Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-15
NEWS AND NOTES.

The bonded debt of MinnesC:a IS $780,
900, having increased $4,000 during the
year.
Stephen Raymond, the fugitive forger of
New York Central Railway bond nOto-
riety, has been arrested in London, and is
held for eXtraditiOn.
4 ST. Louis man desires his ten year old
son sent to the house of refuge, as he steals
all he can lay his hands on, and is beyond
the control of his parents.
At postponed wedding in Washington
recently letter was brought 70 the expec-
tant bride from the unreliable lover, in
which he said he was sOuy to diSappOint
her. but his mother did not wish him TO be
married.
Nashville is not the only city in which
high street car fares prevail. The Ph1td-
deiphi0 Telegraph publishes a communica-
ton wherein the writer grOwlS because he
is compelled to pay seven cents for car
ticket.
The Pal MaH Gazette makes the James
River and kanawha Canal run from Rich
mond, Va, via Vermont, to the Ohio river,
one hundred miles Of it being cut through
solid rock. \ primary geography IS needed
in that office.
The st. Louis Times complains that for
half a score of years has Gen. Fitz John
Porter besought his government in vain for
new trial, and remains the victim Of in
suit and injustice almost unprecedented in
military annals.
An instance of the tyranny of men was
exhibited at a woman's rights meeting in
Titusville, where a gentleman entered and
told his wife, one of the officers of the
meeting, to come home quick, ''aS the baby
had the collie"
4 BROOKLYN widow has just ascertained
| from an examination of her late husbands
| correspondence with his mOther-in-law.
| that the old lady'S omission to visit them
was due to The continued prevalence OF
smallpox in their family.
We learn from a St. Louis paper that the
| rumor current a day or two since that Mrs
| Emma Cunningham Burdell, of Burdell
murder nOtoriety, had removed to that city,
| is not correct. Mrs. Cunningham, when
| last heard from, was resident OF Omaha,
or some place in that vicinity.
In consequence of the mild winter, there
is GREAT fear that a sufficient amount of ice
| for next summers consumption will not be
| secured. At ST. Louis, the ice men are
now meditating a move nOTthward in order
to obtain a supply, and may possibly have
! TO 90 as far north as Lake Pepin, before
| they find ice of sufficient thickness to sui
| their wants.
Miss Bonney, of New York, who gave
notice that her spirit was going to make
visit to another world, and then went intC
| a trance, did not come to life again. Sew
eral mediums have held communication
with the spirit of the departed Miss Bon.
new. and learned from her that she found
] the spirit land so attractive as to oYerstay
| her time. and that when she did come bach
her body was too far gone for termination
! Mary Marshall, a rather interesting young
white woman of twenty-One years OF age
who came to this city dressed in male at
tire. from her home in Tennessee, whenc'
she was enticed by her companion, negrC
man. was arrested yesterday afternoon
dressed as a woman, on Fourth street, be
tween Sycamore and Broadway, by Lieut.
Cody and Burke, charged with being fug
tive from Justice. The woman's trial FOL
| appearing in mems clothes was continued
from two weeks ago until yesterday, and il
the meantime she was sent to the work
! house. When her case was called in the
| court Yesterday she was not TO be found, as
she had quietly taken her departure from
the Cincinnati Gazette, Jan. 10.