Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1875-12-02
News and Views.
SPAIN has sent 1900 soil
diers To Cuba. -
CARDIsAL MeCLosKr has return
cd from has Euroscan trip.

MooDr and Sankcy are dosing
Philadelphia with gospel and song.
RUssI.'s losses by the receDt-in-
surrecti0n IN Khukand are estima-
ted n very serious. a
The small pox has broken out
along the Hudson and Deiawarc
Canal, Pennsylvania sal ~aH
YIN. L. AsToR, the richest man
Ia America, died at his home in
New York last week. d Er. ~,
AND q they say Il. +. l.. hasn't
bought a gold mine. lie has just
been prospecting Tor some more.
SPOONS l1Fr llA-E-E1l cab La
BRrsTow denies that he is inter
ested in a distillery or liquor house
at LnGsvilie and calls for an in
ycstigation.
VICE President Wilson is the
second official Who has died in the
Capitol, John Quincy Adams havf
ing been the first -sy- : tE ss--,
THE Marquis OF Lornc, Queen
Nictoria's parvenu son-in.Iaw has
brought out abook orpocms. And
he's been married several years,
too. -.ft aaaIfHFE I'd
ENGLAND has purchased the.
stock ol the Suez canal, and did it
without notifying thc other powers,
a move which may cost her "a quar-
rel with the Russian Bear.
HENRY NILSSON WAS at one time.
many years ago, a school teacher
in Greeneyille, Georgia. The
Nashville Americas SAYS he was
engaged to be married to Il vii
hanson county la'ly. -
PEor. PKocroR, The eminent
scientist. sees something to admire
in Americans. He says they are
good listeners and more generally
interested IN scientific subjects
than are the people across the
"a''lS's a.a.d tas1g Del. ai stesr o.
BABcoCK, Grants dearest friend.
is in trouble. Experts sws ar that
the handwriting OF a telegram for
Mcdonald and Jovce warning
them of approaching danger is the
same as1his own-in short, that he
wrote il. s..G E- r-aEge,
THE Abyssinians. against whom
the Khcdiye of Egypt is waging a
war of subjuGation, have surprised
and killed l,200 Egyptians, inclu-
ding twelve officers. From the
small number of officers killed, it
is to be presumed that they know
as well how to select the saving
trees in that country as they do in
this.
THE progress of Vice President
Wilson's remains from Washington
to Boston was one continual oya..
ton oil Il magnificent scale to the
memory of the dead statesmen.
Twelve thousand persons viewed
the remains in the Capitol. At Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New
York the funeral car was met by
thousands OF citizens and the mill
tarv. The Fifth Maryland tender
Ell their services rs escort, propos-
ing to bear their own expenses to
and from Boston. Business was
generally suspended in Boston on
the arrival and %intermcnt of the
remaiGs.
The National Railroad Convcn-
ton, recently in session Ut st.
Louis, adopted resolutions strongly
urging on Congress the necessity
of extending such aid MS may be
required, outside of individual and
non political effort. to build the
Southern Pacific Railroad. The
resolutions set forth that the needs
of commerce require Il line cOnncc-
ting the Atlantic with the Pacific
States which shall be open To traf-
Gc all the year round and regulated
by Government in tho matter of
tariffs. Other considerations
among which are swift access to
.he Pacific coast in time of war
and defense from the Indians are
held up, but this is the principal
one. r- E.r.l as.g- H.s