Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Parepa opened the opera season at Gin
clnnati last night.
St. Louis is getting up a national saen-
gerfest.
A dispatch from Luzerne, Switzerland,
announces that Count Gergenti, son-in-law
of ex-Queen Isabella, Of Spain, has COM
mitted suicide in that city.
New York reports ten new cases and four
deaths from small pox yesterday. There
were 1873 deaths from this disease in Phlla-
delphia last week, and 90 new cases re-
ported there Sunday.
A burglar was caught yesterday morning
in the act of rObbing Tiffany x Co., OF New
York, of 1900 worth of watches.
Diamond oil" is the latest name for
non-explosive fluid used to kindle fires and
kill fools.
Philadelphia will manifest her loyalty to
the Russian Grand Duke next Monday.
A collision occurred on Sunday night, of
the Irish coast, between the ships Marmion
and Ocoelca. The latter, soon after being
struck, sank. Several Of the crew escaped
by jumping aboard the Marmion, but nine
men are missing.
The Paris FiqdrO says there now exists
in England sixty-eight clubs devoted to Re
| publicauism.
Three men awaiting sentence for bur-
glary and pocket-picking escaped from the
iail of Hudson county, New Jersey, Satur-
day night.
Senator James O'Brien, of New York
| CITY. has been rendered the Colonelcy of the
| SSth Irish regiment.
St. Mary's Catholic Church at Ports
mouth, n, H., was destroyed by fire Sunday
night, and the residence of the priest nearly
consumed. Loss $4,000.
The Grand Duke Alexis visited the
Brooklyn navy yard yesterday.
Charles A. Loring, young lawyer of st.
| Louis, has brought libel suit against the
! St. Louis Republican for publishing a local
item to the effect that he had been arrested
for gambling. He claims $4,000 damages.
The Geological Bureau Of Missouri has
elected Prof Raphael Pumpelly,of Harvard
University, State Biologists, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the retirement of Prof.
| Hager.
Mr.. Hendricks, Secretary of the Missouri
State Senate, attended a ball at Bowling
Green, Pike county, Mo-, on Friday even
ing last, without having been invited. w.
Il. McCallester, one of the proprietors OF
the hotel at which the ball was given, at
tempted to eject Hendricks, when the latter
drew knife, and cnt the external carotid
artery of McCallester's neck. At last &C
counts McCallester was dying, and Hen
bricks was under arrest.
There were sixty deaths by small poX in
Cincinnati last week.
Four prisoners in the jail at Franklin
Indiana, overpowered the jailOr Saturday
night and made their escape. One Of then
,,-or e,boopuaptlv rapopturpl-
The Shamrock -four mills near Edinburg
Ind, were burned Saturday evening. Sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
The New Haven Conn chemical work.
were burned Sunday morning.
The official count elects only two Tam
MANY Aldermen in New York, Conan anC
Plunkett, who are alleged to have beer
counted in.
The Mayor of Brooklyn has informed tn,
authorities at Chicago that he has S25,0OI
for the needy of that city.
Governor Fairohild has just returne,
from Green Bay, and reports that the sui
ferers in the Wisconsin burnt district are a
= fed, clothed, and sheltered throughout. Al
are in their own homes. The early closin
of navigation cuts off the needed supplies Q
hay and lumber. About S250,000 in casl
have been received for relief
| Elliott, the negro Congressman iron
r South Carolina, caused the dismissal of
department clerk for not showing him tn
r outward respect which disposition demand
{ ed.
The Free Masons in Chicago are engage
5 in relieving the distress of brethren an
t their families. They hold daily sessions
' their rooms, and give much discriminatin
: aid. Over 400 families have been attende
e to, averaging about four to a family,
q about LOO persons.
Grace (NIethodist Episcopall Church col
gregation, in Chicago, whose fine structur
It was totally destroyed, have just erected III
first church in the burnt district.