Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-12
UNION AND AMERICAN

UNION AND AMERICAN.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1875.
THE inmates of the Denver, Col,
jail took a vote on the Beecber-T ilton
case. resulting in a majority ef foar
against the man who sat On the ragged
edge
AMONG the Institutions Of Mil
waukee is a Mutual Hail Insurance
Company. which paid farmers lasty year,
S2,4O0, FOR damages to crops from hail
storms.
TIE female operatives. on the strike
at Fall River, Mass, had a mass meet
ing last Sunday night, in which they
resolved to hold ont a year, or longer,
If need be, to make the manufacturers
accede to their terms.
T~HB:defeat Of Carpenter win require
the election Of a Senator to succeed
hun as President pro tenn. Of the Senate
for the Forty-fourth Congress. The.
only name yet mentioned is Senator
Ferry, Of Michigan.
The third-term spook has begun to
trouble some able editors again. Have
the elections Of last fall been so soon
forgotten?-CihciHa0t Gazette.
No. not exactly forgotten, but ig.
nored and spurned by Grant and his
crew. Of which the Gazette is one.
TIM streetoar. drivers of Washing
ton city are asking Congress whether
eighteen hours is a fair days work.
Their lot is almost as hard as that of
the editorial fraternity. Neither class
are able to keep up a nodding &C, uain-
tance with their own families, 50 sell
dom do they meet.
THE Neg York S,n publishes another
batch of documents duplicating Min
lister Sohenck in the famous Memphis
and Ell Paso swindle, and showing how
he went over to Paris to FIX" Minister
Washburne, when the latter was max
ing trouble for Fremont and his French
aides-de-camp.
AN educational reform bill, more
valuable for Its sgggestiveness than
anything else, is pending before the
Illinois Legislature. It prohibits the
teaching Of any except plain English
branches with no nonsense about
them" and forbids the building Of
schoOl-bouses costing more than s., 000.
WISCONSIN proposes to. save several
thousand dollars by converting the
Soldiers Orphan Home into an insti-
tuition for the blind. Ten years after
the war. but few Of the soldiers or
phans are left, most Of them being ap-
prenticed ont at an early age, and the
Home has become little more than a
salary.eating affair.
MISERY loves company. 1t may con
sole such Of cur readers in this vicinity
as are blessed .J with a superHuity Of
dirt, t. read an item ike the following
which We find in a communication to
the Ner York Tribune:
1t IS now three years since there
was any active demand for real estate
IN New York City and its vicinity, and
holders Of that kind Of property are all
anziously inquiring how long the de-
cline &c ra c0ntinu1- and when r. avnr-
there viii be a turn II the market
THE Chinese make everything Of
rice, and the japanese use paper for a
multiplicity Of purposes, an oiled suit
of paper clothes, from hats to boots,
being imperVious to wind or water. We
Americans threaten, before long, to
make-everytEing that civilized human
iJy needs out Of v~ulcanized rubber.
The latest adaptation of this very
adaptable substance IS rubber horse
shoes. giving perfect fit, less weight to
carry, good footing on ice or Hleet, and
much greater durability than iron.
MARSHAL BAzAINE threatens to
come to the surface again, and actually
has a future. He has been a soldier Of
misfortune, but be remains a soldier
still. Those who ave kept count, say
the Commander Of the Spanish Army
IN the North, fronting the CariistF, has
been changed sizty-two time. in the
past ffty-tyo weeks, but now Bazaine
is spoken Of as the coming man. He
Is a f~a7orite with Isabella, and if he
succeeds where all others have been
baHed, viii be rewarded with the Port
folio of War.
GRANTS dupIicity toward ex-Gov.
Baxter, Of Arkansas, h~armonizes ad.
mira5ly with his general course in
Southern affairs. Baxter stopped in
st. Louis, on bis way home, and re-
marked to an interviewer who had but
tou.holed him: while in Washington
I called upon the President, and from
the conversations had with him have
reasonfor believing thatke favoTs tLeez-
isting government. The report pub
lished some days since, that he opposed
Gov. Garland, was without foundation.
Ihaye every reason to presume to the
o. a.