Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-21


with the raw petroleum of the VOlga.
A meeting of representative working
men, at Bradford, Y Yorkshire has resolved
to bring forward labor candidate for that
borough at the next election.
Lord Carysfort, the owner Of extensive
estates in the counties of Wicklow and
Dublin, has given $4,000 toward the i'm
provement of Arklow harbor.
1t is rumOred that the Comte de Cham
bord has written a letter to Don Carlos, ad-
dressing him as Your Majesty" and that
the latter has replied in similar terms.
Mr.. Grey, of the Stationery Department
of the British Government, has effected
saving of ESQ annually by collecting, re-
cutting, and reissuing quill pens that have
been used and thrown aside in his depart
ment.
The passion for pilgrimages is now pre-
valent in Central Asia, ard the Leudnt
Herald announces that a body of about
thirty Khiyans arrived in ConStantinOple
by the Odessa steamer, the other day, on a
pilgrimage to Mecca.
1t appears from a statement of the French
Minister of Public Works that the produc-
ton of coal this year in the basin of the
Pas de Calais will be 2, 300,000 tons. TWEEN
ty-five years ago this basin had no CONNER
cial existence.
New beds of coal have been discovered
in Croatia, extending over about ten geo
graphical miles. The biologists sent to
the spot have noticed three veins fit for
working, extending, in lines parallel to
each other, over length Of from five to
eight leagues.
The Journal de GeneUe proposes a new
| direction for a railway between that town
and Italy, and one which certainly is not
wanting in boldness. "The line which we
| recommend" it says, sis that of Mont Blanc,
by Geneva, Chamounix, COmmayeur, Aosta
| and Milan"
The Melbourne Argus states that the
| Governor of Queensland has released Capt.
| Booth, of the schooner Jason, Who was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment for
kidnapping in the South Seas. He has on
| " served two years of the time. The fine
of ESQ has also been RENTED.
The Princess Royal of England Grown
| Princess of PrusSia) will be present at the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with
the Grand Duchess Marie as representative
| of the Queen. This is the immediate
| cause OF the Journey of the Crown Prince
| and Princess to st. Petersburg.
The next sitting of the International
| Congress of OrientalistS is announced to be
held in London next Spring, and it will
extend from the 9th TO the 18th of April.
France will send about fifty members.
England contributes seventy, Germany
| promises to be very p0Oly represented.
The example of the inhabitants of San
Giovanni del Dosso, who elected their
own parish priest notwithstanding the oppO-
SitiOn of the Bishop, is being followed by
| other congregations in Italy, especially in
Umbra. FdBfullG sees in this movement
the beginning of powerful revolution.
Another agrarian outrage is reported from
| Wicklow. 4 small farmer, named Cava-
| nagh, has been murdered ''under circum-
stances of great brutality" which are not
specified. Mr.. LEROY, the gentleman who
was nearly murdered the other day in Long
| ford, is progressing favOrably.
A concession has been obtained from the
Municipality of Oporto, and confirmed by
the Portuguese Government, for the con-
struction of waterworkS in that city, of
which Mr.. Alfred Randall, of London, will
be the engineer. The undertaking is to
be carried out by an English company,
with capital of f350,000.
The London correspondent of the Man
chester GudrdiGn says that movement is
on foot to promote the erection of a monu-
ment to Oliver Goldsmith, whose memory,
it is argued is not sufficiently honored by
the single slab bearing his profile which is
placed in Westminster Abbey, nor by laying
a grave-stone on the spot in the Temple
which is supposed to be his grave.
The Times Calcutta correspondent tele-
graphs with respect to the impending fam
Inc in Bengal, that official reports from the
threatened districts are much worse. The
Viceroy has left Simla for Calcutta. The
Financial Secretary has also left, and will
consult with Sir G. Campbell Among
the chief relief works projected are the
Soame Canal Extension and Darjeeling
railway.