The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-03
GENERAL NEWS.

CHOLERA IN TEssEssKs-A despatch from Louisville
states that he cholera broke at Nashville Tennessee
Sunday last and fifteen deaths reported TO have
Cured from IT, The cholera has also appeared In Rome,
Tennessee and nearly all the citizens have left the place"
TnRKE EXPLOSION oAArHgsE.-
Three daughters Of the Rev Mr. Perry Methodist preacher
Harrodsburg, Kentucky were recently burned to
death by the explosion Of can containing eamphene
They aged respectively 10 IL and II appears one
Of them held lighted lamp while another poured cam
phene into il from the containing half gallon BY
some ii caught fire and exploded covering them
and the whole in immediate blaze and saturatng
their clothes with the eombustible fluid The servant wo-
sprang out at the door and plunged into barrel Of
ain-waer by which her life saved although she is
badly burned The door il seems closed after her and
the daughters in their confusion could open it, They
through the paror and out the hall door and ran
about sixty yards screaming and enveloped in flames that
completely covered their bodies and extended at least
three feet above their heads Some persons came to their
assistance and enyeloped in blanket another in
quilt and another in web of linen, and succeeded in
tnguishng the flames But it too late their
lives They fingered however until the following day
From their hips upward they were burned horribly.
MARRYING PEAcE.-At the latest dates from Utah,
Walker the Indian chief continuing his depredations
upon emigrants and the Mormon settlements The subject
being before of the conference meetings of the Nor
culties with the Indians provided some one of the sisters
had a taste for wigwam life. He said
81 know are careless women are careless and If
there is not greater taken viii be carried
away prisoners and their children win be murdered if they
wander off carelessly and without protection tell YOU
in country like this, where and hard to
get we have great need to take of them Walker
himself has teased for white wife; and if any Of the
sisters win marry him. believe close the forth
with. am certain that unless take better of
their women Walker may supply himself liberal SCALE
and without closing the war either In conclusion will
say if any lady wishes to be Mrs Walker if she will
port herself to me- will agree to negotiate the match
A QUEER rRoFEssoRsup. government of Harvard
College said to be completely nonpussed by recent
bequest of $4,000 left by Miss Caroline Plumer lately
deceased at Salem Massachusetts, for the endowment Of
professorship the PHILOSOPHY of the Heart II
said they don't know whether it is to be anatomical
physiological, sentimental chair. AS however the
founder of the chair lady-and single ady-it is
supposed the sentimental and the carnal heart that
she intended.
Hon. A. Patterson president of the South Carolina
ate, died last week
frc-enginc has been ordered by the authorities
of New York city.
has been fined $50 in Cincinnati for killing with
intent to sell the meat, diseased dogs.
VIM E. Graham on trial in the United States district
court in Kentucky, for robbng the mall has been found
guilty.
Among the Indians recently killed in New Mexico was
Lobo the chief who destroyed the mail party 1885,
and killed the white party in 1s49, and carried off Mrs
White. She afterwards killed by the Indians when
attacked.
The Arctic from Liverpool for Boston, struck on
Tuscan rock the auth ut and obliged to put back
to Liverpool She would probably be ready for sea again
in about week
IscESDIARY HARASGUEs IN BosToS.-The Massachusetts
AnSavcry Society commenced its annual meeting in Bos
Tuesday. The addresses have been than ord
narily nammatory. Mr. Blackwell is reported to have
said:
q He 500 come down from Worcester but why
did they not bring 500 muskes with them He hoped he
would live to the day when like Sutte coming
here for the purpose which he does will alive
the soil which he born boast over the degen
eracy of the children Of the Puritans
Stephen s. Foster of Worcester, urged thorough or
ganizaton for rescung fugitive slaves who be captured
In the future We he said, the of second
luton has already commenced for blood has been she'd
and he cared not how might be shed in such
Boston the only place that stained New Eng
land in the capture of fugitive slaves and il high time
that stain should be avenged with blood. Worcester,
Fchburg New Bedford and other cities would all be
waiting to wipe out the STAIN .
The following despatch received by the Boston Com
monwealth (abolition) on Monday from New York
Brothers and Citizens Of Boston Deliver not the OPP
pressed into the hands Of the oppressor Liberty or
death Y
MANY CHRISTIANS OF NEW YORK