Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
DOMESTIC.


Who's going TO the Mammoth Cave to
get a glimpse Of the rare Alexis? He'll be
thar next Thursday If nothing happens.
Grand Ducal Ball at the Gait House, Lou
! isvile, next Tuesday night. The thought
less youth passes on from the Cave to Mem
| phis, and there boards the Great Republic.
If somebody don't do something, he'll miss
the sight of our Stately Capitol.
The opposition to the confirmation Of
Charles Hale as Assistant Secretary Of
State is said to originate with Greek gen
tleman, who charges Hale with receiving
money to secure the rejection Of claims Of
naturalized Egyptians by the State Depart
ment.
\ train ran into team near Jersey City
Wednesday night and killed the driver and
two horses.
The members of the New York Stock
Exchange are endeavOIing to effect legsla-
ton to prohibit dealing in stocks on the
streets after five o'clock.
The Staten Island Ferry Company will
bring before the Court Of Appeals the case
against them for damages on account Of
the explosion of the Westiield.
VIM. Casey was accidently shot through
the breast Thursday morning at Charleston,
West Virginia, by q companion who was
carelessly handling pistol.
The LoWery gang Of outlaws in North
Carolina are committing fresh outrages.
Mrs. Hatfield was burned to death in St.
Louis Wednesday night Ey pouring coal
oil on her fire.
Peter Berninger, wealthy oil cloth
manufacturer, committed suicide in New
York yesterday morning.
The Pennsylvania Radical Convention
meets April 10 to nominate State officers
and delegates to the Philadelphia Conven-
tion.
New Orleans is astonished to see the trees
decked in icicles.
The Scotch of New York yesterday cele-
brated the 18th anniversary Of Burns
birthday.
The remains of Gen. Halleck were in
tered at Greenwood yesterday-without
military display at the request of the family.
The Ohio and Mississippi has reduced its
fares 23 per cent.
The Union and Pacific is experiencing
the worst blockade of the winter. 4 snow
train with three engines makes three miles
a day through three feet deep on the level.
CHEYENNE reports 80 degrees below moth
ing, and 100 cars Of freight buried in the
snow at that point.
Ohio proposes to exempt the managers
of Fairs from military and jury duty.
In the town of Thayer, Iowa, smallpox
is raging in a fearful manner. No trains
are allowed to stop there.
After indicting thirteen Aldermen for
bribery and no end of Councilmen, the
Chicago grand jury is satisfied that there
still exist grave and serious cases Of bribery
which have not yet been brought to light"
VIM. Caldwell has been reelected State
Treasurer of New York.
The streets of Brooklyn are infested with
murderous garroters-remorseles Ku-Klux.
There is a disposition in Ohio to ignore
parties in the proposed Constitutional Con-
ventiOn.
Buffalo reports the severest snow storm
for several years.
The Massachusetts, State Temperance
Convention demands the 'liquor dealers,
like other criminals, be excluded from the
jury box"
FOREIGN.
The Pope'S advisers are urging him to fee
from Rome.
A ukase has been issued for the compuls-
ory Use of the Russian lingo in Polish
schools.
The Spanish Ministry, instead of resign
ing, have appealed to the people, by dissoly-
ing the Cortes and ordering a new election.
THE number of divorces granted in Ohio
in 1871 was 1917. Of these suits 322 were
brought by the husbands, and 754 by the
wives. During the same period there were
59,957 births, 842 ofthese being illegitimate,
and %, l49 deaths. Foreigners to the num-
Der Of 2,299 were naturalized during the
year.