
erecting monument to Guttenberg, the
inventor of printing. 1t has just tran
spired that the entire sum collected in
the whole of Great Britain and Ireland
amounts to exactly five pounds
The Platte City (MissOur) ReUeMe
has the fOllowing;s "The grasshoppers
afe Matching out I in this vicinity in
countless numbers. In some places we
have seen millions of the pests hopping
about as lively as full>grown hOppers.
The prospects bid fair for q heavy crop
of the little cormorants."
Aaron Gordon, living in New Phila~
delphia, Washington county, Indiana, is
charged with barbarously abusing his
wife, threatening her life, tearing her
flesh, etc. He has been compelled by
his indignant neighbors to flee from the
wrath which was coming ia the shape of
one of Judge Lynch's short cords.
A collision occurred near Quincy, Illi-
nOis, on the between passenger train
on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road, and an empty engine on the Tobe
do, Wabash and Western road. Seve>
raj passengers were seriously hurt.
The engineers and firemen were badly |
bruised, though not dangerously. Both
engines are total wreck.
Contrary to expectations, no deter
mination as to the articles Of the cOnsti-
tuition to be submitted to the people Of
Virginia separately for ratification or re.
lection, has been as yet decided upon, the
subject not being under discussion at the
cabinet meeting Of yesterday. In all
probability this question will engage the
attention Of the cabinet at their meeting
on Tuesday.
Gen. Maxwell, OF Michigan, recently
appointed Superintendent of Indian Ai>
fairs for New Mexico, returned here to,
day from trip to his old home, whittier
he had gone to arrange for his bond. He
found that, during his absence, an army /
officer had been detailed to fill his place. |
As Gen. Maxwell was regularly nomi>
mated, confirmed and commissioned, and |
no complaints are alleged, the suspension
eXcites considerable comment.
The town of Anna, Union county, IL
linois, was visited on the 4th by fearful |
hail>storm. The hail>Stones measured |
from one to two aud half inches in di~ |
ameter, and not few were as large as a
mans fist. The ground was covered in |
some places two feet deep. Fruit has |
been almost entirely destroyed. Straw
berries were just beginning to ripen,
with excellent prospects. Now there
will not be half crop. Nearly all the
peaches are knocked off.